Chapter 217: The Champion Is Born
Seeing Dumbledore sitting behind his desk with a tired face when he returned to the office, Zhang Xu knew that things were not going well today.
Zhang Xu poured Dumbledore a cup of tea and sat down at his desk.
Dumbledore briefly recounted what had just happened.
By the time Dumbledore rushed back to Hogwarts, Karkaroff had already run away.
Faced with the news that Dumbledore brought back, Lady Maxim, Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch, who were originally in the center of the labyrinth, fell into extreme confusion.
Only Barty Crouch, who lived under the same roof as Voldemort, believed Dumbledore's words at the first time.
Dumbledore didn't have time to explain more, so he had Professor McGonagall take his place, presiding over the tournament with Lady Maxime, Ludo Bagman, and Percy Weasley, who temporarily replaced Barty Crouch.
Next, Dumbledore took Barty Crouch to the Ministry of Magic and found the Minister of Magic, Fudge.
Hearing that Harry Potter and Zhang Xu had been kidnapped in Hogwarts and that Dumbledore had come to rescue the soldiers, Fudge's first reaction was not to believe it, after all, it sounded too fantastical.
After a few minutes of stalemate, under the repeated urging of Dumbledore and Barty Crouch, and the fact that Harry Potter and Zhang Xu were not ordinary students, Fudge still asked Rufus Scrimgeour to take the Aurors on a trip with Dumbledore.
Then Dumbledore took the Aurors to the place of the incident, and when the Aurors quietly surrounded Voldemort and the Death Eaters, Dumbledore also came to Zhang Xu incognito and told him that he could run away.
Then came a big battle between the two sides.
King to king, soldier to soldier.
After a few more moves with Dumbledore, Voldemort, who had just recovered his body, turned in.
The other Death Eaters threw out the invisibility smoke bombs again and ran away, and in the end, the Aurors didn't catch a single Death Eater.
Back at the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore and Fudge had a fight, and even though many Aurors said they had seen Voldemort with their own eyes, Fudge still thought about how to cover the lid.
Dumbledore had no choice but to return to Hogwarts in the end.
After listening to Dumbledore's narration, Zhang Xu could only sigh.
Fudge, the Minister of Magic, is ready to get cold and can stop investing in him.
This was the end of the matter, and the three men in the office left the office for the Quidditch pitch together, and Dumbledore did not want to miss the final award ceremony.
By the time the three of them reached their seats, the game was nearing the end and the Warriors were very close to the finish.
On the way to the stadium just now, Dumbledore told Zhang Xu and Harry that he had picked up the Goblet of Fire.
Thanks to the headmaster's privilege of using Apparition in the school, it took Dumbledore less than half a minute to unknowingly place the Goblet of Fire in the middle of the labyrinth.
Zhang Xu just walked to the edge of the court and found that the audience in the stadium suddenly fell silent.
Just when Zhang Xu felt strange, he heard a loud "bang" above the maze, which was a firelight rising from the maze, exploding like fireworks and spelling out the name of the champion.
The stadium, which had been silent just now, suddenly thundered with joy, and the audience was celebrating the birth of the champion.
When Zhang Xu entered the top of the stadium stands, the scene of the warriors fighting for the Goblet of Fire was playing on a loop in the water screen movie.
Krum was the first to reach the grass where the Goblet of Fire was placed in the center of the labyrinth.
Just as he rushed towards the Goblet of Fire, his feet suddenly slipped, and he fell to the ground.
Then, Cedric, who had just turned a few pieces of grass on the ground into banana peels, turned the grass on the grass into ropes and tied Krum to the ground.
No sooner had Crum been subdued than Cedric fell.
Fleur, who had just come from another passage, struck Cedric with a soft-legged charm.
Just as Fleur was taking a step towards the Goblet of Fire, a blue wall of fire appeared in front of her and blocked her way, and Ron arrived.
Before Ron could be happy, Krum, who had broken free from Cedric's straw rope, struck Ron with a spell.
Crum, who had pushed Ron back, used a spell to suppress Ron as he walked towards the Goblet of Fire.
As a result, when Krum was still a few steps away from the Goblet of Fire, a dirt man appeared behind him, and the dirt man grabbed Krum's legs with both hands and dragged him away.
Next, Fleur and Ron, who had just bypassed the wall of fire and conjured the Dirt Man to drag Krum away, exchanged "biu" spells, while Cedric, who had lifted the Soft Legs Charm, confronted Crum, who had solved the Dirt Man.
For a moment, around the Goblet of Fire, there were many obstacles and weapons that flew together, and the faint ground was all petrified.
Two minutes later, one of Cedric's spells collided with Krum's, only to have one of the spells that was missed, hitting Ron.
To the audience's exclamations, Ron was enchanted into the hedge.
This sudden change made the remaining three people stunned at the same time.
Immediately afterward, all three of them raised their wands at the same time to cast a spell.
A dramatic scene ensued, Fleur's spell stunned Krum, Krum's petrification spell caused Cedric to fall straight to the ground, and Cedric's spell turned the grass in the grass into a moving rope and tied Fleur into a rice dumpling.
The audience suddenly fell into silence, and no one expected the end of the total destruction of the warriors.
When Ron climbed out of the hedge, he found the other three warriors lying on their backs, tied up.
Ron, who came to his senses, immediately rushed to the Goblet of Fire, then raised it high without anyone stopping him.
In the next second, the flames in the Goblet of Fire suddenly turned red, and then a flame shot out into the sky.
After a loud bang, the flames spelled out "Ron Weasley" in the sky.
After watching the video, Zhang Xu couldn't laugh or cry, anyone could have won the Goblet of Fire at the last moment, but in the end, the champion was decided in this dramatic way.
Let's just say that sometimes luck really matters.
However, Ron's performance today is also remarkable, there are many obstacles along the way in the maze, and being able to reach the finish line in about the same time as other warriors is a demonstration of his own strength. So in the end, the audience also recognized him as a champion with a little luck.
After the race, the professors responsible for maintaining the safety of the maze came to the finish line one after another to undo the curse of the three people who fell to the ground. Then he left the labyrinth with the warriors.
When the warriors arrived at the rostrum of the Quidditch pitch, a ceremony was held to present the prize money.
After the ceremony, it is time for the regular banquet.