Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

After a lot of effort, Lockhart finally split 5 pure-blood families from these would-be Death Eaters, which is what Dumbledore has been trying to do for the past ten years but has been unable to do. to the thing.

Although Voldemort can still use his authority to oppress them, the team is not easy to lead when people's hearts are scattered, isn't it?

The PS4k chapter has to be updated with 3 words tomorrow_(: [-]J B)

Chapter 290 Seven "We Do Have Money"

Never in all his life had Cornelius Fudge been more proud than he was today.

Thanks to various reasons such as good publicity, strong hype, and profit-driven reasons, the number of dignitaries from various countries who came to participate in the Five Powers Tournament far exceeded his expectations.In addition to more than 30 countries such as Europe and the United States who have sent representatives, even those Asian countries have sent diplomats, saying that they want to see the demeanor of strong European and American universities.

As far as Fudge knows, in addition to a professor of history from the Japanese Institute of Magic, Mr. Liu Song, the chairman of the International Association of Magic (his campaign banner is shown in the movie "Fantastic Beasts 3") is said to have sent a vice president to attend the opening ceremony God knows why they came here to participate in a school fellowship game.

But Fudge didn't bother to think about it.

He owes it to his big enough face, and the prosperity of the British wizarding world under his leadership, so he infiltrated his influence into the East Asian region with the largest wizard population. These are undoubtedly Fudge's "political achievements"

He came to Hogsmeade almost impatiently, and held a grand welcome party in the sea of ​​flowers.

It has to be said that Lockhart's handwriting still shocked some small European countries, such as Liechtenstein, and they were shocked by Hogsmeade's facilities.

Leaving aside taverns, cinemas are relatively rare in the wizarding world, let alone a full set of resort facilities such as ski resorts and golf courses.

In the past, wizards used moving puppet shows or circuses composed of magical creatures for entertainment, or they just looked at the moving pictures in storybooks, and when these Muggle entertainment facilities appeared in a After entering the wizard village, the first feeling of wizards is very fresh.

Not to mention, if you look carefully, many residents here have one or two more Muggle bicycles or motorcycles at their doorsteps, and there is actually Muggle-style running water in the house.

It would be fine if these appeared in London, but they appeared in Hogsmeade, a "pure wizard settlement"... What does this mean?

Compared to these things, Hogsmeade Village's new landmark, the Jack and the Pea Hotel, has not received much attention.This thing that can make Muggle tourists scream is something that is common sense to wizards, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it

"Your houses are all newly built." A wizard from Romania asked the question in his heart very simply: "How much did you spend? Can you recover the cost?"

Hearing him ask this, Fudge felt a little guilty, because the changes here were not only beyond the expectations of these foreigners, even he himself did not expect that Hogsmeade would have such a big change.

The last time he came was before Christmas last year. Although a movie theater had started to be built at that time, overall the difference from before was not too big.But this time when he came over, Hogsmeade had already changed into something he couldn't recognize, which made him a little uncertain.

Fortunately, his dog leg hurried forward and whispered a few words in his ear, telling him that most of the funds for these things came from sponsors, and after these facilities basically started to make profits, Fudge was relieved.

"We do have money." Fudge proudly said to the Romanian representative with his big belly, "how much money do we have, and how many things we do."

Fudge's behavior made Lockhart, who was sitting in the tavern watching his performance, feel very funny, because in his impression, the last person who said this was the Mayor of London.

Before the London Olympic Games, the mayor of London also puffed out his stomach like this, and said "we are indeed rich" to the Olympic Committee and representatives from various countries who came to inspect.

But then, because of the aftermath of the financial crisis, the bank refused to continue lending. In addition to the 60 million pounds allocated for the 1th celebration of the Queen's ascension to the throne, the Olympic-related facilities had to be reduced in construction, so that a series of big troubles followed. joke.

For example, the basketball court without toilets, the stands that collapsed suddenly, the shoddy medals, the congested subways and buses, and the 1.7-meter-long bed in the Olympic Village. In mid-air for more than 5 minutes, he kept waving the flag in his hand, and asked people to find a way to get him down.

