Harry Potter: The Path of Destiny

"Treacle tart, Hermione." Ron pushed a tart in front of Hermione, "and grape pudding, you have to eat something."

Hermione glared at Ron, who had to take the food back and whispered, "The food will be gone soon, and you will be hungry."

Hermione remained unmoved and refused all the food brought to her. Just as Ron said, after a while, all the food on the table disappeared, and Dumbledore sat in the chair. Lido stood up, and after announcing a few routine announcements, he cleared his throat, and then spoke to everyone solemnly.

"I am very sorry to inform you that this year's Quidditch match will be cancelled." He paused for a moment, glanced at the students who were full of surprises and complaints, and raised an unexpectedly proud smile at the corner of his mouth, and then calmly He continued slowly, "This is because a large-scale event will start in October and last throughout the school year, taking up a lot of teachers' time and energy, but I believe that you will all get a lot of fun from it. I am very I am happy to announce to you that this year at Hogwarts"

A loud banging on the door interrupted Dumbledore's speech. A man wrapped in a black traveling cloak appeared at the door. Everyone's eyes were focused on him. He limped towards the staff chair. As he walked over, a bolt of lightning flashed across the roof that simulated the outdoor sky. The light produced by the lightning illuminated the man's face, and everyone who saw his face clearly took a breath of fear.

Nitya had never seen such a face before. Every inch of skin on his face was covered with scars. His mouth was like a large, crooked hole, and his nose, which should have been bulging, became disfigured for some unknown reason. The most frightening thing about his disability is his eyes. They are two completely different eyes. One eye is always small, black and shiny, but the other eye is very big, round like a coin. It's average, and it's blue. The blue eyeball kept turning, which was completely different from what a normal eye could show. It would even flip over completely, leaving only a white eyeball.

The man walked up to Dumbledore, and they shook hands and hugged each other as if they had been old friends for many years. Then they leaned closer and spoke in a low voice. After Dumbledore nodded to the man, the man sat on the staff bench.

That was the seat originally reserved for the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Could he be Mad-Eye Moody? Nydia looked at the legendary former Auror curiously, and at that moment he also turned his head to look. Nidia, just this glance made Nidia feel a sense of fear in her heart, as if someone had pinched her heart. Nidia felt that she withdrew her gaze and did not dare to look at him again. An imperceptible smile flashed across the corner of the man's mouth.

"Please allow me to introduce you," Dumbledore said again, "our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Moody."

There was an uproar at the table. It was obvious that everyone was familiar with Mad-Eye Moody's name. Normally, everyone would applaud when a new teacher was introduced, but today everyone seemed to be attracted by Moody's appearance. They were so stunned that everyone forgot to applaud. Even Dumbledore put down his hands wisely after clapping his hands a few times.

"Is Mad-Eye Moody the man your father rushed to help this morning?" Harry asked Ron in a low voice.

"Yes, it must be him." Ron looked at Moody with some fear.

"What happened to help?" Nydia asked curiously.

"He claimed that someone broke into his yard, so he made some noise that attracted the attention of the surrounding Muggles, but my father went over to help him solve it." When he said these words, a look appeared on Ron's face. A proud expression.

"Who broke into his yard?" Nidia continued to ask.

"There is no one. This is not the first time." Ron said, "He has become suspicious after retiring. My mother said that he now looks like a dark wizard to everyone."

"Dark wizard, does he hate dark wizards?"

"Are you kidding me? Half of the prisoners in Azkaban were caught by him." Ron raised his head high, as if he had a share of the credit for catching these prisoners. .

Nydia secretly looked at Moody again. He was taking out a curved wine bottle from his traveling cloak, and then took a big sip. Nidia thought about what the feeling just now was about. She felt like she was being treated as prey. Is it because Moody is suspicious that he gives everyone this scary look?

"Back to what I just said." Dumbledore looked at the many students in front of him with a smile, "In the next few months, we will be very honored to host a very exciting event, which has already attracted It has not been held for more than a century, and I am very happy to tell you that the Triwizard Tournament will be held at Hogwarts this year.”

The tense atmosphere that had been caused by Moody's appearance was instantly broken, and everyone laughed happily. Even people like Nitya, who had known the news in advance, became relaxed with this atmosphere.

"The Triwizard Tournament is a friendly competition between the three major magic schools in Europe. It is held every five years and is hosted by the three schools in turn. However, it was later discontinued because there were too many deaths. For centuries "Since then, people have made several attempts to revive the Tournament, but none have been successful," Dumbledore continued. "However, our Department of International Magical Cooperation and the Department of Magical Sports and Sports at the Ministry of Magic feel that the opportunity is ripe for another attempt." "We have done a lot of work this summer to ensure that every warrior's life will not be in danger."

