The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

"Hey! Is that Krum?"

"Merlin's beard! That's Krum!"

"Damn it! I don't even have a quill on me!"

"I have lipstick! I want him to sign my chest shirt!"

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As the strong man behind Karkaroff took off his furry hat and saluted Dumbledore, the entire Hogwarts team was shocked.

Several students have even taken out lipstick, markers and other things to ask for signatures.

It's a pity that Magna's gaze, which was so cold that it could almost freeze people, still firmly trapped them in place.

"Who is that guy?"

Seeing the commotion of the crowd around her, Emily asked in confusion.

Link replied:

"The Seeker of the Bulgarian national team, we met him at the Quidditch World Cup."

"Oh, really? I didn't notice that they Bulgarians all look the same. It's really hard to tell them apart."

"Actually, I feel the same way. After all, each of them has the same strong physique, and they all like to have similar hairstyles and wear similar styles of clothes."

Hearing this, Emily nodded in agreement. She felt that Link really hit the point.

Then the two discussed this issue for a while, until the crowd at Hogwarts and Durmstrang students began to rush into the auditorium. Emily and Link looked at Professor McGonagall's almost murderous eyes. They parted ways and each returned to the team of their own college.

In the auditorium, the Beauxbatons students had already chosen their seats and were seated in advance.

Well, they chose Hufflepuff's long table.

After returning to the warm auditorium, these thinly dressed Beauxbatons students finally stopped shivering.

But they seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the rather classical decoration style of the Hogwarts auditorium. Everyone had a slight look of disgust on their faces and looked unhappy.

The only exceptions are the half-Veela sisters Fleur and Gabrielle.

They were staring expectantly at the team gradually pouring into the auditorium, as if they were looking for something.

This gave Link suddenly a bad feeling.

He turned his head and glanced in the direction of the Slytherin team, and sure enough he saw Emily staring at Fleur with a cold look on her face.

As if sensing Link's gaze, Emily turned back and gave Link a warning look.

Link immediately gave Emily an OK gesture, and then followed Cedric and the others to sit down with the Beauxbatons students.

On the other side, the Durmstrang students who were standing in the foyer and hesitated for a long time without deciding where to sit were invited by Draco to the Slytherin table.

This made many people from other colleges in the auditorium sigh heavily.

Due to the presence of foreign guests, the already shy and honest Hufflepuffs became even more nervous.

They had a tacit understanding and cleared a large space for the Beauxbatons students, and then they crowded together in silence. The girls stared intently at their shoes, while the boys would look up from time to time with blushes and heartbeats. He glanced at Furong secretly, and then quickly lowered his head, looking extremely embarrassed.

John can be said to be the only weirdo in Hufflepuff.

He completely ignored Fleur's charm ability inherited from Veela, and forced his way into the middle of the Beauxbatons team under the surprised and dissatisfied gazes of the Beauxbatons students.

Then he stretched his neck and looked towards the Slytherin table with an excited expression - the position he was currently in was the only seat on the Hufflepuff side where he could see Krum clearly.

But Link thought he might be disappointed.

Because Krum and the Durmstrang students acted like country bumpkins who had just entered the city from the countryside. After taking off their heavy fur cloaks, their eyes shone and they began to look up at the twinkling stars. Two guys even picked up the golden dinner plates and goblets on the table and studied them intently, even ignoring the Slytherin students talking to them.

"These Beauxbatons guys don't seem to be very friendly to us."

Cedric followed Link and sat in a remote corner, then whispered to Link.

After hearing this, Link looked up and saw that Beauxbatons students were gathered together in twos and threes, biting their ears, and looking at John and other Hufflepuffs sarcastically from time to time.

With the extra-sensory spell, Link could clearly hear them talking about the vulgarity of Hogwarts students.

He nodded and said quietly:

"It's understandable, after all, they are from France. Maybe in their eyes, Hogwarts is as simple as a country castle, and we are just a group of country people living in the castle."

"What's the use of being fancy? These guys are all fake. I dare say they will surrender as soon as the Triwizard Tournament begins!"

"I agree with this. Surrender is also one of their traditions."

Hearing this, Cedric was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

Obviously, he also knows something about this Muggle thing.

While Link and Cedric were chatting, all the students took their seats one after another.

The teachers and staff who had disappeared before entered the auditorium one after another at this time and sat on the newly decorated guest seats.

As the three most senior people at this dinner, Dumbledore, Maxim and Karkaroff walked at the back.

As soon as the Beauxbatons students saw Madam Maxime entering, they immediately stood up respectfully.

Many Hogwarts students couldn't help laughing when they saw this, but they were not embarrassed at all. It was not until Ms. Maxim sat down on Dumbledore's left hand side that she sat down again.

In comparison, Durmstrang's students were lacking in etiquette.

No matter how Karkaroff hinted with his eyes, they ignored it and continued to play with the exquisite dinner plates in front of them.

This caused Karkaroff's entire face to darken.

"Good evening, gentlemen and ladies!" Dumbledore said with a smile, "It is with great joy that I welcome you to Hogwarts. I hope and believe that you will feel happy here."

Hearing this, several Beauxbatons girls sneered sarcastically.

This made even the most honest and hospitable Hufflepuffs around couldn't help but frown.

Dumbledore seemed not to notice what was going on here and directly announced the start of the banquet.

As soon as he finished speaking, the plates in front of everyone were immediately piled with various foods as before.

Durmstrang's students were startled, and some even threw away their knives and forks.

