Chapter 495 The end of the school year and Dumbledore's promise

Astoria thought that Rice would show up the next day, but she miscalculated.

When the final resumed the next day, Rice was still missing. Not only did he disappear, but Professors White and Arius also disappeared.

When Dumbledore learned that the two professors were going out to fight the remnants of the Secret Order, he was somewhat opposed.

It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. He has been accustomed to the days when Hogwarts was guarded by these people. Now that they are leaving suddenly, Dumbledore really feels empty.

However, he quickly entered the familiar state. After saying goodbye to the two professors calmly, he turned around and went to the Quidditch field to host the game.

Although yesterday's game was interrupted in the middle, the previous game results were still retained-Ekaterina was unwilling to play against Hermione again.

Next, the game continued.

Two of the five players from Hogwarts have advanced, and the remaining three are Daphne, Cedric and Neville.

No one was surprised that the first two could sprint to the top sixteen, but it was quite surprising that Neville could fight all the way here.

This gentle, round-faced boy with a poor memory seemed to have received incredible training in the alchemy world, and he felt like he had been reborn.

If Neville was still a standard Hufflepuff student when school started in September this year, then after the baptism of the championship, he was more like a Gryffindor.

His opponent was also very interesting, the Black Pearl of Vagado.

The two sides fought back and forth, and finally Neville won with a slight advantage. However, in the eyes of many people, rather than saying that Neville was strong, it was better to say that he was more durable than the opponent, and finally outlasted the opponent.

Hermione, who had already advanced and was watching the game in the audience, noticed some details revealed by Neville during the battle, and he seemed to have learned the flow of magic.

This made Hermione sincerely happy for him.

She knew very well that in the current magic world, if you don't understand the flow of magic, you really can't become the top wizard. The study of magic flow is like mathematics for Muggles, and its status is higher.

If you are not good at mathematics, you can't become a scientist, and if you are not good at magic flow, you can't become a top wizard.

Neville didn't even get to sit in the audience. He and Black Pearl were taken away by Madam Pomfrey to heal their injuries.

After the next few games, the Hogwarts players were drawn again.

This time it was Cedric against the independent contestant who claimed to be from Longhu Mountain.

He was the only player from a non-mainstream magic school who made it to the finals. The other one was a monk from Mahabodhi Temple, but he had been eliminated by a student from Ilvermorny in the 16-to-8 qualifying match.

Cedric didn't rush to fight the opponent. He was very interested in this opponent named "Qingyue Yang".

"You are from Longhu Mountain? This is the first time I've heard of this place. Is it in the east like the magic house?" Cedric asked curiously.

"About the same." Yang Qingyue shrugged. After being asked questions like "Are the Mahabodhi Temple and the Magic House very close?", he no longer had any hope for the geographical knowledge of these British wizards.

Cedric nodded in confusion - he couldn't even tell the exact location of the Magic House, he only knew it was in the far east.

Seeing that Cedric didn't intend to start immediately, Yang Qingyue simply chatted with him.

"I'm not from Longhu Mountain. I just think Longhu Mountain is a little more famous, you might have heard of it, and if you are unlucky and eliminated in the first round, it won't bring shame to the sect."

"So you're not from Longhu Mountain?!" Cedric was shocked: There are actually people pretending to be students from other schools to participate in the competition? !

"Yes and no." Yang Qingyue shrugged his shoulders, "The things here are very complicated, and it's hard to explain for a while. To put it simply, my ancestor was born in Longhu Mountain, but he later went to develop outside."

Cedric understood it all at once.

Isn't this the oriental version of Hogwarts and Ilvermorny!

"I feel like I rarely hear about you in the magic world..." Cedric couldn't help but complain. If it weren't for this game, he might never see this group of mysterious oriental visitors in his life.

"We are indeed low-key and don't like to go out."

"Eh? I remember a friend of mine said that the way you cast spells there is different from ours?" Halfway through the conversation, Cedric remembered his evaluation of oriental magic when he chatted with Rice before.

Yang Qingyue nodded.

In the past six months at Hogwarts, he did feel the difference between magic and his own Taoism. It was really cool to cast spells by shaking the wand, which gave him a lot of inspiration.

He also imitated some practical talismans according to the wizards' spells, and he might be able to give Cedric a little "surprise" later.

"Anyway, you're welcome to visit us after the game!" Yang Qingyue was still in a good mood to talk, but considering that they were on the field, they couldn't just chat like that, so he invited Cedric and then tactfully said it was time to start the game.

"Definitely!" Cedric responded seriously.

...

"So who won between the two of them?" At the graduation ceremony, Dumbledore was speaking on stage, while Les was chatting with Daphne and Astoria in the audience.

On the last day of the school year, Les Lint, who had been missing for half a semester, returned to Hogwarts and sat at the long table of Slytherin College, which he had been away from for a long time.

Daphne and Astoria were extremely surprised by his sudden appearance. However, after the surprise, the two still couldn't help asking him what he had been doing during this period.

Les also answered truthfully that he really went to recuperate.

He was seriously injured in the alchemy world before, and he had to recover and recuperate in it when he had no choice.

Daphne believed it, but complained why Les didn't tell them in advance, while Astoria was thoughtful.

Injured in the alchemy world? The natural disaster they encountered before was probably related to Les. But since Les was unwilling to disclose it, she didn't intend to dig into it.

It's good for everyone to keep some privacy for each other.

After a simple greeting, the topic naturally shifted to the championship.

Daphne quickly introduced to Les what she saw and heard in the finals, and the focus naturally fell on the mysterious oriental visitor.

"His spell is very... unique." After thinking for a moment, Astoria finally found the right adjective.

