Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

And the third hack is naturally the scientific theories of Muggles. As a person with sufficient scientific literacy, he can transfer many Muggle research methodologies to wizards for use.

Although Lockhart's congenital conditions are indeed not good, but with his acquired efforts and various "hacking" behaviors, he still opened up a unique path of magic advancement.In the short term, the crown and the potion may be more effective, but in the long run, perhaps the Muggle methodology is the best help for Lockhart to advance to the top.

As evidenced by Moody's losing streak - Lockhart will get stronger in the future.

After the daily sparring, the two sat down to watch the game again, and found that the game had reached the fourth group of warriors in the first round.

Cedric and Harry answered the riddle correctly in the first round, and used the worms they caught temporarily and the silver teapot given by the Sphinx to catch the birds and snakes again.

Next, they immediately used a "6' to jump to the first room, avoiding the melee zone in the first round.

Then, Krum, who started second, threw a "3" without much effort and landed himself in a room with a picture of a dog.

The two of Krum were sent to Devon, England, where there was a village of wizards and Muggles - Ilfracombe, and their destination was on a hill next to the village.

Krum thought he would meet a swallowtail dog here, but instead he met a two-headed dog here

After seeing the three-headed dog, Harry, Ron, and Hermione who returned to the scene were all shocked because they recognized the big guy.

Isn't this Lu Wei raised by Hagrid?

Sometimes the three of them would think back, if they hadn't figured out the weakness of the three-headed dog and held the flute that smelled of Hagrid, what would have happened if they faced the three-headed dog directly?

Krum told them the answer was total failure

Had they been able to answer the sphinx's question correctly, they would have had a chance of passing the room safely.

But it is a pity that when they faced the riddle of "what can pass through a person's ears without leaving a hole", they failed to answer the answer "sound", so naturally they did not get the harp.

Krum, who had no harp, had to use all the spells he knew, even black magic, on Lu Wei with his attendants.

But unfortunately, in front of the three-headed dog's astonishingly high magic resistance, all their spells were bounced off. Although the only eye disease spell that hit made Lu Wei feel pain, it also irritated it at the same time.

Even if you temporarily blind one of its eyes, the three-headed dog still has five eyes that can be used, not to mention three pairs of noses.

The crazy Lu Wei chased and killed the two of them, and they had to turn around and run away until the three-headed dog was persuaded by the Ministry of Magic officials who appeared suddenly with a violin.

Although no one was killed, according to the rules, the two of Durmstrang can only go back to the starting point, and hope that they will not vote for 'what' next time, because they still haven't guessed the riddle.

Seeing this situation, Harry and the three of them could only lament that they were so lucky back then. Even Krum, who was proficient in black magic, couldn't deal with this thing. The three of them could only pass by Merlin's blessing.

…or rather Dumbledore.

After Durmstrang is over, the warriors of Waggadu are next.

Because Krum didn't get through the third room, they gave up the idea of ​​using the number "3" to step on the hole.

As a result, they cast a number "6" and successfully stepped on the only one in the top ten - a grid that didn't look like a challenge and a room with a green medicine bottle painted on it.

And the question the Sphinx asked them was ridiculously simple—"Bacteria live on teeth, so what lives on bacteria?"

After contemplating for a long time, Ouagadou's Dembele suddenly felt blessed and thought of the correct answer - "Doctor!"

Chapter 360 Everything goes well

After answering correctly, they were transported to St. Mungo's Hospital in London.

In the hospital, the two warriors were warmly received by the pharmacists, and a bottle of fire-resistant potion was stuffed into their hands before they were sent back.

Although there was no danger, the audience still had a good time watching.

People who like to use their brains, such as Hermione, have discovered at this time that the places the warriors of the three schools teleported to are all well-known wizarding activities in the United Kingdom. While watching the warriors overcome difficulties, the audience also followed the camera. UK domestic travel - circle.

Just look at Lee Jordan and you will know that most of his time in the commentary is used to introduce the background of the "room" - Dean Forest is the main selection place for Ollivander's wand, and Ilfullco Mu is the breeding ground of Welsh green dragons, and St. Mungo's is the only magic hospital in England.

If she guessed correctly, the "room" at the back is also a well-known tourist attraction in the UK.In other words, the Big Five Tournament is actually a British tourism advertisement for the whole world.

Sure enough, Fleur Delacour's round after throwing the number 7 was a horse-shaped monster in Lake Koror, Ireland.

Because she is French, this time the Sphinx asked a French puzzle, asking "What can't be magnified by a magnifying glass? The answer is a fruit"

This puzzle was quite difficult, and Furong didn't answer it until the last ten seconds.

"It's prune!" she said hastily.

"correct answer."

After getting the correct answer, the Sphinx conjured up a whole bag of plums and handed it to Fleur.

