Lockhart disagreed: "It's okay, Voldemort just thinks it was your spell."

"Do you have to do this?"

"It has to." Lockhart defended. "We can't give them time to think. If they settle down and observe more carefully, they will find that the bottle of blood may not be so fresh."

Moody snorted, but he didn't refute what Lockhart said.

"Did Crouch find out? I mean you weren't injured," he asked in a muffled voice.

Somehow, Lockhart looked smug.

"I shouldn't have found out, that guy hasn't yet subdued-the mysterious man's magic perception level." He replied.

Given that Voldemort will soon regain his strength, Lockhart can no longer continue to meditate

The name Old Demon, in case the other party knows his location through his real name.

Moody's immediately asked: "Can you be sure?"

"Okay, when I used the stun spell, I used double magic, buried a hidden Confusion Charm in it, and didn't make it work right away - as a result, the guy didn't find it at all.

So I also buried a mild illusion spell in the magic missile when I was using it. He was dealing with your "fast star" at the time, and he didn't notice it - if he didn't pay special attention, I believe no one would pay attention. To the extent that what I see is so different from reality."

In order to enhance his persuasion, Lockhart deliberately raised his right hand when he said "a little bit" and made a small slit between his index finger and thumb.

Moody's didn't take this next stubble: \"Maybe".

This routine was something they had already negotiated - Moody found out when little Crouch was about to do it, pressured him so that they couldn't detect Lockhart's phantom magic, and unknowingly took the Walk in real Harry's blood.

Little Crouch's cutting spell didn't hit Lockhart at all, and the blood he collected from the ground was when Lockhart pretended to be lying on the ground in pain, the blood in the crystal bottle in each of his arms was poured on the granite tombstone. Up.

And because Voldemort was too cautious, he didn't dare to get close to watching the battle at all, so he couldn't find the tricks that were so close. If he was nearby, Lockhart and Moody would have to go to the trouble of using Plan_B

But fortunately, little Crouch didn't notice Lockhart's little trick at all, but Moody could see what just happened with his blue magic eye.

Although he had pitted Voldemort once, he had nothing to complain about, because the savior blood Lockhart gave them was genuine, and even after it was taken out, it was kept in the crystal bottle, and there was very little discoloration.

Blood is blood, and it oxidizes when taken out, even if Lockhart is temporary.

The blood taken from Harry, after being besieged by the Infernal Corps and the snakes for so long, the color of the blood was also a little dark, and Lockhart could not risk letting Voldemort and the others find out. But as long as they were forced to take their time, move to a safe place and resurrect Voldemort, they would not find the blood problem.

From Moody's point of view, what he had just seen was exactly the same - a little Crouch, like a fool, cast a cutting spell on the air, and used magic to absorb Lockhart's tombstone. Blood, it looks like all is well.

"I don't know if You-Know-Who will use this blood." Moody was a little worried.

"This is out of our control... It's up to people to make things happen." Lockhart shrugged, "Then just stare at Snape and see when his Dark Mark appears on his skin. Come."

Moody thought for a moment and thought he was right.

"Okay, let's go back quickly."

Moody looked down at his watch and saw that almost half an hour had passed, and the audience would be suspicious if Harry remained in the Shrieking Shack.

The two of them Apparate back to the Screaming Shack in succession, only to find that Harry and the two of them have already returned to the game with the port keys.

"This..." Lockhart was a little dumbfounded, "We clearly said we wanted them to wait here first!"

Moody didn't think that the plan of the two of them was still a secret after all, and that there was a problem at the end.

He was also a little annoyed, but still tried his best to keep himself calm: "I'll make it clear to those two little devils when I get back... But it's not a big problem, Voldemort shouldn't be able to know the situation at the scene of the game immediately, and the Sphinx is also under our control. Living."

Although this is not a big deal, if Voldemort still has a secret on the field and sends back the news of the field, Voldemort knows that when he is taking blood

Harry was still playing, so it was easy to conclude that his side was probably a fake.

