Chapter 167 Loopholes

"Yunkai, what book is this?"

"Oh, a book that records all kinds of fraudulent magic."

Lu Yunkai answered casually.

Daphne, who was sitting next to him, nodded as if she understood.

It was already afternoon.

Lu Yunkai couldn't figure out what was keeping these people here watching the fun after such a long time, with only two people standing in to sign up...

Well, maybe they were waiting for the two pre-selected contestants.

Krum and Cedric.

And finally, Cedric Diggory came.

His appearance caused huge applause from the people around him. As the most anticipated contestant of the host country, this kind of treatment was naturally deserved.

However, Cedric didn't communicate much with the audience around him. He just laughed and joked with his two friends around him while being pushed to the Goblet of Fire.

Then a note was thrown in.

Disappeared.

Registration ended.

Leave directly.

There was no feeling of being a protagonist at all.

Lu Yunkai watched and complained silently in his heart.

Did this Cedric make a mistake? This Triwizard Tournament is a scoring competition. Do you know what is the most important thing in this kind of competition?

Audience appeal!!

The audience will help you put pressure on the referee! At that time, even if your actual performance is a little bit worse, as long as you can get the audience's applause and cheers during your competition, the referee dares to give you a low score? ?

How can you not take the audience seriously!

Even so, NEWTS has ten excellent ones? It's really like Irene...

Lu Yunkai complained about the poor witch in his heart again.

"Yunkai, do you still want to try?"

Just when Lu Yunkai was complaining to Cedric in his heart, he was suddenly patted on the shoulder.

Lu Yunkai turned his head and saw Parvati sitting behind him.

"What's wrong?"

"If you don't plan to try, I'll go back and rest until the evening." Parvati glanced at Daphne, who had a strange expression beside Lu Yunkai, but continued: "If you want to try it, I'll wait a little longer."

"...I do have the idea of ​​trying, but there is no specific plan yet. Are you...waiting for me here?" Lu Yunkai suddenly felt that the temperature around him had dropped a little.

He glanced at Daphne secretly from the corner of his eye.

Daphne smiled stiffly.

"Well, I'm curious about what you will do. Then I'll wait a little longer!" Parvati smiled and nodded as if she didn't realize Daphne's weirdness.

"...Oh."

Lu Yunkai turned back and read a book.

"Then I'll go back to the dormitory first." Daphne suddenly said.

"...What are you doing?" Lu Yunkai quickly turned his head and glanced at Daphne.

"There's nothing to see. What, who are you waiting for? Krum?"

Daphne squinted her eyes and looked at Lu Yunkai.

The meaning was actually quite obvious: you are not allowed to stay here any longer.

"I have to give it a try! Such a fun thing..." Lu Yunkai muttered, "Forget it, I'll try it now. If it doesn't work, let's go back to the dormitory together!"

"What do you mean go back to the dormitory together!!" Daphne blushed.

Then she realized that she was the only one who had the wrong idea...

Ahem.

Lu Yunkai really didn't.

He just stood up and bought a bottle of powerful confusion potion from the system. Then, he pulled Daphne around the benches and came to the middle of the venue.

"What are you doing?" After being noticed by the people around her who were starting to get lively again, Daphne felt a little shy and a little excited.

"Here's this potion." Lu Yunkai took out another potion and stuffed it into Daphne's hand. "After I come out of the circle, drink it immediately. Otherwise, God knows what I will do."

"...Is it dangerous?"

"Not really, but I might make a fool of myself." Lu Yunkai shook his head. "You don't want to see me make a fool of myself, do you?"

"Oh." Daphne took the potion in a daze, but nodded firmly.

"...Don't hold it so tightly, be careful not to crush it." Lu Yunkai smiled and patted Daphne's face. "I'll be back soon."

After saying that, he took out the parchment from the space bag, tore off a small piece, and then wrote a line of words on it.

Then.

"Clean it up!"

"Waterproof and moisture-proof!"

"Show up quickly!"

"Disappear without a trace!"

...

Facing the parchment, the magic wand in Lu Yunkai's hand fired one magic after another as if it didn't cost money (it really didn't cost money).

