"The test results are out. The scores are here and the papers are here."
On the podium, William slapped a thick stack of papers on top and looked at the students expressionlessly.
"Of the twenty students who participated, nineteen were left behind. Only one barely made it into the top twenty - the nineteenth place, which can be regarded as more than two senior students."
"Where are the rest of them—"
He looked at the students below and said, "They are all falling behind. To be precise, they are all failing."
"With such a level, are you still thinking about taking the OWLs exam?"
"Everyone will complete this paper again - if they fail, they will receive two additional papers. If students who take the exam fail to pass, their homework will be doubled."
He waved his hand, and the test paper automatically floated up and landed gently on each student's desk.
"Start answering the questions now. I hope you won't leave me with any worse memories..."
He shook his head and left the classroom with a straight face.
But for a while, the entire classroom could hear no other sounds except the sound of quills writing on parchment.
At the same time, in the empty classroom next door, Moody waved to William, who had just entered, "Speaking of which, is it too harsh to send students who try to cheat to solitary confinement?"
"It's better than being caught in the OWLs examination room without knowing the truth. You will really go to jail. They have been too free and easy this year. They need to learn a lesson."
"The main thing is that the students in this class are not too naughty. Like the last class, there were the Weasley twins. If you use them to show off your power, things will be very easy to handle - by the way, how have they been doing recently?"
William sat down and asked casually.
"Originally, they were under control, but it seems that after this exam, they became a little overactive again."
Moody spread his hands, "But to be honest, their talents are really good. They may be able to pass the test, but they are too wild-minded and will definitely have no chance of becoming an Auror."
Probably because they have been working as Aurors for a long time. Moody's highest evaluation of students is that they can pass the Auror recruitment test, and the next level is that they can barely pass the Auror recruitment test. The rest are basically various other jobs that are more suitable for them. A wizard of other professions.
"Still a little worse than Percy," William shook his head regretfully, "Percy is the kind of genius who is willing to work hard. In terms of talent, only Potter can beat him in combat. The rest of the students of all grades It's hard to be as talented as Percy and work hard enough."
"Not even Cedric?"
"No, as for Cedric, the child's talent is not as good as Percy's, and his hard work is not as good as Percy's. He is indeed very good, but Percy is a student who has obtained OWLs certificates in all subjects. This alone , Cedric is one step ahead of him."
"And in terms of fighting, he is, as you can tell, Professor Moody - his fighting method is too rigid. Although he is good enough, but..."
William shook his head.
"He is a bit like Miss Granger. He relies solely on his astonishing knowledge to crush his opponents. He is not good at matching spells and taking advantage of favorable conditions in battle."
"But most of the time, his hard work and the knowledge brought by his talent allow him to crush his opponents. This is great, but once he encounters someone more talented than him, he will be defeated completely."
"It's not that exaggerated -" Moody shook his head, "You are being manipulated by the so-called Percy. There are currently seven students in Hogwarts who dare to say that their talent has surpassed that of Cedric's wizard. ,there's a few?"
"He even went to the Aurors, and after three years of training, he was still a good player -" Moody looked at William, "I have found a lot of good talents. In the sixth grade alone, there are enough who can pass the assessment." Those who hold hands, don't stop them when the time comes."
"Eh!"
In the middle of the conversation, Moody showed a proud smile on his face.
His magic eye that had been staring at the wall turned around and said, "Blonde hair, medium length, about 1.63 meters, thin body."
"Okay, Nixon," William recalled for a moment, "are there still some freckles on your nose?"
"That's right!"
"it's him."
William said as he circled the list.
"Keep a close eye, Professor Moody. If enough children are arrested this time, I will also give you the report cards of all seventh-grade and fifth-grade exams."
"You are really..."
Moody muttered, but the evil eye had already turned to the next classroom again.
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"How are you preparing?"
In the empty classroom, the four warriors met again and began to study the second game.
