Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 873 Four Warriors

  The entire auditorium is full of students discussing that their champion is missing.

  In the morning, there were rumors that Albert Anderson was missing.

   But, if Albert really disappeared, how did he sign up to be a warrior?

  Maybe, someone signed up for him?

what on earth is it?

  Everyone is very confused, and there are too many questions in their hearts.

   Not only them, but even Professor Karkaroff and Mrs. Maxim couldn't figure out what was going on.

  The Hogwarts warriors seem to be... missing?

Now how to do?

  The two looked at the two officials from the British Ministry of Magic. Crouch and Bagman also looked at each other, not understanding what was going on.

   While everyone was discussing this matter in low voices, the blue-white flames in the already quiet Goblet of Fire suddenly turned red again, and a piece of burnt parchment was sprayed out from the Goblet of Fire.

   Dumbledore stretched out his slender fingers as if subconsciously, and grabbed the piece of parchment.

  The buzzing in the auditorium gradually disappeared, and everyone looked at the parchment in Dumbledore's hand in unison, full of doubts, what is going on?

   Could it be that Albert didn't show up, so the Goblet of Fire chose a new warrior for Hogwarts?

  They couldn't wait to know what was written on the note.

   Staring at the note in his hand, Dumbledore, who had been silent for a long time, finally cleared his throat and read out the name on the note: "Harry Potter."

   There was an eerie dead silence, without any applause, and the air seemed to freeze.

  There were too many accidents in the selection of warriors tonight. First, the Hogwarts warriors mysteriously disappeared, and then the Goblet of Fire selected a new warrior for them.

   This is really ridiculous, when did Harry Potter qualify to replace Albert Anderson as the new Hogwarts warrior.

  Everyone in the auditorium subconsciously turned their heads to look at Harry Potter's position after hearing Dumbledore pronounce Harry's name.

  At this moment, Harry Potter also looked bewildered, and his mind went blank. He didn't understand what was going on at all. He only saw the students around him staring at him blankly with their mouths open.

   "Harry Potter!"

At the moment when he saw Harry Potter's name sprayed out of the Goblet of Fire, countless thoughts surged in Dumbledore's head. He remembered that Albert had said that Harry would definitely become Hogwarts warrior.

   For this reason, he even paid special attention to it, but such a thing still happened.

   To make matters worse, Albert disappeared.

  The selection of warriors this time is simply a mess, but things have to go on, at least the immediate problem must be settled first. He called out again, "Harry, please go through that door."

   "Go." Hermione gently pushed the dazed Harry.

   Just as Harry subconsciously stood up and was about to walk towards the teachers' seats, the door of the auditorium was suddenly pushed open.

  All the students who were staring at Harry looked at the entrance of the auditorium together, and saw Albert, who was considered missing, opened the door of the auditorium and walked in.

this…

  Too many accidents happened today, so that everyone didn't have time to react, and they all looked at Albert who was just about to take his seat in Gryffindor.

   "Where did you go today?" George asked in a low voice when he saw that Albert was about to sit down in the vacant seat they left.

   "Having a little trouble."

   "A little trouble?" Fred repeated feebly.

  After Dumbledore saw Albert appear, he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and shouted, "Albert, please come here!"

   "Come over, you are a Hogwarts warrior." George urged.

   "Warrior, me?" Albert showed a surprised expression, and walked along the passage between the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw tables.

  When he just walked to the teacher's seat, he heard Professor McGonagall ask in a low voice: "Mr. Anderson, what the **** are you doing?"

   "Last night, while I was talking to Katrina, someone sneaked up on us and threw us into a secret room." Albert came up with the excuse that he had colluded with Katrina in advance.

  Professor McGonagall widened his eyes in surprise, as if he had heard something unbelievable, and said dryly: "You go to that door first, the warriors are waiting for further guidance over there."

  Albert walked along the teacher's desk, pushed open the door, and when he was about to walk in, he heard Dumbledore's voice in his ear: "Harry, you come here too."

   Albert lifted his feet and walked into the small room, his gaze swept across the portraits of wizards on both sides of the wall, and fell on the two warriors who were surrounding the blazing fire.

  Krum was sitting on the sofa, thinking about something. Fleur Delacour heard the movement, turned her head to look at Albert, and there didn't seem to be much surprise on her face.

   "What an incredible night." Albert found an empty seat and sat down.

   "Unbelievable?" Fu Rong was a little confused.

