Hogwarts Reading Days

No one knows what happened last night.

At least, on the surface, no one knows.

Due to being woken up by Bud in the middle of the night, Albert was not in a good mood this morning. He stretched out his hand to cover his yawn, and slowly flipped through the Bullfighting Daily.

The bottle of Felix Felicia last night had been proved to be harmless after Yi Hughes' personal test.The other party also successfully got the final payment of 1000 gold coins from the "Bullfighting Daily". In addition to the first two hundred gold coins, Albert was allocated [-] gold coins, plus a bottle of Felicity Elixir for about two days, and finished it by the way panel tasks.

"You look sleepy?" Diana, the bar owner, came to inform Albert about the time of the party. "By the way, where is Mr. Bud?"

"He should still be sleeping. We talked until late last night before resting." Albert put down the newspaper and said.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Before Diana turned and walked away, she turned her head and said, "After the Barnabus Finkley Excellent Spellcasting competition, there will be a small banquet specially prepared for you and the referee. Yes, please don’t have to stay and finish the banquet before leaving.”

Albert looked at Diana's leaving back and raised his eyebrows slightly. He thought of something Bud had mentioned to him.

At this moment, Albert felt as if someone was spying on him. He picked up the newspaper again as a cover, and quietly looked in a certain direction.

There sat the special correspondent of Bullfighting Daily.

Albert suddenly knew why that guy was secretly looking at him. He was observing whether he had symptoms caused by taking too much Felicia.

"Would you like to tease him?"

Albert suddenly had an inexplicable bad taste in his heart, but he quickly suppressed such thoughts.

It's best to disassociate yourself from this matter.

After all, everything was Yi Hughes' fault.

It was he who deceived the group of people who set up a gambling game in the "Bullfighting Daily" and took their money and ran away.

What does it have to do with him, Albert?

The tracking spell that the other party left on Yi Hughes had already been forcibly blocked by Albert using magic. When the time comes, the frantic mastermind behind the scenes will find that he has been played like a monkey. It must be very interesting.

"It feels so good."

There was a slight smile on the corner of Albert's mouth, and he finally knew why there were so many old dicks.

What a delight!

Albert and the special reporter Lucian looked into each other's eyes, smiled and nodded towards each other, then looked away from the other's stunned gaze, and re-read the latest issue of "Bullfighting Daily".

Having said that, he found the front-page headlines of Bullfighting Daily really embarrassing to read.

Anyway, it was a burst of advocacy for him.

However, at the end of the article, Albert found that there was a hole in it.

If Albert was found to have used a large amount of Felicity Potion, he would most likely become the object of countless people's spurning immediately, and many people would throw insults at him.

How cruel!

If he was slandered by others, his reputation would probably be ruined!

Sure enough, it was right to squeeze those guys' wool, why didn't the house elves bring more Galleons back then!

What a pity.

When the time was almost up, Albert got up and followed the other players upstairs to the party.

Yesterday's living room was surrounded by comfortable sofas, and drinks and desserts were placed on the small round table in front of them.

Several referees have already taken their seats, and the players sit among the referees for one-on-one communication.

Albert is very calm, he has a lot of experience in getting along with old friends.The suspected Auror man was well-adjusted, and the other woman quickly got into it too.On the contrary, the decadent Mr. Noe stuttered and was the most embarrassing of the four.

Albert was casually chatting with the lady next to him. The two sides used Italian. After a brief communication, Albert learned that the lady in front of him was called Monica, who was said to have been working as a referee for 63 years.

The two chatted casually about Italian food, and the relationship between the two sides became much closer.

Monica looked at Albert, who was talking eloquently, and was surprised that Albert was a Muggle wizard.Although she had read the information, Albert did not look like a Muggle wizard, and what surprised Monica the most was Albert's circle of friends. The other party had casually mentioned several Italian experts in various fields. Listen to him The tone of voice, the relationship seems to be pretty good.

