Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 518 Magic Schools in Various Countries ([-])

It was a gigantic carriage, or rather a small house.

It's very similar to the Japanese wizard's carriage with monster head wheels, but it's not so weird and weird, so it looks very orthodox...

It is a powder-blue carriage with complicated alchemy magic patterns carved on it,
The eight giant wheels rotate slowly, drawing two translucent golden tracks in the sky,
The carriage moved forward along the track.

In front are twelve horses waving their wings, pulling the carriage and galloping through the air,

These horses are different from thestrals, they look quite handsome, with silver light all over their bodies,

Each one is as big as an elephant.

The carriage is getting closer and closer. It skimmed over the highest treetops in the Forbidden Forest, bypassed the area attacked by Whomping Willow, and slowly circled around the tower of Hogwarts Castle. Under the light of the castle window, it slowly approached the venue here.

finally--

After a loud 'bang', the carriage landed on the open space in front of the McGuffin.

The silver-haired horse was astonishingly big, and its hooves, which were like washbasins, slammed heavily on the grass, splashing mud and forming potholes.

The huge wheels began to turn, forming a golden translucent track below, making the carriage float and not sink into the mud.

They are slowly approaching here.

The little wizards finally had a chance to observe the carriage in detail.

Hermione explained to McGuffin and the others in detail, "These horses are giant Pegasus. They were originally native to the Middle East. It is said that they have the same bloodline as unicorns and the Greek Golden Pegasus. They have the magic of levitation and movement, and can easily pull things dozens of times heavier than themselves, so they used to be the best mounts for local wizards..."

"...It's a pity that the original horse breeds there are now extinct, and only a few small groups are kept near Eastern Europe... Have you seen their big fiery red eyes? It is said that these guys live by devouring salamanders and lava ash wattle. Their eyeballs can ignite flames underwater out of thin air. You'd better not offend these violent guys."

In addition to the complicated and changing magic lines on the carriage, there is also a huge coat of arms printed on the door.

—two golden crossed wands, with three stars emerging from each.

Then, the car door creaked open.

The boy in the light blue robe carefully jumped out of the carriage, bent down, and after a while of messing around, a golden spiral staircase slowly protruded from the position near the door, grew, and spread to the ground like a plant.

Then, just like what happened in the plot...

Madam Maxim... Gracefully and slowly stepped down from the carriage.

This is a witch who also has giant blood, and is about the same size as Hagrid.

But unlike Hagrid Ruburt, who always has a beard and unkempt hair...a messy look,

Maxim was well dressed.

She has a very handsome olive-colored face, with watery eyes, glowing with some inexplicable magic light,...but the nose is slightly pointed and slightly long, which somewhat destroys this strange charm.

Her hair was tied tightly back, neatly held in place by a dazzling crystal hairpin, and she was wrapped from head to toe in an exquisite black wizard's robe (extremely ornate, made of extremely precious gold-rimmed silk)...

The headmistress of Beauxbatons was adorned with opals, pearls, and precious stones of every color.

Unlike the cheap imitations of Professor Trelawney and Rita Skeeter, these glows are extremely bright even in such a dim, no-light environment... They all look like some expensive magic jewelry, a very rich style.

Da da da!
The pure black giant high-heeled shoes stepped on the golden steps step by step.

With extremely heavy footsteps, Maxim got off the carriage.

Behind her were more than a dozen male and female students, but most of them were fifteen or sixteen-year-old witches. They were beautiful... They all looked around with curiosity, especially the magnificent and magical castle of Hogwarts, which made these young and energetic witches whisper.

In comparison, the pitifully small number of wizards... it was as if they were brought in to make up the numbers.

"Dear Madam Maxime," said Professor Dumbledore, "Welcome... welcome to Hogwarts with the students of Beauxbatons."

"Professor Dumbledore," she said in a low voice, "I hope you are well."

"Excellent, thank you!"

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Maxim took out his wand, which was almost twice as thick as ordinary people, and tapped the reins in front of the carriage.

Those giant horses snorted reluctantly, pouted their hooves and pawed a few times, then retracted their huge wings, and slowly pulled the carriage to move.

