Chapter 285 Beautiful and Freezing Ladies

The notice in the hall had a significant impact on everyone living in Hogwarts Castle.

In the following week, no matter where Mike went, people would always talk about the same topic, the Triwizard Tournament.

As for the news of Moody's return, which was posted on the notice board together with the Triwizard Tournament, it was ignored by everyone except Franklin.

In addition to the curiosity about the students of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons, people were most concerned about the selection of the Hogwarts Warrior.

On this topic, the two names mentioned most were Mike and Cedric.

The students of Ravenclaw College naturally supported Mike. After all, he was a well-known figure in their college. If they did not support their own people at this time and supported outsiders instead, they would be isolated if they were discovered.

But apart from the students of Ravenclaw College, more people thought that Cedric had a better chance of becoming a Hogwarts Warrior.

After all, Cedric and Mike were both duel champions, and Cedric was much older than Mike and had already reached adulthood!

The growth of wizards' magic power often enters a period of rapid growth with the arrival of puberty, and becomes extremely slow after they become adults at the age of 17.

Studies have shown that, except for a few talented people, most people's magic power at the age of 40 is almost the same as that at the age of 17. In other words, when wizards eat and wait for death all day long, the automatic growth rate of magic power after adulthood is infinitely close to 0!

Mike is only 14 years old now, and it can be said that he has just entered the period of rapid growth of magic power. On the other side, Cedric has become an adult, and it is not surprising that his magic power is several times more than Mike.

In this case, it is no wonder that others think Cedric has greater hope.

But the students of Ravenclaw College do not think so. As the group of people closest to Mike, they know very well that Mike's current power is already strong to a perverted degree.

So, the conflict began.

Mike's supporters, led by Ravenclaw students, and Cedric's supporters, led by Hufflepuff students, began an almost endless verbal battle.

In this confrontation, the Hufflepuffs, who used to be bullied and good-natured, showed their fierce side. Ravenclaw students were almost shut down by the scolding every day.

Mike was not surprised by this situation.

After so many years in the wizarding society, his inherent impression of Hufflepuffs has been completely overturned.

If you ask Mike which of the four major colleges has the strongest overall strength, he will tell you without hesitation that it is Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuffs are definitely not good-for-nothings or wastes as students from other colleges say.

On the contrary, there are many amazing people in Hufflepuff, such as Newt Scamander, who wrote "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", and Cedric now. Which of them is not a genius?

At the same time, Hufflepuff has another powerful advantage, that is, there are many people.

Don't underestimate this advantage. In the sparsely populated wizarding society, it is true that there is strength in numbers.

The founders of the four major colleges had some rigid requirements for students when recruiting students, such as Slytherin needs blood, Ravenclaw needs wisdom, and Gryffindor needs courage.

Only Hufflepuff, although she also set the standards of hard work and loyalty, in fact, she does not refuse anyone!

Ms. Hufflepuff is definitely a kind person.

Think about it, if you are an 11-year-old Muggle child, you received an admission letter from Hogwarts on your birthday.

A brand new world is open to you.

Everything in this world is so new and beautiful.

But when you come to Hogwarts and accept the sorting ceremony, you are told that you are not accepted by any college, and you can only be cast into the forgetfulness spell and then drop out.

How lost you will be.

Now it seems that good people still have good rewards. At least Ms. Hufflepuff's good deeds in the past have created the current strength of Hufflepuff College in the wizarding society.

In addition to the students' changes, the faculty and staff of Hogwarts are also "crazy".

Filch, the poor old Squib, now only sleeps four hours a day. The rest of his time, except for eating, is spent cleaning the Hogwarts Castle.

In addition to the regular cleaning of the floor and ceiling, the armors that looked worn out and creaked when they moved were also rubbed shiny by Filch, and all the joints were greased with lubricants, so they move silently.

He was even so crazy as to clean the magic portraits. Now the portraits in the castle will run away when they see Filch, even Sir Cadogan, who has a mental problem and likes to challenge people the most.

Because once you are found by Filch, you will be greeted by rags and brushes, which will destroy the oil paint on your surface, making your surface uneven and fading.

This is tantamount to digging their flesh and peeling their skin for a magic portrait.

And Professor McGonagall, who cares most about the face of Hogwarts, has been very busy recently.

Mike had seen Professor McGonagall several times with a livid face, blaming Zhou Hong and Colin's brother with a voice that was almost desperate. Mike

could swear that this was the first time he saw a professor deduct points from his own college so harshly, and each time it was 50-50.

In Ron's words, his two brothers had retired, and now the title of the King of Hogwarts Pranks had been won by the new combination of Zhou Hong and Colin's brother.

And what they did was much more excessive and cruel than the Weasley brothers.

You haven't seen a dung bomb detonated in the lounge of your own college, right?

The Gryffindor students saw it recently, and they saw it more than once!

The tense atmosphere in Hogwarts finally reached its peak on the night of October 30th.

That night, when Mike and others went to the front of the castle to gather according to the previous arrangement, they were surprised to find that the whole Hogwarts had changed drastically.

The floor was so smooth that it could be used as a mirror. Banners with the Hogwarts emblem were hung everywhere in the castle, and rows of flags of the four major colleges were hung in the hall.

"Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?" Franklin muttered softly while shivering in the cold wind.

There were many other little wizards who were whispering like him. Professor McGonagall asked them to come here half an hour in advance to wait. Not everyone knew how to cast a warming spell, and some people couldn't stand it in such a cold environment.

"How do you think they will come? Use a portkey or Apparition?"

