Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 383 The game begins

After a week of preparation, this year's Potions Championship opened.

Before the game started, Nikita spent an hour explaining the detailed rules of this game.

The rules of the game are basically the same as those revealed before, with a few added details, such as the cabins in the venue are first come first served, and you can ask the patrol for help when you encounter danger.

The most surprising thing is that there are cameras in the venue, which will broadcast the images of the action team members' activities outside on the big screen in front of the audience seats at the entrance of the stadium from 9 am to 5 pm every day.

This has been widely praised by the audience. It is better to watch a reality show than to wait outside foolishly for a few days.

The most surprising thing is that after the scoring, there is an open play-off where a guest is chosen to draw the questions, and only materials brought from the competition venue can be used, giving schools that are not far behind a chance to make a comeback.

But this will give the contestants more things to consider and a bigger headache.

Charles was a little worried because Joyce, the captain of the Hogwarts team, was not a strong person by character, and he didn't know what decisions she would make when facing high pressure.

Fortunately, there are many people in the team who can make up for this shortcoming.

The competition is about to officially begin. The contestants bring crucibles and other equipment, which will be checked by the referee team.

The team from the Institute of Magic brought a lot of colorful chopsticks, many of which had various patterns engraved on the top.

The lids of the crucibles of the Ugadu team are also colorful, and the handles on them are in the shapes of various animals.

The cauldrons and other supplies at Hogwarts were placed in wicker baskets. I don't know if the referee team noticed that they were branches of the Whomping Willow and did not call any violations.

However, their professor found something wrong with a transparent crucible of Kodosdoriz. Charles listened for a while and finally understood that the thing was actually solidified vodka.

In the end, the vodka crucible was not brought in.

Later, Charles found out that the vodka crucible was deliberately discovered by the referee team, and they also had another crucible with a layer.

At twelve o'clock sharp, the competition officially began.

All members of the Hogwarts team were wearing travel cloaks. They lifted their cloaks immediately, and Percy cast a spell to turn the cauldrons and other tools on the ground into two-dimensional objects and imprint them on the inside of everyone's cloaks.

The Uagadou team removed an elephant-shaped handle from the cauldron lid and threw it on the ground, which soon turned into an African elephant capable of carrying all of them.

The students of Kodosdoriz pulled up many poplar trees nearby and made a flying tree on the spot.

The students of the magic institute threw out a handful of chopsticks, which immediately turned into horses after they landed on the ground.

During these days, other magic schools have also done their best to gather intelligence, and the location of the wooden houses in the venue is already clear.

The competition questions and maps are placed in the wooden house, so whoever arrives first can prepare first.

But the fastest place was Hogwarts. Joyce picked up a knife from the pile of tools in advance. After everyone held hands, she made the knife into a door key. The next moment, everyone "biu" arrived at the designated destination.

Joyce had been properly trained in Portkey making and had a certificate from the Ministry of Magic.

As soon as they arrived at the destination, everyone started to get busy. They first took out their tools, the pharmaceutical team studied the questions and maps on the table in the cabin, half of the action team arranged the crucibles, and Harry, Ron and Seamus helped Neville plant the Whomping Willow around the cabin.

Hermione pulled up a few birch trees nearby and began to cast spells on them.

Charles was piling up stones to build a stove nearby. He turned to Hermione and asked, "Are you sure you have mastered those spells?"

Hermione said proudly: "Of course, I succeeded in two tries. People say I'm very smart." The next day after arriving here, Harry and Ron went to see how the students of Kodostoris played Quidditch riding on trees. Hermione was not interested in Quidditch, so she learned how to make a tree into a flying prop.

Although the flying tree she made now has a speed of only more than 30 kilometers per hour and a maximum ceiling of 20 to 30 meters, it is enough as a means of transportation.

Over there, Charles had already built a stove, chopped a tree into firewood, set up the pot, lit the fire, and started to boil water and make tea.

His job is to guard the ground passage leading to the wooden house, and he can just sit here and drink tea.

An hour later, Joyce and others discussed the results and called the other members of the action team to start arranging tasks. Soon, they started to act in groups of three.

Charles sat alone by the fire, holding a knife in one hand and a block of wood in the other, concentrating on carving the wood into the shape of a fish. The smell of tea came out of the copper kettle on the fire next to him.

Behind a large rock in the distance, several people from three magic schools were hiding there, discussing whether or not to commit a crime.

The Kodostoriz student said, "Let's go take away all the cauldrons from Hogwarts so they can't make potions."

"But Charles Smith is sitting there," said the student of Ugadou, worriedly. "With him we can't get to the cabin."

"He was able to kill a Nangdu leopard by himself two years ago. Maybe he is even more powerful now."

The legend of Charles is still circulating in Ouagadou. Students from there know better how terrifying the Nongdu leopard is, and they are a little scared when they face him now.

A student from the magic school said: "With so many of us attacking together, I don't think he can kill us all."

The students of Kodosdoriz and Ugadou asked him to go first, but he naturally refused.

"We have to outsmart you!" said another student from the School of Magic. "I can make you look like Hogwarts students in the eyes of others, so that he can let down his guard."

Others thought it made sense.

The student immediately cast a spell similar to the Confusion Charm, and the student who had just been said to be going to the ground with everyone became a member of the Hogwarts action team in the eyes of others.

Charles carved a fish, cast a spell and threw it into the water. The wooden fish immediately twisted its body and dived into the water, ready to take a bite of anyone it saw.

At this time, a man walked over from the opposite side. Before he could speak, Charles stood up and pointed his wand at him, asking, "What does the professor with the mandrake leaf on his head teach?"

The magic student who was disguised as a Slytherin student had already prepared the slogan. He immediately recalled the information about Hogwarts and thought that only the professor of Herbology would dress like this, so he answered: "It's Sprout who teaches Herbology...ah!"

Charles first cast a flying spell, then a throwing spell, throwing the man into the lake.

Now even Peeves in Hogwarts knows that Neville made the Boggart who turned into Snape grow mandrake leaves on his head.

After Charles sat down, he poured himself a cup of hot tea, blew it cool and drank it slowly.

Soon another Gryffindor student came over, and Charles asked him, "Who is spinning in the sky like a top?"

The student from Kodostoriz was a classmate of Valentina's and had heard some interesting things about Hogwarts, so he answered, "It's Peeves!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he also flew into the lake.

Charles curled his lips. After the Christmas holidays, Ron would tell the story of Snape being cursed "biu" and spinning under the ceiling ten times a day in the common room. There was no way the Gryffindor students didn't know about it.

The students behind the stone thought that Charles had become alert, and no matter how useful this trick was, no one dared to force their way in, so they had to disperse.

(End of this chapter)