Chapter 333: Pageant results

Chapter 333: Pageant results

Newt bombarded Nick with various strange questions for the next thirty minutes until it was finally time for breakfast at which point he reluctantly left. While Nick didn't mind sharing what he knew of Nazgul with the man he had trouble keeping up with some of the questions. For example Newt asked how many feathers she had as if it was a totally normal thing to sit down and count them. Sure Nick understood that the man was being thorough but this was plain weird. Breakfast went much like the previous two meals with Nick eating a large sum of food before leaving for the pageant area.-

The area had been changed from the sort of fair-ish like set up to a wide open field with various objects and walkways throughout it. Nick merely needed to look over each of the objects to figure out what they were used for. 'They were certainly thorough with the tests they set up.' he thought impressed. it was very comprehensive as their was seven different types of strength testers , speed testers , magical ability testers and various miscellaneous other tools for testing unique aspects. All in all the competition was about as fair as possible at this stage for judging the best beast.-This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

All of the participants for the pageant were given a badge with a number on it to show them when they could come out onto the field and show off their beasts abilities. Nick was the only participant given two badges due to having two different beasts competing in the pageant. For Dusk he had the number thirty four and for Nazgul the number one hundred four which was towards the end of the pageant. It was at this time that the participants got to finally see who the judges were since they were hidden in the previous part.-

Madam Maxime , Dumbledore , Martin Dumont , Apolline Delacour and Newt Scamander made up the judges and were sitting comfortably at a table chatting. Nick could feel his eyebrow twitch at the line up as at least three of the five judges were people he has interacted with to a slightly personal degree in some manner. Dumbledore is in almost constant contact with him , Newt was in love with magical creatures and thus eagerly chatted and felt comfortable around Nick and Apolline Delacour was a veela and thus subject to his avian dominion. The only true neutral judges were Madam Maxime and Martin Dumont.-

Martin Dumont was a interesting individual to have as a judge in this competition considering his expertise was in dueling. in fact during the height of Voldemorts rein years back the man was the three time champion of the global dueling tournament. The best part though was that the man had a raging hatred for the death eaters under Voldemort after they stole his infant child to use as Blackmail but ended up killing it. There was no evidence found but the three death eaters responsible went missing a year after that incident and all fingers pointed at this man.