"Sorry, I'm busy reviewing during this time..."
Cedric blushed - in order to prepare for the exam, he studied extremely hard and finally got the first place in the exam.
But because of this reason, he couldn't prepare for the Triwizard Tournament at all during this period. He only briefly tested a few underwater spells in the prefect's bathroom.
"It's not very convenient for me to study in experiments..."
Harry spread his hands, "I couldn't find a better way..."
"You don't actually need to be so nervous - and to be honest, I don't think you can find a better way than the professor taught you in such a short time before the game..."
The three senior students looked at Harry, a little sourly.
'Actually, it's mainly Hermione who's rummaging around...'
But it's definitely not appropriate to say this…
"I practiced the transformation spell again during this period, but the effect was not very satisfactory."
Nancy sighed, "I'll most likely follow the advice you gave me, Potter, and use some spells that can assist in moving quickly when using the Head Bubble Charm."
"I don't know when the other schools will be able to roughly guess it - so that we can practice swimming openly - by the way, how are you preparing, Mr. Mengtai?"
"Quite rewarding."
Meng Tai grinned - although this period of busyness made him the second-lowest scorer in the sixth grade for the first time in the just-concluded exam, it was all worth it.
"I asked someone to investigate the situation of the warriors from other colleges going to the hospital during this period - it can be judged that they are still trying to crack the golden egg. It is most likely not a cover-up."
As he spoke, he poked the golden egg placed on the table as a pretense, "Speaking of which, shouldn't we also cause an accident to prevent them from becoming suspicious?"
"That's not necessary," Cedric shook his head. "We have basically never been to the campus hospital for treatment. If we act too fake, it will easily arouse suspicion."
"Yes," Montague nodded. "Then I'll just tell you what I gained this time."
"Ilvermorny has been waving Galleons to try to get information, Durmstrang is getting along well with a few purebloods, but Beauxbatons has not seen any significant movement. ."
"That's what I think. If necessary, can we give them some little help before they find out the answer, so that they can get enough intelligence."
"Tell them the question?"
The other three glanced at Meng Tai in confusion, suppressing their curiosity and waiting for him to explain.
"Instead of revealing the topic directly, we tell them through different channels some things we intend to let them know."
"for example…"
Mengtai stretched out his hand and clapped his fingers, "Well... there are large groups of magical creatures in the lake that can attack people..."
"Our client has created a simple magic recipe for underwater breathing potion..."
"We are desperately studying human body transformation..."
A proud smile appeared on his face - this was the way he gave up his exam review to think of a way for the warriors from other schools to give up the bubble head curse and swim freely in the lake like a fish. It took a lot of his energy and time. .
"These methods..."
Harry felt something was wrong, but couldn't figure it out for a while, but as the situation of the last discussion emerged, he instantly understood what Montague wanted to do.
"You want to use that, that potion?"
"That's right."
Montague looked at Harry with a smug look in his eyes, "As long as they give up the defensive nature of the Bubble Curse, this is our chance."
"But, we have never heard of underwater breathing potions."
"Neither do I, but it's not important. I believe that Professor Snape will definitely be able to research it. You should know that with the existing magic system, this kind of potion has not been developed not because it is difficult, but because it soaks the head. The curse makes it meaningless to develop."
The difficulty of developing potions can be seen from the purpose - for example, the wolfsbane potion that just won the Merlin Medal, its effect is to resist the attack desire of werewolves in transformation, and forcibly put the werewolves who are extremely resistant to magic to sleep. The existing spell system simply cannot do this.
As for the underwater breathing potion - be it transfiguration or head soaking spell, there are too many magics that can have similar effects. Meng Tai believes that it won't even take a week for his dean to complete it.
"I don't believe that the professors in the other three schools are much different. What our dean can do in a week, they can barely do it in a month. Just before the competition, they will test it twice and then launch it. By then..."
"As for them choosing to transform, it will be easier. Let's get more potions and use the head soaking spell well, then..."
