Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 391 The conspiracy behind it

At exactly twelve o'clock, the remaining three teams all came out of the competition venue and submitted their works.

The audience has been feeling very bored these days. Apart from the battle just now, the only thing that can arouse their interest is Charles' cooking show.

Now we have finally come to the scoring stage, and there will be a play-off match later, which will be quite interesting.

The judging panel is composed of the principals of the four participating schools and five additional guest schools, with the participating schools avoiding their own teams.

There are ten potions, each with a full score of ten. After the judges give their scores, they will remove the highest and lowest scores and then take the average, calculating to three decimal places.

The members of the Hogwarts team were extremely nervous. Joyce, Ashford and Qiu Zhang, three girls from the pharmacy group, huddled together. Cedric looked calm but kept shaking his feet. Percy combed his hair with his hands every thirty seconds.

The situation among the members of the action team was not much better. They kept discussing various possibilities, but there was one person missing among them.

After Charles came out, he and Rita Skeeter ran to the side. It looked like they were interviewing someone, but their eyes kept looking towards the students of the magic institute.

The two of them whispered for a while, then Skeeter went to where the students of the magic institute were seated and began to interview them.

"What do you think of Vagadu pretending to be a magic house?"

"Will you cause trouble for Vagadou outside the stadium?"

"Will you cast unpleasant spells on the students of Uagadou out of revenge?"

“If you attack students from Uagadou, will you be punished by the school?”

"If this matter had not been discovered and exposed, would you have committed seppuku?"

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Charles admired Skeeter in his heart. He thought Skeeter was a real British man. He still had to learn the skill of sowing discord.

Tadao Takashima is currently grading potions and has no time to pay attention to those young people.

The hot-blooded students were originally just sulking, waiting for the principal's decision, but after a few questions, they became excited and began to discuss the possibility of revenge on Wagadu.

The professor in charge of the magic institute noticed that the students were in a bad mood and immediately spoke to comfort them.

However, the appeasement did not achieve the desired effect, but instead aroused the young people's traditional Japanese skills - rebellion and going it alone.

Several senior students looked at each other and then said they wanted to go to the temporary bathroom together.

The professor of the School of Magic knew that they were going to cause trouble, but he had no reason to stop them from going to the bathroom, so he could only wave his hand and let them go.

At this time, the students of Vagado were in chaos. Some accused others of leaking information, some accused a student of not shielding the surveillance owl properly, and a student who was responsible for monitoring the movements of the magic team was also blamed for failing to issue an early warning. For a while, the blame was flying everywhere.

No one noticed that a green beetle the size of a fingernail flew to the side, landed on the ground, then crawled among the crowd and released some colorless and odorless gas under the chairs.

Not long after, the students of Ugadu suddenly felt their stomachs rumbling and their sphincters acting up.

Not all teams have members like Charles who have cooking skills. They just make do with what they eat, and it is hard to say whether it is hygienic or not.

So, a group of people stood up and ran towards the temporary toilet in the distance.

The temporary toilet was located in a remote place, surrounded by trees that blocked the view, and there was basically no one there. The students from the School of Magic who had arrived earlier had already ambushed here.

The students of Vagado did not expect that they would be ambushed, and they all ran to the temporary restroom. As soon as everyone went in and closed the door, the students of the Institute of Magic immediately appeared.

Half a minute later, the temporary toilet exploded, and more than a dozen toilets flew into the blue sky with the passengers on them, accompanied by bursts of terrified roars.

Then the toilet dived and dropped a bomb on the pit, and the person on top of the toilet was naturally hit.

The tentacle octopuses reappeared, surrounding the pit and grabbing and throwing back anyone who came up.

"It's your own fault." Valentina glanced over there and ignored him, continuing to stuff snacks into Charles' hands.

She made a dessert called "Chak Chak", which was somewhat like shachima, made of flour, eggs, vodka, roasted almonds, honey and a lot of sugar, and kneaded into a small ball.

Charles and Louis Manz, two Western Europeans, thought the dessert was too sweet, but Lily Smith from the United States thought it was good, and the two girls began to discuss how to make desserts. Ruby liked the dessert very much, but Charles carried it for a while and found that the guy was two kilograms heavier than five days ago, so he forbade him to eat sweets.

So while everyone was chatting, Ruby kept pecking Charles' head to express her dissatisfaction.

"That's weird." Louis Manz was a little confused. "Why is Vagadou targeting you?"

It's just a competition between schools. Even if Vagadu wants to do something tricky, there's no reason for him to pretend to be from the magic school. Why not just go there himself?

"There's nothing strange about this. It has to do with international politics," Kitov said.

Manz's family was a senior official in the French Ministry of Magic. He had heard some rumors and then whispered, "I heard that some countries are dissatisfied with some of Dumbledore's actions. Those people want to replace him with Akinbade."

Kitov also lowered his voice: "If Charles hadn't exposed Vagado's affair this time, Hogwarts would have been at odds with magic, and the next competition would most likely cause a major conflict."

"Yeah." Charles nodded. "We will definitely be very angry and will not be able to swallow this."

Kitov continued his words, "Especially you and Seamus Finnigan, you will definitely go to the Institute of Magic in two years, and then the fight will be huge."

Mantz also said: "And Porter, he has a big reputation, if he gets injured it will have a big impact."

Charles nodded. If Ugadou's action was really successful, there would definitely be a huge reaction in Britain.

Moreover, Dumbledore might be blamed for this. At least some Ministry of Magic officials, such as Fudge, would privately be happy for this to happen.

Charles asked with some confusion: "Why are those countries dissatisfied with Dumbledore? Did he do anything to hinder them?"

"I've heard some rumors that it wasn't that Dumbledore did anything, but that he allowed something to happen," Manz said.

"In recent years, the proportion of wizards who were born as ordinary people has increased. They have brought new ideas and new changes."

"Some people in the International Confederation of Wizards are very disgusted with this kind of thing and hope to restrict it, but Dumbledore uses his position as president to drag this matter on."

"Akinbade is the man they chose to fight Dumbledore. In fact, he has very conservative ideas."

Charles said, "That's true. I met a friend in Uagudo before. She was doing very subversive research and had achieved results, but she was fired by Uagudo."

He thought of Catherine Clayt.

Catherine's research on human transfiguration was epoch-making, but she was expelled from school because of it because of the diehards in the school.

For a principal, it is easy to keep a student if he or she intends to do so, especially if it is just an academic conflict rather than a crime. It is easy to keep the student.

But Akinbade finally agreed to fire Catherine, which speaks volumes about his stance.

The three of them talked about the antidote for werewolves again. Charles asked Manz to talk to his family and help find a few werewolf volunteers in France.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the scoring was completed and Nikita began to announce the scores of each school.

Charles immediately returned to his seat for the Hogwarts team, waiting for the results to be announced.

"We're going to win, right?" Seamus looked nervous. "We probably will."

Charles said calmly: "There are still play-offs. Even if we are not first, we still have a chance to win if we are not far behind."

The current results cannot determine the winner, so everyone's nervousness has been slightly relaxed.

"Magic House, 97.514 points;"

“Kodos Dorez, 97.117 points;”

"Hogwarts, 96.666 points;"

"Wagadu, 92.333 points."

(End of this chapter)