Drink Black Tea Calmly at Hogwarts

( ) As the saying goes, "Only a thousand days to be a thief, but a thousand days to guard against a thief."

This was what Dumbledore was worried about now, and he had been worried about Harry Potter's safety since Voldemort and the Death Eaters went into hiding.

Now the Death Eaters that Voldemort called ahead of time were usually low-key ones, and Lucius Malfoy and Snape, who often showed their faces, didn't get in touch with them at all.

Now that things have developed to such a point, Zhang Xu has no good solution. If he can't find the target by taking the initiative, he can only defend passively. So Zhang Xu asked Dumbledore to make Harry a pair of insole door keys, and he himself put a spell on Harry.

In that raid, the Death Eaters used magic traps and stealth smoke bombs imported from Peru, which made Zhang Xu start to be alert.

The rest of the world isn't stupid either, and they'll keep up with the times.

The magic trap is easy to deal with. In order to deal with the invisible smoke bomb, Zhang Xu thought of the "Hand of Glory".

The Hand of Glory is an amulet usually made by wrapping and soaking the hand of a hanged person with mandrake or other herbs. The person holding the hand can use it to illuminate in the dark, but others cannot see it.

It's just that this kind of black magic item is not easy to buy in the UK, and there is only one sold in a certain black shop.

But this is a small problem for the students of Durmstrang who have been studying black magic. Zhang Xu bought a dozen from them.

But anyway, life must go on.

The time is getting closer and closer to Saturday, June 24, the final match of the Triwizard Tournament.

According to the original plan, that day was the last day of Hogwarts exams, and everyone went to watch the competition after the exams.

But because the difficulty of the maze has been increased, it is estimated that the warriors will be tossed in the maze for a long time, and the original time is estimated to be insufficient, so the Hogwarts exam time was advanced by one day, and the competition started at noon on the 24th.

As the exam date approached, the students were engaged in intensive review.

During this time, Zhang Xu put away his pen and picked up the quill again. There will be a specially prepared quill during the exam. If you don’t get familiar with it during the period before the exam, it will be funny if you don’t finish writing when the exam time comes.

After several days of hard fighting, the exam is finally over.

The students who finished the exam cheered like slaves who had just blown up Yuri's minecart. After watching the game tomorrow, I can go home after herding the sheep for a few days.

On the night of the exam, Zhang Xu came to the long-lost Screaming Shack, where everyone had a cheering banquet for Cedric and Ron today.

The long table was full of dishes made by the students themselves. It was a pity that everyone left their stomachs for dinner today, in order to have a good meal at their own banquet tonight.

Everyone held up cups filled with butterbeer to toast the two warriors.

The crazy Ron said that he will definitely win the Goblet of Fire, and then put a copper pot on the Goblet of Fire, and then everyone will have a hot pot together.

At one end of the long table, Zhang Xu looked at the rowdy students while drinking.

For Zhang Xu, this school year is a year in which there are opposite sexes but no humanity. He spends most of his time with Fu Rong and rarely participates in group activities.

In the past six months, everyone has spared no effort to advise Cedric and Ron, and accompany them to train until late every night.

Without everyone's help, the two Hogwarts warriors would not have passed the first two games so easily.

Especially Ron. A year ago, his level was only good among his peers. After more than half a year of hard training, he has improved by leaps and bounds. His current level can be said to have touched the threshold of a seventh-grade student. His two twins If the brother fights him one-on-one, he will suffer a lot if he is careless. Even Harry Potter, who has always been taught by Grandpa Gandalf in the glasses, has now been opened up a little by Ron.

The place where Ron has grown the most rapidly this year is his mentality.

It turns out that in the trio where Hermione is the text and Harry is the martial artist, Ron, as a green leaf, developed a lot of inferiority complex and jealousy.

After the baptism of the Triwizard Tournament and the three-school Quidditch competition, Ron, a rising star, began to rise. Although he still has some crazy characters, but now he has more confidence to go crazy.

Now Ron, after sweeping away the haze in his heart, has become much more cheerful.

Zhang Xu didn't say much to the others tonight, he just sat quietly eating and looked at the students in front of him.

Zhang Xu believes that during his four years at Hogwarts, his greatest achievement is not how much money he made from overseas online shopping, nor how many times he cheated Voldemort, but to build such a tight-knit team.

Zhang Xu is very happy to see that the team has remained united and stable since he has not intervened for a year.

And Cedric was graduating in a few days, and the leadership of this team was being transferred to Harry and Hermione.

Although Harry was not regarded as a warrior, but with his outstanding performance in the past few years, his popularity among the students is still high.

Hermione also won everyone's approval by relying on her outstanding mind.

Zhang Xu, on the other hand, successfully downplayed his own existence.

Now this group of students has a tendency to develop into the "Whampoa Department". The graduates who have left this group in the past two years are still huddled together, which has aroused the attention of some people in the Ministry of Magic.

If Zhang Xu jumps up and down in it again, it will cause some unnecessary interpretations in the eyes of some people.

