v4 Chapter 44： Guests come

The notice that appeared in the entrance hall had a significant impact on the people living in the castle.

In the next week, no matter where Schelling went, people seemed to only talk about one topic: the Triwizard Tournament.

Rumors spread quickly among the students, like highly contagious bacteria: who would fight to be a warrior at Hogwarts, what events will be available in the competition, and what have the students of Boothbatton and Durmstrand have with them different.

Schelling also noticed that the castle seemed to be undergoing a thorough cleaning. Several dirty portraits were scrubbed clean, and those who were scrubbed were very dissatisfied with it. They curled up and sat in the frame, muttering glumly, grinning with pain every time they touched the newly exposed pink tender flesh on their faces. Those armors suddenly became shiny, and no longer crunched when they were moving.

Filch became furious when he saw a student forgot to clean his shoes, and scared the two first-year girls into hysterics.

The other faculty members also seemed extremely nervous.

"Gore, Crabbe, please do your best, don't show your stuff in front of Durmstrang's people, let them see that you don't even master a simple conversion spell!" When class is about to end, Professor McGonagall roared sharply. The class was not going well, and both the young and the second fools grafted their ears to a cactus.

Time just came to October 30th.

When they went downstairs for breakfast that morning, they found that the auditorium was decorated overnight.

Huge silk banners hung on the wall, each representing a Hogwarts college: Gryffindor with a red background and a golden lion, Ravenclaw with a blue background and a bronze eagle, and a yellow background. The one with a black badger is Hufflepuff, and the one with a green background and a silver python is Slytherin. Behind the faculty desk, the largest banner hung, above it was the Hogwarts school badge: the lion, eagle, badger, and snake were joined together, surrounded by a large letter H.

On this day, for the whole day, no one has learned anything.

After finally getting through the afternoon, the students quickly put on robes and came to the hall. The deans of the colleges are ordering their students to line up. While the other three academies were in a mess, the little wizards of Slytherin had already lined up in an orderly manner.

The students filed down the steps and stood in line in front of the castle.

It was a cold and fresh evening. The night was approaching, and a white, translucent moon had hung over the Forbidden Forest. According to the previous statement, the students of Boothbatten and Durmstrang will arrive on time at six o'clock.

Just a minute before six o’clock, Dumbledore’s voice sounded from behind the crowd, “If I’m not mistaken, the representative of Boothbarton has arrived!”

A behemoth, much bigger than a flying broomstick—or a hundred flying broomsticks—is flying quickly across the deep blue sky, flying towards the castle, and gradually getting bigger and bigger.

When the black behemoth passed over the treetops of the Forbidden Forest and was illuminated by the light from the castle window, they saw a huge pink-blue carriage flying towards them. It was the size of a house, and twelve winged horses flew into the air. They were all silver-maned horses, and each horse was about the same size as an elephant.

The carriage flew lower and was landing at an extremely fast speed. The students standing in the first three rows hurriedly backed up—then, there was a loud noise, and the horses’ hoofs banged to the ground, and all of them had vegetables. The plate is that big. In the blink of an eye, the carriage also landed on the ground, shaking on the huge wheels, and at the same time the golden horses shook their huge heads, and their big red eyes were spinning round and round.

On the door of the carriage, you can see the coat of arms of the Boothbarton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: two golden crossed wands, and three stars appear on each wand. A woman about the same height as Hagrid walked out of the carriage—Ms. Olim Maxim, the principal of Boothbatten School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Then twelve young male and female students got off the carriage and stood behind Ms. Maxim.

Judging from their appearance, they are all about eighteen or nineteen years old, and all of them are trembling slightly. This is not surprising, because the robes on them seem to be made of delicate silk, and no one wears a cloak. Several students wrapped their heads in scarves or turbans. They all looked up at Hogwarts, with trembling expressions on their faces.

Xie Lin sighed slightly. Isn’t it common sense to check the local climate and temperature before going out for a long trip? The IQ of this group of wizards is worrying!

Even if you deliberately choose silk robes to show off your French clothing taste, you can also add a thermostat function! Constant temperature clothing is not a high-end and expensive item. As a representative of a school, every move and manners represent the image and glory of the school. Shaking in the cold for a good-looking dress will not make people feel this. Is there a problem with the group representative?

Dumbledore and Maxim talked quietly for a while, and then directed the Hogwarts students to open a passage so that Boothbatten’s delegation could enter the castle first.

After another half an hour, even the Hogwarts students began to tremble from the cold.

Schelling, Daphne, and Astoria looked at the trembling others nonchalantly. The two sisters had already put on the thermostatic robes that Schelling bought for them. They also attached many functions intimately, although they were more It's not the supreme wizard's robe, but it's also a unique high-end item. Of course, Murray, who is in the Ravenclaw team, also has a set, so she is also the envied existence of Ravenclaw.

Draco drew out his wand and quickly cast the "Chilling Curse" on the people around him, which made them feel a little better.

