Hogwarts Reading Days

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Albert reached out to take the ice cream handed over by the peddler, took Gallen out of his pocket and paid for six servings of ice cream, then turned around and asked the girls around him, "Do you want to buy anything else?"

Everyone looked at each other, shook their heads and said that they had nothing to buy for the time being.

"The game should start soon." Catherine reminded out loud, just looking at her pocket watch, "We should go to the side of the court, and there will be a long queue later."

"Please lead the way!" Albert nodded to Catherine, took Nia's hand, and whispered: "If you feel anything wrong later, tell me immediately, and don't get lost. Don't let go either."

"Ah."

Niya responded in a low voice, lowered her head and ate the ice cream silently.

Watching this scene, Katrina sometimes has the illusion that these two are actually a couple, but thinking of Nia's identity as a Muggle, it's not hard to guess why Albert is so nervous and won't let Nia leave him Sight.

While eating ice cream, everyone followed Catherine towards the forest at a walking speed. When they came to the edge of the forest, they found that many viewers had similar thoughts to them.There were hundreds of people walking around, laughing and shouting, and the frantic excitement was infecting every audience member.

"Albert, it really is you." Sirius led Harry and his group towards this side, and greeted Albert with a smile.

"Well, I was thinking of entering the gymnasium early, but I didn't expect there to be so many people here." Albert said helplessly.

"Yeah, everyone thinks so, queuing is really annoying. By the way, who do you think will win today?" Sirius picked up a topic at random.

"Bulgaria." Albert said without thinking.

"I also think Bulgaria will win. The US team's Seekers are a bit stretched. It's hard to beat Bulgaria's Krum. That guy is a genius." Blake said as he walked, "I bet Bagman will definitely win tonight." Will lose a lot of money, and to be honest, I kind of doubt that guy has the ability to pay it back."

"Ahem." Catherine coughed lightly, and defended her former friend, "I don't think Jenny is as bad as you said, at least she can still catch the Snitch for the US team."

The eyes of other people around fell on Catherine, with surprise, confusion and incomprehension in their eyes.

"Your friend?" Albert asked suddenly.

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward, especially Sirius. He didn't deliberately argue. After saying sorry, he turned to talk to Lupine.

However, Harry, Hermione, and Ron kept their eyes on the beautiful girls around Albert.There was even a trace of weirdness on the faces of the two big boys, and they looked away one after another. Hermione's attention fell more on Nia, who was being held by Albert, with a thoughtful expression on her face.

At this time, there was a crackling sound not far away, followed by a painful humming sound. Everyone turned their heads and saw a wizard appearing spinning, bumping his head against a nearby tree, moaning on the ground in pain, causing a panic Gleeful jeers.

Two wizards hurried over to check on the situation of the unlucky guy, and soon used magic to relieve the other's pain.

At this moment, a strange sound came from the forest ahead, followed by countless lights shining in the darkness, forming a road leading to the arena.

"It's time, everyone follow me." Sirius led the way ahead, leading everyone into the woods along the illuminated passage.

Albert has been paying attention to Nia's situation, to determine whether she will be affected by the spell when she enters the range of the spell to expel Muggles.

The crowd followed the crowd for a long time in the woods, and finally came to the other side of the woods, where there was a huge oval-shaped outdoor gymnasium.

"This gymnasium is really big!" Nia couldn't help but open her mouth wide as she looked at the magnificent gymnasium in front of her.

"It is said that it can accommodate 10 people." Isobel quietly walked to Nia's side, and Albert protected her in the middle.

"The ticket gate is over there, let's go there!" Sirius called Albert and the others to check the tickets.

At the entrance was a 30-something-year-old female wizard from the Ministry of Magic. She looked at the four tickets that Albert handed out in surprise, "First-class tickets, top-floor box, just go upstairs."

Catherine's and Valeria's tickets were also in the top box, and they got them through Nicholas' connections.

