In short, Fudge now sees the Quidditch World Cup as his most important hen.

He has been on the scene every day since the start of the group stage and has vowed that he will not miss every game.

This will not only prevent accidents, but also show your seriousness and hard work in front of all the ordinary wizards who come to watch the game, and also take the opportunity to make friends with high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Magic of various countries who come to the camp.

Now that he saw such a unique tent erected opposite the old Malfoy's camp, Fudge naturally wanted to take a look.

He definitely just cares about the safety of the World Cup, and definitely doesn't want to make friends with a wealthy family who can afford to use this kind of luxury tent!

So he and Sirius struck up a natural conversation.

Although Sirius didn't have a lot of interest in Fudge, Fudge was not bad at himself when he was in prison, and he was willing to do a crossword puzzle for himself with a newspaper when he occasionally came to make rounds.

So Sirius also had a brief chat with Fudge.

Fudge's eyes lit up when he saw Harley.

One of the important reasons why he talked to Sirius for so long was to wait for Sirius' goddaughter Hallie.

"Haha, Hallie, long time no see!" Fudge greeted and waved the green yarkes in his hand.

He walked over quickly, smiling brightly, as if he were Harley's kind elder.

There were also a number of Ministry of Magic officials standing outside the tent, and Harley vaguely remembered seeing them at the Merlin Order of Merry, all of whom Fudge had promoted from the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters.

It appears that Fudge had been leading a tour of the camp and enjoying the praise of his own close officials.

After a brief chat, Fudge invited Hallie and Hermione to join them for a tour of the camp.

However, Harley politely rejected Fudge, saying that she did not want to disturb the Minister of Magic.

…………

During the two days of waiting for the group stage to begin, Harley and Hermione followed Sirius to meet many wizards.

Many of them were Ministry of Magic officials, and it was clear that the First Wizarding War had killed many adult wizards.

That's why Sirius's peers were able to quickly take office, and Amelia Burns, a senior sister who was only a few levels higher than him, became the director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

However, Sirius had some regrets, Arthur, who had a good relationship with him at the beginning, and later became a close comrade-in-arms during the First Wizarding War, did not come.

I heard that the Weasleys only got a high-quality ticket to the finals from Ludo, and this was because Arthur did Ludo a small favor.

"I knew I would have bought a few more sets of tickets for my dear old man." Sirius shook his head, looking very regretful.

Hallie and Hermione looked at each other, but didn't speak.

They both understood each other's meaning: judging by Percy, George, and Fred's personalities and upbringing, the Weasleys would not accept such votes.

However, Harley received letters from Fred and George.

The two sent their latest research results, and by the way, wished Harley a good time.

Towards the final day of the competition, Ludo Bagman also came to visit.

Sirius was very enthusiastic about him, after all, he got the tickets for the three of them from him.

Ludo, a Quidditch professional-turned-director of the Department of Magical Sports, took a keen interest in Harley and invited her to play as a professional player with the Wimbourne Hornets.

Sirius, however, turned him down on Hallie's behalf.

Kidding aside, since Ludo's retirement, the Wimbourne Hornets' record has been on a downward spiral, hitting rock bottom within two years.

So far, the Wimbourne Hornets have been at the bottom of the league for 11 years!

Isn't it pure pit man to go now? Technology poverty alleviation can't be so helpful!

And this Ludo basically wanted to invite a talented wizard when he saw it, and he didn't invite anyone, so he was cheating people.

Sirius, who felt sorry for his goddaughter, didn't give Ludo any chance at all, and simply refused.

Ludo didn't care about another failure of his invitation.

After all, although the Wimbourne Hornets have a brilliant history, winning the English league 18 times, and they have led the team to establish a dynasty of three consecutive championships.

But this team is really a fish belly team now, and the mud can't support the wall, and even the decaying Charlie artillery team is difficult to win.

Ludo turned his head to look at Sirius, "Sirius, do you want to consider making a bet on the game?" ”

"Tonight the opening ceremony of the group stage, after which England vs Transylvania."

"How? Tempted or not? Do you want to make a little extra money and make a little extra money? ”

As he spoke, Ludo shook his pocket, and there was a crisp, gold-galleon crashing sound.

