19. Admission referee
"Mr. Mephisto was specially invited by the international tournament organization." Moody whispered in Harry's ear.
Fourmond shook Harry's hand kindly.
"That's good, Hogwarts Warriors, I was wondering if it would be Harry Potter at first, after all, your name began to spread ten years ago, hahaha is really as I expected."
Harry felt that Fourmond's words had made his face redden, and he wondered how the gentleman felt when he learned that the Warrior was not Sherlock.
Bagman had a pleasant conversation with Fumond at first, and then he stood up happily and waved at the two of them, interrupting their exchange, "Ah, here, the last of the remaining warriors, come here...... There's nothing to worry about, it's just the ritual of detecting the wand, and the other referees will be there soon......"
"Detection wand?" Harry's eyebrows furrowed slightly.
"Well, yes, we have to check that your wand is in good condition, after all, the tool that runs through the whole game is the wand in your hand, and if something goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable." With a cute smile on his face, Bagman gestured to the witch next to him, "By the way, this is a reporter from the Daily Prophet, Rita Skeeter, who came to do an interview for the Triwizard Tournament. ”
Rita's eyes were on Harry, and a warm smile appeared on Bagman's face as she introduced her.
But Harry felt that the female reporter's smile was fake, and he seemed to have a particularly strong dislike for himself, and Harry didn't quite understand why the other party had such feelings towards him.
"Ah, before we get started, can I have a few words with Harry?" She asked Bagman, but her eyes were still firmly fixed on Harry, "The youngest warrior, you know...... To add a little color to the article. ”
As if he had been caught, Harry was quickly taken to a nearby broomroom.
"Okay, then as a Hogwarts Warrior this time, the outside world is actually quite curious about your cheating, how did you bypass Master Sherlock, the Prince of Spells, and choose to let the Goblet of Fire choose you?"
Harry looked at the reporter in front of him dumbfounded, "Ah...... What, I'm sorry I don't quite understand what you mean. ”
"Oh, of course, Master Sherlock is so good, if at your age, you can use a little trick to take away the title of warrior that should belong to the other party, then you are indeed worthy of pride."
"You mean, this time I got the honor of Hogwarts Warriors by cheating?"
"Of course...... Or is there another reason? Although you keep admitting it, everyone knows that even if you don't put your name into the Goblet of Fire, you can let someone else do it for you, of course, you won't be generous enough to admit that you will definitely put yourself in the position of a victim, but I have to mention that becoming a Hogwarts Warrior must be very attractive to you, otherwise why would others put your name in it. ”
Rita's words made Harry Potter's head fall off.
"You...... You have to know that Triwizard Tournament is a very dangerous event...... There have been many cases of warriors dying unexpectedly while competing, don't you think someone deliberately wanted me to die, so they threw my name in? ”
"Then Harry Potter I want to test your courage, if you want to move forward for glory, sacrifice yourself in exchange for glory and the mood of being remembered, and sacrifice yourself for the sake of the overall situation, then are you afraid of death?"
"I ...... I'm not afraid. Harry's forehead was sweating all over the place.
"It's obvious, then, that Harry Potter, who is not afraid of death, is referring to someone else's throwing his name into the Goblet of Fire." Rita pulled out her magic shorthand pen.
The notebook and quill floated in the air, writing quickly.
Harry's expression was ugly, "It's not the same, ma'am, if I knew that I was going to die, I would still be terrified." ”
"Hypocrite, Harry, I really didn't expect you to be so dishonest at a young age, it just disappoints me, it seems that the life shrouded in the halo of fame has made this boy's heart dirty."
"Nonsense."
"I also like to swear, my character is really bad!"
"I ......," Harry said just one word, and Rita's shorthand pen began to brush on it.
"I didn't say anything just now......"
"Of course I'm just describing your inner workings...... You know, we also need a strong sense of textual skills. ”
Rita then asked, "Actually, I've always been curious about Mr. Potter, what kind of image does Master Sherlock have in your mind, is he your imaginary enemy?" But don't you feel like you're the opposite of Master Sherlock, and you're not even as good as the other person's hair. ”
"Why do you think that?"