"Where did you get so many first-class tickets?" Sirius, who was about to go up, deliberately slowed down when he heard the witch's words.

Sirius is a little depressed, the price of the first-class ticket is not cheap.At first, he also wanted to buy first-class tickets, but he changed to ordinary tickets under Lupine's persuasion, but he didn't expect that Albert and his group were all first-class tickets.

"From an old friend."

Albert separated from Sirius and his group on the sixth floor, and walked forward with the tickets for the top box until he reached the top floor before separating from Catherine and Valeria. The four followed the tickets No. quickly found his place.

Nia held Albert's hand all the time, looked at the scenery ahead, and couldn't help but sigh: "The view here is really spectacular!"

"Yes. This is for you!" Albert took out two buckets of popcorn that the house elf had prepared in advance.

"What is this?" Katrina asked curiously.

"Popcorn." Albert picked up a piece of popcorn and threw it into his mouth. "I have prepared drinks here."

"You are always so considerate." Isobel took the popcorn and handed it to Katrina, "Try it, it's not bad."

Katrina ate some popcorn and found that it was really good, but the amount was a little small.

"This food can keep you eating for a long time, and you will know later." Albert said with a smile as if he had read Katrina's mind.

The box is made small just for easy handling, and the inside has actually been expanded by the Untraceable Stretching Mantra.

While they were chatting happily about trivial topics, a not-so-pleasant fellow appeared in their box.

After Lucius Malfoy saw the four of Albert in the box, his face showed a little consternation. He probably didn't expect Albert to get the tickets for the top box.

Old Malfoy's eyes swept over Nia, fell on Sister McDougal, and then looked at Albert again, the corners of his mouth trembled imperceptibly, as if he had said something.

"Whenever, anyone can come here." Draco muttered in a low voice, but was stopped by the old Malfoy. The self-proclaimed pure-blood Malfoy obviously wouldn't say anything too outrageous at this time .

At least, not out loud for people to hear.

At this moment, Old Batty brought two wizards into the box, and one of the pudgy girls saw Albert in the back seat, her eyes lit up, and she raised her hand and waved towards them.

"You are so welcome." Nia was a little surprised, always feeling that Albert would meet acquaintances no matter where he went.

Albert smiled and nodded at the other party, but he was remembering who this person was in his mind.

Oh, by the way, the girl in front of me seems to be the pudgy girl from Reedham Strong Academy in the Potions Tournament of the Magic School.

The pudgy girl seemed to have said a few words to the wizard next to him, and the wizard in a gorgeous black velvet robe with gold trim looked towards Albert, and then said a few words to Barty Crouch beside him , seemed to be asking about Albert.

"Albert Anderson, the most outstanding genius in the British magic circle in the past hundred years." Barty Crouch introduced to the other party in Bulgarian: "Perhaps, you have also read his name in the newspaper, he recently And won several international awards. Oh, by the way, Anderson should also understand Bulgarian, if you want to go and get to know him."

"Of course, I would love to get to know this young talent," O'Barrons said.

"Mr. Obalonsk, the Minister of Magic of Bulgaria." Batty introduced the wizard next to Albert, "Next to him is his granddaughter Miss Lumiana, you should know him."

"Oh, hello, Mr. Obalonsk." Albert shook hands with the old man in front of him friendly, and said with a smile: "I think tonight's victory will belong to Bulgaria, Krum is an excellent ball seeker .”

"Thank you. I think Krum will be very happy that someone recognizes his ability." Mr. Obalonsk looked at the young man in front of him curiously, and the other party spoke Bulgarian really well.

"The newspaper said that you are going to participate in the International Dueling Competition next year?"

"If I'm free, I should attend." Albert nodded.

This move by the Minister of the Bulgarian Ministry of Magic made old Malfoy feel uncomfortable, especially when he heard them chatting in a series of Bulgarian, his face became even uglier.