Xie Lin narrowed his eyes slightly. The "Chilling Curse" is not difficult to learn, but it is a very unpopular spell. In the original book, even with Hermione’s erudition, she didn’t learn it. She used the "ColdFire" to keep warm. The principle was to transform a small blue flame into a small bottle and put it in a small bottle. Keep yourself warm.

Draco's performance made Schelling more and more incomprehensible.

Sometimes, Schelling felt like Draco was a different person. Whether it was his scheming or strength, he had this illusion. But sometimes, Draco would turn back to the kind of naive, pushy, yelling, okay looking for trouble, and normal strength.

At this moment, a very loud and weird sound floated towards them from the darkness—a suppressed rumbling and sucking sound, like a huge submarine moving along the shore.

The students were standing on the lawn **** overlooking the field, and they could clearly see the calm and dark water surface of the Black Lake-ripples began to appear on the water first, and then there was a sudden commotion, turning up huge waves, and the waves crashed. Along the damp lakeshore.

At the center of the lake, a large whirlpool appeared, as if a huge plug was suddenly pulled out from the bottom of the lake.

A black long rod slowly rises from the whirlpool, and then the sail rigging...

Slowly, a magnificent ship rose out of the water, shining in the moonlight. It looks weird, like a skeleton, as if it were the remains of a sunken ship that had just been salvaged. The porthole shone with dim, misty light, and it looked like ghost eyes. Finally, with the sound of splashing water, the big boat came out completely, bumping on the undulating water surface, and began to sail towards the shore of the lake.

This is the legendary ghost ship!

Ghost Ship, a legendary alchemy item with a great reputation, it is as famous as the three gods of death, the stone of the sage, and the magic mirror of Eris.

Schelling observed the ship with piercing eyes. As far as he knew, the ghost ship is a very high-end alchemical product. There are two ghost ships like this in the wizarding world in the world, except for Durmstrang. In addition, the other is the "Flying Dutchman" (FlyingDutchman), who wanders around the Caribbean Sea and wanders around the Caribbean Sea.

This is not just an ordinary means of transportation. It has extremely strong and comprehensive combat capabilities. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mobile fortress.

Schelling once heard that in the early nineteenth century, the "Flying Dutchman" was favored by a senior member of the Magic Congress of the United States. He once led a group of outstanding Aurors in an ambush at sea, but did not even see the master. A cannon fired by one of the opponent's magic cannons frightened and retreated without a fight.

And Schelling has always suspected that the ghost ship actually has the ability to fly into the air, otherwise why is it named "Flying Dutchman"?

Even if Schelling’s guess is wrong, the ghost ship cannot be lifted off, but it is still a great masterpiece.

Take the ghost ship Durmstrang as an example, it can at least move its shape over a long distance by using the water surface as a medium. Based on Schelling's knowledge of space magic, he can see that the principle is estimated to be similar to the Floo Net, except that the medium has been changed from fire to water.

This alone is actually not simple. Most of the ground in this world is covered by water. It can move on any water surface, indicating that there are more places to go, and it can also be transported through a large area of ​​water like a freshwater lake. Large-volume objects. In contrast, Floo Network doesn't even know if it can transmit Hagrid!

Well, this seems to be a very good research topic. Xie Lin suddenly thought-in the original work, it seems that Hagrid only mentioned flying motorcycles and rider buses. Could it be that Hagrid couldn't use the Floo network at all?

Putting aside the advantage of convenience, the "Flying Dutchman" can be lawless at sea for so long, and obviously has a movement method that the Ministry of Magic cannot monitor. In this case, the ghost ship’s shape-shifting technology is completely out of the Floo network-so in addition to convenience, UU reading also has the advantage of concealment.

This is why, even today, the magical regimes of various countries still have nothing to do with the "flying Dutchman", and even the identity of its owner is still just a mystery.

In contrast, Karkaroff is too stupid, sitting on Baoshan and not good at using it. If he can develop followers who are loyal to him among the students, relying on this ship alone and only wanting to escape, I am afraid that Voldemort, who can track the Mark of the Dark Devil, will not be so easy to kill him.

He doesn’t usually know how to imperial, and it is rare to take the top group of students abroad to communicate with other magic schools. This is a great opportunity to build a relationship between teachers and students, but he chooses to enjoy himself in the cabin and let the students. We acted as coolies and sailed the boat. No wonder no student felt sorry for him after his accident.

Well, it can be said that the only problem with the ghost ship is the operation problem. This is obviously not an alchemical item that can be operated by one person. From the situation of Durmstrang, at least twelve people are required to control it freely.

After the ghost ship anchored and stopped, thirteen representatives of Durmstrang, wearing thick fur cloaks, walked slowly out of the cabin. An old man with white hair and goatee in the front, enthusiastically shook hands with Dumbledore-it seemed that he was the headmaster Igor Karkaroff.

As the Durmstrang students approached, it caused a small sensation in the Hogwarts crowd. Obviously, someone recognized that the Durmstrang student behind Karkaroff was the famous chaser Viktor Krum of the Bulgarian national team.

After Dumbledore and Karkaroff finished their greetings, the little wizards who had been half-dead could finally return to the warm hall.