Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 572 The First Project (Start)
(already edited)

Bagman looked up at the scene in front of him suspiciously, and froze in place.

Dumbledore, Egilbert Vonnut, and Barty Crouch also stopped (they seemed to smell something... Bagman sniffed), and they saw that the two parties from the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry avoided East Fork by coincidence.

The expressions on the faces of everyone present were indescribably weird.

This made Dumbledore and the others unable to figure out...what happened here.

Bagman was back in his old Hornets suit, and his cheerful face had grown serious.

"What's the matter? Why are you standing here...Professor McGonagall, what's going on?"

Professor McGonagall opened his mouth, and it took him a long time to sort out his clues. After modifying what happened just now, he told several people.

"What, such a thing happened..." Bagman looked serious, and half a day later, this guy still left this matter to others.

"Professor Dumbledore, Mr. Crouch...what do you think?"

There was an awkward silence, apparently Dumbledore and the others didn't want to participate in this smelly topic.

"Mr. Egilbert Fonnert, this is your student again...can you tell me?"

"...Let's do this... First of all, it's getting late, we have to start the game normally." Feng Nat said with some hesitation.

"...And it's best not to disclose this matter to everyone present. It just so happens that most of the people here are referees and warriors...Let's start the game first, and then discuss countermeasures?"

"In the end, no matter how you say it, one thing is irrefutable. This kind of thing happened at this moment... It is the most serious blow to the reputation of Hogwarts and Ilvermorny. We must handle it carefully."

"As for East Fork...although the circumstances are excusable, as a warrior of Ilvermorny...he actually cast a spell on his own to attack the witches of the same school. I will inform his parents about this matter...the guy must be seriously held accountable. He must sincerely apologize and win the forgiveness of the witches..."

Egilbert Vonnert spoke vaguely, explaining his solution.

In short, it's still the same thing, as long as someone denies it for me and controls public opinion...it's fine if the matter slowly fades away.

As for (la) or not (la), that's not a problem.

As long as no one publicizes these unlucky things during the 'Top Ten Tournament', it will be fine to detonate them.

The others nodded in agreement, and then Agilbert Fonnart began to growl, lecturing both sides of Ilvermorny to keep them a secret.

(Obviously this guy is very angry)

Finally, under the arrangement of Dumbledore, Professor Flitwick led the students of Ilvermorny into the auditorium first, saying that he was going to watch the game there.

(It seems that these unlucky guys are separated from other students, and they are not allowed to spread this 'news' for the time being.)
Then other warriors, including Harry... and other referee principals came to the Hogwarts library under the leadership of Ludo Bagman. (East Fork was left at the end. This guy is a big trouble for everyone present.)
"What's going on? You are much slower..."

Charlie Weasley and Mrs. Pince stood in the library talking impatiently.

Charlie looked a little strange, while Mrs. Pince avoided Harry's gaze.

"Forget it... Where's the fire dragon and the dragon trainer? Is everything arranged?" Bagman asked.

Crouch on the side also came over. He had a serious face and didn't say much, obviously waiting for an answer.

"Well, they all went in there from another passage, but that unlucky place... the fire dragons can't stay for long, even if they are appeased by a dragon trainer, they will be restless, especially there is a super-large Ukrainian iron belly inside..."

As he spoke, the corners of Charlie's mouth twitched, and his eyes shifted away from him in an instant, obviously remembering an unpleasant experience that night.

Accompanied by these words, this guy also fell into such a low and depressed situation for the first time in history.

He lowered his head tightly, hid in a corner, and never said his mumbled, vague adjectives again.

"Okay, now the game is about to start... Everyone stand in front of me, pay attention to my introduction."

Bagman patted his face, trying to change his expression into a very excited one, and then said, "——When you enter the competition field, you will be assigned to various parts of the field, before your eyes... there will be many paths. I can tell you that you can go forward on every stone step...but there is one for you to remember... Up, the top is the only exit."

"Of course, as we have said before, you will face difficult challenges from dragons, scorpions, snails, three-headed dogs, sphinxes... and many other monsters as you move forward."

"...You can also avoid the level of these monsters' handles and look for other stone steps leading to the exit. But I must tell you one thing... When you find the way out, you still have a task to do: that is to pick up a golden egg, which contains information and important props for the next game..."

"...In the first event, there are a total of ten golden eggs, which are located on the checkpoints on each road...I can guarantee that you will all encounter at least one checkpoint with a hidden golden egg."

Barty Cratch spoke at this moment, and he said coldly, "The referees will score based on your performance on the road, remember that during the game, we will know everything about you. Please don't do some bad things... such as cast spells on other warriors, or deliberately provoke the fire dragon..."

"Okay, is there any question?" Ludo Bagman asked with a stiff smile.

"What arena... Where is it? This is just the Hogwarts library, we don't understand what you mean..." Chiko Morita asked the question in the hearts of almost everyone present.

The warriors (except Harry) nodded their heads, and their eyes were also full of suspicion.

Bagman: "...This...? Professor Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore said gently, "Come with me."

He led a group of people to the restricted area. (As well as Charlie Weasley, only Mrs. Pince stood where she seemed to be staying.)
Then everyone stopped, and Dumbledore waved his wand again and tapped the ground.

The bronze Moubis ring slowly floated up,

"Infinite knowledge, infinite wisdom!"

The spell was slowly chanted, and then the Moubis ring began to turn into a silver mirror channel, and then slowly began to expand, turning into a channel.

"Entering it means the game has begun." Dumbledore turned around and said to the crowd.

"Don't be afraid, this is the secret library of our Ravenclaw College... It was only recently discovered. After being repaired by the Ministry of Magic, it is the most suitable venue for the first project."

"Okay. Everyone stand in a queue and enter one by one. The referees come first..."

