Harry Potter and the Burnt Badger

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Accompanied by bursts of mocking exclamations from the young wizards in the audience, Crabbe shook his arms, completely ignoring his wand lying quietly on the ground, and rushed straight towards Harry.

Harry and Malfoy were also inseparable from throwing sparks at each other. In fact, the "Disarming Charm" and "Leg-locking Charm" that Sirius taught him were really useful.But embarrassingly, after successfully disarming Crabbe, he failed to release the leg-locking curse and was almost hit by Malfoy's curse.Harry, who had no time to readjust in a hurry, had no choice but to set off sparks with Malfoy and organize the next attack.

But he really didn't expect that Crabbe would rush over like a barbarian even after he was disarmed.

"Harry!" Hermione screamed, completely forgetting that she should use her wand at this moment [Note 1], let alone think of any magic spells that could be used.But Ron quickly changed his target and cast a leg-locking spell on Crabbe.

Crabbe, who was running wildly, suddenly lost control of his legs, but his forward momentum would not stop just because his legs couldn't move. The next moment, he staggered and fell on the stage, and because of The inertia continued to slide forward for a certain distance, and gave Harry a sliding shovel with his head.

Ron's originally excited face suddenly became awkward. Malfoy was amused and laughed. Hermione still played the role of a competent battlefield announcer and quickly reminded Ron, "Ron! Goyle!"

Ron had to admit that when he heard Hermione's words, he was a little confused. Fortunately, it was only a little. He quickly realized that Hermione was reminding him that Goyle was coming - just like what happened just now. Same as Crabbe.

Most of the young wizards in the audience booed. It was clearly agreed that it was a wizard duel, but Draco Malfoy seemed to have brought two wild boars to the stage.

Hermione's reminder became Ron's life-saving straw. Unfortunately, Ron failed to grasp this life-saving straw. His scarce (actually no) combat experience made him immediately turn his head when he heard Hermione's shout. He looked in the direction of Goyle.

Then he was knocked away by Goyle.

"Use your wand! Hermione! You are a witch!" Harry yelled as he nimbly rolled on the ground to avoid the sparks fired by Malfoy.

At this time, Goyle was already riding on Ron's body, actively throwing his wand, and was ready to start outputting.

"Yes, yes, I am a witch, I am a witch..." Hermione muttered there, trying to calm herself down.But there was no doubt that Goyle would not give her such a chance, so just after muttering two or three times, Hermione was horrified to see Goyle's fist hit the bridge of Ron's nose.

"Spell, Hermione!" Harry's eyes widened. He couldn't hear Hermione's mumbling, and he didn't understand what Hermione was doing, but Ron was about to be beaten. He See clearly.

I don't know if it was driven by strong emotions, or maybe Hermione's brain finally had a flash of inspiration at this critical moment. At the last moment before Goyle's fist fell, Hermione finally waved the wand "Petrificus Totalus". All petrified)!"

Goyle's body froze completely, and then fell sideways under Ron's struggle.

"Thank God, Hermione! So handsome!" Ron climbed up in a hurry and thanked her quickly, and Hermione also breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Malfoy burned a hole in Harry's robes with a spark.

But obviously, this will be Malfoy's biggest victory today - the three-on-one battle of justice is about to begin. Hermione can even stand aside and watch. The double sparks from Ron and Harry are enough to block Malfoy. But it’s coming.

About ten seconds later, Harry saw his opportunity and first shot Malfoy's wand away with a disarming spell, and then used a leg-locking spell to make Malfoy trip to the ground.

Although there were many dangers during the period, in the end, there was no doubt that the three Harrys won a great victory.

Sirius cheered loudly in the audience. Although Harry was still very unskilled in using spells, for a first-year wizard, being able to successfully use the spells was already above the passing line.

Harry waved excitedly to Sirius, and then walked off the stage with Ron and Hermione at Cedric's greeting.Gemma followed closely and walked onto the duel stage, waving her wand to help the three Malfoys remove the curse, and left the venue with the three of them.