   "You will find out later." As soon as Albert finished speaking, he heard footsteps coming from outside, and Harry Potter walked into the small room.

   "Harry, come and sit here!" Albert turned his head and greeted.

   "What's going on?" Fleur and Krum both looked up at Albert.

   "He is the fourth warrior." Albert said in French and Bulgarian respectively.

   "Are you joking?" Fu Rong frowned, proudly looking at the little boy in front of her.

  Krum heard the familiar Bulgarian, looked at Albert in a little surprise, and asked suspiciously: "The fourth warrior."

   "Literally." Albert greeted the dazed Harry. "Sit here Harry, don't pay attention to them, that group of people will probably be arguing for a while."

   "I didn't put my name in." Harry sat on the sofa next to Albert and said silly.

   "I know." Albert comforted: "Don't worry about these, you need to worry about your own safety now."

   "My safety question." Harry was even more confused.

   At this moment, there was a quarrel outside, the door behind them was pushed open again, and a large group of people crowded in.

   "What on earth does this mean, Dumbledore?" Madame Maxime took the lead.

   "I want to know this too. I don't remember anyone telling me that the host school can have two warriors." Professor Karkaroff laughed shortly, "Is it possible that I didn't read those regulations carefully enough?"

   "You read that right." Madam Maxim said, "It's extremely unfair that Hogwarts cannot have two warriors."

   Watching the other two headmasters questioning Dumbledore, Harry looked disturbed. However, he suddenly smelled a strong aroma of milk tea, and when he turned his head, he found that Albert beside him had somehow gotten a cup of steaming milk tea, and was eating a piece of cake slowly.

   Albert took a big sip of milk tea and asked, "Do you want a cup too?"

   "No, I just had my fill," said Harry dryly.

"Let them quarrel. This kind of thing is normal. Anyway, the result is the same, and nothing will change." After destroying most of the cake, Albert looked at the group of professors who were arguing with interest. Hearing Snape put all the questions on Harry's head, Albert teased softly: "Snape has a deep conflict with you."

   "He hasn't liked me since I started school," Harry whispered.

   "There must be some reason. There has never been hatred for no reason in this world." Albert ignored Snape's murderous gaze and cast a refill spell on his cup.

Professor Dumbledore suddenly turned his head and stared into Harry's eyes, and asked calmly, "Harry, have you put your name into the Goblet of Fire, or have you asked your older classmates to help you put your name into the Goblet of Fire?" Goblet of Fire?"

   "No." Harry said excitedly.

   "He must be lying!" Madame Maxime exclaimed.

"This is not important anymore Madam Maxim, no amount of accusations can change the fact that Hogwarts has two warriors." Karkaroff said in a smooth voice, "I think every school should have Two brave men is fair, Dumbledore."

   "Fair? Do you really think Hogwarts needs two warriors?" Professor Moody sneered.

"What's the meaning?"

   "Someone wants to murder Potter. He knows that if he puts Potter's name in the Goblet of Fire and casts a confusion spell, Potter must participate in the competition."

   "Moody, how can you say such a thing!" Ludo Bagman looked very anxious.

   "As we all know, Professor Moody suspects that someone wants to murder him every day." Karkaroff sneered loudly, "When he eats, he will worry that someone will poison his food."

"Don't you understand what I mean?" Professor Moody said impatiently: "From the time when Albert Anderson participated in the Triwizard Tournament, you have no so-called fairness. For this reason, someone Attack him, try to prevent him from participating in the Triwizard Tournament?"

   "Are you kidding me?" Karkaroff sneered.

"Albert can win so many international awards, you really think he is still a student." Professor Moody did not hide his ridicule, "Don't be stupid Karkaroff, you know this very well, since Hogg Watts has Albert as a warrior, and it is meaningless to let Potter participate in the Triwizard Tournament, unless someone wants to take this opportunity to murder him, because for Potter, the Triwizard Tournament is too difficult. Most likely it will kill him."

  Karkaroff's smile disappeared, and the expression on his face was extremely ugly, because Moody was actually right.

  If Albert Anderson participates in the competition, it is basically difficult for other schools to win. The international grand prize is not a school competition like the Triwizard Tournament. Albert's level can be imagined.

   One more baud is really meaningless.

   "I think we should file a complaint with the Ministry of Magic and the International Confederation of Wizards." Karkaroff turned to Madam Maxim and said, this was his last stubbornness.

