Chapter 285 Beautiful and Frozen Ladies

The notice in the Great Hall had a clear impact on everyone living within Hogwarts Castle.

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

As for the news of Moody's return, which was posted on the bulletin board together with the Triwizard Tournament, it was ignored by everyone except Franklin.

In addition to curiosity about Durmstrang and Beauxbatons students, people are most concerned about the candidates for the Hogwarts Warriors.

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

The students of Ravenclaw College naturally support Mike. After all, this is a well-known figure in their college. At this moment, instead of supporting his own people, he supports outsiders. If he is discovered, he will be isolated.

But apart from the Ravenclaw students, more people think that Cedric has a better chance of becoming a Hogwarts warrior.

After all, Cedric is a duel champion just like Mike, and Cedric is much older than Mike and is already an adult!

The growth of wizards' magic power often reaches a period of rapid improvement with the arrival of adolescence, and then 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 level at the age of 40 is almost the same as when they were 17 years old. , the automatic growth rate of magic power of wizards after they reach adulthood 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 is already an adult, 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 wishes for greater things.

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

Ever since, the conflict began.

Mike's supporters, led by the Ravenclaw students, and Cedric's supporters, led by the Hufflepuff students, started an almost endless bickering.

In this confrontation, the Hufflepuffs, who had always been the good guys who were beaten up in the past, showed their fierce side. The Ravenclaw students were sprayed almost every day until they shut themselves up.

Mike was not surprised by this situation.

After coming to wizarding society for so many years, his inherent impression of Hufflepuff has been completely overturned.

If you ask Mike which house has the strongest overall strength among the four major houses, he will tell you without hesitation that it is Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuffs are definitely not as useless as the other house students say.

On the contrary, there are many amazingly 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 wizarding society with a sparse population, it is true that there is strength in numbers.

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

Only Hufflepuff, although she has set standards of hard work and loyalty, in fact she accepts everyone who comes!

Ms. Hufflepuff is definitely a kind person.

Think about it, if you are an 11-year-old Muggle child and you receive your acceptance letter to Hogwarts on your birthday.

A whole new world opens up to you.

Everything in this world is so new and beautiful.

But when you came to Hogwarts to undergo the sorting ceremony, you were told that you were not admitted to any of the houses. You could only be cast under the Forgetting Curse and drop out of school.

How lost you will be.

Now it seems that good people are rewarded. At least Ms. Hufflepuff's good deeds back then made Hufflepuff House strong in wizarding society today.

In addition to the unusual movements of the students, the staff of Hogwarts were also going crazy.

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

In addition to the regular cleaning of floors and ceilings, those armors that were worn out and creaked when moving were also polished by Filch, and all joints were lubricated, and now they move silently. .

He even went so crazy as to clean those magic portraits. Now the portraits in the castle will run away when they see Filch, even Sir Cadogan, who has a brain problem and likes to fight with others the most.

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

For a magical portrait, this is tantamount to digging out their flesh and skinning them.

And Professor McGonagall, who cares most about the reputation of Hogwarts, has been extremely busy recently.

Mike had seen Professor McGonagall with a livid face several times, yelling and blaming Zhou Hong and Colin's brother in an almost desperate voice.

Mike could swear that this was the first time he saw a professor be so ruthless when deducting points from his own college. Every time he deducted 50 points and 50 points.

In Ron's words, his two brothers have retired, and now the title of the King of Pranks at Hogwarts has been taken over by the new combination of brothers Zhou Hong and Colin.

And what they did was much more extreme and cruel than the two Weasley brothers.

Have you ever seen a dung bomb detonated in the lounge of your own college?

Gryffindor students have seen it recently, and more than once!

The tension within Hogwarts finally reached its peak on the night of October 30th.

That night, when Mike and others gathered in front of the castle as planned, they were surprised to find that the entire Hogwarts had changed drastically.

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

"Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?" Franklin muttered quietly while shivering in the cold wind.

There were many little wizards who were whispering like him. Professor McGonagall asked them to come here half an hour in advance to wait. Not everyone can do the Warming Charm. Some people have long been unable to stand in such a cold environment.

