Chapter 185 Alliance

The uproar caused by Lu Yunkai's victory in the second match of the Triwizard Tournament soon calmed down.

And the big news he expected, which could replace his news and shock the eyes of Hogwarts students, did not appear after all.

For some reason, Dumbledore did not take any action against Moody, and did not even have a talk with him.

A week later, Moody was still in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, leaning on a cane to tell students how to protect themselves when facing the three unforgivable curses.

Lu Yunkai was not sure whether Dumbledore was collecting evidence and it was inconvenient to take action directly, or he wanted to use Crouch Jr. to lure out Voldemort behind him, so he did not move.

If it was the latter, Lu Yunkai might consider conveying it to Dumbledore through Snape. He now knew where Voldemort was hiding...

Uh, forget it. If Voldemort really suspected Lu Yunkai, the first thing he would do would definitely be to move out of the castle, right? And even if he had been vaccinated by Hermione last year, and even Snape knew about his plan to infiltrate the Death Eaters, it was still unclear whether the people in the Ministry of Magic believed it or not. It was definitely not a smart choice to get involved in such a matter at this time.

So, Lu Yunkai temporarily put aside his "disdain" for Moody, pretended to know nothing, and became his good student.

In this way, from February to June, it was fast.

The flowers in the campus and the forbidden forest bloomed and withered. The weather had begun to get warmer, but Lu Yunkai still did not see Dumbledore take any action against Moody.

Lu Yunkai had plenty of patience to wait.

And with the arrival of the end of the school year, the end-of-year exams that were supposed to follow had a new excuse for cancellation: to avoid embarrassing our guests...

When Dumbledore talked about this at the dinner, his face was serious, but Lu Yunkai felt that this reason was ridiculous.

But he would never express any objection. There was no student who did not agree with the cancellation of the exams.

Oh, there is one.

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"We will have OWLS next year, but we haven't taken a wizard exam yet, not even once!!" Hermione said to Harry and Ron, as well as Lu Yunkai and Daphne who were sitting next to them.

In mid-June, the last weekend before the final of the Triwizard Tournament, Hogwarts arranged the last Hogsmeade trip of the year.

It gave the four warriors a break, and at the same time, it was convenient for the professors in the school and the officials of the Ministry of Magic to prepare the venue for the last competition.

However, in the Three Broomsticks, Hermione's emotional remarks like "Does the school still want to be responsible for us?" did not get anyone's response.

Just like what she has been trying to promote this year, something called "House Elves Rights Association".

Lu Yunkai and Harry raised their butter beer cups and clinked them.

"I wish us a good performance in the competition next week." Harry said.

"I wish we can finish the competition alive." Lu Yunkai was much more cautious than Harry.

He was not blindly pessimistic. His caution was naturally for a reason: Chris had been running to the Forbidden Forest recently, not to patrol the territory or teach the disobedient Aragog a lesson, but to find out the last competition item for Lu Yunkai.

For this, it even gave up the task of following Moody, because one day after it followed Moody into the competition venue, it felt that Lu Yunkai might not be able to get out alive...

On the edge of the Forbidden Forest, a large area of ​​densely packed devil's nets several meters high had grown in the past few months.

This terrible plant, which would never let go of a person once it entangled him, seemed to be restricted by some magic to grow into a wall.

Compared with some mushrooms that seemed to spray poisonous smoke and trees with strong attack power (don't ask Chris how she knew, she would definitely not admit what happened to it), the devil's net was a "kind" creature.

Even inside, Chris saw Aragog's offspring building a nest.

The "traditional skills" of the Triwizard Tournament are not really cheating, but they can kill people.

After the first two fun events, it seems that there is finally a competition event that looks like that.

Well, Chris told Lu Yunkai this, but Lu Yunkai heard a strong worry in Chris's tone, and naturally, he also understood that this event is definitely not that simple.

"Yunkai, you are not that bad, right? Is it that scary?" Ron, who was sitting next to Harry, interrupted.

"You don't really think that the Triwizard Tournament is just grabbing eggs and swimming, right?" Lu Yunkai asked back with a smile, "For such an event, why is it called eternal glory?"

"Oh? Do you know what the third event is?" Harry listened to Lu Yunkai's words and felt something was wrong.

For this round of events, it seemed that everyone involved in the preparations was under a confidentiality spell. No news about the competition events was leaked from Hogwarts or the other two schools.

"A maze. A maze filled with many dangerous items." Lu Yunkai lowered his voice, "Do you know the Devil's Snare?"

"Yes! We saw it in the dungeon in the first year." Ron interrupted, "Hermione was very handsome at that time and used a beam of light to deal with them all."

