Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

Lockhart disagreed: "It doesn't matter, Voldemort will only think it's a spell you used."

"Do you have to do this?"

"It has to be like this." Lockhart argued, "We can't give them time to think. If they settle down and observe more carefully, they will find that the bottle of blood may not be so fresh."

Moody snorted coldly, but he didn't refute what Lockhart said.

"Did Crouch find out? I mean you weren't injured." He asked in a muffled voice.

For some reason, Lockhart looked a little smug.

"Shouldn't have noticed, that guy doesn't have the magic power perception level of the mysterious man." He replied.

Considering that Voldemort will regain his strength soon, Lockhart can no longer continue to chant

The name Old Demon, in case the other party knows his location through his real name.

Moody immediately pressed: "Are you sure 0"

"To be sure, when I used the stun spell, I used double magic, buried a concealed confusion spell in it, and didn't let it take effect right away-as a result, the guy didn't notice it at all.

So when I used Magic Missile, I also buried a mild Illusion Charm in it. He was dealing with your "Fast Star" and didn't notice it-if I didn't pay special attention, I believe no one would have noticed What I see is actually so slightly different from reality.”

In order to enhance his persuasiveness, Lockhart raised his right hand deliberately when he said "a tiny bit", making a small gap between his index finger and thumb.

Moody didn't take the next step: "Maybe".

This routine was discussed by them a long time ago - Moody appeared when Crouch Jr. was about to make a move, and put pressure on him, so that they could not detect Lockhart's illusion magic, so that they could take it without knowing it. Walk in real Harry's blood.

Little Crouch's Cutting Curse didn't hit Lockhart at all, and the blood he collected from the ground was the blood stored in the crystal bottle in Y's arms poured on the granite tombstone when Lockhart pretended to be lying on the ground in pain Up.

Voldemort, on the other hand, was too cautious to watch the battle at all, so he couldn't find out the tricks that were so close at hand. If he was nearby, Lockhart and Moody would have to go through a lot of trouble and use Plan_B

But fortunately, little Crouch didn't notice Lockhart's little trick at all, but Moody could see clearly what happened just now with his blue magic eyes.

Even though he had cheated Voldemort once, he didn't have anything to complain about, because the savior's blood that Lockhart gave them was genuine, and even after it was taken out, it was kept in a crystal bottle with very little discoloration.

Blood is blood, it will oxidize as long as it is taken out, even if Lockhart is only temporarily

The blood taken from Harry's body was darkened after being besieged by Inferi and snakes for so long, and Lockhart couldn't take the risk of letting Voldemort find out.But as long as they are forced to take some time, move to a safe place and revive Voldemort, they won't be able to find out about the blood problem.

From Moody's point of view, what he saw just now is indeed so-Little Crouch, like a fool, cast a cutting spell on the air, and used magic to absorb the blood that Lockhart fell on the tombstone. Blood, it looks like all is well.

"I don't know if the mysterious person will use the blood." Moody was a little worried

"This is out of our control...it's up to man to decide what to do." Lockhart shrugged, "Then just keep an eye on Snape and see when his Dark Mark will appear from his skin Come."

Moody thought for a moment and decided he was right.

"Okay, let's go back quickly."

Moody looked down at his watch and found that almost half an hour had passed. If Harry had stayed in the Shrieking Shack, the audience would be suspicious.

The two of them used Apparition one after another to return to the Shrieking Shack, only to find that Harry and the others had already returned to the game scene with the Portkey.

"This..." Lockhart was a little dumbfounded, "We clearly told them to wait here first!"

Moody didn't expect that the plan of the two of them would still be kept secret after all, and something went wrong in the end.

He was also a little annoyed, but he still tried his best to keep calm: "I'll talk to those two brats after I get back... But it's not a big problem, Voldemort probably couldn't immediately understand the situation of the match scene, and the Sphinx is also under our control Living."

Although this is not a big deal, if Voldemort still has hidden seeds on the arena and sends back the news of the arena, Voldemort will know that when he draws blood

Harry was still playing, so it was easy to draw a conclusion—his side was probably a counterfeit.

