Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 516 Back to Hogwarts
At noon, Harry and the others came to the foyer after finishing the terrifying secret meeting with the Blast-tailed Whelks... and saw a large group of students crowded in front of the marble stairs, forming a circle.

A new notice was posted on the bulletin board there.

The crowd was crowded together like sardines, and Harry and the others couldn't get close at all. Only Ron, relying on his tall stature, stood on tiptoe, passed over the heads of the students in front, and read the words on it aloud to the two of them:

【Top Ten Tournament】

[Representatives of Beauxbaton and De Shepherd Strong will arrive at 10pm on Friday, October 30.The afternoon class will end half an hour earlier——]

"FK!"

"Why not Defense Against the Dark Arts...we need to skip this class!" Harry complained dejectedly.

Hermione rarely refuted, and it seemed that she was also very depressed by Snape's teaching style.

Ron continued to read aloud,... Ernie MacMillan, Neville, Ginny and several other students also came over.

[The rest of the magic schools (Magic Shrine, Vaggadu, Castrobushe, Ilvermorny School of Magic, Ninth Office of Religious and Mysterious Affairs...) will arrive one after another from the early morning of the night to the next day... from 1:7 to [-]:[-].

At that time, students are requested to assist the school in welcoming the school on that day and the next day, as well as receiving wizard guests from all over the world... The Ministry of Magic will send Aurors and staff to assist in the process...

On the second evening, we will host a welcome dinner.And I hope that everyone will maintain politeness and demeanor in the next six months, abide by the etiquette requirements of other countries, live in harmony with our wizard guests, and exchange magic from all over the world.

Mr. Filch and Professor McGonagall will inform you of all protocol matters for the time being. 】

After Ron finished reading, he seemed to remember something, and said to Hermione with a smirk, "Hermione, it seems that your 'vomiting front' is no longer allowed... Now that you encourage the elves to strike, let alone Professor McGonagall, even Filch can swallow you alive..."

But obviously Ron's words aroused Hermione's great disgust, she rolled her eyes and ignored this guy.

Ernie from Hufflepuff College next to him muttered to himself, "It's only a week..."

He said he would have to inform Cedric Diggory as soon as possible.

Harry knew that Cedric was up for the Big Ten Tournament, too.

Ron snorted at this, "That idiot?"

"He's not an idiot. Cedric is a very good student...or is he a prefect?" Hermione still hadn't calmed down from her anger just now. When she heard Ron slandering a student like this, she immediately widened her eyes and refuted loudly.

"Hmph, excellent...I don't refute this point. He is indeed the best Hufflepuff student ever, and he actually provoked the Slytherin civil war with his appearance...I have to admire this simple-minded playboy!"

Ron became quieter as he spoke, because not only Hermione, but also many Ravenclaws and Hufflepuff witches glared at him after hearing this guy's outrageous remarks.

After he coughed twice, he felt that he had to be rescued, and quickly argued, "Personally... I really don't object to him, just... comparing all the students at Hogwarts, listing things one by one, summarizing the data... summarizing, metaphysical... in short... come to a correct conclusion..."

"What are you talking about?"

After talking a lot of useless nonsense, Ron changed the subject and said, "Cedric is really not suitable to be a Hogwarts warrior! This is not just one or two schools, but ten schools of magic..."

"And I heard that the German Shepherd Strong School of Witchcraft and Magic is allowed to teach black magic... The Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Magic even arranges for senior students to hunt and kill those vampire werewolves! Not to mention the horror stories of those East Asian schools... It is rumored that the elimination rate of the graduation exam there is almost at the level of hundreds of students picking one."

"As for Cedric... at most he's been in the Quidditch match at Hogwarts...prefect? ​​Who's not a prefect..."

Ron barely took a breath, and poured out the whole bunch of things.

"Besides, didn't you support him because he was handsome?" Ron's momentum had the upper hand, squinting his eyes and scanning the little witches around him.

"I'm sorry, I won't support others just because of their looks... Only brains, wisdom, and abilities are what I like (the Ravenclaw witch nodded slightly)." Hermione said angrily, "Then you say... who is more suitable to be this Hogwarts warrior, it can't be yourself?"

Hermione grew more and more annoyed.

The blow hit Ron in the gut, and he froze in place.

Now that the quarrel has come to an end, the attention of other students has also followed. They unconsciously divided into two camps and stood beside Ron and Hermione, having a heated debate on this topic.