The little wizards who were still acting as the audience soon realized that the next duel performance was about to begin.Some people's minds were spinning so fast that they simply looked around, trying to see which two senior students would eventually step onto the stage.

Different from the previous duel between the three Harrys and Malfoy - if the six first-year wizards were to fight one-on-one, the visibility would be almost zero, so their duel was a melee.The following senior duel performance will still follow the orthodox dueling method, and there will only be one person on both sides.

The next moment, with everyone looking forward to it, two seventh-grade students, Gabriel and Ashley, stepped onto the duel stage one after another.

"Ha, Gabriel, guess which round you will fall on?" Ashley raised her wand.

Gabriel also raised his wand in front of him, and while bowing to Ashley, he said: "If you ask me that, then I can probably only answer after defeating you."

After bowing, the two people stood up straight and became a little eager to try.

They turned around and stepped back. Five steps later, the two stood face to face again and took a stance.The little wizards in the audience stopped making noises and all watched the duel seriously.

Chapter 1 Maze Preliminary Round

In all senses, even among the several prefects of Hufflepuff, Gabriel can be said to be a very rule-abiding one.He rarely quarreled with others, and even before Moon came to Hogwarts, he would not use his wand unless absolutely necessary when something happened.

So in fact, many people don't have a very intuitive feeling about Gabriel's spell-casting ability, thinking that he is "probably at the same level as other prefects."

To be honest, he was able to participate in this duel exhibition today, which actually shocked many young wizards, including some young wizards from other colleges who knew a little bit about Gabriel.

"Expelliarmus (expelliarmus)!"

After setting up the stance, the duel officially began. Ashley took the lead and chose to use the most commonly used and of course very easy-to-use disarming spell as a test.

Gabriel remained motionless, standing upright, waving his wand and using the Iron Armor spell to completely neutralize Ashley's temptation.

Seeing that Gabriel accepted her attack lightly, Ashley mentally assessed Gabriel's familiarity with the Iron Armor Curse while waiting for Gabriel's test - this is a very common routine in duels. When the opponent's strength is unclear, both parties in the duel will often use a few magic attacks to judge the enemy's general strength and usual magic types, especially in a game similar to a friendly match. in this way.

As a result, Ashley waited for five seconds, but did not wait for Gabriel to take action.

Just when she was slightly distracted by doubts, Gabriel's wand suddenly fell down.

"Impedimento!"

Ashley also subconsciously chose to use the Iron Armor Curse to resist. However, what surprised her was that although her Iron Armor Curse prevented her from being directly knocked out, it still caused her to be knocked back by Gabriel's obstacle spell. took several steps.

This proved that her Iron Armor Charm did not completely block Gabriel's Barrier Charm.

Feeling this, Ashley suddenly became energetic and wanted to start a counterattack. Unexpectedly, Gabriel seemed to have no intention of continuing to test each other with her, and directly started to attack with one obstacle spell after another.

The little wizards in the audience were shouting that they were enjoying themselves, and their jaws were almost dropped by the strength displayed by Gabriel.No one expected that Gabriel would be the main attacker in this exhibition match, and that he could suppress Ashley so hard that he couldn't even take the time to fight back.

In fact, as spectators in the audience, most of the little wizards could only see that Ashley was being forced back by Gabriel, resisting in a hesitant manner, but they could not see why Gabriel had the upper hand. .Only a few people with enough strength and Ashley herself understand the secret - Gabriel's mastery of the obstacle spell is too exquisite.

Not only is the release speed fast, but the power is also astonishingly powerful.

Ashley even suspected that Gabriel might have fully mastered the silent release of the barrier spell.

Of course, at this moment, this matter is not very important. What she needs to prioritize is how to get away from Gabriel's pursuit and then launch her own counterattack.

Light and shadow intertwined, and the flocks of golden birds were like bright gems suddenly appearing in the void, reflecting their beautiful luster in the afternoon sun, and flew straight towards Gabriel.

It seemed like an ordinary flock of birds firing thousands of bullets, but the audience could see very clearly that Ashley just opened her lips slightly and waved the wand - in other words, it was more like she was going to Two spells come together.

There are even new changes.

