Parents of Hogwarts

Callan never knew where Ariana had gone, and neither did Lily.

However, unlike Lily, Callan guessed that Grindelwald might target Ariana because she contained the terrifying Obscurus. Grindelwald had always believed that the Obscurus was a powerful weapon against Dumbledore.

At first, Karan was still speculating whether Ariana would come to Hogwarts. At the same time, he couldn't help but worry about Ariana's identity, especially the sorting matter. Her age was obviously different from that of the freshmen, and she was much older. If so, does Ariana still need to wear the Sorting Hat?

Unexpectedly, Dumbledore had already arranged everything. He did not let Ariana return to Hogwarts from the beginning, but went to Beauxbatons, and then entered the division that was visiting for the Triwizard Tournament. In the student team.

What a great idea.

Karan thought of Aberforth who was not at the Hog's Head Bar. He must have made a special trip to France to take care of Ariana and eliminate the final risk.

Ariana saw that the two had recognized her, and the corners of her mouth behind the scarf twitched slightly.

Lily resisted calling out Ariana's name, her heart filled with surprise.

Ms. Maxim walked in at a leisurely pace, and everyone was amazed by her tall figure.The students clapped, led by Principal Dumbledore, and many stood on tiptoe, trying to get a better look at the woman.

Madame Maxime's face relaxed, she smiled elegantly, stretched out a gleaming hand, and walked towards Dumbledore.Although Dumbledore was also tall, he barely bent down when he kissed the hand.

"Dear Madam Maxime," he said, "welcome to Hogwarts."

"Dumbledore," Madam Maxim said in a low voice, "I hope you are well."

"Very well, thank you," said Dumbledore.

"My students," Ms. Maxim said, raising a huge hand and waving casually behind her.

About a dozen or so students, both male and female, had gotten off the carriage and were standing behind Madame Maxime.Judging from their appearance, they were all probably around eighteen or nineteen years old, and all of them were trembling slightly.This was not surprising, since their robes seemed to be made of fine silk, and none of them were wearing cloaks.Several students had their heads wrapped in scarves or bandanas.

They all looked up at Hogwarts with looks of awe on their faces.

Except for one person.

She was so beautiful that she looked like a landscape painting. Even though she was not wearing much, she did not feel cold. She was even more elegant than Ms. Maxim.

Many boys were stunned. They had never seen such a beautiful girl.

No one seems to care about Ms. Maxim's precious horse. They are all staring at this girl——

Vivian.

She came too, accompanying Beauxbatons' team.

Karan narrowed his eyes and looked at Vivian, and Meadows walked up to him at some point.

When they were in France, they all had dealings with Vivian. This name was very unique, just like the legendary Lake Fairy who imprisoned Merlin.And she also left a deep impression on Karan——

Because she likes interesting wizards the most.

Karan didn't think this was a good thing, because she was holding Ariana's arm affectionately. Karan always felt that Ariana's posture was a bit stiff. She seemed to want to stay away from Vivian, but she couldn't make her own decisions. leave.

Vivian also discovered Karan, as well as Meadows, who looked solemn.

She raised her chin slightly, ignoring Meadows' hostility (they were very difficult to deal with in the past. Generally speaking, it was because Meadows didn't like Vivian).

Then, Vivian smiled at Karan.

The expression on Callan's face suddenly became as solemn as Meadows's.

Neither he nor Meadows knew whether Vivian was the real Lady of the Lake, but they did hope to find Merlin through Vivian, which could now be said to be "brave" or "courage".

Karan desperately needs Merlin's help, and he has less than a year left.

But this Vivian is very difficult to deal with. Her life experience is a mystery, as if she appeared out of thin air. According to Principal Dumbledore, even Mrs. Maxim is not very clear about her origins.

Karan didn't dare to respond to Vivian's smile, in case she targeted him, for example, wanted to lock him up like Merlin.

But Steve didn't have so many worries. He was overwhelmed by the short-term happiness and immediately celebrated in a low voice: "Did you see it? That girl smiled at me."

Gaspard pushed up his glasses silently, without any fluctuation in his heart, and there was even a hint of schadenfreude in his tone: "Yes, she is smiling at you, Steve, you are really amazing, better than Callan still has charm, not to mention Sirius.”

"That is!"

Steve didn't hear the sarcasm in Gaspard's words at all: "Do you know why magical beasts are so popular? It's because they are cute. This is simply a label on me."

He rubbed his chubby little face, as if trying to prove this point.

"He's cute." Karan turned around and patted Steve on the forehead: "Stop being a nymphomaniac. It's time to go. Come on, go to the lobby. I'm almost freezing to death."

Not everyone is as calm as Callan. Sirius in the Gryffindor team was teasing James: "Man, do you see clearly?"

"What are you looking at?" James was secretly glancing at the expression on Lily's face, wondering why she was so happy.

