[Comprehensive] Road to Trench

At the dinner at Hogwarts, as Alex expected, Principal Dumbledore stood up after the dinner was over, when the last bit of food was removed from the plate by invisible magic, Announced to the whole school the big event that kept the entire Ministry of Magic busy for almost half a year:

Triwizard Tournament!

The auditorium, which was so quiet that only the wind and thunder outside could be heard, erupted in eager cheers. Alex turned his head among the students who were so enthusiastic that they almost jumped on the table to celebrate this event. The cameramen by the walls were busy pointing their lenses at the entire auditorium, or the cheering students, or the professors above.

For some reason, Alex always felt that this scene was familiar—not the people who were shooting the students, but the cheering scene in the auditorium, even before Dumbledore announced the triwizard hegemony Fred Weasley exclaimed that it was impossible at the time of Cy's words, and even now, it seemed...

Where have I seen this description before...

It wasn't the scene, she was sure that what she saw was not this scene, but through some description, she was able to connect everything she saw with "it"...

If it's not an image, then it's...text?

Had she ever seen the text describing this scene...?

No, there is still something wrong... Alex looked at the entrance of the front hall with some confusion. When Professor Dumbledore announced, there should be someone coming in from the hall, which attracted everyone's attention and interrupted Deng Xiaoping. According to Professor Bullido... that person seems to be the new teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class...

But no one came, and this semester's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was sitting on the teacher's bench early in the morning-Gilderoy Lockhart, the writer of the big stack of adventure novels they bought, and the author of The protagonist of the story, or more precisely, he wrote down all the adventures he went through.

Also, the Quidditch competition this semester should be suspended, but Professor Dumbledore didn't mention this at all just now...

The students around me should be older...

By the way, there should be an age limit for such a dangerous competition... But why didn't Professor Dumbledore mention this...

After thinking hard for a while, but still unable to figure out what was going on, Alex pressed the matter to the bottom of his heart, and said loudly to Alex who was excitedly grabbing her sleeve, "Have you heard that! The Triwizard Tournament?" !" Hannah and the others showed the same happy smile.

This night, I don’t know how many students couldn’t sleep because of the news of the Triwizard Tournament. Fortunately, the adventurous spirit of most girls is not as strong as that of male gods. Hannah and Susan chatted excitedly for a while, then He yawned and fell down.

When there was no movement, Alex reached out and pushed aside the curtain hanging beside the bed, hung the fist-sized hollow copper ball pendant on the bedside, took out the key, opened the mage tower, and walked went in.

Agana yawned and dropped down on the edge of the bed.

All of a sudden, the dormitory became quiet, except for the hollow copper incense ball that was newly hung by Alex's bed. A wisp of distant fragrance emanates from it.

Even the lowered curtains could not stop the fragrance from spreading. The two little girls seemed to smell the breath that made them feel at ease in their sleep, and their sleep became deeper and deeper.

When Alex came to the agreed room in the mage's tower, Mihail seemed to have been waiting for a long time.

He was leaning on the soft sofa seat, resting his cheek with one hand, his soft and slightly long golden hair fell obediently along the curve of his face and neck, and the end was sunk into his collar.

In front of the sofa is a lighted screen, on which is playing a picture of a strange but gorgeous hall. Inside, many teenagers and girls wearing gray-blue tulle coats are listening intently to the first one who is extremely tall and handsome. Beautiful female speaks.

Mikhail seemed to be checking this part of the image, but under the flickering light of the screen, looking from Alex's side, the depths of his eyes seemed to be filled with thick ink that was too deep to melt.

As if aware of the movement of the door opening here, the blond boy turned his gaze. Almost instantly, his eyes seemed to be lit up by something, and the deep, thick ink-like shadow disappeared without a trace.

"Good evening, Alex!" Michel straightened up from the sofa, stretched out his hand to her, and motioned her to sit beside him, "How was the dinner at Hogwarts?"

Alex closed his eyes, then opened them again, the blue eyes staring at him were as clear as the blue sky.

Just... an illusion, right?

She thought with some uncertainty, and sat down next to Mikhail: "That's great! Has the information on Beauxbatona been delivered?"

"Well, I just watched the beginning, and I found a good shooting angle." Mikhail commented a few things about the material casually, and then seemed to mention it casually, "By the way, Tony just came over and said that he was temporarily a little I can't come here."

Alex snorted, and replied casually: "Alright, if he wants to come, he will probably use all kinds of brains to go to school..."

Tony's curiosity about the mysterious side didn't disappear with the end of the summer vacation, but instead became more and more intense, which caused Alex a bit of a headache.

After all, given the huge difference between wizards and ordinary people, many things that are not dangerous to little wizards are quite troublesome and difficult to deal with for ordinary people...

This is the end of the digression. After reading all the shooting materials of the three schools together, Alex discussed with Mihail about the advancing time, and then edited out the materials that may be used, and temporarily put the rest in the the other side.

With the passage of time, soon, it will be the end of October.

For two months, Alex took advantage of his free time to experiment with the "hiding place" at the door of the Room of Requirement, and successfully found an old wizard statue inside, but there was nothing on its wig.

