The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Is this Rubeus Hagrid?"

"That's right." Dumbledore smiled and pulled the shy Haigh to his side, and introduced the animal expert to Mrs. Maxim.

Mrs. Maxim was originally worried that ordinary people would not be able to handle her own horse, but after seeing Hagrid's size, most of her worries disappeared.

She said to Hagrid very lightly: "Sorry to trouble you, my horse only drinks single malt whiskey."

"No problem." Hagrid responded excitedly. He wanted to say something more, but after Mrs. Maxim's instructions, she closed her mouth and stood quietly aside. Hagrid could only go to work obediently.

After a while, a very loud and strange sound suddenly appeared in the black lake, something like a suppressed rumbling and sucking sound, as if there was a huge vacuum cleaner moving on the river bed.

Durmstrang's team arrived.

"Look in the lake!" shouted Fred's friend Lee Jordan.

At this time, huge waves surged on the calm Black Lake, shattering the reflection of the setting sun. A large whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake. A long mast rose from the center of the whirlpool and circled around the whirlpool. Finally, a large boat appeared on the lake.

"Ghost ship!" This was Tom's first impression of the Durmstrang ship. If boats were compared to people, Durmstrang's boat would look like a skeleton at first glance. It looks like a sunken shipwreck at the bottom of the water. The hull is wet and covered with moss and seaweed. But the dim, foggy light in the portholes proved that there were still living people moving inside the hull.

After the hull completely emerged, it began to head towards the shore.

Tom took a step forward and attracted everyone's attention. Seeing this, Dumbledore also put his hand back into his sleeves and secretly tightened his grip on the Elder Wand.

"Atmospheric-glacies!" Tom raised his staff and shouted the name of his spell - Atmospheric Glacies.

When the staff hit the grass, Tom's face suddenly turned pale. This time the spell was much more expensive than the previous weather spells, because the weather has not yet reached the point of freezing - in fact , the Black Lake in Hogwarts is an ice-free lake. Even in the cold winter, the Black Lake never freezes.

Now Tom wants to freeze the surface of the Black Lake, which is almost against nature, so the consumption of this magic spell is also extremely terrifying. After the spell was cast, the magic power flowed out of Tom's body like an ebbing tide. The huge consumption made Tom roll his eyes and almost fainted.

A line of white frost spread straight from Tom's feet to the edge of the black lake. In an instant, a layer of white frost appeared on the surface of the Black Lake, and white steam rose up.

While Tom was chanting the spell, Dumbledore moved his lips slightly and quietly cast a freezing spell to help Tom deepen the ice on the lake.

There was frost on the lake at first, but by the time Durmstrang's boat docked at the shore, a layer of ice had already formed on the edge of the Black Lake. The ice spread quickly and surrounded Durmstrang's large ship. In the end, the magic used by Tom and Dumbledore together created an ice belt hundreds of meters long, dozens of meters wide, and five feet thick on the edge of the Black Lake, freezing Durmstrang's ship on the ice. .

The teachers and students of Durmstrang seemed to be aware of the abnormality, and gathered around the side of the ship to watch this magnificent scene.

"Excellent freezing spell." Mrs. Maxim couldn't help but applaud.

Tom managed to reply: "It's a pity that my magic power is not enough to freeze the entire Black Lake."

Mrs. Maxim looked at the vast Black Lake and was secretly speechless: If you want to freeze the entire lake, how powerful is the magic? Maybe even Dumbledore can't do it, right?

Fortunately, he and Dumbledore had set an age limit in advance so that this young man could not compete. If he can compete, what will happen to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang?

At this time, Durmstrang's teachers and students also started to move. They first threw the anchor into the lake, and then put a plank on the ice.

A burly figure carefully stepped onto the ice from the wooden plank. After making sure that the ice was firm, he signaled his companions to come down. When they all came ashore and walked along the lawn into the light, they realized that the reason why these people looked burly was because they were wearing tangled fur cloaks, which made their bodies grow two sizes out of thin air.

The leader among Durmstrang's teachers and students was wearing a silver-white fur cloak, and the fur on the cloak was smooth and smooth.

"Professor Karkaroff, you are finally here." Dumbledore stood at the front of the team, waiting for Karkaroff to come over.

The leader of Durmstrang was Karkaroff who had fled to Japan before. But somehow, he returned to Durmstrang and continued to lead this prestigious European school.

Karkaroff's voice was very sweet, and he responded enthusiastically to Dumbledore's greetings: "Oh, Dumbledore, my dear old man, we haven't seen each other for too long! May Merlin bless you. , your body is still healthy!”

Karkaroff's tone was very enthusiastic, but his eyes were extremely empty, like a machine without emotion, even a little "fake".

Facing Karkaroff's greeting, Dumbledore's reaction was very dull, which was completely different from his attitude towards Madame Maxime.

"Can we enter the castle - great freezing spell." After Karkaroff walked in front of Dumbledore, he naturally saw Tom holding the staff. Now he understood why there was solid ice on the lake, so Karkaroff turned to Tom and said something as a greeting.

Karkaroff didn't say anything, but Dumbledore would also invite both parties into the castle, so he waved his hand to indicate that everyone could go back.

In this way, Mrs. Maxim took the lead in leading her students to the castle, with Karkaroff following behind. When Durmstrang's team moved, there was a suppressed shock in the square formation of Hogwarts. Phew: The student at the front of Durmstrang's team, closely following Karkaroff, is Viktor Krum, who just shined in the Quidditch World Cup finals.

After both waves of guests entered the castle, the little wizards of Hogwarts set off.

Tom could hear classmates discussing Krum in the background.

"Oh my god, it's Krum!"

"I know!"

"Ah! I don't even have a quill with me. Do you think he will sign my hat with lipstick?" Some fanatical female fans are already thinking about signing.

Krum's popularity was slightly inferior to that of Lockhart back then.

"Harry, do you have a quill? If possible, I would also like to get a signed photo of him..." Tom heard Ron communicating excitedly with Harry behind him.

"It's boring and ridiculous, isn't it?" Hermione caught up with Tom. It was obvious that she really wanted to complain about what she had just seen and heard.

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