"Professor Dumbledore, where can I take care of my horse... I saw those wizards in Egypt on the way, and their vehicles occupied a lot more space than me... I have to make room." Maxim's tone was a little irritated.

"Oh, it's all right, Hagrid... our Care of Magical Creatures teacher will be over to take care of them later. He's just gone to deal with a little mess of his..." said Dumbledore.

"Then he needs to be very powerful, preferably with great strength..."

"It's okay, I guarantee that Hagrid is absolutely qualified for this job..."

While the two were talking, there was a noisy and restless voice from the young Hogwarts wizard behind.

they exclaimed.

McGuffin heard it too, and there was a very huge... thump, thump, thump... like the sound of an incomparably huge clothes vibrating, colliding with the air, and rubbing against the air.

"what is that--"

"...McGuffin, Hermione, Harry, look!" Ron shouted in amazement.

The little wizard in front of him also behaved in the same way.

No wonder—

The same direction that Beauxbaton's carriage just flew over...over the Forbidden Forest, under the full moon...a golden light is gradually approaching here, very dazzling.

Many small animals below the Forbidden Forest, owls... all kinds of birds, magical creatures... and even the centaur were frightened and ran to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Everyone looked at the golden patch above the sky——

--palace?
That's right, it was a small palace, like it was made of gold... It was slowly approaching Hogwarts, that is, the McGuffins.

The giant horses neighed uncomfortably, their wings spread high again, wisps of black smoke came out of their mouths, and sparks scattered inside.

"Damn idiot...the nouveau riche Egyptian who can only show off..." Madam Maxim's face immediately darkened, and she muttered a few words in a low voice.

That palace was...flying on the back of an incomparably huge magic carpet.

cover the sky and the moon,

Casting a shadow in the Forbidden Forest, it began to approach here continuously.

Madame Maxime was right.

It stinks of copper and money.

Although McGuffin was traveling in Egypt with the Weasleys...already knew...that the local wizarding family was surprisingly rich.

In recent years, they have made a lot of money by excavating the ruins of ancient wizards, but they didn't expect these guys to be so rich.

【Nile Temple】

From the name, one can tell that this is just a few local wizard families in Egypt... a second-rate magic education place created by combining local wizards, not a long-established and inherited... widely recognized formal magic school.

If it weren't for the disintegration of the Soviet Union a few years ago, the drastic changes in Muggle society... As a result, the [Codos Torrez] magic school in Siberia was affected, and there was no way to come here.

It is impossible for a third-rate magic school like Egypt and New Zealand...with only a few dozen to a few hundred wizard students to receive an invitation to this 'Top Ten Tournament'.

Having said that, money is still very powerful.

At least now everyone in Hogwarts, all the professors and students of Beauxbatons are stunned by these nouveau riche...the godlike temperament that doesn't treat money as money, and they don't know what to say.

The palace was built with... polished golden bricks, golden pillars, and huge golden statues.

The golden light almost blinded his eyes.

With a loud and dull sound, the huge magic carpet, together with the palace on it... landed on an open space farther away.

The students pushed and approached the palace step by step.

At this time, McGuffin saw its detailed appearance.

It was a small golden palace three stories high, about the size of a basketball court,
One floor after another, each floor is surrounded by a square corridor in the shape of a Chinese character, supported by thick pillars of Jin Guangyuyu,

On the front...towards them, there is a golden staircase and passage...directly leading.

On both sides of the passage...on the magic carpet, there are actually two emerald green rectangular pools, which are almost as long as the long passage...the bottom of the pools is sprinkled with...precious stone beads of various colors.

In front of the pool, there are two alien statues holding spears, dog-headed human body, eagle beak and wings...

They have ferocious faces, and they are not easy to mess with.

In the corridor at the back, there are more golden statues erected.

"Damn it, did they move their academy here?...It really is just some rude nouveau riche..." Madam Maxim said a few words, and then asked Dumbledore next to him.

"Professor, do you know who is in charge of the Egyptian side?"

"Sayyed...he is a modern Arab wizard, Mrs. Maxim, you'd better not call him that...he really hates it being mentioned in front of him."