"Dumbledore, is there really no way to make Harry give up the game, or just terminate the game?" Professor McGonagall couldn't help asking, she felt that what Moody said was right, the Triwizard Tournament was really important to Harry. It's too dangerous, not just for the Triwizard Tournament, but she hasn't forgotten the person who secretly signed up for Potter and the person who attacked Albert.

   "Unfortunately, I'm afraid not. Magic contracts cannot be broken." Dumbledore said to everyone in the room, "We have no choice but to accept it."

Most of the people in the room were very dissatisfied: Dumbledore was expressionless and didn't know what he was thinking, Professor McGonagall looked very annoyed, Madam Maxime stared angrily, and Karkaroff was even more expressionless. Livid, even Snape looked annoyed for some reason.

  Well, Professor Moody is staring at Karkaroff. In fact, he really wants to stare at Albert, but in order to prevent his flaws from being exposed, he can only stare at Karkaroff to avoid letting anyone find out that he is not in a good mood now.

   However, Bagman is obviously an exception, and what happened at Hogwarts tonight made him very excited.

   "Okay, let's continue?" Bagman rubbed his hands and looked at the people in the room with a smile, "Barty, you will guide our warriors."

   "Very well, we finally got back to business." Mr. Crouch looked haggard and tired as if he had just had an illness.

"The first project is to test the courage of the warriors, and it will take place on November 24." He said to Harry, Albert, Fleur and Viktor, "The warriors need to carry only the wand, Facing unknown things alone, and completing the competition in front of other students and the judging panel, during which time you must not ask for or accept any help from other teachers."

   "As for the situation of the second project, the Warriors will not know until the end of the first project."

  "Because the competition is very demanding and lasts for a long time, the warriors don't have to take the school year exams and can concentrate on preparing for the competition." Mr. Crouch turned to Dumbledore and said, "That's all I want to say."

  After Crouch finished speaking, Madam Maxim put her arms around Fleur's shoulders and led her out of the room quickly. Karkaroff greeted Krum, and the two left without a word.

Crouch refused Dumbledore's invitation to have a drink, and returned directly to the Ministry of Magic using the fireplace. Bagman followed with a wry smile on his face. They had to go back to deal with tonight's accident. The three imported dragons were obviously not enough. .

   "Harry, Albert, I suggest you go back to sleep." Dumbledore looked at them both with a smile.

   "No, I have to go to the kitchen, I don't want to go to bed hungry!" Albert interrupted.

   "I'll have the house-elf deliver the food to your room." Professor McGonagall didn't want Albert to run around at night.

"Remember to ask them to heat up the food, as well as a dessert and a drink." After Albert finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Professor Moody, and said in a grateful tone: "I heard from Fred and the others that it was you You helped me sign up, thank you professor, otherwise I would really miss this interesting game."

  After listening to Albert's words of gratitude, Professor Moody froze in place. He didn't expect Albert to thank him, let alone put Albert's name into the Goblet of Fire?

  Why didn't he know about this?

  The expression on Moody's face froze, and he couldn't help clenching the crutch in his hand tightly. To be honest, at this moment, he really wanted to beat Albert hard with the crutch in his hand, but he finally restrained himself.

   After a long time, Professor Moody said in a rough voice: "No, it's not me. It should be your classmates who signed up for you. They did that before."

   "All in all, I still want to thank you, Professor, and I will try my best to win back the championship trophy for Hogwarts." Albert said sincerely.

"The most important thing for you is to protect yourself." Professor McGonagall glared at Professor Moody fiercely, and said, "Especially you, Potter. If there is really no other way, there is no shame in giving up in the middle of the game." thing."

   "I think Professor McGonagall is right, Harry, you should learn to protect yourself. This is obviously a conspiracy against you." Albert nodded.

  Harry nodded gloomily, but at least he was relieved that Albert didn't think he used illegal methods to get himself elected a warrior.

  Looking at the backs of the two of them leaving, Dumbledore comforted: "Okay, Minerva, the situation is not as bad as you think."

   "Don't you think the whole Triwizard Tournament has an air of conspiracy?" Professor McGonagall said sharply.

   "We have no choice," Dumbledore said to the old man, "Alastor, help take care of Harry."

   "No problem." Moody said deadpan.

   I will start moving in the next three days, and I may ask for leave or have fewer shifts.

   Revised

  (end of this chapter)