After all the students came to the school by Hogwarts Express, they sat in the auditorium early.
This year's freshman enrollment was completed early. Kahn didn't care much about the freshmen, but he was very interested in the sorting hat; it was recorded in Nicolas May's alchemy notes that he wanted to integrate ideas into alchemical products, but he was quite advanced. knowledge of alchemy.
Kahn can't do it now, his memory magic is not enough, and when he can perfectly copy his personality, emotions, habits, etc. with memory magic, he can try this advanced alchemy.
Strictly speaking, the sorting hat is already equivalent to a kind of artifact, but it has the thoughts of the four founders.
After the sorting was over, Dumbledore began to announce something. This year is a very special year for Hogwarts.
Dumbledore stood in front of the stage and said loudly: "First of all, let us welcome Professor Ponte who is more familiar with you from the third grade and above. This year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he is still here to impart knowledge to you."
After Dumbledore finished saying this, many students applauded. They still like Kahn Ponte very much. The teaching method is completely different from others. It is free and novel, and Kahn's His generous handwriting has made many people remember him, and now Hermione's Firebolt is about to become the exclusive broom of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Except for Slytherin, most of the Slytherin students were not very happy about this news, because at the Quidditch World Cup, Kahn sent twenty-one wizards from pure-blood families to the Ministry of Magic.
A few days ago, the trial of the twenty-one wizards from pure-blood families had officially ended, and it should have been handed over to Azkaban by now.
After Dumbledore told the freshmen about the dangers of Hogwarts in a cliche, the administrator Filch hurried in from the gate and whispered something in Dumbledore's ear.
When Filch was running on tiptoe to the door of the Great Hall, Dumbledore announced loudly again: "Because Hogwarts was selected to hold a legendary event, this school will welcome Some special guests..."
When Dumbledore announced in front of the stage, Professor McGonagall was about to take off the sorting hat and send it to the principal's office after the banquet.
After seeing Professor McGonagall's behavior, Kahn immediately said with bright eyes: "Professor McGonagall, put the sorting hat on me."
Professor McGonagall looked puzzled and said: "Put it in your place? Professor Pinter, the sorting hat will be put back in the principal's office after the banquet..."
Kahn said: "Leave this matter to me. I have a little question and I want to talk to the Sorting Hat."
Chat, but it's just a hat.
Professor McGonagall wanted to ask the reason, but she still didn't speak, and put the hat next to Kahn; it was just a trivial matter, and the sorting hat wouldn't be lost or damaged, but it was a bit dirty.
Dumbledore in front of the stage has already started to welcome the students of Beauxbaton School, and Kahn just wants to use this time to study the Sorting Hat. Maybe he can ask Dumbledore later if the Sorting Hat can be placed in the black The office of the professor of defense against magic.
"What are you going to do? I have the vision and critical thinking of the four founders. Your eyes reveal dangerous thoughts. It reminds me of 'Witch Hunting Prison'. Maybe you should go there!
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After the Sorting Hat was placed beside Kahn, he suddenly said to him in a panic; but Kahn was even more curious, sighed a bit, and then directly used the detection magic in alchemy on the Sorting Hat to analyze its composition .
Ancient runes, very complicated ancient runes, Kahn even saw some different but very similar runes in it; he didn't know whether it was the runes used by elves or something else, but Kahn I feel that this hat is of great research value.
The interest on Kahn's face became more intense, and then he suddenly felt that many people were looking at him. Hagrid beside him, Hermione and others below all set their sights on him.
The gaze of one of them caught Kahn's attention a little bit. It seemed to be a student of Beauxbatons, with hair like a silver waterfall, and azure blue eyes full of complex expressions, but one thing Kahn was sure of was hatred. Emotions, he'd seen them many times in Lucius' eyes.
If Kahn remembered correctly, she should be Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons? It may be because of family reasons, but it has nothing to do with him. If you decide to take a risk, you have to bear the consequences, and it's not like a child playing house.
He restrained his behavior towards the Sorting Hat a little, and studied the Sorting Hat after Dumbledore quickly finished telling the story of the Triwizard Tournament.
At this time, Beauxbaton's students and principals had already taken their seats, and Dumbledore was welcoming the people from Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After they came to the Great Hall and took their seats, Dumbledore announced the start of the dinner.
