great-warnovel Chapter 469 The Candidate and the Magic Wand
Chapter 469 The Candidate and the Magic Wand
Chapter 469 The Candidate and the Magic Wand
While the Three Kingdoms Tournament is important, it's impossible for the entire school to participate.
According to the custom from two hundred years ago, only the best students in the 7th grade would be selected and led by a professor.
After all, it's been a whole year, and the seventh-grade students have basically finished learning the coursework. Previously, they only needed to prepare N...
Just take the EWT exam.
There is no longer a Wizard Examination Authority, and each school sets its own graduation standards.
Generally speaking, as long as you meet the assessment checklist set by the vice principal, you can successfully obtain a graduation certificate. This checklist is determined by the final level of the courses as assessed by the professors of each subject, with 0 being the highest level.
Previously, various positions in Malfoy Castle also required these course levels as a requirement.
If we only bring 7th-year students to this Champions Tournament, the number of participants will be too small. There are no more than 30 students in the entire 7th year of Hogwarts. The best among them is Cedric from Sculpture School. Even if the Goblet of Fire were to select the champion, he would most likely be the one to represent Hogwarts.
But the students were making a huge fuss, from the fifth and sixth grades to the entire fourth grade of Gryffindor!
They all wanted to see the new Paris, and Hermione's letter emphasized the significance of the competition, subtly hinting at it to Professor McGonagall.
"Bring more people with strong combat skills."
This gave the clever Professor Cat another thought: perhaps this competition was not so simple.
In addition to herself, she was also to accompany the visit, replacing the originally planned Professor Slughorn with the more capable current Anti-Wizard Technology Defense Professor Moody.
Regarding the student selection, in addition to all 7th grade students, she also had Moody organize a school-wide practical lesson exercise.
This time it's not an internal struggle between grades. Students from different grades can freely choose their challengers, and if they can defeat any 7th grader, they will have the opportunity to go to New Paris for an exchange program.
This made the first practical class of the semester extremely competitive, with almost every seventh-grader receiving more than one challenge letter. Of course, Cedric was an exception; his excellence was undeniable, and no one wanted to pick the most difficult challenge.
Besides Hogwarts, Beauxbatons was also losing a lot of hair from worrying about who to visit.
Since transforming into a specialized alchemy school and providing students with specialized education, they have found it difficult to find well-rounded, outstanding individuals capable of representing the school in competitions.
You can't just pick a few people from the 7th grade's sales, alchemy, medical, or research departments and tie them together, can you? Not to mention Grindelwald, even Hermione wouldn't agree to that.
In desperation, Mrs. Maxim urgently recalled Fleur to the school.
She still holds the title of a seventh-year student at Beauxbatons, but since she spends most of her time auditing classes at Hogwarts and her family is at New Hogsmeade, people almost forget her true identity if no one mentions it.
This half-Mevelle girl was indeed a brilliant genius. Although she had missed a few years in the sales department, after coming to Hogwarts, she absorbed knowledge like a sponge. In last year's final exams, she was allowed by the professors to participate, and as a result, she achieved top grades in all subjects.
If she weren't enrolled at Beauxbatons, she would be second only to Cedric as a student.
Obviously, Beauxbatons will bring in a bunch of students to fill the ranks, but the only true warrior who can represent the school is Fleur.
At this point, the significance of Mrs. Maxim's earlier decision to send her grandmother and sister to reunite with their family, despite opposition from many, became apparent.
If it weren't for that favor, Furong probably wouldn't have agreed.
This young lady is now in full charge of Hermione's perfumery and is also having a fling with Bill Weasley, who is now the deputy director of the Experimental Charms Research Institute at New Hogsmeade! Her future is limitless!
Of course, regardless of what Beauxbatons think, those of them who are now being led around should know what's good for them.
Even faster than Hogwarts, they directly ordered the sales department's wagons, located far away in Madagascar, to change course and fly to New Paris.
Meanwhile, Hermione hadn't had a chance to go back to the Tower to see McGonagall's reply.
I have a lot of things to do outside today.
Six experimental children will represent Cordosdoriz in the battle, but as wizards, only Levi has been given a wand; the others are still empty-handed.
Although one can fight using only their diary, a wand is still essential if one wants to learn orthodox wizarding magic.
Fortunately, New Paris is not short of wands. Although Hermione has taken away a wand maker, they still have a stable wand acquisition process.
Because these children were receiving special attention from Grindelwald, Ms. Rosier, who had been staying in Durmstrang, even made a special trip back to bring the children to undergo the wand selection process.
Considering Ms. Rosier's unapproachable demeanor and the possibility that she might say some rather extreme things to the test subjects, Hermione also came to check on them, lest the vice-principal lead everyone to Durmstrang.
When they met the silver-haired woman again, they were now on equal footing, both serving as vice principals of their respective schools. Moreover, they both knew each other's intentions, so their eye contact was quite confrontational.
"Oh, young lady of Hogwarts, I hope she won't try to steal something from us again this time." The elegant old lady clutched her small handbag.
He chuckled softly in a slightly hoarse voice.
Hermione shrugged: "Ah~ Mrs. Durmstrang, you'd better do some mental work on her, don't let her keep thinking about defecting."
Six children of varying ages followed behind them, watching the two bicker with a mixture of curiosity and apprehension.
They were now in an unmanned boat, crossing the humid Seine River, heading towards the old Parisian district where black flames were burning.
Their wand selection will be completed here.
"If you ask me, it would be better to go to New Hogsmeade. We have a sacred oak tree that blocks out the sky, and its fallen branches are evergreen and never wither, making excellent wand materials," Hermione said, showing off intentionally or unintentionally.
Rozier wasn't angry; he just smiled slightly.
"Demstrang is no less impressive. In fact, we no longer let students go out and find materials on their own."
Although she was very old, her back was always straight. Sitting on the small boat, she turned her head to look at the opposite bank. Among the ruins where a few embers of flames were burning, there seemed to be some shadow.
"Miss Granger should know that the Fiery War Army uses standard wands."
Hermione pouted: "A standard wand is never as good as a custom-made one."
She deliberately straightened the long, silver-white staff on her back, the glowing spheres on it attracting the children's attention.
"That's not necessarily true." Her gaze shifted to Levi's hand. Although he already had a wand, he had come with his brothers and sisters.
"Isn't that our standard-issue wand in that child's hand?"
Hermione paused, then looked at the wand she had mistaken for the Deathly Hallows.
"This is a standard-issue wand?"