The birds that flew out from the tip of Ashley's staff were still flying forward according to the established rules, but in the next second, the birds suddenly changed their formation, and some of them crashed into Gabriel like a suicide squad. El's obstacle spell was completely broken at the cost of his life; while other birds drew arcs in the air that had no rules at all, and shot at Gabriel's body from all directions at the same time. Each joint part.

In the audience, the little wizards who were watching all exclaimed, while Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall showed expressions of satisfaction at the same time. It was obvious that they also knew about Ashley's trick.

But Gabriel's method of resolving the problem was still unremarkable. He raised his wand and held the "weapon" in his palm tightly like a knight holding a sword.

"Protegos!"

Before everyone could be disappointed, someone discovered that as Gabriel's voice fell, there was actually a solid armor faintly emerging from the air around him. Although it was only fleeting, it brought everything that was flying to him. All the birds were blocked.

There is no doubt that although Gabriel has not used the third curse so far, he is obviously very good at using the Obstacle Curse and the Iron Armor Curse alone, even enough to crush most young wizards of the same age. .

Suddenly, with the golden bird's attack, Ashley finally regained control of the rhythm of the attack.But she has also clearly realized that if it were just about the use of magic spells, it would be difficult for her to beat Gabriel.

The few rounds of fighting just now have fully proved this point. Although she has learned a lot, she still has some unique tricks in her hands.But Gabriel's mastery of some magic spells is too exquisite. Unless some powerful spells are used, Ashley thinks it will be difficult to break through Gabriel's defense.However, this was just a duel, and it was difficult for her to guarantee that she would be able to control those powerful spells. It would not be a good idea if she caused any trouble by then.

So she simply switched "tracks."

The bricks and stones on the duel platform suddenly jumped out of thin air with the wave of Ashley's wand, then whirled in the air and hit Gabriel's head, and even suddenly ignited a raging fire halfway, looking menacing. , full of power.

Gabriel understood Ashley's intention, so he did not use the Iron Armor Curse again. Instead, he waved his wand and made the bricks hover in mid-air, causing a sudden stop.The flames on the masonry were immediately extinguished and even stopped spinning.

Ashley stared at the bricks, as if she was still fighting with Gabriel for control of the bricks, but in fact, her wand suddenly pointed at another open space beside Gabriel.

A square piece of black brick seemed to be given life. With a "whoosh", it jumped up from the ground and hit Gabriel's right hand holding the wand directly.

Gabriel was startled, and in his distraction, he even forgot to control the few bricks that he had just completely controlled.

Fortunately, he reacted and quickly and wisely flicked the wand in the direction of the black brick, and the black brick inexplicably turned into a handful of water - but Gabriel could only do this. , that handful of water suddenly poured all over Gabriel, turning him into a drowned rat.

He lowered his wand with a wry smile, and sure enough, when he turned back, the bricks and stones had rekindled the flames and were spinning around him.

"Oh——!!!" The little wizards cheered, but they only saw that Ashley had won. Only the professors and a few students realized that the two were actually competing twice.In the first spell duel, Gabriel was slightly better. After all, even if Ashley still had unused spells, there was no guarantee that Gabriel would not have such a back-up. After all, after a few rounds, He only used two spells in total.

Ashley is better at using Transfiguration. She is more alert, more decisive, and more daring to change tricks - just like a real Slytherin, not only has the ambition to win, but also has the corresponding ambition. Strategies and maneuvers.

In comparison, Gabriel is obviously a little inferior, and his actual combat experience should be a little weaker than Ashley's.

Everyone gave them applause without hesitation, and the two bowed again. Nash captured this scene as well, then shook his camera happily and gave Moon a thumbs up.

The duel between the three Harrys and Malfoy was not suitable for being published in the school newspaper - there was no way, Crabbe and Goyle were too unruly, but Ashley and Gabriel This duel is enough for Moon to take a close-up. By the way, he will tell the young wizards at Hogwarts about their highlights and weaknesses in the duel, and help them accumulate some practical experience. .

In terms of applause, Professor Flitwick applauded the loudest among all the people, and at the same time, he even kept glancing at Moon, as if he was thinking of something.

