Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 285 The Beautiful Frozen Ladies
The announcement in the Great Hall had a noticeable effect on everyone living within Hogwarts Castle.

In the next week, no matter where Mike went, there was always only one topic of conversation, and that was the Triwizard Tournament.

As for the news of Moody's return, which was posted on the bulletin board with the three-final match, it was ignored by everyone except Franklin.

Apart from the curiosity about Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students, people are most concerned about the candidates for Hogwarts warriors.

And on this topic, the two most mentioned names are Mike and Cedric.

The students of Ravenclaw College naturally support Mike. After all, he is a well-known figure in their college. At this moment, he does not support his own people but supports outsiders. If he is found out, he will be isolated.

But apart from the students of Ravenclaw College, more people think that Cedric is more likely to become a Hogwarts warrior.

After all, Cedric and Mike are both duel champions, and Cedric is much older than Mike, and has grown into an adult!

The growth of magic power of wizards often ushers in a period of high-speed improvement with the arrival of puberty, and becomes extremely slow after reaching adulthood at the age of 17.

Studies have shown that except for a few talented people, most people's magic power level at the age of 40 is almost the same as that at the age of 17. , The automatic growth rate of magic power of wizards after they become adults is infinitely close to 0!

Mike is currently only 14 years old, and it can be said that he has just entered a period of rapid growth in magic power. Cedric on the other side has already grown up, and it is not surprising that his magic power is several times more than Mike's.

In this case, it is no wonder that others feel that Cedric wants more.

But the students of Ravenclaw College don't think so. As a group of people closest to Mike, they know very well that Mike's current strength has reached a perverted level.

Thus, the conflict began.

Mike's supporters headed by Ravenclaw students and Cedric's supporters headed by Hufflepuff students started an almost endless chatter.

In this confrontation, the Hufflepuffs, who had always been shown as doormats and good guys in the past, showed their fierce side. Ravenclaw students were sprayed into autism almost every day.

Mike was not surprised by this situation.

Having been in the wizarding society for so many years, his inherent impression of Hufflepuff has been completely overturned.

If you ask Mike which of the four colleges is the strongest overall, he will tell you without hesitation that it is Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuffs are definitely not scumbags and trash like the other house students make it out to be.

On the contrary, there are many amazing and talented characters in Hufflepuff, such as Newt Scamander who wrote "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", and now Cedric, which one of them is not a genius?

At the same time, Hufflepuff also has a strong advantage, that is, there are many people.

Don't underestimate this advantage. In a sparsely populated wizarding society, it is true that more people are more powerful.

At the beginning, the founders of the four colleges had some rigid requirements for the students in terms of recruiting students. For example, Slytherin needed blood, Ravenclaw needed wisdom, and Gryffindor needed courage.

Only Hufflepuff, although she also set the standard of hard work and loyalty, in fact she never refuses anyone!

Ms. Hufflepuff is definitely a kind person.

Think about it, if you were an 11-year-old Muggle kid and you got an offer to Hogwarts on your birthday.

A whole new world opens up to you.

Everything in this world is so novel and beautiful.

But when you came to Hogwarts to accept the sorting ceremony, you were told that you were not accepted by any college, and you could only be oblivious to the curse and then withdraw from school.

How lost you will be.

Now it seems that good people are rewarded with good rewards. At least Ms. Hufflepuff’s kind deeds made Hufflepuff College strong in the wizarding society today.

In addition to the students' changes, the Hogwarts staff were also 'crazy'.

Filch, the poor old Squib, sleeps only four hours a day now, and spends the rest of his time cleaning Hogwarts Castle except for meals.

In addition to the regular cleaning of the floor and ceiling, those armors that looked worn out and creaked when they moved were also polished by Filch's oily shine, and all joints were also smeared with lubricant, and now they move silently .

He even went so mad that he cleaned those magic portraits. Now the portraits in the castle would run away when they saw Filch, even Sir Cadogan, who had a problem with his mind and liked to fight with others the most, was no exception.

Because once you are found by Filch, you will be greeted with rags and brushes, which will destroy the paint on your surface, making your surface uneven and faded.

This is tantamount to digging up their flesh and skinning them for a magical portrait.

And Professor McGonagall, who cares most about Hogwarts' face the most, has been very busy recently.

Mike had seen Professor McGonagall with a livid face several times, scolding Zhou Hong and Colin's younger brother with a voice almost desperate.

Mike could swear that this was the first time he saw a professor deducting points from his own college so ruthlessly, 50 points and 50 points were deducted every time.

In Ron's words, his two elder brothers have retired, and now the title of Hogwarts Prank King has been won by the new combination of Zhou Hong and brother Colin.

And they did more than the Weasley brothers, and they were much more ruthless.

You haven't seen a dung bomb detonated in the lounge of your own academy, have you?
The Gryffindors have seen it recently, and more than once!
The tension at Hogwarts finally reached its peak on the night of October [-]th.

That night, when Mike and others went to gather in front of the castle according to the previous arrangement, they were surprised to find that the entire Hogwarts had changed drastically.

Needless to say, the floor was so clean that it could be used as a mirror. Flags with the Hogwarts school emblem were hung all over the castle, and there were rows of flags of the four major colleges hanging in the auditorium.

"Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?" In the cold wind, Franklin mumbled softly while shivering.

There are many little wizards who are whispering like him. Professor McGonagall asked them to come here half an hour earlier to wait. Not everyone knows how to keep warm. Some people can't stand it in such a cold environment.

"How do you think they'll get here? Portkeys or Apparition?"

