Hermione, Be the Minister of Magic with Me! - Chapter 172

And the third plug-in is naturally Muggle scientific theories. As a person with sufficient scientific literacy, he can transfer many Muggle research methodologies to wizards for use.

Although Lockhart’s congenital conditions are indeed not good, with acquired efforts and various “hack-on” behaviors, he has still opened up a unique magical advancement path. In the short term, the role of crowns and potions may be greater, but in the long run, perhaps Muggle methodology is the best help for Lockhart to progress to the top.

With Moody’s losing streak as a testament – Lockhart will get stronger in the future.

After the daily sparring, the two sat down to watch the game again and found that the game had reached the fourth group of warriors in the first round.

Cedric and Harry answered the puzzle correctly in the first round, and used the bug they caught temporarily and the silver teapot given by the Sphinx, and the bird snake was caught again.

Next, they immediately used a “6” to jump to the first room, avoiding the melee zone in the first round.

Then, Krum, who started the second, threw a “3” without any effort, and let himself come to a room with a painted dog.

The two Krum were teleported to Devon, England, where there was a wizarding, Muggle-inhabited village, Ilford Lecombe, and their destination was on a hill next to the village.

Krum thought he would meet a swallow-tailed dog here, but it turned out to be here – a two-headed dog

After seeing the three-headed dog, Harry, Ron, and Hermione who returned to the scene were shocked because they recognized the big guy.

Isn’t this Hagrid’s Lu Wei?

Sometimes the three of them would also recall, if they had not figured out the weakness of the three-headed dog and held a flute with the smell of Hagrid in their hands, what would they have faced the three-headed dog directly?

Krum told them the answer was total failure

If they had answered the Sphinx’s question correctly, they would have had a chance of passing the room safely.

But unfortunately, when they were faced with the riddle of “what can pass through a person’s ears without leaving a hole”, they failed to answer the “sound”, so naturally they did not get the harp.

Without the harp, Krum had to use all the spells he knew, even black magic, on Lou Wei with his attendants.

But unfortunately, in front of the amazingly high magic resistance of the three-headed dog, all their spells were bounced off. Although the only hit eye disease spell caused Lou Wei to feel pain, it also angered him.

Even if you temporarily blind one of its eyes, the three-headed dog still has five eyes to use, not to mention three pairs of noses.

The mad Lou Wei was chasing after the two of them, and they had to turn around and run away until the three-headed dog was persuaded by the sudden appearance of the Ministry of Magic official with a violin.

Although there was no fatality, Durmstrang and the two could only return to the starting point according to the rules, and hoped that they would not vote for what’ next time, because they still hadn’t guessed the riddle.

Seeing this situation, Harry and the other three could only sigh that they were lucky back then. Even Krum, who was proficient in black magic, could not deal with this thing. The three of them could only say that they were blessed by Merlin.

…or rather Dumbledore’s blessing.

After Durmstrang is over, Vagadu’s warriors are next.

Because Krum didn’t get through the third room, they also gave up the idea of ​​using the number “3” to step on the pit.

As a result, they rolled a number “6” and successfully stepped on the only room in the top ten with a green medicine bottle painted on a grid that didn’t look like a challenge.

And the question the Sphinx asked them was ridiculously simple: “Bacteria live on teeth, so what live on bacteria?”

After thinking hard for a long time, Dembele of Waggardu suddenly felt blessed and thought of the correct answer one by one, “Doctor!”

Chapter three hundred and sixty fifth everything goes well

After answering correctly, they were transported to St Mungo’s Hospital in London.

In the hospital, the two warriors were greeted warmly by the pharmacists, who stuffed a bottle of fireproofing potion into their hands before returning them.

Although there is no danger, the audience is still very happy.

People who like to use their brains, such as Hermione, have discovered at this time that the places where the warriors of the three schools are sent are well-known wizarding venues in the UK. While watching the warriors overcome difficulties, the audience also followed the camera. UK domestic travel – circle.

