As the saying goes, "There are only a thousand days to be a thief, and there are a thousand days to prevent thieves", as the days go by, there will always be a time for slackness.

That's what worries Dumbledore now, since Voldemort and the Death Eaters went into hiding, he has been worried about Harry Potter's safety.

Now the Death Eaters that Voldemort has brought in advance are the ones who are usually very low-key, and the two people like Lucius Malfoy and Snape, who often show up, have not been contacted at all.

Now that things have developed to such a point, Zhang Xu has no good way, and he can't find the target when he takes the initiative to attack, so he can only defend passively. So Zhang Xu asked Dumbledore to make a pair of insole doorkeys for Harry, and he himself gave Harry a trick.

During that raid, the Death Eaters used magic traps and stealth smoke grenades imported from Peru, which made Zhang Xu become alert.

The rest of the world isn't stupid either, and they'll keep up with the times.

The magic trap is easy to deal with, and in order to deal with the stealth smoke bomb, Zhang Xu thought of the "Glorious Hand".

The "Glorious Hand" is an amulet made by wrapping and soaking mandrake or other herbs in the hands of a person who has been hanged. The person holding the hand can use it to illuminate in the dark, but others cannot see it.

It's just that this kind of black magic item is not easy to do in the UK, and only one is sold in a black store.

But this was a minor problem for Durmstrang students, who had been learning the dark arts, and Zhang Xu bought a dozen from them.

But no matter what, life has to go on.

It's getting closer and closer to Saturday, June 24, the final match of the Triwizard Tournament.

According to the original plan, it was the last day of Hogwarts exams, and everyone went to watch the game after the exams.

However, because the difficulty of the maze has been increased, it is estimated that the warriors will be tossed in the maze for a long time, and the original time is not enough, so the Hogwarts exam time was advanced by one day, and the game started at noon on the 24th.

As the exam date approached, students were engaged in intense revision.

During this time, Zhang Xu put away his pen and picked up the quill again. There will be a specially prepared quill during the exam, and if you don't get familiar with it during the time before the exam, it will be funny if you don't finish it when the exam time comes.

After days of hard fighting, the exam was finally over.

The students cheered as if they had just been beaten up by Yuri's minecart. After watching the race tomorrow, we will be able to go home after a few more days of herding.

On the night of the end of the exam, Zhang Xu came to the long-lost screaming shack, where everyone had a banquet to cheer for Cedric and Ron today.

The long table was full of dishes made by the students themselves, and it was a pity that everyone had left their stomachs for dinner today, so that they could have a good meal at their own banquet tonight.

Everyone held up glasses filled with butterbeer and toasted the two warriors.

Ron, who is crazy, said that he will definitely win the Goblet of Fire, and then put a copper pot on top of the Goblet of Fire, and everyone will come together to play hot pot when the time comes.

At one end of the long table, Zhang Xu looked at the noisy students while drinking wine.

For Zhang Xu, this school year is a year of inhumanity for the opposite sex, he spends most of his time with Furong and rarely participates in group activities.

For most of the past six months, everyone has been working tirelessly to advise Cedric and Ron, and has been training with both of them until late every night.

Without the help of the crowd, the two Champions of Hogwarts would not have passed the first two games so easily.

Especially Ron, a year ago his level was only good among his peers, after more than half a year of hard training, he can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds, his current level can be said to have touched the threshold of seventh graders, his two twin brothers and him alone, careless words will suffer a lot of losses. Even Harry Potter, who has always been trained by Grandpa Gandalf in glasses, is now a little bit behind by Ron.

Where Ron has grown the most in the past year is his mentality.

It turned out that in the trio of Hermione and Harry, Ron, as a green leaf, had a lot of feelings of inferiority and jealousy.

After the triwizard tournament and the three-school Quidditch match, Ron's new star began to rise. Although he still has some crazy personalities, he is now more confident to be crazy.

Now Ron, after sweeping away the haze in his heart, the whole person has become much more cheerful.

Zhang Xu didn't say anything to the others tonight, just sat quietly eating and looking at the classmates in front of him.

Zhang Xu believes that in the past four years at Hogwarts, his biggest achievement is not how much money he made doing "overseas shopping", nor how many times he cheated Voldemort, but how much he has pulled up such a cohesive team.

Zhang Xu is very happy to see that he has not interfered for a year, and the team still maintains unity and stability.

And Cedric is graduating in a few days, and the leadership of this team is shifting to Harry and Hermione.

Although Harry did not become a warrior, with his outstanding performance in recent years, the popularity of the students is still high.

And Hermione, with her excellent mind, has also won everyone's recognition.

And Zhang Xu successfully diluted his existence.

Now this group of students has a tendency to develop towards the "Whampoa Department", and the graduates who have walked out of this group in the past two years are still huddled together, which has attracted the attention of some people in the Ministry of Magic.

If Zhang Xu jumps up and down in it again, falling into the eyes of some people will cause them to have some unnecessary interpretations.