However, the possibility is not very high - otherwise, when they found that Cedric was not with him, little Crouch and the others should have noticed.

\"Let's go and find Snape," Lockhart suggested.

Seeing this, Moody could only follow him back to Hogwarts.

Snape, who was sitting on the dean's chair watching the game, was watching the game calmly, but suddenly there were two pairs of eyes behind him, which made him quite uncomfortable.

Because he has done bad things before, he is actually a little "afraid" of Moody, and he usually doesn't even dare to walk to the Defence Against the Dark Arts office.

As a result, today Moody came to him on purpose, and kept aiming at his arm engraved with the Dark Mark. Snape couldn't help but feel restless, and even the game was uneasy.

In the arena, after Harry and Cedric fought off Vagado, Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, and Ilvermorny who stayed behind started a melee, and the situation was complicated.

The audience was unaware of what had just happened and was still applauding the warriors

The duo of Durmstrang are really good at dueling, and the other schools have to find a way to avoid them, and this also gives them an illusion-then they can solve all problems by duel.

After seeing Beauxbatons in the 9 squares in front of them, Durmstrang and the two made a decisive decision and immediately used the number 9"

Because Vagado had been beaten back by Hogwarts, and Ilvermorny's was defeated again, so Durmstrang and the two discussed it and decided to use Beauxbatons to operate, so that at least the next Guaranteed to get second, it will be much easier when chasing Hogwarts.

But the jaw-dropping result was that Kool and the others actually defeated Krum.

In a duel, Fleur de la

Chapter 383 ended

The strong are easily broken, and the so-called duel is nothing more than that.

In the second round of the competition, the dueling skills that Fleur Delacour showed were only related to the hypnotism used against the five-legged monster, and the "girly charm" when facing the unicorn. He even drank tea with the former Queen for a few hours, and didn't really fight at all.

So whether it's the audience or Durmstrang's duo, no matter what they say, they subconsciously regard Fleur de la Cour as a vase, or a good girl.

But they probably don't know how terrible it is for a warrior to survive "The Battle of the Seven Potters" and "The Battle of Hogwarts".

In fact, this is also normal. Although people with outstanding appearance enjoy various hidden benefits in social life, for example, in some jobs that require "kanban\" and jobs that require special communication, they will be more sorry for their ancestors than their appearance. To be more affordable.

But at the same time, the result of excessive appearance often creates a "ceiling" for them - that is, no matter how much he/she has achieved, others will think that he/she is in the top position only because of her face.

Aunt Susan is "relying on hard work", so Britney Spears is "relying on her to sell her looks", eh? Teacher Han Hong is a "strength singer", so Jolin Tsai is

"Vase"?

Furong can be considered a victim of this unspoken rule, because her talent is indeed higher than her beauty - at least she is a wizard who can hypnotize dragons with ridiculously high anti-magic attributes.

Therefore, Krum is really too big this time.

As a result of giving Furong 5 minutes to lay the trap, Furong turned almost half of the trees and magical creatures in the Bonan Forest into her comrades-in-arms. Not only did she discover their positions when the two of them landed, but she also launched a layered attack when the other party was still unsteady.

Flying in the sky, running on the ground, mixed with the confusion spell and hypnotism that Fleur flew from time to time, even Krum was overwhelmed.

When Krum reluctantly used black magic to try to turn things around, what he did instead angered the tree people in Bonan Forest—they did not need to plead with Fleur, they would clean up the "filth" by themselves. The presence"

When things didn't work out, Krum had to take out the door key and reactivate it.

When it passed Durmstrang and the two back to the venue, the duel finally ended with the monthly profit of the Beauxbatons warriors.

So far, the situation of the game can be said to be very clear.