As you can see from Lee Jordan, he spends most of his commentary on the background of the “room” – Dean Woods is the main source of Ollivander’s wands, Ilford Lecombe It is the breeding ground of Welsh green dragons, and St Mungo’s is the only magical hospital in the UK.

If she guessed correctly, the “room” at the back is also a well-known tourist attraction in the UK. That is to say, the Big Five Tournament is actually a British travel advertisement for the whole world.

Sure enough, Fleur Delacour had to deal with a horse-shaped water monster in Lake Koror, Ireland, after casting the number 7.

Because she’s French, this time Sphinx came up with a French puzzle, asking “What can’t a magnifying glass magnify? The answer is a fruit”

This puzzle is quite difficult, and it was not until the last ten seconds that Furong answered the answer.

“It’s a prune!” she said quickly.

“correct answer.”

After the Sphinx got the correct answer, he turned out a whole bag of plums and handed it to Fleur.

Thanks to this bag of plums as bait, Furong and the others were able to fool the horse-shaped water monster.

After seeing Fleur’s move, Moody commented: “I think her fighting style is more like yours.”

“Probably Veela blood is more suitable for spiritual magic.” Lockhart was noncommittal.

“I’m a little curious though…why plums?” Moody asked, puzzled. “Why can’t the magnifying glass magnify plums?”

Unexpectedly, Lockhart laughed after hearing his question.

Meanwhile, Hermione Granger, who also laughed out loud, had almost exactly the same reaction as Lockhart’s when she heard Ron’s puzzling question, except that she didn’t laugh as well.

“Hey… are you laughing at us?” Ron asked resentfully.

“No… but to say that this issue involves breast milk.” Hermione explained, holding back a smile.

“Milk method?” Ron was even more puzzled. “What does this have to do with plums?”

“This is a long story… During the Second Crusade, the French Crusaders suffered consecutive defeats, and none of the valuable spoils were taken from the Muslims. In order to avoid the lord’s scolding, they had to go from around Damascus to Grab a bunch of freshly harvested plums and go back.

As a result, Louis VII was very annoyed and said to his generals that I had spent so much money and time on you, but you brought me back the plums?

Since then, ‘pur_des_prunes5’ in French has become synonymous with “nothing”, and in the special context of “prunes” stone, it has also become “empty-thing”.

So just now the sphinx asked “what a magnifying glass can’t magnify”, the answer is

“Nthing (nthing) J7 is replaced by the French word for fruit, which is plum.

Ron nearly collapsed – he felt that if he were to go up and answer the Sphinx’s question, he would probably never be able to answer it for the rest of his life.

“This… is indeed a milk method.” He could only say dryly.

Because the Hundred Years War between England and France occurred hundreds of years before the secrecy law came into effect, many wizards provided services for the nobles of the war, so British wizards can understand the jokes of the French law, but there are not many people who have French at the same time. .

After hearing the same answer from Lockhart, even Moody couldn’t help laughing.

“It’s not good, it’s not good for unity,” he said.

Lockhart called out for his colleague: “It’s a riddle told by the Sphinx, and it has nothing to do with us.”

“Do you think I would believe it?”

The warriors of Ilvermorny finally got into action after the warriors of Beauxbatons had taken down the horde and returned.

It’s just that their luck was not very good, and they rolled the smallest number 2 of the few players in the first round.

Presumably to compensate them, neither the Sphinx puzzles nor the room monsters are too difficult to deal with.

“Is the sea friendly or malicious to us? How to prove it?” Boot answered quickly: “Friendly because it waves (Wave) T” Then they got a handful of cucumbers and went to Newcastle upon Tyne Going to deal with the Kappa problem.

Of course, as a once famous woolen center, the competition had to advertise it, because this is also the wool used by wizards to produce woolen clothing

The place.

