HP's Foreign Land

The history of wizarding movement is a subject that is far more rote than practical. It is similar to the history of magic, except that it focuses on sports, rather than a more macroscopic development trajectory that encompasses the entire wizarding world.To be honest, this class is quite boring, and most of the students who have previewed think so, but who is the teacher who can't help teaching this class.If you change the teacher today, in the next school year, no, in the second half of the school year, this course will probably be banned.The number of electives is lower than the minimum value, and the minor electives are likely to be replaced by other subjects.

Professor Krum obviously knew this too, and he decided to take everyone out of the classroom in a different way.

Through an ingenious self-introduction, Professor Krum called the names by the way. There were two students who were absent from the first class, and he wrote down their names calmly.What kind of fate awaits them?So far only the professor himself knows.

When Professor Krum asked all the students to stand up and march out the door, almost everyone was asking "Why is this?", "What's going on?"

The professor didn't say a word, and played the trick.

Before the students started to act, Professor Krum reminded everyone not to forget to bring the textbooks on the history of wizards' exercises.

In the round hall on the second floor of Tower 1, there are three row fireplaces arranged on a wall. These three fireplaces are always extinguished at ordinary times, and there is no trace of charcoal burning in the furnace cavity, and there is no charcoal ash.The students in Heideggerak knew that the three fireplaces were not used for heating. The exchange students who didn't know where they were, because of their short contact time and the fact that they rarely had the opportunity to stay in the rotunda in normal times, some children didn't realize that there was a fire in the rotunda until today. fireplace.

These three fireplaces are one of the most direct accesses to the outside of the school, and they are only opened at specific times upon prior application to the principal, and they are usually closed.

Professor Krum submitted an application for off-campus teaching to the principal's office as early as this Wednesday, and Professor Pia Jerway had a half-hour conversation with Professor Krum in her office on Thursday morning.During these 30 minutes, Professor Crumb must persuade the principal to allow him to teach outside the school.In the process of persuasion, he needs to fully prove that doing so will play a beneficial role in the development of the history of the wizarding movement, as well as when he plans to leave, where he will take the students, how long he will stay outside, and when he will return school etc.

These contents have actually been listed in detail in the application report, but each item must be expressed by the declarant himself, just like the lower-level department presents the report to the higher-level department, and it is likely to be asked many times and repeatedly during the process.

The principal finally agreed to his application and opened the fireplace in the rotunda on the second floor of Tower 1 to specific personnel on Friday afternoon.

The time it took for all the teachers and students to arrive at the rotunda was longer than the minimum time value estimated by Professor Kroom. Fortunately, to be cautious, he put forward the maximum time value in the application, which did not delay everyone's departure.On the way, the students unfortunately stepped onto a suspension bridge that just started to make trouble. Everyone went up and down between the 3rd floor and the 2nd floor. It was really seven times and eight times...

"Professor, where are we going?" There are still children who insist on breaking the saucepan and asking the end before drilling into the fireplace.

"Go to class." Professor Krum said calmly.

Professor Krum first took them to a workshop that produced gobstone marbles. The boys were very excited when they noticed the signboard surrounded by colorful stone beads on the eaves of the workshop.

Gobstones are popular in the wizarding world, especially among boys.It is similar to the pinball game in the Muggle world. The small marbles used in the game will spray stinky liquid at the loser as punishment. The specific rules are selected by the player from various rules that are most suitable according to the actual situation.

Unlike Quidditch, which is restricted by many aspects such as the venue, Gobstone is not like Wizard Chess, which has certain requirements for the overall situation such as formation and formation. Gobstone is an activity suitable for all ages, and there is no necessary connection with IQ.Almost every country's ministry of magic has an official gobstone club in the department responsible for wizarding sports, which shows its popularity and popularity.

Of course, the Nordic countries also have official gobstone clubs. Among the six countries, Denmark is a big country in gobstone sports, and it is also the most powerful country in Northern Europe.What Professor Krum took everyone to visit today is the marble workshop under the official Danish Gobstone Club.Nordic children who like to play gobstones and know how to play gobstones, all the Nordic children don’t know the official name of the workshop. This workshop represents the best gobstone marbles in Denmark.

The owner of the workshop, Saruen, who is also a member of the Danish Gobstone National Team, warmly greeted him. He took off his hat, revealing his bald forehead. This small defect made his smooth face look like the old Caipi. The ranks leap forward at least 5 years old.

Sarun shook hands with Professor Krum who was also smiling.

"You guys are finally here. I've been waiting for more than an hour." He shook his hand vigorously, and then let go.

"Sorry, something was delayed."

