Hogwarts: Where are the Pokémon?

Chapter 136 Four schools arrive, hidden crisis!

A dark shadow appeared in the distant sky.

Xia Lin's eyes were not eagle's eyes, and he couldn't see that far away.But to be able to appear in this way, it should be someone from Beauxbaton School of Magic.

After a while, his guess was confirmed.

Twelve gigantic powder-blue horses with silver manes almost as large as an elephant billowed through the sky.At first glance, many young wizards thought it was a dozen dragons flying towards them!

And the carriage pulled by these twelve horses is even bigger, or it should be said that the house is more suitable.

"Is this the rune horse?"

Xia Lin was the first to see this kind of strange steed. Compared with the Thestrals raised in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, the rune horse was much bigger and more beautiful.

Of course, when it comes to which one he prefers, the Thestrals are actually more in line with his appetite.

The ferocity of thestrals has a different charm to him.

The carriage flew lower and was landing at an extremely fast speed. Then, with an earth-shattering bang, those horseshoes fell to the ground with a bang, each of them was as big as a vegetable plate.In the blink of an eye, the carriage also landed on the ground, vibrating on the huge wheels, and at the same time the golden horses shook their huge heads, and their big fiery red eyes rolled around.

The doors of the carriage were inlaid with gold medallions—two crossed wands with three stars pinned to the tips.

Then, the door opened.

A boy in a light blue robe jumped out of the carriage, bent over, fumbled for something on the floor of the carriage, and opened a golden spiral staircase.

He jumped back reverently, and Charlene saw a shiny black high-heeled shoe stick out of the carriage—the shoe was as big as a child's sled—and a very tall woman followed — Ms. Maxim.

Maxim was much better looking than in the movie, no wonder Hagrid was so fascinated.

She had a very handsome olive face, big black watery eyes, and a pointed nose.Her hair was pulled back in a shiny bun at the base of her neck.She was wrapped from head to toe in black satin, and at her neck and thick fingers gleamed with many rich opals.

Dumbledore began to applaud.

"Dear Madam Maxime," he said, "welcome to Hogwarts."

Her face relaxed into an elegant smile, she held out a gleaming hand, and walked towards Dumbledore.

This scene looks a bit funny, although Dumbledore is also tall, he hardly bends down to kiss the hand.It's like a half-grown child kissing a grown woman.The boy, however, had gray hair and a beard long enough to be tucked into his belt.

"Dumbledore," Madam Maxim said in a low voice, "I hope you are well."

"Very well, thank you." Dumbledore said, "I'm sorry for your hard work."

"To be honest, I didn't plan to come when I received your envelope. It was Leoni who recommended me to come and have a look."

Her huge body was turned slightly, revealing another woman behind her—it was Leoni who met Xia Lin Youguo during the Christmas holiday last year.

As soon as Leoni got out of the car, she couldn't wait to wave to Xia Lin.

Then, Ms. Maxim followed Leonie's gaze to find Xia Lin.

"So, you are Mr. Charlene Gold, the actual organizer of this competition?" Maxim asked softly.

Xia Lin's fame is bigger in the UK, and it's not particularly big.Apart from being famous for defeating many pure-blood wizards during the summer vacation last year, there is almost no other news.

If anything, maybe a card to get on the Chocolate Frog counts.But that kind of thing is probably only liked by children.

So to Maxim, Xia Lin was like a nobody who came out of nowhere, and those so-called Pokémon were more like a joke.

To be honest, if it weren't for Dumbledore's face, she wouldn't have come to visit.

And Ms. Maxim believed that most of the people who agreed to come to study took Dumbledore's face into consideration.

"I am Charlene Gold, the discoverer of Pokémon." Charlene shook hands with her very calmly.His gaze was barely able to reach Maxim's chest.

"I am very glad that you are willing to visit this Pokémon Contest."

Maxim just nodded and didn't continue to say anything to Xia Lin. In fact, she was not interested in Pokémon at all.That kind of thing doesn't sound too different from Fantastic Beasts, after all.

"Dumbledore, where will my horse be kept?"

"Don't worry, I'm sure our professor in the Care of Fantastic Beasts will take care of them." Dumbledore said with a smile.

However, Miss Maxim was still a little apprehensive, as if she doubted whether the Hogwarts professors were up to the job, which was not surprising, after all, these horses were too big.

"My steeds need - um - strong people to tend them, they've got a lot of tempers..."

"Don't worry, ma'am." Xia Lin took out a few poke balls and threw them into the air.

This attracted Ms. Maxim's attention.

She looked at the red and white spheres, but found that they were all opened from the middle when they were in the air. After the red ones flashed, several of them were strong, muscular, and had four arms. Humanoids appeared in her eyes.

This startled her.

"Are these—"

She looked at these creatures in surprise and couldn't find a suitable adjective for a while.The creatures in front of them all looked very similar to many demihuman races that could be classified under the broad category of "human".

It can be said that it is at least a little more human-like than a small flounder-species hunting creature.

"This strange power, just like their names, has enormous strength. A single arm can push a rockery. It must be easy to pull your horse." Xia Lin said with a smile, and at the same time he turned to Dumbledore, "Keitel It may be difficult for Professor Bourne's body to take care of these rune horses, so let Hagrid take care of them."

When he said these words, the strange forces had already stretched out their hands to hold the ropes of the horses. Leoni carefully reached out to stroke the muscles of the strange forces. The strange forces that did not resist made her very excited.

"That's fine, Ms. Maxim, I'll let our gamekeeper take care of them."

"Very good," Ms. Maxim replied slightly absent-mindedly before taking her eyes off Wei Li, "Can you tell this Hagrid that these horses only drink single malt whiskey?"

