Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 41 Merlin Test
There is still one month before the summer vacation. Due to the cancellation of the exam, the students seem to be very leisurely, and the happy laughter of the students can be heard in every corner of the school.A few days later, the students found several explosive news on the student bulletin board:
First, Lucius Malfoy was expelled from the school board, which symbolized the complete loss of influence of the Malfoy family in Hogwarts, because Draco seemed very disappointed in this matter, and he no longer walked around the school arrogantly.Under Xie Lin's enlightenment, he finally began to follow Xie Lin's advice, no longer fantasizing about showing off his power with family power, but calmed down to study magic, practice flying, and made up his mind to rely on his own strength to maintain the family's glory.

Seeing that Draco finally made progress, Schelling felt that although the turmoil had damaged the reputation of the Malfoy family, it was still a good thing.What's more, it was none other than the Patriarch of Greengrass, Mr. Gareth Greengrass, who replaced Lucius as the school manager.

Second, Dumbledore himself announced that he would restart a college friendly match that had been suspended for centuries. This game was called "Merlin's Test".

The Merlin Sir Order was founded by the legendary wizard Merlin in the eleventh century. It is the earliest magic organization in the magic world and enjoys a great reputation.The purpose of the Merlin Sir Order was to help Muggles. It stipulates that wizards are prohibited from using magic on Muggles, and it is agreed that each wizard in the group is responsible for protecting Muggles.

Later, due to the establishment of the Ministry of Magic and the promulgation of the "International Statute of Secrecy" in 1689, wizards completely went into hiding. The Wizengamot established an honor system in the name of Sir Merlin to reward those wizards who have made great contributions to the development of wizarding society.The Order of Merlin is divided into three different classes: Order of the First Class, Order of the Second Class and Order of the Third Class.The winning prize of this competition is a special medal of honor independent of the grade system, which is specially awarded to students with outstanding performance.

Just when everyone was talking about this friendly match with enthusiasm, a new piece of news came, which extinguished most people's fantasy of wanting to participate.

Except for Slytherin, each house can only send one person to participate. The candidates will be decided by the head of the house. They can be selected or directly designated.Although there is no express rule that senior students must participate in the competition, generally speaking, senior students always have an advantage over lower grade students. Everyone knows that the qualifications for the competition will only fall among those few senior elite seniors.

What makes people feel very unfair is that Slytherin can send a total of three students to participate in the competition. The reason given by Dumbledore is: Merlin himself is a student who graduated from Slytherin College, and it is understandable that the reward system he left is biased towards his juniors in the same house.Sherlin immediately understood that Merlin was actually taking the blame for Dumbledore. This was obviously the compensation for Slytherin that Dumbledore had mentioned to him. Unexpectedly, the pious Dumbledore would be so scheming, Sherin thought maliciously.

The candidates for Slytherin were selected the fastest, and Snape impatiently directly designated the 6th grade prefect Gemma Farley, the 4th grade Cassius Warrington, and the 2nd grade Sherin Malfoy as candidates.

Gallup Lestrange, who was originally one of the most popular candidates, unexpectedly lost the election, which caused a lot of followers around Gallup to lose, and caused a big blow to the reputation of the Lestrange family.Gallup's gloomy figure can often be seen in the Slytherin lounge, and of course no one dares to offend his bad luck.

Schelling was not surprised that he was selected. With his current strength and reputation, he was more than enough to represent Slytherin. For this competition, he wanted to increase his knowledge, and he was able to participate with the mentality of a higher grade student.

Besides, as a member of the Malfoy family, it is not difficult to obtain the Order of Merlin, as long as you donate a large amount of money to the Ministry of Magic.

In the next few days, other academies basically decided on candidates.The candidate for Gryffindor is the 6th grade prefect Percy Wesley. It is said that he has obtained 12 certificates in the OWL exam and is a fighter among the top students.The candidate for Ravenclaw is the sixth-grade prefect Penelope Clearwater, a beautiful girl with long brown curly hair who was once petrified by the basilisk and recovered from the petrified state a few days ago.

The candidates for these two colleges are not surprising, they are all at the level of senior prefects.

Hufflepuff's selection seemed odd by comparison.The candidate for Hufflepuff is Cedric Diggory, a grade 4 student. This little handsome guy is still unknown in the entire Hogwarts. Apart from being the Seeker of the Quidditch team, there is no other attention.Of course, Schelling, who is familiar with the original book, knows that this handsome guy is not bad. He was almost the strongest existence in the school when he was in the sixth grade. That's why he was selected as the representative of Hogwarts by the Goblet of Fire.

Hearing these familiar names from previous lives, and thinking that he would become their opponent, an uncontrollable excitement stirred in Xie Lin's heart.

Soon, the arrival of the second week of June also meant the beginning of Merlin's test.

The venue for the competition was the Quidditch Stadium, and there were no seats left early in the morning. Students from all major colleges attended to cheer for the representatives of their colleges.