But it's unlikely—otherwise Crouch and the others should have noticed when they found out that Cedric wasn't following along.

"Come on, go find Snape," Lockhart suggested.

Seeing the situation like this, Moody could only follow him back to Hogwarts.

Snape, who was sitting on the dean's bench watching the game, was watching the game steadily, but suddenly there were two pairs of eyes behind him, which made him quite uncomfortable.

Because he had done bad things in the past, he was actually a little "afraid" of Moody, and he didn't even dare to walk to the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

As a result, Moody came to look for him on purpose today, and kept aiming at his arm with the Dark Mark engraved on it. Snape couldn't help feeling restless, and couldn't even watch the game steadily.

In the arena, after Harry and Cedric repelled Waggadu, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Ilvermorny who stayed behind started a scuffle again. The situation can be described as complicated.

The audience was unaware of what had just happened, and they were still cheering for the Warriors

The two in Durmstrang are really good at duels, and several other schools have to find ways to avoid them, and this also gives them an illusion-then all problems can be solved by duels.

Seeing that Beauxbaton was 9 squares ahead, Durmstrang and the others made a decisive decision and immediately used the number 9"

Because Waggadu has been beaten back to the original point by Hogwarts, and Ilvermorny is defeated again, so Durmstrang and the two decided to use Beauxbatons after discussing, so that at least the next Guaranteed to get second, it will be much easier when chasing Hogwarts.

But the jaw-dropping result was that Kool and the others actually defeated Krum.

in a duel, fleur o della

Chapter 380 The third chapter ends

The hard one is easy to break, the so-called duel is just like this.

In the second round of the competition, Fleur Delacour's dueling skills were only related to the hypnotism used against the five-legged monster, and the "girly charm" when facing the unicorn. In the first round Even drank tea with the former queen for several hours, and there was no real fight at all.

So whether it's the audience or Durmstrang's two people, no matter what they say, they subconsciously regard Fleur Delacour as a vase, or a good girl.

But they probably don't know how terrible it is for a warrior who can survive the "Battle of the Seven Potters" and "The Battle of Hogwarts".

In fact, this is also normal. Although people with outstanding appearance enjoy various hidden benefits in social life, for example, in some jobs that require "kanban" and jobs that require communication, they will be more sorry than their ancestors. Said, to take advantage of some more.

But at the same time, the result of too high appearance value often creates a "ceiling" for them-that is, no matter how much he/she has achieved, others will think that he/she is only on the top of his face.

Aunt Susan is "relying on hard work", so Britney Spears is "relying on her appearance", eh?It is true that Teacher Han Hong is a "singer of strength", so Jolin Tsai is

"Vase"?

Fu Rong can be regarded as a victim of this unspoken rule, because her talent is indeed higher than her appearance-at least she is a wizard who can hypnotize a dragon with a ridiculously high anti-magic attribute.

So, this time, Krum is really too big.

As a result of giving Furong 5 minutes to set the trap, Furong turned almost half of the treants and magical creatures in Birnam Forest into her comrades-in-arms.Not only did she discover Krum's position when they first landed, but she also launched a multi-layered attack when the opponent's foothold was not stable.

Flying in the sky, running on the ground, mixed with the confusion spell and hypnotism that Fleur flew from time to time, even Krum was overwhelmed with it.

When Krum reluctantly used black magic in an attempt to turn things around, what he did instead enraged the trees in Birnam Forest—they were going to clean up the "filth" without Fleur's pleading. The presence"

Seeing that things were going badly, Krum had to take out the port key and reactivate it.

The moment it sent the Durmstrangs back to the venue, the duel finally ended with the victory of Beauxbatons.

So far, the situation of the game can be said to be very clear.

