Drinking black tea calmly at Hogwarts

Since Mr. Brian Clough came to Hogwarts, all the Quidditch-loving students in Hogwarts were excited.If the four deans hadn't issued a death order to keep the students from disturbing Mr. Clough, the corridors would be filled with students looking for his autograph.

Mr. Clough called up the four House Quidditch teams to play a one-hour practice match with the Reserves each on the first two days.

While watching the game, an assistant held parchment to help him take notes.

When Dumbledore announced that Mr. Clough needed an assistant, a group of students almost fought for the spot, and they fought for the final winner after some internal competition.

Through the performance of the players in the practice match, Mr. Clough made some adjustments on the original basis of the school team.

And Zhang, who wanted to be lazy, failed to be lazy this time, and became the all-around substitute of the school team, and had to train with the team every night.

The next time is a variety of tactical drills.

At this time, technical training is useless, and it is only serious to practice more tactics.

With Zhang Xu around, the entire stadium is brightly lit, so you won’t be afraid to see the ball in the dark at night.

In this way, it will be hard for Zhang Xu.Although he doesn't need to do homework, he needs to change his homework.

So every night after training, he dragged his tired body to change his homework.

In addition to homework, he also had to toss about the organization plan of the eight schools' Quidditch competition.

For a while, Zhang Xu was so busy that he was about to fly.

During Hogsmeade Week in March, Mr. Clough gave all the team members a day off, which gave Zhang Xu time to go to his villa to chat with Fu Rong on the phone.During this time, he was so busy that he even stopped his routine phone calls at night.

Fortunately, during this period of time, both Percy and Voldemort died down. It seemed that they all knew that Dumbledore was about to leave England for a period of time, so there was no rush to make troubles.

During this short spare time, Zhang Xu strolled around Hogsmeade after talking on the phone, replenished candies at Honeydukes, had a drink at the Three Broomsticks bar, and finally decided to go to the coffee shop Lido fish cakes.

As a result, as soon as Zhang Xu entered the coffee shop, he was dragged away by a man.

"Quick, we need you now." Anthony Goldstein hurried over, pulled Zhang Xu up and ran towards the big table in the middle of the coffee shop.

During the time when Anthony followed Anthony to the "Total War" table, Anthony told Zhang Xu that the four colleges are now competing, and the losing college will ask for classes from the other three colleges today, while the few students from the Eagle College today are competing with each other. A representative did not perform well and is now at the bottom.

The representative of the Eagle Academy saw that Anthony had pulled Zhang Xu over, so he gave up his position, and Zhang Xu also took his position without hesitation.

Without further ado, the four of them started the game directly.

In front of Zhang Xu was a piece of parchment as a control panel, with various options marked on it.

I chose "random" for the terrain, and soon there was a wave of ups and downs on the desktop, forming a rugged mountainous terrain.

This kind of terrain is not suitable for cavalry operations. Unless the cavalry occupies the commanding heights and charges down like an avalanche, the cavalry climbing the mountain is not as good as the infantry, so this battle is dominated by infantry.

At this time, Zhang Xu noticed that the three opponents were flirting, and saw that they were going to deal with him together.

So in the next preparation time, Zhang Xu chose a defensive-oriented troop configuration.

After the preparation time was over, soldiers and horses from all directions began to appear on the sand table in the middle of the table as if they had grown out of the ground.

This picture is very unscientific, but it is very magical. This is a very advanced use of Transfiguration.

When all the soldiers and horses appeared, the crowd of onlookers let out exclamations of wonder.But soon, the exclamation turned into a "shameless" voice.

Because the four players sit on the four sides of the sand table, the sand table is divided into four isosceles right-angled triangles with diagonal lines, and each player can arrange his troops in the triangle in front of him.

I saw that Zhang Xu chose eight teams of pikemen with the highest defense power, eight teams of archers with the highest attack power, three teams of ordinary cavalry, and one team of the most basic cannon fodder cavalry.

Then Zhang Xu arranged all the troops on the top of the mountain in the corner of the sand table on his right, behind the top of the mountain was the edge of the sand table.The archers are in the corner, the cavalry are on both sides, and the pikemen are in a row in front, forming a triangle with no gaps with the two sides of the sand table.

This is the most shameless way of defending corners in the Total War series of games.

The other three players were also stupefied at the moment, this was the first time they had seen such a shameless way of playing.