Compared with these, it is not a big deal if the Olympic car killed someone, only one key of the venue was lost and athletes and spectators could not enter the venue, and a series of problems were imposed. After all, these are just organizational issues, not Problems with hardware facilities.

Fortunately, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo later set an example with practical actions and firmly supported London. Otherwise, the biggest Olympic joke in ten years would have happened in London.

Seeing that Fudge also said the words "we do have money", Lockhart couldn't help but feel a bit of bad luck.

He doesn't ask how well the hegemony competition can be run now, he just hopes that everything goes well and there are no accidents.

After finishing this extraordinary welcome party, Fudge led several officials from the Ministry of Magic, as well as international VIPs, to the front of the Shrieking Shack.

The five school warriors and their attendants had already gathered there. Together with the reporters who came to report the game, they surrounded the screaming hut, waiting for the officials from the sports department to tell them the rules of the opening match. Ticketed audience and Hogwarts students were placed in the cinema.

In this theater where the traceless expansion spell was cast, the audience seats are fully lined up

There are thousands of them, and several huge panoramic telescopes are connected to projectors that play movies, projecting the scenes of the scene on the silver screen of the theater.

It can be said that this is a real live panoramic broadcast.

Originally, according to the procedure, Hessia Jones should announce the rules of the game, but after seeing the densely packed guns and short guns, Fudge suddenly changed his mind and took the job.

"On this Halloween, I, Cornelius Fudge, on behalf of the British Ministry of Magic and all wizards in the UK, would like to extend my sincere greetings to those who are watching the game and listening to the broadcast all over the world!

First of all, I would like to thank the employees of the Ministry of Magic for their hard work o..." He thought that everyone was listening to his speech attentively, but almost everyone present was deserting, and the tourists in the movie theater even scolded him directly. He made a sound, and wanted that fat man to finish speaking quickly.

Unaware of this, Fudge completed his opening speech on his own, and then in the spotlight formed by everyone's eyes, he took the rules of the first game from Jones and officially announced the first game content of the game.

In the eyes of others, Lockhart walked into the Shrieking Shack, preparing to issue "commissions" to the warriors

Chapter 290 The Eighth First Project

Because of Ludo Bagman's inaction at the beginning, the events and rules of these competitions were specified by Loha, and he knew the content of this competition without listening to Fudge's explanation.

In the description of the game to Dumbledore, Lockhart claimed that the purpose of this game is to test whether the representatives of each school have enough courage and wisdom to deal with various strange events, and only those who have both Can be called a true warrior.

Of course, in addition to these high-sounding things on the bright side, Luoha Temple considers more entertainment factors. He turned the entire competition project into a story, in order to make the whole world pay attention The wizards of the competition have a sense of participation.

In the first game of the Five-wizard Tournament, Lockhart called it a "phobia"-on Halloween night, all kinds of ghosts who had been dormant in Hogsmeade suddenly came out collectively as monsters and made this place There is no peace in the quiet little village.

The most magical wizard in the village vowed to solve the problem, but half an hour later, his mutilated body was hung on the fountain sculpture of the village by the ghosts, and the residents of the village had to seek help from the outside world.

And several warriors and their attendants played the role of "professional ghost hunters".

Together with their assistants, these warriors must accept the entrustment of five villagers to enter five haunted houses to search for evidence about ghosts and eliminate them.

Because the ghosts in these haunted houses are well hidden, they must try their best to understand the types of these ghosts without disturbing them; and find a suitable way to eliminate them.

If they are accidentally discovered by ghosts during the exploration process, or their exploration behavior

In order to anger the ghost, the ghost is likely to enter the "hunting" state, and once the warrior or his attendant is hunted, the other person must complete the task of solving puzzles or eliminating the ghost alone. Hunting, then they will lose the game.

Each team has an initial fund of 10 Galleons, which they can use to buy exorcism props such as Peruvian holy wood, salt, blood, amulets, or cameras from the village chief (played by Lockhart) at the Shrieking Shack , spirit sensor, developing dust, thermometer, candle, soul lamp, psychic pen and other exploration props.