Thanks to this bag of plums as bait, Fu Rong and the others were able to fool the horse-shaped water monster. When it was eating plums with bowed heads, the invisible Fu Rong took the opportunity to put a bridle on it.

After seeing Fu Rong's actions, Moody commented casually: "I think her combat style is more like yours."

"Probably Veela blood is more suitable for spiritual magic." Lockhart was noncommittal.

"But I'm curious...why plums?" asked Moody, puzzled. "Why can't a magnifying glass zoom in on plums?"

Unexpectedly, Lockhart laughed out loud after hearing his question.

At the same time, Hermione Granger was also laughing out loud. She had almost the same reaction as Lockhart after hearing Ron's puzzled question, except that she didn't laugh so heartily.

"Hey... are you laughing at us?" Ron asked disapprovingly.

"No... It's just that this question involves breastfeeding." Hermione explained, suppressing a smile.

"Milk method?" Ron was even more puzzled, "What does this have to do with plums?"

"It's a long story...During the Second Crusade, the French Crusaders suffered consecutive defeats, and no valuable spoils were taken from the Muslims. In order to avoid the scolding of the lord, they could only go from around Damascus. Grab a bunch of freshly harvested plums and go back.

As a result, Louis VII was very annoyed. He said to his generals that I spent so much money and time on you, but you got me back the plums?

Since then, 'pur_des_prunes5' has become synonymous with "nothing" in French, and "plum" stone has also become the meaning of "empty-thing" in the special context.

So just now the Sphinx asked "What can't be magnified by a magnifying glass", the answer is

"Nothing (nthing) J7 is replaced by fruit in French, which is plum.

Ron almost collapsed - he felt that if he went up to answer the Sphinx's question, he might never be able to answer it for the rest of his life.

"This... is indeed breastfeeding." He could only say dryly.

Because the Hundred Years' War between England and France took place hundreds of years before the Act of Secrecy came into effect, many wizards provided services to the nobles of the war, so British wizards can understand the French jokes, but there are not many people who are proficient in French at the same time. .

After hearing the same answer from Lockhart, even Moody couldn't help laughing.

"It's not good, it's not good for unity," he said.

Lockhart complained for his colleagues: "It's a riddle told by the Sphinx, and it has nothing to do with us."

"Do you think I would believe it?"

After the warriors of Beauxbatons dealt with the horse-shaped monster and returned, the warriors of Ilvermorny finally started to move.

It's just that their luck was not very good. They cast the smallest number 2 among the few players in the first round.

Presumably to compensate them, the sphinx puzzles and room monsters aren't too difficult to deal with.

"Is the sea friendly or hostile to us? How to prove it?" Boot answered quickly: "Friendly, because it beckons (Wave) T" Then they got a handful of cucumbers and went to Newcastle upon Tyne Went to deal with the kappa problem.

Of course, as a once famous wool spinning center, it is necessary to advertise it in the competition, because it is also the wool used by wizards to produce woolen clothing.

The place.

After the first round of the contest, the result is undoubtedly gratifying for Hogwarts

The Hogwarts warriors took advantage of the previous round and firmly continued to occupy the first position; Beauxbatons jumped directly from the penultimate second to the positive second, and at the same time there were 1 and 5 Two dice were useless; Waggadu's ranking remained unchanged at third, and the dice left over from the previous round had not been used either.Ilvermorny was fourth, but Durmstrang dropped to the last place due to bad luck, and still stayed in the starting position.

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But if you think about it carefully, this is also because they failed to answer the questions correctly.Karkaroff's expression was very bad, and he kept yelling something.

"It's not fair! There is too much luck in this game, and why did it turn into a guessing game when it was clearly a test of the warriors?"

But no one paid any attention to him, not only the principals of those schools, but even the other foreign guests invited by the Ministry of Magic disagreed.

"If you say that, the entire competition is very unfavorable to women." Madam Maxim retorted, "None of them complained that the competition requires too much physical strength, so what can you say?"

When Dumbledore was absent, the person who presided over Hogwarts became the vice-principal, Professor McGonagall, and she agreed with Mrs. Maxim's words.

"Karkaroff, I think Olim is right, you should have more trust in your students." She frowned and said, "In any case, the standard for selecting students in the Goblet of Fire will always be to select The best one, the warriors selected from your school should of course represent the highest level of your school, and you should trust them to have enough wisdom to deal with this problem."

This is a bit heavy, even Karkaroff can't accuse Professor McGonagall of being wrong, he can't admit that Durmstrang's students are all idiots, can he?

"Let's keep watching." Vice-principal Porter smoothed things over.

Everyone was engrossed in the game, Lockhart and Moody were also concentrating, but what they were observing was the Marauder's map on the blanket in Moody's office.

