The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 265 Guests Are Coming (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)

In the Room of Requirement, Ryan looked at the crown in his hand and thought for a while. Although the functions on it were a bit useless to Ryan, this thing was at least a precious cultural relic, so he needed to weigh how to deal with it.

If he handed it in, he would certainly gain a lot of honor, but for Ryan, who planned to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, honor was not very necessary for the time being. So Ryan decided to keep it in his hands and take it out when he needed it.

After gaining 6 deflection points from destroying the Horcrux, Ryan left the Room of Requirement with a smile on his face.

Although the Triwizard Tournament was approaching, everyone still had to attend classes as usual. In fact, because representatives from other schools were about to attend the Triwizard Tournament, every teacher hoped to let students learn more in a short period of time to avoid being embarrassed in front of the teachers and students of the other two schools.

Even Professor McGonagall, who was not usually harsh, shouted at the students at the end of the get out of class, "Longbottom, please be kind and don't show your true colors in front of the people at Durmstrang. Let them see that you don't even know a simple conversion spell!"

Among all the courses, Ryan liked Moody's class the most, because he was not at all uneasy about the upcoming Triwizard Tournament. After all, he was only here to fill in for a year, not a permanent professor at the school. Besides, Moody had survived the brink of death countless times, and the threat of death could not affect his mentality, and the competition certainly could not. So in these classes, Moody always arranged the tasks according to his own syllabus:

During these classes, he turned all the tables and chairs into various obstacles, and then placed a bunch of puppets in the classroom to imitate attacking dark wizards for the students to practice in. These puppets would only release a marking magic: a white letter T would be projected on the head of the person being hit.

In the first practical class, Moody gave everyone a warning: he adjusted the difficulty of the puppet array to the highest level. As a result, at the end of the class, most of the students walked out of the classroom with a capital T on their foreheads. Only Ryan successfully passed the exam with enough practical experience and got the 20 points Moody gave to Gryffindor.

"Ryan, please stay after class." Moody called Ryan as he was packing up and preparing to leave. Ryan had no choice but to say hello to Hermione and follow Moody into his office.

This was also Ryan's first time entering the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office. When Professor Moody opened the door, Ryan found a lot of strange things here. Ryan thought these should be the things Moody used when he was an Auror.

While Ryan was looking at these things, Moody also walked in. "You seem quite interested in these things of mine."

"Yes." Ryan nodded, then pointed to something on the table that looked like a glass top. "I've seen this thing at Harry's place. It should be a spyglass."

"Yes, in addition to this I also have a secret detector and a magic mirror. I have all the equipment an Auror should have." Moody proudly introduced a series of equipment in the room to Ryan. Suddenly he turned to Ryan and asked, "Are you Ryan Liang, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts Gryffindor College?"

Ryan was startled, and then replied, "I am Ryan Liang, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts Gryffindor College." At this time, Moody glanced at the instruments on the table, and the instruments did not move at all. "Oh, sorry, I'm allergic." Moody took out the wine flask from his waist, unscrewed it, and took a sip. Ryan's enhanced nose easily smelled the smell of pumpkin juice. "I saw that your performance in class today was much better than others. I thought you were a dark wizard in disguise to assassinate me."

Ryan now knew how suspicious Moody was. But apart from being suspicious, Moody was also a very charismatic person when he was normal, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people admiring him. In the next half an hour, Moody told Ryan a lot of his practical experience when he was an Auror. In the end, he even told Ryan that his practical level was at least the level of those new Aurors after half a year of practical experience, and hoped that Ryan could consider becoming an Auror after graduation.

Ryan just smiled politely. It was obvious that Moody thought he was very talented in fighting, so he hoped that he would apply for the position of Auror in the future. But the actual situation was that Ryan's ability was cultivated through a lot of actual combat, and his real fighting talent was not much better than others.

After going out, Ryan felt that the Moody in front of him was more real, but this was not good news, because it meant that the plot Ryan knew had changed, and the future began to become chaotic.

Time quickly came to the middle of October. After the first Care of Magical Creatures class of the week, everyone learned from the notice board in the entrance hall that representatives from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang would arrive next Friday.

Under such circumstances, the school entered an unprecedented clean state this week. Not to mention the dust and cobwebs in the corners, even the busiest common room was cleaned up several times a day by the house elves. Not only that, the armor and portraits in the castle were fully maintained. After talking to some paintings, Ryan learned that the last time such a comprehensive maintenance was more than a century ago.

On the morning of October 10, when everyone came down for breakfast, they found that the Great Hall had been decorated overnight. On the walls hung huge silk banners, each representing a Hogwarts house: red with a golden lion for Gryffindor, blue with a bronze eagle for Ravenclaw, yellow with a black badger for Hufflepuff, and green with a silver python for Slytherin. Behind the teachers' desks hung the largest banner, with the Hogwarts coat of arms: a lion, eagle, badger, and snake joined together, surrounding a large letter H.

Ryan swore that this was the most gorgeous decoration he had seen in Hogwarts Castle since he entered school. He could even vaguely sense the scent of alchemical products from the banners from afar when he sat at the long table.

So when he left the auditorium, he approached these banners specifically, and found that the banners were indeed products of alchemy: each banner was solidified with cleaning and anti-wear effects, and the history of each banner was no less than three hundred years.

"It's worthy of being the most powerful magic school in Europe. Any random item can reflect its absolutely profound heritage. A new banner of that kind would probably only cost seven or eight silver Sickles, but after alchemical processing, the cost is more than 20 gold Galleons. And the only effect of these alchemical banners is to give the school face." Ryan now had a deeper understanding of Hogwarts' heritage.

In addition, professors also began to order the prefects and the student union president to keep an eye on those who were prone to accidents or mischief, to prevent them from bringing shame to the school at the welcome ceremony. For example, the Weasley twins were the focus of attention. Ryan even saw Professor McGonagall in the corridor telling the Bloody Baron to keep an eye on Peeves and not let him cause trouble today.

In this atmosphere of tension and anticipation, the time for the guests to arrive was finally approaching.

(End of this chapter)