The Hogwarts Express finally slowed down and stopped at the dark Hogsmeade Station.

The car door opened, and thunder rumbled in the air. Hermione covered Crookshanks with her cloak, and Cho Chang also covered his owl with his robe. They got off the train, heads bowed and eyes squinted in the pouring rain. The rain fell quickly and fiercely, as if buckets of cold water were pouring on their heads. It wasn't until Ye Ting used magic to isolate the raindrops that they felt better.

In the wind and rain, the little wizards rode in a carriage and set off along the path leading to Hogwarts Castle, splashing water all the way.

However, when they finally emerged from the rain and entered the dry and bright entrance hall of Hogwarts, they were ambushed again. A big red balloon filled with water fell from the ceiling and landed on top of Ron, who was standing at the front. exploded.

Twenty feet above their heads floated Peeves, the mischievous ghost.

He was short and wore a hat with a bell and an orange bow tie. He took aim again, the muscles on his broad, mischievous face tense.

Peeves's pranks were so crazy that even Professor McGonagall couldn't stop him. After Peeves had had enough, the little wizards entered the auditorium.

The auditorium was still as glorious and magnificent, and it was specially decorated for the banquet of the new student. Hundreds of candles floated above the table, making the gold saucers and goblets sparkle. The four long college tables were already filled with chattering students.

After finishing the sorting ceremony and having a good meal, it was time for Dumbledore’s opening speech.

"alright!"Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile and said,"Now that we have eaten and drank enough, I must ask everyone's attention again. I have a few announcements to make."

"Mr. Filch, the caretaker, would like me to tell you that this year there are a few more items that are prohibited from being used in the castle. They are Screaming Balls, Toothed Flying Saucers, and Combo Boomerangs. The entire list, which contains approximately four hundred and thirty-seven items, can be seen in Mr. Filch's office and may be checked by those who are interested."

The corners of Dumbledore's mouth twitched a few times.

He continued:"As before, I want to remind everyone that students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest on the other side of the venue, and in Hogsmeade Village, all students below the third grade No one is allowed to visit"

"Also, here I feel we need to give a round of applause to two of our ladies."

Having said this, he looked in the direction of the seats in Ravenclaw Academy.

"The first is Ms. Hermione Granger. She passed the International Wizarding Duel Competition held in Paris, France during the summer vacation, defeated all her opponents, and won the championship! At the same time, he is the youngest champion in the previous International Wizarding Duel Competition."

The surroundings immediately burst into fierce applause.

Waves of cheers rang out from the Ravenclaw seats. Under everyone's gaze, Hermione blushed. She stood up and bowed to everyone. The cheers grew louder.

Dumbledore clapped his hands, and the noise immediately stopped.

"In addition," he said loudly,"we also want to congratulate Miss Qiu Zhang. You may all know that in this Quidditch World Cup, she made an exception to join the Irish team at the age of fifteen and became their first choice. Seeker, and won the World Cup championship, and she was hailed as the best player in this World Cup."

Applause and cheers that were louder than before immediately rang out, and someone whistled in the direction of Zhang Qiu. Zhang Qiu also stood up and bowed to everyone.

Then, Dumbledore concluded :"Ms. Hermione Granger and Ms. Cho Zhang have conquered the world with their outstanding performances. They are the pride of Hogwarts. Interestingly, both of them are girls and both come from Latvia. Winclaw College, I have more, Filius, you are really enviable."

The dwarf professor showed a proud smile on his face.

"Speaking of Quidditch," Dumbledore continued,"I also regret to inform you that there will be no House Quidditch Cup this year."

"What?"The little wizards were in an uproar, especially Ravenclaw House. They thought that with the World Cup champion Zhang Qiu, they would definitely win the Quidditch Cup this semester.

Dumbledore continued:"This is because of a large-scale The event starts in October and continues throughout the school year, taking up a lot of teachers' time and attention - but I'm sure you'll all have a lot of fun doing it. I am very pleased to announce that this year at Hogwarts——"

At this moment, there was a deafening thunder, and the door of the auditorium slammed open.

A man stood in the doorway, leaning on a long cane and wrapped in a black traveling cloak. Everyone in the Great Hall turned to look at the stranger, and suddenly a fork-shaped lightning flashed across the ceiling, and Hermione gasped.

The lightning illuminated the man's face extremely vividly, as if it had been carved out of a piece of rotten wood, and the carver had only a vague idea of ​​what a human face should look like, and was not very good at using a carving knife. OK. Every inch of skin on the face seemed to be scarred, the mouth was like a big crooked hole, and the place where the nose should be raised was missing. The most terrifying thing about this man is his eyes.

One of his eyes is small, black, and shiny; the other eye is large, round like a coin, and it is a vivid bright blue. The blue eye kept moving without blinking, turning up, down, left and right, completely unrelated to the normal eye - then, the blue eyeball rolled and penetrated into the man's head, Everyone can only see a big white eyeball.

The stranger walked up to Dumbledore. He held out a hand, one as scarred as his face. Dumbledore shook his hand, whispered something, and motioned for the man to sit on an empty seat to his right.

"Please allow me to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," Dumbledore broke the silence happily,"Professor Moody."

Normally, when a new teacher meets everyone, everyone will applaud and welcome them, but now except for Dumbledore and Hagrid, no teacher or student applauded. Dumbledore and Hagrid clapped several times, and found that the applause was silent. The echo in the auditorium seemed lonely, so he put down his hand knowingly. Everyone else seemed to be stunned by Moody's strange appearance, and just stared at him intently.

Moody seemed indifferent to everyone's cold reaction. He ignored the people in front of him. Instead of a large jug of pumpkin juice, he reached into his traveling cloak, pulled out a curved wine bottle, and took a long sip. When he raised his arm to drink, his cloak that was dragging on the ground was pulled up. A few inches, a few inches of wood-carved prosthetic legs were exposed under the table, with a claw-shaped foot underneath.

Dumbledore cleared his throat.

"As I just said," he said with a smile, looking at the many students in front of him - the students were still staring blankly at Mad-Eye Moody,"in the next few months, we will be very honored to host A wonderful event that has not been held for over a century. I am very happy to tell you, the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year."

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