After the match, Harry didn't stop long and left the arena.

Anyway, according to the rules and regulations, there is no match today, and the draw for the next round will have to wait until tomorrow night.

The next day's match was fast, and Hallie never faced any more noteworthy opponents.

The combat effectiveness of several players was not enough, and they were basically beaten down by Hallie as soon as they took the stage.

This has made Hallie more and more popular with the audience.

And through the several rounds of breakout matches tonight, those wizards who mixed in because they couldn't match their opponents in the first two rounds were also eliminated.

The competition has finally officially entered the high-profile knockout round.

"Next, you're going to compete for the title in five days."

The head of the Office of the Special Office of the Duel Tournament of the Department of International Affairs of the Spanish Ministry of Magic attended the final draw of lots for this year's dueling tournament.

"The two halves of the game have been divided, and the process is very clear as we announced before the game."

"I believe that everyone has witnessed the whole process of the lottery, and I believe in the fairness, justice and openness of the International Federation of Wizards."

"Tomorrow will be a day off for everyone. The night after tomorrow, the round of 32 and the round of 16 will officially begin. ”

"I wish you all the best of luck and thank you for your support to the Spanish Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards."

Harley weighed the No. 1 ball in her hand, quickly swept around her opponent, and couldn't help but shake her head.

She doesn't believe that in this draw, the officials did not do anything.

After all, there are several dueling geniuses from Spain and powerful dark wizards from all over the globe who are divided into different halves.

None of them will meet in less than eight to four games.

Obviously, the Spanish Ministry of Magic wants to avoid early confrontation between the strong as much as possible, and wants to save the exciting game until the end.

Harley looked at her opponent again, the young Spaniard who had drawn the number two ball and had performed well in the next day's game, and the corners of her mouth curled.

"Looks like I'm being looked down upon."

"But who's the stepping stone?"

…………

During the rest day, Harley didn't want to be bored in her room and prepare, so she chose to go shopping at Gringotts with Fleur.

When the tournament entered the knockout stage, Gringotts Spain immediately launched various spinach businesses.

Hallie was ready to take a look at her odds and consider whether she needed to make some pocket money and have some fun with herself.

"Tut-tut, the goblins really look down on you." When seeing the odds, Fleur couldn't help but sigh,

"Your odds for winning the championship are actually thirty-three to one, these goblins are really bold."

"It has nothing to do with goblins." Harley shook her head, "Elves are shrewd. ”

"I think they didn't give all the players high odds at first, but there were too many people betting on other players, so I forced my odds to go up."

"But that's normal, after all, this is Spain, and it seems like five Spaniards have made it to the round of 32."

"These people are definitely going to support their natives, and you look so young. Although the performance in front is impressive, it is not dominant. ”

Fleur picked up, "That's right, who made Spain a dueling power?" ”

"Their Muggles are popular for bullfighting, and wizards love to fight all kinds of magical beasts, and are the most enthusiastic about dueling."

"It's useless to be enthusiastic, if you can't beat it, you can't beat it." Hallie stroked a black gemstone ring on her finger,

"The final champion is definitely mine."

"Then I'll see." Fleur smiled and took out a bag from her pocket, "I'll support you a little and press five thousand gold Galleons." ”

"Harley, you have to do it. It's all the gold gallons I made from selling potions through my father's channels during my school days, and I'm all on it. ”

The two chatted as they walked to the betting window opened by Gringotts.

Harley suddenly noticed, her eyes narrowed slightly, and she locked onto a figure probing her brain in the crowd.

A seed slipped silently to the ground and disappeared through the cracks in the bluestone pavement.

Harley, on the other hand, continues to talk to Fleur, and nothing seems to have happened.

…………

In an alley, the mouth of the alley is covered in magic.

A chubby wizard doesn't hate dirty floors, and just sits on them.

A shriveled pocket sat beside him, and in front of him was a small pile of gold gallons.