Sarruen didn't really intend to pursue it, he looked at the group of students who were staring at him with wide eyes while not forgetting to whisper.Exchange students from regions other than Northern Europe looked around and were attracted by the gorgeous products with local characteristics in the display windows along the street, which was completely different from the local children's concerns.

"Are you Sarun from the Danish national team?" Heideggerach's student asked cautiously.

"Yes." Saruen laughed.

Heideggerach's children screamed and surrounded him, asking this and that.The exchange students were puzzled by their sudden enthusiasm.

"That gentleman is a member of the Danish Gobstones national team. The Danish Gobstones team is well-known internationally. People who often follow Gobstones matches should be familiar with his name." Yael explained.

Durmstrang's traditional sport has always been Quidditch. Because of the joining of Lacarini Jr., the school's wizard chess research room escaped the fate of being "decorated". Traditional projects, and Gobstone is almost invisible in the German school.Occasionally, students can be seen using this to pass the time in the cafeteria, but there are not many people responding, and there has never been a situation where students gather to play marbles because of the gobstone. The crowd only appears on the Quidditch pitch.Since the founding of the German School, there has never been a Gobstone Research Office.

After listening to Yael's explanation, Chief Strulusson was still in a daze.

Draco played with gobstones a lot, though, and gobstones were popular at Hogwarts, where students liked to gather in the common room to play.But he never paid attention to the Gobstones competition. To be honest, Master Malfoy thinks that this thing is only enough for entertainment, and it is a bit difficult to accept it as a career or pursuit, although the official Gobstones Club of the British Ministry of Magic said Active internationally.

Beauxbaton's situation is similar to that of Hogwarts, but Jeanne despises this game very much, because Gobstone's marbles will spray disgusting stinky liquid, and ordinary girls who love beauty would want to play a game and get sprayed all over. Baked?Miss Orville was not among those willing to sacrifice for the sport, preferring to snatch Quaffles on the field rather than get sprayed with marbles.

Todor seemed very interested, keeping his eyes on Saruen in the crowd, looking eager to try, maybe wanting to get the other party's autograph.

"Does Krum even know gobstone celebrities? You can actually get in touch with the official Danish gobstone manufacturing workshop..." Yael swayed, compared with the pseudo-fan Sturluson, this is the real hardcore , never forget to highlight the beauty of idols.

On the other side, under the reminder of Professor Krum, Sarun finally broke free from the siege and invited the teachers and students into the door.

The inside of the workshop is different from everyone's imagination. There are no materials scattered around, and no workers are seen in chaos. It is even bright and quiet here.The makers sat around a large wooden table, wearing a monocular magnifying glass on their heads, and carefully carved the stone and wood in their hands. Another group of makers waved their wands and applied magic to the basically formed marbles.

There is almost no noise during the production process, only the voices of the producers are heard from time to time, and their voices are very low, which makes the whole space seem more peaceful.

The students couldn't help being infected, they all stopped their scrambling discussions, slowed down their pace, and cautiously followed behind Sarun and the professor, passed through this studio, and led to the next room.

When Heimdall passed the big table, he stretched his neck and looked around. Under the hands of the maker, those ordinary stones and wood blocks were transformed into gobstone marbles covered with beautiful patterns or carved with patterns that may have some special meaning. With the control wand, the marbles seemed to have life in an instant. They swayed their round bodies and automatically rolled into different boxes.

"Rig!" Draco fell at the end of the line and paid close attention to his every move. Seeing that his classmates were almost gone, but his cousin still stayed where he was, he hurriedly called out in a low voice.

His cousin sometimes likes to join in the fun or stop for some insignificant things. He often walks and walks, and when he turns around, people disappear... Crowd watching is one of the characteristics of the Celestial Dynasty, and Master Malfoy can't understand it in his whole life Broad and profound, well, I guess Master Malfoy doesn't want to understand it either.

Sarruen took everyone to a long room, similar to an aisle hall, which displayed the different styles of the gobstone movement in different periods of the wizarding world.The walls are full of photos, and the glass cabinets placed against the wall are full of trophies, medals, marbles used in each era, and introductions to various competition venues, etc. It is simply a rich variety of Gobstones museum.

Professor Crumb is at the entrance of the room, asking everyone to take out the textbook and turn to page 7.

With the display of pictures and objects in the glass cabinet, students can find the items corresponding to the age through the text introduction in the textbook, which greatly increases the fun of the class. Will be distracted from time to time.During the class, Sa Ruen also showed everyone the demo screen of a certain game, and those who squeezed in the front were undoubtedly all Gobstone lovers.

Before they left the official workshop, Mr. Sarun took out a tin box and asked everyone to choose three marbles from it as souvenirs.The children were pleasantly surprised that they were able to get priceless marbles with the Danish national team logo printed on them. Their enthusiasm reached an unprecedented height.

