Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 286 Triwizard Tournament

The heavy rain was still pounding heavily on the high, dark windows.

Another burst of thunder exploded, rattling the glass windows, and a bolt of lightning flashed across the hazy ceiling, illuminating the golden plate. The remaining first food on the plate disappeared, and in the blink of an eye it was filled with desserts.

Originally Hermione was not going to eat——

But she felt that Tiera's scolding was very satisfying, and she was very hungry, so she reluctantly took a few more bites of the dessert.

"Okay!" Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile and said, "Now we have all eaten and drank enough..."

"Bah!" said Hermione.

"...I must once again ask for your attention and I have several announcements to make."

"Mr. Filch, the gatekeeper, wants me to tell you that this year, several more items are banned in the castle, including the 'Amitabha Gatling', a staff that can increase the user's strength and release a flash spell.

, a 'Thor's Hammer'... The entire list has been added to approximately 443 items, which can be seen in Mr. Filch's office. Anyone who is interested can check it out."

Dumbledore glanced at Tiera, and then the corners of his mouth twitched a few times.

He continued: "As before, I would like to remind everyone that students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest on the other side of the venue, and in Hogsmeade, students below the third grade are not allowed to visit."

"I would also like to inform you with great regret that the College Cup Quidditch Tournament will not be held this year."

"What?" Harry gasped in surprise. He turned to look at his Quidditch teammates Fred and George. They all stared at Dumbledore silently with their mouths wide open, as if they were too surprised to speak.

Dumbledore continued: "This is because a large-scale event will start in October and last throughout the school year, taking up a lot of teachers' time and energy, but I believe that you will all get a lot of fun from it. I

I am very happy to announce to you that this year at Hogwarts——"

At this moment, there was a deafening thunder, and the door of the auditorium slammed open.

A man stood in the doorway, leaning on a long cane and wrapped in a black traveling cloak.

Everyone in the auditorium turned to look at the stranger, and suddenly a fork-shaped lightning flashed across the ceiling, and Hermione gasped.

The lightning illuminated the man's face extremely vividly. Harry had never seen such a face before——

His face seemed to be carved out of a piece of rotten wood, and the carver only had a vague idea of what a human face should look like, and was not very good at using a carving knife. Every inch of skin on his face

They all seemed to be scarred, the mouth was like a big crooked hole, and the nose where the bulge should be was missing. And the most terrifying thing about this man were his eyes.

One of his eyes is small, black, and shiny. The other eye is very large, round like a coin, and is a distinct bright blue.

The blue eye kept moving without blinking, turning up, down, left and right, completely unrelated to the normal eye - then, the blue eye rolled over and penetrated into the man's head,

Everyone can only see a big white eyeball.

The stranger walked up to Dumbledore. He held out a hand, which was as scarred as his face.

Dumbledore shook hands with him and whispered something that Harry didn't hear clearly. He seemed to be asking the stranger something, and the stranger shook his head without a smile and answered in a low voice.

Dumbledore nodded and motioned for the man to sit on an empty seat to his right.

The stranger sat down, shook his head, and shook his long gray hair away from his face, then pulled a plate of sausages, raised it to his incomplete nose and smelled it.

He took out a knife from his pocket, poked it through one end of a sausage, and ate it. His normal eye was staring at the sausage, but the blue eye still kept turning in its socket.

Turn around and look at the auditorium and the students——

Tiera noticed that Moody's magic eyes stayed on Harry and herself for a while, and then turned elsewhere.

"Please allow me to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Dumbledore broke the silence with a cheerful voice, "Professor Moody."

Normally, when a new teacher meets everyone, everyone will applaud and welcome him, but now, except for Dumbledore and Hagrid, no teacher or student applauded.

Dumbledore and Hagrid clapped their hands several times, and found that the applause echoed in the silent auditorium seemed lonely, so they had to put down their hands in boredom.

Everyone else seemed stunned by Moody's strange appearance and just stared at him intently.

Dumbledore cleared his throat.

"As I just said." He looked at the many students in front of him with a smile and said——

But the students still stared blankly at Mad-Eye Moody.

"Over the next few months we will be honored to host a fantastic event that has not been held for over a century. I am delighted to say that the Triwizard Tournament will take place this year in

Held at Hogwarts."

"You're kidding!" shouted Fred and George Weasley.

The tense atmosphere that had enveloped the auditorium since Moody entered was suddenly broken.

Almost everyone cheered, and Dumbledore also chuckled in appreciation.

"I'm not joking, Mr. Weasley," said Dumbledore, "but since you mentioned joking, I heard a very interesting joke about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun.

They all went into the same pub..."

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly, and then Tiera noticed that Professor McGonagall seemed to move her legs and kicked Dumbledore hard under the table.

"Oh, yes, it's probably not appropriate to say this now... not appropriate..." Dumbledore said, "Where did I just say it? Ah, by the way, the Triwizard Tournament... I believe most of you

Some of you have learned what the Triwizard Tournament is from your parents, brothers, or your friends’ parents and brothers. If some of you still don’t know what this tournament is about..."

Dumbledore smiled slyly, "Then let's read a book."

"Of course, I know you are all eager to win the Triwizard Tournament trophy for Hogwarts, but for safety reasons... the Ministry of Magic believes that there should be an age limit for this year's competitors." Dumbledore was a little disappointed.

Said, "We will only allow students over the age of seventeen to register."

"It's not fair!" George and Fred shouted in unison, standing up at the same time, waving their hands in an attempt to bring up the rhythm, but obviously -

The twins are still too young.

Dumbledore suppressed them easily and sent them to bed immediately.

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