Chapter 281 Professor McGonagall is tired, let her rest
The Magic Schools Potions Championship was originally an event sponsored by four famous magic schools.
The participating schools include Hogwarts in the UK, Kodostoriz in Russia, the House of Magic in Japan and Uganda's Ouagadou.
The purpose of this competition is to cultivate and showcase the talents of young wizards in the field of potions, while also providing a platform for mutual learning and exchange among major magic schools in potions education.
The competition takes various forms, and contestants need to demonstrate their mastery of potion formulas, their skills in handling various potion materials, and their superb brewing techniques.
The winning school will receive a special trophy that symbolizes glory - the Golden Crucible.
This trophy not only symbolizes outstanding achievement in Potions, but also represents the academic influence of the winning school in the entire wizarding world.
As time went on, the Potions Championship attracted more and more magic schools to participate, and its scale gradually expanded, no longer limited to the original four schools.
Today, magic schools from all over the world have joined the event, making the competition more intense and diverse.
The competition schedule has also been changed from every seven years to every three years.
Compared to the International Wizarding Chess Tournament, Hogwarts clearly attaches more importance to the upcoming Potions Championship.
As one of the founding schools of the competition, it is not an honor for Hogwarts to have not sent any students to participate in the recent competitions.
Therefore, in order to achieve good results in this competition, the school started relevant preparations as early as after the Christmas holidays.
The potion professors at Hogwarts, led by Snape, formed a potion competition team.
They recruited some students who performed brilliantly in Potions classes, and then arranged intensive special training for them.
These students not only strengthened their potion-brewing practices in class, but also conducted in-depth research on complex potion formulas and explored innovative potion-making methods in their extracurricular time.
For this competition, Hogwarts plans to send out two professors to lead the team, namely Sebastian, who is responsible for external communication, and Snape, who is responsible for potion guidance.
Fortunately, there are enough professors at Hogwarts now who can substitute for them after they leave school.
Otherwise, once Sebastian and Snape left, the Muggle Studies and Potions classes would be suspended.
With one week left before the competition, Sebastian found Snape and discussed with him the final candidates for the competition.
After all, there are limited places for the competition, and the two of them must select the best from the best and choose the best five students to represent Hogwarts in the competition.
Looking at the list Snape handed over, Sebastian frowned slightly.
"Harry, Cedric, Percy, Penelope, I know these students well, they are all excellent."
"But what about this Theodore Nott? I remember he was in the third year like Harry. Is he that powerful?"
Snape said calmly: "Don't underestimate this student. He is the most intelligent student in potions among the students here."
"I can see that he loves potions more than anyone else and spends more time on them than anyone else."
"He will surely succeed in potions."
Such a high rating?
It's not easy for Snape to evaluate a student like this.
Sebastian still had some impression of the student Theodore.
Nowadays, Slytherin students can be roughly divided into three categories. Eighty percent of them are like Malfoy. They have gradually let go of their prejudices against other colleges and started to make friends with students from other colleges in a shrewd and smooth way.
One tenth of the students still stubbornly adhere to the idea of pure-blood supremacy.
The remaining 10% are like Theodore, they are unruly, eccentric, and look down on everyone equally.
Now it seems that the reason why this kid is so arrogant has been found. It turns out that it is because he has a special skill. No wonder he looks so arrogant every day.
If that's the case, this kid really looks like Snape when he was a child. No wonder Snape favors him so much.
After deciding on the contestants, the two began to discuss the choice of travel methods.
The venue of this competition is Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States. If you want to travel to the other side of the earth, you can't just rely on Apparition.
Normally, this kind of international travel requires a trip to the Ministry of Magic using a special Portkey.
However, Sebastian had different considerations.
He wanted to take this opportunity to let a few students take a look at the development of the Muggle world and broaden their horizons.
So, he decided to take his students on a plane to the other side of the ocean.
The students and Snape don't have passports?!
This didn't bother Sebastian at all.
Through his relationship with the congressman, he went through the green channel and completed all the documents in just two days.
As for the procedures for going abroad in the wizarding world, they are extremely simple.
After receiving a letter from Sebastian, Dawlish came directly to Hogwarts and personally handled all the formalities for everyone.
It was Friday afternoon. After dinner, Harry and the others put on their Muggle clothes and gathered in front of the hall with their packed luggage.
The teachers and students of Hogwarts came here to see them off.
Cedric stood in front of Professor Sprout, listening to the professor's instructions obediently, while the other young Hufflepuff wizards gathered around him to cheer him on.
Penelope said goodbye to Professor Flitwick, who grinned with a proud look on his face.
Percy was not idle either. He stood in the crowd of Gryffindor students, pulling his younger brothers and telling them not to slack off in their studies.
Theodore was an outlier, standing there alone, like a lone wolf.
Harry looked helpless as he listened to his two friends bickering with each other.
"Potter," Malfoy said with regret, "What a pity, tomorrow is the day of this school year's duel competition."
"Without you here, the championship is too unchallenging for me."
"When you get the golden crucible, we will fight it out alone."
"Come on, Malfoy," Ron said unconvincedly, "You can't expect to win the championship easily while I'm here."
"You?" Malfoy shook his head in disdain. "You're still far from it. You can't even beat Longbottom now."
"Tsk, let's wait and see..."
Sebastian stood aside and said some private words to Mia before they parted.
However, he had some doubts in his mind.
What happened? Dumbledore, Snape and Professor McGonagall didn't show up at dinner just now.
Old Deng is such a rude guy. As a principal, he doesn’t even come out to encourage the students.
Snape's words were understandable; he was probably struggling over which Muggle clothes to wear.
Where's Professor McGonagall?
Why didn't she come to see the students off? This is not like her style.
Are you too tired?
Forget it, Professor McGonagall has been too busy. It would be better to let her take a rest. I will just help her share more work in the future.
Just as Sebastian was daydreaming, the students made a burst of noise.
"Oh my god, is that really Professor Snape?"
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Alas, Professor Cat left us completely yesterday.
sad!
I don't feel like typing. I want to rewatch the movie, watch her yell "attention please" again, and watch her use the spell [Stone Pillar Out] again.
Good night, Professor McGonagall.
