Page 168
"Wow, such a big scene! They are obviously closer than us, so why is there such a big fuss?"
Suddenly, Harry heard a language he didn't understand. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice. It turned out to be a handsome senior he had never seen before. Judging from his skin color, he and Zhang Qiu should be from the same place.
There are only about 300 students in Hogwarts, and not many Asians among them. Maybe he knows Zhang Qiu.
When it came to Zhang Qiu, Harry mustered up the courage to squeeze next to this strange senior and greeted him:
"Hello, senior, I haven't seen you before. Are you from Ravenclaw?"
Hu Xiuwu looked with interest at the boy in front of him who was not even as tall as his chest, had a childish face and a pair of round glasses on his nose, which made him look a little weak, like a harmless little deer.
"Are you Harry Potter?"
Harry Potter's image is so special that Hu Xiuwu recognized him at the first sight. Just yesterday, Hagrid told him the story of Harry Potter over and over again, how great he is, how important he is to the wizarding world, and how he is the prophesied savior.
Hu Xiuwu said with a smile: "I am not your senior. I am here to accompany my friends to participate in the competition at Hogwarts."
"A game? What game? Quidditch?"
Normally living with his uncle's family, he didn't get to know the happenings in the wizarding world very well. Harry Potter didn't know about the Goblet of Fire yet, and he couldn't help but be surprised.
"It's not Quidditch," Hu Xiuwu wanted to say a few more words after seeing the Hogwarts legend, but he saw Zhang Lingyu waving at him from behind, as if he was about to leave.
"You will find out soon, at the banquet tonight."
After saying this, Hu Xiuwu left in a hurry.
Harry Potter, who hadn't been asked his name yet, stood there with a confused look on his face. Suddenly, a hand reached out from behind Harry and pulled him back.
"Harry, what are you looking at?"
"After the Quidditch World Cup, have you encountered any new fun?"
"Tell us about it."
The two voices came one after the other, coordinating perfectly together, as if they had been trained since the womb. The two people surrounded Harry in the middle, both of them had a cheerful and cheerful demeanor with a playful smile on their faces, and they looked exactly the same, like two mirrors.
"Nothing, George, Fred." Harry shrugged and said self-deprecatingly, "It's just a vacation in the small room. The most exciting thing is my uncle's scolding every day."
"It's okay, we invented a new toy, you will definitely like it."
"By the way, we secretly heard father say that the Ministry of Magic will hold a new Goblet of Fire Tournament at Hogwarts."
George and Fred, seeing that Harry was a little depressed, wanted to cheer him up.
"Goblet of Fire Tournament, what is that?"
······
Hu Xiuwu, Zhang Lingyu, Bi Youlong and Zhang Zhiwei will meet up and they will appear at the dinner.
Walking in the corridor of the castle, Hu Xiuwu suddenly realized that something was wrong. He placed his hand on the wall and felt it carefully.
In his perception, the entire Hogwarts Castle seemed to come alive, and the suppressed earth veins under the castle changed, and began to flow regularly along some kind of artificial framework, as if some kind of magic circle was activated, or as if a giant dragon opened its eyes and inhaled and exhaled the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
Hu Xiuwu concentrated his mind on the Disha Order, concentrating on sensing the direction of the flow of the earth's energy, like a fish drifting with the current, following the water flow, and finally reaching the end of the flow.
Hogwarts Pier,
At the dock, Hagrid was still leading a group of newly enrolled children, with longing and excitement for magic on their faces, onto small wooden boats heading to Hogwarts.
There is a famous saying in Hogwarts: Do not disturb a sleeping dragon.
According to Western legends, dragons can embed their knowledge and experience into their blood and pass on knowledge through their blood.
Today, the sleeping dragon of Hogwarts has awakened, and he wants to accept his offspring.
Chapter 237 Magic Circuit
The lake reflected the night sky, and layers of mist rose above the water. The water vapor carried by the thick fog wet their clothes. The wooden boat pushed through the foggy river, and the clouds swirled and floated gently. This scene, like riding Peter Pan's spaceship in the sky, was an experience that children had dreamed of and longed for countless times. This experience opened the eyes of the little wizards and made them yearn for life in Hogwarts even more.
The little wizards were so intoxicated by the beautiful scenery that they did not notice that their bodies were changing silently.
The Book of Burial says: Qi disperses with the wind and stops with water.
The founders of Hogwarts may not have read the Book of Burial, but they also discovered this natural phenomenon.
Using water to carry the huge amount of earth energy and taking water as the medium, the students' bodies are transformed silently.