"At the beginning, he didn't even use a magic wand. He took out a lot of yellow paper strips from his arms and threw them out to summon some puppets or something. He could also use that thing to create effects similar to the armor spell and the disarming spell. Later, he threw a few flags onto the field, and he and Cedric were both covered by a thick fog.

But during this period, Cedric always had the upper hand. His field is really suitable for defense and pressure resistance."

Les listened with a smile. He probably knew what happened later.

"That guy found that he couldn't penetrate Cedric's defense, so he used his trump card and summoned a dark cloud directly. Thunder and rain fell on the duel stage like raindrops, splitting half of the stage.

But Cedric was stubborn and didn't admit defeat. In the end, the man didn't know why, so he dispersed the thundercloud and admitted defeat." Astoria's face showed a puzzled look. She felt that Yang Qingyue didn't blush when he admitted defeat, and it felt that he could still fight for a while.

"Cedric himself said it was a fluke. If that guy had held on a little longer, he would have been the one to admit defeat." Daphne added.

Les shook his head.

"You can hold on, but there's no need."

"Explain it in detail?" The interest of the Greengrass sisters was immediately piqued.

"The magic in the east is amazing. They give me the feeling that they look more at the background. For example..." Les pointed to the necklace and brooch on Daphne's chest.

"The stronger their ancestors are, the stronger they can be. Through talismans, they can borrow power far beyond their own strength, but the consumption for this is also very large. That guy must have felt heartbroken after fighting for a long time and was really reluctant to continue consuming his talismans."

"I see." Astoria understood why Yang Qingyue chose to admit defeat halfway through the fight: if he continued to fight, he would go bankrupt.

After talking about Yang Qingyue, Les didn't want to continue the conversation because he felt that there was basically no suspense about who would win the championship.

But there was Tietouwa among the people present.

"Les, aren't you curious about who the final champion is?" Daphne asked in a tone that Les couldn't understand.

"Did you beat Hermione?! Really? Impossible?" Les was shocked.

Hermione's domain can summon her own phantom, how could Daphne beat her? Could it be that when she was away, the little girl made great progress?

Daphne's face froze when Les asked so bluntly.

"Then, this--um..."

"I didn't win." Astoria answered Les' question for her sister.

Les:...

Look at you, why are you talking about something else?

The individual champion of the final stage of the championship is naturally Hermione.

Her way of winning the championship is extremely legendary. She always stands in front of her opponent, and then the two will disappear for a moment. When they come back, the winner is already decided.

Except for the contestants, no one knows what happened.

Now, Hermione is suddenly covered with a mysterious veil.

It's not that no one tried to find out what happened, but Hermione met only "their own people" after the quarterfinals. Everyone was very tight-lipped. Vice Principal Ekaterina of Kodosdoriz also refused to reveal what happened at the time, so this became a mystery that no one knew.

After a simple chat, Rice began to wander.

Dumbledore on the stage was talking about some meaningless nonsense, and the young wizards below the stage didn't listen seriously, just thinking about where to go for the holiday.

Rice set his sights on the visitor from the Far East.

As far as he knew, the wizards in the East had a deep study of the soul, and the ancestors of those wizards might even survive in another form, otherwise the principle of the talisman would not be explained.

Since he knew a lot about the soul, Rice felt that he should go to visit them and see if he could get some help from them to remove Loki's soul from Gryffindor's body as soon as possible.

While recuperating in the alchemy world, Les was thinking about how to save Godric, but so far he has not made any breakthrough progress. Because Loki is not an ordinary person, he possessed Gryffindor and made the problem quite tricky.

Just right, didn't Yang Qingyue invite Cedric to visit him? Rice thought that since they decided to entertain guests, it should be okay to have one more guest, right?

As his thoughts drifted, Dumbledore's speech also came to an end.

"Students, you may have heard about it. In the final stage of the tournament, dark wizards from other schools attacked Hogwarts. Although we successfully thwarted their conspiracy, the impact of the attack has not completely dissipated. The outside world has become more dangerous, so I sincerely suggest that everyone not travel abroad this summer vacation." Dumbledore's eyes swept across the faces of the guests in the audience, "This sentence is also given to you. I can assure you that it is safe in the UK."

In the teacher's seat, Karkaroff, who was sitting next to Snape, blinked.

This is the most comfortable time Karkaroff has ever had.

The mysterious man, his former master, has fallen! Is there any better news than this? When he woke up from his coma and heard the news, he almost fainted again because of excessive excitement.

Now, when he heard Dumbledore say that "the influence has not completely dissipated", he immediately thought that the mysterious man was not dead, which made him nervous.

However, after hearing Dumbledore's assurance, he immediately felt relieved.

This was the first time Dumbledore made such a statement!

As a legendary wizard who defeated the Dark Lord many times, how many Dark Lords have been replaced one after another? How many times has the Dark Lord made a comeback? In front of Dumbledore, it is just a change of soup but not a change of medicine, and his assurance is still reassuring.

What Karkaroff didn't know was that Dumbledore was not referring to Voldemort in his words, and the confidence he made in making the assurance was not from himself, but from Professors White and Arius.

With the two of them, apart from anything else, the safety in the UK can still be guaranteed.

Dumbledore's words triggered heated discussions.

Many young wizards immediately decided to change their holiday arrangements and cancel their plans to travel abroad with their families. The guests from other regions were half-believing and half-doubting. Some decided to listen to Dumbledore, and many more did not take his warning to heart.

In such an atmosphere, this school year ended as usual.

Countless students stood up and walked towards the common room of their college, and Cedric was no exception.

However, a familiar voice called him.

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