Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

If the source of excellent pharmacists can be monopolized through this kind of donation, then as far as the association is concerned, it will only make money, and it is impossible to lose money.

For example, after the basilisk incident, Snape's snake gall improving eyesight potion had not yet been brewed, but it had already been ordered by those "old seniors", maybe it was because he was famous and everyone knew that he couldn't do it Poison?

When this request was satisfied by Dumbledore, Mr. Granger also offered to leave directly—anyway, the purpose of his trip had been achieved, and he was not very interested in the duel.

Of course, if he knew what happened in the duel match later, he might regret it.

There are not many people as straightforward as Mr. Granger, and the rest of the distinguished guests are still thinking about it, wanting to weigh the key points clearly.

Anyway, the first grade duel competition has already started, and they still have a lot of time to think.

In the solemn expressions of the Slytherin snakes, the entrance to the secret room was reopened, and the students and VIPs who watched the battle entered the secret room one after another, preparing to watch the duel performance

The duel between the second and third grades, one is Gryffindor, and the other is the civil war in Slytherin, so the intensity is destined not to be as intense as the battle between the lion and the snake in the fifth grade group

In comparison, the second and third grade leapfrog challenges are still worth seeing.

Of course, the guests watching the game also know this, so their mentality is also very relaxed: it’s like tasting an appetizer before a big meal

And the two little wizards who served as appetizers, Harper and Mason, came to the center of the duel field under the eyes of everyone.

Probably because too many elders were watching, it was different from a simple duel ceremony. Before the duel, Harper of Slytherin raised his wand over his head, drew a flower, and then wrapped it around his chest , put down the wand.

This is the ancient etiquette of the pure-blood family, and it is also something that the little snakes have practiced from the scolding of their parents since childhood.

Of course, the reason why he saluted was not because he was respecting his opponent, but to show his family background on another battlefield, especially when he knew that his opponent today was a Muggle-born wizard.

Samuel Mason's hand holding the wand was sweating. After seeing his opponent salute, he forgot the standard wizard duel ceremony for a while, but pointed the wand obliquely at the sky, and hugged the protective gear with his left hand. waist.

Then he remembered that this was the fencing duel ceremony taught by the fencing teacher his parents hired for him.However, in order not to lose face, he could only finish this action and pretend to be—the copy should look like this.

At this moment, a white light flashed, followed by a "click".

Everyone turned their heads and found that it was Bozo, the photographer of the Daily Prophet.

He skillfully flipped out the back cover of the camera, and turned out the photo negative of the two little wizards saluting before the duel.

"" While it's hot, hurry up and print it. Betty Braithwaite, the female reporter beside her, hurriedly said...

"Okay." Bozuo turned around and was about to develop the photos.

Du Ji lived, developed a few more photos, and backed up the negatives. "Betty reminded worriedly

Say.

If duels can become a routine at Hogwarts in the future, then this photo is the first final photo of the first duel, which is of great significance and may even be stored in the archives of the newspaper.

Regardless of how the reporters planned to report, the two young wizards on the stage had already started a duel, and their first reactions were surprisingly consistent

"Misty clouds!"

They unanimously released the Cloud Mist Curse, and covered their tracks with a large cloud of mist they summoned.

There was a sigh of disappointment from the audience.

They had come to see the duel, not the gray mist.Fortunately, someone appeared immediately to relieve their pain.

"Anyone want to buy Weasley thermal lenses? It only costs 12 Sickles!" George Weasley shouted to the students at the scene.

And his brother Fred was holding a large, padded lens case on his chest, and appeared in the crowd watching the battle with his brother.

"As long as you use this lens, you can see where they are, and it can show the outline of people." Fred said in harmony, "Although the effect is not as good as the magic-seeking lens, but the price is only 300/[-] of it , what are you waiting for? Come get one!"

The price of the goods they sell is not expensive, and it has indeed caught up with the moment when everyone has a hard demand, so the students suddenly turned into a swarm and began to snap up the lenses of the two brothers, and even the guests who watched the battle bought them two.

Lockhart couldn't help but glance over there—he didn't expect that even the school

The first wave of dividends that the school has not yet received, was actually eaten by these two brothers

Chapter 120 Five Delayed by Political Correctness

Leaving aside those profiteers from the colleges for the time being, Lockhart returned his energy to the duel arena.

The commentator of the duel is naturally Lee Jordan, who has nothing to do recently. The Slytherins are slightly critical of his appointment, but he is the only one with public commentary experience, and he has been doing well all the time, so Snake Court also has no convincing arguments against it.

And Lee Jordan did not hide his inclination at all. In this contest between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, he was on the side of Ravenclaw, even if it was as expected, Slater Both Lin and Ravenclaw made a lot of preparations in advance, and he also focused more on Slytherin's "scheming", as if Harper was a person who wanted to win by any means.