Hogwarts uses a magical instrument to monitor the entire situation in England. As long as a child awakens innate superpowers, they will be detected. The process of awakening superpowers is called "magic riot" by wizards. Therefore, magic riots come in different forms. Some will make glass disappear, some will move objects around, and some will understand snake language.
There is a principle summed up by the older generation in China: it is difficult for people with innate extraordinary talents to practice acquired cultivation.
This is because the meridian constitutions of most people with congenital abnormalities are different from those of ordinary people. Ordinary people may have twelve clearly organized meridians throughout the body, but it is different for people with congenital abnormalities. The directions of their meridians may be like the streets in a mountain city, rising and falling, intricately intertwined.
Moreover, the meridian mutations of each innate extraordinary person are different, so it is difficult to tailor a cultivation method for each innate extraordinary person.
But there are exceptions. There are a very small number of extraordinary people whose meridians have undergone changes, but they happen to be suitable for a certain kind of martial arts.
Just like Er Zhuang, a temporary worker in Northeast China, who possesses the ability to control radio waves and happens to be able to practice the Quanzhen Longmen's mental method, but such examples are extremely rare.
The vast majority are like Feng Shayan of the Tianxia Society. After they awakened the ability to travel through space, they can no longer practice their ancestral skills of summoning spirits and sending generals.
But with the support of this unknown formation, Hogwarts accepts everyone, as long as they are extraordinary people.
As the wooden boat got closer and closer to Hogwarts, the physical constitutions of these students became more homogeneous. By the time they reached the dock, their bodies had been completely transformed, leaving traces of magic on them.
All kinds of innate superpowers were cleansed, transformed into potential, and accumulated in their bodies, waiting to open the treasure house in their bodies during their long time in Hogwarts in the future.
The young dragon emerged from its eggshell, carrying with it the inherited magic and knowledge.
Hu Xiuwu watched this scene coldly and understood why Deng Youfu thought that these standard spells were innate supernatural powers. Those formulas and movements were not methods of use, but codes and keys to unlock the treasure house in their bodies.
If I had to describe it, this scene was somewhat like the magic circuit in the anime that Hu Xiuwu had seen before, where magic power flowed through a specific circuit, thus releasing spells.
During the next seven years of school life, professors will help them become familiar with the magic circuits in their bodies. When they graduate seven years later, the talented ones among them may discover the secrets of the magic circuits, add circuits to themselves, and create new magic. The stupid ones will not gain nothing either, at least they can become a standard wizard.
Even if you don't realize this, you won't lose money by exchanging your own specific spells for a panacea of witchcraft.
Looking at those little wizards who were extremely excited and had smiles on their faces, without noticing anything unusual, Hu Xiuwu was filled with emotion.
This formation must have undergone repeated transformations over the millennia, so that it could subtly and silently engrave traces of magic into these children's bodies.
"Brother, are you okay? Why are you suddenly standing there motionless?"
Hu Xiuwu's mind was withdrawn into his body along with the Qi. When he opened his eyes, he saw Zhang Lingyu standing beside him with a concerned look on his face. The others had already walked most of the way.
Hu Xiuwu stretched and said, "Nothing, I just found that this castle is more magical than I imagined."
Zhang Lingyu had the same feeling: "Yes, I have never seen it before. It is like Hogwarts, where people and ghosts live together. The various rooms and stairs inside can move. It is really dreamy."
"Let's go. Let's not let Director Bi and the others wait for us two youngsters."
It was clearly Hu Xiuwu who was distracted and left the team, but now he was sternly teaching Zhang Lingyu a lesson.
But Zhang Lingyu had no objection and remained humble: "Senior brother is right, let's go."
After a few quick steps, Hu Xiuwu and Zhang Lingyu returned to the back of the team.
When they arrived at the entrance hall of the auditorium, they happened to see the Sorting Hat sorting the freshmen of Hogwarts. In order not to disturb the sorting of the freshmen, they let them enjoy a perfect entrance ceremony.
Bi Youlong considerately took Tianshi and the others to sit behind Gryffindor temporarily, so as not to steal the limelight from the freshmen. The students were also paying attention to the freshmen sorting and did not notice them for a while.
This scene was only seen by Dumbledore and the professors sitting in the upper seats in the auditorium. They all had a favorable impression of this know-it-all. Dumbledore also bowed to Bi Youlong to express his gratitude.
Hu Xiuwu took this opportunity to look around the auditorium.
The Great Hall of Hogwarts is spacious and can accommodate hundreds of people. The ceiling is more than ten meters high, so everyone can gather together without feeling stuffy. The Great Hall inherits the overall gorgeous style of Hogwarts. The windows are all in mosaic style with colored glass, and the gorgeous portraits made have a bit of church style.
