I'm the paper king at Hogwarts

249 Triwizard Tournament

Ron is farsighted, and he wouldn't give up an entire forest for a small tree.

Of course, to him now, the baguette Louis handed him is a small tree, and the upcoming college dinner is a lush forest.

He decided to stay hungry for a while.

Thus, the baguette was treasured by Vitale.

"You are not allowed to treat food like this!" Vitaly snorted.

As a culinary powerhouse, Vitaly has always had a pious attitude towards the representative food of her country.

Finally, the sorting ceremony came to an end with the cries that Kevin Whitby was sorted into Hufflepuff.Professor McGonagall picked up the Sorting Hat and the small bench and carried them away.

"It's about to start!" Ron cheered up, with a knife in his left hand and a fork in his right, looking eagerly at the dinner plate in front of him.

But obviously, Dumbledore wouldn't just order dinner like this easily—let's not talk about the new teachers in the new school year, but it will take a while to introduce the origins of the guests.

He stood up, looked at all the classmates with a smile, opened his arms, and made a welcome gesture.

"I know you are all in a hurry, but I still want you to take it easy." Dumbledore said with a smile, "There are still a lot of things to say before dinner—of course, I don't think it will take long." That's it."

"First of all, let's talk about ourselves first—I regret to announce that Professor R.J. Lupine has resigned from his position as professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts due to some personal reasons." Deng said. Bullido turned his head to look at Emma, ​​who was resting on the faculty seat and playing with her hair boredly, and introduced loudly: "However, fortunately, there is a better candidate, and that is our outstanding Hogwarts graduate , Lady Emma Mountbatten!"

Emma heard Dumbledore calling herself, she stood up, smiled very elegantly and dignifiedly, and nodded to her classmates.

Seeing that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was such a beautiful woman, the students were stunned for a moment, and then cheered in unison. After all, no one would dislike their teacher being a beautiful woman.

Especially Slytherin, the cheers were even louder - they heard that the new teacher's surname was Mountbatten, and the so-called county magistrate was not as good as the current one. In order to please Louis, the students kept shouting.

"Louis, our new teacher is also named Mountbatten, may I ask who she is..." Pansy asked hesitantly.

"My mother." Louis did not shy away, and admitted the fact honestly.

Pansy was in awe. Her mother must also be a great wizard if she could cultivate such an outstanding and excellent wizard as Louis.

But...well, speaking of it, Emma actually didn't add any bricks or tiles to Louis' excellence, but then again, giving birth to Louis itself was the best cultivation for him.

Even after Emma sat down, there was still prolonged applause in the auditorium, and it wasn't until Dumbledore pressed his hand that the applause subsided.He also said: "In addition, Hogwarts will renovate the library and expand it. The new head of the library is—Miss Patchouli Noreki!"

Paqiuli stood up weakly from the faculty seat and bowed.After seeing that the curator of the new library is actually a beautiful girl, the cheers became more vigorous.

"As I said just now," Dumbledore continued, stopping the uproar from his classmates, "over the next few months we will be honored to host a very exciting event which has already It has not been held for a century. It is my great pleasure to report that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year."

"As you can see, Beauxbaton and Durmstrang's classmates have arrived at Hogwarts. Of course, we will explain the specifics of the Triwizard Tournament after dinner. I think everyone Now I can't wait to prepare the meal, so... the banquet begins!"

After finally waiting for Professor Dumbledore's words, as his thick voice fell, the students watched helplessly as the empty plates in front of them were filled with hearty food in an instant.

Magic changes lives, says Dumbledouxtra.

The classmates of Beauxbaton and Durmstrang seemed to have seen this kind of thing for the first time. They stared at the food in front of them with a dull expression.

What's going on here, who can explain, how come the meals of Hogwarts classmates are so magical?
It was a new version of the boat they had never experienced before.

The dishes are rich enough. The difference from previous years is that in order to welcome the guests, Dumbledore specially ordered the kitchen to prepare a lot of Eastern European food. As for Beauxbaton's French food, he did not specially ask the kitchen to prepare it. Many of them are French dishes.

"It should be said that I don't like fish soup." Louis looked at the French miscellaneous fish soup in front of him, and didn't want to drink it at all. He didn't like fish very much, and he was very sensitive to fishy smell, but today Dumbledore In order to take care of the Beauxbatons, three kinds of seafood soups are prepared.

He wanted to call Aslow, but turned around to find that Aslow was flirting with his mother. The expression of gratitude on his face made Louis feel goosebumps all over his body.

Forget it, forget it, the big deal is not to drink soup, Louis comforted himself like this.

Of course Catherine knew that Louis didn't like fish soup. After she whispered a few words in Kristaza's ear, the house elf placed a potato soup in front of Louis in a short while.

Only then did Louis show a happy expression. He patted Catherine's thigh, and reached out to pick up a sliced ​​baguette from the table.The baked and heated baguette is not as good as a weapon as usual, but softer. He eats the potato soup with a French stick, and he is full of satisfaction after one bite.

The main thing was that he was hungry. He had eaten a meal since morning. In fact, he was hungrier than Ron, but he didn't say it.

The founder of Hogwarts was very far-sighted, and the welcome banquet for new students was undoubtedly a perfect event. The students who had been on the train for a long time had no appetite in the car, and they might not be able to eat anything. After that, I have to walk for half a day on the icy road, and I have to wait in the auditorium. Not hungry is a very strange thing.

But this time the new force for cooking is obviously Durmstrang's classmates. The girls are okay and can still maintain an elegant eating manner, while the boys are not so... well, control yourself, Krum is worthy of being Ron He is an idol who is even better than Ron in cooking. The classic reenactment of the famous scene of the violent battle of chicken legs.