If they don't care about Zhang Xu fighting each other, Zhang Xu can only reap the benefits in the end.

If you want to attack Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu, who has a convenient location, can let the enemies who feign the attack have a meal of arrows first, and then wait for them to hit the spear array.

Zhang Xu also took advantage of the imperfect rules now. If he played like this when playing against others in his previous life, he would have been blocked by other players.

Looking at Zhang Xu's reassuring smile, the three people on the opposite side were so angry that they wanted to pull out their wands and hit him.

After the three of them looked at each other, they began to mobilize their troops to attack Zhang Xu's hedgehog-like triangular formation.

Zhang Xu took a look at the opponent's strength. They were mainly infantry, supplemented by archers, and equipped with a very small number of cavalry.Seeing that the other party did not have a catapult, Zhang Xu was secretly relieved.

However, Zhang Xu didn't have an easy fight next time. If the opponent rushed up in a swarm, there was a high chance that he would issue a gg.

But the three opponents are not of one mind, and they have to reserve part of their troops to fight for the final victory after eliminating Zhang Xu.And the opponent is not yet proficient in this game. If he can use the skills of his troops proficiently, a tortoise shell explosion can break the pikemen's spear array.

As a result, the scene became Zhang Xu's fueling tactics against the opponent while feeding the fish cakes with small dried fish.

In the end, at the cost of losing all the cavalry who launched the counter charge, [-]% of the pikemen and half of the archers without ammunition were lost as meat shields, Zhang Xu blocked the last board charge launched by the three opponents.

After winning this game, Zhang Xu won the next two games by relying on all cavalry archers to fly kites and all cavalry to charge.

From this day onwards, Zhang Xu's games are listed as prohibited games.

After getting his college's score out of the bottom, Zhang Xu left the table with the fish cake in his arms, and sat down at the bar of the coffee shop.

After changing ginger and fish cakes, Hood put the two bills in front of Zhang Xu.

"Can I use my VIP card for a discount?" Zhang Xu asked after reading the bill.

After Zhang Xu promised to help a certain Auror office director pay the bill five times, he invited the Aurors who were on vacation to come to the coffee shop for a round of consumption for two days in a row.

Although Zhang Xu is not short of money, he still feels overwhelmed when he sees these two bills.

And how could Hood make Zhang Xu fulfill his wish? He shook his head and said to him: "Only the consumption you participate in can use your VIP card.

Not available at checkout. "

Reluctantly, Zhang Xu had no choice but to take out his money bag and put a row of gold coins on the table.After counting the gold coins, Hood put them away, and then whispered to Zhang Xu: "If you are free, go to the second floor."

"The second room on the right hand side on the second floor?" Zhang Xu looked at Hood and asked with a smile.

Hood touched Ginger and said, "Which room you want to enter is your freedom."

"En." Zhang Xu nodded, and then walked to the second floor.

Entering Hood's room was just a joke. Zhang Xu went up to the second floor and then went to the living room where he came back last time.

The reception room is open, but there is no one in it.

There was a paper bag on the tea table in front of the sofa where Zhang Xu was sitting last time, with a label attached to it.

Zhang Xu walked over and glanced at the label, and found that it said that this bag of information was for Zhang Xu as promised earlier.

Zhang Xu checked the paper bag and put it away after finding nothing unusual.Then he tore off the note, wrote the receipt on the label, and left with the paper bag.

After saying hello to Hood, Zhang Xu left the coffee shop and came to the Pig's Head Bar.

Zhang Xu, who couldn't see his face with the hood on, threw a few silver coins on the bar, and then said in a changed voice, "I want a room."

The boss behind the bar didn't look at Zhang Xu, but just took out a rusty key from a drawer under the bar and threw it on the bar.

Zhang Xu picked up the key and went upstairs directly.

I have to say that the sanitation of the rooms above the Pig's Head Bar is terrible. It took Zhang Xu several minutes to make it barely livable.

Zhang Xu sat down in front of the table in the room, lit the candles on the table, then took out the paper bag he got in the coffee shop just now, opened it and took out the documents inside.

This document is the interrogation record of the interrogation of Barty Crouch Jr. I don't know how they pried open Barty Crouch Jr.'s mouth and got a lot of useful information.

As soon as I turned to the second page, a figure suddenly appeared in the room, pulled the chair opposite Zhang Xu and sat down, and then said to Zhang Xu: "I didn't expect it to be in the Dujia Bridge Inn."

