v4 Chapter 22： Opening Ceremony

The school day came soon.

Schelling shared the same carriage with Daphne and Astoria. There was one less person in the carriage, and a seat was vacant. Several people felt a little uncomfortable.

Before entering the carriage, Schelling saw Draco, Gore, Crabbe, and Pansy in the aisle and greeted them.

In the carriage, Xie Lin looked preoccupied and frowned, as if thinking about something.

"What's wrong, Brother Xie Lin?" Astoria asked.

"It's nothing..." Xie Lin shook his head, as if driving away some thought in his mind.

He felt an abnormality in Draco. A long time ago, when he first awakened the Eye of Magic, he had seen a similar abnormality.

He saw some weird gray-black shadows on Lucius's magic power. At the time, he thought it was because his father had magic powers that did not belong to him (the dark mark left by Voldemort on him). Now he saw a similar gray-black shadow on Draco. What did this show?

He felt an uncomfortable feeling in his heart when he thought that his family was hiding something from him.

He didn't think that family members should not have their own secrets. For example, he himself concealed a lot from his family members. However, this time, he had a very bad premonition faintly in his heart, and the gray-black shadow made him very jealous.

The spiritual and soul magic cultivation bases have reached the level of Schelling. He already has a keen intuition that ordinary people don't have, and he believes that his feelings can't go wrong.

"Schelling, do you know? I heard that Gallup Lestrange has applied for a leave of absence. This time the Lestrange family has lost the most important direct descendant (he was removed from the family tree when he became a werewolf). It can be said to have gone to the end of the loss of a large number of people." Daphne knew the grudge between Schelling and them, and said with some glee.

Xie Lin sighed, and said without sigh: "If you count Mei, the so-called sacred 28 pure-blood family has two more withered families... the pure-blood family can no longer withstand much toss..."

What he didn't say is that what will be waiting in front of the pure-blood family is probably only more turbulence...

Before Gallup was turned into a werewolf, the memory in his mind had already been cleaned up by Batori's hypnotic magic and Annis's nightmare magic, and this memory was washed away. On the same front as Gallup, there are Miles Black of the Black family, and the chief envoy behind the two of them-Irina Selwyn, the female prefect of the Selwyn family.

A chill flashed in his eyes, and then it was their turn.

In the auditorium, freshmen in the first grade are lining up, waiting to accept the sorting arrangement of the sorting hat.

Slytherin's long table, Gemma Farley and Marcus Flint have both graduated.

The new Quidditch captain is Draco. The newly elected chiefs are Terence Higgs and a female dragon set chief.

At the sorting ceremony, Slytherin admitted Malcolm Bardock, Graham Pritchard, Emma Dobbs, etc.; Schelling did not notice particularly outstanding characters. Slytherin also happened to have no members of any powerful family.

Instead, it was a short boy from Ravenclaw who caught Schelling’s attention. His name was Gabriel Cresway. It didn’t sound like he came from a long-established magical family, but Schelling was right somehow. This surname felt familiar--ah, when I was reading the Daily Prophet on the train today, I seemed to have seen the small news that Dirk Creswell was promoted to the director of the Fairy Liaison Office of the Ministry of Magic yesterday.

Schelling remembered that Dirk Cresway is a character in the original book. He is very talented, knows how to speak fairy language, and is very appreciated by Slughorn. He is a member of the innermost circle of the Slug Club and often informs Slughorn about some inside stories in Gringotts.

Schelling often communicated with Slughorn during the summer vacation. The two went back and forth, and they had established a strong relationship, so they knew some important people in the slug club. According to Slahhorn’s information, Dirk Cresway had two sons. The eldest had just reached the enrollment grade this year. It seemed that Gabriel was his eldest son.

There is an empty seat on the teacher's desk.

"Schelling, do you know who is the new teacher for this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts class?" Daphne asked.

The other people sitting nearby pricked their ears to listen intently. Who doesn't know, Xie Lin is one of the members of the faculty recruitment committee, he naturally has the priority to know the right.

Daphne's father actually knew it, but Daphne never asked. She thought she would know it naturally when she came to school, but she didn't expect to see an empty seat, so she asked.

"It's Crazy Eye Moody." Xie Lin replied lightly.

