The Mightiest Badger at Hogwarts

"I'll wait for you inside."

Fleur whispered in Link's ear, then let go of her hand and quickly walked into the small room next door.

During this whole process, the few applause and applause in the auditorium also disappeared.

Everyone was looking at Furong and Link in great shock, and some of the resentful looks originally directed at Furong were transferred to Link.

In fact, even Dumbledore and Ms. Maxim in the faculty seats had thoughtful and complex expressions.

Link didn't dare to look at Emily's reaction at this time. He silently threw the remaining half of the pumpkin pie into his mouth and chewed it hard.

"When did you get along with her?"

John popped up at the right moment and asked softly, with a mean expression.

Not only him, but a lot of people including Cedric and Rove were curiously waiting for his answer.

But Link still didn't speak, and just gave them the internationally accepted gesture of contempt.

puff! ~

The flames in the Goblet of Fire turned from blue to red again, and a note was spit out.

This sound successfully drew everyone's attention.

Dumbledore looked at the content on the note, and a bright smile appeared on his face.

He took a deep look in the direction of Link, then raised the note high and said:

"Hogwarts Champion! Link Foley!"

In an instant, all the complex glances around Link disappeared, replaced by deafening cheers.

Every Hufflepuff student was screaming and stamping their feet. Hagrid on the staff seat was desperately pulling on a skinny old man next to him and roaring, as if to introduce his relationship with Link. , even Snape had an almost imperceptible smile on his lips.

Link had no time to join in the celebration. He nimbly dodged the open arms of John and others, and walked through the crowd toward the small room as if running away.

The small room next to the auditorium seemed to be a place similar to a trophy room. The walls on both sides were covered with various magical portraits, and in the innermost part was a burning fireplace.

When Link entered the auditorium, the faces in the portraits all turned to look at him.

When they saw that Link was wearing a Hogwarts school uniform, these magical portraits also cheered like the people outside.

Fleur and Krum were both gathered around the fire, with some distance between them, and both remained silent, as if they were guarding against each other.

Hearing the sound of Link coming in, both of them turned around. Among them, Fleur was even happier than those portraits, jumping up and down and trying to pounce on Link again.

Link would not let her succeed this time. With a move of his fingers, two obstacle-heavy curses blocked Fleur in front of him.

"What are you doing?"

Link said angrily, "Do you know what people outside are thinking about me now? I have a fiancée!"

Furong was stunned for a moment, and the hazy mist covered her pair of bright silver eyes again.

"I, I'm just too happy," she lowered her head, wrung her hands together and said aggrievedly, "Yes, I'm sorry."

This scene reminded Link of the previous disappointing scene in the auditorium where Fleur was alone and wanted to celebrate but couldn't find her partner. His expression softened slightly and he sighed:

"Okay, okay! I'll forgive you this time! But you have to go with me to explain to Emily later!"

As soon as these words came out, the mist in Furong's eyes dissipated, and she immediately put on a smiling face. She stepped forward excitedly, grabbed Link's arm with both hands, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, nothing will happen. I just told her that this is our French custom, and you know how passionate the French are."

At this time, Link naturally knew that the other person's disappointment just now was most likely just a show of pity to him. He gritted his teeth, shook off Fleur's hand, and went to the fireplace to start warming himself.

The scene in the auditorium just now scared him into a cold sweat.

Krum, who was leaning on the mantelpiece next to him, opened and closed his mouth slightly, looking like he was hesitating to speak, as if he wanted to join in the lively chat between him and Fleur.

But after a while, he said to Link with some difficulty:

"Hello."

The accent is very strange, and this is another person who doesn't understand English.

Link made a judgment in his mind and simply nodded to Krum. He had not forgotten John's revenge.

Fleur leaned over again with a playful smile.

This time she was smarter and did not have physical contact with Link rashly, but she still got very close to him and was chattering from the side.

It could be seen that she was still very excited inside, so she wanted to vent it out in this way.

Link reluctantly dealt with her. After a while, there was a noise at the door.

