Chapter 372 Three Schools Arrive First

Zhang Xiao felt something approaching quickly.

It was a strange intuition, so he raised his head and opened his eyes. A barely visible black dot in the clear night sky suddenly became clear.

Hmm - is Beauxbatons the first to come?

Zhang Xiao narrowed his eyes and looked at the carriage being pulled by the winged horse.

But this is quite normal, France is the closest.

"Ah! If I am not mistaken, the representative of Beauxbatons has arrived!"

Dumbledore's joyful voice sounded, and the little wizards immediately looked around for traces.

This made Professor McGonagall, who was in charge of order, so angry that she had to use her wand to make a loud explosion.

"Silence! Keep your appearance and formation, don't look around!"

But even so, the little wizards couldn't suppress their excitement and still looked up secretly.

"There!" A sixth-grade student suddenly exclaimed, pointing to the sky above the Forbidden Forest, completely forgetting McGonagall's instructions.

A huge creature was seen flying rapidly across the deep blue sky, heading towards the castle, gradually getting bigger and bigger.

As the distance got closer, its appearance became clearer and clearer, and the young wizards all exclaimed in unison.

It was a huge powder blue carriage, as big as a house, pulled by twelve winged horses.

Their long silver manes fluttered in the wind, and they were so big that they were almost as big as elephants!

The students looked up and exclaimed.

With a loud bang that made people's teeth ache, the carriage landed with a bang.

When the door opened, the young wizards almost popped their eyes out.

They looked up at the woman who was nearly 3 meters tall, their eyes wandering back and forth on her delicate olive face and huge body.

Ron swallowed and whispered, "Harry, you're looking at her shoes."

Harry's eyes moved down, and the shiny black high heels were about the size of a small sled for children.

Dumbledore began to applaud, and the students followed suit. Many people stood on tiptoe to see the woman more clearly.

Her face relaxed, she smiled elegantly, and held out a glittering hand - her fingers were covered with rings inlaid with luxurious opals.

Although Dumbledore was also tall, he barely bent down to kiss this hand.

"Ah - dear Madame Maxime, you are still as beautiful as ever." Dumbledore smiled and said, "Welcome to Hogwarts."

The two exchanged greetings for a while, and Madame Maxime casually said, "Is Karkaroff here?"

"Not yet, you know -"

"Tsk -" Madame Maxime cursed in a low voice in French, showing great disdain, and then seemed to remember something, and waved her huge hand carelessly behind her.

"My students."

The male and female students, about 20 people standing aside, immediately stood up and greeted Dumbledore in unison.

Judging from their appearance, they were probably around 18 or 19 years old. The robes they wore seemed to be made of fine silk and were shiny. Many of them wrapped their faces with scarves.

These students were shivering with cold, and silk was not warm at all.

"Would you like to wait here to greet him, or would you like to go in and warm up first?" Dumbledore said cheerfully.

"It's better to warm up." Madame Maxime said, "But those horses--"

"Our Care of Magical Creatures teacher will be happy to take care of them." Dumbledore said, "He is the best magical animal expert I have ever seen, and he will definitely take perfect care of them."

"Very good--" Madame Maxime said, bowing slightly, "Can you tell this Hagrid that these horses only drink single malt whiskey?"

"I will take care of it." Dumbledore said, also bowing.

"Come on." Madame Maxime said majestically to her students. So the crowd at Hogwarts made way for her and her students to walk up the stone steps.

The arrival of Beauxbatons Academy was like a signal, and soon something strange appeared above their heads again.

Zhang Xiao narrowed his eyes and nudged Malfoy beside him: "Look at the moon--"

Malfoy raised his head and screamed in surprise, his voice was a little out of tune: "The moon! The moon fell down!"

His voice caused many little wizards to raise their heads together.

Then screams came one after another, and the moon really fell down.

The crescent moon kept falling, getting bigger and bigger, and soon it would be close to the bottom.

The little wizards almost couldn't hold back their fear and started to run away. They screamed in fear, trying to avoid the moon.

Fortunately, Dumbledore's voice rang again:

"Quiet---!"

The little wizards remembered that the principal was also here, and their panic eased a little.

"Moon Boat, the flying tool of the Vagado School of Magic."

Moon Boat?

The little wizard opened his mouth and looked at the 'moon' that was getting closer and closer, and the bright moonlight it emitted.

I couldn't help but be fascinated. Did they pick the moon and use it as a boat?

When the 'crescent moon' gently stopped on the ground, the light around it became dim.

The young wizards then discovered that the moon in the sky was still there, unchanged.

"What's going on?" Malfoy pointed at the moon boat and then at the moon in the sky.