"Don't be stupid, Dumbledore will not allow anyone to make a Portkey that can directly enter Hogwarts, and apparation will not work in Hogwarts." Mike answered Franklin's stupid question softly, "Besides , according to the usual practice, they will appear in a more prestigious way."

"What does it mean to have more cards..."

Just halfway through Franklin's words, the crowd in front of the castle became agitated.

Hearing the sound, Mike and the others looked up together, and saw a huge monster in the sky, which was comparable to an airship, flying across the dark blue sky and flying towards the castle, gradually getting bigger and bigger.

"They actually came by plane! Hahahaha!"

Franklin was joking, but at the end he couldn't help laughing.

The huge unknown flying object was getting closer and closer to everyone, and when it entered the light range of Hogwarts, everyone finally saw its true face.

It turned out to be a carriage!
A powder blue flying carriage the size of a house, pulled by twelve silver-maned Pegasus horses with wings!
Before the people in front of the castle had time to react, the carriage landed on the open space in front of the castle at an extremely fast speed.

"Oh!"

"My God!"

"Merlin's beard! Are you trying to kill me?"

The students standing in the front row let out a burst of exclamation, and at the same time quickly backed away.

The students in the row behind them were also pushed back, and the crowd suddenly became chaotic.

Professor McGonagall's face turned green with anger. Fortunately, the neat line she had rehearsed for almost an afternoon was disrupted.

The chaos among the Hogwarts procession hadn't subsided when the door on the carriage, bearing a badge (two golden crossed wands with three stars emerging from each), was thrown open.

A boy in a light blue robe jumped out of the carriage neatly, bent down and skillfully pulled the mechanism on the floor of the carriage, and then a golden spiral staircase stretched out from the door.

After finishing all this, the boy stood aside respectfully.

A shiny black high-heeled shoe the size of a small washbasin stretched out from the carriage, followed by a big woman who was nearly four meters tall and walked down.

When this person appeared, even Mike was slightly taken aback.

The image of this woman is really too weird.

Although he has the same size as Hagrid, but the temperament exuded by his gestures, matched with that handsome olive face, a pair of eyes that seem to be talking, that black satin dress and all kinds of luxurious jewelry on his body , It actually gives people a noble and elegant taste.

All the students present were dumbfounded, until Dumbledore applauded, everyone instinctively followed suit.

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" said Dumbledore, "Dear Ms. Maxime."

"Dumbledore, I hope everything is fine." Ms. Maxim's voice was unexpectedly low, but without losing the charm of a mature woman, "My student."

While speaking, Ms. Maxim waved that huge arm casually.

Afterwards, a dozen girls got off the carriage.

Judging from their appearance, these girls are all around eighteen or nineteen years old, and they are all trembling slightly at this moment.

This is not surprising. The school uniforms on their bodies are very delicate, but they are made of light blue silk. Although they wear gloves and hats on their hands and heads, they are also decorative tulle gloves and A top hat does nothing to keep you warm.

"Is Beauxbatons a girls' school?"

A Gryffindor boy asked a question, and a girl next to him immediately elbowed him and replied:
"Are you stupid? Didn't you see that the student who helped them put the stairs at the beginning was a boy?"

The boy rubbed his aching chest, looked at the Beauxbaton boy in the last row who bowed like a servant, swallowed heavily, and said with a strange expression:

"Oh, then women's rights must be very prosperous there."

Mike didn't whisper like everyone else, and he didn't even respond to Franklin talking to him.

Because he unexpectedly found an acquaintance in Beauxbaton's team.

Hibiscus!

Fleur on the other side was obviously also looking for him. After looking around for a while, she finally found Mike standing at the front of the Ravenclaw team, and then smiled sweetly at Mike.

"She smiled at me!"

"You fart! She was clearly smiling at me!"

"What did you say? Do you have the guts to say it again?"

"Just say it!"

"Stop arguing, you all misunderstood, she was obviously smiling at me."

Franklin muttered to himself in a demented manner, but his words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the people around him, and after a while, Ravenclaw's relatively neat team became chaotic.

Seeing this, the girls in Beauxbaton's team were covering their mouths and giggling, while Professor McGonagall covered her face.

She has no face to look at.

The commotion in her own team caught Ms. Maxim's attention. She looked back, and the girls immediately restrained their smiles. Their expressions were serious like soldiers standing guard in front of the British Palace, but their bodies were still trembling slightly.

Professor McGonagall has the urge to run away, look at his organization and discipline, how can his group of bastards be so disappointing!
In contrast, Dumbledore's performance was much more natural. He glanced at the beautiful and frozen Beauxbaton girls, and then said to Ms. Maxim:

"Karkaroff hasn't arrived yet. Would you like to wait here to greet him, or go in and get warm first?"

"Let's go in and get warm first," Madam Maxim said, "but these horses..."

"Don't worry, our Care of Magical Creatures professor will take care of them."

Faced with Dumbledore's proposal, Maxim obviously hesitated, she paused before saying awkwardly:

"My steeds need... well... strong people to take care of them, they have a strong temper..."

"I assure you, Hagrid is perfectly qualified for the job."

"Then... well." Maxim bowed slightly and said, "Can you please tell that Hagrid that these horses only drink single malt whiskey."

"I'll take care of it." Dumbledore also bowed back.

Hearing this, Maxim nodded, and coldly said two words "Come on" to his students, and then walked into the castle first under the leadership of Dumbledore.

Those beautiful frozen girls breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, they had already made preparations to freeze here for more than half an hour, but now they can enter the castle in advance to warm up, which is naturally the best.

So, under the watchful eyes of all the male students in Hogwarts, Beauxbaton's team stepped up the stone steps and entered Hogwarts Castle.

(End of this chapter)