A bit of pure and eerie coincidence—

Most of the girls were on Hermione's side (and some of the Hufflepuff boys were on her side), and behind Ron was a group of boys, and even Harry couldn't help but support Ron a little...

Of course, Harry's choice... had nothing to do with Cedric's beautiful girlfriend, Cho Chang.

This scene reminded many people of the time of Lockhart Girod, it was exactly the same as now...

Ron turned his head frantically. Although he couldn't name a qualified candidate for Hogwarts warriors, this did not prevent him from nodding... with an appearance of 'I just understand it'.

When the debate has reached this point, neither side can easily back down.

"George, are Fred and the others okay? These two are very popular... No, these two guys are definitely not good! Not to mention that the two often play pranks, which often cause dissatisfaction among the professors... Even in terms of strength, George and Fred may not be comparable to Cedric. After all, the test scores of these two people's [Ordinary Wizard Registration Certificate]...can only be regarded as barely passing...Is there anyone else, Wood?...No, he graduated..."

"Can Harry? According to his popularity and widely recognized rumors... No, this competition is too dangerous, even for Harry..."

But then a character popped up in Ron's mind.

Hermione was so powerful that she pressed Ron step by step, "Tell me, who do you think is the most suitable to be this Hogwarts warrior, who can lead us to pick up the trophy..."

"MacGuffin...MacGuffin Albert!"

"This is my answer. If it was him... he should be able to beat all the contestants..."

Everyone was silent now, not even Hermione.

Although Hermione muttered, McGuffin is not yet of age...something like taking a leave of absence from school now.

But judging from the silent silence of the surrounding students regardless of their age, the name of McGuffin is very deterrent in Hogwarts.

After all, from the end of last semester to now, the rumor that you ripped the dementor with your hands that night in the McGuffin has not dissipated until now...

There was an eerie silence in the hall.

No one spoke, and no one left, and it was chillingly quiet for a moment.

Then a hoarse and low voice broke the dead silence.

"I said...Ron, I'm not as good as you said. Not only am I not old enough, but I also don't plan to participate in this competition..."

"McGuffin!"

"Albert!"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione cried out in surprise, and they turned to look in the hall.

McGuffin Albert was coming from outside the hall.

He wears a very tall and weirdly pointed wizard hat, which is not too hot for this season.

Harry and the others immediately thought of those weird little Guffins, and the disaster that happened at [St. Mungo's Hospital]...

Isn't this guy so agile?

So the three rushed to meet him, trying to pull him away from here.

Avoid a week later, when all foreign students arrive at Hogwarts, they can only see a lot of bald heads, big and small, shining brightly to welcome them.

That would be a lot of fun.

In fact, there is no need for it. At the same time as the McGuffin appeared, the pile of students who had gathered here on the marble stairs... like candy cans packed with cockroaches... quietly scattered from all directions, leaving only a few in place.

"McGuffin, you guy... When did you come back, why didn't you tell us."

Harry was delighted to see McGuffin.

Between Ron and Hermione, there was less tension.

Ron even came over for a bear hug, and was short of a wet kiss on the cheek like a Soviet emperor.

McGuffin immediately rejected Ron's 'intimate move',
"Don't...don't, spare me!...don't get me too excited, I still can't control those little things...if they pop out of my head..."

The words were unclear, but Harry's trio immediately understood what they meant.

With a tense look on their faces, Ron and Hermione hugged their heads subconsciously... or it could be said that they hugged their hair.

They took a step back extremely nervously and asked, "You, haven't you been completely cured yet? How could [St. Mungo] be willing to put you back..."

"It's okay, look!"

McGuffin squeezed his hand on the edge of the temple, as if pulling out a hair, pulling a silver wire...

Then trembled, as if blowing.

The three of them were immediately surprised to see a palm-sized small Geffen suddenly appearing in the palm of their hand.

Before the other little wizards saw it, he restored it to its original shape in the same way as before.

"Under the condition of maintaining a stable mood, I can still control the situation... What's more, I don't stay in school all the time, and I have to go back to [St. Mungo] to observe from time to time..."

McGuffin spoke in an extremely low voice in front of the three of them, and the last sentence was almost inaudible.

"By the way, Hermione, thank you, the class notes you sent me... very good, very detailed... They are of great help to my self-study of the fourth grade courses."

"Okay, let's get out of here! I heard that many things in the school have been changed in the past two days... Tell me about what happened."