Except for the spell that would destroy the parchment, he used almost all the spells he knew.

In the end, the poor parchment looked like a small piece of broken stone, and there was no sign that Lu Yunkai had written his name on it.

And this action of his attracted the curiosity of almost everyone around him.

There were also many people laughing.

Is this kid crazy?

"Well, it should be almost done." Lu Yunkai looked at the parchment that was no longer parchment, took it back in his hand with satisfaction, and then pulled Daphne, who had tried to stop him several times but didn't speak, to the edge of the age circle.

Open the potion in his hand and drink it.

Something strange happened.

Lu Yunkai seemed to have become hollow-eyed all of a sudden, and then his appearance seemed to begin to change.

For a moment...why do you look so much like Dumbledore?

Just when the audience stopped laughing because Lu Yunkai drank the potion, and then began to be amazed at his changes, Lu Yun started to move.

He stepped into the age circle in one step, and then threw the piece of paper in his hand into the Goblet of Fire.

The piece of paper, which was more like a stone, suddenly burned and disappeared.

Quiet.

Didn't fire off like twin brothers.

In the age circle, Lu Yunkai stood dumbly for ten seconds, and then with a crash, he fell backwards and fell to the ground.

"Yunkai!! Are you okay??" Daphne, who was stunned watching Lu Yunkai's movements, came back to her senses, hurriedly squatted beside him, helped him up, and poured the medicine in her hand into Lu Yunkai's In the mouth.

Soon.

"Huh... did the name strip fly out?"

Lu Yunkai spoke again.

With a smile on his face.

"...No." Daphne's face was full of worry, "What just happened to you?"

"Oh, I just deceived the age circle and the Goblet of Fire... Of course, I also deceived myself." Lu Yun explained with a smile, "If the name strip doesn't fly out, does that mean it's a success?"

"...Hmm." Daphne stretched out her hand to help Lu Yunkai stand up.

"No need! It's not that weak!" Lu Yunkai smiled and stood up, patting the soil behind him.

Just then.

There was a storm of thunderous applause and cheers all around.

"Ah!" Daphne came back to her senses.

Just now she was only worried about Lu Yunkai, and she forgot about this!

"Thank you everyone!" Lu Yun smiled and turned around to the audience who stood up and applauded. "Although it is unlikely that I will be selected, if the Goblet of Fire goes blind..."

As he spoke, he pointed at the broken wooden cup.

"...I hope everyone will support me more! My name is Lu Yunkai, a fourth-year student in Slytherin House at Hogwarts!"

"Lu Yunkai! Lu Yunkai! Lu Yunkai!!"

In the crowd watching the excitement, the Slytherin students who were familiar with Lu Yunkai began to shout his name one by one.

"Okay! Have you had enough limelight? Let's go!" Daphne said to Lu Yunkai with a red face and annoyance.

She was really not used to this kind of scene of being watched by everyone.

"Oh! I'm leaving then! Thank you everyone!" Lu Yunkai smiled and put his arm around Daphne's shoulders, and ran away from the hall.

Only the cheers and whistles were left behind.

…

"Yun Kai! Can you sell me two bottles of the potion you drank?"

"...Draco, it's not that I won't sell it to you. I'm afraid that if I sell it to you, your father will come back to settle the score with me."

"How could it be possible!!"

"You are different from me! If you sign up, you might be selected by the Goblet of Fire..."

"Then I have to sign up even more!"

"But the problem is that you have forgotten that the Triwizard Tournament was canceled because so many people died! Your life may not be in danger, but what if you are injured?" Lu Yunkai said seriously, "For the Malfoy family, no matter how many people die, A Triwizard Cup is nothing more than that, but your parents will never allow you to get hurt. Only then will he cause trouble to me!"

"...Okay."

When Malfoy heard what Lu Yunkai said, he sighed and left.

Lu Yunkai breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're getting better and better at flattering." Daphne, whose blush on her face still hadn't faded, teased Lu Yun.

