Chapter 436: Les: Wow, Ilvermorny Is Such a Boring School!
As the snow-capped mountains gradually became clear, Rice also saw the magnificent building shrouded in mist on the mountainside - Wagadu.
On the African continent, there are as many magic schools as the stars in the night sky, but only Wagadu has withstood the test of time and has survived for thousands of years.
The students there are good at astronomy, alchemy and self-transfiguration, as well as extremely amazing wandless spellcasting ability. As the master of mysticism in various African tribes, Wagadu teaches students a variety of magic gestures and spells. Many times, Wagadu's students don't need a wand to cast spells.
Rice noticed that the campus of Wagadu became crowded, and a lot of black spots appeared outside the building. Presumably, they were the teachers and students of Wagadu.
At this moment, Rice has understood how Wagadu appeared. They came to Hogwarts through dreams.
Perhaps at this moment in Moon Mountain, all the teachers and students of Wagadu have fallen into a deep sleep, and their dreams are connected with the dreams of the teachers and students of Hogwarts. As for what to do next, it is nothing more than arriving at Hogwarts in a dream, and then "puncturing" the dream, so that the players of Vagadu and the leading teachers can escape from the dream together.
'What a magical method. ' Thinking of this, Rice couldn't help but praise the ancient spell on the African continent.
However, although this teleportation magic is extremely magical, it requires a high degree of cooperation from Hogwarts. If Dumbledore plays tricks, the people of Vagadu can only fly over obediently like Beauxbatons and the Institute of Magic.
Just as Rice was studying and analyzing the dream spell of Vagadu, there was a movement on Moon Mountain.
Rice, whose train of thought was interrupted, looked up and found that a golden shadow rose at the entrance of Vagadu campus. Concentrating magic power on the eyes and looking closely, it turned out to be a huge sphinx. Behind the sphinx, a pyramid-shaped building was pulled.
After rising to mid-air, the sphinx began to pull the pyramid towards Hogwarts. In just a dozen seconds, they ran from the distant Moon Mountain to the Black Lake of Hogwarts.
Rice raised his eyebrows, but considering that dreams do not need rationality, he felt that all this was quite reasonable.
After landing on the Black Lake, the Sphinx opened its mouth and let out a sharp cry.
The sound pierced into Rice's ears, giving him goose bumps, and at the same time messed up the dream, awakening everyone who was in deep sleep.
After everyone came out of the dream, they couldn't help but look at the Black Lake, and then they saw a Sphinx squatting on the ground and a three-story mini pyramid behind it.
A square stone on the pyramid shrank in, revealing a hole. Just when the students of Hogwarts thought someone would come out from it, a male lion emerged from it.
Before the little wizards screamed, the male lion turned into a tall black wizard, and his afro looked exactly like the lion's mane.
Animagus! This term suddenly came to the minds of many people.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, Professor Endru." Dumbledore still stepped forward to welcome, "The dream magic that is eye-opening... Come here, Madame Maxime and the others have arrived."
Asmo Endru, the current headmaster of Moon Mountain Vagadu School of Magic, is an Animagus like Professor McGonagall.
Behind him, the participating students of Vagadu came out of the pyramid one by one. Almost everyone's skin was dark, so dark that even the facial features could not be seen clearly.
After standing in a line behind Endru, they began to look at the Hogwarts Castle not far away.
"Thank you for your cooperation." Professor Endru's voice was low and magnetic, giving people a reassuring first impression. Rice couldn't help but think of the Auror Kingsley of the Ministry of Magic who he had met several times. The voice of the headmaster of Vagadu School of Magic was very similar to his.
"There are still three schools that haven't arrived yet. Fortunately, we are not the last one." Professor Endru glanced at the square formations of several major magic schools and quickly counted the remaining schools.
"Well, another school team has arrived." Dumbledore just nodded and felt something strange.
Professor Endru felt a chill on his neck. He looked up and found that snowflakes were actually falling from the sky.
"Really... We didn't bring winter clothes." He complained in a low voice and led his school's team to stand next to the square formation of Beauxbatons School.
It was the end of September. Although the Scottish Highlands were a little cold, it was definitely not a snowy weather. But at this time, the snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky in the north became dim.
"Kodosdoriz." Dumbledore narrowed his eyes and recited a name.