After Beauxbatons came the furthest, Castrobushe.

They took a magical animal from South America and arrived at Hogwarts after a long journey.This means they may be the first to leave.

Castrobuscher's leader is not their principal, but the retired former principal, Benedita Dorado.It was a very old witch, probably about the age of old Greselda Marchban (Dumbledore had been an examiner for High Wizards when Dumbledore was at school).

"Long time no see, Dumbledore." Benedita Dorado was obviously very happy to see Dumbledore, and greeted him with a wrinkled old face.

"Hi Benedita, how are you?"

"Not bad. You know, the last time we met was decades ago, when you were not the Headmaster of Hogwarts!" she said with a smile.

Castro Bushe had a meeting with Hogwarts before Voldemort made his fortune.At that time the headmaster of Hogwarts was Armando Dippet.

By the way, Armando Dippet lived to be 355 years old.From this point of view, it seems that the Philosopher's Stone is the same thing.

Dumbledore welcomed Benedita Dorado into the school, and Benedita looked around with nostalgia.

"I remember that Armando told me that there was a troublemaker named Peeves in Hogwarts. At that time, I suggested that I could give him some Capola. It's a pity that he didn't agree." She said with a smile.

Kaipora is a magical animal with a cunning nature. If it is placed in a Pokémon, its high and low characteristics are a mischievous heart.

"Speaking of which, what happened to those Pokémon you wrote in your letter?"

"Those are some magical creatures, very wonderful!" Dumbledore said with a smile, "even now, I still feel incredible for their existence. achievements, so I believe Pokémon will not let you down."

Benedita Dorado nodded.

Compared to Maxim, the visitors from Castrobushe paid much more attention to Pokémon.Although they don't know the difference between Pokémon and magical animals, they are very willing to learn more about a new creature.

After that, we arrived at the magic place of Neon.

This is the smallest of the eleven magic schools registered by the International Federation of Wizards.And the students of the magic institute usually start to enroll at the age of seven.

The wizards from the Magic Institute all wore golden robes, and the leading wizard held a wand made of cherry wood.

What's interesting is that Xia Lin saw a few Aurors from the United States Ministry of Magic trying to pretend to be from the Institute of Magic and sneak in. It seemed that Fudge still couldn't stop them.

As for why Xia Lin could tell at a glance - after all, a few blond people mixed in with Asians, so it was strange that they were not conspicuous.

Xia Lin didn't expose them, and watched coldly what they could do.

The last school to arrive was Durmstrang. This magic school is located in Northern Europe, to be precise, in Scandinavia. It can be said to be one of the schools closest to Hogwarts.But they didn't arrive until the moon was in the sky.

A loud, strange sound floated up from the darkness: a muffled rumbling and sucking sound, like a giant vacuum cleaner moving along a river bed...

Xia Lin clearly saw the surface of the Black Lake becoming restless.There was a huge splash on the surface of the water, and the waves crashed against the wet shore—and then, right in the middle of the lake, a large whirlpool appeared, as if a huge plug had been pulled out from the bottom of the lake...

Then, a long black rod-like thing rose slowly from the center of the vortex...

Slowly and majestically, the great ship rose out of the water, shining brightly in the moonlight.It was eerie, skeletal, as if it were the wreck of a freshly salvaged ship, and the portholes shone with dim, misty lights that looked like ghostly eyes.

Not so much a normal ship, but a bit like the Flying Dutchman in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".

It's exactly like a ghost ship.

Just as Xia Lin was thinking about it, with the sound of splashing water, the big boat came out completely, bumped on the choppy water, and began to drive towards the shore of the lake.A moment later there was a splash, and an anchor was thrown into the shallow water, and then again, a plank was thrown on the shore.

Igor Karkaroff was tall and thin, but he didn't look decent, he looked like a sinister villain.Actually, he was, not to mention he was a Death Eater before.

As soon as he stepped off the boat, he shouted enthusiastically: "Dumbledore!" My dear old chap, how are you? "

It was as if he and Dumbledore were indeed old friends.But it's not like that.

"Excellent, thank you, Professor Karkaroff," Dumbledore replied.

Karkaroff's voice was mellow and sweet.After he walked in, Xia Lin saw his appearance clearly.

With white hair and a treacherous goatee with curls at the ends, he looked like a businessman.He walked up to Dumbledore and shook Dumbledore's hand with both hands.

Unlike the original, because it was summer, he didn't dress very warmly.

"Dear old fellow Hogwarts," he said, looking up at the castle, smiling -- his teeth were yellow, "it's good to be here, it's good..."

Even though he said so, there was no smile in his eyes, they were still indifferent and sharp.

"But I've almost forgotten the weather here after being away from England for so many years. It's kind of hot, isn't it?"

"It's always like this in summer, but it's cool inside the castle, please come in." Dumbledore invited the last "guest" in.

Along the way, Karkaroff was in a relationship with Dumbledore, and he never even mentioned the Pokémon.

Xia Lin was not angry, he knew what this guy was.In fact, Durmstrang actually sent someone over, which surprised him.

Unlike the Triwizard Tournament, almost all the visitors this time were professors rather than students.

Because of this, during the dinner, only a few more seats were arranged on the teachers' seats, and the seats of the students did not change much.

However, this still aroused heated discussions among the little wizards.

Especially many little wizards are very proud.

"I don't think they can have Pokémon in their school, right?" Ron said happily.

Harry looked towards those strange wizards full of curiosity, but when his gaze rested on Snape, the scar on his forehead actually ached again!
(End of this chapter)