After a cleaning of the whole school, Hogwarts Castle has been completely renovated inside and out.

Some of the original dirty portraits were washed clean, and the armor in the hallways was wiped clean enough to be used as mirrors.

In anticipation of the students, October 30 arrived.

That morning, when the students went downstairs for breakfast, they found that the cafeteria had been renovated overnight.

Huge silk banners hung on the walls, each representing one of Hogwarts houses: Gryffindor with a golden lion on a red background, Ravenclaw with a bronze eagle on a blue background, Hufflepuff with a black badger on a yellow background, and Slytherin with a silver python on a green background.

Behind the teacher's desk, the largest banner hung with the Hogwarts crest: a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake linked together with a large letter H around it.

Throughout the day, there was a sense of anticipatory joy in the air.

In class, no one was paying attention, and everyone thought that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were coming tonight.

When Zhang Xu assigned today's Muggle studies homework, the bell rang for the end of class half an hour early.

When the bell rang, the students rushed back to their dormitories, put down their bags and textbooks, put on their cloaks, and rushed down the stairs in three steps and two steps to the castle gates.

The deans of the various colleges are organizing the students of their own colleges to line up.

The procession of students began at the Basilisk Fountain and went all the way to the gates of the castle.

It was a clear, cold, airy evening, and night was falling, and a white, translucent moon was already hanging over the Forbidden Forest.

Seeing that the students were lined up, Zhang Xu looked at Dumbledore beside him, and after Dumbledore nodded at Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu raised the wand in his hand.

The next moment, a half-meter-high column of water erupted from the basilisk fountain.

In the exclamation of the students, Zhang Xu waved his wand again, only to see that Hogwarts Castle was instantly shrouded in a golden light.

Under the lighting, the entire Hogwarts castle looks gorgeous and heavy.

Next, the four ice castles near the lake also lit up with their own colors, but the ice and snow gardens on the side were still black.

Amid the excited discussion of the students, the sky began to darken.

At night, the glow of the brightly lit castle reflected on the excited faces of the students.

Wizards are always tempted to show off when they get together, and the Headmaster and Professors of Hogwarts are not immune.

At the beginning, Dumbledore handed over the work of picking up (xuàn) and waiting (yào) to Zhang Xu, who always had a whimsical idea.

After some deliberation, Zhang developed a series of plans for the invisible dazzle (zhuāng) and yao (bī) that spanned the entire season of the Triwizard Tournament, which was finally approved by Dumbledore and the other professors.

At that moment, Dumbledore, who was standing in the back row with the other professors, shouted, "Ah! If I'm not mistaken, Beauxbatons' representatives have arrived! ”

Soon, everyone spotted a huge powder-blue carriage in the night sky drawn by twelve winged golden-haired silver-maned horses.

At this moment, a wide and long band of blue-white light lit up on the grass outside the castle.

With a loud bang and a jolt, the huge carriage landed in the ribbon of light as if it were an airplane landing on it.

As soon as the carriage landed, the band of light on the ground shrank into a circle of light two or three meters wider than the carriage, and the light softened.

When Madame Maxim stepped down the golden spiral staircase of the carriage, Zhang Xu, who was in charge of controlling the landing field, greeted her.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Lady Maxime." Zhang Xu bowed slightly to Madame Maxim and said, "Professor Dumbledore has been waiting for a long time, please come with me." ”

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Zhang." Madame Maxim shook hands with Zhang Xu, "Please lead the way." ”

After smiling at Fleur and Tonya who were standing behind Lady Maxime, and Gabrielle, who was waving at him as soon as he got out of the carriage, Zhang Xu led Lady Maxim and the Beauxbatons delegates to the gates of Hogwarts Castle.

Madame Maxim saw Zhang Xu's small movements, smiled and didn't say anything.

When Zhang Xu stepped out of the aperture around the carriage, a footprint emitting a soft blue-white light appeared under his feet.

Soon, the footprint expanded into a two-meter-wide path of light.

As Zhang Xu led Beauxbatons and everyone in front of him to keep moving forward, the path of light under his feet also extended from the carriage to the front of the basilisk fountain.

When Zhang Xu led Madame Maxim and the student representatives to the small bridge in the middle of the basilisk fountain, the fountain, which was originally just slowly spewing water, suddenly became like it was boiling.

The water column in the fountain suddenly turned on with full power, and under the effect of the red light in the pool, the basilisk specimen and the statues of the four students in the fountain seemed to be in blood and flames.

