The Admiral of Hogwarts

"Alright, good luck to you." After finishing breakfast, Hugo and Hermione headed upstairs to take their final exams, while Veneto left the Great Hall with them to go to the library.

Although as champions, she and Harry didn't need to take the final exams, wandering around while others were testing was obviously not a good idea.

However, this action caused Professor Flitwick a little trouble, because Professor Flitwick had to make a special trip upstairs to the library to inform Veneto that she was to meet with family at this time.

When Veneto walked into the meeting room, she immediately saw Viktor Krum in the corner of the room talking rapidly in Bulgarian with his dark-haired parents; he had inherited his father's hooked nose.

Harry, Sirius, and Mrs. Weasley were standing by the fireplace talking about something, but judging from Sirius's expression, he was probably giving him instructions.

Fleur and her family of three stood at the other end of the meeting room, speaking in French.

Veneto was somewhat surprised to see that it wasn't Hood who had come, but rather Roma and Impero, who had been summoned by Hugo not long ago.

"This is an opportunity that Hood specifically left for us. When the Ministry of Magic personnel sent the invitation letter yesterday, she said that she had now contacted your biological sisters, and then she called us over."

Roma and Impero's current identities are two Muggle-born wizards from the Italian region who had been running a restaurant on the magical commercial street in Rome, the capital of Italy.

After chatting for a while, Sirius and the others took the initiative to invite Veneto and her two sisters to tour the school, and shared some interesting things that had happened to him when he was a student.

Mrs. Weasley was here because Sirius had been sent by Headmaster Dumbledore to Norway to carry out a mission some time ago, so she was worried that Harry didn't have any family at this time, so she naturally rushed over.

Unexpectedly, Sirius was obviously more concerned about his godson than others had imagined. After receiving the news, he worked overtime to complete the task and then returned to England overnight at the first opportunity.

At least in Veneto's eyes, although Sirius had drunk some kind of beautifying potion to eliminate the dark circles and bloodshot eyes, that kind of fatigue was still obvious at a glance.

At lunchtime, the Weasley children were very happy to see their mother appear at the table.

But Ron was relatively unlucky. When Mrs. Weasley asked how the exam was, he casually said, "I couldn't remember all the names of those rebellious goblins, so I made up a few, it doesn't matter." As a result, he was nagged at for a while.

As for Hugo and Hermione, their performance in the exam was exceptionally stable. If there were no accidents, this year's final exams would basically end with all O's again.

In the afternoon, the champions' relatives, at Sirius's invitation, went to Hogsmeade together to take a stroll. Veneto took the initiative to help Harry quickly review what he had learned before, using the last bit of time.

Of course, it wasn't just the two Hogwarts contestants who chose to continue practicing at this time; the contestants from the other two schools were also practicing at this time. They didn't all appear in the Great Hall until dinner time.

Because the final exams were now over, the Great Hall became lively. Everyone was chattering about the final competition and summer vacation.

At this time, the competition judges and guests had also arrived early, for example, Hugo saw Ludo Bagman and Cornelius Fudge sitting at the teachers' table.

Bagman looked quite happy, but Cornelius Fudge, sitting next to him, had a tight face and didn't say a word. It was as if someone owed him tens of thousands of Galleons.

Due to Crouch's accident, the judge for the final competition was replaced by the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge. However, due to recent events, his relationship with Dumbledore had reached a stalemate, so when Headmaster Dumbledore entered the Great Hall, his face was not good.

Just as the British side, as the host, was all seated, Madam Maxime also led the Beauxbatons students in and sat in their respective seats.

But strangely, the Durmstrang students, who should have entered after Beauxbatons, had not yet arrived, even exceeding the agreed time by 15 minutes.

Because of this strange phenomenon, everyone in the Great Hall whispered to each other. Headmaster Dumbledore naturally noticed the problem and asked Professor McGonagall to go and see what had happened.

Seven or eight minutes later, the door of the Great Hall opened again. Professor McGonagall led a group of Durmstrang students who looked a little dejected in and sat in their respective seats.

After Professor McGonagall walked to the stage, she quickly came to Dumbledore and said something. Then Dumbledore, Madam Maxime, and Minister Fudge left their respective seats and went to the office in the back.

In an instant, the Great Hall erupted in even greater noise than before, because everyone realized that the headmaster and the Minister of Magic had gone to the back because the headmaster of Durmstrang had not appeared.

"What happened?" Hugo asked Enterprise, who was sitting on the stage, through the Admiral Network. Although Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore spoke very quietly just now, Enterprise could definitely hear what the other party said.

"Big news, Karkaroff has run away!" Sure enough, Enterprise heard something, so she told Hugo the news she had just heard. "The Durmstrang students were late just now because they were looking for the headmaster."

"What? Karkaroff ran away!" After hearing what Enterprise said, Hugo was first surprised, but quickly regained his composure.

In fact, he had always felt that Karkaroff would definitely run away after Voldemort returned, but the question was when he would run.

After all, Karkaroff was considered one of the core Death Eaters back then, but in order to avoid being punished when Voldemort first fell, he sold out all the Death Eaters he knew.

In this way, Hugo felt that even Mad-Eye Moody, this kind of Dark Wizard nemesis, was not ranked as high as a traitor like Karkaroff on Voldemort's must-kill list.

For Voldemort, he had to kill Karkaroff with the most cruel means, because only in this way could he form the strongest memory for those restless subordinates and let them understand that his return this time was as strong as before.

Karkaroff naturally knew this, which is why he had rushed to Snape so anxiously before to show the tattoo on his arm and ask what to do next.

However, judging from the fact that he was hunted down by Voldemort for several months before being killed in the original text, Karkaroff was a very cunning guy, so choosing to run away at this juncture just shows his keen sense in this regard.

Obviously, Karkaroff should have taken advantage of this safe time hiding in Hogwarts to make all the preparations for running away, and then took advantage of the opportunity when everyone was in chaos before the third competition to run away directly.