Hogwarts took the lead, followed by Beauxbaton, who defeated Durmstrang, and both schools still had a dice with a self-selected number that was useless, and the lead was unshakable;

Although Ilvermorny was at the bottom for a while, by luck, they still caught up to the third position now, but without the optional dice, they also lost their explosive power, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to catch up with Beauxbaton;

Both Durmstrang and Waggadu were beaten back to the starting point. No matter who is fourth or fifth in the end, I am afraid that the audience will not care too much.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Cedric once again used the trick of rolling dice and rolled a "7". Together with Harry, they solved the pest problem in Farley Village. Finally, they used the number "8" to arrive at the village in one breath. At the end, the glory of No.1 was kept.

Although Beauxbaton took two more rounds, he finally reached the finish line safely, turned the tables in one fell swoop, and moved from the fourth to the second position;

Ilvermorny is not bad either. They spent two more rounds than Beauxbatons. Although they failed to come back in the end, they climbed from fifth in the last round to third now, at least they did not let themselves fall behind;

Probably because using black magic will really damage one's character. In the contest between Durmstrang and Waggadu, Waggadu actually reached the finish line first by virtue of the advantage of rolling several large numbers in a row. Four.

Durmstrang, who was recognized as the strongest before this game, was actually at the bottom-this result was really unexpected.

—The goblins who were watching the game also seemed overjoyed—it seemed that this unpopular result could make their gambling business earn a lot of money.

After seeing this result, everyone couldn't help turning their attention to the position of Durmstrang's headmaster, Karkaroff.

Everyone knows how narrow-minded this person is. After seeing such an "unacceptable" result, it can be said that everyone expected how angry he would be.

But when they prepared a dream basket to persuade Karkaroff, they were surprised to find that Karkaroff was not angry.

Not only was he not angry, judging from their expressions, he seemed a little overwhelmed and... panicked?

Under everyone's gaze, Karkaroff stood up abruptly and looked in the direction of the headmaster's table at Hogwarts.

Everyone thought that he wanted to ask Professor McGonagall for an explanation, but then they discovered that the person Karkaroff was looking at was neither the acting headmaster of Hogwarts nor the official of the British Ministry of Magic who was the organizer, but It was Severus Snape, the potions professor at Hogwarts.

His face was pale, and he stretched out his hand to Snape, his tone full of panic: "Severus oo...you..."

Snape nodded sullenly, motioning for him to sit down first.

Everyone who saw this scene was completely baffled—why was Karkaroff so panicked?Just one game behind?

Seeing his reaction like this, how could Lockhart and Moody not know what happened.It seems that Voldemort still used the blood and was successfully resurrected.Because Voldemort has restored his magic power, as Death Eaters, the Dark Mark on their arms will naturally reappear, and remind its owner to pay attention to his identity with a sting.

Since Karkaroff could feel it, Snape could certainly feel it too.

Feeling the tingling pain in his arm, he now knew exactly what Dumbledore meant when he asked him to "get ready" some time ago.

This can be regarded as Dumbledore's characteristic-he never tells one person everything he knows, and always has two or three people to share the plan in his mind.

Snape knew nothing about Lockhart and Moody's plan, so when Voldemort was resurrected: Snape was particularly surprised.

He gestured to Karkaroff, inviting him to talk in an empty Hogwarts classroom.

Of course Karkaroff would not refuse - because he had already seen the noose hanging around his neck.

Chapter 380 The Prosperous Fudge

The third game of the Big Five Tournament is over, but a series of things behind it are still fermenting.

Although it was said that Snape only invited Karkaroff to "talk" together, Moody finally followed him, saying that he wanted to talk with them.

Lockhart didn't spoil the scenery so much. Anyway, looking at Karkaroff's performance, he had already guessed what happened. Compared with this kind of thing that was sure to happen, he might as well do what should be done earlier, such as Exchange the wand and Harry back.

Seeing Lockhart coming, Cedric and Harry quickly apologized.

"Sorry, sir, we... because we don't know how long we have to wait."

"Understandable." Lockhart sighed. "I should have explained things more clearly...hope nothing bad happened."

To be on the safe side, neither Lockhart nor Moody told them why they had to wait. As a result, the two little guys couldn't hold back, and made their own way halfway, using the portkeys they left behind to return to the match scene.