"I bet the house elves in the kitchen must have spent a lot of money this time!" Cedric said, looking at the food in front of him, "I have never seen such sumptuous food in all my years at Hogwarts! "

Link nodded in agreement. Today's dishes were indeed improved by more than one level than usual, almost catching up with Forlì Castle.

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The most rare thing is that there are several foreign dishes here, such as Provence fish soup and red wine roasted chicken.

Normally this would not cause any problems, but today there are French people among the distinguished guests to be entertained!

People come all the way from France, and yet you let them eat French food.

Is this really good?

Link couldn't help but glance in the direction of the Beauxbatons students, and then he was stunned.

Because Fleur and Gabrielle were also looking in his direction, their eyes met.

An expression called surprise bloomed on the faces of the sisters in an instant. They stood up without hesitation, and then walked quickly towards this side under Link's desperate eyes.

"Hello, can we sit here?"

They asked Cedric and another Hufflepuff freshman who were sitting next to Link very politely.

The freshman's face suddenly turned red, and he ran away without even having time to swallow the chicken in his mouth.

As for Cedric, he quickly came to his senses after the initial surprise.

He gave Link a meaningful smile, and then gracefully gave up his seat.

As a result, Link was sandwiched between the Delacour sisters.

"Long time no see, Link! How have you been lately?"

Fleur said softly, and Gabrielle also said hello to Link very politely.

Link said helplessly:

"Ah, it was pretty good, until you two sat down next to me."

Fleur and Link had spent a lot of time together, so she naturally knew what Link was referring to.

She gloated and secretly glanced towards the Slytherin table, then smiled evilly and moved her chair closer to Link.

"Do you have to do this?"

Link said quietly.

Fleur made a face, whispered into Link's ear:

"Of course, you also know that I am a quarter of Veela blood, and doing this is a unique Veela pleasure!"

Hearing this, Link closed his eyes in pain.

He knew very well that Fleur was not lying at all. The other party did not do this because she liked him, but purely out of her own bad taste.

The sisters Fleur and Gabrielle look pink and charming, but they are definitely black when cut open.

He could almost picture Emily rolling her eyes in his direction now.

With a heavy sigh, Link turned his grief and anger into appetite, and devoted himself to the meal.

But Fleur and Gabrielle obviously didn't intend to let him go just like that.

Throughout the meal, they kept expressing their opinions and inquiries to Link about the food. Some of the dishes were clearly French, but they would ask how to eat them, which made Link very painful.

The only thing that made Link a little bit lucky was that Gabrielle didn't call him any other secondary titles like Phantom Knight, otherwise Link would have been embarrassed to find a hole in the ground to burrow down.

Not only him, but also the other Hufflepuffs nearby were not in the mood to enjoy this extra-standard sumptuous meal.

They ate the food one bite at a time, but their eyes were fixed on Fu Rong.

From time to time, there would be jealous and envious eyes glaring at Link among the Yingying Yanyan, who seemed to be completely fascinated by Fleur's charm ability.

After finishing the last dessert, Dumbledore finally stood up again.

Everyone in the auditorium immediately became quiet, looking at him nervously and excitedly.

Link suddenly noticed that there were two people around Dumbledore, namely Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr., old acquaintances he had met at the Quidditch World Cup.

Link's eyes immediately narrowed.

Until now, he had some suspicions that Old Barty sent someone to rescue Little Barty. If there was a spy within the Ministry of Magic, Old Barty was obviously the biggest suspect.

"The moment has finally arrived," Dumbledore said with a smile on his face. "The Triwizard Tournament is about to begin. Before that, please allow me to introduce two special guests, the Director of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Magic, Barty... Mr. Crouch. And Mr. Ludo Bagman, Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sports at the Ministry of Magic!”

Old Batty and Bagman stood up and waved, and everyone in the audience also gave a sparse round of applause.

Link keenly noticed that compared to Bagman, Old Barty's movements when he stood up were obviously much stiffer.

It was obvious that old Barty was still injured from the previous revenge attack by Kled and the others.

This made Link laugh happily.

"Mr. Bagman and Mr. Crouch have worked tirelessly over the past few months to arrange the Triwizard Tournament," Dumbledore continued. "They will join me, Professor Karkaroff and Mark Together with Ms. Sim, we will form a panel of judges to judge the efforts of the warriors. Mr. Filch, please bring up the box."

Upon hearing the word warrior, Link could clearly feel Fleur beside him stiffen.

He slowly turned his head and saw that almost all the muscles in Furong's body were tense, looking extremely nervous.

"What, you really want to become a Beauxbatons champion?"

Link said with a smile, but Fleur didn't reply and just glared at Link.

She knew this was Link's revenge for her previous actions.

"We have officially decided on the specific projects for this year's Triwizard Tournament." Dumbledore said slowly, and Filch took the opportunity to emerge from the shadows and placed an antique wooden box inlaid with jewelry. On the table in front of Dumbledore, "There are three projects in total, which will be carried out at different times throughout the school year. They will test the warriors' magical talents, courage and reasoning ability in many different aspects, as well as their ability to overcome dangers. !”

"I believe you already know that only three warriors can represent their respective schools in the competition." Dumbledore continued, "We will rate them based on their performance in each competition event. After all events are completed, The hero with the highest score will deserve the Triwizard Cup. The person responsible for selecting the warriors is an absolutely fair selector, which is the Goblet of Fire."

Having said this, Dumbledore pulled out his wand and tapped three times on the wooden box in front of him.

Then the lid of the box creaked open, and Dumbledore took out a rough hand-carved wooden cup. A blue-white flame was beating inside the cup.

Dumbledore carefully placed the Goblet of Fire on the lid of the wooden box so that everyone could see it clearly.