Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 818 Tricky

   In order to help Albert win the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting, Bud started to give Albert a surprise tutoring right after he arrived in Spain.

  In Bard's view, Albert's spellcasting technique is actually very good, and the reason that hinders him from winning is that Albert is ignorant of the content of this competition.

  So, Bud told Albert a lot about Barnabus Finkley's excellent spellcasting competition, trying to help Albert deepen his understanding of the game and guide him to show his advantages.

"Your spellcasting technique is already very good, the problem now is how to show it, although most referees have good eyesight, but you still need to take the initiative to show your excellent spellcasting technique, which is very important. "Bud has great confidence in Albert, otherwise he would not strongly recommend Albert to participate in this competition.

However, what Bud didn't know was that Albert's current method of casting spells came from Voldemort, the famous Dark Lord. His understanding of casting spells is naturally far beyond ordinary wizards, and he has his own unique set of casting spells. technique.

   It's just that when Albert usually uses magic, he doesn't make his spellcasting techniques too obvious.

   As the person who knows Voldemort best, Dumbledore will easily attract this person's attention if he is too public in front of him. This is definitely not what Albert wants to happen.

  Anyway, Dumbledore died a few years later, and when Voldemort was sent away by Harry, the Dark Lord's spellcasting technique would completely change into Albert's shape.

  Although plagiarism is a shameful thing, if the target is Voldemort, there is no need to feel embarrassed.

  As the evening approached, someone knocked on Bud's door. The person who came to visit Bud was a middle-aged woman who seemed to be an acquaintance of Bud.

  Bad chatted with the man in the corridor, and then came in to greet Albert to go downstairs for dinner.

  The bar hall was lively and noisy, surrounded by various languages. The contestants came from various European countries, and there were even several from the UK.

   Among them, there is also an acquaintance of Albert, Terrence Higgs, the prefect of the previous Slytherin and the former Seeker.

   It's just that the encounter between the two parties was not pleasant.

  The old wizard who brought Terrence Higgs to the competition didn't like him having an intersection with Albert, so after the two parties just greeted each other, there was no longer any intersection.

   "Come on, Higgs, don't make me look down on you." Bud said to the old wizard, "Your prejudice is still so annoying."

   "It's none of your business, Brod." Old Higgs also disliked Bud very much, and walked away with his grandson.

   "Pure blood prejudice." Bud said contemptuously, "They even intend to leave this prejudice to their offspring."

"I think this should be a matter of interests. This kind of prejudice can allow them to integrate into that circle. At present, the group of stubborn purebloods still occupy a lot of voice in the Ministry of Magic." Albert expressed his opinion directly, " If one day, this prejudice can no longer bring them benefits, maybe they will choose to give up this prejudice.”

   "You can see clearly." Bud looked at the back of old Higgs, with a sneer of disdain at the corner of his mouth, "I really know that there are many similar cases in the wizarding world."

   Albert smiled and pretended to be listening attentively.

"Take the Malfoy family as an example. A long time ago, the Malfoy family was actually close to Muggles. They had a deep connection with the Muggle nobles, but because of the "Secrecy Act", they were excluded by the Ministry of Magic. After the interests were damaged, the Malfoy family changed from being close to Muggles to loyal supporters of the pure-blood faction. The Higgs family used to be close to Muggles, and there was even more than one case of intermarriage with Muggles in the family history, but later They directly altered their genealogy to try to cover up that history."

  In the pure-blood faction, many wizarding families actually have similar cases.

  Bud took off some of the purebloods' underpants casually, no wonder he hated those guys.

   However, this topic didn't last long, and Bud brought the topic back to the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting Technique, and told Albert about the origin of this award.

  The Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting actually comes from the book "Finkley's Tricks".

  Finkley is a wizard with great magical talent, and later he wrote a book called "Finkley's Tricks" to introduce his unique insights on spellcasting. Bud took a sip of the whiskey, and seemed to be lost in a short memory: "The result was about the same as you guessed. This book became popular later, and was favored by many wizards, and it also made Barnabus Finkley famous in one fell swoop. It also made him a fortune. "

  "The wizards of that era didn't actually pay much attention to these issues, and most wizards were pretty bad at using magic, and even when dueling with others."

   "As far as I know, even the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic are learning this, so that they can cast spells more smoothly, gracefully, and freely, and the spells they use will also be enhanced to a certain extent for some reason."

  Later, in the later years of Finkley's life, the money from the sale of "Finkley's Tricks" was used to hold the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellence in Spellcasting.

The International Federation of Wizards also believes that this award is very meaningful, so it deliberately retained this award, and some wizards who benefited from Barnabus Finkley's spellcasting method funded this competition, hoping to get more from other wizards. Get more excellent spellcasting techniques there.

The former "Finkley's Trick" has become the current "Barnabus Finkley's Curse Technique". This book has been revised for several generations. Many extraordinary wizards will use this book to perfect themselves method of casting spells.

  After silently listening to Bud's story, Albert really admired the old man's knowledge reserve, and he knew everything about this kind of thing.

However, their conversation didn't last. A middle-aged witch who still had a charm came over to register the contestants who were going to participate in the competition with a quill and parchment. Albert recognized that the other party was the one who knocked on Bard's room not long ago. A middle-aged witch.

   "He is the Albert I mentioned to you." Bud introduced to the other party, "I will also participate in tomorrow's trial."

   "Please register your name here." The middle-aged witch put the parchment and quill in front of Albert, "Write down your name, age and where you are from."

   Albert glanced at the parchment and quickly filled in his name on the form.

   "Sixteen?"

  The middle-aged witch couldn't help raising her eyebrows when she saw Albert's age. She probably didn't expect that Bard would bring an underage wizard to the competition.

   "Please keep this badge." The middle-aged witch took out a badge from her robe and handed it to Albert, with the number 17 written on it.

   "She is Diana, the owner of this bar." Bud introduced to Albert after the middle-aged witch left, "She has a quarter of vampire blood."

   Albert noticed that this woman was called Diana.

   Having said that, Diana is not like a Spanish name, it is more like a British name.

   Also, the so-called vampire bar is purely a gimmick.

   "She doesn't look like a vampire, except for a little white skin."

  He said that if it was really a bar opened by a vampire, it would probably have closed down by now.

   "Well, it's really not much different from ordinary people."

   "You seem to know her very well." Albert asked tentatively,

  "I'm not very familiar, I've seen it a few times before." Bud said to the passing waiter, "Give me a glass of whiskey, what do you want?"

   "I don't drink." Albert shook his head and continued to eat.

  To be honest, Albert was a little skeptical that Miss Diana was Bard's lover.

  However, based on the age gap between the two, it seems that it may also be Bud's daughter.

   It can't be blamed for Albert being so suspicious. There seems to be an inexplicable familiarity between Bud and Diana, and there must be something to do with it.

  (end of this chapter)