Later, the topic of chatting between the two was gradually led to the method of casting spells, and Albert directly used the knowledge on the skills on the panel to fool... Well, it's not fooling.

In short, Ms. Monica kept her mouth open a lot of the time, as if shocked by Albert's unique insights into spellcasting techniques.Even Mr. Yafo, the Bulgarian wizard next to Albert, couldn't help turning his head to chat with him.

Looking at No. 17, who became the most dazzling number in the whole party, special reporter Lucian showed an imperceptible smile at the corner of his mouth.

Sure enough, on the 17th, he took Felicia, otherwise it would be impossible to talk to the referees.

The next step is to get the opponent out.

This is also the main reason why Lucian is here.

As long as No. 17 is detected to have taken Felicia and is disqualified from the competition, he can get a large bonus.

Lucian couldn't wait.

However, what puzzled him was, why hasn't No. 17 revealed his flaws yet?

Using a large dose of Felicity Elixir should lead to arrogance and make the referees aware that something is wrong, but why is there no sign?

"What a strange thing."

From special correspondent Lucian's point of view, Albert's body clearly reveals many features of Felicia.

But... why?

The party lasted two hours, and Lucian followed the contestants out of the living room with bewildered eyes, unable to understand why things were not as they were said.

Finally, Lucian quickly returned to the "Bullfighting Daily" to report the strange incident and asked whether to start the preparatory plan.

The so-called preparatory plan was actually to pretend to be someone else to report that Albert had taken Felicia.

Yes, report it.

Then, investigate.

As for who reported it, that really doesn't matter.

Anyway, this kind of large-scale competition has a process of checking Felicia, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

After receiving the report, the Spanish Ministry of Magic took immediate action, with an image of justice that I will resolutely maintain the fairness and justice of the game.

This incident caused an uproar.

In addition, "Bullfighting Daily" deliberately digs holes in the headlines.

Many people began to wonder if No. 17 secretly used Felix Elixir. After all, he was too young. The young wizard who was jealous of him was also happy to see him unlucky, and began to fan the flames to demand a fair handling of this matter. a fair.

"I found that some people will do anything for money." Albert sighed softly, "They really did."

"It's within your expectation, isn't it?" Bud felt that this matter became more and more interesting, and "Bullfighting Daily" met Albert as a kick.

"No, I didn't expect the changes in other people." Albert said in a soft voice, not caring about the suspicious eyes around him, "Do you think the British magic world will be like this..."

"So stupid?" Bud was not surprised at all.

"They just don't want to admit that I'm a genius. They're more willing to believe that I secretly cheated with Felicity Potion." Albert was not surprised at all.

"It's actually the same in the British magic world. People only want to see what they want to see. This is their nature." Bud sighed, he knew what Albert was referring to. "If one day Voldemort returns, the entire British wizarding world will probably desperately deny that he is still alive."

"It's more because of the Spanish Ministry of Magic. They want civilians to be easy to manage, and fools are undoubtedly better than smart people." Albert said softly, "However, I think this is more interesting."

To be honest, Albert didn't think of himself as a generous person.

Therefore, he is now particularly looking forward to the wonderful expressions on the faces of those who suspected him of cheating with Felicia Potion after learning the cruel truth.

After lunch, the four contestants were all gathered in the living room, several referees, bar owner Diana, a special reporter from "Daily Bullfighting" and three officials from the Spanish Ministry of Magic were all present.

"I'm sorry to call you all here, but I think you may have heard some bad rumors." Diana frowned, not happy that this happened.

"For the sake of the fairness of the competition, the organizers feel that it is necessary to take action."

"How do you plan to test?" The wizard who seemed to be an Auror frowned and asked, "Use Legilimency, or Veritaserum?"

"We prefer to use Legilimency," Diana said. "Mr. Digard is a master of Legilimency, and he can... say Ms. Camerin."

"How can you ensure that he doesn't mess around with the memories in my head?" said the only woman in the team.