No one else noticed this, but Professor McGonagall standing next to him saw it all.

The always stern Professor McGonagall's eyes flickered, and she didn't know what she was thinking. She stopped and seemed to intend to chat with Professor Flitwick, but in the end she chose to give up and continued to applaud. .

As soon as the two duel exhibition matches were over, Moon pointed at his throat and gave himself a loud voice, and then said: "Okay, thank you just now for the wonderful duel. Next, please participate in this Hogwarts Four." The contestants of the strong competition are ready one by one, and our competition will begin immediately."

"As I announced on Friday night, we have made some changes to our schedule and awards this year. I hope everyone has not forgotten this."

He blinked and then picked up the list in front of him. "I won't go into details about the changes in the schedule. Next, before the game starts, I will read out the rewards."

"With the support of Professor Dumbledore, the points reward for the championship of this year's Hogwarts Four-wizard Tournament will be doubled. Of course, that is to say, each player who wins the Four-wizard Tournament will fight for his place. The college earns 10 college points.”

"In addition, the champion will also receive a twenty gold galleons reward sponsored by the newly opened bar in Hogsmeade, the Werewolf Night Bar, and drink coupons that can be used to offset eight non-alcoholic drinks; four gold-plated championship trophies, four The championship badge - of course, the design is a little different from last year, and it will be the same every year in the future."

"Subsequently, the runner-up rewards are four gold galleons sponsored by Rhodes Joke Shop, a high-end quill pen sponsored by Wenrenju Quill Shop, four winning badges, and 5 points from the academy for each person. Point reward.”

As Munn read out the rewards one by one, the little wizards who had formed a team also stood up and looked at Munn eagerly.

Among them, Ron was the most obvious. When he heard about the golden galleons reward, he was obviously very happy.The only regret is that not only can he not team up with Harry and Hermione, but even the other little wizards in Gryffindor can't help him.

In fact, his participating team asked Hesper to find it for him.Of course, the same goes for Hermione. Only Harry found his team very smoothly - there was no way, there were so many people wanting to team up with Harry, and Harry could even choose at will.

But even more uncomfortable were Fred and George, who couldn't play as a team last year.Because of this matter, they had been begging to Mun En many times over the past year, but every time they failed.

As a child of the Weasley family, Percy was much happier than his younger brothers.

Because he was able to team up with his girlfriend Penelo.

Although the two are still an underground couple, they are indeed together now, and they expressed their feelings just a few days ago.Therefore, after learning that this year's semifinals was about to begin, Percy immediately approached Penello to form a team.

However, no one thinks that Penelo will still be the favorite to win this year, because Moon already said on Friday night that this year's schedule has changed compared to last year.

For example, the first game is about to start now.

In last year's first Hogwarts Tournament, the game originally required correct answers to wizard chess-related questions to gain moves for the team members, allowing them to pass through the chessboard maze and achieve victory.

But there is no doubt that the number of participants this year will be more than last year, and this competition system is no longer efficient enough to select the qualifying teams.Therefore, the competition was changed into a mode that Professor Snape could not stand at all——

The maze on the site has been doubled in size and the number of entrances has been changed from two last year to eight.At the same time, eight answer boards appeared in front of the maze.

Each of the eight teams needs to send one person into the maze, and the other three will stay outside to answer questions.There will be ten questions on each of the eight answer boards, namely "Potions", "Transfiguration", "Herbology", "Charms", "Astronomy", "History of Magic", and "Defense Against the Dark Arts" ” and “Quidditch Tactics.”In each round, the eight teams need to take turns sending one person forward to answer the questions. If they answer a question correctly, the team members will take a step. If they answer the question incorrectly, the team members will have to take a step back. If they do not answer, they will stay put.

And in the maze, there will be little wizards from the Wizards Chess Club waiting for them holding Bibi multi-flavor beans. If the team members advancing inside meet the little wizards from the Wizards Chess Club, they must choose a Bibi from the bag. Braised beans for anyone who blocks the road.If he chooses a good flavor, he can advance one extra square, but if he chooses a bad flavor, he will be forced to stand still and wait for the next action to choose another one.