A faint green light appeared on the body of the basilisk specimen, which looked very hideous against the surrounding fountain water columns that emitted red light. The basilisk's mouth emitted a column of green light, squirting towards the student statue on the other side of the bridge like an Avada curse.

On the other side of the bridge, the wand of the student's statue erupted from the top of the wand and shot at the basilisk's body with golden light.

The sudden change made the Beauxbatons students exclaim in amazement, and many of them pointed at the basilisk specimens.

Zhang Xu also heard Gabrielle's voice behind him, "It's delicious".

Zhang Xu looked at Madame Maxim and saw that she was also looking at the specimen of the basilisk with a surprised expression.

Then, Zhang Xu led the people of Beauxbatons to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore was clearly pleased with the reaction of the Beauxbatons guests.

While Dumbledore and Lady Maxim were greeting, Zhang Xu came to the lake and waited for the arrival of the representatives of Durmstrang House.

Just when Zhang Xu drank the hot cocoa in the thermos cup with the cold wind blowing by the lake, and considered whether to roast a few skewers of fat beef pads to cushion his stomach, there was a rumbling sound and the sound of water absorption in the lake.

Immediately after, a sailboat like a ghost boat floated up from the bottom of the lake, and then headed towards the light signal issued by Zhang Xu.

Zhang Xu's place is a waterfront platform in the middle of the ice and snow waterfront garden that protrudes several meters into the lake.

When Durmstrang's ship stopped at the platform and dropped its anchor, a three-meter-wide ice staircase grew out of the ice-made hydrophilic platform, which reached the side of the ship, less than a centimeter from it. This ice ladder also emits a soft blue-white glow.

On the side of the ship, a Durmstrang student holding a plank ready to build a bridge looked confused.

Soon, a middle-aged man in a silver-white fur cloak stepped off the boat with Durmstrang's student representative.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Professor Karkaroff. I'm Zhang Xu. Zhang Xu also bowed slightly to Karkaroff and said, "Professor Dumbledore has been waiting for a long time, please come with me." ”

Karkaroff is different from Mrs. Maxim, who is an acquaintance of Mrs. Maxim and Zhang Xu, while Karkaroff and Zhang Xu are strangers, and the two of them have only heard each other's names at most.

So Karkaroff just nodded at Zhang Xu, and walked towards Hogwarts Castle under the leadership of Zhang Xu.

Unlike when he showed off his light path to Beauxbatons delegates just now, when Zhang Xu led Durmstrang's delegates through the ice and snow garden that was originally blackly lit, the entire garden was centered on Zhang Xu, and a ray of light spread around the garden.

The students in Durmstrang, who were walking in the middle of the garden, were amazed to see the white glow on the road and the various flowers and trees made of ice and snow flowing with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple streamers.

When Zhang Xu led Durmstrang's representatives through the basilisk fountain, they screamed even more. Having systematically studied the Dark Arts, they naturally knew better than the Beauxbatons students what such a long and thick basilisk meant.

Dumbledore nodded at Zhang Xu with satisfaction.

The thousand-year-old basilisk is not the kind of washing machine drain pipe size in Zhang Xu's farm, this powerful and rare magical animal is rare and unattainable.

The Hogwarts students killed one of these and put it in the castle, which was a lot of pressure.

When Zhang Xu brought Durmstrandron's representatives to Dumbledore, he found that Beauxbatons' men were still standing in front of the castle gate.

Zhang Xu stepped back and stood behind Dumbledore.

After the greetings, the next step is the time between the principals to show the students, just like a group of parents to show each other's babies.

Karkaroff played the card Seeker Victor Krum, who had shined at the Quidditch World Cup, and then Dumbledore pulled out Harry Potter, the famous savior of Europe, and the two sides were tied.

Madame Maxime, who was standing on the sidelines, felt that there were no students in her school who had reached such an international level.

Originally, she could have called Fleur to make Harry Potter and Victor Krum, two young boys, mess up, but the family's cabbage caused a certain Hogwarts pig to arch.

People are more popular than people.

At this time, Zhang Xu, who was standing behind Dumbledore, suddenly discovered the New World, and he saw a pair of Krum's eyes constantly glancing at Beauxbatons' students.

Zhang Xu followed Krum's eyes and found that the person Krum kept glancing at was Tonya standing beside Fleur.

Zhang Xu, who discovered the New World, reminded Fleur and Tonya with his eyes at the same time, so that they both noticed Krum.

Tonya, who received the signal, glanced at Krum, who turned his head in a blushing face.

Then Tonya glared at Zhang Xu and Furong who were smiling evilly, and there was nothing she could do with them for a while.