Harry poked his head and walked in from the door, his already pale face looking even paler in the light of the fire.

Link's expression immediately turned gloomy.

"What? Do they want us to go back to the auditorium?"

Fleur said to Harry with a smile on her face, thinking that Harry was the messenger.

This made Harry a little embarrassed.

His eyes involuntarily drifted toward Link, the person he was most familiar with in the room, but they happened to meet Link's face that looked particularly gloomy in the shadows.

This made Harry freeze suddenly.

There was another burst of panicked footsteps outside. Bagman grabbed Harry's arm and pulled him from the position blocking the door to the center of the room.

"This is amazing! Two gentlemen, and this lady," he looked very excited, rubbing Harry's arm and said to the three Links, "Although this seems incredible, please allow me to introduce it. , this is the fourth warrior of the Triwizard Tournament!"

He repeated it again in Bulgarian, which made Krum's expression, who finally understood, instantly turned uglier than Link's.

Fleur beside her shook her long hair (Link felt a gust of fragrant wind coming over her. The hair almost hit him in the face.), smiled sweetly and said:

"Oh! What a funny joke, Mr. Bagman."

"A joke?" Bagman looked a little confused. He shook his head and said, "No! No! Absolutely not. Harry's name just sprayed out from the Goblet of Fire."

"This is obviously a mistake! He can't compete, he's too young!"

Fleur was still reluctant, but as soon as she finished speaking, the door to the room was pushed open again.

Dumbledore and other principals and professors all entered the room.

"Ms. Maxim! They said this little boy is going to compete too!"

Fleur said loudly as if she had seen a savior.

Maxim also took two quick steps and came to Fleur's side. She looked extremely angry, and her huge breasts in black satin clothes were rising and falling violently.

"What does that mean? Dumbledore."

Maxim said with suppressed anger.

Her unusually burly body cast a huge shadow under the reflection of the fireplace, shrouding Dumbledore and the others opposite, looking extremely terrifying.

"I want to know this too, Dumbledore." Karkaroff also said in a strange tone, "Hogwarts can have two warriors? I don't remember anyone telling me this? Could it be that I can read those regulations? Not careful enough?"

"This is impossible,"

Ms. Maxim's big hand with many gorgeous opal rings rested on Link's shoulder very naturally, "Hogwarts cannot have two warriors. This is not only unfair to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. , and it’s unfair to Link. This honor should belong to him alone!”

Ms. Maxim acted as if she was very close to Link, but her behavior seemed a bit like trying to sow discord.

Therefore, Link frowned and shook off the big hand very simply.

At this time, Snape stood out from the shadows. He locked Harry with his snake-like eyes and said coldly:

"I agree with this. Harry must not participate in the Triwizard Tournament. This is unfair to everyone."

"Thank you, Severus."

Dumbledore said decisively, which made Snape shut his mouth again, "Harry, have you asked your older classmates to help you throw their names into the Goblet of Fire?"

"no!"

Harry answered without a trace of hesitation, but Snape, who followed closely behind, sneered again:

"Who will believe you? A habitual criminal who likes to lie!"

Next, Karkaroff and Snape started to cynicize Harry like a double act. During this period, Ms. Maxim would also interject one or two words from time to time.

The main meaning is still that Harry cannot participate in the Triwizard Tournament.

But this is definitely not possible.

Because everyone present knows that the way the Goblet of Fire selects warriors is to sign a magical contract. Once this magical contract is signed, the selected warriors must participate in the competition, and there is no retreat at all.

Therefore, the reason why Karkaroff and Maxim behaved so violently was actually just to seek compensation from Dumbledore by exerting pressure.

This kind of compensation can allow both of them to have one more warrior participate in the competition, or their warrior can enjoy certain preferential treatment during the game.

Unfortunately, judging from the current situation, Dumbledore is not prepared to give anything.

After all, Link, Krum and Fleur have also signed the Goblet of Fire contract and must participate.

Since this Triwizard Tournament is destined to be held, there is no need to meet the demands of Karkaroff and Maxim.

