Chapter 582
Hidden Edge
Chapter 582 Hidden Edge
Although Rita Skeeter seemed unhappy when she left, Vader did not care about her anger.
As a Ravenclaw, he knew very well that when Eagle House was really angry, they would not yell and scream like Gryffindor. Keeping silent was the way to cause big trouble.
He flipped through the parchment in his hand and discovered that it was a series of recent events related to the dark arts.
It’s just that, in the recent special period in the UK, the Ministry of Magic has strictly managed all news that “will cause unnecessary panic among people”, and most of them have not been reported.
If Glenarve Forest had not been so close, the rapidly aging woman might not have come into people's sight.
According to the intelligence provided by Skeeter, unusual events seemed to be happening all over the world.
For example, in a trading center in Japan similar to Diagon Alley, a large number of dangerous dark magic tools suddenly appeared, and some of them flowed into the Muggle society, causing many terrible incidents.
During their graduation trip, several newly graduated students in Brazil discovered a strange, deformed creature made of animal carcasses. Later, the local Ministry of Magic forcibly explained it as "a black bear that hung the fur of other animals on its body as decoration."
There was also a gathering of dark wizards in Bulgaria, during which two innocent Muggles died;
America captures a mad Dark wizard who tries to recreate "obedient Dementors";
The Egyptian Ministry of Magic rescued two illegally trafficked Veela, and during the process discovered that a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Magic was trying to steal from the local Department of Mysteries.
While the British Ministry of Magic was busy preparing for the competition, dark magic activities were occurring frequently around the world. Dark wizards were like moles, and once you caught one wave, more would soon pop up.
When Wade was thinking about the reason for this phenomenon, he suddenly heard the sound of the classroom door handle turning.
He stuffed the parchment into his bag and just stood up when he saw Professor Flitwick push open the door and look at him with a smile.
"Ved, why are you still here? If you don't go to the auditorium, you'll miss dinner."
"It's okay, I can still go to the cafeteria." Wade said with a smile: "The house elves will always warmly entertain all guests."
"Haha, you kids always find out all the secrets of the school in no time."
Professor Flitwick chuckled, not criticizing Wade's attempt to break school rules.
He stood at the door and waved, and when Wade came to his side, he said in a friendly manner:
"I know you like to be alone, but you still have to be careful recently. Some guys will do anything to win. They don't have the principle of not bullying the weak."
"Don't worry, professor," Vader said, "I can protect myself."
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about, Vader...They tested your wand today, right?"
Professor Flitwick couldn't help jumping up and down as he walked, as if he was very excited.
"Assessing and misleading your opponent is a very important strategy. It's rare that they have misunderstood your abilities now. You might as well go along with their expectations. Act... normal."
Wade nodded gently: "I understand... We need to hide our edge and reduce the risk of being targeted."
"That's it." Professor Flitwick lowered his voice and said, "Not just in normal activities, even in the first two games, it's best to hold back if possible... If your goal is to be the champion, then as long as you don't get eliminated in the early stages, you'll win."
Wade said seriously, "I will remember that, Professor." Professor Flitwick seemed to be worried that he was young and energetic, and would expose his strength in advance in order to prove himself, so that when the competition came, he would become the target of others.
But Wade actually has no such burden at all. He prefers others to be defenseless towards him.
Every time this happened, Wade envied Cedric - Hufflepuffs had a natural level of trust in the entire wizarding world. As long as he put on that yellow and black scarf, most people would assume that he was an honest and good person.
But what about Ravenclaw?
People always trust Ravenclaw's brains, but question their character.
At Hogwarts, if Slytherin had not firmly held the hatred, Ravenclaw would not have been able to get along well with the Lion House and the Badger House in most cases.
……
Wade felt that Professor Flitwick was probably very happy to see him winning honor for the academy, and had been treating him better and better recently.
Of course, it's not that Professor Flitwick had been bad to him before, it's just that originally the professor looked at him as if he was looking at his favorite student, but recently the professor's gaze seemed to be looking at his most beloved youngest son.
After being given a bag of expensive chocolate candies by Professor Flitwick again, Wade felt helpless. He felt that if he accidentally missed the championship trophy in the end, Professor Flitwick would cry in front of him.
Wade felt it was a little strange, because his dean was not someone who paid much attention to these honors.
All I can say is that the charm of the league champion of all magic schools is still somewhat beyond imagination.
During the preparations for the competition, Vader would occasionally meet with alchemy enthusiasts such as Natalia in the library to discuss the lengthy and obscure theories of alchemy and exchange long alchemy works that were even more boring than dictionaries.
At the same time, Rita Skeeter's report on the tournament was published, with the three Hogwarts players occupying only a small space, with a large portion of the front page of the newspaper being taken up by a single photograph of Fleur Delacour.
Obviously, Rita has grasped the code of traffic - when there is no explosive point in the news content, an unimaginable beauty herself is a focus of strong attraction.
It can be imagined that the sales of this edition of "The Daily Prophet" will definitely not be low. Some people may even buy several copies at a time, reading one or collecting one to show off.
When testing wands, Fleur Delacour once said that her grandmother was a Veela, and the core of Fleur's wand was made of that Veela's hair.
No one knew who Skeeter consulted to collect the information, but she wrote a touching and moving love story on the second page of the newspaper. The protagonists were Furong's grandparents, and there was even a photo of the two of them below.
For a while, the whole school was filled with discussions on topics such as "the combination of humans and magical creatures", "what level of appearance is considered by humans in the eyes of Veela", and "how to gain the favor of Veela".
——Even though the Veela had attacked the camp before, many people tacitly forgot about it and showed amazing tolerance.
People just didn't talk about this in front of Furong, so as not to make her angry. But even without this topic, the beautiful girl was in a bad mood most of the time.
Two weeks seemed to pass in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, the first project was about to begin.
(End of this chapter)