"I guess Professor Dumbledore will have news soon, so let's wait a minute." Zhang Xu said to Harry.

"Do you know who replaced the Goblet of Fire for a portkey?" Harry asked suddenly.

"The box containing the Goblet of Fire can only be opened by the Headmaster." Zhang Xu replied.

"Karkaroff?" Harry shouted in surprise.

"At the moment, it seems like he's the only one who will do that." Zhang Xu said.

"But it should have been an accident that we went to set up the Goblet of Fire together after we met Professor Dumbledore in the foyer today, and he can't guarantee that he will meet me on the way to the labyrinth." Harry soon discovered something suspicious.

"What would you do if Ron or Cedric were kidnapped and Voldemort asked you to find him on your own, or if they kidnapped Fleur and asked me to take you to him?" Zhang Xu asked, "Keeping Krum from getting the Goblet of Fire is a matter of a Revency curse before the game for Karkaroff." ”

"Of course I'll save them." Harry said immediately.

Then Harry asked weakly, "If Fleur was kidnapped, would you knock me unconscious?" ”

After speaking, Harry rubbed the place that was knocked by Zhang Xu just now.

"Perhaps." Zhang Xu shrugged his shoulders and continued, "I speculate that Karkaroff was prepared in all aspects from the beginning. Meeting you in the foyer just saved him a lot of trouble. When you were in the foyer, he was the one who first suggested that you put the Goblet of Fire on the shelf. Portkeys can be activated, for example, last year when you went to the Quidditch World Cup with the Weasleys and Cedric and they went to the Quidditch World Cup stadium with the Portkey, it would only be activated when there were enough people, otherwise he would have to fly away first when the Ministry of Magic staff handed you the Portkey. It's not difficult to set a activation condition for the portkey based on the age of the contact, like Professor Dumbledore's cordon around the Goblet of Fire when he first signed up. Otherwise, it would have been fun for Professor Dumbledore to be teleported to Voldemort while he was putting the Goblet of Fire on the shelf. ”

After Zhang Xu finished saying a long paragraph, he felt that his mouth was dry, so he picked up the teacup and drank a cup of tea.

Harry, on the other hand, was digesting the day's experience. What happened today has just too much impact on him, more than the last ten years combined.

From time to time, the cheers of the audience could be heard outside the window, constantly arousing Zhang Xu's curiosity, and he wanted to know how Fleur was doing in the maze now.

But Zhang Xu had to stare at Harry here now.

The Headmaster's office was the safest place for Harry now. The Headmaster's Office, which had just changed its password, was now only allowed to enter, including Zhang Xu, Harry, and Dumbledore.

And Zhang Xu was also afraid that Karkaroff would have something to leave behind, in case Harry waited to pick up the cake sent by the house-elf and then disappeared with a "biu", then Zhang Xu would have to find a place to squat and cry.

Zhang Xu, who is cautious now, even ordered Dobby to personally prepare the food and then send it over.

Harry pondered for a while and said to Zhang Xu, "Next, a new war begins. ”

"That's right." Zhang Xu said, "The next battle will be more fierce and more brutal than before." ”

"In the future, everyone can die in battle, you, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Neville, Fred, George, Black, Lupin, even Professor Dumbledore, no one can guarantee that they will survive this war."

With each name, Harry's face turned paler.

"If you think you need it in the future, you can go to our embassy in the UK for help, and we can arrange for you and your family and friends to take refuge in our country, and Voldemort will not be able to chase you there."

"If you lose your land, you will lose your land, and if you lose your land, you will lose your land. As long as people are alive, there is still hope for everything. If a person dies, there is nothing. ”

"That's why I'm at Hogwarts."

Zhang Xu told Harry about his first and most important agreement with Dumbledore at this moment.

Harry looked at Zhang Xu in amazement after hearing this, he had never thought about this matter.

"Zhang ......"

Harry was about to say something when he was interrupted by Zhang Xu.

"There are some things that I didn't want to tell you so early, but now that Voldemort has recovered, the situation has changed, so I told you in advance."

"Professor Dumbledore invited me to study at Hogwarts so that I would be your last line of insurance. Otherwise, why not sooner rather than later, I came to study at Hogwarts just when you came, and no one else has been here since I came. ”

"And do you resent Professor Dumbledore?" Harry asked, "He dragged you into the war with Voldemort." ”

Zhang Xu smiled and waved his hand, and said: "Wealth is in danger, for some people, the battlefield is the best shopping mall, and it just so happens that I am such a person." As you can see for yourself, I've made a lot of money over the years. ”

"Besides, if I hadn't been able to come to Hogwarts, how would I have had the chance to meet Fleur?"

"What men pursue is nothing more than money and beauty, and to put it mildly, career and love. Now I get both at Hogwarts. ”

"So it's too late for me to thank Professor Dumbledore, so why resent him?"

Zhang Xu's words just now were all said by Harry through the transmission of sounds, only the last sentence was said normally.

The portraits of the previous principals in the principal's office are all alive, and there are some things that Zhang Xu doesn't want them to hear.

"You just know these things yourself, you don't need to tell anyone else. The fewer people who know about such things, the better. In the end, Zhang Xu told again.

Harry nodded, saying that he wouldn't say anything about it.

Harry suddenly remembered something and asked, "Are you going to sink Malfoy into the lake?" ”

"Not yet." Zhang Xu replied, "Let's see the situation later." ”

At this moment, the sky outside the window began to gradually darken, and the cheers of the spectators from the other side of the stadium were still so loud.

According to the estimated time for the warriors to pass through the labyrinth when Zhang Xu and the other professors built the labyrinth, the warriors should be very close to the end now, and in the next time, it is possible to decide the final winner at any time.

Who can win the final championship, now Zhang Xu doesn't care. Whether it's Fleur or Cedric, that's not the point. He doesn't force Fleur to win the final championship anymore, as long as Fleur is not too seriously injured in the labyrinth, he is satisfied.

Zhang Xu looked at the time, and it was already time for dinner.

Just as Zhang Xu was about to ask Dobby to wait for dinner to be delivered, Dumbledore returned to the Headmaster's office.