Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 540 Flying Curse

In the next few days, many students one after another, in the test of the phantoms of the four giants... fell to the ground.

Whether it's the students from Hogwarts or other magic schools... none of them passed this test to become warriors.

This further confirms the rumor:

——This test is the guise used by the "Top Ten Tournament Committee" to appease people's hearts. They have no intention of arranging places other than ten warriors.

A Japanese wizard named Eiichi Akagi is pretty much at his best so far.

Most cannot even pass the test of the first apparition.

This made the students angry with the professors at the 'Big Ten Tournament Committee'.

The twin brothers, George and Fred, were also hit hard by that shameful 'exhibition match', and it took them a long time to recover.

After that, the two did not know what to do with Lee Jordan again.

In fact, for Harry, Ron and the others who were still underage... students who had no hope of becoming warriors at first, the current scene just broke the illusion in their hearts, and they didn't feel much loss in their hearts.

And the ones who are really angry about this are... those senior students who are about to graduate and who are very likely to become warriors, such as Angelina...

McGuffin and the others were soon overwhelmed by the resumption of the course.

As it turned out, Hermione was always right.

The professors of Hogwarts did not let them go because a world-renowned event was held at Hogwarts.

Perhaps it is precisely because the 'Top Ten Tournament' may delay their time in the second half of the year, so the professors continue to speed up the courses and increase extracurricular homework...to catch up with the original teaching plan.

They seem to be striving to end the one-year coursework within half a year.

That mountain of homework is simply a nightmare that every student cannot get rid of.

The top ten competition seemed to be pulled into an unreachable dream in an instant
Although guys like Cedric and Krum can always cause a lot of witches to scream, love letters, and sign autographs when they walk between schools.

But that is almost the patent of witches under the second grade and above the sixth grade, and basically has nothing to do with McGuffin and the others.

Perhaps only the occasional news from other people that a certain student who did not give up challenged the Big Four again and failed miserably... could make McGuffin and Harry feel that they have some connection with the Top Ten Tournament.

Among the students, the enthusiasm for the Big Ten Tournament disappeared faster than a piss in Antarctica.

At the same time, the meeting between Harry and Sirius at Hagrid's cabin was somewhat unhappy,

(Black asked Harry...their meeting must avoid the MacGuffin.) His godfather insisted on putting MacGuffin eye drops on Harry and the three of them while McGuffin was away.

In Blake's opinion, although McGuffin is very firm (anti-Voldemort), he is not a good friend.

"There are so many unscrupulous thoughts stuffed into his head, he is no different from those Death Eaters... You must stay away from these not-so-good thoughts..."

【House of Requirement·Study Room】,

Ron vividly imitated Sirius' voice.

"McGuffin, Black's words are full of guard against you, he is very worried that your bad thoughts will affect Harry..."

"Seriously, you scared Sirius!" Ron said amusedly, "Another person who believes in your terrible rumors... If you continue like this, McGuffin, your reputation after graduation... can be compared with the Dark Lord."

"I don't know why he did that." Harry apologized sullenly to McGuffin.

"fine!"

To be honest, the only thing McGuffin cares about now is the [Blood Curse].

As long as there is no change in the fact that Dumbledore lifted the [Blood Curse] for himself after selecting the warrior, then it will be fine.
Beyond that, everything else is secondary.

McGuffin in turn comforted Harry and the others, "I did make a mistake. After all, Black only found out about his brother's whereabouts in that way a few days ago. He is indeed very sad..."

A little uncomfortable, he quickly changed the subject and said:
"Alright, Harry, we should start learning [Occlumency]. After you practiced in private, do you feel that you have improved compared to last time..."

Speaking of this, Harry's whole face immediately turned violent, "To be honest, I guess I don't have the talent in this area... Hermione has roughly learned it, but I still have nothing. Not to mention the professors' crazy teaching enthusiasm... How can I find time to practice [Occlumency]!"

"That's right! Let me say...McGuffin, why don't we try to challenge the Big Four?"

"Us?" Hermione asked.

Ron said angrily, "Okay, I was wrong, it's McGuffin, okay!?"

He then immediately brought up the topic of McGuffin, "McGuffin, tell us the truth, can you defeat those four phantoms... I remember that you were able to defeat one of them the year before last? And at the end of the second year, didn't you and that fake Gerald Lockhart also meet the test of the Big Four?"

"You guys don't want to take advantage of us not paying attention, go to the challenge by yourself in the middle of the night, and be elected as a warrior, right? That would be too uninteresting!" Ron shouted suddenly, with a look of 'sudden realization' on his face.

"Ron Weasley... Use your brain, do you think this kind of thing can be hidden?"

"And didn't McGuffin tell us when he was in the second grade? The matter between him and that Slavinley is completely different from what it is now." Hermione rolled her eyes, and practiced the [Flying Curse] homework just assigned by Professor Flitwick a little irritably.

——Throw a few red balls to the far side of this room, and then summon them again through the [Flying Curse].

Hermione was good enough that she could act like a magnet... making those little balls whiz towards her.

But she was still not satisfied.

She always wanted to be like the McGuffin, who swung the wand and caught the ball directly in her hands.

For this effect, Hermione kept practicing, but the small ball flying around hit Ron and Harry on the back of the head several times instead.

Of course, the two of them barely complained, and they couldn't even say something serious to express their anger.

After all, Hermione's 'assistance' to the pile of homework that looks very worrying... these two guys barely finished it.

Although Hermione's persuasion... dispelled Ron's whimsical ideas.

