Study Days at Hogwarts

Albert bypassed the crowded students, walked into the auditorium, and sat down at the Gryffindor table.

At this moment, many seats in the auditorium are still empty, and a large number of students are crowding at the door looking for Krum's autograph. Mr. Star was also very depressed because he found that the students at Hogwarts seemed to know that he would come, and actually prepared quills and parchment for him to sign in advance.

Krum actually wanted to refuse, but he finally signed autographs for the enthusiastic girls one by one. It was not until Durmstrang finally chose to sit down at the Slytherin table that he finally got rid of the enthusiastic fans. them.

Beauxbatons did not have this problem. They chose to sit down at the Ravenclaw table. Albert thought this might be related to the corresponding banner on the Ravenclaw table. There was no doubt that Beauxbatons They prefer blue, which can be seen from their carriages and school badges.

"Look at Professor McGonagall's expression!" Shanna gestured to Albert to look at the teacher's seat.

At this moment, Professor McGonagall's face was gloomy. She felt embarrassed that the Hogwarts students asked Krum for his autograph. The other professors' expressions were also unnatural.

Only Dumbledore was not affected, still smiling and chatting with Madame Maxime on his left.

"I got Klum's autograph." Lee Jordan excitedly announced the good news to everyone after sitting down next to Albert.

"Thank you for being able to get Krum's autograph. Those girls are crowded over there. It's really annoying." Fred was a little annoyed. He and George were blocked by the group of girls and couldn't get it. Klum's signature.

"Don't worry, Krum still needs to stay at Hogwarts for a long time. You always have a chance to get his autograph." Albert comforted casually.

After all the students were seated, the welcome banquet officially began. As usual, Dumbledore would give a short speech.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts, and distinguished guests," Dumbledore stood up from his seat at the teacher's desk, and the auditorium gradually became quiet. "Welcome to Hogwarts. I hope and trust that you will find yourself comfortable and happy here."

"The Triwizard Tournament will officially begin at the end of the banquet." Dumbledore raised his glass to everyone and said, "Now let us eat and drink to our heart's content, just like at home!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the plates in front of them were piled with food as usual. There were more types of food, and there were many delicacies from other countries, mainly France and Italy. The Hogwarts recipes were because of Albert The relationship between house elves has increased a lot.

"If I were you, I would try those new dishes." Albert pointed to the new dishes.

"Is it tasty?"

Fred imitated Albert and made himself a bowl of French bouillabaisse. Most people were somewhat averse to food they had never eaten before.

"The new dishes are undoubtedly prepared for our foreign friends. I dare say they will not be used to the food at Hogwarts." Albert was actually right, especially for Beauxbatons students. It’s hard to describe some of the dishes at Hogwarts.

"Why?" Aaliya asked puzzledly.

"There are several great gourmet countries in the world, and France is one of them. When you stay in a country like that, you will naturally have higher requirements for food."

"Actually, I'm more curious that the house elves at Hogwarts can actually make pizza?" After finishing her bowl of French fish soup, Zannah picked up a piece of Italian pizza filled with cheese.

"Well, I sent some recipes to the house elves in the kitchen last time."

There is absolutely no pizza in Hogwarts, and Albert is very suspicious that the house elf Bitt taught the house elves at Hogwarts the recipes he learned.

"I think it's because you want to eat, so you give recipes to the house elves in the kitchen at Christmas." George couldn't help but complain. In fact, they had eaten pizza made by the house elves a long time ago, and they also had seafood pasta. They all took advantage of Albert's late-night snack, and everyone gained some weight.

"It's exactly like what you would do." Zannah didn't find it strange, maybe because she also came from a Muggle family, and many of their views were different from those of wizards born in the magical world.

"I agree with you, these foreign dishes taste really good."

After a while, several plates of foreign dishes were cleared, and even the last piece of pizza went into Lee Jordan's stomach. On the contrary, there were still a lot of ordinary Hogwarts dishes left.