However, the items that can be purchased for a mere 10 Galleons are very limited. If they still have no way to know the type of ghosts and eliminate them after they are used up, then they still have to swallow the result of losing this game.

In the end, the scoring standard that the warriors get is the "reward" paid to them by the villagers, and this reward is also completely deceptive, and it will be composed of several factors.

1o Whether the warrior and his attendants are safe.

The villager pays 30 Galleons if the warrior survives, and 15 Galleons if the servant survives.

2o Did the two of them disturb the ghost during the search?

You can get 20 Galleons for not alerting the ghosts, 10 Galleons for being alerted but not being hunted by ghosts, and 50 Galleons for being hunted but successfully escaping.

3o The time it takes to search and eliminate ghosts is the time reward.

If the work is completed within half an hour, the Bei U warrior and his attendants will get a reward of 50 Galleons, and every 5 minutes thereafter, the reward will be reduced by 5 Galleons. If they enter the haunted house for more than 80 minutes or both of them are hunted, The reward for this item will be reset to zero.

4o Whether the two have collected enough evidence about the types of ghosts.

The evidence must be physical evidence, or evidence that is visible to the naked eye and audible to the ears. For each piece of evidence recorded, 10 Galleons can be obtained, with a maximum limit of 50 Galleons.

5o Whether the two successfully eliminated the ghost.

Successfully killing the ghost will give you 100 Galleons, and 0 Galleons if you fail.

The reason these warriors are scored with pay rather than ratings is because the money will be carried over to the second project.

Although at this time, no one on the scene knew exactly what the second project was.But Fudge also told the warriors that the more money they got in the first project, the greater the advantage they had in the second project.

"...The rules have been finished. Now, warriors, you have 20 minutes to discuss. After the 20 minutes are over, the game will officially begin."

After spending 10 minutes, Fudge finally finished reading the rules, and the tourists and students who stayed in the cinema began to chatter.

"It's actually a ghost!" Seamus Finnigan's hand holding the potato chip box was shaking, "There shouldn't be a female ghost (pig girl), right?"

Seamus's boggart form is a female ghost, which is well known.

"Don't be afraid, Dumbledore will not let anyone die in it, and it may not be a female ghost, maybe it is an ordinary ghost." Dean Thomas comforted him.

"But... did you hear that just now? Fudge said 'hunt'!In other words, the ghosts in these haunted houses are not like the ghosts in our school, they will attack I”

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"This... But you see, not only Dumbledore, but also the principals of several other schools were indifferent, which shows that they know that no one will die."

"It's hard to tell. Didn't the previous Triwizard Tournament be forced to stop because of too many dead people?"

"What you said makes sense..."

It was not only the students who were talking wildly, but the reporters present also began to

Interviewed foreign guests and asked their opinions on the opening game.

Considering that everyone is here to watch the excitement and not to mess with the scene, most of the guests answered very decently, nothing more than "unique", "interesting" and the like.

Among them, the views of Mr. Kinomoto, a professor of history at the Japanese Institute of Magic, are quite useful.

"""Spirit removal' is also very common in Japan, and the wizards who are responsible for this work are called "onmyoji" in Japan

Although we Japanese collectively refer to these ghosts as "weirds", different types of monsters have great differences in their magic power, aggressiveness, weakness, and attack methods. In addition to the courage of the warriors to fight against monsters , They also need to be knowledgeable enough ... I think this is a game that is very suitable for the Warriors."

The reporter who got a satisfactory answer thanked him first, and then asked another question

"So if you were playing, what advice would you give these warriors?"

Mr. Kinomoto thought for a while, and then gave his own answer.

"If it were me, I would definitely spend the initial funds of 10 Galleons, because it is really not easy to determine the type of ghosts... and there are two types of props that I will definitely buy."

"What props?" The reporter asked.

"One is salt and the other is candle." Mr. Kinomoto replied.

"Is there any reason?"

"Because almost all types of ghosts, such as phantoms, genies, demons, and revenants, have the characteristic of "leaving traces after stepping on salt", which allows people to quickly determine the approximate location of the weirdness in the haunted house.