"How do you think they'll get here? Portkey or Apparate?"

"Don't be stupid, Dumbledore will not allow anyone to create a door key that can directly enter Hogwarts, and Apparition will not work in Hogwarts." Mike answered Franklin's stupid question softly, "Besides, , as usual, they will appear in a more dignified way."

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

Franklin was only halfway through what he said when the crowd in front of the castle started to commotion.

Hearing the sound, Mike and others all looked up and saw a huge thing in the sky that was comparable to an airship, quickly passing through the dark blue sky, flying towards the castle, and gradually getting bigger and bigger.

"They actually came by plane! Hahahaha!"

Franklin joked, but at the end he couldn't help but laugh.

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

It turned out to be a carriage!

A flying carriage the size of a house, pink and blue, pulled by twelve silver-maned Pegasus with wings!

Before everyone in front of the castle had time to react, the carriage landed in the open space in front of the castle at an extremely fast speed.

"oh!"

"Oh my God!"

"Merlin's beard! Do you want to kill me?"

The students standing in the front row let out bursts of exclamations and quickly stepped back.

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

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

Before the chaos in the Hogwarts queue had subsided, the door on the carriage bearing a emblem (two golden crossed wands, with three stars emerging from each) was opened.

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

After doing all this, the boy stood aside respectfully.

A shiny black high-heeled shoe the size of a small basin stretched out from the carriage, followed by a large woman nearly four meters tall who walked out.

When this person appeared, even Mike was slightly surprised.

The image of this woman is really too weird.

Although he is as big as Hagrid, he exudes aura in every gesture, paired with a very handsome olive face, a pair of eyes that seem to speak, a black satin dress and all kinds of luxurious jewelry. , actually gives people a noble and elegant taste.

All the students present were dumbfounded. It was not until Dumbledore clapped that everyone instinctively followed suit.

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

"Dumbledore, I hope everything is fine." Ms. Maxim's voice was unexpectedly low, but still had the charm of a mature woman, "my student."

While speaking, Ms. Maxim waved her huge arm seemingly casually.

Afterwards, a dozen girls got off the carriage.

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

This is not surprising. Their school uniforms are very delicate, but they are made of light blue silk. Although they wear gloves and hats on their hands and heads, these are also decorative tulle gloves and hats. The hat has no effect of keeping warm at all.

"Is Beauxbatons a girls' school?"

A Gryffindor boy asked a question, and a girl next to him immediately nudged him with her elbow 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 sore chest, looked at the Beauxbatons boy in the last row of the team, who was groveling like a servant, swallowed hard, and said with a strange expression:

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

Mike didn't whisper like the others, and he didn't even pay attention to Franklin when he spoke to him.

Because he actually found an acquaintance among Beauxbatons' team.

Hibiscus!

Fleur on the other side was obviously 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 as if he was demented, but his words immediately aroused dissatisfaction from the people around him, and soon the relatively neat Ravenclaw team became chaotic.

Seeing this, the girls in the Beauxbatons team were covering their mouths and laughing, while Professor McGonagall covered her face.

She has lost her face.

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

Professor McGonagall had the urge to run away. Look at their organizational discipline. Why are these gangsters in their family so unsatisfactory?

In contrast, Dumbledore's behavior was much more natural. He glanced at the beautiful and frozen Beauxbatons girls, and then said to Ms. Maxim:

"Karkaroff hasn't arrived yet. Would you like to wait here to greet him, or would you rather go in first to warm up."

"It's better to go in and warm up first," Ms. Maxim said, "but these horses..."

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

Facing Dumbledore's proposal, Maxim was obviously hesitant. She paused before saying in embarrassment:

"My horses need...well...people with great strength to take care of them. They have very fierce tempers..."

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

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

"I will take care of it." Dumbledore returned the gesture.

Hearing this, Maxim nodded, coldly uttered 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 been prepared to freeze here for more than half an hour, but now that they can enter the castle in advance to keep warm, it is naturally the best.

So, under the watchful eyes of all the male students at Hogwarts, Beauxbatons' team stepped onto the stone steps and entered Hogwarts Castle.