The Triwizard Tournament should be announced at least after the meal, otherwise some students would definitely not be able to bear the hunger to listen to Dumbledore and Barty Crouch announce the match.
Today's dinner has a lot more variety than traditional British dishes. It may have been specially ordered by Dumbledore to take care of the guests of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
After everyone had almost eaten, Dumbledore waved his hand and removed all the food on the table before revealing the magic item, the Goblet of Fire.
When Barty Crouch was explaining the rules of the Triwizard Tournament, Mad-Eye Moody also came in through the side door of the auditorium. He was invited by Dumbledore to prevent some accidents in the middle of the match.
Kahn doesn't know if this Mad Eye is real or not. On the day of the Quidditch World Cup, he doesn't know if he killed Barty Crouch Jr., but he can find a chance to try this Mad Eye Chinese.
Dumbledore already knew the whereabouts of the Horcrux, Voldemort's resurrection is completely meaningless, the power of the Death Eaters has been greatly reduced, Pettigrew Peter has also been sent to Azkaban, and now Voldemort's chance of resurrection has become hell Difficulty, this purpose is not necessarily a fake.
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After the banquet, Kahn asked Dumbledore to borrow the Sorting Hat, and he agreed without much thought, but told Kahn to 'return it to the principal's office after it is used up'.
Afterwards, Kahn put the Sorting Hat away, ignoring its meaningless accusations. Alchemy items with independent thinking ability are indeed amazing, but they are a bit noisy.
Before returning to the office, Kahn went to the library and the Forbidden Library, and borrowed all the books about ancient runes before Mrs. Pince left.
There are a lot of unfamiliar runes in the composition of the Sorting Hat. Tonight, Kahn will probably study while looking for information.
But at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, he met a strange black cat.
"Whose pet is this?"
Kahn suspended the magic book in the air, and then came to the black cat to observe it; unexpectedly, the black cat was not afraid of people, and when it saw him approaching, it meowed sweetly, with a delicate and delicate voice .
"Sounds so sweet, it seems to be a male cat... Oh, I guessed wrong."
Kahn raised the black cat and observed it, but this action caused the black cat to struggle, which may be the reason for the climb.
Many students at Hogwarts bring pets. Although most of the students' pets are owls, some people still bring other pets; for example, Hermione's pet is a very smart cat, which contains the blood of cats.
After putting the cat down, Kahn didn't care about it anymore, maybe the black cat would return to its owner tomorrow; but when Kahn opened the door, the black cat ran away one step faster than Kahn He went in, then jumped onto his desk along the stool, and squatted obediently on the desk.
Those eyes looked at Kahn so agilely that he no longer wanted to use magic to drive the black cat out.
It's still a matter of appearance. If it was a mouse squatting at the door of his office, it would be in pieces by now.
"You can stay here, but be honest, don't bark or defecate."
After Kahn finished speaking, he waved his hand and used the transformation technique to conjure up a cushion and cat litter for the black cat, and then took out some fish to tease the black cat; but the black cat seemed to be full, and directly Turning his head away, he gave Kahn a boring side face.
"Pretty proud..."
However, the fur is very smooth, and it feels good when you rub it, and the black cat seems to enjoy Kahn's technique very much. After a while, it lay down on the soft cushion and prepared to sleep.
Seeing that the black cat was about to rest, Kahn stopped stroking the cat. He took out some flipbooks about ancient runes, and at the same time continued to use detection magic to write all the special runes that make up the Sorting Hat with a shorthand quill pen. It was recorded.
So in the room at night, only the sound of the quill writing was left. The black cat lay on the cushion and opened its eyes from time to time. Couldn't help but yawned and fell asleep.
The cushions are fluffy and comfortable, and there is a fire in the room, so even if you sleep like this all night, you won't catch a cold.
...
The black cat who was dreaming was suddenly knocked on the head twice, and when her dream was interrupted, she immediately meowed angrily, but when she opened her sleepy eyes, she found that Kahn hugged her.
"I'm going to go to class, in order to avoid you being locked in the office, you'd better go back and find your master."
Attend class?
After the black cat heard this sentence, the child's hole became a vertical slit. How long did she sleep for?
After being carried out by Kahn, the black cat immediately broke free from his embrace, and then ran away; Kahn couldn't help shaking his head when he saw this, and said, "I really don't want to miss it, I don't remember it at all."