"Haha, sure enough, I'm not the only one who thinks like this, so I'm more likely to resonate with others." Rita suddenly put away her shorthand pen, and Harry breathed a sigh of relief that he finally didn't have to endure the pressure.
"I met Master Sherlock when he was very young, and he was an extremely gifted man...... No...... Even the word genius is not appropriate to compare with him, and there can be no new words beyond genius, who do you think wrote the first report of Master Sherlock that made him famous? When I was very young, I wrote a lot of excellent articles for him, and I want to make Master Sherlock the most perfect person in my pen...... You can check out all the reporters' interviews, and I am the only one who has written the most about Master Sherlock. ”
Rita said hatefully, "Of course, all this without you...... People like you are the one I feel the most annoying, they want to move forward even though they are nothing, and if they can't do it, please make way for others, don't make trouble on the side, they will often ask for their own hardships. ”
Harry swallowed, Rita was too close to him, and the threat was obvious.
Suddenly, Harry remembered what Dumbledore had told him before, that there were three forces in the wizarding world, and although the people of the third force did not have a clear statement, there was a huge crowd.
This is the wizard who secretly follows and supports Mephisto.
This made Rita, who was still convinced in front of her, a reporter from the Daily Prophet who followed Mephisto faithfully.
"Almost, Rita, I won't leave you too much time to interview the champions of Hogwarts." Bagman knocked on the door between the brooms and warned the people inside to come out as soon as possible.
At this time, Dumbledore and Ollivander entered the room together, and Harry and Rita Skeeter also walked out of the broomroom.
"Allow me to introduce Mr. Ollivanders." Dumbledore sat down in the referee's bench and said to the Warriors, "He's going to check your wands to make sure they're in good shape before the game." ”
Unexpectedly, it was this one who was in charge of checking the wand, an old wizard with two large light-colored eyes standing quietly by the window.
He smiled at every warrior who looked at him, Harry knew Ollivander after all, his wand was purchased from Ollivander's wand shop, but Krum and Fleur Delacour didn't know much about the man.
After all, Ollivander is not the only one in Europe who can make wands, he is just one of the three most famous people of our time.
"Miss Delacour, will you come first?" Mr. Ollivander said, walking to the clearing in the center of the room.
He fiddled with his baton, spinning his wand between his slender fingers, and his wand spewed out many pink and gold sparks.
Then he held his wand close to his eyes and carefully held it.
"Not bad." He whispered, "Nine and a half inches...... Strong is good...... It's good to make ...... maple wood, thank you, Miss Fleur. Handing the wand to Fleur, Ollivander turned his gaze to Harry Potter.
"Then there's your wand, Mr. Potter." Ollivander's pale eyes had a hint of hidden anticipation.
Harry looked down at his wand, which was covered in finger prints.
He tugged at the corner of his robe from his knee and tried to sneak his wand clean.
A few gold stars popped up on the wand's head, and Fleur Delacour glanced at him very arrogantly, and he had no choice but to give up.
Next, only Harry and Krum were left, and after checking their wands, Ollivander walked out of the room with a satisfied expression.
"Camera, Dumbledore, photography!" Bagman excitedly shouted, "What do you think of the referee and the warriors for a group photo, Rita?" ”
"Well, the group photo of the warriors before the triwizard battle is a procedure that must be followed." Rita replied.
"So wait a minute, I'm not the only referee this time, I'm the referee, but I also need an entry referee, and this is the result of my consultation with the other two principals, as well as the Triwizard Tournament steward, Mr. Mephisto and Mr. Crouch." Dumbledore stopped the fat man who wanted to take a picture.
