Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 390 Frame-up
"Are you all ready?"

"Have you checked everything?"

"Potter, do you think the box is sturdy?"

On the last day of the competition, Joyce was more nervous than ever.

All ten potions were prepared at midnight the day before. She sat next to the potion box all night, fearing that someone would sabotage it.

Now she was in a state of high tension and her spirit was a little excited. She didn't feel tired at all after staying up all night.

The others did the same and started packing up their tools and herbs as there was a play-off match to be had later.

"Be careful!" Percy grabbed Ron and said, "Don't be reckless. The bugs inside are still alive and poisonous!"

Ron shuddered. Even though he had eaten a lot of spider legs, he was still afraid. He was also afraid of other insects, not to mention poisonous ones.

He gave up the idea of ​​tuck the wooden box under his arm to save himself the trouble of making fewer trips. He just took it and put it gently into the bag beside him.

After the seven boxes were packed, he pointed to a few bottles nearby and asked Percy, "What about these?"

Percy said, "These are all non-toxic. One bottle contains honey. Don't eat it secretly."

Ron pouted and said, "I'm not a child anymore."

Hermione next to her asked Percy curiously: "Did Ron steal honey before?"

Percy replied, "When he was five..."

"Shut up!" Ron gritted his teeth and glared at Percy, "Be careful or Clearwater and I might say something weird!"

Percy shut up immediately.

Outside the cabin, Neville began to collect the Whomping Willows around him. In the past few days, many small animals had been blown into the lake by them.

Charles and Seamus cooked their last meal here, a oven full of cheese and fish pies that Seamus had fried in the nearby lake.

"It's all safe at last," Seamus said to Charles as he was putting the baked pies on a tray.

"I've been feeling very nervous these past few days, worried that something might fall from the sky and smash the house."

Charles said: "We have to thank Percy for easing the conflicts between the teams. Otherwise, we would have to spend a lot of energy outside the Crucible."

"But we can't let our guard down yet. Who knows what conspiracy others might come up with?"

Seamus smiled and said, "After you revealed that you eavesdropped on their conversation that day, they didn't dare to plot against us anymore."

"How did you manage to eavesdrop on their conversation at the Institute of Magic that night? You didn't leave?"

Charles just smiled and said nothing. He took all the pies out of the oven and threw the remaining firewood back in. Soon a raging fire was lit.

Simo took the pie to the cabin, and when he came back he found many palm-sized wooden animals running out of the woods in the distance, and paper cranes flying in the sky.

The wooden animals and paper cranes first flew in front of Charles and then threw themselves into the fire.

Charles did all this when he had free time. Some of them served as secret sentries in the surrounding areas, while others sneaked into the cabins of other teams, eavesdropped, and came back to report.

Now that it is no longer needed, it will naturally be thrown into the fire and destroyed.

Seamus said to Charles, "If you make more puppets like this in the future, you won't have to do your homework."

Charles shook his head and said, "It's too troublesome. It's more convenient to ask Harry for this kind of thing."

Seamus thought it made sense.

Charles finally drew a cordon outside to prohibit entry and put up a sign, telling visitors to just shout.

At 9:30 in the morning, everything was packed up and everyone gathered in the cabin to eat.

Joyce said, "Now that everything is ready, we will go back to submit the medicine at 10:30 to avoid any accidents if it takes too long."

No one objected, and it was better to leave early to avoid any further complications.

"Plop!" ×2
There were sounds of two people falling into the water on the lake outside the house.

Charles narrowed his eyes slightly and said in a cold voice: "An unwelcome guest is coming." There are many door keys inside the cordon. Step on them and you will be directly teleported to the lake next to you.

If they were well-intentioned guests, they would at least shout outside the cordon; but if they barged in without saying hello, they could go to the lake to sober up.

Joyce immediately said anxiously: "Then let's leave now!"

Charles said, "No hurry, let's talk about it after we finish eating."

Percy said to him, "Charles, use the same magic you used to negotiate that day. I'm worried that they will set up an anti-Apparition spell around them."

Charles thought about it, nodded, took out his wand and began to cast a spell.

To outsiders, the Hogwarts cabin disappeared all of a sudden. It should be some kind of invisibility spell.

The actual situation was that the entire wooden house entered the mirror space, and then many legs grew out of the house and ran towards the exit of the competition venue.

The other people in the house felt the house moving, but they thought it was just someone turning invisible and running away, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

In the audience seats, the screen that was originally showing the Hogwarts cabin was interrupted, and everything was white and nothing could be seen.

Everyone thought that it was Charles using the magic that blocked the sun again, so they didn't pay any attention.

Outside the original site of the wooden house, several students wearing magic school uniforms were carefully breaking the defensive spell behind the cordon.

Charles only left some door keys, but the uninvited guests did not believe that these were all, and concentrated on looking for the non-existent spell on the ground.

After half an hour, the uninvited guests finally confirmed that there were no other spells on the ground, and then they boldly walked towards the wooden house.

At the same time, Charles returned here and found the owl used as a camera on the branch of a birch tree.

The owl's head was covered in a cloud of white smoke, and it stood firmly on the branch, motionless.

Charles didn't know what curse it was under, but with a "all curses end" spell, all the spells became invalid.

The audience in the auditorium watched a great show on the big screen together with the rest of the Hogwarts team.

"idiot!!!"

A group of students from the magic school rushed over from behind, raised their wands and attacked those in front.

Several students took out a stack of papers from their pockets and threw them into the air. These papers immediately turned into jackals, tigers, leopards, muscular men, and octopus tentacles, and swarmed over.

The group of people in front were caught off guard. Some were hit by the curse and lay on the ground wailing with cramps all over their bodies. Some were pinned to the ground and beaten by a group of big men. Some were tightly entangled by a one-story-high octopus and their school uniforms were torn off, revealing their black skin.

In the audience, Takashima Tadao said with a livid face: "This method is really too despicable."

Nikita also said: "This is not a gentleman's behavior."

Karkaroff, Madame Maxime and other principals of visiting magic schools expressed disdain for this kind of frame-up.

Akinbade's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he hurriedly said: "This is not the official attitude of Uagadou. It was done by the students themselves. I will deal with them seriously!"

Rita Skeeter turned to Joyce and asked, "What's going on?"

Joyce replied, "At first, two people fell into the water. Charles heard that their screams were not Japanese, which is used by students of the magic school, so he went to inform the magic school team."

Percy continued, "The next Potions Championship will be held at the Institute of Magic. If these people can disguise themselves as students of the Institute of Magic and cause us trouble, it will definitely cause conflict."

"This is a very low-class and dirty way of sowing discord."

Dumbledore, who was sitting in front of them, nodded slightly and said "hmm", acknowledging Percy's statement.

Dumbledore remained silent, not because he wanted to protect Vagado or anything like that, but because the biggest victim in this matter was the Institute of Magic, so he didn't need to spend too much energy and just needed to add fuel to the fire.

"Rita," he said to a Western reporter in a voice that no one else could hear, "you know a friend in a Japanese newspaper, right?"

Skeeter immediately said, "I met one two years ago when I was interviewing a fraudster about his deeds."

Dumbledore simply nodded, and Skeeter understood what he meant.

For Rita Skeeter, there is no challenge in making trouble in the UK. It is only when she can make trouble in a foreign country that she feels a sense of accomplishment.

(End of this chapter)