v4 Chapter 61： ice

"Is this Rubeus Hagrid?"

"That's right." Dumbledore smiled and brought the shy Hegra to his side, and introduced the animal expert to Madame Maxime.

Madam Maxime was originally worried that ordinary people couldn't handle her own horses, but after seeing Hagrid's size, most of her worries went away.

She said to Hagrid very lightly: "I'm really bothering you, my horse only drinks single malt whisky."

"No problem." Hagrid responded excitedly. He wanted to say something more, but Madam Maxime closed her mouth and stood silently on the side. Hagrid could only obediently go to work.

After a while, a very loud and strange sound suddenly appeared in the black lake, something like a suppressed rumbling and sucking sound, as if a huge vacuum cleaner was moving on the riverbed.

Here comes Durmstrang's team.

"Look at the lake!" cried Fred's friend Lee Jordan.

At this time, huge waves swelled up on the calm Black Lake, smashing the reflection of the sunset, and a large whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake. A long mast rose from the center of the whirlpool and circled around the whirlpool. Eventually, a large boat appeared on the lake.

"Ghost ship!" This was Tom's first impression of Durmstrang's ship. If a boat is a human being, Durmstrang's boat looks like a skeleton at first glance. It is like a wreck soaked in the water, the hull is wet, and there are many moss and seaweed. But the dim, misty light in the porthole proved that there were still people moving in the hull.

After the hull emerged completely, it began to head towards the shore.

Tom took a step forward, attracting everyone's attention. Dumbledore, seeing this, also retracted his hand into his sleeve and secretly clenched his elder wand.

"Atmospheric-!" Tom raised his staff high and called out the name of his magic spell - Weather Magic Ice.

Tom's face turned white with a swipe as the staff slammed into the grass, and this spell was much more expensive than the previous weather spells, because the weather wasn't freezing yet—in fact , The Black Lake at Hogwarts is an unfrozen lake, even in the cold winter, the Black Lake never freezes.

Now Tom wants to freeze the surface of Black Lake, which is almost against the sky, so the consumption of this spell is also extremely terrifying. After the spell was cast, the magic power flowed from Tom's body like a low tide, and the huge consumption made Tom roll his eyes and almost fainted.

A streak of hoarfrost spread straight out from under Tom's feet, extending to the edge of the black lake. In an instant, a layer of hoarfrost appeared on the surface of the Black Lake, and the white steam rose up.

While Tom chanted the spell, Dumbledore's lips moved slightly, and he quietly cast a freezing spell on the side to help Tom deepen the ice layer on the lake.

The lake was frosty at first, and by the time Durmstrang's boat docked, a layer of ice had formed on the edge of Black Lake. The ice spread rapidly, surrounding Durmstrang's ship. In the end, the magic of Tom and Dumbledore created a hundred meters long, tens of meters wide, and five feet thick ice belt on the edge of Black Lake, freezing Durmstrang's ship on the ice. .

Durmstrang's teachers and students seemed to have noticed the abnormality, and they all gathered around the ship's side to watch the magnificent scene.

"Excellent Freezing Charm." Madame Maxime couldn't help applauding.

Tom insisted on replying: "Unfortunately, my magic power is not enough to freeze the entire Black Lake."

Madam Maxime looked at the vast Black Lake, and she was speechless: She wanted to freeze the entire lake, how powerful is the magic, I'm afraid even Dumbledore can't do it?

Fortunately, I and Dumbledore set an age limit in advance, preventing this teenager from participating in the competition. If he can play, what's the matter with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang?

At this time Durmstrang's teachers and students also moved. They first threw the anchor into the lake and then put a plank on the ice.

A burly figure carefully walked from the plank onto the ice surface, and signaled his companions to come down after confirming that the ice surface was firm. When they all went ashore and walked along the lawn into the light, everyone realized that the reason why these people looked burly was because they were covered with tangled fur cloaks, which made their bodies two yards out of thin air.

The leader of Durmstrang teachers and students wore a silver-white fur cloak, and the fur on the cloak was smooth and smooth.

"Professor Karkaroff, you are finally here." Dumbledore stood at the front of the line, waiting for Karkaroff to come.

Durmstrang's leader was Karkaroff who had fled to Japan before. But somehow, he returned to Durmstrang and continued to lead this prestigious European school.

Karkaroff's voice was very sweet, and he also responded enthusiastically to Dumbledore's greeting: "Oh, Dumbledore, my dear old friend, we haven't seen each other for too long! May Merlin bless you. , your body is still healthy!"

Karkaroff's tone was very enthusiastic, but his eyes were extremely empty, like an emotionless machine, and even a little "fake one eye".

Facing Karkaroff's greetings, Dumbledore's reaction was very flat, which was very different from his attitude towards Madam Maxime.

"Can we enter the castle - great Freezing Charm When Karkaroff walked up to Dumbledore, he naturally saw Tom with a staff. Now he understood why the lake There was ice on top, so Karkaroff turned his head and said something to Tom in a friendly way.

Karkaroff didn't say that, Dumbledore would also invite both parties to enter the castle, so he waved his hand, indicating that everyone can go back.

In this way, Mrs. Maxime took the lead in leading her students to the castle, Karkaroff followed, and when Durmstrang's team moved, there was a suppressed shock in the Hogwarts phalanx. Huh: The student at the forefront of Durmstrang's team, closely following Karkaroff, is Viktor Krum, who has just made his mark in the Quidditch World Cup final.

After the two waves of guests entered the castle, the little wizards of Hogwarts set off.

Tom could hear the students discussing Krum in the back.

"My God, it's Krum!"

"I know!"

"Ah! I didn't even bring a quill. Do you think he would sign my hat with lipstick?" Some fanatical female fans were already thinking about signing an autograph.

Krum's popularity was slightly inferior to that of Lockhart back then.

"Harry, did you bring a quill? If possible, I'd like to get a signed photo of him too..." Tom heard Ron chatting excitedly with Harry behind him.

"It's boring and ridiculous, isn't it?" Hermione caught up with Tom. It was obvious that she really wanted to complain about what she had just seen and heard.

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It's really good night now.

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