"In October, the principals of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang will lead their students. The selection of warriors will be held on Halloween eve. There will be a notarized referee to decide which students are most qualified to participate in the competition. If your school wins the honor, you will also receive a thousand Galleons bonus.”

The temptation of honor and money made everyone excited and excited. Everyone seemed eager to try. Fred had even made it clear that he would definitely participate in the competition.

When she heard about the bonus of one thousand galleons, Nydia immediately converted the bonus into two Firebolts in her mind. At the same time, she thought of Sirius and didn't know how he was doing now. Harry had practiced with him. I'm going to ask him later when the banquet is over.

As soon as the seventeen-year-old age limit was announced, many people protested, but Dumbledore believed that this was a necessary measure. The competition events were not something that students under the age of six or seven could handle.

As the banquet ended, the students stood up and rushed to the double doors into the foyer. Nydia didn't want to join the crowd, so she stayed until everyone had left before getting up. The same was true for Draco, who walked towards Nydia.

"Let's go" Draco pulled Nydia towards the foyer.

"Aren't you going back to the lounge of your college?" Nydia saw that Draco had no intention of heading towards the basement.

"I'll walk with you for a while, and then I'll go back when you enter the common room," Draco said.

For the first time, Nydia felt regretful that the two of them were not in the same house, but if she was asked to make a choice again, she would still choose to stay in Gryffindor.

"Okay, that's it. You go back quickly, otherwise it will be lights-out time later." When they came to the stairs at the entrance of the Gryffindor lounge, Nydia said to Draco with some reluctance.

"I have never apologized to you." Draco held Nydia's hand tightly.

"Apologise for what?" Nydia looked at Draco in confusion.

"I'm sorry Nydia when we were in the train compartment, I shouldn't have been like that." Draco said a little embarrassed, with a blush on his fair cheeks.

Recalling that rough kiss, Nidia's cheeks became a little hot. She looked at Draco with an embarrassed face and felt a little funny. Then she stood on tiptoes, approached Draco's lips, and kissed him gently. He hit him, and then quickly backed away.

"This way we are even." Nydia smiled mischievously at Draco.

Draco was in a daze at first, and then an uncontrollable smile appeared on his face. If it weren't for someone passing by from time to time, he would have really wanted to pull Nydia over and continue the kiss just now.

"Okay, hurry up and go back. When it's really past the lights-out time, Snape might punish you." Nydia urged Draco to leave quickly.

"Okay, you should go back and rest quickly." Draco pulled Nitya and pressed a kiss on her forehead, "Good night."

"Good night."

Nydia watched Draco leave. After seeing his figure disappear at the stairs, she turned around and prepared to walk towards the entrance of the lounge.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk," two playful voices sounded from the side. Fred and George came out. They looked at Nidia with ambiguous smiles, "You two are really inseparable."

"Don't you think it's rude to hide and watch like this?" Nitya felt extremely embarrassed to be seen in such a scene.

"We didn't mean to peek." Fred shrugged.

"Yes, I was just waiting for you to come over. I didn't expect to encounter such a sweet scene, and neither did we." George raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't expect Nitya to be quite bold."

"What are you waiting for me for?" Nitya's face was even redder than before.

"please help me"

"One is just a piece of cake for you."

"What is it?" Nitya felt vaguely that it must not be a good thing.

"You just heard about the rules of the Triwizard Tournament." Fred said depressedly, "We will be seventeen next April, and I think we are fully qualified to participate in the competition."

"But those damn rules," George said, "can't keep us out for just a few months."

"Do you want to use age-increasing agents?" Nitya guessed.

"Smart, I would say that you are a smart girl like Hermione, but you are more flexible than her." Frey said happily.

"But it's impossible for Dumbledore to not think of this. You can't hide it from him." Nydia felt that this method was too easy to see through.

"But he can't decide who will be the Warriors, right?" George said proudly, as if he was confident of their plan. "We just need to make the referee believe it."

"The age-increasing potion is not a complicated potion. You can make it yourself. Why do you come to me?" Nidia asked.

"It is true that we can make it ourselves, but if we can get it made by Snape's most proud student, we think the effect will definitely be better." Fred explained for Nydia.

"I'm not Snape's most proud student, don't say that again." Speaking of Snape, Nydia remembered that Lucius had said that she and Draco would learn Occlumency from Snape this year. I don't know if Snape agreed or not, "I can help you cook it. It's okay, but I don't think this method is feasible."

"This is what we should worry about, you don't have to worry." George said nonchalantly.

"Well, if you insist, I will give you the potion before Halloween." Since you can't stop them, let them go.

"What a good girl," Fred said happily, "By the way, the new password is nonsense."

"Thank you" Nidia turned and walked towards the portrait of the Fat Lady.