"Of course it's a girl, what else could it be." Sirius said matter-of-factly: "Stop staring at Lily, your eyes are almost bulging. You should slow down and go talk to girls from other schools. Show off your Quidditch achievements and I guarantee they will fall in love with you before long."

"I didn't look at Lily." James continued to insist: "Okay, where are the girls you are talking about? Are they them? They actually sit with Gryffindor?"

After entering the hall, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons alumni split into two teams and dispersed. Durmstrang naturally sat at the Slytherin house's long table, and Snape happened to be right next to Adam. There was some surprise on his face.

On the other side, Vivian was hugging Ariana. She walked to Lily and sat down, but she did not let Lily and Ariana sit together, but let herself sit between them.

Lily frowned and stared at Vivian, her beautiful face showing an eager expression: "Can we change places?"

Vivian gently curled Lily's red hair with her fingers. Her movements were very familiar, and she didn't feel unfamiliar at all when facing strangers.

She refused gracefully: "No, Lily."

Lily was so angry that she pulled her hair over and pushed it to the other side of her head, preventing Vivian from touching it.

She asked Ariana what was going on with her eyes.

But inexplicably, Ariana blushed. She tried to lower her voice and said, "Wait a little longer, Lily. There will be many opportunities in the future."

Vivian gently poked Ariana's cheek with her slender fingers: "What about me?"

Ariana was silent, but in the end she couldn't bear it anymore and had to say: "Vivian will also go together."

Lily blinked in confusion, and suddenly covered her mouth with her palms, looking completely frightened.

After all the students entered the auditorium and took their seats at the tables in their respective houses, the faculty came in and they filed over to the guest of honor seat and sat down.

Walking last were Professor Dumbledore, Professor Victoria and Madam Maxime.

The Beauxbatons students stood up quickly as soon as they saw their principal appear.Several Hogwarts students couldn't help but laugh.But the Beauxbatons students did not appear embarrassed at all, and it was not until Madam Maxime sat down on Dumbledore's left that they sat down again.

Dumbledore remained standing, and the auditorium gradually became quiet.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts, and - especially - distinguished guests," said Dumbledore, looking at the foreign students with a smile. "It is with great joy that I welcome you. To Hogwarts. I hope and trust that you will feel comfortable and happy here."

"The Tournament will officially begin at the end of the banquet," said Dumbledore. "I now invite everyone to eat and drink as much as they like at home!"

The plates in front of them were piled high with food as usual.The house elves in the kitchen seemed to be pulling out all the stops.Harry had never seen such a sumptuous array of dishes before them, several of which were certainly foreign.

"Oh! French roast lamb!"

Steve excitedly pointed to a plate of chopped lamb. He immediately picked up the plate, and even Vivian's smile was forgotten by him.

Perhaps in his mind, only delicious food can touch the importance of magical animals.

"Today's dinner was really rich."

Karan sighed and served himself a pile of cream salad: "It would be better if it was strawberry flavored."

"Try this." Gespard said calmly, pointing to a plate of pink dishes.

Karan immediately took some and put it in his mouth. For a moment, he was so spicy that he was completely speechless. He quickly stuffed several mouthfuls of salad before finally feeling relieved.

"This isn't strawberry flavored either!" Karan accused angrily, sweat still dripping from his nose.

Gaspard raised the corners of his lips: "At least the colors still look similar."

Steve quietly stopped them for a long time before they started fighting at the dinner table.

"If you don't think it's embarrassing, I still think it's embarrassing!"

His mouth was stuffed with roasted lamb and he seemed to be mumbling as he spoke.

Finally, the dinner time passed safely, and all kinds of desserts appeared immediately. This time there was finally strawberry pudding. Karan slapped away the forks of Guspard and Steve, and put them on his own plate. A lot.

"Do you still want to eat this truffle cake?"

Just as they were exchanging fire with their forks, a voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Steve turned his head and glanced. He suddenly didn't care about the pudding. He changed from a gourmet state to a nymphomaniac again, and there was an indistinct whimpering sound in his throat, like a hard punch in the stomach.

Karan also saw Vivian, with a confusing smile that looked like she had evil intentions.

"Eat, of course."

Karan always felt that he could not let the other party succeed, and Gaspard also calmly served a large piece of truffle cake. The Hufflepuff trio would still be unanimous in this situation.

Except, of course, for someone who couldn't even finish his sentence.

"Oh,"

Vivian didn't look surprised at all. She reached out and picked up the cup with more than half of the strawberry pudding still in it: "Then you won't be able to eat this, so I took the pudding away."

Karan was stunned. He felt like he had lost for some reason.

Gaspard silently placed the served truffle cake on Karan's plate, and he concluded expressionlessly: "Oh no, it looks like you were targeted by her."

Steve laughed out loud. He thought it was much more interesting to watch Karan being deflated than to watch a beautiful woman.