"There are no diamonds worth [-] francs here." Zhang Xu said without looking up at the file.

"I thought you would choose Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London," said the guest.

"Maybe it would be better to go to Dubai." Zhang Xu replied.

"I prefer the Maldives." The guest said after thinking for a while.

"Well, so do I." Zhang Xu nodded while looking at the document, "It's nice to rent an island and go diving without being disturbed."

"Evil rich man," said the last visitor viciously.

The two of them chatted one after another until Zhang Xu carefully read the documents in his hand.

Just as Zhang Xu put down the document in his hand, three more figures appeared in the room.

"Uh, Ms. Hood, why are you holding a camera in your hand?" Zhang Xu asked one of the three people who had just appeared.

"I thought you two were alone in the same room, and something worth taking pictures would happen." Hood said with a regretful expression, looking at Zhang Xu and Wales sitting opposite him.

"The result is really a pity." Nelson, who was standing beside Hood, also said regretfully.

Rodney also said: "We also specially set aside half an hour."

Just when Wales was about to hit someone, Zhang Xu picked up the paper bag on the table and shook it, asking them, "What the hell are you doing this time?"

"We just want to see if we can sneak into Hogwarts." Wales said directly without hesitation.

Zhang Xu put down the paper bag, pinched the center of his eyebrows and said helplessly, "Although Hogwarts' protective magic has loopholes, it cannot be broken through with just this bit of space magic."

"Fortunately, I found out early, otherwise you will have trouble. Recently, the defense of Hogwarts has been strengthened."

"Don't say you didn't see the charred corpses that were moved out of the secret passage leading to Hogwarts not long ago."

"The traps in the secret passage are so cruel," Hood asked.

"Do you think I will say it?" Zhang Xu asked back.

Regardless of the guys who tried to sneak into Hogwarts, Zhang Xu copied the document just now with an automatic quill pen, returned the original to them, and put away the attachment.

"If you want to go to Hogwarts, you can submit an application to Professor Dumbledore or Professor McGonagall. It is estimated that the chances of being approved are very high." Zhang Xu said to them, "Don't make so many tricks at this time. , in case of a misunderstanding, causing unnecessary losses would be bad for everyone.”

After speaking, Zhang Xu put on his hood, said goodbye and left.

Walking downstairs, throwing the room key back on the bar, Zhang Xu left the Pig's Head Bar.

When he was about to walk to the door of the Three Broomsticks, he found that the four of them had Apparated from the Pig's Head and were about to enter the Three Broomsticks.

After returning to Hogwarts, Zhang Xu drove directly to the principal's office.

"Those ladies might want to visit Hogwarts." Zhang Xu said to Dumbledore straight to the point.

Dumbledore knew who Zhang Xu was talking about, and after thinking about it, he asked, "Are their identities okay?"

Zhang Xu replied: "We have verified it here, and there is no problem with their identities. They are indeed from there."

Seeing that Dumbledore remained silent, as if he was thinking about something, Zhang Xu didn't interrupt him, but just put the copy of Barty Crouch Jr.'s interrogation record that he had just obtained on his desktop.

After Dumbledore came back to his senses, he picked up the document and turned two pages, then put it on the side of the desk.

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly thought of something, opened the drawer and said to Zhang Xu: "By the way, this is for you."

Then Dumbledore handed Zhang Xu a brand new roll of parchment.

Zhang Xu took the parchment and opened it, then asked in surprise: "New Marauder's Map"

"I asked Remus and Sirius to find a way to make a few new copies. I think they will be useful in the future." Dumbledore said, "You can set the password to open."

Apparently Dumbledore thought it would be useful for defending Hogwarts in the coming days, so he asked Lupine and Black to make a few more copies.

As for who gave the other copies, Zhang Xu tactfully did not ask.

For eradicating intruders, having the Marauder's Map is like entering "ck sheep wall", and intruders can be easily found.

Zhang Xu took a look at the new Marauder's Map, and saw that it had the same function as the old one. He had the idea of ​​asking Lu Ping to study it and add a color to distinguish the names of teachers and students in the school and the names of intruders.

But if Dumbledore knew that Zhang Xu was sighing in his heart at this moment, he finally didn't have to worry about being rejected when he went to the prefect's bathroom, he wondered if he would use the Elder Wand to "biu" him to death.