"That's right." Dumbledore smiled and pulled the shy Haigh to his side, and introduced the animal expert to Mrs. Maxim.
Mrs. Maxim was originally worried that ordinary people would not be able to handle her own horse, but after seeing Hagrid's size, most of her worries disappeared.
She said to Hagrid very lightly: "Sorry to trouble you, my horse only drinks single malt whiskey."
"No problem." Hagrid responded excitedly. He wanted to say something more, but Mrs. Maxim closed her mouth after finishing her instructions and stood quietly. Hagrid could only go to work obediently. .
After a while, a very loud and strange sound suddenly appeared in the black lake, something like a suppressed rumble and sucking sound, as if there was a huge vacuum cleaner moving on the river bed.
Durmstrang's team is here.
"Look in the lake!" Fred's friend Lee Jordan shouted.
At this time, huge waves surged on the calm Black Lake, shattering the reflection of the setting sun. A large whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake. A long mast rose from the center of the whirlpool and circled around the whirlpool. Finally, a large ship appeared on the lake.
"Ghost ship!" This is Tom's first impression of Durmstrang's ship. If the ship is compared to a human, then Durmstrang's ship looks like a skeleton at first glance. It looks like Like a sunken shipwreck submerged in the water, the hull was wet and hung with a lot of moss and seaweed. However, the dim and misty light in the portholes proved that there were still living people moving around inside the hull.
After the hull completely emerged, it began to head towards the shore.
Tom took a step forward and attracted everyone's attention. Seeing this, Dumbledore also put his hand back into his sleeves and secretly tightened his grip on the Elder Wand.
"Atmospheric-)!" Tom raised his staff high and shouted the name of his spell - Atmospheric Spell - Ice.
When the staff hit the grass, Tom's face suddenly turned pale. This time the spell was much more expensive than the previous weather spells, because the weather has not yet reached freezing time - in fact , the Black Lake in Hogwarts is an ice-free lake. Even in the cold winter, the Black Lake never freezes.
Now Tom wants to freeze the surface of the Black Lake, which is almost against nature, so the consumption of this magic spell is also extremely terrifying. After the spell is cast, the magic power flows out of Tom's body like an ebbing tide. The huge consumption makes Tom blink. Turning over, I almost fainted.
A line of white frost spread straight from Tom's feet to the edge of the Black Lake. In an instant, a layer of white frost appeared on the surface of the Black Lake, and wisps of white steam steamed up.
While Tom was chanting the curse, Dumbledore moved his lips slightly and quietly cast a freezing spell to help Tom deepen the ice on the lake.
There was frost on the lake at first. By the time Durmstrang's ship docked at the shore, a layer of ice had already formed on the edge of the Black Lake. The ice spread quickly and surrounded Durmstrang's ship. .In the end, the magic used by Tom and Dumbledore together created an ice belt hundreds of meters long, dozens of meters wide, and five feet thick on the edge of the Black Lake, freezing Durmstrang's ship on the ice. superior.
Durmstrang's teachers and students seemed to be aware of the abnormality, and gathered around the side of the ship to watch this magnificent scene.
"Excellent freezing spell." Mrs. Maxim couldn't help but applaud.
Tom managed to reply: "It's a pity that my magic power is not enough to freeze the entire Black Lake."
Madame Maxime looked at the vast black lake and was stunned secretly: If you want to freeze the entire lake, how powerful is the magic power? Maybe even Dumbledore can't do it, right?
Fortunately, I and Dumbledore had set an age limit in advance.
This young man cannot compete. If he can compete, what will happen to Beauxbatons and Durmstrang?
At this time, Durmstrang's teachers and students also started to move. They first threw the anchor into the lake, and then put a plank on the ice.
A burly figure carefully stepped onto the ice from the wooden plank. After making sure that the ice was firm, he signaled his companions to come down. When they all came ashore and walked along the lawn into the light, everyone realized that the reason why these people looked burly was
Because they were wearing tangled fur cloaks, their bodies grew two sizes out of thin air.
The leader among Durmstrang's teachers and students was wearing a silver-white fur cloak, and the fur on the cloak was smooth and smooth.
"Professor Karkaroff, you are finally here." Dumbledore stood at the front of the team, waiting for Karkaroff to come over.
The leader of Durmstrang was none other than Karkaroff, who had fled to Japan. But somehow, he returned to Durmstrang and continued to lead this prestigious European school.
Karkaroff's voice was very sweet, and he responded enthusiastically to Dumbledore's greetings: "Oh, Dumbledore, my dear old man, we haven't seen each other for a long time! May Merlin bless you.
, your body is still healthy!”
Karkaroff's tone was very enthusiastic, but his eyes were extremely hollow, like a machine without emotion, even a little "fake".
Facing Karkaroff's greetings, Dumbledore's reaction was very dull, which was completely different from his attitude towards Madame Maxime.
"Can we enter the castle - a great freezing spell." After Karkaroff walked to Dumbledore, he naturally saw Tom holding the staff. Now he understood why there was solid ice on the lake.
, so Karkaroff turned to Tom and said something, which was considered a greeting.
Karkaroff didn't say anything, but Dumbledore would also invite both parties into the castle, so he waved his hand to indicate that everyone could go back.
In this way, Mrs. Maxim took the lead in leading her students to the castle, with Karkaroff following behind. When Durmstrang's team started to move, there was a suppressed shock in the square formation of Hogwarts.
Phew: At the front of Durmstrang's team, closely followed by Karkaroff's student, is Viktor Krum, who just shined in the Quidditch World Cup finals.
After both waves of guests entered the castle, the little wizards of Hogwarts set out.
Tom could hear the classmates discussing Krum in the background.
"Oh my God, it's Krum!"
"I know!"
"Ah! I didn't even bring a quill. Do you think he would sign my hat with lipstick?" Some fanatical female fans are already planning to sign my hat.
Krum's popularity was slightly inferior to that of Lockhart back then.
"Harry, did you bring a quill? If possible, I would also like to get a signed photo of him..." Tom heard Ron communicating excitedly with Harry behind him.
"It's boring and ridiculous, isn't it?" Hermione caught up with Tom. It was obvious that she really wanted to complain about what she had just seen and heard.