Compared to other Hogwarts students, Ellie had little interest in the Triwizard Tournament. At this moment, she was standing behind Dumbledore, feeling so bored that she was about to fall asleep.
If possible, she would rather wait for guests in a warm castle rather than in the wild in this weather. In Ellie's opinion, these guys are just passers-by NPCs. But it's a pity that as a teacher, she has to stand here stupidly... Now Ellie is a little regretful about being a teacher of Magical Creatures Protection.
Fortunately, this group of supporting characters did not make Ellie wait too long. Soon, amid the exclamations of the students, a huge carriage pulled by several winged horses fell from the sky and landed on the lawn in front of Hogwarts Castle. Then, a female giant who was almost as tall as Hagrid strode down from the carriage - in front of her, Dumbledore could only look up.
"Ah, dear Madam Maxime, welcome to Hogwarts."
Dumbledore walked forward with a smile and looked at the giantess in front of him, and the latter also smiled and nodded in greeting.
"Dumbledore, I hope everything is alright with you."
"Very good, thank you. Would you like to wait here for our other friend, or go in and warm up first?"
"It's better to warm up...but I want you to take good care of my horses."
"That's certainly not a problem, we have a very competent magical creature teacher."
As he spoke, Dumbledore turned his head and looked at Ellie with a smile. The latter walked out of the crowd helplessly and came to the front of the horses. Seeing the little girl in front of her, Ms. Maxime frowned immediately.
"I'm sorry, Dumbledore. My horse needs... um... someone with great strength to take care of it. These horses are very fierce. Will this child be in danger?"
It's no wonder that Madam Maxime has such concerns, because these winged Pegasus are much taller than ordinary people, and Ellie standing there is not even as tall as their calves. In other words, in front of the giantess Maxime, they look like ordinary horses, but if Dumbledore is used as a reference, then they are the difference between a lion and a house cat.
As for Ellie, who was only thirteen years old and short in stature, there was no need to mention her.
"Don't worry, it's just some horses, nothing serious."
Ellie didn't care. In fact, she wanted to leave the scene as soon as possible and go back to rest. So she walked directly to the Pegasus pulling the carriage and snapped her fingers at them.
"Follow me obediently and don't cause any trouble."
After saying this, Ellie turned and left. Then the horses followed the girl very obediently, like the most docile pets, walking without taking a breath.
"this……"
Seeing this scene, Ms. Maxime was also stunned. She knew how difficult it was to take care of the horses in her family. They had very violent tempers and were spoiled since childhood. They were only somewhat obedient in front of her. Many times they even ignored the breeders.
But the girl didn't do anything, and the horses just followed her obediently?
Maybe it’s because I’m too tired from the long-distance driving?
Thinking of this, Ms. Maxim shook her head and put this doubt behind her.
After taking the Pegasus to the back and ordering them to move freely but not to cause trouble, Ellie returned to the restaurant. Dumbledore was already ready at this moment. After he gave the students an impassioned opening speech for the Triwizard Tournament, he welcomed the representatives of the other two schools.
Then, as the door opened, Ellie saw the funny entrance performance again.
A group of female students from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic entered in a line, wearing robes and uniforms. Then they stopped here, cast a wink, stretched out their hands and bent over, then stopped there again, cast a wink, stretched out their hands and bent over...
Who on earth came up with this stupid show?
Sitting on the chair, Ellie looked at the witches of Beauxbatons showing off their eroticism in silence, thinking that there must be something wrong with their brains. She thought this scene was very embarrassing when she watched the movie, but at that time she could also think that the director was stupid. But now these people are doing the same thing in real life... forget it, she is too lazy to care...
What does it have to do with me?
As long as she wasn't part of the joke.
In comparison, Durmstrang's entrance ceremony was much more impressive, with that feeling of iron and blood, ice and fire displayed quite handsomely - at least much better than that group of witches showing off their eroticism.
Of course, what aroused the interest of the Hogwarts students was not the Durmstrang's entrance ceremony, but the fact that their representative was a very famous Quidditch player, Viktor Krum.
Well, this is normal. In the ordinary world, if you see David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo appear, you will probably have the same reaction.
The next step is naturally for Dumbledore to light the Goblet of Fire and then announce the rules - warriors who want to participate in the competition can write their names on a piece of paper and throw it into the Goblet of Fire, and the real contestants will be selected three days later. Of course, to be on the safe side, Dumbledore also drew an age line outside the Goblet of Fire, and only those who meet the age limit can participate in the competition, and others are not eligible.
Hogwarts was very lively for the next three days.