"Look over there, the girl seems to be coming this way." Lee Jordan touched Albert with his elbow and motioned him to look up at the beauty.

"She's really coming this way. I think she must know Albert." Fred and George's eyes widened in surprise.

When Albert raised his head, he saw a beautiful silver-haired girl coming from not far away, stood in front of him, and said to Albert in fluent French: "Do you still want to eat this plate of mixed fish soup? "

Albert looked around and pushed the plate to the other party: "You can take it, and welcome to Hogwarts."

"She's so pretty."

"There are no such beautiful girls at Hogwarts!"

The girls were obviously annoyed by what they just said, and they sneered rudely: "You just stare at others stupidly like this, you look like a bunch of idiots."

When the silver-haired girl passed by, many boys turned their heads and looked at her stupidly. However, what pleased the girls was that Albert was not affected by the other party and was not attracted by the other party's appearance at all.

"Do you know her?" Alia asked curiously.

"I've seen it before, but I'm not familiar with it." Albert paused and added, "Her name is Fleur Delacour. She is said to be a very good wizard. I think she should be the champion of Beauxbatons. ."

"I didn't expect you to speak so highly of her." Angelina was a little unhappy. The girls didn't like that woman.

"I think she just wanted to seduce you." Shanna said suddenly.

"She has met Isobel and knows that I have a girlfriend." Albert shrugged: "Besides, it is useless even if she seduce me."

"You have a really wide range of friends." Fred said bitterly: "The two American girls at the last World Cup were also very beautiful."

"Those two met at the Potions Championship. One of them is Isobel's pen pal, a very good relationship." Albert noticed that dessert had arrived after the meal.

"What is this?" George asked, pointing to a piece of white milk jelly, and helped Albert change the subject.

"It should be panna cotta." Albert noticed a lot of sweets on the table.

"Which one is more delicious?" Shanna asked.

"I personally recommend the French toasted brûlée." Albert pointed to a dessert and said: "It tastes a bit like caramel pudding, but the texture will be richer, and the Italian fresh panna cotta also tastes very good."

Albert got himself a French toasted bruschetta and began to taste it slowly.

After finishing the sweets, everyone looked at Dumbledore, and a mood of excitement and nervousness gradually filled the auditorium.

After the food on the golden plate completely disappeared, the banquet officially ended.

Dumbledore stood up again in the expectant eyes of everyone, first introduced Barty Crouch, Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Magic, and Ludo Bagman, Director of the Department of Sports and Sports of the Ministry of Magic, and announced The two of them and the three principals formed the judging panel for the Triwizard Tournament.

Barty Crouch was not doing well and looked tired, no doubt the aftereffects of being under the Imperius Curse for so long. Ludo Bagman also smiled reluctantly. He failed to repay the money as scheduled last month, which led to the goblin finding his temporary residence. The goblin took away all his salary within a few days of receiving it.

"I think this judging panel is very unreliable. Dumbledore may be able to be fair, but the principals of other schools will definitely favor their own players," Zannah said, doubting whether the judging panel could be fair.

"This is also part of the tradition of the Triwizard Tournament." Albert was not surprised at all by this result.

While the two were chatting, Filch, who had been hiding somewhere since before, placed a large wooden box inlaid with jewels in front of Dumbledore.

Everyone's eyes fell on the rough wooden goblet that Dumbledore took out of the wooden box, and they held their breath for fear of missing every word Dumbledore said next.

"Every student who wants to run for a warrior must write his name and school name on a piece of parchment and throw it into this Goblet of Fire." After Dumbledore introduced everyone to the method of becoming a warrior.

Looking at the wooden cup burning with blue and white flames in front of them, the students began to whisper.

"Tonight, I will place the Goblet of Fire in the hall. All students who are willing to participate in the election can put their names in. Remember, students who want to become warriors must sign up within twenty-four hours." Lido raised his hand and pressed it, signaling everyone to keep quiet: "Tomorrow night, which is Halloween night, the Goblet of Fire will select the warriors from three schools."