"Do you have any questions, Mr. Noe?"

"How can you guarantee that he won't lie?" Noel already smelled the conspiracy, "Don't tell me he is an official of the Ministry of Magic, as long as he is a person, he may lie for some reason."

The faces of the officials from the Spanish Ministry of Magic were very ugly, especially the players who had a deep distrust of them.

"Please say Mr. Anderson." Diana nodded to Albert and said.

"As far as I know, major tournaments have their own methods of checking for cheating." Of course Albert knew what the method was.

A small amount of veritaserum will not cause harm to people.

However, many large-scale competitions actually don’t like to use Veritaserum, because this thing itself is a prohibited item. Using this thing is very troublesome, and there are ways to avoid it. The antidote to Veritaserum.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little stiff, and even Diana didn't know what to do, she had never encountered such a situation.

"Don't worry." One of the five referees stood up and said, "Actually, the referee team already has a way to identify whether to use Felicia."

Everyone looked at the referees in unison.

"To be honest, we don't advocate the use of it." With that said, a referee opened a box containing a transparent medicine.

"As we all know, taking too much Felicin itself has some bad symptoms, and you can't drink it continuously, otherwise there will be serious consequences." Ms. Monica introduced to everyone, "If you take Fuling within a short time If you use it, you may experience dizziness, poisoning and other symptoms. Of course, if you don’t use Felicia, it is harmless.”

"Short time refers to how short it is." Albert asked, "If it is a year, he thinks he can just give up."

"Within a month," Monica said.

"What if you are poisoned?"

"We have first aid here."

The four looked at each other, and finally looked at the officials of the Ministry of Magic.

"We need to prove the effectiveness of this medicine." The official who was the leader of the three said, "You know, this is a gamble, and we have to be cautious."

"We have Felicity Elixir here." An elderly referee took out a golden vial and handed it to him. "Just one drop is enough, otherwise there may be trouble if the poisoning is severe."

The faces of the three Ministry of Magic officials were not very good-looking. In the end, one of them drank a little Felix Felicia, and then drank the potion for testing. As a result, the whole person panicked and almost passed out. Not only that, but his face suddenly changed. Pale, like sick.

"Drink this, it will make you feel better, although it will be better in a while with the dose just now."

As they said that, they took out another bottle, lowered it into the water, and let the official of the Ministry of Magic drink it, so that his face looked better.

"Okay, admit it to yourselves, or drink some of this stuff?"

"I'll go first." The sorcerer suspected of being an Auror stood up, took the cup handed over by the referee and drank it down.

Nothing works.

The second is Ms. Camerin.

Also had no effect.

"I'll come first."

Noel vaguely saw that the current mess might be aimed at No. 17.

However, he didn't think the other party needed to use Felicia.

Also had no effect.

Everyone stared at Albert, who directly took the cup and drank it down in full view.

Well, still nothing works.

"how come!"

Both the Ministry of Magic and the special reporter were very surprised, as if they had long been sure that someone had taken Felicia and then participated in the competition.

"It seems that this should be just a joke. Maybe the Ministry of Magic should carefully interrogate the guy who deliberately reported."

If you still can't see what's going on now, you'd be an idiot.

It was obviously aimed at No. 17, and it was probably related to gambling.

"Okay, everyone has seen that no one cheated with Felicia." A male referee teamed up with three Spanish Ministry of Magic officials. "I think this is just a joke."

Just a joke?

The three officials of the Ministry of Magic left with ugly expressions, they didn't understand how this matter turned out like this.

Lucian, the special correspondent of "Bullfighting Daily", looked even more ugly, and his body shook slightly, and he stretched out his hand to support the chair so that he didn't almost fall to the ground directly.

Didn't it mean that No. 17 used Felicia?

Those referees are cheating them?

Or...that bastard Ihuus deceived them.

Lucian couldn't imagine how much money "Bullfighting Daily" would have to lose once the 17th won the championship.