Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 444 The Guests Arrive
"Snapped!"

A slap hit Charles on the back.

“Hahahaha, thank you!”

Qiu Zhang greeted Charles with a smile at the castle gate.

That day, Daphne asked Charles who was the most beautiful girl in Hogwarts, and the first person Charles mentioned was Qiu Zhang.

This kind of gossip spread quickly among students, and the person involved naturally heard it.

Which beautiful girl wouldn't be happy to be praised by others?

If it was someone else, maybe gossip about the two of them would spread.

But this was what Charles said, and no one thought about it that way. Instead, they teased Qiu Zhang, saying that Charles put her before Hermione. Did she mean that she was Charles' elder, and Hermione and Harry had to call her grandma?
Charles said to Cho Chang, "If you want to thank me, why not buy me a drink during next Hogsmeade Week."

Qiu Zhang nodded and said, "Okay, where do you want to go?"

There is a saying among Hogwarts students that ordinary friends go to the Three Broomsticks to hang out, when they are just starting to fall in love, they go to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop for tea, and when they are passionate, they go upstairs to the Hog's Head.

Charles pretended to think and said, "How about Honeydukes?"

Qiu Zhang and the girls who came with her laughed so hard that they almost couldn't straighten their backs.

The Beauxbatons and Durmstrang teams were about to arrive, and after a while of chatting and laughing, everyone went to their respective house teams.

Charles was soon surrounded by several people.

Fred said to him seriously, "Charles, you should teach us how to talk to girls."

George also said: "Professor Smith, please guide us!"

Katie Bell, a female member of the Quidditch team, also said: "You can also teach us how to chat up handsome guys."

Another girl, Alicia Spinnet, said, "Yes, like Diggory."

Charles said seriously: "It's not difficult. Sincerity is the greatest killer skill."

At this time, Professor McGonagall came over and asked everyone to line up. Arya whispered to Fred, "I think it's better to learn from Mr. Smith."

Several people around saw Professor McGonagall wearing a pair of earrings that had never appeared before, and they couldn't help but nod their heads.

Charles was a little depressed.

I wanted to ask Dumbledore what was going on a while ago, but McMeow happened to pass by and Dumbledore remembered that he had some unfinished work.

Write a letter specifically to ask the old man?
I don't dare to do that. If the old man gets shy, he will be struck by lightning. I can only pretend to talk about it casually when we meet and chat.

The time was almost up and the students lined up in the cold wind, waiting for the guests to arrive.

The first to arrive were the Durmstrang team.

A strange sound came from the lake not far away, and a huge whirlpool appeared in the lake. An ancient sailing ship slowly rose from the whirlpool.

When the boat stopped, many people ran to the side and looked down.

Lavender Brown asked in confusion, "What are they looking at?"

Harry said, "When we went to Kodos Dorez in the spring, our boat came up from underwater and wrecked their boat."

The students of Durmstrang dropped the anchor only after they saw that there was nothing underwater.

The twenty or so students and Headmaster Karkaroff who came from the lake were all wearing fur cloaks and fur hats, looking very burly.

Karkaroff and Dumbledore greeted each other, and when they heard that the Beauxbatons team had not arrived yet, they decided to wait together, and then the students they brought with them stood together with the Hogwarts students.

Neville nudged Dean with his arm and whispered, "Look, that girl's eyes are red." Dean also said, "Her face is so white, even whiter than Malfoy's. It's a bit scary."

Hermione in front of them said, "She could be a vampire. I saw a vampire during the summer vacation. His skin was the same as hers."

"Hey, why is she here?"

Ron turned to her and said grimly, "Maybe she found out that you are very smart, and she will become smarter if she sucks your blood."

Hermione believed it, shuddered, and shook her head, saying, "Let her suck Charles' blood. Charles is smarter."

"Uh……"

They saw Charles and the vampire girl hugging each other and they seemed to be very familiar with each other.

Seamus said to them, "You forgot that Charles also has a pen pal in Durmstrang."

Hermione said in surprise, "But she's a vampire!"

Seamus shrugged and said, "So what if he's a vampire? Charles is a brother to the centaurs."

After he said this, everyone suddenly understood.

Compared to centaurs, vampires are easier for people to accept, at least they have two legs.

"Yeah." Ron nodded, "Charles has a good relationship with the Veela, too."

Parvati asked cautiously, "Does Charles dislike humans?"

Everyone was silent.

Hermione gritted her teeth and said, "It's very likely."

Charles said to Erica, "Why didn't you tell me when you wrote to me last month that you were coming?"

Erica laughed and said, "I'm going to give you a surprise."

Charles pinched the clothes on her arm and said like an old man: "Are you wearing enough clothes? Don't think it's not cold here as it is in Durmstrang. If you don't have enough clothes, I'll buy you two sweaters tomorrow."

Erica was there, grinning.

Lavender turned to look at Hermione and said, "I think you're going to have a new sister."

The people around him nodded. Viktor Krum didn't know why they did that, but he nodded along with them.

It was then that everyone realized that Krum had come over to the side without them noticing, and Fred and George were squeezing in here.

Krum extended his hand to Hermione and said, "Hello Miss Granger, we meet again."

Lavender and Parvati's eyes widened at once. Everyone knew that Charles had a wide range of friends, but no one expected that Hermione knew Krum.

Hermione shook hands with him calmly, feeling a little curious. She hadn't told him her name when she was setting up the stall that day, so how did he know it?
At this time, Beauxbatons team also arrived.

Twelve silver-maned flying horses as big as elephants pulled a carriage that looked like a small castle and landed on the lawn of Hogwarts, scaring the students in the front rows back.

A boy came out and lowered the spiral staircase of the carriage. Madame Maxime got off the carriage and exchanged greetings with Dumbledore, and then said a few words to Professor Delacour.

About twenty students from Beauxbatons got off the car behind, all wearing a sky blue woolen cloak.

Many people were not used to the cold air after coming out of the warm carriages. Someone told Furong that it was a good thing she reminded them to put on cloaks, otherwise they would have been very cold wearing only school uniforms.

Charles stared at the carriage door until the twenty or so students, aged seventeen or eighteen, got off the carriage and the last student who went out closed the door.

Where's Gabrielle?!
Charles was shocked. Wasn't it agreed that Gabrielle and the other elementary school students would come as well? Why weren't they there? !

(End of this chapter)