The door opened again, and a gentle boyish voice came, "Call me all of a sudden, I hope you're not late, right?" ”
Sherlock walked in, and Rita suddenly reflected the excitement on the lenses of her glasses, and on the other side, Bagman was also excited, and whispered to Sherlock, "This was my proposal at first, Master Sherlock." ”
"What?" Sherlock was still a little confused, obviously he didn't expect to suddenly become the entrance referee of the Triwizard Tournament, the so-called admission referee had to enter the arena of the three warriors, and Dumbledore, as the referee, was just giving the order to start and end, and he was sitting in the audience the whole time.
Perhaps the inclusion of an entry referee this time is also for the safety of the three warriors, at least that's what Bagman, the original proposer, firmly believed.
"Mr. Sherlock, you're the entry judge for the Triwizard Tournament, and I should be much safer with you, right?" Fleur Delacour brushed her long hair in front of Sherlock.
"Uh-huh...... Maybe. ”
Fleur "......"
"Please ...... Please...... Advise Mr. Sherlock. Krum was a little excited, and it seemed that even after participating in the Triwizard Tournament, he still leaned against Sherlock.
"Of course, Krum, I still like how you play on the field."
Krum took a proper step back, his heart uneasy.
"Alright, the referee is here, and the referee, the other two principals, and the honorable Triwizard Tournament supervisor, Mr. Mephisto, please stand together."
The fat man said, holding up the camera.
"Why are you here, Daddy?" Sherlock only saw that Fourmond was here at this time, and the other party seemed to have become the regulator of the Triwizard Tournament.
"Why can't I be here? Didn't you hear, I'm the regulator of the Triwizard Tournament and I've been hired by someone else. Fu Meng was quite unhappy that his son had only now begun to notice him.
"Is Mommy here too?"
"Humph! A woman's family! ”
"Do you dare to say such things in front of her?"
"Humph......"
Fu Mond's eyes glanced out, and then whispered, "Whatever you have in mind, Rita, I just saw your shorthand quills move several times. ”
"Of course, I won't release it, but I'll just describe the scene in front of me." Rita's eyes seemed to be communicating directly with Fu Monde: "You are a man who is afraid of his wife. ’
It took a long time to take pictures.
Madame Maxim blocked others from wherever she stood, and the room was too small for the photographer to stand far away and take her into the lens; In the end she had to sit down, and everyone else stood around her.
Karkaroff kept running his fingers around his goatee, trying to curl it.
The photographer seems to be particularly keen to get Fleur in front, but Rita Skeeter always catches up and pulls Sherlock to the fore.
Over the next few days, Rita Skeeter's article put Harry in trouble again, and Harry finally found his first love at Hogwarts.
His close friend Colin Creevey said that Harry was inseparable from a girl named Hermione Granger, who was stunningly beautiful and born into a Muggle family, and who, like Harry, was one of the top students in school.
Compared with the various reports on Sherlock, the admission referee, and the powerful admission referee can be regarded as a guarantee for the safety of the three warriors, and the article also clearly portrays Harry as a sinister villain, Rita is very high-profile to explain that the name of the warrior should be Sherlock, but Harry used bad means to take it away.
This incident caused a great stir in the wizarding world.
Now Harry seems to have gone from being an immortal boy overnight to a boy who beat the Dark Lord to a man as bad as the Dark Lord.
"Do you want a handkerchief, Potter, lest you weep in Transfiguration class?"
"When did you become the top student of the school, Potter? Maybe you and Longbottom started this school? ”
I have to say that the speed of negative news is always too alarming, and within a few days, one of the warriors of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, various versions of the love announcement have begun to spread widely in the streets and alleys.
"Amazingly beautiful? She? After Rita's article was published, Pansy Parkinson first met Hermione and said in a strange voice, "On what basis is she judged...... Golden chipmunks? ”
Sherlock coughed lightly, in fact, Hermione is quite beautiful, but other girls, especially Slytherin girls, will never admit it, but no matter what, Hermione may still become the Mephisto family in the future...... Female, that is, Sherlock's sister-in-law......
Sherlock was not going to say anything about it.