"I knew Krum would definitely hit it off with me, you see." Ron beamed and said to Harry, who glanced at him and nodded his head.

After the main course was eaten, Dumbledore waved again, and the sumptuous main course on the table was removed and replaced with an assortment of desserts.

At the end of the banquet, the desserts were also swept away. After everyone had eaten and drank enough, Dumbledore stood up again, and he stretched out his hand to press down. The sound of wind and rain outside.

"Okay," Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile, "Now that we are all full, I must ask everyone's attention again, and I have a few announcements to make."

"Mr. Filch, the gatekeeper, wants me to tell you that this year, several more items are added to the prohibited items in the castle. They are screaming yo-yos, toothed flying saucers, and combo boomerangs. The entire list has a total of 430 seven items. Filch's office can see it, and anyone interested can check it out."

Having said that, Dumbledore took a meaningful look at the Weasley twins, and the twins also faced him, and made a helpless gesture of spreading their hands neatly.

They both always felt that Filch was targeting them both, but there was no proof.

"As before, I want to remind everyone, especially the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, that the Forbidden Forest on the other side of the field is not for students to enter, and Hogsmeade village, anyone under the third grade Classmates are off limits—and besides, there will be no Quidditch House Cup this year, replaced by an old, big event, what I called the Triwizard Tournament before dinner."

As soon as the voice fell, a deafening thunder sounded outside, and then, a silver-white lightning flashed across the simulated sky above the auditorium.

At this moment, the door of the auditorium was knocked open with a bang, and a man stood at the door, leaning on a long cane and wrapped in a black traveling cloak.

Another flash of lightning flashed above the auditorium, illuminating the face of the person who came.

It's too ugly, that's everyone's first impression, and the second impression is that it's so fucking evil, even more vicious than Death Eaters.Of course, Louis also noticed the appearance of the visitor. How should I put it... a bit like the butcher in the knife tower?That's probably how it feels.

ah... fresh meat!

One of his eyes is normal, and the other eye is wearing an eye patch like Captain Cyclops. The difference is that what he wears is not an eye patch, but a magical prosthetic eye, and the blue prosthetic eye keeps turning , just like ADHD, staring at the crowd in the auditorium.

It was Mad-Eye Moody. After all, that image was too obvious. If Louis admitted correctly—it was just that he didn't know whether it was Moody himself, or whether he had been disguised by Barty Crouch Jr.

Moody walked up to Dumbledore, and he held out a hand that was as bruised as his face to shake Dumbledore's. After communicating in a low voice, he sat beside him at Dumbledore's gesture.

Moody was not polite, sat down, dragged the plate of sausages in front of Dumbledore, then took out a shiny knife from his arms, forked it on the sausages and began to feast on it. His prosthetic eye was not idle either, and turned around randomly, as if he was looking at the faculty and staff beside him, as well as the other two school guests.

"Allow me to introduce this proven warrior," Dumbledore happily broke the silence: "Alastor Moody, he is an Auror who has spent his life fighting Dark wizards, of course , you can also see the mottled battle scars on his body..."

Dude, Moody (star) is battle-scarred, isn't he?

"I am pleased to inform you that in the new year, Mr. Moody will be in charge of security for our Triwizard Tournament."

As he said that, Dumbledore clapped his hands first, and Hagrid responded to his movement—but there were only these two people, and the applause was lonely, which sounded extremely embarrassing, and everyone else was shocked by Moody's strange appearance They were all staring at him in a daze.

Louis cooperated with Dumbledore to applaud. After seeing Louis' actions, the students in the entire Slytherin house began to applaud, which also led to several other houses, and the auditorium was bustling again for a while.

Moody looked at everyone in surprise. He didn't seem to expect to be so welcomed at Hogwarts—with his imprisoned appearance, it's not bad if he doesn't scare the children to tears. When will he be accepted? people so welcome?
He reached into his traveling cloak, took out a curved wine bottle, took a big gulp, and then hiccupped with a blushing face.

"Maybe some of you don't know what the Triwizard Tournament is, so please allow me to introduce it to you." Dumbledore said with a smile, "The Triwizard Tournament was founded about 700 years ago. A friendly competition between the three largest wizarding schools in Europe, Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, with one warrior chosen from each school, and then three warriors Try three kinds of magic events—the Triwizard Tournament is held every five years, and the three schools take turns hosting it."

"Everyone agreed that this was an excellent way for young wizards from different countries to build friendships, but then, the death toll was too high and the Triwizard Tournament was interrupted."

"Over the centuries there have been several attempts to revive the Triwizard Tournament, but none have been successful," continued Dumbledore, "however our Ministry of Magic's Department of International Magical Cooperation and Department of Magical Sports believes that another attempt The time has come, and we've done a lot this summer to make sure none of our warriors' lives are in danger."

Hearing this, Louis curled his lips, complaining secretly in his heart, so can you explain why Cedric suddenly got mad?

"Today, the principals of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have led their carefully selected competitors to Hogwarts. The ceremony of selecting the warriors will be held the day after the Halloween party. An impartial referee It will be decided which students are finally qualified to compete for the Tri-Strong Cup, to win honor for his school, and he himself will get a bonus of [-] Galleons!"

Having said that, Karkaroff and Madam Maxim looked at Dumbledore at the same time, wondering why Dumbledore, who had always been stingy, suddenly became so generous.

The old students at Hogwarts were alright, they had long been numb from Lewis' sugar-coated shells, but the freshmen and students from the other two schools were not so calm, they were short of breath, and their ears were filled with the fifty thousand Garen, even Viktor Krum is the same.

(End of this chapter)