After the banquet, Zhang Xu left Harry's trio behind and took them to a living room on the second floor of the Screaming Shack.

The four sat down, and Zhang Xu poured them a cup of tea.

"Ron, how does it feel to be a warrior?" Zhang Xu asked.

"It feels good." Ron replied with a smile.

"Want to know how you were named a warrior?" Zhang Xu asked suddenly.

Ron, Harry, and Hermione were shocked when they heard Zhang Xu's question. They had discussed this question many times in private, but they didn't get a satisfactory answer.

Ron didn't speak, just stared at Zhang Xu.

Looking at Ron's eyes, Zhang Xu said: "You know the situation of your family this year, and the incident that Fred, George and I were attacked in the Forbidden Forest the night after the first game was over. .”

"I know." Ron said, and then he didn't speak, waiting for Zhang Xu's next words.

"This incident is the same as what we guessed at the beginning. Someone is indeed trying to kill you." Zhang Xu said, "They think that you, who are only in the fourth grade, will definitely die in the Triwizard Tournament."

Hearing this, Ron and Harry turned pale, and Hermione broke out in a cold sweat.

"Who is behind your back, you can ask Mr. Weasley, he knows more than me." Zhang Xu continued, "They used up a family promise and asked someone to put your name into the Goblet of Fire .”

Just as Ron was about to say something, Zhang Xu stopped him.

"Someone cast a powerful confusion spell on the Goblet of Fire, making the Goblet of Fire think that there were four schools participating. After that person put in another name, someone put your name in the name of the students of the fourth school. Goblet of Fire."

"It's just that the Goblet of Fire can't tell the magic power of the person whose name represents it. It can only tell the magic power of the person who put the name into the Goblet of Fire, and then associate the name with the person who signed up."

"For example, if Professor Dumbledore threw Hermione's name into the Goblet of Fire, Hermione must be the one chosen in the end."

Hermione was the first to catch the hint in Zhang Xu's words, and then asked: "So there is another person who put other people's names into the Goblet of Fire after casting the Confusion Charm on it?"

Zhang Xu nodded, and then said: "Yes, that person is Barty Crouch Jr. pretending to be Professor Moody. He threw Harry Potter's name into the Goblet of Fire."

Zhang Xu would not confess that he also threw Hermione's name in.

When Zhang Xu said this, Harry and the three of them suddenly realized.

Ron and Harry, the brothers and sisters, looked at each other dumbfounded, and didn't know what to say for a while.

Harry, Ron and Hermione, one is a Death Eater who wants to plot against him, one is a family business competitor who wants to plot against him, and the other is her friend and mentor who wants to trick her, and it is Rowan who gets tricked in the end. kindness.

If he had known that the situation would develop into what it is now, Zhang Xu would have simply kept opening a few more magical "charging treasures" on his body to temporarily surpass Scarlett's magic power, and then threw Snape's name into it. , When the time comes, it will give them a few Death Eaters and the principals a headache.

"So who was it that threw my name into the Goblet of Fire?" Ron asked.

"Before you say this person's name, can you agree to one of my requests?" Zhang Xu said sincerely to Ron, "You should be clear about the 'family promise' between wizard families. Resisting, promises between magically protected families. The one who put your name in the Goblet of Fire didn't mean to harm you. If you will forgive her, I owe you a favor."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Xu looked at Ron nervously, for fear that he would not forgive him. Now Ron, or the Weasley family has the confidence to say "no".

None of the three people here are idiots, enough clues have been revealed in Zhang Xu's words before.

First of all, this man has more magic than Barty Crouch Jr. This puts the students of Hogwarts down. Only the powerful professors in the school can achieve this. Professors like Divination professor Sybill Trelawney must have been ruled out as well.

Secondly, the pronunciation of "she" and "he" in English is different, and they can all hear that this person is a woman.

Third, this person must have wizard blood, even if the family is a small unknown family, even a half-blood wizard is fine, but certainly not both parents are Muggle-born wizards. Otherwise, there is no basis for making a "family promise".

Fourth, the person who can make Zhang Xu put down his face to ask Ron, hoping that he can let go of the matter, is naturally a person who has a very good relationship with Zhang Xu. There are quite a few such people in Hogwarts, but among the many professors, there are only a handful of them.

Combining these clues, the three of Ron and the others can quickly deduce that this person must be a female professor who has a good relationship with Zhang Xu in Hogwarts.

And there were only a few female professors in Hogwarts, and Ron thought he had figured out who Zhang Xu was talking about.

Ron thought for a while, and then said: "I didn't get killed, and I'm also very happy to get the opportunity to participate in the Triwizard Tournament as a warrior. And although she has always been very strict with us, we can all see it." She has taken great care of us all the time."

Hearing what Ron said, Zhang Xu also heaved a sigh of relief, and then took a sip of tea from the teacup to relieve his nervous mood just now.

Ron went on to say, "I will forgive Professor McGonagall."

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Zhang Xu took a sip of tea and sprayed it out.