Kodosdoriz School of Magic is located in the Russian Arctic wilderness. In recent years, it has been very low-key in the international magic world, and its name is rarely heard, but they did accept the invitation of this World Youth Wizarding Championship.
"A-choo!" Someone in the Hogwarts square sneezed loudly.
Since it was only the end of September and it was noon, most of the Hogwarts students were wearing ordinary wizard robes, not the thick robes specially made for winter.
The students of Beauxbatons were even worse. The school uniforms of Beauxbatons were made of silk, and there was obviously no magic to keep warm and prevent cold. Everyone was shivering because of the sudden change in weather.
Rice narrowed his eyes: the people of Kodosdorez seemed a little ignorant.
Just as Rice was about to use the power of the domain to disperse the snowflakes in the sky, he noticed that Rowena raised a hand.
Suddenly, the wind blew up from the flat ground, sweeping away all the snowflakes falling from the sky and carrying them far away.
Dumbledore smiled, clapped his hands, and suddenly conjured up thousands of roses composed of orange-red flames. He waved his hands, and these flowers composed of flames scattered and flew to the side of each student to dispel the cold for them.
The expressions of the other principals of the magic schools present became serious. Dumbledore's operation stunned them all at once.
'It's not bad, it didn't embarrass Gryffindor. 'Rice approved of Dumbledore's operation in his heart. But if he came, he would have to turn these snowflakes into hail and hit the heads of the people of Kodosdorez to vent his anger.
Under the influence of Rowena's power, the snowfall was blocked in the Black Lake area. The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it even felt like a blizzard, making it impossible to see the scenery on the other side of the Black Lake.
At this time, a song sounded from the depths of the blizzard. It was a Russian song, and the melody was beautiful and exciting.
The song gradually became louder from far to near. Finally, a carriage broke through the blizzard and appeared in front of everyone with the song.
The carriage stopped, the door creaked open, and twelve tall boys came out with musical instruments. They stood in line on the left and right, forming two rows facing each other, and then continued to play the song.
Les: ...
Is this the school with its own BGM when it appears? It's really eye-opening.
Then, a very young girl came out of the carriage. She wore a crown on her head, a gorgeous dress robe on her body, and a scepter in her hand.
With the appearance of the girl, the blizzard behind the carriage began to subside, and a ray of sunlight penetrated the dark clouds and shone on her, covering her from head to toe with a faint golden light.
The girl led the twelve boys and walked slowly to Dumbledore.
The boys stopped playing only after she stood still.
"Ekaterina, the vice-principal of Kodostoriz School of Magic, sends you sincere greetings on behalf of Principal Romanov." The girl bowed to Dumbledore and began to introduce herself.
"What an ingenious way to appear." Dumbledore smiled, "Please come this way, Miss Ekaterina."
"Thank you." Ekaterina led the Kodostoriz delegation and walked to the side of the magic school formation in a strange look.
"There are only twelve people from Kodostoriz." Daphne felt that she had found a blind spot.
"If you count Ekaterina, isn't it thirteen people?" Astoria responded.
"Ah? But isn't she the vice-principal of Kodostoriz?" Daphne's eyes widened immediately.
"As long as her age meets the competition criteria, she can naturally participate in the competition, even if she is the principal." Astoria continued to explain in a low voice, which surprised Daphne.
There are actually schools that take advantage of loopholes to send vice-principals to participate? Do you still have any shame? !
"She looks no more than 20 years old, of course she can participate in the competition." Les said calmly.
What's the point of the vice-principal participating in the competition? Some schools...
Forget it, there is no point in nitpicking on such details.
After Kodosdoriz also appeared, only Castrobus in Brazil and Ilvermorny in the United States did not come from the world's eight major magic schools.
Fortunately, the two schools did not keep everyone waiting for a long time. A few minutes after Kodosdoriz appeared, Dumbledore blinked his eyes, indicating that the people from Castrobus were here.
Or, they were actually the first wave of foreign guests to come to Hogwarts.
"Excuse me, Pomona." Dumbledore turned his head and instructed a middle-aged witch who looked amiable.
Professor Sprout walked out of the professors' team, came to the lawn in front of everyone, and took out a seed from her arms.
She buried the seed in the grass.