Montague raised his head, his face full of pride.
"It seems feasible."
"It's really possible if you control the time well."
After a little discussion, the four agreed to use Meng Tai's plan - pre-game fraud was also part of the game, after all, the prerequisite for the opponent to be fooled was to come and steal information.
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"Water breathing potion?"
"Aren't you good at the Bubble Charm, Graham? Doesn't that guy Moody even teach you such a simple spell?"
In the Slytherin dean's office, Montague was questioned like this after he made his request.
It was obvious that their dean had strong opinions on the self-defense professors.
But it was naturally impossible for Mr. Meng to say something that would make the dean unhappy - especially the affirmation of the self-defense professor's teaching.
"That's it, I suddenly thought of a trap to attract the traps of other schools."
"Such a trap requires your cooperation, Professor. Only if you study it will those people really believe that we are working towards this."
After briefly describing this trap to the professor, their dean's face became visibly happy.
"Okay, five days, I can get what you want in five days - although the gill grass can achieve the same effect, my potion is better."
'Gillweed? '
Montague silently remembered the name without asking - he was not an idiot and could not do such a stupid thing.
"Too fast, Professor, you need to give them time to react, and you have to give the rest of the pharmacists a long time to imitate."
"Then be prepared to do it again, Graham, just this time."
"I understand, Professor."
——
'Gillweed? '
'Why does the professor need to remind you about this? Could this be an herbal medicine with similar effects? '
Montague thought about this matter, and after thinking about it for a while, he decided to meet with the other warriors to check out this herb and see if they had heard of it - it would be okay to ask the dean, but he didn't want to be called a fool for a long time.
Although Slytherin has preferential treatment from the professor, it does not mean that they continue to act stupidly after the professor prompts them - as we all know, the professor's venomous tongue is not limited to the other three houses.
Sure enough, no one knew about this unorthodox herbal medicine - everyone quickly searched everywhere.
In the end, Nancy of Ravenclaw figured out the existence of this herb, and its effect was similar to that of Montague's underwater breathing potion.
"Okay, it seems we still have a backup plan for failure."
"If you can't be sure whether the opponent has produced the potion, then buy the gillyweed at a crazy high price before the game to attract the opponent's attention, and then let the other party have enough money to buy out the gillyweed."
Montague rubbed his hands happily, as if everything was under control.
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"What should I do? The principal is still like that."
"What can we do? Review well and prepare well for the competition. If she is in a bad mood, just keep that Hagrid away."
In the carriage, the Beauxbatons players were dealing with the golden egg.
The competition will start in less than a month, but now...
"Fu Rong, are you back?"
"Yes, and I have good news - another guy made a fool of himself and said something very interesting."
For her, seeing people lose their temper is a daily routine, and some people always rush over and say weird things.
"It's those Hogwarts guys who are interested in water lately."
"water?"
"And didn't the kid from Ilvermorny secretly say yesterday that they were researching underwater breathing potions?"
Fleur put away her coat to keep out the cold, "So I was wondering if I should put the golden eggs in the water."
As she spoke, she set up a careful defense for herself - every experience gained a wise man. After many experiments, everyone knew that the golden egg was a dangerous object.
Under everyone's cautious eyes, the golden egg that was immersed in the water and opened sang.
"Looks good!"
Everyone high-fived each other, "It seems that the underwater breathing potion is also real."
"I'll tell the principal!"
"Come back! Don't cause trouble for her. It's time for us to solve the problem independently. It's good if we know it's underwater - there's no need to force high-end breathing potions. We can use the head soaking spell. It doesn't look good, but it's very effective. ."
"The lack of flexibility can be replaced by swimming. In addition, we can try to train spellcasting in water."
"Let the principal have a good rest. She is so concerned about the game that she is trapped in it. We can't just rely on her."
"Come on."
ps: Although there is something wrong, I still ask for a monthly pass at the end of next month...