The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 267 Banquet (asking for subscription, asking for collection, asking for ticket)

Once everyone had arrived in the Great Hall, the Beauxbatons students took their seats at the Ravenclaw table.They seemed curious about Hogwarts Castle after they sat down, looking around the Great Hall with sullen expressions on their faces.Three of the students still had their heads tightly wrapped in scarves and headscarves.

"It's not that cold," said Hermione disapprovingly. "Why don't they wear capes?"

"They probably came directly from the school. As far as I know, Beauxbaton is in the south of France, and the temperature there is much higher than here. I think they wrapped themselves so tightly because they are not used to the climate here. The reason." Ryan explained.

"That's right. No wonder Durmstrang's students wear so thick clothes. It must have snowed in the north." Hermione showed a knowing expression.

Ron was busy making room on the sidelines, and he wanted Hermione to move.After Ryan found out, he quickly stopped: "Don't worry, we and Hufflepuff are full of people, and those guests should choose to sit at a table with few people like Ravenclaw or Slytherin."

Ron was a little unconvinced at first, but soon Durmstrang's students chose to sit on the Slytherin side.After seeing Krum talking to the Slytherin students, Ron could only whine sourly.

After all the students entered the auditorium and took their seats at the tables of their respective colleges, the faculty members all came in, and they filed to the guest seats and sat down.

The last ones to sit down were Professor Dumbledore, Professor Karkaroff and Mrs. Maxim.It's worth mentioning - the Beauxbatons students rose to their feet as soon as they saw their Headmaster appear.This restraint made several Hogwarts students laugh - but Beauxbatons' representatives did not look embarrassed at all, until Mrs. Maxime sat down on Dumbledore's left, they Sit down again.Dumbledore remained standing, and the auditorium gradually fell silent.

"It seems that those French people have strict etiquette and strong organizational discipline. But this strong discipline is not French at all." Ryan complained silently when he saw this scene.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts, and—especially—distinguished guests," Dumbledore began to speak at this time, and he looked at the foreign students with a smile. Joy, welcome to Hogwarts. I hope and trust that you will find yourself comfortable and happy here."

A Beauxbatons girl, still wrapping her scarf tightly around her head, uttered a sneer that was no doubt ironic - well, Ryan decided to take back what he had said earlier, it was extremely rude to make such a sound when a respectable old man was speaking .He guessed that the French students stood up purely out of conditioned reflex. This can only be said that the headmaster of Beauxbatons is doing a good job now, not that the French have changed as he thought before.

"The Tournament will officially begin at the end of the banquet," said Dumbledore. "I now invite everyone to eat and drink as much as they like at home!"

It's finally time for dinner!Ryan praised Professor Dumbledore from the bottom of his heart.

The plates in front of them were once again piled high with food—many of which were clearly classic foreign dishes, and it was obvious that the house-elves in the kitchen had pulled out all the stops to finish them.

"What's this?" Hermione asked, pointing to a mixed platter on the table.

"Ah, this is Smogborough," Ryan said after glancing at the plate, which he had seen on his last trip to northern Europe. “It’s a large platter of smoked herring, smoked salmon, liver pate, sausages, sliced ​​meat, pickles, salad, and cheese. It’s a great starter in Sweden. You can try it.”

"Definitely good," said Hermione, after tasting a piece of smoked herring with a fork.

There was a little problem about 20 minutes into the banquet, when a silver-haired Beauxbaton girl came for bouillabaisse, and Ron responded like an idiot.

"It's a shame, hasn't he seen a beautiful woman?" Hermione complained softly when she saw this scene.It happened that Ron's voice came from over there again: "There is no such character in Hogwarts!"

After Ryan heard this sentence, he admired Ron's courage extremely. After all, Ryan would not dare to offend all the girls in the school at once.Anyway, the girls who heard this sentence looked at Ron with hostile eyes, even his sister Ginny.Harry moved slightly to the side at this time, indicating that this matter had nothing to do with him.

Seeing Hermione, whose face turned a little ugly, Ryan quickly pulled her and said, "There's no need to be angry because of others, besides, Ron is only affected by magic. The magic reaction of the baby. By the way, I also imitated a concealment magic by analyzing the magic power on them."

This is what Ryan remembered after seeing this mixed-race Veela just now. After seeing Veela's natural ability, Ryan also tried to transform this ability into magic, but unfortunately failed.But in the end, he reverse-engineered a magic named Little Transparency: After releasing this magic on his body, the whole person would lose most of his attractiveness.The biggest use of this magic is to make people around you ignore you. The only shortcoming is that once you communicate with people, this magic effect will be automatically dispelled.

Ryan began to explain this new magic to Hermione.Sure enough, it was all kinds of knowledge that attracted Hermione the most.The rest of the banquet was spent in discussions between the two while eating.

After finishing the last dessert, the plates were clean again.At this moment, Dumbledore's voice suddenly rang out, covering the entire auditorium.

"The moment has finally arrived, the Triwizard Tournament is about to begin. I want to explain a few words before bringing the box in—"

After introducing the two Ministry of Magic officials who had just arrived, the venue became restless.Because under Dumbledore's order, Filch held a large wooden box inlaid with jewels in his hand, and then carefully placed the box on the table in front of Dumbledore
"Mr. Crouch and Mr. Bagman have carefully reviewed the specific items of this year's Warriors competition," said Dumbledore when Filch placed the box. "They also made a lot of the necessary arrangements for each program. There are three programs that take place at different times throughout the school year, and they will test the Warriors in many different ways..."

The Great Hall fell silent as Professor Dumbledore spoke, and everyone seemed to stop breathing.

"—the one responsible for selecting the warriors is an impartial selector, and it is the Goblet of Fire." Just as Ryan was trying to recall the details of the projects in the original novel, Dumbledore's speech had ended.

After introducing the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore drew his wand and tapped the box lid three times.The lid creaked slowly open.Dumbledore reached in and pulled out a large, rough-hewn wooden goblet filled with dancing blue-and-white flames.

It seems that the protagonist of this school year has appeared. Ryan stared at the Goblet of Fire on the stage and thought, just wondering if Harry will become a warrior now that the plot is changing.

(End of this chapter)