I'm the king of the roll at Hogwarts

Chapter 249: Triwizard Tournament

Ron is a far-sighted man, he will not give up a whole forest for a small tree.

Of course, to him now, the baguette that Louis handed him was a small tree, and the upcoming college dinner was a whole lush forest.

He decided to stay hungry for a while.

So, the baguette was carefully collected by Vitaly.

"You can't treat food like this!" Vitaly snorted.

As a country with a great culinary heritage, Vitaly has always been quite devout about her country's representative food.

Finally, with the shout that Kevin Whitby was sorted into Hufflepuff, the sorting ceremony ended. Professor McGonagall picked up the sorting hat and the small stool and carried them away.

"It's about to begin!" Ron perked up, holding the knife in his left hand and the fork in his right hand, looking at the plate in front of him impatiently.

But it was obvious that Dumbledore would not easily order the meal to begin - not to mention the new teachers in the new school year, it would take some time to introduce the guests' origins.

He stood up, looked at all his classmates with a smile, opened his arms and made a welcoming gesture.

"I know you are all in a hurry, but I still want you to take it easy." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Before dinner, there are still many things to talk about - of course, I think it won't take long."

"First, let's talk about ourselves. I regret to announce that Professor R. J. Lupin has resigned from the position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts due to personal reasons." As he spoke, Dumbledore turned to look at Emma, ​​who was sitting in the faculty seat with her chin in her hand and playing with her hair out of boredom, and introduced loudly: "However, fortunately, there is a better candidate, that is our outstanding Hogwarts graduate, Ms. Emma Mountbatten!"

When Emma heard Dumbledore calling her, she stood up, smiled very elegantly and majestically, and nodded to her classmates.

Seeing that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor was such a beautiful woman, the students were stunned for a moment and then cheered in unison. After all, no one would dislike their teacher being a beauty.

The Slytherins in particular cheered even louder - they had heard that the new teacher's surname was Mountbatten, and as the saying goes, a county magistrate is not as good as the current manager, the students cheered as hard as they could to please Louis.

"Louis, our new teacher's last name is also Mountbatten. May I ask who she is..." Pansy asked hesitantly.

"My mother." Louis did not shy away from admitting the fact.

Pansy was in awe. She thought that her mother must also be a great wizard, as she could train such an outstanding and excellent wizard like Louis.

But... well, to be honest, Emma didn't actually contribute anything to Louis's excellence, but then again, giving birth to Louis was the best training for him.

Even after Emma sat down, the hall was still filled with long applause, which only died down when Dumbledore put his hand down. He then said, "In addition, Hogwarts will renovate the library and expand it. The new library director will be Miss Patchouli Norridge!"

Patchouli stood up from her seat weakly and bowed. When they saw that the new library director was also a beautiful girl, the cheers became even louder.

"As I was saying," Dumbledore said, silencing the noise of the students, "in the coming months we will be honoured to host a very exciting event that has not been held for a century. I am delighted to announce that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year."

"As you can see, students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have already arrived at Hogwarts. Of course, we will explain the details of the Triwizard Tournament in detail after dinner. I think everyone is eager to eat now, so... let the banquet begin!"

Finally, they heard Professor Dumbledore's words. As his deep voice fell, the students watched the empty plates in front of them filled with rich food in an instant.

Magic changes lives, says Dumbledore.

It seemed like the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were seeing this kind of thing for the first time. They stared at the food in front of them with dazed expressions.

What's going on? Can anyone explain why the students at Hogwarts have such magical meals?
This is a new version of the ship that they have never experienced before.

The dishes were rich enough. What was different from previous years was that in order to welcome the guests, Dumbledore specifically ordered the kitchen to prepare a lot of Eastern European food. As for Beauxbatons' French food, he did not specifically ask the kitchen to prepare it. After all, a lot of French food was eaten on a daily basis.

"I should say that I don't like fish soup." Louis looked at the French fish soup in front of him and didn't want to drink it at all. He didn't like fish very much and was very sensitive to the fishy smell. Today, in order to take care of the people of Beauxbatons, Dumbledore prepared three kinds of seafood soup.

He wanted to call Aslo, but when he turned around, he found that Aslo was fawning on his mother. The gratitude in his expression gave Louis goose bumps.

Never mind, never mind, at worst I can just not drink the soup, Louis comforted himself.

Of course Catherine knew that Louis didn't like fish soup. After she whispered a few words in Christasa's ear, the house-elf soon placed a bowl of potato soup in front of Louis.

Louis then showed a happy expression. He patted Catherine's thigh and reached out to pick up a piece of cut baguette from the table. The baked and heated baguette could not be used as a weapon as usual, but was softer. He used the baguette to pick up the potato soup and ate it. He was full of satisfaction in one bite.

The main reason was that he was starving. He had only eaten one meal since this morning. In fact, he was hungrier than Ron, but he didn't say it. The founder of Hogwarts was very far-sighted. The welcome party for freshmen was undoubtedly a perfect event. Students who had been sitting on the train for most of the day had no appetite and might not be able to eat anything. After getting off the train, they had to walk on the cold road for half a day and wait in the hall. It would be very strange if they were not hungry.

But the new force in eating this time was obviously the students from Durmstrang. The girls were okay, as they were still able to maintain an elegant eating manner, but the boys were not so... well, they couldn't control themselves. Krum was worthy of being Ron's idol, and even when it came to eating, he was even better than Ron, and he reproduced the famous scene of the chicken leg violent battle in a classic way.

"I knew Krum would get along with me, you see." Ron said to Harry with a beaming expression. Harry took a look and nodded.