However, for Mr. Obalonsk, an excellent wizard who has already shown his talents is worthy of attention, especially when the other party has already won four international awards before he was a minor, and he is an acquaintance of his granddaughter. There is always nothing wrong with the relationship, not to mention that the wizards who can watch the game here have a little bit of background.

"Are you a Krum fan?" Lumiana asked.

"That's right!" Albert said perfunctorily.

"You will definitely have unexpected surprises this year." Lumiana said regretfully, "Unfortunately, I have already graduated. It would be great if I could graduate one year later."

"You mean the Triwizard Tournament?" Albert asked with a smile.

"You know!" Lumiana quickly relieved, "Are you going to participate?"

"Should participate, it feels like a very interesting competition."

Lumiana suddenly felt a moment of silence for Albert's opponent, a wizard who won the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting Technique and planned to participate in the International Dueling Competition to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. It was a bit like an adult bullying a child up.

"ladies and gentlemen……"

A thunderous voice resounded throughout the stadium. Ludo drew out his wand, pointed at his throat, and explained to the audience: "Welcome to watch the quarter-finals of the 422nd Quidditch World Cup!"

The audience below burst into cheers and applause, accompanied by the chaotic national anthem, the scene was really lively.

Albert and Lumiana stopped chatting and started to cast their eyes on the stadium ahead. The advertisement on the huge blackboard has disappeared, and now it is displayed:

USA: 0, Bulgaria: 0,

"...let us welcome the mascot of the United States national team."

As soon as the words fell, there was a thunderous sound in the sky, and a thunderbird flew over the heads of the crowd, bringing lightning and heavy rain.

"what is that?"

Nia looked at the lightning and dark clouds in the sky, and couldn't help shrinking towards Albert.

"Thunderbird, a well-known magical creature in the United States, its appearance is always accompanied by storms." Albert explained in a low voice.

After the Thunderbird appeared, the spectators below were simply unlucky, because the sky began to rain heavily, directly drenching them to the core.

However, there is no such problem in the box, they have a canopy over their heads.

This thing was actually installed by the Ministry of Magic urgently after learning that the mascot of the US team was the Thunderbird.

There's no way, we can't let the distinguished guests also get wet in the rain.

Then it was the Bulgarian mascot's turn, and Albert watched as a hundred beautiful women slid down the field in the rain.

"They are really beautiful." Niya couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"That's a Veela."

Albert closed his eyes the moment the music started, he didn't want to be bewitched by Veela to do something indecent.

In Albert's view, because the temptation of Veela might be harder to resist than the Imperius Curse, he didn't want to embarrass himself in front of his sister.

"What are you doing with your eyes closed?" Nia asked suspiciously.

However, she soon realized something, because someone in the box was doing something strange.

The son of the family whose eyes she hated so much jumped onto the chair as if possessed, and put on an unbelievably stunned shameful posture, and his parents seemed to want to pull him to sit down, but But it was in vain.

Not only Draco, but all the men on the court were doing some inexplicable things under the suspicious eyes of the girls.

"The veela dance will make men forget everything in the world and fall in love with them." Albert explained with his eyes closed, "so it's a good choice to look away appropriately."

Of course, Hermione didn't know Veela at all, she just opened her mouth and looked suspiciously at the weird movements of the boys around her.

"Harry, Ron, what are you doing?" Hermione was trying to stop her good friend from messing up, but it didn't work.

A similar situation spread like a plague to the entire stadium.

After the music ended, an angry roar erupted in the gymnasium.The men didn't want the veela to leave, and many spectators who supported the US team even threw away everything related to the US team and supported the Bulgarian team instead.

Albert opened his eyes after the music ended, looked at the extremely embarrassed Draco Malfoy in the front row, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said softly, "It's just a large-scale social death scene!"

In the box, only Draco Malfoy was recruited, and his embarrassing appearance was seen by the big shots here.

Draco also seemed to be aware of what he had just done, his cheeks flushed all of a sudden, and he retreated to his parents like a quail egg, not daring to show his head rashly, for fear of attracting other people's attention.