Chapter 453 The Last Time I Was Ignored Was the Last Time

"What are you all doing here? Is Edmund in a bad mood again?"

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That day, when Fish and the others finished feeding the blasting skrewts at Hagrid's place, they came back and saw a group of people crowded in the entrance hall. The curious cat immediately went up to ask.

"Don't pull me! Ah... is it Fish?"

The student who was grabbed by the cat shook his arm impatiently, but changed his attitude immediately after finding out that it was Fish.

"There is a notice posted on the notice board. Students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will arrive at Hogwarts in the evening of next Friday." He excitedly shared this information with Fish, "The class that afternoon will end half an hour earlier."

"Great!" Before Fish had time to be happy, Harry cheered first, "The last class on Friday is Potions! Snape didn't have time to poison us all!"

"Harry, Severus said that people would be poisoned before Christmas, not Halloween."

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Fish kindly reminded on the side.

The joyful expression on Harry's face froze for a moment, and then collapsed...

"Can't you let me be happy for a little longer, Fish?" He wailed weakly.

"Meow?"

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Fish tilted his head and said sincerely: "People from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are here, so we will be able to register for the Triwizard Tournament soon, and we won't have to study extra in the future. Isn't this worth being happy about?"

"Ahahahaha..." Harry laughed dryly and scratched his cheek.

He was embarrassed to tell Fish that due to the increasingly heavy courses recently, he had no extra time to learn the knowledge of the senior grades. Now, apart from a few students such as the twins, there was only Fish who had a group of senior students to help with the lessons.

And if he put himself in Fish's position...

Harry thought about it and felt that there seemed to be nothing to be happy about.

But Fish obviously didn't think so. The cat was always in a good mood. After knowing the news, the mood became even more excited. Even when walking, the amplitude of the swing of the arms became much larger. Seeing the cat's cheering appearance, Harry, who didn't feel much before, inexplicably became happy.

Fish was of course not the only one who was excited about the upcoming arrival of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. In the next week, people basically only talked about one topic: the Triwizard Tournament.

Rumors spread quickly among the students, like highly contagious bacteria: who will compete to be the champion of Hogwarts, what events will be in the tournament, and what are the differences between the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang and them.

The only ones who were not very happy were probably the seniors who tutored Fish.

Compared with the excitement of the students, the faculty and staff were very nervous - no one wanted to lose the face of Hogwarts in front of the other two schools.

Therefore, the administrator Filch was more picky than before, and the hygiene in the school was cleaned again and again. The unlucky people who were put in detention recently had to bear several times more work than before.

The professors targeted those students who did not perform well in normal times, among which Neville, Longbottom, and Neville Longbottom were typical.

"Longbottom, please be kind and don't show up in front of the people from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, so that they can see that you don't even have a simple conversion spell!" Professor McGonagall shouted at the end of the class.

This class was particularly unsuccessful. Neville accidentally grafted his ear onto a cactus.

When Professor McGonagall left the classroom, Neville immediately collapsed on his seat like a deflated balloon, staring at the ceiling with his eyes blankly, like a dried salted fish.

This tortured day for Neville lasted until October 30th.

When Fish woke up in the morning and went to the Great Hall for breakfast as usual, he found that the hall had been decorated overnight.

There were huge silk banners hanging on the wall: a golden lion on a red background, a bronze eagle on a blue background, a black badger on a yellow background, and a silver python on a green background. They were hung near the long tables of their respective colleges.

On the wall behind the teacher's long table, there was the largest banner with the Hogwarts emblem: a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake connected together, surrounding a large letter H.

"There's a banquet today, meow?!"

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The cat's eyes lit up when he saw this arrangement.

Hermione nodded and said, "People from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are coming today, and there should be a welcome party."

"That's great, meow!"

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Fish cheered. In addition to not having to tutor immediately, there was actually a banquet! The cat was immediately full of favor towards the people from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.

Everyone walked to the dining table and excitedly talked about the same things they had talked about countless times before, which were nothing more than the two schools and the Triwizard Tournament.

But the twins looked uninterested, poking the food on the plate with their forks boredly, and exchanging glances silently from time to time.

"They have been acting mysterious lately," Ron whispered in Harry's ear, "I don't know what they are busy with."

Even though he said that, Ron had no intention of finding out. He still remembered the unfortunate experience of Tophesh knowing the twins' secret and then being tricked. He had no interest in it happening again.

"Maybe it's because of the registration for the Triwizard Tournament."

Harry glanced at the listless twins and guessed in a low voice. But he thought about it and realized that they were also very excited when they knew that Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were coming.

Harry, who couldn't figure it out, simply went over and asked, "How are the preparations for the Triwizard Tournament going?"

"That's it," George replied in a low mood, "We went to several professors to inquire about the news, but unfortunately they all kept their mouths shut. Now we can only hope that what we have learned during this period can come in handy."

After everyone chatted for a while, a large number of owls flew in and threw letters and packages in front of the little wizards, splashing a lot of soup.

As in previous years, Firth received several book-sized packages, which were Halloween candies prepared for him by Mr. and Mrs. Flume and others in Hogsmeade. In the last few days of October, he always received similar gifts one after another.

However, this year, because Beauxbatons and Durmstrang were coming, even Maomao didn't pay attention to Halloween, and Firth didn't play the game of "trick or treat" last year.

Today, not only Maomao, but everyone else didn't take the upcoming Halloween seriously. The air in the castle was filled with a joyful mood of expectation.

No one in class was concentrating on listening to the class. When the bell rang early, everyone rushed back to the dormitory, put down their schoolbags and textbooks as instructed, put on their cloaks, and then rushed down the stairs in two steps to the entrance hall.

The deans of the colleges were ordering their students to line up.

"Weasley, put your hat on straight." Professor McGonagall said sternly to Ron.

"Miss Patil, take that ridiculous thing off your hair."

Parvati frowned unhappily and took a big butterfly headdress off the end of her braid.

"And Fish..." Professor McGonagall turned her eyes to the cat standing with Hermione.

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Fish looked at her innocently and shook the cat ears on his head.

"... Forget it, just be quiet. Hermione, help me keep an eye on him."

Professor McGonagall sighed and instructed Hermione.

"Minerva, what do you mean?"

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Feeling that she was being targeted, the cat protested indignantly.

Professor McGonagall was too lazy to pay attention to him.

"Please follow me," she directly ignored the cat's protest and shouted to other students: "First-year students are in the front... Don't crowd..."

Fish: "..."

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