"Who's that called?...Oh, Akagi Eiichi...the vice president of the Japan Magic Shrine Student Union is here, and you are also one of the referees." Bagman shouted.

He stood in front of everyone and yelled and directed.

"Remember, don't worry too much, analyze and deal with everything calmly, and use all the knowledge you have learned in your respective magic schools. If you want to give up the game, you can use your wand to launch red fireworks. The referees and I...that is, your principal and professors have been watching your progress from the top to protect you from getting into too dangerous a situation...don't worry too much."

Bagman's last sentence was clearly directed at Harry.

The faces of the warriors were full of surprise and uneasiness.

Although the looks of the referees looked a bit disbelieving, they didn't show much surprise to the news. Apparently Dumbledore had already told them what would happen in advance.

Harry looked around.

Cedric nodded, showing that he understood Bagman's words.

Furong and Camilla were close together, discussing in a low voice.

Morita Chiko kept her usual mysterious smile, obviously she knew far more than the average warrior.

Chen Xiaolong yawned, but he was still not interested at all.

As for Mobutu, Nasser, and Krum, they didn't respond at all. However, Harry felt that the three of them were completely different. Some of them were nervous and wanted to vomit, while others were trembling slightly because of excitement, trying their best to suppress their instincts.

"are you ready?"

After the referees (including Weasley, Bagman, Crouch and others) entered in turn, Professor McGonagall stood by and said to the warriors.

The ten warriors nodded together.

"Then I wish you all good luck!...Next, let's go in one by one." The shadow on Professor McGonagall's face finally dissipated.

Harry followed behind Cedric Diggory, passed through the silver mirror for the second time, and entered this [Endless Labyrinth].

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After Harry and the others were called up by Professor McGonagall, they slipped into the castle to watch the fun.

The situation of the teachers and students of the Hogwarts school below, including the students of the Magic Shrine, German Shepherd Strong and other magic schools... It was as if they were discarded on the lawn outside.

There was a burst of loud insults coming from inside the oak door, and then the roaring reprimand.

It made the students very curious, and people began to whisper and discuss... what unexpected situation happened there.

However, Snape Severus, the old bat, had a cold face, patrolling the crowd back and forth, suppressing the restlessness of the students.

After a while, after everyone felt that something was wrong, Professor Flitwick trotted out and said something in a low voice to Snape.

Then the students were lined up... According to the situation of one college and one college (other magic schools went first), they re-entered Hogwarts Castle and came to the middle of the auditorium.

At this time, the long tables in the auditorium had long since disappeared, and in the center of the room, the flame door leading to the old classroom was lit up again.

The rings of fire in the old classroom are arranged in a ladder order.

Under the shadow of the flickering firelight, McGuffin saw that there were already many people there.It looked like the student representatives of the long-disappeared Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and he couldn't see what was going on in the specific situation.

It's just that the atmosphere in their place was so solemn that the noisy voices of other students in the auditorium stopped.

"What's going on? What about Harry and the others? Aren't we going to watch the competition of the first event? Why are we here..." Hermione asked curiously.

"No...couldn't it have been cancelled? Fred..."

"Don't, don't scare me! George!"

Beside McGuffin, the two Weasley brothers, George and Fred, were trembling, their teeth grinding up and down.

Obviously these two guys are playing big.

McGuffin heard that the two brothers invested all their savings in order to become a manor, and owed a lot of foreign debts.

If the game is really cancelled, the twin brothers will have a lot of fun.

"The first match of the Top Ten Tournament is about to start, and you all line up to watch it... No questions, no whispers, no running around... If I find out, I will successfully develop my newest... I have applied for the Ministry of Magic's patent No. 101 sex-changing potion on you, and conduct experiments to perfect it. Even if you are not my students..."

Snape threatened coldly, he easily suppressed all the restlessness among the students.

——As expected of an old bat.

Then, all the students approached the old classroom in a very orderly manner and very quietly.

It’s still exactly the same as before: the spiral fire path, the four huge giant statues, the dark and bright bottom floor, the dazzling and colorful starry sky dome...

The only difference is that the Goblet of Fire holding the chosen warrior has disappeared.

On top of that stone platform is... a black and yellow copper book.

And Hagrid was there leading a big black dog. It was not known whether he was simply standing there waiting for someone, or guarding.

"That's it?" Ron reminded McGuffin's elbow excitedly.

"I know."

After Snape handed over to Hagrid, he opened the black and yellow copper book, and then tapped something on a certain page with his wand.

Then, with loud rumbling noises, the layers of spiral fire paths began to grow rapidly, as if they had been injected with hormones, and were stretched, pulling out giant stone staircase platforms one after another.

Just like the pyramids in Egypt, the step by step...the fire path is burning fiercely in the groove...in front of the wide stone staircase passage.

Under the leadership of Hagrid and Snape, MacGuffin and his students stepped on the stone steps and walked up this passage step by step...

On either side of them were streams of flame that were constantly burning... like walls.

In the end they stopped at the height of the heads of the Big Four statues.

Snape opened the brass book again and drew his own wand across it.

Then, the earholes, nostrils, and mouths of the four giant statues spewed out strands of gray-white smoke, which gradually sank into the ground, flooded the bottom layer, and began to spread upwards along the fire path.

But the strange thing is that the smoke is only flowing in the grooves, and merged with the flames in the fire channel to form a kind of... a curtain whose texture cannot be described by anyone.

In the end, eight beams of light shot out from the eight pairs of eye holes of the statues of the four giants, shining on the fire paths in various positions of the old classroom from eight directions.

Then, McGuffin saw the figures of warriors on the 'curtain' in front of him.

Come alive, just like a magic photo, or a Muggle movie or TV series.

There are figures of all the warriors... Of course, Harry is also included!

(End of this chapter)