After the feast, Zhang Xu left the Harry trio behind and took them to a living room on the second floor of the Screaming Shack.

The four of them sat down, and Zhang Xu poured a cup of tea for the three of them.

"Ron, how does it feel to be a Warrior?" Zhang Xu asked.

"It feels good." Ron replied with a smile.

"Want to know how you were named a Warrior?" Zhang Xu asked suddenly.

Ron, Harry, and Hermione were shocked when they heard Zhang Xu's question, they had discussed this question many times in private, but they had not received a satisfactory answer.

Ron didn't speak, just stared at Zhang Xu.

Looking at Ron's eyes, Zhang Xu said: "You also know the situation of your family in the past year, and the fact that Fred, George and I were attacked in the Forbidden Forest on the night after the first game ended that day. ”

"I know." Ron said, and then he didn't speak, waiting for Zhang Xu's next words.

"This incident is the same as we guessed at the beginning, someone is indeed trying to harm you." Zhang Xu said, "They think that you, who are only in the fourth grade, will definitely die in the Triwizard Tournament." ”

Hearing this, Ron and Harry's faces turned pale, and Hermione also broke out in a cold sweat.

"Who's behind you, you can ask Mr. Weasley, he knows more than I do." Zhang Xu continued, "They used up a family promise and asked someone to put your name into the Goblet of Fire. ”

Ron just wanted to say something, but was stopped by Zhang Xu.

"Someone cast a powerful confusion spell on the Goblet of Fire, making it think that there were four schools participating in the tournament. After that person cast another name, someone else threw your name into the Goblet of Fire in the name of a fourth school student. ”

"It's just that the Goblet of Fire can't tell the truth magic of the person whose name it represents, it can only tell the magic of the person who puts the name into the Goblet of Fire, and then connects that name to the person who signed up."

"For example, if Professor Dumbledore threw Hermione's name into the Goblet of Fire, then the last person to be chosen would have been Hermione."

Hermione was the first to grasp the hint in Zhang Xu's words, and then asked, "So there is another person who threw other people's names into the Goblet of Fire after casting a confusion spell on the Goblet of Fire?" ”

Zhang Xu nodded, and then said, "Yes, that person is Barty Crouch Jr., who pretended to be Professor Moody's, and he threw Harry Potter's name into the Goblet of Fire. ”

Zhang Xu won't confess, and he also threw Hermione's name into it.

As soon as Zhang Xu said this, Harry and the three of them suddenly realized.

Ron and Harry, the two brothers and sisters, looked at each other dumbfounded, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione, one is the Death Eater plotting against him, the other is the family's business rival plotting against him, the other is her friend and mentor plotting her, and the last person to be tricked is Ron.

If he had known that the form would develop into the way it is now, Zhang Xu would have simply opened a few more magic "power banks" on his body to temporarily surpass Scarlet's magic power, and then threw Snape's name into it, giving them a headache for a few Death Eaters and the Headmaster when the time came.

"And who was the man who threw my name into the Goblet of Fire?" Ron asked.

"Can you grant me a request before you name this person?" Zhang Xu said to Ron sincerely, "You should be clear about the 'family promise' between wizarding families, this is a promise between magically protected families that members of wizarding families cannot resist. The person who threw your name into the Goblet of Fire didn't mean to hurt you. If you can forgive her, I owe you a favor. ”

After speaking, Zhang Xu looked at Ron a little nervously, for fear that he would say that he would not forgive. Now Ron, or the Weasleys, have the confidence to say "no".

The three people here are not stupid, and Zhang Xu's words have revealed enough clues before.

First of all, this man's magic is stronger than Barty Crouch Jr. This has swept all the students of Hogwarts. Only the strongest professors in the school can achieve this. Professors like Sybil Trelawney, a professor of divination, must have been ruled out.

Secondly, the pronunciation of "she" and "he" in English is different, and they can all tell that this person is a woman.

Third, the person must have wizarding blood, even if the family is an obscure small family, even if it is a half-blood wizard, but it is certainly not that both parents are Muggle-born wizards. Otherwise, there is no basis for making a "family commitment".

Fourth, the person who can make Zhang Xu pull down his face and ask Ron, hoping that he can not blame the past for this matter, is naturally the person who has a very good relationship with Zhang Xu. There are many such people in Hogwarts, but there are only a handful of professors.

Combining these clues, Ron and the three of them could quickly deduce that this person must be a female professor who has a good relationship with Zhang Xu in Hogwarts.

And there are only a few female professors in Hogwarts, and Ron thinks he has thought of who Zhang Xu is talking about.

Ron thought for a moment, then said, "It's not like I wasn't killed, and I'm glad to get the opportunity to participate in the Triwizard Tournament as a Warrior." And even though she has always been very strict with us, we can all tell that she has always taken good care of us. ”

Hearing Ron say this, Zhang Xu also breathed a sigh of relief, and then picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea to relieve the nervousness just now.

Ron continued, "I'll forgive Professor McGonagall." ”

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Zhang Xu squirted out a mouthful of tea.