"Thank you." Hermione smiled at Ron and thanked him for his compliment.

"That's the easiest thing to deal with inside." Lu Yunkai nodded.

He entered the dungeon late and didn't see it.

But Professor Sprout did talk about this kind of thing in class.

"...Easiest to deal with?"

"Yes! The Devil's Snare only constitutes the wall of the maze. There are Aragog's children and mushrooms that can spray poisonous smoke inside..."

"Oh my God!" Hearing that there are spiders inside, Ron completely lost his previous indifference.

His fear of spiders is instinctive.

"So! I hope we can survive until the summer vacation." Lu Yunkai smiled and shook his head.

"...It should be fine!" Harry was worried by Lu Yunkai.

At this time, the door of the Three Broomsticks opened. Several people glanced at the people who came in and immediately changed the subject.

From the competition items of the Triwizard Tournament to today's weather.

Because the two silver-haired girls came in: Fleur and her sister.

The two pretty girls glanced around the bar, and then came to the table where Lu Yunkai and his friends were sitting with a natural smile.

"Hello!"

Gabrielle still had her sweet smile on her face.

This little girl is now loved by everyone in the three schools. Even the rough guys in Durmstrang smiled like chrysanthemums when facing Gabrielle...

"Hello! Gabrielle!" Daphne also had a big smile on her face, and then squeezed towards Lu Yunkai, leaving two seats next to her.

Fleur smiled and nodded, then sat down with her sister.

She casually ordered two drinks.

"Hogsmeade is quite interesting. If I had known, I would have come to see it a few times before." Fleur's smile was much gentler than Gabrielle's, but it also made people feel warmer and more comfortable.

After a year of getting along, Lu Yunkai and his friends no longer spoke incomplete sentences like when they first met Fleur.

"It's OK! I just come to relax on the weekend. I really hope I can go to Beauxbatons if I have the chance." Hermione nodded with a smile.

"Well, our school... is still pretty." Fleur said with a smile, "But I may not be able to invite you to visit. Only in a few years, when Gabrielle goes to school..."

"Sister! I want to come to Hogwarts!"

"I've told you many times that I'm no longer in France. What will happen to my parents if you come to England?" Fleur glared at her sister with a bit of complaint, "Be obedient, Beauxbatons is still good."

"But... I think Hogwarts is more interesting! Whether it's brother Harry or brother Yunkai..."

"By the time you can go to school, they should have graduated."

"Oh." Gabrielle pouted at Fleur.

Her cute appearance made everyone present smile knowingly.

"The last project, how are you preparing?" Fleur didn't really want to continue the topic with her sister, so she took the opportunity to move on to something that Lu Yunkai and the others didn't want to talk about.

"What else can we do? We don't know what the project is. Besides being nervous, we should just read more books!" Lu Yunkai said before Harry, "It's better than nothing."

"I heard that the last project may be very confrontational." Furong nodded, seeming to agree with Lu Yunkai's words, "Krum seems to have been locked up by Professor Karkaroff for special training recently."

At this point, she glanced at Hermione.

"I haven't seen him for two months." Hermione quickly expressed her opinion.

Don't ask me, I really don't know. Otherwise, I would have told Harry and Lu Yunkai a long time ago.

"That's not what I meant." Furong waved her hand, "In fact, I have always been curious about the level of Lu Yunkai and Harry's spells. This time may be... a chance to see it."

"Don't! I'm not very good at spells." Lu Yunkai smiled and said, "Hermione is better than me in this aspect by a hundred Harrys..."

"No way!!" Hermione rolled her eyes at Lu Yunkai.

Pretend! Just pretend! !

Last week, Lu Yunkai successfully used the Crushing Spell on his second try in the Charms class. He even successfully used the Crushing Spell to carve a small statue on a piece of stone before the end of the first class...

Although he said it was Daphne, no one could tell it was her at the time, but he was still praised by Professor Flitwick and earned ten House Cup points for Slytherin!

Hermione was confident that she could beat Lu Yunkai in knowledge-based subjects such as astronomy, ancient runes, Muggle studies, arithmetic divination and history of magic, but in subjects that required hands-on skills such as Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Transfiguration and even Herbs, she felt that she was at least two steps behind Lu Yunkai...

Even Harry may not be worse than Hermione in these subjects now.

What's that saying? Practice makes perfect. Compared to Lu Yunkai and Harry, who always need help and always sit in the library reading books, it is normal for Hermione to have weaknesses in this area.

"You're too polite." Apparently, Furong didn't believe it either. "What I actually want to say is... well, if possible, can we form an alliance first?"

Furong's expression was very serious.

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