“…… Sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine...... Are there only sixty-nine gold galleons left? ”

The wizard muttered to himself, his face full of sorrow, and swept all the gold gallons into the bag,

"Yinxike and Tongnat can't move, after all, I still have to eat these days."

"Sixty-nine...... Even if you win every round and guess the final champion, you won't make much money. ”

The fat wizard thumped his head twice, looking a little frustrated.

Suddenly, a small crack opened in the ground in front of him, and a seedling quickly grew.

In an instant, a flower bloomed on the seedling, and the flower spat out a wand.

A green glow flickered, and the wand turned into a doppelganger of Harley.

"Good afternoon, dear Director of the Department of Magical Physical Education, Mr. Ludo Bagman."

Hallie greeted kindly,

"Why are you here? It's clear that the Ministry of Magic has been so busy lately. And it's not your status here. ”

When Hallie appeared, Ludo was startled.

He seemed to be intimidated by Harry's strange appearance, and he didn't think to fight back at all, but used his hands and feet together, and stepped back again and again.

Even though Ludo's back was against the wall, his feet were still kicking the ground, trying to get as far away as possible from the monster in front of him.

"You, you, who are you? I warn you, don't come here! Don't pretend to be Harley Potter and intimidate me! ”

"Huh! Mr. Ludo, you didn't recognize me? Hallie clasped her knees and crouched down.

"I'm Hallie. Although the way I appeared was a little scary, that doesn't mean I'm not me. ”

"You...... Are you really Hallie? Harry Potter from Hogwarts? The latest Six Tournament winners? ”

Ludo was so shocked that he couldn't help but confirm it repeatedly.

"Of course it's me."

Hallie casually told two things about Ludo drinking with Sirius during the World Cup in England, proving her identity.

Then she stared at Ludo with interest, and the bag in his hand that he wouldn't let go even if he even backed away,

"You haven't answered my question yet, dear Mr. Ludo."

"You are the director of the British Ministry of Magic, a high-ranking official among high-ranking officials, how could you appear in this alley that does not match your identity at a very busy time for the British Ministry of Magic?"

"Ah, this ...... This ......"

Ludo hesitated for a long time, and his face was sad.

The expression on his face suddenly became determined, and he drew his wand violently.

"Faint!"

The red light flew towards Harry, but was inexplicably swallowed by a mirror that appeared out of thin air.

At the same time, the flowering seedling has turned into a devil's web, and Ludo is bound by Harley's magic.

"Mr. Ludo, you actually attacked me!" Hallie's face was full of sadness, and she seemed very sad,

"I trust you so much, and my godfather has such a good relationship with you, you actually want to sneak attack me!"

"What about the most basic trust between people? You almost scared me to death! ”

But Ludo didn't believe Harley's nonsense, and didn't believe that he had scared the girl in front of him.

He looked at the devil's net that bound him, and then at the wand that had fallen into the air, and pleading appeared on his face:

"Miss Potter...... No, Hallie, I was wrong, I shouldn't have done anything to you. ”

"Spare me, I just don't want to be found out that I'm in Spain, don't forgive me."

"Forgive you?" The frightened expression on Hallie's face quickly disappeared, and it became a little more playful,

"It's not impossible, but you've got to tell me why you're here, and you're sneaky?"

As he spoke, the vines weaved a chaise longue behind Harry.

Hallie leaned back slightly, trying to lift Ludo's chin with the tips of her sneakers.

But looking at the layers of fat on Ludon's chin, Harley quickly dismissed the idea.

Ludo made a bitter face, and finally chose to tell the truth.

"You said you owe a full 150,000 Galleons after the World Cup?" Harley asked curiously.

"Yes, I was sitting on my own at the time, and I didn't calculate the odds, so I lost a lot of money."

Ludo's face was full of depression, "What's more, I'm pressing the elves to win Ireland by a big score. ”

"In the end, the difference was only ten points, so on the goblin side alone, I owe 130,000 gold Galleons."

"That's pretty bad." Sympathy welled across Hallie's face.