Harry was a little nervous: "What's wrong?"

"Those who don't know are not guilty, forget it." Lockhart said lightly.

Anyway, he came here to exchange his wand with Harry, and his purpose would be accomplished after the exchange.

The moment he took back his wand, Lockhart felt the stagnant feeling in his body disappear, and the movement of magic power no longer made him feel constrained, but was replaced by transparency and freedom.

It wasn't just him, after Harry took back his holly wand, he also had a similar expression. It seemed that when using Lockhart's wand, Harry also didn't feel very good.

No wonder Harry didn't even want Deathly Hallows wand in the end, preferring to restore his holly wand and reuse it. It turns out that the wand has such a great influence on wizards.

Harry still doesn't know why Lockhart insisted on exchanging wands with him, but he did it anyway, and based on this alone, Lockhart will not criticize him too deeply.

Lockhart was now more concerned with the Ministry of Magic than with Harry.

Now that Voldemort has been resurrected, how to organize a wartime administrative system has become an imminent matter.

Although Voldemort is difficult to deal with, he is only one person. No matter how difficult it is to deal with, there are people like Dumbledore and Harry who are responsible for solving him. Therefore, although he is relatively harmful, if he is said to be able to destroy the magic world. One person is not enough.

Dumbledore and Harry were tasked with dealing with Voldemort, while Lockhart was tasked with dealing with the political influence of the Death Eaters.

In the center of the stage, Cornelius Fudge was still talking about the rules of the next game to the audience, seemingly ignorant of what had just happened.

"...I don't want to be fooled anymore, the next game will be Fire Dragon!" He simply announced the content of the game to the people present, "Welsh Green Dragon, Hungarian Horntail, Chinese Fireball, Swedish Short-nosed Dragon, and so on." There is—the black dragon of the Hebrides! Each group of warriors can choose one of the fire dragons to break through the level!"

The audience responded with well-timed exclamations and cheers, which made Fudge even more excited.

"We will not hide this game from the Warriors again, because I think they will need to spend a lot of time preparing in the next month." Fudge said to the Warriors who were a little pale with a smile, "This game You are allowed to bring all the equipment into the competition, but you are not allowed to drink any magic potion, and the participants must be limited to two warriors, and you are not allowed to bring any creatures, and you must choose fire dragons according to the order of arrival in this competition."

As soon as he said this, the Warriors knew how close the winning edge of the third game was.

What is it.

——There is no need for any extra rewards, the order of appearance itself is a huge reward.

Among the five giant dragons, the most difficult to deal with is undoubtedly the black dragon of the Scottish Hebrides. Its anti-magic ability is close to the limit of all creatures known in the wizarding world-almost no spells will work against it.The Hungarian Horntail is the largest and most powerful one—50 feet in length, far exceeding the 30 feet of other dragons.

In addition, the blue flame emitted by the Swedish Short-nosed Dragon is the hottest among all fire dragon flames, while the Chinese Fireball is not only extremely aggressive, but also has a body structure similar to a lion, which makes it relatively warmer than other dragons. Better at fighting on the ground, rather than turning into a giant lizard as soon as it hits the ground.

In comparison, the gentle temperament of the Welsh Green Dragon is simply rewarding points. No matter how the competition wants them to deal with the fire dragon, the first player only needs to choose the Welsh Green Dragon.

Then there is the Swedish Short-nosed Dragon. Although its flame temperature is high, it also consumes the most. First use the transformation technique to turn a group of cannon fodder and rush up to seduce it to vent its anger, and the rest will be much safer.

As for the Chinese lion dragon, although its fireball is powerful and aggressive by nature, the speed of the fireball jet is not as fast as that of the blowing breath.Moreover, since Kong Bo discovered the role of fire dragon eggshell powder, Chinese wizards have taken good care of their habitat. In the south, there are lion dances and dragon dances to celebrate and sacrifice every year. Its ability to fly in the sky has been greatly degraded.So if you want to deal with it, just fly to the sky with a broom.