"Nope." Sirius shook her head decisively, "Harley is still here, I don't want to set a bad example for her." ”

"It's okay, it's a little gamble." Ludo glanced at the two little witches across the table and whispered.

He suddenly lowered his voice, looked at the tent and saw that there were no other outsiders, before whispering to Sirius:

"Sirius, I'll give you a thorough explanation, the Transylvania team is an amateur team!"

"If you think about their history, they were once ruled by the Hungarian Ministry of Magic, and later became a refuge for the Hungarian magic family when the Turkish Ministry of Magic invaded."

"Later, because of the Trianon Magic Treaty, it became part of the Romanian Ministry of Magic."

"To this day, in the Muggle world, Transylvania is still part of Romania."

"Because of this matter, the Ministry of Magic of Transylvania is still entangled with the Ministry of Magic of Romania! How can I have time to build a team? ”

"According to reliable sources from the British Ministry of Magic, they directly sent the Quidditch teams from the sixteen counties in the northwest to play a game, and sent the winning team directly."

"Their goalkeepers are said to be just bar owners, and the Seeker is the cleaning master of the Ministry of Magic!"

"The Ministry of Magic has received accurate information that the goalkeeper's skill comes from stopping drunks who want to escape orders, and the Seeker is selected because he can find the garbage in the corner the fastest way!"

"And what about England? We have won 17 consecutive training matches recently, and the first place in the group stage has qualified! ”

"It's just a fish belly team at the bottom of the European division, isn't it just a matter of having hands?"

"When this team was drawn, Minister Fudge's mouth cracked open with laughter, and he declared that we might have a clean sheet in the first game!"

"The head coach of the England team has told the players to put some water and let this group of good boys play leisurely, don't shave the head of the opposite side, it's too ugly."

"That's why we arranged the first match of the British team after the opening ceremony today."

"How to boost our morale with a massacre!"

"This ......" To be honest, Sirius was really moved.

But Hallie stopped him, "Godfather, I think we can think about it before making a decision." ”

Sirius immediately clapped his hands and said, "Just listen to Hallie, old man, I'm going to think about it first." ”

Ludo nodded with some regret and said, "Alright then, Sirius. ”

"If you figure it out, you can go directly to the Ministry of Magic's tent and find me."

"You know, I'm going to be in charge of the commentary tonight, so I'm definitely there."

"By the way, don't tell anyone what Minister Fudge said." Ludo admonished,

"There are still a lot of wizards in Transylvania, so don't be so arrogant, we need to maintain diplomatic relations with the British wizarding community."

…………

After Ludo left, Sirius looked at Hallie with a doting face: "Hallie, do you want to press?" ”

"Of course, I personally recommend that you don't participate in this kind of activity, after all, it's ...... Not so good. ”

"Hallie, I think Sirius is right." Hermione hesitated, then persuaded,

"My dad used to say that he should never touch this kind of activity. He said it himself that he had nothing to do with gambling and drugs! ”

"I don't gamble, and it's just making money." Hallie raised her eyebrows slightly, "How can it be considered a gamble if you write a question with the reference answer?" ”

Referring to the answer...... Writing a topic? Hermione was puzzled.

Harley didn't answer, just took out a crystal ball and a magic mirror.

Looking at Hermione and Sirius' searching gazes, Harley gently stroked the crystal ball, and the magic was infused into it.

Although the witch path does not have the divination ability that comes with the path, and there is no bonus in learning conventional divination, it only has a certain advantage in magic mirror divination.

But when the strength is strong enough and the personality is high enough, as a partial method of the law system that is not weak in its own spirituality, the conventional divination of witches also has a great deal of accuracy.

What's more, this Quidditch World Cup prepared by ordinary wizards is unlikely to be able to perform an anti-divination spell that is enough to rival the divination of the demigod person.

As Harley's magic power is infused and she begins to communicate with the spirit world, a picture appears on the crystal ball.

"Shhh Harley gasped suddenly.

Good guy, listening to Ludo blowing so hard, I thought the English team would win!

It's good I didn't believe that guy's words!

Such an unexpected score...... Hallie feels like she's going to make a fortune!