Taking advantage of the children's excited selection of marbles, Professor Krum joked: "I will often bring the students here in the future, and try to make them each have a set."

Sa Ruen laughed loudly, "Okay, as long as your Vulcan team can win next season, it doesn't matter if the kids have a set."

Sarun is not a fan of the Vulcan team in the traditional sense, but he hopes that the Vulcan team will make great progress more than anyone else, because he relies on the Vulcan team to win extra money, which is commonly known as gambling.

In fact, the International Quidditch League does not support gambling, but it has not publicly expressed its opposition. In short, the process is tacit.Almost every country has at least one or two well-known gambling clubs, and there are countless for the purpose of cheating money. The number of clubs means whether wizards in this country are keen on Quidditch.You'll find celebrities from all walks of life among these club membership lists, including those from the sporting world, and even the Quidditch players themselves get involved.

"I'm not going to start next season, it's better for you to spread your money around." Victor said lightly.

Sa Ruen was dumbfounded by his supercilious remarks, "If I were the coach of the Vulcan team, I would make you sit on the bench every time!"

Victor ignored it, "Is there no similar adjustment in your team?"

Don't look at Mr. Sa Ruen's short hair, he is also a celebrity in the sports world, so he immediately figured it out, and it turned out that he had a wrong understanding.

"The Vulcan team is going to support newcomers?" Sa Ruen boldly guessed.

Generally speaking, if a participating team, especially a generally optimistic team, suddenly gives up a player who can lead the team to win the championship trophy, excluding some shady reasons, the rest is old Players make way for new players.

If the Vulcan team intends to give up the goal of winning the championship next season and focus on the cultivation of rookies, they will adopt a new lineup centered on rookies. However, if they want to maintain their rankings and prevent themselves from being relegated, Victor will be needed at this time. out.

Victor said calmly, "I can't play Quidditch all my life."

"You're only 20 years old...is it 21? Or 25?" Sarruen found it hard to understand. "You haven't reached the golden age of 35-[-], so you start thinking about retirement?"

Vic laughed.

"Don't be sloppy to me!" Sa Ruen insisted on making him say one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

"As you said, I'm only twenty, and it's still early to retire."

Sarun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't worry." Victor patted the opponent's shoulder. "I will wait until the Vulcans have won the grand slam of all the European schedules before considering retirement."

Saruen's expression was a little embarrassing, but the bright future that Victor painted for him made his blood surge.

Next stop is the Claus Broom Research Laboratory.

Heimdall hesitated for a moment when he saw the word Klaus inlaid on the door made of stained glass collages. He was no stranger to this badge. It often appeared in a certain Klaus's tent during the sugar mouse competition.Now the letters are just more cartoonish, more vibrant, and colored.

"Klaus Broom Research is headquartered in Liechtenstein, and the Finnish studio is part of it, covering the whole of Scandinavia. There are two more, one in Italy and one in Turkey The business of the studio in Turkey is mainly for Asia." Professor Krum gave a brief introduction.

The professor stepped forward and knocked on the door. The door knocker was delicate and heavy, and it was muffled and loud when it hit the door panel.

Doorbells used in wizarding buildings are usually ancient knockers or drawstring bells, modern doorbells are rare but not uncommon.Modern doorbells made by wizards are more "best-selling" in the Muggle world. The Ministry of Magic of various countries can often catch a few "cynical youths" who hate Muggles. They will sell the enchanted doorbells to ignorant Muggles. Their products bite off Muggle fingers.There will always be a group of such wizards in every country.

Soon someone came to answer the door. It was a house-elf who walked through a narrow door and looked timidly at the group of strangers outside the door.

"Yes, what's the matter?" It asked in a shrill voice.

"I'm Victor Krum, and I made an appointment three days ago for a Friday afternoon visit."

"The hourglass knows, the master told the hourglass about it." The house-elf disappeared behind the door, which at the same moment was thrown wide open.

"Let's go in." Victor smiled at the students.

Different from the amiability and casualness brought to them by the Gaobushi marble workshop just now, this studio has a sense of distance from the beginning. The students walked in orderly, looked around cautiously, and no one whispered.

After a while, a lady in her forties, wearing a dark green wizard robe, came out from the inside. After shaking hands with Victor, she said unceremoniously in German: "You are late." It was completely different from the previous Sarun , is a clear accusation.

"I'm sorry." Victor's attitude was completely different from before, and he didn't even bother to explain anything.

The lady in green robe pursed her lips, as if dissatisfied with his contempt.

"Do you think we can start?" Victor said innocently.

The lady turned around, "Follow me, please."

Most of the children present could not understand German, but the facial expression of the lady was very vivid, and everyone spontaneously kept quiet.