After the first round, the result was undoubtedly gratifying for Hogwarts

The warriors of Hogwarts firmly continued to occupy the first position with the advantage of the previous round; Beauxbatons jumped directly from the bottom two to the second positive number, and there are 1 and 5 at the same time. The two dice were useless; Vagado remained in third place, and also hadn’t used the dice left over from the previous round. Ilvermorny was fourth, while Durmstrang fell to last place due to bad luck and remained in the starting position.

Eight

But think about it, it’s also because they didn’t answer the question correctly. Karkaroff’s expression was very bad, and he kept shouting something.

“It’s not fair! There’s too much luck in this game, and why did it turn into a guessing game, even though it was a test of warriors?”

But no one paid attention to him, not only the principals of those schools, but also the other foreign guests invited by the Ministry of Magic disagreed.

“If you say that, this whole competition is very bad for women.” Madame Maxime retorted, “None of them complained that there are too many places in the competition that require physical strength, what can you say?”

When Dumbledore was absent, the person presiding over Hogwarts became Professor McGonagall, the Vice-Chancellor, and when she heard Lady Maxime’s words, she agreed.

“Karkaroff, I think Olim is right, you should have more trust in your students.” She frowned, “Anyway, Goblet of Fire’s criteria for selecting students is always selection. The best one, the warriors selected from your school should of course represent the highest level of your school, and you should believe that they have enough wisdom to deal with this problem.”

This is a bit heavy. Even Karkaroff can’t accuse Professor McGonagall of saying it wrong. He can’t admit that Durmstrang’s students are all idiots, right?

“Let’s move on,” said Vice-Chancellor Potter in a rounded tone.

Everyone was engrossed in the game, and Lockhart and Moody were equally attentive, but they were looking at the blanket marquee map in Moody’s office.

“Harry they’re going to roll the dice again,” Lockhart reminded.

“I’m staring at it.” Moody’s magic eyes are also frantically rolling.

Since they had judged that Voldemort would definitely want to start with the Portkey, all they had to pay attention to in the Contest was where Harry was going.

Lockhart stared at the Marauder’s map, trying to see if there were any people around the movie theater who shouldn’t be there.

Because in the last test, Voldemort had determined that Hogwarts was heavily guarded, so if he wanted to do it, he would definitely do it outside the school.

So after discussion, the Order of the Phoenix decided to give them this chance.

But so far everything has been normal, no one other than the Ministry of Magic staff has exchanged the door keys, and there is no sign of anyone being under the Imperius Curse, and Lockhart wondered who could be in the dark under the circumstances. Feeling the door key out of the bag.

When Harry and the others answered the riddle again and successfully reached their destination, even Lockhart began to doubt himself.

Did we guess wrong? Wasn’t Voldemort’s idea to hit Portkey? Or was the Order of the Phoenix being too careless, which made Voldemort suspicious?

That’s right, Harry and the other school warriors rolled the dice completely randomly. Even Voldemort couldn’t know in advance which door key they would use. Maybe they didn’t plan to start from this aspect at all?

Still have to look at it, Lockhart thought, touching his wand.

Chapter 366 finally met

After playing until now, the wizards watching the game have discovered that although this third game is said to deal with Warcraft, it is still a guessing game in essence.

If you guess correctly, then it will be very easy to deal with the monsters in the “room”, such as the silver pot is to the bird snake, and the cucumber is to the kappa. But if you guess wrong, then if you don’t have key props, you will be completely unable to deal with a guy like a three-headed dog.

Of course, if the wizard is so strong that he can deal with the monsters in that grid without using props, that’s not impossible, but considering the age of these students, unless he is another genius like Dumbledore and Voldemort, he can only deal with it. Nogi Mumu

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In short, this game tests wisdom more than spellcasting ability.

After Cedric throws a 4 and settles the stuff in room 15: Durmstrang next.

Krum suddenly remembered after a full round of rest that they could have whistled instead of music at that time, but couldn’t remember it for a while.

Annoyed, they rolled the dice again.