After the main course, Dumbledore waved again, and the sumptuous main course on the table was removed and replaced with a variety of desserts.

At the end of the banquet, all the desserts were eaten up. After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, Dumbledore stood up again. He stretched out his hand and pressed it down. The buzzing sound of people whispering in the hall suddenly disappeared, and only the sound of wind and rain could be heard outside.

"Well," Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile, "Now that we are all full and satisfied, I must once again ask for your attention. I have a few announcements to make."

"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, wanted me to tell you that this year, a few more items have been added to the list of prohibited items in the castle. They are Screaming Yo-Yos, Frisbees with Teeth, and Combo Boomerangs. The entire list is a total of 437 items. You can see it in Filch's office. Anyone interested can go check it out."

At this point, Dumbledore glanced meaningfully at the Weasley twins, who also faced him and spread their hands in a helpless manner.

They both always felt that Filch was targeting them, but they had no evidence.

"As before, I want to remind everyone, especially the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, that students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest over there, and students below the third grade are forbidden to visit Hogsmeade village. In addition, the Quidditch House Cup will no longer be held this year. Instead, it will be replaced by an ancient and large-scale event, which is the Triwizard Tournament I mentioned before dinner."

Just as he finished speaking, a deafening thunder was heard outside, followed by a streak of silver-white lightning in the simulated sky above the auditorium.

Just then, the door of the auditorium was slammed open, and a man stood at the door. He was leaning on a long cane and wrapped in a black traveling cloak.

Another flash of lightning flashed across the sky above the auditorium, illuminating the face of the visitor.

Too ugly, that was everyone's first impression. The second impression was that he was too evil, even more ferocious than the Death Eaters. Of course, Louis also noticed the appearance of the person who came. How should I put it... a bit like the butcher in Dota? That's probably the feeling.

ah...fresh meat!

One of his eyes was normal, and the other one was wearing an eyepatch like Captain One-Eyed. The difference was that it was not an eyepatch, but a magic prosthetic eye. The blue prosthetic eye kept turning, as if he had ADHD, staring at the crowd in the auditorium.

It was Mad-Eye Moody. After all, the image was too obvious, if Louis was not mistaken - but he didn't know whether it was Moody himself or he had been disguised by Barty Crouch Jr.

Moody walked up to Dumbledore, stretched out a hand that was as scarred as his face and shook hands with Dumbledore. After a brief exchange of words, he sat down next to him at Dumbledore's signal.

Moody was not polite either. He sat down and pulled the plate of sausages in front of Dumbledore. Then he took out a shiny knife from his arms, put it on the sausages and started to eat them. At the same time, his artificial eyes were not idle, rolling around, as if he was looking at the faculty and staff beside him and the guests from the other two schools.

"Please allow me to introduce this time-tested warrior," Dumbledore said happily, breaking the silence: "Alastor Moody, he is an Auror who has been fighting against dark wizards all his life. Of course, you can also see the mottled scars on his body..."

Boy, Moody is battle-scarred, isn't he?

"I am pleased to inform you that in the new year, Mr. Moody will be in charge of security for our Triwizard Tournament."

As he spoke, Dumbledore was the first to clapped, and Hagrid responded - but there were only these two people, and the applause was lonely and sounded extremely awkward. Everyone else was stunned by Moody's strange appearance and was staring at him intently.

Louis cooperated with Dumbledore and clapped along with him. After seeing Louis's actions, all the students in Slytherin College began to applaud, which also inspired several other colleges. For a moment, the auditorium became lively again.

Moody looked at everyone in surprise. He didn't seem to have expected to be so welcomed at Hogwarts. With his prison-like appearance, it was good enough that he didn't scare the children to tears. When had he ever been welcomed like this?
He reached into his traveling cloak, pulled out a curved wine bottle, took a long sip, and then burped with a flushed face.

"Perhaps some of you don't know what the Triwizard Tournament is, so please allow me to introduce it to you." Dumbledore said with a smile, "The Triwizard Tournament was founded about 700 years ago. It is a friendly competition between the three largest magic schools in Europe. The three schools are Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. Each school selects a warrior, and then the three warriors compete in three magical events. The Triwizard Tournament is held every five years, and the three schools take turns to host it."

"Everyone agreed that this was a great way for young wizards from different countries to build friendships, but later, the death toll was too high, and the Triwizard Tournament was discontinued."

"Over the centuries, people have tried several times to restore the Triwizard Tournament, but none of them have been successful." Dumbledore continued, "However, our Department of International Magical Cooperation and the Department of Magical Sports and Magic believe that the time is ripe for another attempt. This summer, we have done a lot of work to ensure that none of our champions will be in danger of their lives."

Hearing this, Louis curled his lips and secretly complained in his heart, "Then can you explain why Cedric suddenly became angry?"

"And today, the headmasters of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang have led their carefully selected competitors to Hogwarts. The ceremony to select the champions will be held the day after the Halloween party. An impartial referee will decide which students are finally qualified to compete for the Triwizard Cup and win honor for their schools. He himself will also receive a bonus of 50,000 Galleons!"

At this point, Karkaroff and Madame Maxime looked at Dumbledore at the same time, wondering why Dumbledore, who had always been stingy, suddenly became so generous.

The old students at Hogwarts were fine, as they had long been numbed by Louis's sugar-coated bullets. However, the freshmen and students from the other two schools were not so calm. They were breathing rapidly, and their ears were full of the 50,000 Galleons, even Viktor Krum.

(End of this chapter)