The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"My dear, please help me bring the cooked dishes to the table, okay?" Molly ordered. She used her wand to tap the potatoes in the sink, and the potatoes flew above the trash can and automatically The skin peeled off.

"No problem. Is there anything else you need help with?"

Mrs. Weasley shook her head. Wizards are different from Muggles. The Muggle kitchen operations have no technical content and are just a waste of energy. Wizards only need to move their wands to complete them. This is also the difference between wizarding families and Muggle families.

In a Muggle family, children and the parent who cannot cook have to perform repetitive tasks, such as peeling potatoes, choosing vegetables, washing rice, and of course the sinful dishwashing. In the magical world, you don’t have to do any of this work!

All kinds of life magic have been developed very maturely. There is no problem in the kitchen that cannot be solved by a magic wand. The help of children is not enough to add to the mess.

Mrs. Weasley clicked her wand, and the kitchen stove drawer popped open. Several knives flew out and cut the peeled potatoes into pieces. At the same time, the two chickens that had been killed on the chopping board also stood up unsteadily, walked to the faucet and rinsed themselves off like taking a shower.

After the blood was washed away, a bone-chopping knife floated over and cut the two whole chickens from the joints into pieces. After cutting the chicken, he rinsed himself with the bone chopping knife and continued to cut other meat.

Mrs. Weasley's energy was not focused on the processing of ingredients. She was making a Basque cake. Butter, milk, sugar, eggs, and flour were mixed together in an orderly manner under her command, and were quickly stirred into shape before being sent in. Put it in the mold lined with oil paper. After the mold was filled, it flew into the oven on its own initiative.

"After it's baked in a while, you guys help me take it to the table outside, be careful not to burn it." Mrs. Weasley warned Tom, and then started to continue cooking. But this time, she clicked the wand a little too hard. When the kitchen knife split the ox tail, it was deeply embedded in the chopping board, and it was stuck in it and could not be pulled out.

"Oh my God!" Mrs. Weasley knocked on the stove with her wand angrily. As a result, the kitchen knife popped out of the chopping board, stuck into the ceiling, and threw the chopping board to the floor.

Mrs. Weasley's mood worsened.

"Hmph!" She quickly restored everything to its original state and couldn't help complaining, "These two guys! They don't have any ambitions. They cause me trouble every day like this damn kitchen knife. Don't they two? A little bit ambitious?”

Tom and Hermione both knew she was referring to Fred and George.

She threw a brass saucepan on the stove, poured some oil into it, and turned the heat to high.

"The two of them are very smart...but they just don't want to put their intelligence into studying..." Mrs. Weasley complained angrily. Tom and Hermione huddled quietly in the corner of the room, acting as the background. Tom really hoped that he would be the one tasked with collecting the knives and forks so that he could escape from this kitchen.

"...I bet they will be in bad luck if they continue like this. More owls fly from Hogwarts to complain to them than everyone else combined..." Mrs. Weasley added some rosemary to the hot oil. Incense and garlic, and then pour in the beef cubes.

Mrs. Weasley finally put down her wand and took out several bottles of fizzy drinks from a cupboard. She put her drink on the counter and grabbed her wand from the table.

"I have written dozens of letters of guarantee over the years. Is it useful? Oops! It's a fake wand again!"

The wand screamed and transformed into a rubber mouse.

"It's interesting." Tom thought in his heart, because he just discovered that there was no fake wand on the kitchen table, which meant that this wand came here on its own.

But looking at the thick smoke coming out of the brass pot, Tom felt that the kitchen was too dangerous now.

"Let's go, Bill and the others need our help." Tom picked up the drinks on the table and hurried out of the kitchen with Hermione.

The two of them hurriedly ran into the garden through the back door, leaving Mrs. Weasley alone in the kitchen. As soon as they entered the garden, something covered in mud and like a potato ran past them, followed closely by a ginger figure.

In the end, the "potato" plunged into a hole, and Crookshanks could only scratch the dirt in vain, looking unhappy. After confirming that he was safe, a burst of crazy laughter came from the cave.

Tom recognized it at a glance. The man Crookshanks was chasing just now was a goblin. Unlike the settings in Muggle fantasy works, the goblins in the wizarding world are so stupid that it is impossible to invent those magical magic items-in fact, they are not much smarter than field mice.