Dumbledore waited for everyone in the hall to quiet down before continuing: "Finally, please note two things: First, I will set an age line - underage wizards cannot cross this line."

"Second, once you are selected as a warrior by the Goblet of Fire, you must persevere in the game to the end." Dumbledore's expression became very serious. "You can think that even if you lose a leg in the game, you must use crutches to finish the game. All competition events. You should know why the Triwizard Tournament is suspended. Although we have taken adequate safety measures, the competition events are difficult, and injuries are sometimes unavoidable."

After Dumbledore said these words, Professor McGonagall gave him a sharp look.

"This is not a child's play. You must think carefully and don't participate rashly. Because when you throw yourselves into the Goblet of Fire, a magical contract will be formed that must be observed, and violating the magical contract requires paying a price. , don’t ask me what the price is, I can only say that no warrior can afford the price of violating the magic contract.”

In fact, these words were inspired by Dumbledore's previous words from Albert. He knew very well that sometimes the more you don't let them participate, the more other students will rack their brains to want to participate.

His words were indeed cruel to the students, but sometimes they should talk about these things and there wouldn't be so much trouble.

"Okay, good night to everyone."

Everyone stared at Dumbledore in stunned silence. It was hard to imagine that the words just now came from the headmaster's mouth.

The buzz of discussion instantly resounded in the auditorium, and Dumbledore's words made many students who were eager to give up trying to commit suicide.

"Are you going to sign up now?"

Fred took out a quill and parchment from his pocket and handed them to Albert.

"No need to worry." Albert glanced at Moody and said with a smile, "Just sign up during breakfast tomorrow."

He actually wanted to throw his name into the Goblet of Fire right now and make Barty's previous preparations a joke, but it was too boring to do so.

Professor Moody was really shocked just now. If Albert had signed up on the spot, their plan would be completely turned into a laughing stock.

When Albert left the auditorium with three roommates, he saw Katrina standing at the door.

"Is something wrong?" Albert asked.

"Well, can you come with me? Isobel has something that I want to hand over to you." Katrina said and turned around and walked towards a place where no one was around.

"You guys go back first, I have something to take care of." Albert said to his roommates. Of course he knew that this was a trap left for him by Peter and Barty Jr., but he would not just let Katrina be controlled by the Imperius Curse, and he was actually curious about what the trap they had left for him.

Albert followed Katrina to a deserted place, and saw Katrina take out a long small box from her pocket and hand it to Albert.

"What is this?" Albert asked suspiciously.

"I don't know." Katrina shook her head and said, "Isobel asked me to give it to you, saying that I was going to give you a surprise."

"Surprise, is there anything else?" Albert raised his head and looked at Katrina, who was restrained by a full-body restraint spell. "Are you trying to use the Imperius Curse on me?"

Albert ignored Katrina and glanced at the box in his hand. There was a small bottle inside the package. When Albert opened it, he found that the bottle contained black tea, but..."

"Are you planning to use the Imperius Curse to control me, and then make me drink black tea mixed with a love agent?" Albert thought Peter's idea was a good one. If the effect of the love agent was strong enough, it could completely make him disappear for a day. , perfectly missed the Warriors selection.

"What should we do next?" Albert suddenly had a headache on how to end it. He would definitely have to pretend to be missing now, but where was Peter planning to hide them?

So, he came up with a bad idea and used a spell to modify Katrina's memory, making her think that he had successfully made Albert drink the love potion.

In order to prevent accidents, Albert secretly confiscated Katrina's wand and put a fake wand in her hand.

Then, he released the binding spell all over his body.

"I like you, let's go on a date, okay?" After Katrina recovered, she put her arm around Albert's arm and leaned her head against it.

"Okay, where do you want to go?" Albert said gently.

"There is a place on the eighth floor that is very suitable for a date." Katrina took Albert directly to the eighth floor and went straight to the Room of Requirement.

"Peter peeked into Katrina's memory?" Albert couldn't help frowning. He was a little worried that Peter was hiding in the Room of Requirement. If he went in and was attacked by the other party, it would be a trap.