Less than 5 minutes after the game started, except for Professor Snape who did not come at all (this was regarded as foresight by the professors), the faces of several other professors all looked a little... ugly.

The Quidditch Tactics board has been filled twice and has been replaced with a third question. Among the other seven boards, only the Defense Against the Dark Arts and Herbology boards have been replaced once, and the rest have been replaced. It was only half answered just now.Even the sections on astronomy and history of magic only had three questions answered.

If the class time had been changed, Professor McGonagall might have reduced the points of these little wizards to nothing.

Among all the people who participated in answering the questions, the best performance was from the group of Percy and Penello.After all, one of them was in fifth grade and the other in fourth grade, and there was a sixth-grade Slytherin girl answering the questions with them. Especially since Percy was a college bully, there were almost no questions on the answer boards that they couldn't answer. , even the knowledge that can only be learned in senior grades is not difficult for them.

If it was a weak point, it was the Quidditch tactics that their team had never touched.

Hermione looked at the questions on the board with interest. She successfully grabbed two relatively obscure astronomy questions, but there were indeed many questions on the answer board that she couldn't answer.So she is trying hard to write down all the questions above that she doesn't know, so that she can look up the detailed analysis when she goes back to the library to find some entertainment.

"Ha! The Qingshui team performed very well. Their players were the first to get out of the maze and became the first team to advance to the next round. Let us look forward to which team from this group will advance next. "Lee Jordan, who was acting as the commentator on the stage, looked curiously at the other commentator beside him, Garforth Winters, "Garforth, which of the remaining seven teams are you more optimistic about?"

Garforth looked at each one carefully, and then said: "I think Hufflepuff's Slaston's team is very promising. They have the third most correct answers now, but the one in their team Ron Weasley, who was in charge of running the maze, acted really outrageously and picked the right Pidgeot Beans three times."

Harry and the Geminis, who did not participate in this round, all cheered loudly. Malfoy, who also signed up, curled his lips in the back with disdain on his face, but the grass under his feet was almost wiped away by the soles of his shoes.

Sure enough, after another 2 minutes, as Lee and Garforth announced, Ron ran back with his arms raised high and a look of disbelief on his face, "I'm coming out! I'm coming out!"

Harry once again gave his friend absolute support and clapped loudly, and Percy also clapped his hands until they turned red.Although Hermione was a little unhappy because of her defeat, she knew from the beginning that she had no chance of winning the championship, so she was only disappointed for a short while before running over to celebrate Ron's promotion together.

Chapter 1 Public Trial Results

There are a total of 48 teams participating this time - more than double the number of the previous one. It is for this reason that Moon chose to redesign the competition system.

After the eight teams in the first round ended the competition, the second round officially began. Although the two brothers Fred and George were on different teams, they were assigned to compete in the same round. As a result, both brothers Both men were defeated and failed to advance.

Later in the third round, two teams that also attracted everyone's attention began to appear: one was Harry's team, and the other was Malfoy's team.

The previous round was "Brothers with different hearts can never break up the friendship", while this round is a perfect interpretation of "enemies will never get together".

Harry chose to stay outside and answer the questions, even though from the bottom of his heart he actually wanted to go in and walk the maze. Unfortunately, although he was not very good at answering questions, he was also not very good at picking out Bibi's all-flavored beans.In this way, he could still paddle outside, but after entering the maze, he would have to fight alone. So in desperation, he could only choose to hang outside and start his mascot career.

Malfoy obviously looked down upon Harry's choice. He ran into the maze first and became the challenger in their team.

Then he led the team to failure without hesitation.

You can tell with your toes how the young master has the patience to pick out Bibi's multi-flavored beans for people to eat.Although their team's progress in answering questions was pretty good and had always been within the top four, Malfoy failed almost ten times in selecting Bibi's multi-flavor beans.

As soon as he came up, he randomly picked out a bean that "looked good" and handed it out. After the failure, he finally managed to hold back his anger and developed a little patience. However, when he failed again, his patience was suddenly exhausted again... …