Goblins are a species that often appear in wizarding gardens, somewhat like cockroaches in Muggle homes. But unlike cockroaches, many wizards believe that having gnomes in their gardens is a blessing. Xenophilius Lovegood even believed that goblin saliva had many unusual benefits, such as a sudden increase in one's creativity. Tom was skeptical: This thing looks stupid, how can it add intelligence?

In the garden, Bill and Charlie were fighting at the table, and other members of the Weasley family were watching - except for Percy, who was still rushing to report that the Bulgarian Minister of Magic was also coming to watch the World Cup finals. The Ministry of Magic has increased its workload a lot.

Ministerial level visits are extremely rare and will bring up a host of issues that will need to be dealt with by the Department of International Magical Cooperation.

Despite all the obstacles, Mrs. Weasley had a sumptuous dinner ready before dark. When the last dish fell on the table, the old table made an unbearable creaking sound. Finally, Charlie's strengthening spell was used to stabilize the table.

Chicken stew, roasted meats, big stews, pies, steaming drinks, and tender and delicious Basque cake!

This meal is enough to please everyone.

At first, everyone was busy eating, but after their stomachs were a little full, everyone began to chat about topics they were interested in.

Percy really wanted to discuss some details of hosting the Bulgarians with Mr. Weasley, but Mr. Weasley's attention was obviously not on his son, and he agreed casually with a very perfunctory attitude. After Percy finished speaking, he couldn't wait to ask the Grangers beside him about some matters in the Muggle world, such as their transportation methods, currency types, and telephone numbers.

After hitting a soft nail with his father, Percy closed his mouth angrily and buried himself in eating the chicken stew with potatoes on the plate.

Fred and George were rejuvenated—the two of them were like invincible little beasts, able to bounce back quickly from any setback no matter what. Now they are discussing the World Cup final with Charlie and Ron. As for Harry, he watched eagerly, unwilling to miss a word. He has been staying at Privet Drive during the summer vacation, and Privet Drive is completely isolated from the magical world, so all news about the magical world is unknown to him.

He now feels extremely upset when he thinks that he almost missed the entire World Cup. How happy it would be to gather in front of the TV, eat snacks and watch the World Cup with friends!

Thinking of the television, Harry suddenly realized that it was not very realistic for several friends to watch the live broadcast together, because there were no televisions in the wizarding world, only radios. I am afraid

"I admit that Krum is very strong, but the overall strength of the Bulgarian team is too weak. Except for the seekers, the Irish team can basically crush the Bulgarian team." Charlie was eating baked potatoes while facing off against his brothers.

"But Krum—"

"There are no buts. The only difference between the two sides is whether Krum can catch the snitch before the Bulgarian team falls behind by 150 points - the Bulgarian team is actually so strong that they can't even advance to the semi-finals." Charlie said. After swallowing the potatoes in it, he said confidently.

"What's going on? Where is the British team?" Harry asked eagerly. Quidditch was Harry's most concerned entertainment. He wanted to know all the news about Quidditch.

"The Welsh team was eliminated by Uganda, the Scottish team was defeated by Luxembourg, and the English team was defeated by Transylvania." Charlie said with a frown.

"I'm sorry, what are you talking about?" Harry searched for the name of this country in his mind, but found that he had no memory of this country with a weird name.

"Transylvania. It is located in the central and western part of Romania. It is not a country, but a region. There seems to be some explanation in history." Charlie gave Harry a general introduction to what Transylvania is.

Many of the participating teams in the Wizarding World World Cup do not compete as countries, but in the name of regions. The more classic ones include the British team divided into three teams: England, Scotland and Wales, and Romania, where there are Romania and Transylvania. Team Nia, representing the Netherlands is Flanders, and so on.

This situation is mainly because wizards are isolated from Muggles and often do not divide themselves according to Muggle administrative areas. For example, Flanders is a historical place name in Western Europe. It generally refers to the southern Netherlands in Western Europe. Its geographical scope includes Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.

If wizards draw a map of the world, it will definitely be very different from the map of Muggles. The "Law of Secrecy" interrupts the contact between Muggles and wizards, and also hinders the change of political regions - just mentioned Flanders and Transylvania were once vassal states. They died out in the non-magical world, but they still exist in the magical world.

Bill finally got rid of Mrs. Weasley's harassment - she wanted Bill to take off his earrings and cut his hair short, which was unacceptable to Bill. He and Ginny switched places and sat next to Tom.

"Tom, what did you experience in the desert?" Bill held a plate full of food in one hand and a spoon in the other, looking like he was going out to the crowd.

Tom:?

"Why do you think of asking this?"

