Chapter 319: Making Friends from All Over the World
Finding that his eyes were covered by a pair of small hands, Zhang Xu habitually reached out behind him, but he caught a void.
Swinging his hands back and forth, and after finding that there was nothing behind him, Zhang Xu took down the pair of hands that covered his eyes.
Well, it was taken down literally, and at this time Zhang Xu realized that it was a pair of prosthetic hands similar to dolls that covered his eyes......
Looking back, Zhang Xu found Gabrielle waving at him at the long table not far behind him. Sitting next to Gabrielle were several students of her age.
Then Zhang Xu waved his hand in response, and tapped the pair of prosthetic hands a few times with his wand. I saw that the pair of prosthetic hands flew towards Gabrielle, and then pressed her face and rubbed it for a while, causing several classmates next to her who were also young to laugh.
The entry threshold for new students is different in each magic school.
Hogwarts has a special quill that will write down the name of every English child with magical abilities when they are born, ensuring that the offer letter will reach all magical children at the right time. Except for Zhang Xu, all the students at Hogwarts were selected in this way.
In Japan, seven-year-old wizards begin to go to school at magic offices.
In China, all county-level administrative districts have relevant departments using Hogwarts' quill tools with similar functions to detect newborn monks, and the staff of the department will come to the door to understand the relevant situation, and if the parents are ordinary people, the staff will also explain accordingly. The staff will then advise the child's parents to send the child to a spell school run by the prefecture-level administrative district where the child was born for nine years of compulsory education after the child reaches school age. After graduating from junior high school, the young alchemists basically learned how to control their mana, and also mastered the spells used in their daily homes. As for whether they will take the path of the spell side or the science side in the future, it depends on their own choice.
And here in France, Beauxbatons' admission conditions are not a secret, the school has a way to detect wizards whose magic power reaches the admission requirements, and some talented children can go to Beauxbatons two or three years earlier, or they can come back when they are eleven years old, so there are occasionally a few students who are a few years younger than their peers here. Fleur could have been to Beauxbatons at the age of eight, just like Gabrielle, but her mother was pregnant with Gabrielle that year, and his father happened to be busy with work that year, so she gave up the opportunity to come to Beauxbatons early to take care of her pregnant mother and her newborn sister at home. It was also from that time that she began to learn the art of cooking.
Because Beauxbatons has such a policy, Zhang Xu has never been worried that Gabrielle will not be able to find friends of similar age at school.
After greeting Gabrielle and telling her to wait until the dinner was over, Zhang Xu continued to act as the glue between the Hogwarts players and the Beauxbatons students. The purpose of a three-school Quidditch match is to enhance communication between schools, and if the away team comes and just sits there stupidly like a brick, and doesn't communicate with the home team like strangers, then the game is much less meaningful.
So Zhang Xu kept calling for friends who had known him before to know the students at Hogwarts, and at the same time he was translating for some French students who couldn't speak English. As long as you don't talk about numbers, Zhang Xu's French is still quite slippery now.
After a while, there was a commotion among the students in the cafeteria.
A Beauxbatons student walked into the cafeteria with a team of wizards with oriental faces in golden robes and sat across from them.
Zhang Xu learned from the conversation between the principals just now that there were also students from their school's Quidditch team in the audience of the other five schools.
Now this group of people is undoubtedly students from the Japan Magic Institute, and their golden robes mean that they are all elites in the Magic Institute.
If it was at Hogwarts, Dumbledore would definitely not place the students of the Wizardry within ten meters of Zhang Xu.
But it is estimated that Madame Maxim does not know the grievances between Zhang Xu and the Magic Institute, but arranges the seats under the pretense of seeing the villagers and talking to them.
However, after Zhang Xu glanced at the students of the magic institute, he concluded that they would not fight this time.
Not long after the students of the magic institute sat down, someone noticed that there were also two Asian faces on the other side of the long table.
"Hello, I'm Yamada Guinong from the Magic Institute." A student from the Magic Institute sitting across from Zhang Xu greeted him in English.
"Hello, my name is Zhang Xu and I'm from Hogwarts." Zhang Xu greeted him in Japanese.
Just after the two had just finished introducing themselves, they chatted for a few words, and another group of people walked into the cafeteria.
Just by looking at the skin color, you can see that this is a group of wizards from the Uganda Wagado School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
It was evident that Beauxbatons intended to arrange the students of the four houses at this long table. Students from Hogwarts and the Wizardry make up half of the long table.
Zhang Xu happened to be sitting at the very back of the Hogwarts row, and a student from Vagado happened to be sitting next to him.
"Hello, my name is Didier Drogba." The Vagado student sitting next to Zhang Xu greeted him, "Where do we seem to have met?" ”
Zhang Xu knows a lot of black people, but he definitely doesn't know the one in front of him. But as soon as he said this, Zhang Xu seemed to feel that he was a little familiar.
After thinking for about a minute, Zhang Xu clapped his hands and said happily: "I remember, we met in the camp at the 1994 Quidditch World Cup. The three of you were roasting rabbits, and I asked you where they got them. I didn't expect us to meet here, my name is Zhang Xu. ”
"That's right!" Didier Drogba also remembered the details of the time at this time, and said while stretching out his hand to shake hands with Zhang Xu: "At that time, I was roasting rabbits with my father and younger brother, and you gave us a pack of cumin. ”
With this opportunity, the two talked about the riots after the World Cup, and the tent of Didier Drogba's house was unfortunately burned down in the riots, but everyone was fine, and finally received compensation from the British Ministry of Magic for buying five tents. And Yamada Guinong also joined their conversation at this time, and at this time Zhang Xu knew that he was also in the camp back then, and he broke his head because of a fall while running.
A short time later, a group of wizards in fur coats entered the cafeteria and headed for their table.
Fortunately, Beauxbatons is located high in the mountains, and the temperature in April is not too high, otherwise they would have been so hot that they would have suffered from heat stroke.
When the group of wizards from Dorez, Russia, who knew at a glance, approached the long table, one of the students was stunned when he saw Zhang Xu, and walked a few steps faster to the seat next to Yamada Guinong, and stretched out his right hand to Zhang Xu.
"I remember you," the wizard of Kordos Dorez said to Zhang Xu, "on the night of the Quidditch World Cup, you got our Tonya drunk and took it away. My name is Alexander Romanov. ”
Yes, another wizard who was involved in the Quidditch World Cup that year.
Zhang Xu stood up and shook his hand, and said, "I'm Zhang Xu from Hogwarts, and we have a chance to have two drinks." ”
After speaking, Zhang Xu took out a vodka stone in his left hand and shook it in front of Alexander Romanov. Alexander Romanov understood in seconds, and the smile on his face was a little bigger.
For a moment, the four students from the four magic academies in the middle of the long table had a pleasant conversation.
Soon after, the students of Ilvermorny and Castrobusche also arrived in Beauxbatons, where they sat with Durmstrang students under the guidance of Bousbatons.
After the students took their seats, the eight principals entered the cafeteria together and took their seats in the innermost VIP seats. The host, Madame Maxim, and the eldest, Professor Dumbledore, sat in the middle, while the rest of the headmasters sat on either side.