The four walls are hung with the school emblems of the four Hogwarts colleges, and there are four large hourglasses filled with gems of different colors, but no one knows what they are used for.
Although the windows of the auditorium are all painted glass and are not as light-transmitting as transparent windows, it is not dark inside the auditorium because, in addition to hundreds of candles hanging high, there is also a starry, clear and boundless sky created by magic on the ceiling of the auditorium.
Being able to see the starry sky from inside the house just by looking up is the dream of many people.
The students were divided into four groups according to their colleges. The professors sat on high seats in the auditorium. The half-blood giant Hagrid, who was seen last time, waved to Hu Xiuwu in a friendly manner. The elegant and calm Professor McGonagall was presiding over the sorting ceremony. Even Moody, who was almost defeated by Hu Xiuwu, was sitting up there.
But unlike other professors, he did not touch the food in front of him at all. He just ate the pancakes he brought with him and drank the pumpkin juice in the wine jug.
In addition, there were several professors that Hu Xiuwu had never seen before. One professor had a very carefully groomed beard and was well-dressed, but he was almost as short as Hu Tian, and his chair could not even touch the ground when he sat on it. Another professor wore a loose black robe, had straight and shiny hair, and a gloomy and cold expression. No student dared to look him in the eye. It seemed that he was a professor with great prestige.
Not only the teachers, but also Barty Crouch, a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Magic who came to Hogwarts, was among the professors, but he was just sitting in the accompanying seat.
The person sitting in the main seat was neither him nor Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, but a thin, well-dressed, elegant old man with a scholarly temperament.
William Spencer, leader of the Emerald Society.
At the same time, he is also the actual manager of the entire European alien world. It was his suggestion to invite Tianshi Mansion to join the Goblet of Fire.
Taking this opportunity, Hu Xiuwu also observed these new students closely. The strength of the innate superpowers varies, so when the superpowers are converted into magic circuits, the potential of each child also varies.
A very cruel reality is that the heights these children can reach in the future have already been determined before they even enter school.
Only a few people with strong innate talents, extraordinary understanding, intelligence and wisdom can reach the pinnacle of magic, such as Dumbledore, Voldemort, and the first Dark Lord Grindelwald.
Hu Xiuwu thought of Harry Potter, whom he had just talked to. From Hagrid's story, he could tell that Harry Potter had enough talent and good comprehension, but he did not have the mentality to match it. Like an ordinary naughty child, he still resisted learning, even if it was magic.
If he wants to become the next Dumbledore, it depends on whether he can become enlightened and realize the value of this knowledge.
After the freshmen were sorted, Dumbledore came to the front of the hall, stood in front of a golden tower as tall as a person, and tapped the tower with his wand.
The small wooden stick made a loud noise, and the entire auditorium echoed with the crisp knocking sound, drowning out the noisy conversations of the students.
After a while, the students fell silent and stared at their principal quietly.
"...After careful consideration, the Ministry of Magic has decided to reopen an ancient competition, the Triwizard Tournament, and upgrade it to a global event, the Goblet of Fire Tournament. For this purpose, we have invited new friends from the East and the West."
Sitting among the Gryffindor students, Harry Potter thought of the unknown senior he met in the corridor of the castle in the afternoon.
Seeing Dumbledore signaling to Bi Youlong, Bi Youlong was about to stand up with Hu Xiuwu and others and let Dumbledore introduce them.
The door of the auditorium was opened, and wind and rain poured in, but what was more eye-catching than the wind and rain were the beauties walking out of the darkness.
Chapter 238 Opening Ceremony
The young and beautiful ladies who came all the way from the romantic and passionate France, danced gracefully in elegant silk dresses with a light blue sheen, like irises in the wind. They bowed and greeted the students from the four colleges one by one, and their lingering and gentle moans made the male students confused and fascinated.
Finally, butterflies with blue fluorescence flew out of the girls' hands, circling around them and dancing with the girls until the dance reached its final stage. The girls gracefully saluted everyone, and the butterflies promptly disappeared among the irises.
A tall lady who was similar to Hagrid but had a more elegant temperament and dignified manner walked slowly into the hall, surrounded by young girls. Dumbledore personally greeted her and affectionately called her Madame Maxime.
The romantic exotic atmosphere immediately fascinated the adolescent boys at Hogwarts.
Especially the silver-haired girl who led the dance. Although she looked a little arrogant, it was hard to get tired of her because of her stunning appearance and charming figure.