"That old bat Snape was the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts...you didn't know..." Ron complained immediately.

McGuffin and Harry walked towards the stairs, talking and laughing.

When McGuffin passed the marble stairs, he still greeted Neville and Ernie.

Some second and third graders along the way immediately remembered something when they saw MacGuffin, and they started to get out of the way with horrified faces.

Well, what kind of rumors have spread about him again.

McGuffin had a very bad feeling about his increasingly exaggerated special treatment.

really--

Even the announcement of the [Top Ten Tournament] that appeared in the hall could not suppress people's eager discussions about the return of the MacGuffin.

Or it can also be said... These two messages are mixed together and passed among the students... Intertwined and mutated, just like the mutation of a virus——

In the end, it turned out that McGuffin had rushed back from [St. Mungo] in order to compete for the right to compete for the Hogwarts warriors.

There are also rumors that it was McGuffin who said that if anyone stood in front of him and took the first step to participate in this competition, he would be killed, the kind that would be quartered.

Ron and George thought this rumor was very ridiculous, and they often mentioned it to themselves secretly for fun.

This turmoil...caused McGuffin to become a pure boss in school, and the students avoided while walking on the road, and even the wizards in Slytherin rarely dared to stand in front of him.

Obviously, after the rumors at the end of the third year, the Ministry of Magic... and St. Mungo's rumors, the deterrence of McGuffin has increased day by day, and it has almost become the protagonist in the kind of fairy tales that specifically scare children.

McGuffin once heard Colin Creevey use his name ... to frighten his handy brother.

Professor McGonagall also talked to McGuffin about this matter.

It is said that at this critical time when other magic schools are coming, it is impossible to show the atmosphere of bullying students in Hogwarts.

Shirley, how did this become his fault.

Although Professor McGonagall didn't say it clearly, but unexpectedly let McGuffin return to [St. Mungo] to stay for a few days.

At least, let the welcome banquet in a week go smoothly...

egg!

As if I was here, something must happen.

But McGuffin Albert looked at Professor McGonagall really looking at him with a very worried face, and he could only swallow the complaints in his heart, and hurriedly said that Professor Dumbledore still had something to tell him to do, and he probably couldn't stay at the school on the day of the welcome banquet.

This made Professor McGonagall heaved a sigh of relief.

In addition to specific advice for MacGuffins,
In other ways, too, Hogwarts was starting to behave differently than usual.

Although the magic elevator has been repaired, students and teachers are still not allowed to use it.

The hall where Hogwarts students usually eat was blocked for two or three days, and the goblin workers and wizards who came and went made it twice as large.

This time it was the size of a Quidditch pitch.

When McGuffin and the students were allowed to eat inside, they were shocked by the super-large auditorium.

Plus, there were other things that really upset Hermione.

Exactly as Ron said, at this extremely critical time, her 'House-Elf Liberation Front' was directly banned by the prefects of various Hogwarts houses, as well as representatives of male and female students of the school.

This made her yell very angrily, all the time in the McGuffin, Harry said... This is a tyrant, this is a dictatorship.

But things went on, ignoring her resentment and protests,
The house-elves began to be upright, appearing in front of the students day and night, and appearing in every corner of Hogwarts Castle.

They can be seen everywhere holding rags, casting magic to clean corridors, glass windows, oak doors, portraits, magic armor, bronze statues... even the roofs and walls outside the castle...

Of course, this dangerous activity of climbing on the eaves triggered a burst of extremely strong attacks from Hermione.

The big Hogwarts clean-up finally came to a halt when everything was wiped almost peeled off and gleaming (some of the rosy-pink portraits were particularly displeased with this act).

Then various staff members of the Ministry of Magic (including the Aurors) began to frequent the entire castle.

They made the tension between the teachers and students of Hogwarts even higher.

Especially the janitor, Argus Filch, whose temper was even worse, always throwing tantrums, which frightened the little wizards of the first year to tremble.

The Hogwarts library was also blocked, and there were often crackling noises inside, and some new magical devices were being installed... Anyway, it should be very important, and students can only borrow books through Mrs. Pince... Hermione once saw many high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Magic there.

However, after this series of actions, the only benefit was that the professors were a little distracted, and no longer cared about assigning and checking the students' homework and papers, even Professor McGonagall and Snape.

This made many students (especially Harry, Ron and Neville) feel a lot easier.

Hermione didn't think so.

(End of this chapter)