Zhang Xiao thought for a moment: "Maybe the movement of this boat depends on the moonlight? When it landed, it blocked the moon, so it seemed that the moon was taken off?"

Hey, it seems possible!

Malfoy suddenly felt that there was nothing strange, it was just a boat that looked like the moon.

But soon he widened his eyes in surprise.

Because the light of the moon boat suddenly became stronger, under this dreamy moonlight, a row of figures suddenly appeared in the open space in front of the moon boat.

They were wearing orange clothes with some patterns.

There were wrinkles on the shoulders and a wide black cloth bag tied around the waist.

The skin was dark, and if it weren't for the light of the moon, you couldn't even see people in this dark place, only a mouthful of white teeth.

A skinny old man came up, and the little wizard noticed that he didn't wear warmer shoes, but something like slippers.

Isn't he cold? ? ?

"Oh - Dumbledore, my old friend."

The old man opened his arms and hugged Dumbledore, greeting him with a heavy accent.

"Long time no see, Master Yoweri."

Dumbledore patted him on the back and wanted to say something, but the old man said loudly:

"Say hello to Dumbledore later, oh damn, it's too cold in England, I have to take my children in to warm up first!"

The little wizards laughed softly.

Zhang Xiao remembered the news that Heige almost fainted from the heat in China in his previous life, and laughed out loud.

The wizards from the Moon Mountain in Uganda hurriedly ran towards the school auditorium.

Leaving the little wizards here to continue waiting.

Almost as soon as the students of Uagadou left, Zhang Xiao moved his ears and turned to look at the Black Lake.

A loud, strange sound floated toward them from the darkness: a suppressed rumbling and sucking sound, like a huge vacuum cleaner moving along the riverbed...

"In the lake!" Lee Jordan shouted, pointing at the lake: "Look at the lake!"

They stood on the slope of the lawn overlooking the grounds and could clearly see the calm black water - but the water was suddenly no longer calm.

There was a commotion under the water in the middle of the lake, and huge splashes of water rose on the surface, like boiling water.

Then, right in the middle of the lake, a huge whirlpool appeared, as if a huge plug had been suddenly pulled out of the bottom of the lake...

Something like a long black pole slowly rose from the whirlpool... Then Harry saw the sail rigging...

"It's a mast!" he said to Ron and Hermione.

A huge sailboat suddenly emerged from the water.

The ship looked very strange, but very impressive.

It was like the remains of a shipwreck that had been buried in the water for hundreds of years and had just been salvaged.

Its surface was covered with moss and emitted a fluorescent light.

The portholes flickered with a dim, misty glimmer, looking like the eyes of a ghost.

Finally, with a splash of water, the big ship emerged completely, bumping on the choppy water surface and began to sail towards the lakeshore.

A moment later, they heard a splash, and an anchor was thrown into the shallow water, and then another snap, and a piece of wood was placed on the lakeshore.

A row of people wearing heavy fur cloaks came out. They were quite tall, and the fur on them was messy and tangled, looking like some kind of beast.

But the man who led them to the castle wore a different kind of fur: silvery white, soft and smooth, very much like his hair.

Hmm. This should be a Karkaroff who is completely embarrassing the headmaster.

A former Death Eater, who somehow became the headmaster, and finally died tragically in a cave.

With the light of the moon boat, Zhang Xiao saw his face clearly.

Karkaroff had a raised goatee (with a small curl at the end), thin cheeks, deep eye sockets, protruding cheekbones, and a little drooping eyebrows, giving people a deep feeling of scheming.

"Dumbledore!" Karkaroff shouted enthusiastically as he walked up the slope: "My dear old friend, how are you?"

His voice was mellow and sweet, and he shook hands with Dumbledore with both hands.

Although his face was smiling, his eyes were not smiling, and they were still cold and sharp.

"Ah, it's great to be here in Hogwarts, it's great... Viktor, come here and warm up... You don't mind, Dumbledore? Viktor has a little cold..."

Karkaroff motioned one of his students to come forward.

When the boy walked by, the little wizards seemed to have lost the ability to speak, and could only scream and breathe in cold air.

"Viktor Krum!!!"

Ron was going crazy. He grabbed his hair and shook Harry's arm desperately, as if he had seen his idol.

Harry almost lost his glasses because of her shaking, but Ron was not the only one who was excited. Almost all the little wizards who went to watch the World Cup were screaming and whispering.

Well, it was just like the star-chasing scene in the previous life.

Just when everyone was tiptoeing to watch Krum, Zhang Xiao once again noticed something was wrong in advance.

He opened his eyes and stared at the open space not far away.

There, a small bud was breaking through the ground.

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