The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 267 Banquet (Please subscribe, collect, and vote)

When everyone arrived at the Great Hall, the students of Beauxbatons chose seats at the Ravenclaw table. After they sat down, they seemed to be curious about Hogwarts Castle, looking around the Great Hall with gloomy expressions on their faces. Three of the students still had their heads tightly wrapped with scarves and turbans.

"It's not that cold," said Hermione unhappily. "Why don't they wear cloaks?"

"They probably came directly from school. As far as I know, Beauxbatons is in the south of France, and the temperature there is much higher than here. I think they wrapped themselves so tightly because they are not used to the climate here." Ryan explained.

"That's right. No wonder the students at Durmstrang are dressed so warmly. I guess it must be snowing in the north." Hermione showed an understanding expression.

Ron was busy trying to make room for Hermione. He wanted to ask her to move over. Ryan stopped her immediately after noticing, "Stop it. Our table and the Hufflepuffs' are all full. If you want to choose, you should choose a table with fewer people, like Ravenclaw or Slytherin."

Ron was a little unconvinced at first, but soon the Durmstrang students chose to sit on the Slytherin side. After seeing Krum talking to the Slytherin students, Ron could only complain bitterly.

After all the students entered the auditorium and sat down at their respective college tables, the faculty and staff came in and filed to the guest of honor seats and sat down.

The last three people to sit down were Professor Dumbledore, Professor Karkaroff, and Madame Maxime. It is worth mentioning that the students of Beauxbatons stood up as soon as they saw their headmaster. This restraint made several Hogwarts students laugh - but the representatives of Beauxbatons did not seem embarrassed at all, and they did not sit down again until Madame Maxime sat down on Dumbledore's left. Dumbledore stood all the time, and the hall gradually became quiet.

"It seems that the French have strict etiquette and strong organizational discipline. But this strong discipline is not French at all." Ryan complained silently after seeing this scene.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts, and - especially - distinguished guests," Dumbledore began to speak at this time, looking at the foreign students with a smile, "I welcome you to Hogwarts with great pleasure. I hope and believe that you will feel comfortable and happy here."

A girl from Beauxbatons, still wrapping her head tightly with a scarf, uttered a sneer that was undoubtedly sarcastic - well, Ryan decided to take back what he said before, it was extremely rude to make such a sound when a respected old man was speaking. He estimated that the French students stood up purely out of reflex, which could only mean that the current headmaster of Beauxbatons did a good job instead of what he thought before that the French had changed.

"The Tournament will begin at the end of the banquet," said Dumbledore. "I invite you all to eat and drink as much as you like at home!"

Dinner is finally served! Ryan praised Professor Dumbledore from the bottom of his heart.

The plates in front of them were piled high with food as usual - many of the dishes were obviously classic foreign dishes, and it was obvious that the house-elves in the kitchen had done their best to prepare them.

"What is this?" Hermione asked, pointing to a large hodgepodge platter on the table.

"Ah, this is Smokerbo," Ryan said after taking a look at the plate. Fortunately, he had seen this on his last trip to Northern Europe. "It's a large platter made up of smoked herring, smoked salmon, liver paste, sausage, meat slices, pickles, salad and cheese. It's a very good appetizer in Sweden. You can try it." "It's really good." Hermione said after picking up a piece of smoked herring with a fork and tasting it.

Twenty minutes into the banquet, a small problem occurred. A silver-haired Beauxbatons girl came to get the bouillabaisse, and Ron responded like an idiot.

"It's really shameful. Has he never seen a beautiful woman?" Hermione complained quietly when she saw this scene. At that moment, Ron's voice came from the other side: "There is no such person in Hogwarts!"

After hearing this, Ryan admired Ron's courage. After all, Ryan didn't dare to offend all the girls in the school at once. Anyway, the girls who heard this looked at Ron with hostility, even his sister Ginny. Harry moved aside a little at this time, indicating that this matter had nothing to do with him.

Seeing Hermione's face turning ugly, Ryan quickly pulled her aside and said, "There's no need to be angry because of others. Besides, Ron is just affected by magic. When that girl came over just now, I felt a magical reaction similar to that of the Veela during the holidays. By the way, I also analyzed their magic and imitated it to experiment with a concealed magic."

This is what Ryan just remembered after seeing this half-blooded veela. After seeing the natural ability of the veela, Ryan also tried to transform this ability into magic, but unfortunately failed. However, in the end, he reversed the research and developed a magic named Little Transparent: after releasing this magic on the body, the whole person will lose most of the attractiveness. The biggest use of this magic is to make people around ignore you. The only drawback is that once you communicate with people, the magic effect will be automatically lifted.

Ryan began to explain this new magic to Hermione. As expected, what attracted Hermione the most was the various kinds of knowledge. The rest of the banquet was spent by the two of them eating and discussing.

After finishing the last dessert, the plate was clean again. At this time, Dumbledore's voice suddenly rang out, covering the entire hall.

"The moment has finally arrived. The Triwizard Tournament is about to begin. I would like to explain a few things before bringing the box in—"

After introducing the two newly arrived Ministry of Magic officials, the room began to stir. Because under Dumbledore's orders, Filch held a large wooden box inlaid with jewels in his hands, and then carefully placed the box on the table in front of Dumbledore.
"Mr. Crouch and Mr. Bagman have carefully reviewed the specific events for this year's Champions' Competition," said Dumbledore as Filch laid out the boxes. "They have also made many necessary arrangements for each event. There are three events in total, held at different times throughout the school year, and they will test the Champions in many different ways..."

The hall fell silent as Professor Dumbledore spoke, as if everyone had stopped breathing.

"——The one responsible for selecting the warriors is an impartial selector, and that is the Goblet of Fire." Just as Ryan was trying to recall the details of the projects in the original novel, Dumbledore's speech had ended.

After introducing the Goblet of Fire, Dumbledore drew his wand and tapped the lid of the box three times. The lid slowly creaked open. Dumbledore reached inside and pulled out a large, roughly carved wooden goblet filled with dancing blue-white flames.

It seems that the protagonist of this school year has appeared, Ryan stared at the Goblet of Fire on the table and thought, I just don’t know if Harry will still be a warrior now that the plot has changed.

(End of this chapter)