New Professor at Hogwarts

Mr. Weasley led the way. Everyone clutched their purchases and walked quickly into the woods along the path illuminated by lanterns.

They could hear thousands of people walking around, and various sounds came and went. Excited shouts, enthusiastic laughter, and high-pitched singing resounded through the forest.

In the current environment and atmosphere, this kind of fanatical excitement is very contagious. Xia Ran and the others couldn't help laughing, with excited expressions on their faces.

They walked in the woods for about twenty minutes, laughing and joking loudly as they slowly followed the crowd out of the woods. At this time, they found themselves in the shadow of a huge stadium.

Xia Ran stopped along with the others and looked up. She could only see part of the magnificent golden wall surrounding the arena, because the venue was so big that it could seat 100,000 wizards.

Harry and Hermione also had surprised looks on their faces.

"It can accommodate a hundred thousand spectators!" Mr. Weasley introduced specifically. "Five hundred staff from the Ministry of Magic have been busy working on this place for a whole year, and every inch of the land here has been cast with a Muggle expulsion spell. This Throughout the year, whenever Muggles approach this place unintentionally, they will suddenly remember urgent matters and walk away in a hurry... Oh, God bless them!"

He led everyone to the nearest entrance - after all, there must be more than one entrance to such a large stadium - where there were already many wizards from various countries shouting and speaking with different accents.

"First class tickets!" The Ministry of Magic wizard at the entrance looked at their tickets and said, "Top box! Go all the way upstairs, Arthur, to the top."

The stairs leading to the stadium were covered with purple-red carpets. Xia Ran and the crowd climbed up the stairs together. Slowly, the crowds of people walked into the stands on the left and right respectively.

However, Xia Ran and the others still needed to keep going up, and finally reached the top of the stairs.

They found themselves in a small box at the highest point of the stadium, facing the golden goal post.

There are about twenty purple and gold-plated seats in the small box, divided into two rows.

"Children, let's sit down." Mr. Weasley said, and the group of people sat in the front row one after another. Xia Ran looked down, and the scene was very shocking.

More than 100,000 wizards are taking their seats one after another. Those seats surround the oval stadium and are arranged upward in a staircase. Everything here is shrouded in a mysterious golden light, which seems to come from the stadium itself.

From Xia Ran's and the others' vantage point, the arena looked as flat and smooth as velvet. There were three pitching rings on both sides of the arena, fifty feet high. To their right, they were almost level with the top box. At the spot was a huge blackboard, with golden words constantly flashing on it, as if an invisible giant hand was writing on the blackboard, and then erasing them all.

But when Xia Ran took a closer look, she realized that those flashing golden words turned out to be advertisements.

"Such an advertisement must be very expensive!" Xia Ran whispered.

Mr. Weasley smiled and said: "Xia Ran, this is an advertising screen for 100,000 people! There are countless wizards in the world, and there is no second event except the Quidditch World Cup that can bring together 100,000 wizards at the same time. Competitions or activities can do this, and merchants and vendors must of course strive to announce their products to wizards around the world!"

Xia Ran glanced around and saw advertisements for various items popping up one after another.

"Cornflower: The broomstick for the whole family - safe! Dependable! With built-in anti-theft buzz alarm!"

"Skoll's All-Purpose Miracle Stain Remover: Removes stains with ease!"

"Fengya brand wizard uniform - London, Paris, Hogsmeade..."

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Xia Ran withdrew her gaze and looked back. Apart from their group of people, no one else had come in and sat down in the box, not even the house elf who occupied the seat in the original space and time - the house elf of Crouch Manor. Winky - Gone is Winky, and Winky seems to be working at Hogwarts now.

Winky was brought to Hogwarts by Xia Ran from the cemetery where Voldemort was resurrected, and was managed by the school nurse Mrs. Pomfrey. Because Winky was under the Imperius Curse of Barty Crouch Jr., no one would pursue her. responsibility.

When Winky had nowhere to go and was confused, Dumbledore offered her an olive branch, hoping that Winky would work in the kitchen at Hogwarts and was willing to pay her. She agreed, but she was determined not to be paid by Dumbledore.

This is also the position of the house elves at Hogwarts. They can help you work, but they cannot pay us!

Among the house elves, perhaps the only one who knew about their salary and benefits was Dobby. He was originally a house elf at Malfoy Manor, but was later rescued by Harry, and Xia Ran helped him along the way.

"Awesome! Man!"

Ron took out his panoramic telescope and began to adjust it. He looked at the crowd on the other side of the stadium.

"I can look at the wizard again... again..."

At this time, Hermione opened a book with a tasseled velvet cover, and Xia Ran caught a glimpse of it being a competition manual.

"There will be performances by the two teams' mascots before the game!" Hermione read aloud.

Xia Ran suddenly laughed and said: "That is always worth seeing! You know, every country in the Quidditch World Cup - it must be a participating country - will bring some rare animals from their own country. , it’s very interesting to do a show here.”

"Really?" Hermione's eyes lit up and she looked very interested, as if she couldn't wait to see the mascot's performance later.

In the next half hour or so, the top-level box where they were seated gradually became filled with people.

Mr. Weasley and Xia Ran kept shaking hands with people - mainly Mr. Weasley. Although Xia Ran knew them both, after all, they were no longer employees of the Ministry of Magic, but professors at Hogwarts - those people Most of them are senior officials and leaders of various departments of the Ministry of Magic, and they have strong power.

However, with the arrival of Cornelius Fudge, the atmosphere in the box changed slightly. Fudge turned a blind eye to Xia Ran and others in the first row, and only nodded casually to Mr. Weasley.

Because of the announcement of Voldemort's return, Fudge and Dumbledore had a complete falling out, and also ordered the Daily Prophet to smear Harry. Therefore, Harry, the person involved, was present, and Xia Ran, who in his opinion clearly belonged to Dumbledore, was present. The wizard of the Blido camp, if the situation did not allow it - after all, so many people were watching, and the Bulgarian Minister of Magic and the cameras of major newspapers were pointed at this top-level box from time to time - he would have wanted to give instructions to his men Drive Xia Ran and Harry Potter out.

If he really does this, Xia Ran will not be merciful, because he is the Minister of the Ministry of Magic, so he does not dare to take action, and he is the Minister of the Ministry of Magic, so he does not dare to take action. The box was thrown into the center of the venue, and a few curses were recited to give Fudge a bloody lesson!