The next second, a fresh seedling broke through the soil, grew rapidly against the wind, and soon became a plant that looked like a pea seedling and was about the same height as Hagrid's cabin.
After growing up, the plant stopped growing and then produced a huge bean pod.
The people present gradually realized what was going to happen.
The bean pod, which was about the size of a small boat, gradually swelled up, and with a "pop" sound, a dozen wizards in bright green long slopes fell on the lawn.
After spreading the "seeds", the plant withered instantly and collapsed on the ground. In just a few seconds, it completely decayed and merged with the lawn.
The leading witch leaned over, dug the seed out of the soil, and put it in her arms with a serious face.
After doing all this, she looked at Dumbledore and smiled.
"Professor Albus Dumbledore, it's an honor to meet you. I am Samantha Quiara, the headmaster of Castrobinger and professor of Herbology."
The headmaster of Castrobinger, like other headmasters, exchanged a few simple words with Dumbledore, the internationally renowned wizard, and then led his school's team to the joint formation of all schools.
Only Ilvermorny was left.
The teachers and students of Hogwarts have a complicated feeling towards Ilvermorny. Because the founder of Ilvermorny has a close relationship with Hogwarts, the people of Hogwarts naturally have a kind of intimacy with Ilvermorny. But in recent years, Ilvermorny seems to have been trying to smear Hogwarts and compete with Hogwarts for the position of the world's number one magic school (other magic schools:???), so the people of Hogwarts are a little unhappy with the people of Ilvermorny.
Some are similar to the relationship between the British and Americans before World War II.
One side sees the other side as a nouveau riche extending from itself, while the other side thinks that the old guy should have exploded gold coins long ago - times have changed!
It's a conjugate father-son relationship!
Rice thinks so too. In his eyes, Ilvermorny is similar to the North American branch of Hogwarts. In this competition, no matter who you lose to, you can't lose to this school, but they are allowed to rank second.
Just as everyone began to guess how Ilvermorny would appear, Ilvermorny answered everyone's doubts.
There was a roar in the sky, and then everyone stared in amazement as a plane broke through the clouds and landed on the shore of the Black Lake in Hogwarts.
The appearance of the plane looked no different from that of a Muggle airline. If there was any difference, it was that this plane could be invisible like Mr. Weasley's Ford sedan.
Hogwarts has the Hogwarts Express, and Ilvermorny has the Ilvermorny Air Transport Plane. It can only be said that it is worthy of being a magic school born from Hogwarts.
As the students of Ilvermorny walked down from the plane one by one, Hermione introduced Ilvermorny School of Magic and Witchcraft in a low voice at a fast speed not far away.
Like Hogwarts, Ilvermorny School of Magic and Witchcraft is also divided into four colleges, namely Horned Serpent College, Cat-Cat College, Thunderbird College and Pukki College.
Like Hogwarts students, Ilvermorny students go through a sorting ceremony in public when they enter school. They are first taken to the circular hall at the entrance of the castle, where there are four wooden sculptures representing the four colleges.
New students will stand in a circle against the wall and be called one by one to the Gordian knot in the center of the hall's stone floor to be reviewed by the statues. The four magical statues will consider whether they want the student to study in their college. If the student is approved, the statue will respond accordingly.
"Like Hogwarts, the four colleges of Ilvermorny have their own admission standards. The Horned Serpent College represents the wisdom of wizards and witches and prefers scholars. Pukki represents the heart of wizards and witches. Most of the students are kind-hearted healers. Thunderbird represents the soul of wizards and witches. Most of the students are adventurous people. Cat and Panther College-"
Rice felt that this sounded familiar. Isn't this a replica of Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor? Then Panther Academy must be the Ilvermorny version of Slytherin!
But who would have thought——
"——Panther Academy represents the bodies of male and female wizards, and it advocates warriors more." When Hermione said this, her face was quite strange, because it was obvious that the enrollment scope of Panther Academy and Thunderbird Academy was somewhat overlapping, which made the academy extremely embarrassed.
Les: ???
No, Ilvermorny, what do you mean? ??? How come you have studied the other three academies of Hogwarts, but optimized Slytherin Academy alone? !
What's going on? !
Although Hermione's voice was not loud, the professors standing in front obviously heard it clearly. Les clearly saw Rowena and Helga's bodies shaking, as if they were electrocuted by something.
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