Chapter 622: Hufflepuff's Courage and Wisdom
"Oh!"
Professor McGonagall trembled with excitement,
"Cross-class transfiguration, a very perfect advanced transfiguration, if it were in class, I would definitely add twenty points to Cedric!"
"Aha, that's a clever little trick!"
The atmosphere in the arena eased a little, and Bagman said happily,
"Our first warrior has finally made a move, oh, it's not hard to see if his intentions are not!"
As Bagman said, the rock-evolved Newfoundland Hound rushed out the moment it became mobile, but it did not rush towards the Swedish short-nosed dragon, but followed an arc of curves, barking wildly, and quickly running to the other side of the gentle slope.
The clever Swedish short-nosed dragon had his eye on it as early as the stone was deformed, and by the time the hound began to run, the dragon changed its prostrate posture and stood up completely.
The Newfoundland Hound was close to a young calf, but it was nothing more than a three-story tall Swedish short-nosed dragon, and the dragon didn't pounce on it for the time being, or annihilate it with dragon breath, just to judge what the dog wanted to do.
Woo!
To be honest, the whimpering of dogs in the Triwizard Tournament was quite an interesting scene.
"See, guys!" Bagman said happily, "Cedric is asking his hound to provoke the dragon, and he wants to lure the dragon away, very wisely!" ”
As Bagman had said, the Hound stopped directly across from Cedric, and despite the huge difference in size between itself and the dragon, he turned his head and barked wildly.
The short-nosed dragon stretched out its wings the size of a sail, and it was already restless and irritable, and it was even more annoyed by the small thing in front of it, and a surging blue flame subconsciously gushed out from its nose, and the air immediately became scorched, and the audience who felt the heat wave rushed to exclaim!
But when the dazzling blue flames filled with the breath of death cleared, the Newfoundland Hound was unharmed, it was in a safe position, the dragon's breath could not reach it, and besides, it was not a real dog, so there was no need to worry about the heat.
The short-nosed dragon angrily scraped the dirt with its claws, its wings instigated a fierce gust of wind, its huge and hideous head swayed, and its low thunderous roar made everyone's scalps tingle!
But the problem is that this short-nosed dragon from the mountains of northern Sweden still hasn't left its egg, and although it was attracted by Cedric's hound, it didn't leave its hay-covered nest. This was obviously not going to work, so the Newfoundland Hound made a new move, and he pounced a few feet forward, then turned his head and shook his butt at the short-nosed dragon.
This move had an immediate effect, the fire dragon was a magical creature of extremely high intelligence, powerful and proud, how could he endure such an insult.
The laughter of the hounds was drowned out by the earth-shattering roar of the fire dragon, and the blue flames that were like a flood poured out again, and the flames were so blazing that even Cedric in the opposite direction felt that he was in a scorching furnace!
But fortunately, he reacted quickly enough, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately let the hound run away quickly, and when the flames dissipated, the hound still did not collapse, but stood on the edge of the big pit melted by the flames and grinned at the short-nosed dragon!
Roar!
In the midst of the haze, a tangible wave of air stirred up billowing smoke and dust, and suddenly the sound of iron chains clenching tightly, and then a huge shadow broke through the smoke and dust, and with a sharp roar, swooped down on the Newfoundland hound.
Now is the time!
Cedric's mind was now blank, and he surrendered his body entirely to instinct, and after the short-nosed dragon left the dragon's den forty feet away, he jumped decisively from behind the rock.
"Oh my God, look at Mr. Diggory!"
Bagman exclaimed in surprise,
"He's so fast, it's incredible!"
Previously, Cedric was about sixty feet away from the Dragon's Den, but in a second or two of Ludo's exclamation, he flew over the sixty-foot distance as if he could fly, and by the time Ludo's words landed, he was already on the edge of the Dragon's Den!
Roar!
There was another trembling roar, and the Swedish short-nosed dragon, which was pounced on the hound, seemed to sense that something was wrong, and it turned its head unexpectedly, and then saw a small dragon egg trying to get close to it.
Before fully turning around, the dragon's breath had been brewed successfully, and people could see that the short-nosed dragon's mouth and nose were more dazzling than ever, however, Diggory, who had already appeared, seemed to have no room to dodge, his speed was too fast, he was unstoppable, leaving no way back for himself, at that distance and the speed of his own forward rush, he had no chance to dodge!
The dragon tamers hiding in the passage raised their wands one after another, and even Dumbledore rose from his seat at this time.
"The slide is flat!"
Just when the spectators thought that Cedric was going to miss the golden dragon egg that was so close at hand, he suddenly lunged forward and pointed his wand at the dragon's feet in mid-air and screamed.
Bang!
The sound of the fire dragon smashing to the ground was like a thunderbolt out of thin air, but the dragon's breath still erupted smoothly, but because of the sudden imbalance of its body, it did not aim at Cedric, but attacked the rock wall two or three feet away from Cedric's left arm!
The arena trembled with this, not because of the roar of the fire dragon, but because of the cheers of the spectators.
"See, do you see, our first warrior has already got the golden egg!"
The dragon trainers swarmed up, and at least dozens of red rays of light enveloped the entire body of the dragon, but no one cared about this, and everyone was cheering for Cedric, Ludo Bagman jumped on the table and roared excitedly,
"He succeeded, he showed us his courage and wisdom, guys, I dare to bet you ten thousand Galleons, the last little spell was planned, no one can immediately think of what to do in that situation, our valiant warrior clearly made a big gamble, and we all saw him succeed!"
The little wizards of Hufflepuff House were simply crazy with joy, and each of them jumped onto the table and laughed and jumped, chanting Cedric's name.
Professor Sprout wiped tears from his eyes, and Akihari in the passage looked at Cedric with tears in his eyes.
"That's my son, that's my son!"
From the diagon alley audience, Amos stood up and shouted loudly, and he saw Arthur on the side, his mouth almost baring under his earlobe.
"Oh, congratulations, Amos, for a great performance!"
Arthur also said happily, but there was a trace of regret in his eyes, he was thinking, if Bill, Charlie. Even Percy, if they were able to hold the Triwizard Tournament while they were at Hogwarts, they might be able to become Warriors.
Cedric lay on his back on the ground, one hand firmly pressed against the golden egg.
He knew that there should be countless people cheering for him at this time, but he couldn't raise any joy in his heart, and some only had a kind of happiness for the rest of his life.
The hidden passage opened, and Cedric caught a glimpse of Madam Pomfrey running towards him, followed by a group of healers from St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, with horror on their faces, as if they had witnessed something terrible.
"I'm fine—"
Cedric wanted to get up and tell them that there was no need to hurry, he just fell, however, when he made the movement to get up, he found that the left half of his body did not respond to his call at all, and was completely numb, so he looked over in astonishment!
"Don't move!"
Madam Pomfrey, who ran closer, shouted at Cedric, whose expression was distorted, and she gasped several times as she watched Cedric's bloody arms exposed in the air.
"You should thank Amosta for providing you with a special suit, Mr. Diggory—"
Madam Pomfrey said with a look of horror,
"Otherwise, you won't want to save this arm!"
(End of chapter)