Teaching the students is more like a task for Kahn. Now he has something more interesting, which is alchemy, so he sent his own shadow to teach the students. The shadow clone can be released directly, and if an emergency occurs in the classroom, the shadow clone can also be released.
Kahn now has a deep understanding of black magic, at least he has read all the books about black magic in Hogwarts.
Voldemort was already studying Horcruxes when he was sixteen years old, and the black magic Kahn forced out from Tom was enough to teach students in grades four, five and six how to guard against it.
As for the students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, they occasionally come to attend classes; most of the students from these two schools are in the seventh grade, and only a small number of them need to attend classes with Hogwarts students.
It's just that in the past few nights, a black cat has come to block Kahn's office, as if treating him as a hotel.
"It's amazing, it's really a magical handwriting. The construction method has something to do with the high-level sealing technique. Maybe we can learn from the principle of the sealing technique... As long as so many runes are 'stabilized', we should be able to create a similar one." Hats, just need 'emotions', 'thoughts' and 'judgments'."
Kahn looked at the completely recorded runes in front of him. There were more than 1,700 runes, of which rune runes only accounted for a quarter, and the rest were relatively unfamiliar to Kahn; but from the rune records, we can see that Roughly speaking, two of them should come from magical creatures, and there is really no information on the last one.
"Maybe you can look at the notes and materials left by Nicolas May."
Kahn suddenly remembered that he still had the knowledge left by the master alchemy master, so he decided to separate out two shadow clones every day, and first read all the alchemy books left by Nicole May.
"Before that, I can refine some other... eh? Fleur, Delacour."
Kahn just wanted to refine some magic items, but suddenly received a memory from the shadow clone. Everything else was normal, except that Fleur Delacour approached him after class and wanted to choose a warrior after tonight. Talk to him.
You don't need to guess that Fleur is for the Delacour family, but Kahn didn't intend to help the proud court flower; the Delacour family is greedy first, if they let it go easily, where will Kahn's face be put? , Will the Delacour family push their noses to their faces in the future?
However, Fleur Delacour's words reminded Kahn that tonight was the time to select the warriors, and he almost forgot about it; if Fleur hadn't approached him, Kahn originally planned to refine magic items in the office.
The Goblet of Fire is a magic item that Karn has not touched much, but there is a powerful magic contract on it. Once the contract is established, even Dumbledore cannot change or terminate it.
Kahn came late, and when he came to the Great Hall, Dumbledore just announced Beauxbaton's warrior, Fleur Delacour.
"Professor, here."
Hermione waved to Kahn from behind the crowd, and when the Goblet of Fire was about to spit out the second name, Kahn didn't want to be conspicuous and walked over to the professor's side, so he stood beside Hermione.
"Professor, Harry has encountered some troubles recently. Can I take him to you after the selection of warriors is over?"
Hermione leaned close to Kahn's ear and asked in a low voice. Harry noticed that Kahn was looking at him and nodded quickly. It seemed that the two had discussed it.
Kahn nodded and said: "Of course, come to my office directly later."
While the two were chatting, all three warriors of the Triwizard Tournament had been selected, Fleur Delacour, Viktor Krum and Cedric Diggory.
But before Dumbledore could say anything, the Goblet of Fire changed again, and a fourth note flew out from it. Dumbledore took a look at the note, and the wrinkles on his face were twisted together up.
Then he shouted loudly: "Harry Potter!"
Hermione said in surprise: "There is a fourth warrior? And the fourth warrior is Harry? Why are there four warriors in the Triwizard Tournament...Professor Penter, why do I suddenly feel a little reasonable..."
"You're under the spell, Hermione."
Kahn carefully looked at Mad-Eye Moody and found that he was also shocked. If it was a fake, it can only be said that his acting skills are very good; but the acting skills of Barty Crouch Jr. Passed by many people.
Harry Potter was qualified as a warrior, which made many people feel aggrieved; he was only fourteen years old, and he had the reputation of a savior, but his performance was not convinced by everyone. Why did he be chosen as a warrior.
Cheating!
This is the only thought of many people after feeling jealous, even Harry's good friend Ron has some doubts, only Hermione thinks this is an accident, because she knows that Harry has no ability to break through the magic set by Dumbledore, if He is really so good, there is no need to copy her homework.
After Dumbledore announced that Harry Potter was the last warrior, he asked the students to leave, while he and Barty Crouch went to discuss Harry Potter.