In fact, this is normal. After all, the contestants of the other two schools have been decided long ago, and only Hogwarts needs to be selected, so the qualified contestants have been decided long ago, and then it is just a formality. Only the students of Hogwarts are more curious about who will be selected by the Goblet of Fire to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, while Ellie simply doesn't care about anything - different from the previous three plots, Ellie doesn't intend to intervene in this plot at all. After all, if Voldemort cannot get Harry Potter's blood to fully revive, then her plan will go wrong.
The only unlucky one is probably Cedric... I wonder if he will be so unlucky again this time.
But this has nothing to do with Ellie.
Three days later, the Warriors selection officially began.
Students from the three schools gathered in the hall. After Dumbledore gave a meaningless speech, he began to select representatives from the three schools in the Goblet of Fire.
The warrior of Durmstrang is naturally the super star Viktor Krum.
The champion of Beauxbatons is Fleur Delacorte.
The champion of Hogwarts... needless to say, the unfortunate Cedric Diggory.
However, just as Dumbledore was about to excitedly announce that all three warriors had been selected, suddenly, the Goblet of Fire flashed again, and then the fourth note flew out of the flames.
No need to ask, Harry Potter.
Harry Potter was naturally confused when his name was called, and the other teachers were also confused. However, they still upheld the most basic etiquette and motioned for Harry Potter to go and meet up with the other three. After driving away the other students, an uproar broke out here instantly.
"What the hell is going on? What on earth does Hogwarts want to do!?"
"Shut up, you old French woman, everything is a conspiracy to you!"
"Quiet, let me think about it, there must be something wrong."
"Harry!"
Dumbledore rushed forward and grabbed Harry's shoulders.
"Did you put the note into the Goblet of Fire?"
"No, I haven't."
Harry shook his head hastily, and Dumbledore asked again.
"So did you ask senior students to help you post notes?"
"No!"
"He must be lying!"
At this time, the giantess headmaster spoke, and Dumbledore frowned unhappily.
"He didn't lie!"
Seeing that the situation was about to turn into a mess, Ellie raised her hands helplessly.
"Professor Dumbledore, have you forgotten that I set up the 'Synopsis' in the restaurant?"
"Well……"
"What is that?"
Hearing what Ellie said, the headmaster of Durmstrang frowned, and Dumbledore seemed to remember something and nodded.
"Yes, I remember. I asked you to set it up in all public areas of the school... It's a magic invented by Miss Ellie. It can monitor everything around and save their images... Then Miss Ellie, can I trouble you?"
"certainly."
Hearing what Dumbledore said, Ellie picked up her wand and tapped it lightly.
"The myriad things."
Following her call, four screens soon appeared in the void, with the Goblet of Fire and images of its surroundings appearing on them.
"Let's rewind this back to three days ago when we set up the Goblet of Fire..."
Ellie waved her wand again and replayed the entire scene. The image on the screen then started again from the moment Dumbledore set up the Goblet of Fire three days ago. In order to save time, Ellie also sped up. At the same time, she specially set up a screen to display the names on the notes that the students threw into the Goblet of Fire.
In the picture, everyone watched the whole process of all the students throwing in the notes. There was no Harry Potter on it, and the name of Harry Potter was also not on the notes thrown by those students.
"What's going on?"
After watching the entire video, Karkaroff asked in confusion.
"There's no record of the boy throwing the note in the post!"
"Maybe they hid this part of the image?"
The giantess principal then looked at Ellie again, who glanced at her in boredom.
"I'm not as boring as you. Of course, whether you believe it or not is up to you. Anyway, from my magic point of view, Mr. Potter did not take the initiative to invest in the note."
"So where did the note come from?"
At this moment, Barty Crouch also frowned.
"We all saw the whole process. If this magic is true, then someone must have put in Harry Potter's note. But who is that person?"
“That’s not the problem now!”
Karkaroff slammed the table in dissatisfaction.
"Hogwarts has two champions, and that's not allowed by the rules! It's also unfair!"
“But the rules have been decided.”
Mr. Crouch sighed and sat down on the chair. As a representative of the Ministry of Magic, he was here to supervise the Triwizard Tournament.
In the end, no one had expected this to happen. There were four contestants in the Triwizard Tournament, which was unprecedented.
In the end, just like in the original book, everyone could only accept Harry Potter as the fourth contestant, and poor Harry was naturally confused and at a loss... But this had nothing to do with Ellie.
Now she just had to wait for Harry Potter to pass three tests and then be teleported to the Riddle family graveyard, and then resurrect Voldemort.
Before this, Ellie basically didn't need to do anything, she just had to do nothing.