The competition is divided into three items. The topic of the competition will be provided by a thick ancient magic book with a dark purple cover that Dumbledore is carrying. It is a magic book with autonomous consciousness similar to the Goblet of Fire.

The first event is the Potions Competition.Dumbledore waved his wand at the Book of Merlin, and the Book of Merlin opened automatically, flipping rapidly until a certain page was turned over, and a deep voice came out, "The antidote to the Potion of Living Hell..."

Living Hell Decoction is a powerful sedative and sleeping pill that can make people fall into a deep sleep. It belongs to the 6th grade NEWT improvement class, so senior students do have an advantage.Among the contestants, only Percy and Penello know how to make. Although Gemma is also in the 6th grade, she has not entered the Potions Advanced Class, so she is just as confused and at a loss as the junior contestants.But the topic of the competition was not to make the living hell potion, but to make its antidote. Percy and Penello might not know this kind of knowledge beyond the course.

Fortunately, Schelling just knew the answer to this question.The answer was found in the "Compendium of Medieval Remedies" that Meredith gave Schelling at Christmas, a potion invented by an ancestor of the Shafiq family.

At that time, she fell in love with a handsome Muggle, but because of family opposition, she came up with the idea of ​​using the potion of living hell to pretend to be dead and eloped. For this reason, she spent a lot of thought on inventing an antidote.However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. During her research and development of the potion, the Muggle fell in love with another girl, so she didn't keep her promise to rescue her after she was buried in the ground, but let her be buried alive.She was born from the dead and completely hated because of love, and tortured the Muggle lover and vixen to death with black magic.

Although the antidote was not used in the end, the method of making it was recorded, and it was named "Spirit Potion".

While the rest of the contestants were still thinking hard, Schelling had already started his performance. His movements were smooth and smooth, as if he was making a work of art instead of a boring potion. The referees nodded in satisfaction.

Professor McGonagall couldn't help but turned to Dumbledore and said, "If this child had entered school earlier, perhaps the last Potions Championship champion would have belonged to Hogwarts, not Mahotokuro."

Dumbledore nodded slightly, and looked at the other contestants. Among them, Percy, Penello, and Gemma all started making their potions not long after Schelling started. Cedric just started to choose materials at this moment, and Cassius was still thinking hard.The process of refining potions is one-way and boring, so I won't mention it here.

The invigorating potion made by Schelling was very standard, and it was no surprise that he got a perfect score of 50 points. There was a lot of cheers in the Slytherin area. Even Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff had some young wizards not hesitate to give applause, although most of them were girls from lower grades.

The high-concentration refreshment potion refined by Percy can wake up poisoned sleeping people, but it has side effects of nausea, stomach pain and vomiting. He scored 40 points.

What Penelope refined was the mandrake resurrection potion, which was probably inspired by her own experience of being petrified. Unexpectedly, it can also revive people from deep sleep, but after waking up, people are still drowsy and their eyes are dim. She scored 40 points just like Percy.

The general antidote that Gemma and Cedric refined had no effect, and they only got 10 points, which is equivalent to a consolation point.Cassius failed to refine the potion under great pressure, without any finished product, and was the only contestant who got zero points.

Immediately afterwards came the second event of the competition: Transfiguration Competition.The title given by the Book of Merlin is: Turning stones into living mice.

The task was easy enough for every contestant to do it - Percy, Penello, and Gemma managed to turn stones into lifelike mice on the first attempt; Cedric conjured a beardless mouse on the first attempt and didn't succeed until the second attempt; Cassius took three attempts to succeed, although the mouse's tail seemed to be a bit shorter.

After reading Professor McGonagall's transfiguration notes, Schelling thought that his transfiguration had already reached the OWL level, but turning into a living mouse was too unchallenging, so Schelling planned to challenge a more difficult transfiguration—after all, Schelling was the youngest in the field, and he didn't have the pressure and burden that other players had to win.Schelling carefully recalled every important detail of the Transfiguration in Professor McGonagall's notes, and then concentrated all his energy to perform the Transfiguration on the stone——the stone turned into a lifelike Mortra rat in everyone's amazed eyes!

Although the magical creatures created by the transfiguration technique do not have magical properties, and there is no difference in natural abilities between the Mortrarat and an ordinary mouse, it is not easy to use the transfiguration technique to create dense and agile sea anemone-like tentacles on the mouse's back. If the details of the transformation are not well controlled, it is easy to become octopus-like or squid-like tentacles, then it is not a dog.

Schelling, Percy, Penello and Gemma all scored 50 points, while Cedric scored 40 points and Cassius scored 35 points.

暂时的积分榜如下：谢林100分、珀西和佩内洛90分、杰玛60分、塞德里克50分、卡修斯35分。卡修斯基本冠军无望，塞德里克亦机会渺茫。冠军的热门只剩下4位参赛者，而谢林作为唯一一位低年级学生，在参赛者中尤其亮眼。

(End of this chapter)