Hogwarts came out on top, beating Durmstrang's Beauxbatons followed closely, and both schools still had a dice of self-selected numbers that were useless, and the lead was unshakable;

Although Ilvermorny was at the bottom once, they still managed to catch up to the third place by virtue of luck, but they also lost their explosive power without the optional dice, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to catch up with Beauxbatons;

Durmstrang and Vagado were both beaten back to their starting points. No matter who was fourth or fifth in the end, I'm afraid the audience wouldn't care too much.

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Cedric once again used the trick of rolling dice, throwing a "7", and working with Harry to solve the pest problem in Farley Village, and finally used the number "8". At the end, the honor of first place was kept.

Although Beauxbatons took two more rounds, he finally reached the finish line safely, turning around in one fell swoop, from fourth to second;

Ilvermorny is also good, they took two more rounds than Beauxbatons, and although they failed to come back, they climbed from fifth in the previous round to third now, at least they did not let themselves be left behind;

Probably using black magic will really damage the character. In the contest between Durmstrang and Vagadu, Vagadu actually took the advantage of rolling out several large numbers, and reached the end first, becoming the first. Four.

Durmstrang, who was recognized as the strongest before this game, actually came in at the bottom of the game - this result is really unexpected.

- The goblins who were watching the game also seemed overjoyed - it seems that this unpopular result can make their gambling business make a lot of money.

After seeing this result, everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to the position of Durmstrang's principal, Karkaroff.

Everyone knows how narrow-minded this person is, and how angry he will be after seeing such an "unacceptable" result can be said to be expected by everyone.

But when they prepared a dream basket to persuade Karkaroff, they were surprised to find that Karkaroff was not angry.

Not only was he not angry, but from their expressions, he seemed to be a little overwhelmed and… panicked?

Under the gazes of everyone, Karkaroff stood up abruptly and looked in the direction of the Hogwarts Dean's Table.

Everyone thought that he wanted to ask Professor McGonagall for an explanation, but then they found out that the person Karkaroff was looking at was neither the acting headmaster of Hogwarts nor the British Ministry of Magic official who was the organizer. It was Severus Snape, the potions professor at Hogwarts.

He turned pale and stretched out his hand to Snape, his tone full of panic: "Severus oo me... you..."

Snape nodded gloomily, motioning for him to sit down first.

Everyone who saw this scene was completely inexplicable - why was Karkaroff so panicked? Is it just one game behind?

Seeing his reaction, how could Lockhart and Moody not know what happened. It seems that Voldemort still used the blood and was successfully resurrected. Because Voldemort has regained his magic power, as Death Eaters, the Dark Mark on their arms will naturally reappear, and sting to remind its owner to pay attention to his identity.

Since Karkaroff can feel it, Snape can feel it too.

Feeling the tingling in his arm, he only now knew what Dumbledore meant when he asked him to "get ready" some time ago.

This is also a characteristic of Dumbledore - he never tells one person everything he knows, and always needs two or three people to share the plans in their minds.

Snape knew nothing about Lockhart and Moody's plans, so when Voldemort came back to life: Snape was particularly surprised.

He gestured towards Karkaroff, inviting him to talk in the empty classroom at Hogwarts.

Of course Karkaroff would not refuse - because he had already seen the noose around his neck.

Chapter 384: Fudge in the Spring Breeze

The third game of the Big Five Tournament is over, but the series of things behind it are still fermenting.

Although it was said that Snape only invited Karkaroff to \"talk" together, but in the end Moody also followed and said that he wanted to talk with them.

Lockhart is not so unpleasant. Anyway, looking at Karkaroff's performance, he has already guessed what happened. Compared with this kind of thing that has already happened, he might as well do what he should do earlier, such as Swap the wand and Harry back.

Seeing Lockhart coming, Cedric and Harry quickly apologized.

\"Sorry, sir, we...because we don't know how long we'll have to wait."

"Understandable." Lockhart sighed. "I should have made things clearer...hope nothing bad."