The so-called dilapidated crown doesn't know where it went.

This made her wonder whether the 25% of spell errors would just be verified on the crown.

And when Alex was thinking about whether to change the conditions, she noticed that the captain of Slytherin's Quidditch team, the tall and strong Marcus Flynt, finally came back to class .

As early as the beginning of this semester, Alex heard the news from Wang Wangli's campus communication group: It is said that Marcus was possessed by some evil creature, and that evil creature absorbed a lot of his The essence of life caused him to weaken all of a sudden.After returning home from the holidays, his parents became suspicious and sent him to St. Mungo's, which saved his life.It’s just that he was left in St. Mungo’s hospital for observation because of too much physical loss before. His parents came to the school to go through the sick leave procedures. It wasn’t until the doctor said that Marcus had recovered recently that the captain of the Slytherin team returned. to school.

After returning to school, Marcus shocked everyone: unlike the tall and strong man who was still tall and strong when they separated last semester, Marcus is now pale and thin like "Malfoy" (Weasley Brothers).

It is said that the judgment made by St. Mungo's side is that Marcus has been possessed for at least four months, which means that, in terms of time, Marcus's possession happened during his school days Yes——the students expressed that it was impossible. They are not so easy to be fooled by children. Marcus did not show any abnormality at all during school, and he still looked tall and big at that time. No weakness after returning home.

To put it bluntly, in the two months before the end of the semester, Marcus's grades have improved a lot. Whether it is in class answers or practical exercises, his level is much higher than before. Is this the so-called abnormality?

"If being possessed can have this effect, maybe my mother will let me be possessed once!" Ron Weasley said dissatisfied in the group.

His views are basically the views of the masses as well.

In fact, the matter about Marcus being possessed is just gossip. On the bright side, St. Mungo concluded that a large amount of life essence was absorbed in a short period of time. "Evil creature" is a guess secretly given by the students who heard this conclusion, because when St. Mungo took over the treatment of Marcus, he didn't find anything that shouldn't exist in him.

Therefore, based on these circumstances, some people guessed that Marcus was possessed by some evil creature during his school days...

"Who doesn't seem to like your principal?" Seeing other people's heated discussions about it from the screen displayed on the scallop-shaped tamoy shell held by Alex, Mihail, who was sitting next to the silver-haired girl, was thoughtful. Said, "This kind of news, this kind of time... Who doesn't want the Triwizard Tournament to be held properly?"

As Mikhail spoke, he looked at the girl who was close at hand, and when he was about to ask her opinion, he found that she was looking thoughtful.

"Alex?"

Alex came back to his senses, looked down at the news that was chatting in the group, shook his head and said, "Probably not. The Triwizard Tournament is an issue related to the honor of the British wizarding world. It is impossible for someone to take the risk at this time." When something like this happens, even if there are any rumors, the Ministry of Magic and the school will work together to eliminate them—for the smooth holding of the competition."

She typed in a few words casually, diverted the topic to Quidditch, and the topic in the group changed accordingly.

"Then what are you thinking?" Michel didn't think she didn't care about her appearance just now.

"I'm wondering now, what if the crown in the Room of Requirement is no longer there?"

Why did you suddenly think of the crown?Mikhail was about to say something, but soon he realized: "... Could it be?"

Alex nodded solemnly: "It's very possible."

If the soul piece in the Horcrux absorbs enough life force, it is entirely possible to achieve a theoretical "resurrection".

For a split second, Alex thought of the bark invasion from Marcus Flint towards the end of last term.

In any case, it is impossible for Marcus himself to do something.

If it turns out to be what she suspects, it's no wonder she didn't find the diadem in the Room of Requirement...

After thinking about it, Alex suddenly realized that the black dragon incident in the summer vacation was most likely controlled by the missing crown soul piece behind the scenes-it was related to the black-haired and red-eyed young man who had a relationship with him at that time, She feels that all the uncertain words such as "possible", "probably" and "maybe" in the guess can be removed with peace of mind...

At this moment, the bark on Mikhail's body lit up to indicate that there was new information. The blond boy casually opened it and glanced at it, and immediately showed an expression of great interest.

"The news I just received." He didn't have the slightest bad habit of showing off, and showed Alex the news he had received bluntly, "Gringotts was robbed again."

Alex glanced at it. The information from the Saints Intelligence Network was extremely detailed, including what was stolen from the vault.

What was stolen was a gold cup placed in the Lestrange family vault.

Horcruxes, Hufflepuff's Cup.

Her heart sank immediately.

The author has something to say:

I’m sorry, it’s been so long since I updated. In October, Sanyuan was so busy that he vomited blood + the computer’s graphics card fan and power supply went on strike, so I returned to the factory for repairs = I didn’t have time to come to Jinjiang for half a month to take a look... Thank you everyone who is still waiting for me. There are still some things to do, and the daily update is not available for the time being. In October, the frequency of the next-day update will probably be maintained. If this is not achieved, then I probably underestimated the finishing work that will follow...