Chapter 178: The fight is underway
On the second day of the Christmas Ball, Zhang Xu slept until lunch and dinner were past before he got out of the warm bed.
After eating the seafood pasta brought to him by the house-elves in the kitchen, Zhang Xu decided to go out of the castle with Furong in the afternoon and go to the Forbidden Forest to see if he could find something good.
As soon as I reached the foyer of the castle, I saw two first-year students of the badger academy rushing in.
"Zhang, it's not good! Something big is wrong! Owen Caldwell shouted as soon as he saw Zhang Xu.
"What? You ate the big squid in the lake? Zhang Xu asked.
"No, it's a fight." Kevin Whitby said loudly, "Everybody is fighting at the lake." ”
When Zhang Xu heard this, his face immediately became serious.
It is not uncommon for students to fight in schools, and professors will find it strange if there are no student fights for three consecutive days, except for the days when they are preparing for exams.
As long as it is not discovered by the professors on the spot, or if it does not cause serious harm, everyone will turn a blind eye to such a thing.
Generally speaking, students fight alone, and group fights rarely happen.
Therefore, when the people involved in the fight are "everyone", especially at this point in time when students from three schools are gathered in Hogwarts, this matter cannot but make Professor Zhang serious.
"What's going on?" Zhang Xu asked.
"At the lake, our people got into a fight with Durmstrang students." Kevin Whitby replied.
"Which side has the upper hand now?" Zhang Xu asked again.
"Uh...... We have a lot of people, and there are a lot of senior students by the lake. Owen Caldwell replied.
"Then there's nothing to worry about." Zhang Xu said with a sigh of relief.
In the minute or two that Zhang Xu and the others were talking, many sixth and seventh grade students rushed out of the gate of the castle, and many of them beckoned Zhang Xu to go with them.
"You go report to Professor Dumbledore," Zhang Xu said to Owen Caldwell, "and you can guess the password at the door of his office." ”
Then Zhang Xu said to Kevin Whitby: "You go to the lake and watch now, and if our people suffer, immediately come back and report to Professor Dumbledore, the password at the door of his office is 'Honey Grapefruit Tea'." ”
The two students nodded in understanding, and then went their separate ways.
"Looks like I'm going to fix this first." Zhang Xu said helplessly to Furong.
Walking out of the castle, Zhang Xu walked straight towards the accident site by the lake, and Furong followed to see the excitement.
Zhang Xu walked towards the place where the shouting by the lake shook the sky, and soon walked to the scene of the incident.
The crowd by the lake is three-legged,
A group of Durmstrang students in red robes were pinned down on a meadow by the lake.
The students of Beauxbatons, dressed in blue robes, stood together in the distance and acted as melon eaters. It's just that after seeing Gabrielle in the crowd, Fleur immediately walks over, for fear that she will encounter some accidents.
The largest number of Hogwarts students gathered, and the students in front of them lined up to cast spells on Durmstrand's students, and a group of Hogwarts junior students watched from a distance from them.
The students of Hogwarts, who have experienced many major wars in the past few years, have a special experience with group fights.
Durmstrang is known for teaching dark arts to his students, and the student representatives at Hogwarts are among the best of the school.
When it comes to heads-up, there aren't many Hogwarts students who can beat their students.
If it's ten out of ten, the students of the two schools are five or five.
But when there are more than 20 people, the students of Hogwarts can press the opposite side, not to mention that this is the home of Hogwarts.
Standing opposite the Durmstrang students now were rows of Hogwarts students.
It's different from myself, although a group of people get together, but everyone is alone without cooperation.
The Hogwarts students on the opposite side are all four or five people who automatically form a team, choose a target and then storm together, knocking the opponent down before changing the target.
What made Durmstrang students haunt the most was that the Hogwarts students in the back row were responsible for putting the Iron Charm on the students standing in the front row, so that the students in the front row could concentrate on attacking.
Fortunately, Cedric, who was in charge of the command, saved a little face for Durmstrang's students, and the total number of students participating in the fight on the Hogwarts side was the same as that of Durmstrang's, otherwise Durmstrang's students would have been flattened by Hogwarts' crowd tactics.
Zhang Xu, who was carefully observing the battlefield, suddenly felt a lightness in his hand, looked down, and found that the bag of sugar-fried chestnuts he was holding in his hand was snatched away by several friends who were watching together.
"Young people, watch carefully how the seniors fight." Zhang Xu started teaching several junior students next to him, including Dennis Creevey, Kevin Whitby, Ola Quirker and Malcolm Baddock, "In terms of individual strength, Durmstrang's students are no worse than our senior students. Not to mention Harry, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy, and several other fourth-year students. Do you know why we can now press Durmstrang students to beat them? ”
"Courage." Dennis Creevey of the Lion House said.
"Solidarity." Kevin Whitby of the Badger House said.
"Tactics." Said Ola Quirk of the Eagle House.
"Glory." Malcolm Bardock of the Snake Courtyard said.
The answers of the surrounding first and second grade students are mainly these few meanings.
"You're right." Zhang Xu said to the younger students.
"No matter what kind of opponent it is, we need to have the courage to face it. If you don't have the courage, even if your magic is as strong as Professor Dumbledore's, you won't be able to beat even a Frog caterpillar. ”
"No matter how it happened, when our opponent is someone other than Hogwarts, we must be united for the glory of Hogwarts."
"We are all members of Hogwarts, and in the face of the enemies of Hogwarts, there is no distinction between the griffon and the badger, no matter how high or low the age is, no matter who we are, we all have the responsibility to maintain the glory of Hogwarts, and we should all be determined to sacrifice everything."
"At this time, no matter what personal grudges there are between everyone, for the glory of Hogwarts, everyone must put aside their past grudges and fight together under the banner of Hogwarts."
"If you look at Harry Potter and his two friends, everyone knows that they have a bad relationship with Malfoy, but at this time they can fight together regardless of their previous suspicions."
"In the face of a powerful enemy, we need to learn to use our wits. Let's take a closer look at the formation of the seniors now, and in the front row are the senior students of the sixth and seventh grades, many of whom have rich combat experience. In the back row are the lower grade students. ”
"You observe and learn the details of the seniors' battle, and I will mention this to Professor Moody next semester, so that he can ask you what you have gained and how you feel about this battle."
When Zhang Xu talked about Moody's, the first-year students around him shivered.
After finishing the topic, Zhang Xu continued to enjoy the battle in the starting field.
Now the balance of victory on the field is tilting more and more in favor of Hogwarts.
The Durmstrang students' resistance had run out of strength, and it was only a matter of time before a rout was over.
So far, none of the headmasters of any schools have appeared, and it seems that neither Hogwarts nor Durmstrang want to raise the level of the matter, and leave the problems to the students to solve on their own.
Beauxbatons, on the other hand, is obviously neutral in this incident, and it is good to eat melons and watch by himself, and there is no need to wade into troubled waters.
More than ten minutes later, Durmstrang's students suffered a fiasco, and all the students were knocked down.