"What?" Many of the little wizards present couldn't help but exclaimed.

Crazy Eye Moody is a retired Auror. He is very famous. It is said that half of the cells in Azkaban were filled by him. He arrested almost all the notorious dark wizards. Many of the families of the little Slytherin wizards are related to the Death Eaters, so the name of Crazy Eye Moody is extremely deterrent for them.

Draco's eyes flashed with a sharp light, but his face was dissatisfied, and he complained: "It's not that I said you, Schelling, since you are a member of the faculty appointment committee and have the power to veto the appointment of faculty, how can you Let Mad Eye Moody's madman pass the selection?"

How shrewd Schelling was, coupled with the ability to see Amaterasu, the change in Draco's eyes completely fell into his eyes. There was bitterness in his heart. Draco made it clear that he was complaining, but he was actually attacking his prestige in the Slytherin!

If Schelling voted for Mad Eye Moody to pass the selection, it would undoubtedly chill the hearts of many pure-blooded children. If Schelling said that he was unable to prevent Mad Eye Moody from becoming a professor, this would undoubtedly reveal that Schelling's ability was not as strong as everyone thought.

Such a short sentence put Schelling in a dilemma. Is this... really Draco?

Not to mention that Draco and his brotherhood for so many years are by no means a fake, when did Draco, a little kid be so scheming?

Schelling suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart forcibly, and said with a natural smile: "Don't worry, there is a reason for Mad Eye Moody to teach. Dumbledore persuaded him with a reason that no one can refuse. I-many of you may know that this year's Triwizard Tournament, regardless of the character of Mad Eye Moody, his strength is beyond doubt, he will serve as the defense against the Dark Arts. Class professors can increase the chances of winning for our school’s players."

"Don't forget, we Slytherin have performed the best in the past few semesters. If nothing happens—" Schelling's smile revealed strong confidence. "This time, it is also one of our Slytherin's efforts to strive for glory. Great opportunity!"

"Yes! Xie Lin, what you said makes sense..."

"We are so stupid that we never thought of this..."

Several little Slytherin wizards suddenly realized that they all agreed with what Xie Lin said.

The new prefect Terence also relied on saying, "By the way, if Schelling sign up, I think you have a great chance of being selected as the representative player of Hogwarts." Terence's words won most of the nearby The little wizard agrees.

The conversation ended after Dumbledore stood up and gave a speech. Schelling undertook the prestige crisis hidden in this conversation.

After the branching ceremony, Dumbledore stood up and gave a speech. In addition to the annual school rules, he went on to say: "I also regret to tell everyone that the College Cup Quidditch will not be held this year."

"What?" Draco was breathless in surprise. He turned to look at his Quidditch teammates Monta and Warrington. They all opened their mouths and stared at Dumbledore silently, as if speechless in surprise.

Schelling's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and now this Draco's behavior made him more and more unpredictable.

Dumbledore continued: "This is because a large event will begin in October and will last the entire school year, occupying a lot of the teachers' time and energy-but I believe you can all have a lot of fun. I I am very happy to announce to everyone that this year at Hogwarts—"

"This is probably the Triwizard Tournament that Dad said before... but I never thought that this event would last the entire school year. It's too exaggerated!" Draco said disappointedly, because it represented his Quidditch The status of Captain Qi will not be changed until the next semester.

Just then, there was a deafening thunder, and the door of the auditorium slammed open.

A man stood at the door, leaning on a long cane, wrapped in a black travel cloak. The people in the auditorium turned their heads to look at the stranger, a forked lightning flashed across the ceiling, and everyone gasped in air.

The lightning illuminates the man’s face very vividly. It is a very terrifying face. It is like being carved out of a piece of rotten wood, and the sculptor has only a vague concept of how the face should be. The use of carving knives is not very good either.

Every inch of skin on his face seemed to be scarred, his mouth was like a big slanted mouth, but the place where his nose should be raised was missing, and the most frightening thing about this man was his eyes.

One of his eyes is small, black and shiny, and the other eye is big, round like a coin, and it is a bright blue. The blue eye kept moving without blinking, turning up and down, left and right, completely irrelevant to the normal eye. Later, the blue eyeball turned over and got into the person's head. Everyone could only see a big white eyeball.

