Once during breakfast, Cedric saw Kyle always staring at a booklet and couldn't help asking, "You have been looking at this for many days, right?"

It wasn't unusual for Kyle to read while eating, but it was a little strange to read only one book for so many days in a row.

This thing only has a few pages, does it take so long to read it... Kyle even stopped playing wizard chess these days. No matter where he sees it, he always holds that book in his hands.

"What did you just say?" Kyle asked, looking up.

"I say, what are you looking at?" Cedric repeated.

"Oh, Professor Dumbledore gave it to me." Kyle rubbed his forehead and pushed the booklet on the table to Cedric without hiding anything. He said, "I thought I could learn it in a few days, but this thing is much more difficult than I thought. It will probably take a week."

"It's just a few pieces of parchment, but it takes so long to learn. Is there some complicated spell written on them?"

Cedric leaned over to take a curious look, and then he fell silent.

There were only a few words on the parchment, and the rest were all dazzlingly complex magic runes and symbols.

"Are you learning ancient runes with Professor Dumbledore?" Connor asked.

"You could say that." Kyle quickly stuffed a few slices of fried eggs and ham into his mouth, and took a big gulp of pumpkin juice before continuing, "What he taught me is a bit complicated. I have to learn this first."

"Is this still the simplest?" Cedric smacked his lips and frowned as he looked at the parchment again. "This is the symbol of 'Extension', and there is also 'Overlay' and 'Light'. Do you want to make some high-end magic item?"

"No, it's a spell," Kyle said. "It's a spell invented by Professor Dumbledore. It's powerful, but very difficult to master."

"Oh, I see." Cedric clapped his hands in sudden realization. "You must be preparing for the third project. What a great move..."

Cedric suddenly shut his mouth and glanced awkwardly at Fleur who was not far away.

"I know what you're thinking." Furong calmly put some fresh vegetable leaves on the plate, "Actually, you don't need to be so surprised, and you don't need to feel that the secret has been revealed, because before the third event, all the warriors are the same.

"In fact, Ms. Maxime has recently been teaching me some spells that would never appear in textbooks under normal circumstances."

"You learned it too?" Cedric blurted out, "Then why didn't you ever mention it?"

When he said this, Cedric knew he had asked a rather stupid question.

Fleur is the warrior who represents Beauxbatons, so of course she would not take the initiative to reveal her secret weapon to them.

As expected, Fleur turned her head and looked at Cedric with a strange look, as if she was looking at a running sea cucumber.

Cedric blushed and quickly explained: "I'm sorry you misunderstood. What I meant was, why aren't you like Kyle, always holding a book to read."

"That's because we have other ways of learning," Fleur said, "outside of textbooks. The same goes for Krum. Do you think there's anything different about him in the castle these days?"

"Krum..." Cedric thought for a moment and shook his head, "I don't think so."

He didn't pay much attention to Krum, and only saw him a few times when eating in the auditorium. In his memory, Krum behaved no differently from usual... He still ate without saying a word and then left.

"But I saw the headmaster of Durmstrang several times on the deck of that ship teaching him strange wand gestures that he would certainly not let you know."

Fleur said, "Krum would rather you... or rather Kyle believe that he has nothing prepared.

After all, Kyle's score advantage is too big. Only by hiding more tricks and trump cards can he have a chance to win the championship in the final event.

"If that's the case, then why do you say so much?" Kyle asked curiously.

"That's because you brought up the subject first."

Fleur glanced at the parchment on the table, then quickly looked away. "It's only fair, isn't it?"

Kyle smiled but said nothing.

Just at this time, the owls delivering mail also arrived.

They rushed into the auditorium, and letters and packages fell into everyone's hands like raindrops.

Kyle first raised his head and took a look at the "Witch Weekly" that others had received. After confirming that the grinning man on the cover was not himself, he breathed a sigh of relief and picked up the "Daily Prophet" in front of him.

Although the second event of the Triwizard Tournament happened a long time ago, it still dominates the front pages of newspapers, and people seem to have endless topics to talk about what happened under the lake.

The content of the front page this time was a Kelpie. Maybe it was because Kyle jumped out of the water on it and scored the highest score, but this magical animal, which was not so popular originally, quickly became popular in a short period of time.

Although it is forbidden to keep such dangerous magical animals, people always find ways to evade the Ministry of Magic's inspection.

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At the bottom of the newspaper there was advice from the Ministry of Magic.

"Amos Diggory, head of the Beast Office at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, believes that people are now tempted to keep kelpies. He thinks this is a very foolish act. A kelpy is wild and difficult to tame, and is not suitable for keeping. And once you can't stand it anymore and decide to abandon it, it will bear a grudge and wait for an opportunity to retaliate...

"We've dealt with five kelp troubles this week. I really hope there won't be a sixth."

"Oh, my dad got a promotion." Cedric also saw the content in the newspaper and said with a smile: "He mentioned this to me last week, and I always thought he was joking.

But this will probably make him more busy, and I don’t know if he can still accompany me to travel to Austria during the holidays this year... We agreed on this at Christmas."

"Austria?" Kyle asked curiously.

"Yes." Cedric said, "Wasn't the last International Confederation of Wizards held there? I was a little curious and wanted to go and take a look.

"My dad also agreed and said he would take me there during this year's vacation."

"That's probably unlikely." Kyle spread his hands.

The Beast Office is the busiest place in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. It has a total of six small departments and a lot of things to deal with every day.

When Chris was in this position, he only had one day off every two weeks on average.

"That's a shame," Cedric said, but his expression didn't change much.

The trip to Austria was nice, but Mr. Diggory's promotion was equally nice.

Kyle continued to read the newspaper, and on the second page, he suddenly saw a familiar name.

[Investigation into former Director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation, Barty Crouch, concluded]

(End of this chapter)