"Harry and the others are going to roll the dice again," Lockhart reminded.

"I'm watching." Moody's magic eyes were also spinning wildly.

Since they judged that Voldemort would definitely want to start with the Portkey, all they need to pay attention to in the Tournament is only where Harry and the others are going.

Lockhart kept his eyes on the Marauder's Map, trying to see if there was anyone around the cinema who shouldn't be there.

Because in the previous trial, Voldemort had been able to confirm that Hogwarts was heavily guarded, so if he still wanted to do something, he would definitely do it outside the school.

So after discussion, the Order of the Phoenix decided to give them this chance.

But so far everything is normal, neither anyone other than the Ministry of Magic staff has changed the Portkey, nor has anyone been under the Imperius Curse, Lockhart can't think of anyone who can be ignorant under such circumstances Feeling dropped the door key.

When Harry and the others answered the riddle again and successfully reached the destination, even Lockhart began to doubt himself.

Did we guess wrong?Wasn't Voldemort the idea of ​​playing the Portkey?Or did the Order of the Phoenix act too carelessly, causing Voldemort to become suspicious instead?

That's right, Harry and the other school's warriors rolled the dice completely randomly. Even Voldemort couldn't know which Portkey they would use in advance. Maybe they didn't plan to start from this aspect at all?

Still have to keep looking, Lockhart thought, touching his wand.

Chapter 360 I finally met the sixth

After playing until now, the wizards watching the game have discovered that although the third event is said to deal with Warcraft, it is still a guessing game in essence

If you guessed right, it would be very easy to deal with the monsters in the "room", just like the silver pot is to the bird and snake, and the cucumber is to the kappa.But if you guess wrong, then the result of not having key props is that you can't deal with a guy like a three-headed dog at all.

Of course, if the wizard himself is so strong that he can deal with the monsters in that grid without props, then it is not impossible, but considering the age of these students, unless he is a genius like Dumbledore or Voldemort, otherwise, he can only deal with it. Nomume Mumeme

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In short, the test of wisdom in this game is more important than spellcasting ability.

After Cedric rolls a 4 and settles what's in room 15: Durmstrang's turn is next.

Krum suddenly remembered after resting for a whole round. In fact, they could have whistled instead of music at that time, but they couldn't remember it for a while.

Annoyed, they rolled the dice again.

This time they were lucky, it was "8"

Although the frog-headed dragon in Room 8 is difficult to deal with, and Krum has not been able to get the meat of the Moon Crazy Beast as a reward for the answer, but in order not to stay in the same place for two consecutive rounds, Krum can be regarded as hard enough. One by one he cut his own arm, set a trap with his own blood as bait, and managed to subdue it successfully.

Although such a move was undoubtedly "cool" and caused a lot of witches to choke and marvel, Lockhart always felt that if he could answer that riddle, maybe he wouldn't have to pay such a high price.

The other warriors obviously thought the same way—they had been staring at the map on the wall during their breaks, as if trying to figure out what the symbols on it meant, and to guess in advance what the answer to the riddle would be.

Next, the warrior of Waggadu threw a 6 again, and caught up to the position that was only three steps away from the Hogwarts warrior.Furong threw a 3 after secretly praying and came to room 10.

And the bad luck of Ilvermorny suffered another bad luck-they actually threw a (R)

That also means they will be in the Durmstrang Warriors' grid.

Seeing that the warriors finally met, the audience cheered heartily.

Although it is interesting to watch the Warriors take risks and fight monsters, the three games the audience has watched so far are all fighting monsters, which makes people feel a little tired.

See what to fight monsters, or to see the fun of beating people!

After learning about the fate they were about to face, Boot and Stuart were a little nervous at first, but they were relieved again within a few seconds.

There is no way, bad luck, they can only admit it.

In fact, when the rules were first revealed, they were already mentally prepared. ,

According to the rules of the tournament organizer, the five groups of warriors all start from one starting point, and the probability of PK in the first round is actually very high, close to 2/3

That is to say, because Cedric used a dice to distance in advance, and Krum failed to challenge room 3, the probability of pk in the first round dropped to 7/25.

But this is the same as turkeys, they can escape Thanksgiving, but they cannot escape Christmas. PK will happen sooner or later, and they can only choose to accept it.

Besides, everyone is in their teens, who will obey whom?even if you g

Ruhm is indeed a world-renowned star, are we not bad?Are you the only Durmstrang who teach the Dark Arts?Ilvermorny's Defense Against the Dark Arts isn't bad either.

To sum up, in fact, the two of Ilvermorny were not very worried about the duel, and were even eager to try it.

And now there is a very favorable situation for Ilvermorny-that is, Krum and the others dealt with the three-headed dog and the frog-headed dragon in two rounds respectively, and Krum was injured, and now they will fight If so, they will definitely suffer.