"I know how to use this place, let me do it." Albert said and took the initiative to try to get a room. He was relieved when he found that no one was in the room.

As soon as the two of them entered the Room of Requirement, Katrina started to get close to Albert again. Those who didn't know it thought she was under the influence of a love drug, not Albert.

However, one thing is certain, Peter not only used the Imperius Curse to control Katrina, but also modified some of her memories to make her completely obsessed with him, otherwise Katrina would never be like this.

"If you let Isobel find out, you don't have to go crazy." Just when Albert raised his wand and was about to try to help Katrina get rid of the control of the Imperius Curse, the girl had already thrown her down on the sofa and sat on her back. On Albert, "Can you break up with Isobel? I can be your girlfriend. What Isobel can do for you, I can do the same."

Albert quickly used full-body restraints to immobilize Katrina to prevent the situation from getting out of control. Then he found a powerful recovery potion that he had brewed a while ago. After removing the full-body restraints, he directly poured a large cup of powerful restorative potion into her, and then He also used several powerful spell-breaking spells on her.

Albert saw Katrina shaking her head in confusion, as if she was trying to get rid of the control of the Imperius Curse.

"Are you okay?" Albert poured her another cup of powerful recovery potion and drank it. After testing several more powerful breaking spells, Katrina finally broke free from the control of the Imperius Curse and regained her strength. Back to normal.

"I...why am I here?" Katrina was still a little confused when she first recovered, but she seemed to remember something, her ears turned red, and she suddenly shrank into a ball, burying her head in her knees, too ashamed to dare Look directly at Albert.

"It seems that you have escaped the control of the Imperius Curse." Albert breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that Peter had no intention of using the Imperius Curse to control Katrina. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Katrina to break free so easily.

"That's not your fault. I should be the one who should be sorry." Albert reached out and touched Katrina's head.

"Don't tell Isobel." Katrina suddenly raised her head and said, with a few tears in her red eyes.

"I will keep it a secret, I promise." Albert said seriously, "I caused you to have someone else use the Imperius Curse. That person just wanted you to hold me back and prevent me from participating in the Triwizard Tournament. "

"Hold you." Katrina was a little confused.

"Use a love potion." Albert explained patiently, "That way no one will notice anything is wrong. He doesn't want to alarm Dumbledore. For this reason, I suspect that he also modified some of your memories to make you like you crazily. Fuck me so that using a love potion on me becomes reasonable.”

"But... why are you prevented from participating in the competition, and..." Katrina took Albert's handkerchief and wiped her tears and asked, "Do you know who used the Imperius Curse on me?"

"Professor Moody, although there is no evidence, I think it should be him."

"Professor Moody, why is he doing this? Doesn't he really want you to win the Triwizard Cup for Hogwarts?"

"His goal is definitely not me. It's probably to let someone win the championship. I suspect it's Harry. We'll find out tomorrow, if Harry really becomes a warrior." Albert poured a glass of magic for Katrina medicine.

"What's this?"

"Tranquilizers can stabilize your mood." Albert explained, "I need to check your memory and restore the modified memories to normal. This was originally supposed to be done by Isobel. She is good at this. Expert. However, I think you probably don’t want her to know about this!”

"Is there really a way to make one person like another person more?" Katrina was a little confused.

"You can do it by implanting false memories." Albert nodded, "When the time comes, I will teach you Occlumency."

"What are you going to do if Professor Moody does it?" Katrina gritted her teeth and asked

"First figure out what the purpose of that guy is. To be honest, I suspect that guy may be an impostor, or even a Death Eater. The purpose of sneaking into Hogwarts is to do harm to Harry." Albert said directly He speculated, "If you want, we can modify his memory or turn him into an idiot like Lockhart."

"I think a permanent bed in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies would be more suitable for him than a prison in Azkaban." Katrina's eyes flashed with hatred. She almost did it just now...if Albert...she really didn't know how this matter would end.