"You can call him Aha... I remember people like to call him that." Dumbledore recalled carefully and said so.

At this moment, the female students behind Maxim sneezed several times and trembled, perhaps because they were wearing thin clothes.

It's no wonder...it's still very cold around Hogwarts tonight.

And the robes of these Beauxbaton witches are very thin, just a light blue silk robe... Although the blue scarves and headscarves can slightly block the cold wind, this effect is only a drop in the bucket.

"Okay, Professor Dumbledore... I don't want my students to blow the cold wind here, can I take them in to warm up their bodies? If Cornelius Fudge is here, call me out again?"

"Well, good professor, don't worry about your horse, I'll ask Hagrid to take care of it...he's very experienced with this type of creature."

"Very good, but one thing... please tell this Hagrid, except for the common volcanic ash wattle and salamander... my horses only drink single malt whiskey... otherwise these little guys will be angry."

"I'll tell him."

Afterwards, under Professor McGonagall's arrangement, the crowd at Hogwarts spread out a passage, allowing the students of Beauxbatons to walk up the stone steps together with their headmaster and enter the oak door of Hogwarts.

Not long after, the Egyptian wizards also slowly walked out of the palace along that golden passage...

They were divided into two types... Either they wore pure white wizard robes without any accessories on their bodies; or they wore simple clothes made of gold accessories... In such a blustery weather, they walked out like this, and they were shivering in the cold after a while.

"Ah, Dumbledore... my friend!"

"Aha, my friend!" Dumbledore responded.

Professor Dumbledore and this strange white-bearded old man named Syed greeted each other.

This old man is far younger than Professor Dumbledore, but he has a very strange beard,

Between the lips and the nose is a mustache with a sickle and a strong character, and the tail is slightly curled up.
Under the chin is a long beard like Dumbledore's, but the color seems to be dyed with milk, which is exactly the same white as the robe on his body.

All in all, his look is indescribable.

There is another thing I have to say, this guy has to add a modal particle at the beginning of every sentence, "Ah——"

And maybe in order to increase the feeling of friendship between each other, this guy insisted on adding everyone's name, '—— my friend! '... these few words.

The originally very standard spoken English made him say something very strange abruptly.

For example, this sentence -

"Ah, my friend, Albus Dumbledore! I saw Beauxbaton's carriage on the way!"

"... Ah, that's another friend of mine, Madame Maxime!... She should be here too, isn't she?... A carriage?... No, isn't that? Where is she now?"

Many little wizards backed away slowly amidst the dark crowd, holding back their laughter, for fear that they would laugh out loud like this and be troubled by Professor McGonagall afterwards.

After Professor Dumbledore explained briefly, Said, the headmaster of the Egyptian wizards, led his team back to the palace.

Although his performance was very ridiculous, his upstart appearance shocked many students and professors.

Moreover, McGuffin and Harry were discussing in low voices, and they could also hear that Said, a group of Egyptian wizards... In fact, they looked down on Hogwarts, Beauxbaton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and wizards in their words.

After that, perhaps what Professor Dumbledore said was right, all magic schools would not want to miss such a good opportunity to show off.

Soon many magic schools appeared one by one.

While everyone was shivering from the cold wind, another huge carriage... also rumbled from the sky.

There are faint blue will-o'-the-wisps around the car body... two terrifying strange head wheels whistled at each other, making terrible screams... Finally, they fell slowly not far from McGuffin and the others.

The heads of the strange wheels sighed twice, and after spewing out two puffs of gray and black smoke, they seemed to stick out their necks...and moved upward automatically, causing the position of the car door to slide from midair to the ground.

Then, the witch with a weird mask and traditional Japanese costume that Harry had seen before opened the slightly short door and walked out.

Her face was pale, transparent, unhuman, and lifeless.

Behind her... a wizard dressed in the same style also walked out slowly.

The little wizards gasped and stared at these strangers beyond their comprehension.

Then...the huge golden petrel also carried another group of Japanese wizards who were dressed in very different and more modern clothes...which were more in line with the expectations of ordinary Hogwarts students, and descended from the sky.

(End of this chapter)