To be on the safe side, neither Lockhart nor Moody told them why they had to wait, but the two little guys couldn't hold back, so they made their own decisions and returned to the game with the door key they left behind.

Harry was a little nervous: \"What's wrong?"

\"Those who don't know are not guilty, forget it." Lockhart understated.

Anyway, he came here to exchange wands with Harry, and his purpose was completed after the exchange.

The moment he took back his wand, Lockhart felt that the stagnant feeling in his body suddenly disappeared, and the movement of magic power no longer made him feel constrained, replaced by transparency and freedom.

Not only him, Harry had a similar expression to him after he took back his holly wand. It seemed that Harry was not very good when using Lockhart's wand.

No wonder Harry didn't even want the Deathly Hallow's wand in the end, preferring to restore his holly wood wand and reuse it. It turns out that the wand has such a great influence on wizards.

Harry still didn't know why Lockhart had to exchange wands with him, but he did it anyway, and for that alone, Lockhart wouldn't be too harsh on him.

Lockhart is now more concerned about the Ministry of Magic than Harry's side.

Now that Voldemort has been resurrected, how to organize a wartime administrative system has become an urgent matter.

Although Voldemort is difficult to deal with, he is only one person. No matter how difficult it is, there are people like Dumbledore and Harry who will be responsible for solving him, so although he is said to be more harmful, if he can destroy the wizarding world, he One person is not enough.

Dumbledore and Harry's job was to deal with Voldemort, and Lockhart's job was to deal with the political influence of the Death Eaters.

In the center of the stage, Connelly Fudge was still in high spirits telling the audience the rules of the next game, seemingly still ignorant of what just happened.

"...I don't want to sell any more, the content of the next game is fire dragon!" He simply announced the content of the game to the people present, "Welsh Green Dragon, Hungarian Horntail, Chinese Fireball, Swedish Short-nosed Dragon, and more There is—the Hebrides Black Dragon! Each group of warriors can choose one of the fire dragons to pass the level!"

The audience responded with timely exclamations and cheers, which made Fudge even more excited.

"We won't hide this game from the Warriors, because I think they need to spend a lot of time preparing for the next month." Fudge said with a smile to the pale warriors, "This game You are allowed to bring all equipment into the game, but you are not allowed to drink any magic potions, and the participants in the game must be limited to two warriors.

When he said that, the Warriors knew what the winning edge was in Game 3.

what is it.

——There is no need for any extra rewards, the order of the field itself is a huge reward.

Among the five dragons, the most difficult to deal with is undoubtedly the black dragon of the Scottish Hebrides. Its anti-magic ability is close to the limit of all creatures known in the wizarding world - almost no spells will work on it. The Hungarian Horntail is the largest and most powerful one—50 feet in length, far exceeding the 30 feet of other dragons.

In addition, the blue flame exhaled by the Swedish short-nosed dragon is the highest temperature among all fire dragon flames, while the Chinese fireball is not only extremely aggressive, but also has a body structure similar to that of a lion, which makes it compared to other dragons. Better at ground combat, rather than turning into a big lizard as soon as it hits the ground.

In contrast, the mild temper of the Welsh Green Dragon is simply giving points. No matter how the competition side wants them to deal with the fire dragon, the first player only needs to choose the Welsh Green Dragon.

Then there is the Swedish short-nosed dragon. Although it has a high flame temperature, it consumes the most. First, use the polymorphism technique to transform into a group of cannon fodder and rush up, seduce it to vent its anger, and it will be much safer later.

As for the Chinese Lion Dragon, although its fireballs are powerful and equally aggressive, the speed of the fireballs is not as fast as the breath. And since Kong Bo discovered the role of fire dragon eggshell powder, Chinese shamans have taken good care of their habitats. Every year in the south, there are lion and dragon dances to celebrate and sacrifice, and its ability to fly in the sky has been greatly degraded. So if you want to deal with it, just fly to the sky with a broom.