Harry Potter: Reunion with the Enemy

A look of surprise crossed Krum's face.

Harry was his old friend, and because the passionate goalkeeper of the opponent in the final always came to chat with people - thanks to Oliver Wood, Krum had recently heard a lot of interesting stories about Harry's team when he was a few years old, so even though he hadn't seen him for a while, Krum felt very close to Harry.

"I didn't expect to see you here - Ed always mentioned you in his recent letters to me, and I heard that he even took sweet wedding photos for you. The idea of ​​dragons and knights is very interesting, if you remember how you got the golden egg for the first project on a broomstick -" Krum patted Harry's shoulder happily.

"Ah?!!!" Ron's pale face turned bright red. He looked at Harry in disbelief, and his voice became louder because of his excitement. "You're married? When?"

Harry was ready to introduce the Ministry of Magic's plan to deal with the attack to Krum, but was thrown off balance by Krum's unexpected praise. He looked at Ron and said, "No, it's just a photo - don't get me wrong -"

The tips of Ron's ears were as red as his hair. "So you're taking photos in advance to prepare for the wedding? Why didn't you tell me—" Ron paused for a few seconds as if he was choking, and then he spoke slowly in a somewhat sad tone: "That's right—actually we are not your blood relatives, but our family has held many weddings—in fact, we can give you some suggestions—you didn't attend Hermione and I's wedding because of an emergency mission, and we always felt it was a pity."

"Of course you are my family. Your parents treat me better than they treat their own children. Don't let your imagination run wild—" Harry clumsily pulled Ron to his side, "But it's not what you think. We took the photo to pretend to be a couple for a project. We didn't get married secretly without telling anyone."

"So you will inform me of your official wedding, right?" Ron asked seriously.

"Of course! What are you talking about!" Harry interrupted incoherently. When he mentioned the wedding, he subconsciously thought of Draco wearing a wedding suit, which made him blush and Harry felt like steam was about to come out of his ears.

"And me, I've been to Fleur's wedding, so I can't miss yours." Krum's English level improved rapidly under Wood's chat, and he could even interrupt Harry and Ron's fast speech.

"Of course. No - now is not the time to talk about this." Harry changed the subject in time. "Listen, the situation now is that goblins and werewolves are expected to attack tomorrow night, right at the Quidditch camp. Goblins are not very strong in attacking people with dark magic, but they have good weapons. What people need to be vigilant about are werewolves. Because it is a full moon night, werewolves will transform into wolves. If they really bite wizards, it is very likely that there will be a rapid spread of infection."

"I seem to have heard vaguely about the goblins causing chaos in Britain recently, but the coach didn't tell us the details in order to make us concentrate on the game." Krum's expression darkened again. "They want to ruin the Quidditch World Cup and take audiences from all over the world with them?"

"The Department of Magical Sports and Physical Education has already faced the Dark Mark incident at the last World Cup and the huge mistake of the Triwizard Tournament trophy being made into a portkey, so this time around we've actually stepped up our security a lot, but we didn't expect the threat we face to be even greater," Ron said weakly.

Krum nodded solemnly. There was no doubt that he was present at both events. "So what should we do now? Send away all the spectators and players? Postpone the event, or cancel it?"

"This time, the Quidditch World Cup venue has banned all methods of entry except portkeys. For example, the campsite last time could be reached directly by Apparition. This time, the venue is not so loose and is completely protected by spells." Ron replied.

"The Portkey Office is one of the departments under the Department of Magical Transportation. It is responsible for managing the use and maintenance of portkeys. All portkeys produced require authorization and approval from this department. Wizards who use portkeys also need to verify the identity registered when purchasing tickets."

"People who have not passed the ticket identity verification cannot enter the venue." Krum's expression seemed much more relaxed. "Does this solve all the problems?"

"No," said Harry flatly. "Because some of the tickets are bought by werewolves. There is no way to tell werewolves from ordinary wizards before they transform."

"But other species that try to sneak into the venue through the Portkey - such as goblins or giants or even dragons - will be stopped by our Portkeys." Ron added. "Then they will be transported to the location arranged by the Ministry of Magic and subdued."

"And these werewolves who bought tickets might have already sneaked into the Quidditch field." A passing player looked at Krum's conversation with the two curiously. Harry could only pull down the brim of his hat and cover his face tightly.

"What should we do now? Find the werewolves hiding among so many people?" Krum frowned in embarrassment. "If, as you speculated, the infected people on the night of the full moon immediately transformed and bit others, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control the situation."

"That's exactly the point we're taking remedial measures for." Ron pointed to the staff and large boxes in the distance who were distributing some kind of magic tricks.

"What's that?" Krum felt that the Weasley logo on the box looked familiar.

"A magic trick product that has not been approved by the Ministry of Magic's Patent Office." Ron gestured to explain, "It can turn wizards into animals. You can think of it as a Transfiguration without a threshold - but the effect is only less than a day. The Ministry of Magic thinks that such magic trick products will lead to abuse, but this time it has been put to good use. In fact, the version approved by the Ministry of Magic is a product that can only make wizards grow cute animal ears - that is a weakened version."

"Become an animal?"

"Werewolves are only harmful to humans. My father once had a werewolf friend. In order to accompany that werewolf friend on the night of the full moon, he practiced Animagus and achieved this effect in the Shrieking Shack of Hogwarts using animal form." Harry rubbed his eyes and said, "For everyone's safety tomorrow night, these are prepared for wizards who can't use human body transformation. George said he is very happy to promote Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes in this way."

"In this way, we can capture the werewolves hiding in the crowd and interrogate them to provide testimony that the goblins are behind the scenes," Harry added.

"One hundred thousand spectators, one hundred thousand animals?" Krum thought the idea was crazy.

"We have opened a portkey passage for the audience to return the same way, and those who insist on staying in the venue will be forced to use this and be small animals for a night."

"But I should be waiting for the goblins in the swamp on the other side of the portkey tomorrow night. If they bring other friends with them, it will probably be a tough battle." Harry stared at the World Cup stadium on the side. "But here, tomorrow night will be Christmas Eve."