The scene where Lu Yunkai put his arm around her shoulders and returned to the lounge in public just now had an impact on her no less than the group of people there who were clapping and whistling crazily.

"What flattering is called coaxing a child!" Lu Yun gave Daphne a blank look, "I bet all my wealth that this loophole was left by Dumbledore. There are only a few dozen people eligible to register for Hogwarts, Dumbledore Lido only needs to set up the possible applicants. There is no need to set up any age groups. He does this magic without sending anyone to keep an eye on it. In his opinion, breaking through this age group is considered a special one. It's one of the conditions for having the right to sign up for this competition! If Draco buys medicine directly from me, would you believe that Filch rushes out of nowhere before he can throw his name strip into the Goblet of Fire? Drag him away?"

"I don't believe it." Daphne instinctively argued with Lu Yun, "How about you give me a bottle and I'll sign up to try it too?"

"Don't make trouble!! This competition may really be dangerous..."

"You won't choose me!" Daphne rolled her eyes at Lu Yunkai, "The Goblet of Fire is not stupid. It's not like you are a fool."

"What's wrong with me? I'm stupid! This is the second time I've defeated Dumbledore..."

"Are you stupid if you don't make money?" Daphne interrupted Lu Yunkai's bragging, "Even if Draco can sign up, will the Goblet of Fire choose him? Do you really think that the Goblet of Fire also selects people based on their last names? And even if If Filch stopped him, how could he ask you to refund the money for the medicine? If you're not stupid, who is?"

"That's true when you say that." Lu Yunkai touched his chin, "But how much do you think I should pay him for these two bottles of medicine? He can't afford much cash..."

"You still have potions, right?"

"Yes, there is..."

"Give it to me, leave it alone! I'll help you sell it!"

"...You? Forget it! You are better at bargaining than I am!"

"It depends on who you are with! I'm not selling to Draco, I'm selling to... Pansy." Daphne suddenly laughed evilly.

"...Leave it to you. Remember, when you drink the potion, you must say silently in your heart, I am really not Dumbledore."

Lu Yunkai simply took out two bottles of medicine from the system.

****

"Lu Yun's registration was successful just now, did you know?"

"What he drank should be a powerful confusion potion, which made himself and the age group believe that he was you, and then successfully threw his name into the Goblet of Fire. As for how he deceived the Goblet of Fire, I don't know. . Don’t worry, I didn’t give him the powerful confounding potion.”

"Of course! For someone who can prepare the Skyfire Potion and the Powerful Curse-Removing Potion, the Powerful Confusion Potion should be no problem. But there is one thing you said wrong. He did not deceive the Goblet of Fire because there was no need. After all, the Goblet of Fire It’s a magic item that has been around for so long. It’s impossible for me to modify its origin... He probably thought of a way to modify the Goblet of Fire itself, so he took corresponding measures. Of course, it’s a bit redundant.”

"...Your Excellency, Principal, I don't think this is something that can be said with a smile."

Snape's face darkened.

Dumbledore, sitting opposite him, had a playful smile on his face.

"Severus, you really taught a good student. Tom is not even as thoughtful as him at his age! I suddenly began to feel that maybe it is not reasonable for the Ministry of Magic to cut the age of seventeen across the board. suggestions.”

"...You want to elect him as the representative of Hogwarts?"

"It's not my choice, it's the Goblet of Fire. Just like the Sorting Hat has the right to send students to any house it wants, this is something I can't interfere with. So I think the Ministry of Magic shouldn't interfere either." Dumbledore shook his head. Shaking his head, "Although Cedric is really a very, very good kid..."

"Digory is the most outstanding student at Hogwarts right now."

"But he is definitely not as good as Lu Yunkai in your eyes, right?" Dumbledore still smiled, "I just want to remind you that if he is really selected to participate in the competition, you have to do him a favor. I always feel that This year’s game is a little weird.”

"...You don't need to tell me, I understand." Snape nodded expressionlessly.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door of the principal's office.

"It should be Minister Bagman who is here. I think he may want me to explain the registration." Dumbledore had a smile on his face.

"Then please explain to him slowly." Snape nodded and exited the room.