Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 304 A Lively Night

Dumbledore looked at Karkaroff in surprise, then gave Tyella a meaningful look.

The others weren't as discreet as Dumbledore; their gazes, filled with astonishment, were fixed on Tyella and Karkaroff.

Tiera smiled gently, just like a normal, well-behaved fourteen-year-old student.

But this only makes it more bizarre—

Almost every adult present felt a chill run down their spine.

Even Lady Rosie, who had been fuming all along, seemed to have started to look at Tyella with a newfound respect.

“The first project is to test your courage,” Barty Crouch continued his explanation when no one spoke. “So we’re not going to tell you what it is. Daring to face the unknown is an important quality of a wizard… very important…”

"The first project will take place on November 24th, and will be completed in front of the other students and the judging panel," Batty Crouch added. "So you won't have any chance to cheat under the watchful eyes of everyone."

“Well… I think there shouldn’t be any other questions, right?” Batty Crouch broke the silence, looking at the four participating warriors and their principal.

Karkarov and Mrs. Maxim exchanged a glance, then said:

"No."

“Neither do I,” Dumbledore said.

“That’s settled then, Dumbledore,” said Barty Crouch. “I’m heading back to the office.”

"Alright," Dumbledore nodded. "Have a safe journey."

It seems that because of this series of events, Dumbledore was not in the mood to keep Barty Crouch or invite the other two headmasters of magic schools for a drink before bed, as he did in the original story.

After Batty Crouch left, Madame Maxime put her arm around Fleur's shoulder and led her quickly out of the room. Thierra could hear them talking rapidly in French.

Mrs. Rosie snorted and turned to leave. Karkarov greeted Krum and then followed Mrs. Rosie meekly out of the prize display room.

“You should all go back to sleep,” Dumbledore said helplessly. “Mr. Lockhart, come to my office before nine o’clock tomorrow morning. Also, I hope you will spend some time tonight reflecting on whether your behavior today was appropriate.”

“Okay.” Tierra smiled kindly and said, “Good night, Professor.”

After saying that, Tyella took Harry's hand and turned to leave.

“Tierra, you…” Harry, who had been silent all along, asked on the way back to the dormitory, “Do you know who put my name in the Goblet of Fire?”

“I don’t know.” Tiera shrugged, then scratched her eyeball.

It would be a lie to say I didn't know.

Because the Time-Turner cannot rewind time by more than twenty-four hours—exceeding this limit would immediately trigger the lock-on mechanism of the Department of Mysteries—to prevent anyone from secretly casting their name into the Goblet of Fire from being missed, in the normal timeline, after being chosen as a champion and delivering her speech, Tiera used the Time-Turner directly in the corridor leading from the side door of the banquet hall to the prize display room, returning to twenty-three hours and fifty-nine minutes prior. Meanwhile, Tiera, having already used the Time-Turner to rewind time, immediately replaced her in the corridor after her past self had done so, causing the timeline to rewind—

In other words, the person who just gave a speech in the auditorium was Tyella from the normal timeline.

Meanwhile, in the prize display room, the one who's being defiant and defiant is Tiera, who has already rewound time and learned part of the truth.

Having retraced her steps twenty-three hours and fifty-nine minutes into the past, Tiera first opened a portal of light, placed a note in her bedroom, and warned her past self not to go to the main hall before the banquet. Then she opened another portal of light and arrived at the secret chamber.

Upon entering the secret chamber, Tiera first lay down on the large bed in the center of the chamber, then used spiritual projection to project her spiritual and mental dimensions onto the water's surface—

It was a giant, pure white figure of light and shadow, almost identical to the image of HWHY in the Bible—

"The Spirit of God walked upon the surface of the waters."

This is the spiritual dimensional form that Tiera manifested after occupying the spiritual dimension of HWHY—

An extremely tall humanoid figure of light and shadow.

This is a very strange thing. Logically speaking, after Tiera plundered HWHY's spiritual dimension, HWHY's spiritual dimension should either maintain HWHY's most original form—

It is the original demonic form with four heads: a human face, a bull's head, a lion's head, and an eagle's head, a human body, and four pairs of wings.

Either it gradually transforms into Tiera's own image under the influence of Tiera's powerful spiritual dimension—rather than becoming a bizarre, enormous shadow of light.

This situation gave Tiera a slightly ominous feeling, but she couldn't be sure yet.

After transforming into a giant play of light and shadow, Tiera entered the mirror world through the mirror formed by the water's surface.

And through her connection with herself, Tyrell first found a mirror in the Hogwarts corridor and looked out through it—

It was at this moment that the self in the normal timeline sensed something that made the seven-layered mental wall he had already built teeter on the brink of collapse—

Oh, so you're me from the future. Never mind then.

After seeing her past self, Tierra, who had traveled back from the future, moved several mirrors to the side, eventually arriving at the mirror formed by the glass windows of the auditorium. That following night, Tierra stood behind the mirror in the glass window, quietly observing the Goblet of Fire.

Tierra is determined to find the bastard who put his name in the ball.

For the first few hours after the banquet, all was peaceful, except for the house-elves of Hogwarts who were busy clearing away the leftovers from the tables and cleaning the banquet hall.

After all the house-elves had finished their work and left the banquet hall, the hall returned to silence.

After waiting several more hours in the mirror, Tierra saw the doors to the banquet hall opened from the outside, and the first person to enter was Principal Durmstrang—

Igor Kakarov.

Karkaroff looked around to make sure no one was there, then turned and closed the door. He tiptoed to the Goblet of Fire, tossed a note inside, and waved his wand while chanting incantations.

After finishing the incantation, Karkaroff nodded in satisfaction, then turned and left.

They made sure to close the door when they left.

"It must have been for Viktor Krum," Tiera thought.

But there was something he didn't quite understand: Durmstrang clearly had a better candidate than Viktor Krumm—

For example, the little white-haired girl holding the "Red Priest's Manual".

Although she hadn't displayed any power, Tiera, with her profound understanding of flesh and blood magic, could sense a discordant presence within her—

She is an artificial life form.

Several hours later, Alastormodi limped over, cast a Confusion Charm on the Goblet of Fire, and then—

One.

Two.

Tierra keenly noticed that Alastor Mudy, or rather Barty Crouch Jr., had dropped two notes into the Goblet of Fire.

Could it be Barty Crouch Jr.?
Tierra pondered.

If his prophecy angered Voldemort, leading Voldemort to want to capture him alive, then that would be understandable.

Just to be on the safe side, Tierra stayed in the mirror of the banquet hall for several more hours, until almost dawn, just when Tierra thought no one else would appear—

A ball of golden flame suddenly appeared in mid-air.

Then, the flames grew larger and larger, transforming into a large bird the size of a swan—

The large bird had a square piece of parchment in its beak.

The giant bird disappeared immediately after dropping the parchment into the Goblet of Fire.

"Shit!" Tiera cursed as she hid in the mirror.

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