Chapter 435 Mad-Eye Moody (Fake)

After finishing this dinner mixed with dog (cat) food, the plates on the table became clean and shiny again, and Dumbledore stood up again at the head teacher's table.

The buzzing voices in the hall stopped suddenly, and only the whistling of the wind and the pounding of the rain could be heard.

"Okay!" Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile and said, "Now that we are all full and satisfied, I must ask everyone's attention again. I have a few announcements to make..."

He first talked about some old-fashioned things such as prohibited items, not being allowed to go to the Forbidden Forest, and not being allowed to go to Hogsmeade Village for students under the third grade, and then changed the subject: "I also regret to tell you that there will be no House Cup Quidditch this year."

The students in the audience were in an uproar. Most of the students opened their mouths in surprise and stared at Dumbledore with wide eyes. They were obviously shocked by the news. Only a few students had an expression that they had known this long ago, and most of them were Slytherin students.

In Gryffindor, only Firsh and Hermione looked calm.

Hermione guessed the reason, and the cat... was simply not interested in Quidditch.

Harry, who was looking around, naturally noticed the difference between the two of them, and then thought of Firsh's ability to get all kinds of secret information in the past, and immediately asked: "You know why, right?"

"Meow?"

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Firsh tilted his head, looking confused, not quite understanding what Harry was talking about. The cat was always too lazy to think about these things that he was not interested in.

Hermione put her index finger in front of her mouth and pointed at Dumbledore above.

Sure enough, Dumbledore quickly continued, "This is because a large-scale event will start in October and last throughout the school year, occupying a lot of teachers' time and energy... But I believe that you can all get a lot of fun from it. I am very happy to announce to everyone that this year at Hogwarts..."

"Boom boom--!!!"

"Bang!"

A deafening thunder and the sound of the door being forcefully opened interrupted Dumbledore's speech.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a man with a cane standing at the door. He was wrapped in a black traveling cloak. The sharp-eyed Feishi also found that this man's right eye was particularly large, and like the retired Professor Keltburn, he had a wooden left leg.

The man at the door took off his hood, shook out his long gray hair, and began to walk towards the staff table.

His wooden legs and crutches hit the ground, making a continuous hollow sound. When he walked to Dumbledore's side, the lightning and the surrounding lights fully revealed his face to everyone.

It was a face full of scars, with no intact skin on it. The mouth was like a crooked big hole, and the nose was missing where it should be raised.

The most terrifying thing was his eyes. One of his eyes was small, black, and shiny; the other eye was large, round like a coin, and a bright blue.

The blue eye kept moving without blinking, turning up and down, left and right, completely unrelated to the normal eye - later, the blue eyeball turned over and drilled into the man's head, and everyone could only see a big white eyeball.

The little wizards who were whispering and discussing what big moves they would make in October all stopped talking. They were scared by the man who came in. The hall was silent except for the sound of thunder and rain.

Fish was not affected by this and looked at the blue eyes on Alastor Moody's face that kept moving. As long as it was something new that he had never seen before, the cat would be very interested.

After Moody's magic eyes turned randomly for a while, he seemed to notice Fish's gaze and immediately looked back, and Moody himself turned his face and looked at Fish.

(ΦωΦ)

O_o

After staring at each other for a while, Moody smiled at Fish, but because of the scar on his face, the smile looked very creepy.

Of course, the cat didn't feel anything. He smiled back in a friendly way and waved to Moody.

(ΦωΦ)ヅ

"Please allow me to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," Dumbledore happily broke the silence, "Professor Moody."

Under normal circumstances, when a new teacher meets everyone, everyone will applaud to welcome him, but now, except for Dumbledore, Hagrid, and the carefree little cat, no teacher or student applauded.

Fortunately, the cat still has a place in Hogwarts. Under his influence, applause gradually rang out at the long table of Gryffindor, and led to the other three colleges. After a while, the applause went from sparse to warm.

"Moody" turned his eyes to Fish again, but soon moved away. Before he came, Voldemort and Pettigrew had specifically told him that this cat-eared boy named Fish had very sharp perception.

So even though he wanted to kill this little wizard who had stopped Voldemort's plan, for the sake of his master's plan, Moody (Barty Crouch Jr.) suppressed the malice in his heart.

"Moody?" Harry whispered to Ron while clapping: "Mad-Eye Moody? Is that the person your father went to help this morning?"

"It must be him."

Ron clapped his hands absent-mindedly and answered in a low voice with a fearful expression.

Besides them, other students gradually recovered from their shock and whispered about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the applause.

"Ahem!"

Dumbledore cleared his throat, making the whispers and applause fade.

"As I said just now," he said, smiling at the many students in front of him, "in the next few months, we will be honored to host a very exciting event that has not been held for more than a century. I am very happy to tell you that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year."

"Are you kidding me!" Fred Weasley said loudly.

The tense atmosphere that had been hanging in the hall since Moody entered the door was suddenly broken. Almost everyone laughed out loud, and Dumbledore also laughed softly in appreciation.

"I'm not kidding, Mr. Weasley," he said, "but since you mentioned joking, I did hear a very interesting joke about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun who all went into the same pub..."

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly.

"Oh - it's probably not appropriate to talk about this now... not appropriate..." Dumbledore said: "Where was I just now? Oh, right, the Triwizard Tournament... Some of you don't know what this tournament is all about, so I hope those who know the situation can forgive me for explaining it briefly here. I allow their minds to wander for a while..." Then Dumbledore talked about the general rules of the Triwizard Tournament, and Hermione already knew these things clearly from Professor McGonagall's collection of books, and she and Fish even knew them in more detail. "Over the centuries, people have tried several times to restore the tournament," Dumbledore continued, "but none of them was successful. However, our Ministry of Magic's International Magical Cooperation Department and the Department of Magical Sports and Games believe that the time is ripe for another attempt. We have done a lot of work this summer to ensure that every warrior will not be in danger of life." "In October, the headmasters of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will lead their carefully selected competitors to come, and the ceremony to select the warriors will be held on Halloween Eve. An impartial referee will decide which students are most qualified to compete for the Triwizard Cup, win honor for their schools, and receive a prize of one thousand Galleons." "One thousand Galleons!" (ω) The cat, who was planning to participate in the competition, had his eyes lit up. If he won the game, he could buy Professor McGonagall a Firebolt!

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Moody's magic eye and artificial leg, the original book did not write which side it was. The magic eye in the movie version is on the left, but in the illustration of the Goblet of Fire, it is the right eye. I am using the version of the novel illustration here. As for the fake leg, I really can't verify it. I just think it's a bit unbalanced to put it on the right, so I put it on the left.

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Some people say that Dumbledore's joke is a reference to the previous movie "The Prisoner", when Hagrid, McGonagall and Flitwick went to the Three Broomsticks, but I think this explanation is far-fetched, because there was also Fudge at that time…

In addition, the word used in the original English version is Hag, which is not quite right to translate into female nightshade. It should be old witch or old witch, and it can also be translated into witch, but witch seems to be more used Witch.

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Finally, the price of Firebolt has been analyzed before. Regardless of the rationality, if it is interpreted purely according to the original text, it is a few hundred Galleons.

Anyway, it's just to give Cat an extra reason to participate in the competition, so there's no need to dwell on it too much.