After understanding this, Link turned his attention to Harry and Barty Crouch Sr., who had been silent.

At this time, Harry was so excited that his whole body was shaking, and his eyes were still shining with anger, and his main eyes were on Snape and Karkaroff.

Of course, Link figured that Harry now had a touch of hatred for everyone in this room, including himself.

After sighing, Link stood up directly and said:

"The Goblet of Fire was indeed tampered with, so Harry became a warrior. But I believe that this person will definitely not be Harry!"

As soon as these words came out, the quarrels in the room stopped immediately.

Everyone was looking at Link with a look of unknown meaning.

After a long time, Dumbledore said:

"What do you know?"

"The confusion spell was used on the Goblet of Fire by a very advanced confusion spell. This directly caused the Goblet of Fire to mistakenly believe that there were four schools participating in the Triwizard Tournament this time. And the extra leather school only had Harry Potter a student, this will ensure that Harry Potter becomes a warrior."

Link walked to the middle of the crowd and said solemnly, "But it is absolutely impossible that Harry did it! Because he simply cannot cast such an advanced confusion spell."

Hearing this, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall nodded. Although the expressions of Karkaroff, Maxim and others beside them did not change, they had to admit that what Link said made sense.

As for Harry, he was almost crying at this time, and the look he looked at Link changed from the initial complaint to gratitude.

Thank God!This is the only person who believes in him tonight!

"If it wasn't Harry who did it, then who could it be?"

Ludo Bagman rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.

This brought everyone's attention back to Link.

"It's easy to speculate, isn't it?" Link chuckled. "Although you claim that the Triwizard Tournament has been restructured and the danger has been greatly reduced. But no one will be surprised if one or two warriors die in it. Bar?

I think that guy with ulterior motives wanted to take advantage of the Triwizard Tournament to get rid of Harry, right? "

After finishing speaking, Dumbledore and others all changed their expressions.

Link's gaze slowly swept over the faces of everyone present.

Just now, he didn't tell what happened last night when Arkham stayed in the Goblet of Fire all night.

This means that the Goblet of Fire can only be tampered with before it is transported to Hogwarts.

During this period, the only people who came into contact with the Goblet of Fire were the three headmasters and Ludo Bagman and Barty Crouch Sr. from the Ministry of Magic.

The mastermind behind the scenes is among these people!

"Okay, I will report this matter to the Ministry of Magic and continue the investigation." Dumbledore said to everyone, "But as far as the Triwizard Tournament itself is concerned, we now accept the result that four warriors will participate this time. so……"

"Ah, but Dumbledore..."

"My dear Madam Maxime, if you have another solution, I am all ears."

Dumbledore waited, but Maxim didn't speak for a long time, just staring angrily.

There are many people who are dissatisfied with this result.

Snape became even more angry, but Link didn't mean it. Snape, a sharp-tongued guy, had seen through the nature of this matter from the beginning. His previous words were also intended to prevent Harry from participating in the competition. Into the trap.

It's a pity that he failed and made a mess.

The only thing that surprised Link was that although Karkaroff didn't look good, he was very calm.

This was not in line with his initial arrogance.

"Okay, let's continue?" Ludo Bagman looked very excited. He rubbed his hands and said, "We're going to give guidance to our warriors, right? Barty, you do the talking?"

Old Barty Crouch, who had been hiding in the shadows, raised his head as if he had just woken up from deep meditation.

It was only now that Link took a closer look that he realized that although it had only been a few months, old Barty had obviously become much weaker and older, and his whole person was languid.

He said to Link and others like a zombie:

"The first project is to test your courage. Dare to face the unknown is an important quality for a wizard, so we are not going to tell you what it is."

"The first project will be carried out on November 24th. During the project, the warriors are not allowed to ask for or accept any help from their teachers. The only weapon in your hands is your own wand. After the first project is over, We will tell you about the second event. In addition, because the competition is very demanding and lasts a long time, the warriors will not take the school year exam."

"Well, have a good race."