Lockhart was slightly critical of this—although there are indeed many ambitious people in the Snake Court, the barrier between them and the other three houses is entirely caused by prejudice.

It's like Sirius, who is obviously a Gryffindor, but after the incident with the Potters, no one tried to figure out what happened, how the Loyalty Curse failed, not even Dumbledore. After all, the intention was almost to acquiesce that he was guilty or not because his whole family was Slytherin except him.

Because the quarter-finals were a double-elimination match, as the champion of the lower bracket, Mason had to beat Harper twice to win the championship of the first-year group.

Under the attack of the kittens, the magic harp of the Harper family failed to play its role in confusing at all, but became the fuse to expose his position.

At the suggestion of the Ravenclaw seniors, Mason used a medical magic often used by Madam Pomfrey-"splint tightening", turning Harper's armor into a torture tool that restrained himself, and finally won the victory. played the first game.

In the second game, Ravenclaws expected that Harper would not dare to continue wearing the armor, and would probably put on the anti-magic cloak, so they asked Mason to use clear water like a spring to wet the opponent before using the Freezing Curse .

Ravenclaws are right in predicting. If everyone has their ability to predict, the welfare lottery will be frightened by them and dare not draw a lottery.

But Slytherin didn't intend to follow their rhythm. Even if Harper did change the original armor, Harper didn't wear it.

But he drank enhancers instead.

This also caused Mason to be at an absolute disadvantage for the next period of time, as helpless as when he met an ordinary third grader, and all the water jets he conjured up with the spell were stopped by the Iron Armor Curse.

Fortunately, he received the so-called aristocratic education before entering school. The tutor of the fencing class told him that as long as he was not stabbed, he should always keep calm and wait for an opportunity to fight back.

How did you say that? "Even if you fall, you can stab your opponent's leg"?

He temporarily changed his strategy, no longer trying to attack the opponent directly with clear water, but to attack the ground around Harper.When the ground around Harper became wet, he cast a freezing spell, turning each opponent's surroundings into a field of ice.

The ice severely limited Harper's ability to move, and he had to start distracting himself to keep himself from falling to the ground.When he used the Iron Armor Curse to defend again, Mason didn't use the clear water like a spring, but a few evil spells that everyone in the first grade knew - the Leg Locking Curse and the Repelling Curse.

Facing the opponent who fell to the ground, Kan Meisen let out a sigh of relief.

From the beginning to the end, he didn't expect the other party to accidentally fall, he would rather handle everything by himself.

After the fall, according to the rules of the first grade, Harper could already be judged as a loser, but

Since Lockhart taught that spell, the students have had a new option

Mang Wada splits your melons one by one! Mason symbolically ended the game with this little trick.

Although the duel could have been declared over as soon as the referee declared the winner, but the students generally felt that this was not a sense of ceremony, so Lockhart's little trick became a popular spell among the students.

With a flash of green light, the battle is over—this has become a customary etiquette for them.

Moreover, the purpose of participating in duels in senior grades is to seek excitement, so they chose to carry it out to the end—in the duels above the fifth grade, this pine cone trick was recognized as an "instant death curse", and it was used in duels in a fair manner. Those who participate in the duel must think about how to deal with it.

But the guests who participated didn't know this, especially those Slytherin wizards, they all stood up in shock after seeing the familiar green light; some even shrunk subconsciously, trying to hide open.

Then they found out they had been duped.

In order to hide their embarrassment, the VIPs clapped together, pretending that they stood up for congratulations.

The students of Slytherin are naturally very depressed - their own people lost, but those "seniors" of Slytherin are actually applauding their opponents, what does this mean?

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It shows that the seniors are very dissatisfied with the performance of their academy!

Although it is said that because of the preparations for the competition between the fifth grade and the seventh grade, especially the competition between the fifth grade and the Lion House, Slytherin did not devote everything to the first grade, but if they did not arrange for Mason, that is also fake.

But the "political correctness" of Snake Yard has harmed them-they can't pretend to be themselves

big on mason

Because Mason is a "Mudblood" of Muggle origin, if he is dealt with with great fanfare, it means that these "pure blood" will regard the "Mudblood" as their opponent, which is worse than losing a duel.

They knew that a failed duel would embarrass Slytherin, but no one dared to mention it publicly.

If it is mentioned publicly, whether the matter will be resolved will not be mentioned for the time being. The person who raised this matter will definitely be ridiculed by other little snakes.

So, when Lee Jordan excitedly announced Ravenclaw's victory, there was an embarrassing silence on the Slytherin side.

"We could have done better," said the Slytherin prefect grimly, "but for some reason we couldn't."

