The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 260: First Week of School

The courses in the first week after school started were very helpful for losing weight. Whether it was squeezing the pus out of the Babo tuber with hands in the Herbology class or trying to raise Hagrid's Exploding-tailed Skrewts, they were all disgusting projects that made people lose their appetite.

Especially Hagrid's blasting-tailed skrewts. Let's not talk about how he cultivated them. In Ryan's eyes, his cultivation was completely wrong. Why did he have to cultivate the blasting-tailed skrewts to be fierce? The blasting-tailed skrewts looked like deformed, shelled lobsters. Wouldn't it be better if they were cultivated for food?

After all, Ryan thought that a large lobster without a shell looked delicious. It would definitely be delicious if it was caught, cleaned, coated and fried in egg oil. Even if this thing could grow to the size of a small house and grow a shell when it grows up, it would be easier to peel the shell when it is big. Just think about how many people it can feed.

The key subject of this week was the Defense Against the Dark Arts class on Thursday. Not to mention that everyone who had taken Moody's class a few days ago had praised him highly. The most important thing was that Ryan needed a chance to observe Moody up close to confirm whether he was real or not.

But after the class, Ryan felt even more confused, because although Moody talked about the three unforgivable curses, he did not demonstrate the actual operation to everyone, let alone let everyone experience how to resist the Imperius Curse. Instead, he combined his many years of experience as an Auror to teach everyone how to resist these spells with cases and stories.

After the class, Ryan pretended to be a little disappointed and asked the Weasley brothers, "I thought Moody could demonstrate the Unforgivable Curses, but he just talked about some cases. Although he explained it very well, it was still a little different from what I imagined."

The twins looked at each other and George said, "In fact, this approach is very consistent with Moody's habits. After all, he has always been a person who sticks to the rules. In the war that year, he inspired all the Aurors with this principle. So even though many Ministry of Magic staff members turned to the You-Know-Who, there was not a single Auror who defected during the entire war."

"More than that." Fred added; "In that era, the Ministry of Magic even lifted the restrictions on Aurors' use of lethal force, but Moody still insisted that they could only be punished after a trial. This philosophy made him try to capture the enemy alive as much as possible in battle. Now a large number of Death Eaters imprisoned in Azkaban were captured by him personally. Of course, this philosophy also made him pay a price. He lost his legs and eyes in battle."

"Although I think Moody is a little old-fashioned, our whole family admires his spirit of sticking to his own ideas in such a dangerous environment," George concluded.

After saying goodbye to the twins, Ryan felt even more confused, because after listening to the twins' narration, this Moody seemed real. But Harry did have that nightmare, so what would Voldemort do in this situation? Would he send undercover agents to Hogwarts to cause trouble?
But no matter how much of a headache Ryan had, time passed day by day. Finally, it was time for the first reading club meeting of this semester on Sunday.

As expected, the hot topics at Hogwarts recently are Moody and the Triwizard Tournament, and the members of the reading club are no exception. After solving and practicing the problems accumulated over the summer vacation, everyone unanimously requested to extend the time a little to discuss the recent hot events in the school.

After the Weasley twins introduced Moody's great achievements as an Auror and gave everyone a brief introduction of what the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was like, everyone quickly began to discuss the topic of the Triwizard Tournament. After a few words, everyone talked about how to bypass the age limit to register, because everyone in the reading club, even the oldest Weasley brothers, was several months away from the permitted age.

"Professor Dumbledore said at the opening banquet that since the events of the tournament are difficult and dangerous, he will ensure that no underage student deceives the impartial referee and becomes a Hogwarts champion. This shows at least two things. First, the champion is not selected by Professor Dumbledore. Second, this so-called impartial referee does not care about the age of the champion. He will only judge who is the most suitable champion based on his own strength. That's why Dumbledore said that he will ensure that all those who register are old enough." Ryan was the first to express his opinion.

"As for the referees, I only know that the principals of the participating schools must be members of the judging panel," Hermione said. "Because it is recorded in "Hogwarts, a History of the School" that in the 1792 competition, the monster with a chicken body and a snake tail that the warriors wanted to catch was out of control and ran rampant, and all three principals were injured." "But the three principals are definitely not the fair referees who choose the warriors. Their identities are destined to prevent them from taking on this position." Justin Finch-Fletchley said.

"No matter who the referee who selects the warriors is, it's enough for us to deceive Headmaster Dumbledore's age limit, so we made a pot of aging potion. Anyone of you can have some if you want." Fred said to everyone with a beaming face.

"I don't think anti-aging agents will be useful. After all, this method is too simple. The principal would not have thought of this." Zhang Qiu said after thinking for a while.

"Maybe you're right." George nodded to Zhang Qiu. "But without any other information, this is the only way we can think of."

"Besides, aging agents are not common medicines. You can make more and sell them to other people. Whether it succeeds or not, making some money is always a good thing." Jackie Swinton made a suggestion to the twins.

"The only problem now is who will review the qualifications of the warriors. If we don't know, we can't prepare specifically." Alicia said in confusion. "I wrote to my parents and asked them to help find out, but I haven't heard anything yet."

"My grandmother doesn't know how the warriors are selected. After all, this competition has been stopped for a century. Even when she was young, she only heard about it briefly." Neville added.

"Maybe the referee is not a human. After all, under the influence of the harassment flies, it is difficult for wizards to guarantee that they will make a decision in an absolutely fair and calm manner." Luna said in a singing voice. Everyone thought she was just joking to liven up the atmosphere, only Ryan looked at Luna in surprise.

In short, until curfew was about to start and everyone was preparing to go back to the dormitory, no conclusion had been reached on this matter. The only ones who gained something from the discussion were the twins. They decided to make more aging potion and sell it to other students.

However, the Triwizard Tournament was not everything, and soon everyone shifted their focus to their studies. Because in the days that followed, the workload assigned by professors became heavier and heavier. For example, Professor McGonagall said directly in class: "Your OWLs exams are approaching -"

Although some students disagreed and thought that there was still a whole year before the exam, Ryan felt a sense of familiarity from Professor McGonagall's tone. After all, as someone who had experienced the college entrance examination, in his memory, reviewing a year before the exam was a routine operation.

Soon, it was Friday of the second week. Luo Zhen should be back from his trip soon. He decided to take this opportunity to visit him and ask him to answer some questions about alchemy that he had accumulated during this period.

(End of this chapter)