"Don't be silly. Dumbledore won't allow anyone to make a portkey that can directly enter Hogwarts, and Apparition doesn't work in Hogwarts." Mike answered Franklin's stupid question softly, "Besides, according to convention, they will show up in a more impressive way."

"What do you mean by more impressive..."

Franklin was only halfway through his words when the crowd in front of the castle started to stir.

Hearing the noise, Mike and the others looked up and saw a huge object comparable to an airship in the sky, rapidly passing through the deep blue sky and flying towards the castle, gradually getting bigger and bigger.

"They actually came by plane! Hahaha!"

Franklin joked, and at the end he couldn't help laughing first.

The huge unknown flying object was getting closer and closer to everyone. When it entered the lighting range of Hogwarts, everyone finally saw its true face.

It turned out to be a carriage!

A flying carriage as big as a house, pink and blue, pulled by twelve silver-maned flying horses with wings!

The people in front of the castle didn't have time to react at all before the carriage landed in the open space in front of the castle at a very fast speed.

"Oh!"

"Oh my God!"

"Merlin's beard! Do you want to hit me to death?"

The students standing in the front row exclaimed and retreated quickly.

The students behind them were also squeezed and retreated, and the crowd became chaotic for a while.

Professor McGonagall was so angry that her face turned green. The neat team she had rehearsed for almost an afternoon was disrupted.

Before the chaos in the Hogwarts team subsided, the door of the carriage with a badge (two golden cross wands, each with three stars) was opened.

A boy in a light blue robe jumped off the carriage neatly, bent down and skillfully pressed the mechanism on the floor of the carriage, and then a golden spiral staircase stretched out from the door.

After doing all this, the boy stood aside respectfully.

A pair of shiny black high-heeled shoes as big as a small basin stretched out from the carriage, followed by a big woman with a height of nearly four meters.

When this person appeared, even Mike was slightly surprised.

The image of this woman was really too weird.

Although she was as big as Hagrid, the temperament exuded by her gestures, coupled with her handsome olive face, a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to speak, a black satin dress and various luxurious jewelry on her body, actually gave people a sense of noble and elegant taste.

All the students present were stunned, until Dumbledore applauded, and then everyone instinctively followed suit.

"Welcome to Hogwarts!" Dumbledore said, "Dear Madam Maxime."

"Dumbledore, I hope everything is well." Madam Maxime's voice was unexpectedly low, but it did not lose the charm of a mature woman, "My students."

As she spoke, Madam Maxime waved her huge arm as if inadvertently.

Then, a dozen girls got off the carriage.

Judging from their appearance, these girls were about eighteen or nineteen years old, and at this moment, each of them was trembling slightly.

This was not surprising. Their school uniforms were very delicate, but they were made of light blue silk. Although they wore gloves and hats on their hands and heads, they were decorative tulle gloves and hats, which had no warmth at all.

"Is Beauxbatons a girls' school?"

a Gryffindor boy asked, and a girl next to him immediately poked him with her elbow and replied:

"Are you stupid? Didn't you see that the student who helped them to clear the stairs at the beginning was a boy?"

The boy rubbed his aching chest, looked at the Beauxbatons boy at the end of the line who was groveling like a servant, swallowed hard, and said with a strange expression:

"Oh, then women's rights must be very prosperous there."

Mike didn't whisper like others, and he didn't even pay attention to Franklin talking to him.

Because he actually found an acquaintance in the Beauxbatons team.

Fleur!

Fleur on the other side was obviously looking for him. After looking around for a while, she finally found Mike standing at the front of the Ravenclaw team, and then smiled sweetly at Mike.

"She smiled at me!"

"You're talking nonsense! She was clearly smiling at me!"

"What did you say? Say it again if you dare?"

"Just say it!"

"Stop arguing, you all misunderstood. She was clearly smiling at me."

Franklin muttered to himself like an idiot, but his words immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the people around him. Soon, the Ravenclaw team, which was still quite neat, became chaotic.

Seeing this, the girls in the Beauxbatons team were all laughing with their mouths covered, and Professor McGonagall covered her face.

She was too embarrassed to look at it.

The commotion in her own team attracted the attention of Ms. Maxime. She looked back and saw that the girls immediately stopped smiling and looked as serious as the soldiers standing guard in front of the British Palace, but their bodies were still trembling slightly.

Professor McGonagall had the urge to run away. Look at their organization and discipline. Why are these little bastards in her team so disappointing!

In comparison, Dumbledore's performance was much more natural. He glanced at the beautiful and chilled Beauxbatons girls, and then said to Madam Maxime:

"Karkaroff hasn't arrived yet. Would you like to wait here to greet him, or go in and warm up first?"

"It's better to go in and warm up first." Madam Maxime said, "But these horses..."

"Don't worry, our Care of Magical Creatures professor will take good care of them."

Maxime was obviously hesitant in the face of Dumbledore's proposal. She paused for a moment before saying with difficulty:

"My horses need... um... someone with great strength to take care of them. They have very fierce tempers..."

"I assure you, Hagrid is fully capable of doing this job."

"Well... OK." Maxime bowed slightly and said, "Can you please tell that Hagrid that these horses only drink single malt whiskey."

"I'll take care of it." Dumbledore also returned the greeting.

Upon hearing this, Maxime nodded, and coldly uttered two words "Come on" to his students, and then led by Dumbledore, he took the lead in entering the castle.

Those beautiful and freezing girls breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, they had been prepared to freeze here for more than half an hour, but now it would be best to enter the castle in advance to keep warm.

So, under the gaze of all the male students of Hogwarts, the Beauxbatons team stepped onto the stone steps and entered the Hogwarts Castle.