"The desire to explore is one of the essential qualities of a curse breaker," Bill smiled sheepishly, "Treasures are not left in open spaces for people to pick up. You know, I am a curse breaker. Employees also have performance needs.”

Tom took a swig of ice-cold blueberry juice from his glass.

Desire to explore? Then you should be a qualified group-killing engine. As we all know, when visiting ancient ruins, the easiest people to get lunch or advance the plot are the curious babies. The desire to explore is an essential quality for a curse-breaker, but a good curse-breaker is one who can restrain the desire to explore.

Tom didn't really want to announce the news about Menis - although the big boss said it was good to have someone to play with him, but it also depends on the situation. If Tom turns someone else's mausoleum into a tourist attraction, he may be blamed by Queen Menes.

Menis is just being polite, don't take it seriously. Moreover, now that Tom thought about it, he felt that the hidden area in the ancient city was too dangerous and not suitable for adventurers to take risks.

"A relic left over from the ancient Egyptian era is very dangerous." Tom told Bill about his experience in the ancient city.

As for the upside-down pyramid, he didn't mention it at all. He just said that the team was attacked by the Voldemort Bat and had to escape from the ruins of the ancient city with a narrow escape.

"I remember that the guild organized by Professor Dumbledore seemed to have issued an exploration mission? Is there any final news?"

Bill shook his head, "The guild people have explored it, and it's a dangerous ruin. There may be treasures inside. Some of my colleagues don't give up and want to go in and search. The guild people are not professional curse breakers. There may be something missing.”

"Good luck to you." Tom didn't care much.

Eat, drink, and talk, the moon gradually rises in the night sky, and everyone has their stomachs full.

"Oh my god, is it already this point?" Mrs. Weasley nudged her husband, interrupting the conversation between him and Mr. Granger.

"You have to get up early tomorrow morning to watch the game! Go to bed!" Mrs. Weasley said in an unquestionable tone and drove everyone back to their respective bedrooms.

After Tom finished washing, he felt like he was woken up by Mrs. Weasley just as soon as he hit the pillow. Because you have to walk to the door key delivery point, and the door keys have fixed times, everyone must get up early.

When Tom and the three were woken up, it was not even dark outside!

When everyone entered the kitchen, Mr. Weasley was chatting with Mr. Granger. Last night, one of them wanted to know about the wizarding world and the other wanted to know about Muggles, so they talked about everything. If it weren't for the inconvenience, Mr. Arthur would have loved to sleep in Mr. Granger's bedroom at night.

"Look, what do I think of my outfit? We had to hide our identities when we went there, so I matched myself with an outfit." Mr. Weasley asked eagerly.

He had chosen the attire himself, without consulting Mr. Granger. To him, this was like an exam. Dressing independently and dressing with the help of Muggles were two different things. You cannot ask the teacher for answers during the exam, and the same cannot be said for dressing.

Tom stared at Mr. Weasley with sleepy eyes. Today, he was wearing a fat T-shirt on his upper body, a pair of worn jeans on his lower body, and a wide belt around his waist. Not to mention, he is dressed like an American redneck.

After receiving affirmative answers from Harry and the others, Mr. Weasley smiled happily.

Tom's drowsiness disappeared when Hermione appeared. Today she wore a very slim-fitting light pink sweater, a small beige suit jacket, and slim-leg jeans that perfectly showed off her slender thighs. This set of clothes perfectly outlines the young and beautiful body of the girl.

If there was no one else in the living room, Tom would definitely whistle in praise, but now that there were so many people here, he could only take a gulp of cold water to calm down.

There was a huge team that set off early in the morning, and only Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Charlie and Percy didn't have to get up early in the Burrow. Mrs. Weasley isn't going to the game, and the other three are apparating.

During breakfast, Mr. Weasley introduced the magical spell of Apparition to Harry and Mr. Granger in great detail.

Before setting off, there was another episode: Fred and George's private collection of fat tongue toffees was discovered by Mrs. Weasley.

This is a sad story.

Mrs. Weasley used her summoning spell and found all the sweets. Fred and George's plan was completely ruined.

This incident made the atmosphere before departure very tense. At least Fred and George had straight faces when Mr. Weasley shouted: "Let's go, target Stoat Mountain!"

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Gnome, also called Garden gnome, is a magical creature that often infests wizards' gardens. The correct taxonomic name for gnomes is probably Gernumbli gardensi, but is sometimes referred to simply as "Gernumblies". They can be found throughout northern Europe and North America.