You always need money to make potions or something, and who thinks they have a lot of money?

Looking at Hallie's smile, Hermione couldn't help but ask, "Hallie, are you doing divination?" ”

"Are you sure that divination can be successful? So far, I've only seen Professor Trelawney's real divination. ”

"Absolutely." Hallie nodded, and patched her explanation again,

"After all, Professor Dumbledore took me to Nicol Lemay, and Nicol is a famous soothsayer in addition to being an alchemist."

"So he taught me a little trick that can effectively improve the success rate."

"It seems that this is the case," Sirius recalled carefully,

"The ancestor of Phineas once spent a lot of money to ask Nicol Lemay to do a divination for him, and Mr. Lemay also succeeded in divining a catastrophe for him."

"So it seems that this is the reason why the ancestors of Phineas have great respect for Mr. Lemay."

With Sirius' endorsement, the credibility of Harry's words instantly increased dramatically.

Hermione's face was full of envy: "Hallie, did you teach me that divination method?" ”

Although Hermione did not like the divination class, and had requested to withdraw from the course this semester.

But that's only because Professor Trelawney was an old liar most of the time and couldn't teach anything real.

In fact, what Muggle-born English child didn't grow up listening to fairy tales about witches as a child?

Everyone fantasizes about learning divination in fairy tales to gain the ability to predict the future.

Harley pretended to hesitate and paused for a moment before replying, "Nicol gave me his unique skill, and I definitely can't teach you." ”

"But I can sum up some lessons on my own and teach you what belongs to me."

With that, Harley picked up the magic mirror again.

She was going to put half of her money up, so naturally she had to use her most skilled magic mirror divination to confirm the accuracy.

When the exact fractional scale appeared on the magic mirror, the corners of Harry's mouth rose a few more points.

This time it's stable!

…………

In the afternoon, Gringotts opened a gambling venue.

Sirius strode into the crowd, helping Harley behind him to open a path.

However, when I got to the front, the open space on the left was instantly spacious.

The goblins there were bored playing with their identification cards.

After all, it's betting on Transylvania, a team that almost no one fancies.

While most of the Wizards in Transylvania supported the Transylvania team because of their inner feelings, they were also genuinely unoptimistic about the night's game.

So only a few fanatical fans came to bet, and they all pressed only one gold Galleon.

On the other side, a large number of wizards wielded pockets full of gold galleons and silver sico, gathered in front of the goblins in charge of betting on the England team.

But the goblin didn't look happy, and was on the verge of crying.

The goblins were also very helpless, they were all optimistic that England could win, and they didn't want to participate in this bet that must be lost.

But according to the contract signed with the Ministry of Magic, as the owner, they cannot lose a single game, and the odds given cannot be less than 1 in 1,000.

Although the elves directly pulled the odds to the lowest, almost all wizards thought that this was a must-earn business, and less money was also earned.

There are a few goblins in the back who are settling accounts:

"Kehuan, how much currency have we received?"

"Drucker, all the currencies have been converted, and it has exceeded two million gold Galleons. For those pure-blood families alone, each family invested at least 100,000 gold Galleons. ”

The goblins sighed in unison, and it looked like they were going to lose at least a few thousand gold Galleons.

Although the amount was a small amount of money to Gringotts, the greedy goblins were just as distressed.

"Why don't you just settle retail accounts in the Goblin's currency?" A young elf whispered.

But it was responded to by a slap and scolding from an elderly goblin: "Fool! Are you a pig who doesn't have brains! ”

"We've signed a contract with the Ministry of Magic, and if we dare to do something like this, we'll be doomed!"

"If nothing else, those damn vampires at HQ won't let us go!"

Just as a few goblins were frowning, good news suddenly came from outside:

"Good news, good news! There is a big injustice to take over! ”

……

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(Thanks to the "Nine-Tailed Yanhu" boss for the reward!) ）

(ps. Transylvania is not a state, but only a region, which belongs to a part of Romania.)

However, this team appears in the fourth chapter of the original book, "Weasley's Magic Workshop", so it can only be understood that it has a high degree of autonomy, and the Ministry of Magic is also separated, so it has its own Quidditch team. ）

(End of chapter)