But this guy obviously still didn't give up the idea of ​​encouraging McGuffin to take part in that test, slapped Cedric in the face, and showed Gryffindor's prestige.

"...McGuffin, you'd better not teach Harry that useless [Occlumency], or it would be more practical to teach the two of us directly how to pass the test of the Big Four... You, a rich man, don't need it, but Harry and I urgently need it... Come to think of it, it's worth nearly five thousand Galleons..."

In the end, Ron directly exposed his true thoughts, and he then persuaded McGuffin with another reason, "What's more, Professor Trelawney... Didn't the last class predict that there will be one more warrior participating in this Top Ten Tournament?"

"That must be... one of the three of us!"

Even Harry couldn't take it anymore.

"Ron, haven't you always said that Trelawney is an old hag who has become a liar? Why now..."

"I've corrected my opinion. Didn't Professor Trelawney correctly predict the return of the Dark Lord, and it's no big deal if it happens again... And doesn't her current behavior prove that she was faking it before?"

"Professor Trelawney is a truly capable fortune-teller..." Ron argued feebly, his attitude changed 180 degrees from before.

"Then why didn't you mention that Trelawney was predicting Harry's death again, with certainty and more certainty than usual..." Hermione retorted angrily.

Ron didn't say a word, he still had a stiff face, he still looked very unconvinced, and he was still begging for McGuffin's help.

In desperation, McGuffin could only stop practicing [Occlumency (Extraordinary Stage)] to teach Harry or Ron how to pass the Big Four test.

(McGuffin used this method to cooperate with the rest of Badrin's magical brain-boosting potion...to sort out the messy memories in his mind, and by the way suppress the [Blood Curse] erosion rate that had increased due to the use of Parseltongue a few days ago.)
McGuffin said, "There is a quick and easy way to pass that test..."

"First of all, the first step is to try to be ruthless at the beginning of the challenge. It is best to directly disable the first phantom that comes out and erase it...to turn one against four... into 1V3..."

"But..." Hermione also wanted to hear what McGuffin could do.

"It's nothing, you still didn't hear what Snape meant? The challenge started...was to meet the test of the four giants, not just one phantom...nor was it a separate test for the four phantoms. I'm sure the phantoms of the four giants will attack the challenger together."

"Wow, that's mean, isn't it?" Ron exclaimed.

"This in itself is a test of your strength and... your thinking and reaction to dangerous situations..."

"Thinking about the situations we encountered last year, if it weren't for luck... Ron, our end would be much worse than these soft tests." McGuffin said impatiently.

Ron shivered and stopped shouting.

"...The second step is to separate the other three phantoms directly, and don't let them attack together... Otherwise, you will never pass this test."

"What do you mean?" Ron asked.

"Those phantoms are constantly improving the magic power they can use...and the scope of the magic spell they use..."

"When the Japanese wizard Akagi Eiichi challenged, the magic spell used by the phantom of the Big Four was much stronger than against George and the others..."

Ron thought about it carefully, then nodded.

"But is there any way to separate them!?" Harry asked, "Perhaps those senior student representatives will have a way, but for us... there is no such powerful spell at all!"

"There are no useless spells, only mindless wizards!"

"Harry, every spell is only useful... Didn't Professor Flitwick teach you this method today?"

"What!" the three shouted.

Just at this time, Hermione summoned those red balls from a distance and grabbed them in her hand.

The three of them stared suspiciously at the ball in Hermione's hand, puzzled.

Only Harry's eyes gradually brightened, "Albert, you mean..."

"Well, Ron is flying!"

McGuffin quickly raised the wand at hand and said the [Flying Curse].

Ron didn't react, so he left his feet off the ground, rolled and screamed... all the way to McGuffin.

Fortunately, McGuffin held Ron lightly with his wand and stopped Ron in mid-air.

Then turned him over from head to tail and put him down.

"As for the remaining two, it's up to you to figure out your own way. In short, you must have an idea that goes beyond the norm, and think about the possibilities that the professors have no restrictions on. Originally, I was optimistic about George and Fred. They both have such unconstrained characteristics... Perhaps Snape also thought about it in the same way, so he directly got them out first and eliminated them."

Ron shook his head with a frustrated look on his face. After McGuffin demonstrated like this, he finally extinguished his ambition to become a warrior.

Obviously this guy's [Flying Curse] is still far behind.

"It's actually not that difficult...just concentrate your mind and focus on the specific image of the object you want to summon!" Hermione comforted.

However, after Harry finished practicing [Occlumency], McGuffin and the others practiced [Flying Curse] again. (Professor Flitwick will check their mastery in the next class)

……

Afterwards, as McGuffin said, the phantom of the Big Four must be viewed as a test from the very beginning.

The round-faced witch mocked by Donald Eastfork failed the challenge because she didn't think of this.

Originally, facing the siege of the three phantoms, she was able to cope with it by summoning, manipulating, and transforming water... magic.

But when the Ravenclaw phantom who had previously 'defeated' went off in person again and besieged with the other three phantoms, her casting rhythm was completely messed up, leading to the final failure.

And at this time, almost (except for the Warriors)... all the most capable student representatives have already failed the challenge.

So everyone started to lose hope about it.

Only some students regard this test as a stage to hone themselves and show themselves...then they will challenge.

Just like de LS Malfoy.

Since she challenged the phantom of the Big Four and broke her own arm, the students of Slytherin seemed to be less harsh and bullying to her.

MacGuffin Harry and the others could see this from Potions class, when DeLS Malfoy was allowed to sit next to Slytherin again.

(End of this chapter)