The few people at the scene actually knew it well, but everyone was tacit and no one wanted to say it.

"The ravens are clearly in a group... We are not facing one person, but the entire academy." Someone said this as an excuse.

Flint couldn't help but interjected: "But first-year Slytherins are also Slytherins, and this is also a foreign battle. We don't just go into a duel just to defeat Gryffindor, what we want is to win .”

Having said that, they couldn't do it if they had to devote as much energy to their first grade.

At this moment, Malfoy suddenly volunteered:

"If you can believe it, from next year, I will be in charge of the first to third grades, okay?"

The seniors couldn't help turning their eyes to him.

Aren't your Malfoys the most Muggle-resistant of all purebloods?words to you

, will you make the same mistake.

Although they didn't ask directly, the meaning in their expressions was the same.

Malfoy looked a little embarrassed - because he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't make a mistake.

He wanted to say a few big words, but the lessons learned from the failure of the Quidditch game are still there. If he insists that he will not mess up, he will still have some lack of confidence after all.

But Gemma Farley stepped forward and relieved him of this embarrassment.

"Anyway, the student union is about to expand, so it's good to train early. We can't wait until the fifth grade to start training our prefects."

With the wealth of the Malfoy family, if there are no accidents, Draco Malfoy will definitely become a prefect in the fifth grade.

It's better to train Malfoy in advance now, so that after this class of prefects graduates, there will be a gap in Slytherin's talents, and the savior of Harry Potter will be in full swing, and the House Cup will really be monopolized by Gryffindor.

Seeing that the Farley family spoke for him, Malfoy showed a grateful expression.

"I promise I will handle this matter well." He solemnly promised the seniors in his grade.

Because of the failure to remove Dumbledore this time, his father Lucius is going to take all the responsibilities and protect Fudge by resigning from the school manager.

Although Fudge would sooner or later find compensation for the Malfoy family after accepting this love, but no matter how he seeks compensation later, it is also true that the Malfoy family's control over Hogwarts has been greatly reduced.

"Although it's a bit early, as the heir of the Malfoy family, you must take on this responsibility, exert more influence on the family in Hogwarts, and look for real allies—I'm not talking about Carat. Boo and Goyle." This is what Lucius wrote in the letter.

Draco Malfoy decided to accept the admonition.

Chapter 120 Six Perfect Suppression

After Mason's victory, the Hawks were in a state of elation.

Although it is a shame to win a first-year competition with the strength of the whole school, it is even more shameful if you don't win even one, so everyone still has reason to celebrate.

But the next game has nothing to do with them, and they didn't expect Kan Meisen to compete with the savior.

After the tumult of the first grade was over, the distinguished guests sat down again, waiting to watch the duel of the second grade.

However, compared to the first duel, although the second duel has a big name, its intensity may not be stronger than that of the first graders.

Because Harry and Hermione are in the duel, and they are good friends, they will definitely not be serious. Even if they want to see, they have to see if Harry Potter will challenge the third graders.

No one thought Hermione could win, even if she was the top student of the year.The distinguished guests are going to use this time to think carefully about whether they want to be involved in this "industry" of Hogwarts.

Obviously, if you only look at it from the perspective of profit, this is definitely a business that only makes money, and no matter how much money they can get in return, even the contacts and reputation they get are enough Let them earn their money back.

But the problem is that as long as they donate this money, they will be tied to the interests of Hogwarts, and they will also have to accept a certain degree of coercion politically.

Human nature is like this, just want to take advantage, not to suffer.They want to make money, but they don't want to get into trouble with the Snake faction, let alone some of them are members of the Snake faction.

Their idea was to continue to delay until Dumbledore came to them on his own initiative, so that they could take the initiative in the negotiation.

Thinking of this, Lucius Malfoy couldn't help but glance at Dumbledore, and found that he was still calm and composed, and even the two little lions on the mood stage applauded

What the hell is this old bee thinking?

In the middle of the dueling stage, the duel between Harry and Hermione has reached the most critical moment

Contrary to what other people, especially Slytherin, expected, the one who crushed his opponent was not Harry Potter, the savior, but the "mudblood" they looked down upon.

Now, they were not only surprised, but also angry.

Although the Potter family has always been not very good with the Lion Pie, the Potter family is an ancient wizard family with a long history. The family ancestors were also excellent magic potters hundreds of years ago. I am proud of my teapot.

In addition to Harry Potter's statement, if the boy from the Potter family wins the second-year championship, although the "pure blood" will also feel a little upset, at least they can accept it in their hearts.

But if the Mudblood girl wins... wouldn't the first and second year titles be held back by the dirty heads of Muggles?

Seeing that Hermione was able to fight Harry with ease, and Harry was in a hurry, their rationality told them that the strength of the Savior was indeed not as good as they imagined.