Meadows on the teacher's table was also snickering. Karan looked at her with disgust, but this happened to make Karan notice that there were two more people on both sides of the long table. One was Ba, whom he had met in the Wizarding Competition. Ty Crouch, and the other person turned out to be Auror Moody - he had another eye, it was a magic eye, and it was spinning around in the eye socket, and he quietly curled the corners of his mouth at Karan, something like Saying hello.

But Karan always felt that the expression looked like he had found a criminal target, and it didn't look friendly at all.

"They should be Ministry of Magic staff."

Gespard also saw them, and he analyzed: "I hope it will make the game more interesting."

Callan didn't speak. He pretended to glance casually in the direction of the long table of Slytherin House. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he found Barty Crouch Jr. with a gloomy face.

The sense of déjà vu was so severe that it was hard for Karan not to suspect that this Moody was also impersonated, but now it seemed that he was just a helper specially hired by Dumbledore.

Finally, the desserts were wiped out by the students, and the plates were cleaned.

Dumbledore stood up again. A mixture of excitement and nervousness seemed to permeate the auditorium, and the students were all staring at Dumbledore intently.

"The moment has finally arrived," said Dumbledore, smiling at the upturned faces. "The Triwizard Tournament is about to begin. I would like to explain a few words before bringing the box in. First, please allow me to introduce two Guests, because there are still people who don’t know them, this is Mr. Barty Crouch, Director of the International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Magic, and this is Mr. Alastor Moody, the Auror of the Ministry of Magic.”

The two applauses were not very enthusiastic. Neither of the two people looked amiable in appearance. They did not wave to the students in response. One remained motionless while the other kept observing them with his magic eyes.

Dumbledore seemed to have anticipated this reaction. He did not waste any more time and immediately changed the subject and said, "Now, Mr. Filch, please bring up the box."

No one noticed that Filch had been lurking in a corner of the auditorium just now. At this moment, he walked towards Dumbledore, holding a large wooden box inlaid with jewels in his hand. The box looked very old.The students watched with fascination and discussed with interest.

"This year's events have been carefully scrutinized," said Dumbledore. "There are three events, taking place at different times throughout the school year, that will test the warriors in many different ways...test them. Talent in magic - their courage and their ability to reason - and, of course, their ability to overcome danger."

Hearing the last sentence, the auditorium became silent, and everyone seemed to have stopped breathing.

"As you already know, there will be three warriors participating in the competition," Dumbledore continued calmly, "each representing a participating school. We will rate them based on the quality of their completion of each competition event. After the three events are completed, The champion with the highest score will win the Triwizard Cup. It is the Goblet of Fire that is chosen by an impartial selector."

Having said this, Dumbledore pulled out his wand and tapped the lid of the box three times.The lid slowly creaked open.Dumbledore reached in and pulled out a large, roughly carved wooden goblet.The cup itself was unremarkable at all, but it was filled with dancing blue-white flames.

Dumbledore closed the box and placed the cup on the lid so that everyone in the auditorium could see it clearly.

"Every student who wants to run for a warrior must write his name and school name on a piece of parchment and throw it into this goblet," said Dumbledore. Sign up inside. Tomorrow night, Halloween night, the Goblet will select the names of the three students it thinks best represent the three schools. Tonight, the Goblet will be in the foyer for all All the students have access to it.”

"In order to prevent underage students from being tempted," said Dumbledore, "when the goblet is placed in the hall, I will draw an age line around it. No one under seventeen years of age can cross this line. Age line.”

At the same time, Meadows glanced over at Callan, who was looking at Meadows.

In addition to the age line, there will be additional people keeping an eye on the Goblet of Fire to prevent anyone from actually causing any trouble and causing a farce of minors participating in the competition.

"Finally, I would like to remind every student who is going to participate in the campaign to pay attention that this competition is not a child's play, and don't participate rashly. Once the Warrior is selected by the Goblet of Fire, he must stick to the game to the end. throwing your name into the cup, in fact, forms a magical contract that must be kept. Once you become a warrior, you are not allowed to change your mind. So please think twice and find out that you really want to participate in the game, Put the name in the glass again. Well, I think it's time for everyone to go to bed. Good night everyone."

The students left the auditorium excitedly, and Karan was also among the team walking back to the dormitory. At this moment, he realized very clearly that the Triwizard Tournament had begun.

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At the same time, he started a new book, "The Archaeologists of Hogwarts".I don’t dare to update the new book too much. It’s very young. It’s still a Hogwarts fanfic, but this time it’s finally written about the younger generation (happy). It’s a professorial novel. The protagonist is a student from Snape’s class. They are classmates. (There seems to be no such type of professorial article yet.) Part of the inspiration comes from the original book "Hogwarts: A School History". The original book says that this book has more than 1000 pages. Unfortunately, there is no detailed expansion. If there is, The words are great. Once written, it will definitely be no worse than the original work.

If Rowling doesn't write it, then I'll write it, just like a parent.

If you are interested, please take a look, thank you.

Thanks for the support!