And candles can not only provide lighting, but also when the warriors have to face the weird

When hunting, they can also use candles to quickly ignite many props and items in the house, which is a function that props such as lanterns cannot provide. "

"Wait a minute..." The reporter had to interrupt him, "Can't we use "fluorescent flashes, or "flaming flames"?"

"Yes, but... how should I put it?" Mr. Kinomoto smiled wryly, "Many weird speeds are faster than wizards can chant spells, and based on my experience working in Japanese magic institutes, there are very few young wizards After seeing ghosts, they can still recite the most correct spells as usual, most of them have to rely on props to resist the first wave of raids from weirdness.

If the wizard already has a lighted candle in his hand when he is attacked, it is obviously better than temporarily chanting fluorescent flashes or flames. Besides, the wand in the wizard's hand must be on standby in case of danger, and is used to maintain the light spell. It's such a luxury, why not a more convenient candle? "

"And they're not expensive." The reporter understood. "Are there any more?"

There is also the Warriors' own strategy... No matter who wins or loses, I hope to see a wonderful game. "Professor Kinomoto ended the interview in a modest tone.

PS "Fear of Ghosts" is really a very good game Chapter 290 IX Schedule

Although the Japanese professor's opinion is pertinent, not everyone agrees with him.

For example, a few German wizards declared that "no matter what kind of ghosts can be dealt with with the Cruciatus Curse", and a wizard from Austria probably drunk too much and said "just blow up the haunted house" .

It is true that, unlike Muggles, wizards have more ways to detect the existence of ghosts and take countermeasures, but considering that the Unforgivable Curse may not be suitable for use in the UK, and the use of thunderbolt explosions or flame explosions After leaving the haunted house, not only will some ghosts not disappear, but they may take the opportunity to escape, and all the evidence about the ghosts will disappear as a result, which will not be worth the loss.

Of course, these people are just talking about it. No one will take their words seriously. The only ones who need to be responsible for these warriors are the warriors themselves.

Harry noticed that both of the Beauxbatons girls were trembling after the first project came out - they obviously didn't like this kind of stuff.

Unlike other schools that had at least one male warrior or squire, only Beauxbatons were both girls, which was obviously not conducive to their performance in the first round.

Harry even suspected that Beauxbaton's students might give up the first round directly, and directly enter the second round with the guaranteed 10 Galleons and the two survival rewards.

Before Harry could think any further, Cedric dragged him into a corner of the garden outside the Shrieking Shack.

"Heli, come here, let's discuss it."

Seeing that the warriors and attendants from other schools had already started internal discussions, Cedric quickly called Harry to discuss what to do.

Obviously, there is a so-called "guarantee" in the first round of competition, that is,

As I said just now, if a school's warriors choose not to spend a Galleon and give up the game, then they will get 10+30+15, which is 55 Galleons, to go to the second round. If they guess the type of ghost correctly, they may get more.

But Cedric and Harry didn't think anyone would really choose that, not even the two girls at Beauxbatons.

Because this game can be said to be reported by the wizarding media all over the world, if someone makes such a cowardly and clumsy performance, it will not only embarrass themselves, but also their school.

But this means that if a team runs out of money, and the warrior and his entourage are wiped out, then they are likely to participate in the second round of the game without a penny.

So in this case, strategy becomes crucial.

"We don't have to go in both," Cedric said to Harry. "I'll take care of whatever ghost we meet later. If I'm killed by a ghost, I'll die before I die." All the evidence and traces will be told to you through the sound transmission spell, you just need to take them to hand in the task."

Cedric's strategy is very correct - because in Lockhart's design, the brave and the attendants do not need to enter the haunted house at the same time.In this way, if one person accidentally "died", the other person could at least get some evidence and a reward for survival.

And of the two, Cedric is a sixth grader, while Harry is a fourth grader. Logically speaking, the warrior should also enter the haunted house, so Cedric decided to take the risk by himself.

But Harry felt something was wrong with that.

Not that he thought there was anything wrong with the strategy, but he found it humiliating, especially when Harry was sure Cho-Zhang was still watching.