The little wizards all covered their mouths with their hands, and looked at the man who had just broken in in fear. His impression fully matches the image of the most terrifying villain in everyone's mind, like a dangerous dark wizard.

"Allow me to introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts class teacher," Dumbledore broke the silence happily, "Professor Moody."

Normally, when the new teacher meets with everyone, everyone will applaud and welcome, but now, apart from Dumbledore and Hagrid, no teacher or student applauds.

Dumbledore and Hagrid slapped a few chins, and found that the applause echoed in the silent auditorium seemingly lonely, so he put down his hands with interest. The others seemed to be stunned by Moody's weird appearance, just staring at him intently.

Moody seemed indifferent to everyone's cold reaction. He ignored the large can of pumpkin juice in front of him, but reached into his travel cloak, took out a curved wine bottle, and took a big sip.

"Schelin, what's the matter with you?" Daphne asked caringly.

shouldn't be, Daphne was puzzled by Schelling's lack of reaction. Moody's face was indeed a bit scary for the little wizards, but for Schelling's mind, there shouldn't be such a big reaction. Who is Schelling? He is a man who dared to hold on to hundreds of dementors, a man who can calmly deal with the resurrected feather snake statue, what is Moody's compared to them?

What she didn't know was that in Schelling's eyes, Moody's body exuded a violent black aura, and he recognized this aura almost instantly. This is the shadow of the magic dragon!

What? Where is Batty? Who is this "Moody"? What about the good plot benefits?

Dumbledore cleared his throat. "As I said just now," he said, smiling at the many students in front of him, "In the next few months, we will be very honored to host a very exciting event. This event has not been held for more than a century. I am very happy to tell you that the Triwizard Tournament will be held in Hogwarts this year."

Ever since Moody entered the door, the tension in the auditorium has been shrouded, and it was suddenly broken, and almost everyone laughed.

The students who were born in the wizarding family all know more or less about the Triwizard Hegemony. They may not know the exact details, but they all know that this is one of the three major honors belonging to students in the international wizarding world.

The other two honors are the "Witcher Inter-School Potions Championship" and the "Cairo International Alchemy Conference". Compared with the first two, the Triwizard Tournament, which can highlight the actual combat ability and courage, is undoubtedly more popular among young wizards. welcome.

Those Muggle-born students were also rushing to inquire, and after knowing what the Triwizard Tournament was all about, they were all amazed and talked with excitement.

Dumbledore knew that some students had never heard of the Triwizard Tournament, so he explained: "The Triwizard Tournament is a kind of between Hogwarts, Boothbatten, and Durmstrang among the three magic schools in Europe. Friendship competition, each school selects a warrior, and then three warriors compete in three magic projects. This is a very good platform to show and help young wizards from different countries to establish friendship. It has become a tradition in the past, but Later, there were too many deathsThe Triwizard Tournament was interrupted."

"Over the centuries, people have tried several times to resume the championship," Dumbledore continued, "but none of them were successful. However, the Department of International Cooperation and Sports of the Ministry of Magic thinks it's time to try again. It has matured. We have done a lot of work this summer to ensure that every warrior will not endanger his life."

"In October, the principals of Boothbatten and Durmstrang will lead the competitors to come, and the selection ceremony of the warriors will be held on Halloween. An impartial referee will select three warriors to compete for the top three cups. To win honors for their own schools, individuals can also receive a thousand gallons of bonus."

"I know you are all eager to win the Triwizard Trophy for Hogwarts," he said. "However, the participating schools and the Ministry of Magic agreed that there should be an age limit for this year's competitors. Only 17 years of age or older. Only allowed to register."

Dumbledore raised his voice slightly, because some people protested in anger after hearing what he said, "This measure is very necessary, because the competition is still very difficult and dangerous. The students under the sixth and seventh grades are It's impossible to deal with it."

(Note: 17-year-old represents adulthood in the wizarding world. This is not only reflected in the magic, but also in the maturity of the mind)

"The delegation of Boothbatten and Durmstrang will arrive in October and spend most of the school year with us. During their stay here, I hope you will all be warm and friendly, and Once the Hogwarts warriors are finally selected, you will support them wholeheartedly. Okay, it's not early. It is very important for you to walk into class tomorrow morning vigorously and lucidly. Go to bed! Hurry up!"