The arrangement of the Quidditch teaching is similar to that of the Gobstone Workshop in Denmark. A small broom exhibition hall was set up in the Finnish workshop of the Klaus broom research laboratory, where some of the collections of the research laboratory owner are displayed, some of which are hard to find on the market. Precious artifacts seen.Compared with the slightly monotonous marble workshop, the exhibits in the broom showroom are dazzling, and some things that cannot be named have been eliminated. The students gather together and guess what those things are used for while flipping through the books .

During the visits to the students, Prof. Krum always grasped the key points of his lectures and achieved very satisfactory results.

Heimdall walked to the last display case, which displayed a very cool-looking racing broom.Heimdall found the text on the glass explaining that it was indeed a competitive broom.

"This is the latest research product launched by our research laboratory at the beginning of this year. It is a great invention, and it is unique in the field of competitive broom manufacturing." Maybe the lady in the green robe felt that Heimdall, who had been standing here watching for a long time, was more knowledgeable, and hurried away Come over for an impassioned presentation. "This broom adopts the most advanced vibration control device in the world today. The built-in brake propulsion device is a product independently invented by our research laboratory. The three magic axes interact to complete the super acceleration from rest to departure. The three magic axes respectively control the broom to make good rotation, stagnation and reverse functions, which are unparalleled in balance and precision, and the explosive power is amazing..."

"Sorry to interrupt." Heimdall raised his hand.

The beaming lady who was talking frowned unobtrusively, and said kindly, "Please tell me."

"You just said that the fusion axis is an independent invention of your laboratory?"

"Fusion Axis? You mean the three axes of magic?"

"Oh, this is called the Three-Axis."

Heimdall's meaningful statement made the green-robed lady rebellious, and the feeling of being slighted came again.

"Any questions?" asked the lady.

Their conversation caught the attention of other students, and everyone gradually gathered around.Several members of the study group, including Draco, stood on tiptoe in the human wall, trying to squeeze in.

Professor Krum didn't join in the fun, he knew what Director Strulusson was planning when he saw his small appearance, so he simply pretended not to know, stared at a few pairs of gloves that were said to have been used by the late famous Liechtenstein players, and focused on researching wrists. Button up the florets.

"It's a big problem." Heimdall said with a serious expression. "As far as I know, this magic three-axis axis has been published long ago, that is to say, before your research laboratory launched new products at the beginning of this year, much earlier than this time."

The lady in the green robe couldn't help thinking, is this kid here to mess things up? !

Director Sturlusson continued to be deep, "First of all, the rotating function of the broom is the specialty of Sweeping Company. Sweeping applied for a patent with the local Ministry of Magic as early as the end of the 80s. Back then, Sweeping No. 1 was recognized by the British government for its excellent rotating performance. Secondly, the stagnation function is a project that Comet brooms have been focusing on research and development for these years. In recent years, Comet has been working hard on stagnation. They expanded the business of household brooms last year and launched a similar theme. It is said that the sales volume is gratifying. ;Reverse... Well, actually making the broom backward is an ability to control the broom, which does not belong to the functional scope of the broom. A long time ago, the Quidditch team had to test the backward control when selecting players, although the broom can also do it now Backwards, but the effect is not ideal. The locking of the propulsion device makes the shock control device unbalanced or misplaced, causing the broom to lose control. This problem has not been completely overcome so far.”

The face of the lady in the green robe became more and more ugly, "So what? The problems that other broom companies cannot overcome, can't our laboratory overcome them?"

"No, you misunderstood me." Heimdall said with an aggrieved face. "Sweeping, Comet, and Light Wheel, in the early 90s, a joint venture established a research laboratory, intending to innovate and create a new type of competitive broom axis that absorbs the strengths of the three companies."

The green-robed lady's eyelids twitched.

"The three companies decided to name this epoch-making research result the Fusion Axis. Later, due to issues such as funding and technical secrecy, this project ended without a problem. It is a pity." Heimdall sighed melancholy, and then looked at the green robe eagerly. Miss. "Those broom functions have been certified by the Ministry of Magic for wizarding product patents, and they have also been registered at the Wizarding Sports Management Center under the International Federation of Wizards. I just want to ask, has your latest 'invention' passed the approval of those three companies?" ?”

In the crowd of students watching, the lady in green robe was speechless, her face flushed.

This damn child really came to mess things up!

Applause suddenly sounded in the room, as if shouting for this sharp analysis, the lady in green robe turned from embarrassment into anger in a blink of an eye, and then her face changed drastically.

Adam Cross stood at the back of the crowd, clapping his hands slowly.

"It's very exciting." Adam didn't hesitate to praise him, with a gentle smile on his face.

Director Strulusson believes that Adam must be roaring angrily in his heart.