Although the current Harley has already completely super-evolved and become Harley Rich, Rich, Rich, and Potter, she has been without money for hundreds of years.

This feeling of poverty and destitude can only be understood by those who have experienced it.

“…… Thankfully, no one knew about these things. Ludo's face flashed with joy,

"The goblins didn't take it to the newspapers, and when I used leprechaun's fake gold coins to pay other people's debts, they either didn't find out, or they found out and didn't tell the newspapers."

"So when it came to the Six-Finals Tournament, I made another bet with the goblins and bet a lot of money on you."

"I'm betting that you can have a big margin on the other in the first two events, and in the third event, you can be the first to win the trophy in the Final Six Tournament."

"As a result, those goblins are unreasonable! They didn't think you were big enough to match Fleur, and the Ministry of Magic didn't show you holding the cup in the footage, so I didn't win the bet! ”

"And I obviously signed a magic pact, but the magic on the treaty also judged me to fail!"

"So in desperation, I had to ask the Ministry of Magic for a leave of absence and come to Spain pretending to be sick, hoping to make a final effort through this dueling tournament."

"If I win, I don't have to give up my position as director, and I can continue to be my senior official."

"As for losing, I can also run away and go to Australia to find a Muggle village, and just live the rest of my life like this."

After listening, Hallie rubbed her temples.

She didn't need to look at the contract to know that Ludo was definitely cheated by the goblins.

I'm afraid that there is definitely a special pattern on the contract, which means that the contract is only completed if a particular elf witnesses Harley holding the cup.

As long as that goblin stays in Gringotts, even if there is no such series of accidents and he holds the cup himself, Ludo will be pitted with not a single gold Galleon left.

As for Ludo still trying to escape? The tracking magic on the contract will also let Ludo know what it means to be hunted to the ends of the earth.

With Ludo's level of magic and knowledge, he still wants to play with the elves? It's more likely to find a piece of tofu and kill you!

"It's really miserable, I don't think I can help it...... Wait a minute. Harley suddenly remembered something,

"You took a leave of absence from the Ministry of Magic, and you didn't resign, and you didn't say goodbye, did you?"

"Yes." Ludo nodded repeatedly, "On the one hand, I don't want to give up this position." ”

"On the other hand, if I lose the bet, I can open the Ministry of Magic by asking for leave, maybe the goblins will notice my disappearance later, so as to buy me more time to escape."

"Now that the Ministry of Magic is so busy, Fudge will give you a fake note?" Harley asked further.

"Of course, I have a good relationship with him." Ludo raised his face proudly.

"I see, I've finished asking all the questions I want."

Before he could finish speaking, Ludo suddenly noticed that Harley had an extra pair of glasses on her face.

His expression was instantly in a trance, and he suddenly felt that his consciousness was in a haze, as if floating in the white fog and could not touch the ground.

A voice seemed to come from outside the sky: "Again, why did Fudge give you a fake note?" ”

"We're the best apparent brothers, and we seem to be close, but he must be secretly laughing at me for being a fool."

Sure enough, as Harley expected, a different answer came out of Ludo's mouth, and at the same time, his face was full of sarcasm,

"But he doesn't know that in my eyes he is the fool who has been deceived by my appearance."

"I've always behaved like no scheming, careless, brainless, and obedient to him."

"Recently I've even been working with him to suppress Crouch Sr. during the Quidditch World Cup and the Final Six tournament."

"So Fudge naturally treats me as a member of his faction, and I'm the kind of member who can't be entrusted with big things, but can still be used."

"Although when I want to approve a leave slip, he definitely doesn't mind giving me a leave of absence."

Hallie nodded, the look in her eyes changing at Ludo.

I really didn't expect this simple-looking wizard to have such scheming? Sure enough, people should not be disguised.

Coupled with Ludo's relationship with Fudge, a plan is faintly forming in Harley's mind.

"In addition to Rita, maybe I can get a second agent?"

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…… (End of chapter)