In the auditorium, after almost everyone left, Hermione asked, "Godfather, what should we do now?"
"Let's wait for Dumbledore to discuss the result, but Harry can only participate, and Dumbledore can't stop the magic contract of the Goblet of Fire."
After Kahn finished speaking, he told Hermione, "After Harry comes out, if he is still willing to come to me today, bring him to my office."
Hermione nodded in response. Kahn was not willing to waste time. While waiting, he could go back and design the shape of the alchemy item to be refined next.
At present, metal and magic materials are still the main materials. After he understands the research on the rune, he plans to try it on clothes.
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Not long after he returned, there was a knock on the office door.
Kahn waved his hand, and the office door opened directly, and then Hermione walked in mindless and unhappy.
Hermione took a closer look at the magic materials on the desk, and then said, "Godfather, there was an accident when I came here, so I wasted a little time."
Kahn waved his hand, then turned the chair around, and asked Harry, "It's okay, so Harry, what's your trouble?"
Harry asked with an unhappy face: "Professor, my biggest problem now is becoming a warrior. Is there any solution?"
"Of course there is a way, as long as the Goblet of Fire is solved. In fact, I really want to study the Goblet of Fire. Since it is a magical item, there must be a way to crack it; but I just learned alchemy not long ago, and it may take a few months or so." Only half a year is possible."
Kahn said seriously that he really wanted to study the Goblet of Fire, but Dumbledore and Barty Crouch would never agree.
"But I really didn't vote for..."
"Of course you didn't vote. With your magic power, you can't break through Dumbledore's curse. Someone else voted for you; in fact, I can do it, but the time has passed, otherwise all three of you would be able to participate. "
Kahn paused, and continued to count: "No one will make you famous for no reason, and the person who helps you become a warrior is not for your money, but for you. In short, someone is eyeing you now, but you don't have to Worry, there are so many professors in the school, enough to guarantee your safety."
After listening to Kahn's words, the expression on Harry's face relaxed at first, because a professor helped him prove that he did not sign up for the Goblet of Fire at all; Ron on the side felt a little ashamed when he heard it. Some maliciously suspected that Harry had become a warrior by cheating.
But Kahn's subsequent words made Harry nervous again. Someone was watching him. Why did he always encounter dangerous things in school?
Feeling helpless, Harry thought of it, but seeing Hermione's eyes, he remembered the purpose of the afternoon, so he said quickly: "Professor, I always have nightmares recently, dreaming that... Voldemort is fighting with some eaters." Dead Apostles say something, they seem to have come to Hogwarts!"
"Come to Hogwarts? Tell me about your dream in detail."
Kahn's face became a little more serious, and then he heard from Harry his recent repeated dream.
'You are all lurking in. 'This sentence...
More than one Death Eater came in?
But Kahn didn't notice that Moody had been drinking all the time, but to be on the safe side, he would try using the spell tomorrow.
"Harry, you'd better practice Occlumency, this is my suggestion to you; as for who to learn from...you can ask Sirius, or Professor McGonagall."
Kahn said to Harry: "The spell of Occlumency is the only thing that can help you solve your nightmares."
After solving all of Harry's problems, Kahn asked them to go to the dormitory and go to sleep. Today was delayed by many things, and it is already very late.
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"Hermione, Ron, how do I learn Occlumency with Sirius? He can't get into Hogwarts at all... By the way, there is a secret passage in the school, but where will he live after he gets in?"
On the way back, Harry asked with some annoyance; after the misunderstanding was resolved, his relationship with Ron returned to normal.
"I do not know either..."
Before Ron could finish his words, he saw the person coming out of the corner with straight eyes. The waterfall-like silver hair and charming face made him unable to move his eyes away, especially the one he looked at up close. glance.
"She's beautiful, isn't she?"
Harry nodded in agreement, "You're right, Ron."
"It's Fleur Delacour? It's so late, what is she doing there?" That direction should be the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, where her godfather lives.
Hermione wanted to know the answer very much in her heart, but Harry and Ron obviously couldn't give her the answer.
"Go back first, I'm going to the bathroom."
After Hermione finished speaking, she hurriedly left.
After she left, Harry responded to the question and answer: "Ron, is there no bathroom in the girls' dormitory?"
"I don't know, maybe not, otherwise Hermione couldn't have gone anywhere else."
Harry shook his head: "That's really pathetic."