Volume 5: The Burning Golden Flame Chapter 404 Throw rotten eggs into my head, Hogwarts
Hearing his words, the four warriors, including Jon, all looked at Matthew in shock.
Even the castle students who were already sitting in the audience seats let out a series of exclamations.
Hogwarts Castle was one of the stakes in the Triwizard Tournament, and even had an equal status with the entire French wizarding community in the blood oath sworn between Dumbledore and Voldemort.
When the students in the castle were taken out of the school, they thought that the final would be held on the Quidditch field, and they could be spectators for once.
However, what was unexpected was that the real purpose of letting them out was to make room for the four participating warriors and reserve a competition venue.
Of course, Jon was also shocked. After hearing what Matthew announced, he turned to look at Dumbledore. Dumbledore looked at him and shook his head.
This means that the final competition will be completed in the castle, and even Dumbledore himself doesn't know it, but then Jon looks at Snape who is also sitting in the referee's seat.
Dumbledore didn't know, but there was no way Snape and the others didn't know.
If they wanted to use Hogwarts Castle as the competition venue, they would have to get the approval of the castle's current nominal owner, Voldemort. Otherwise, Matthew and the others would not have the courage and ability to make a decision privately.
In other words, Voldemort's side must have known about this earlier than they did, but how much earlier is unknown.
After thinking about this, the first thing that Jon reacted to was not how much more opportunities and advantages Draco and Emil had over him, but a question that came to his mind.
Why would Voldemort agree to this?
Just as Jon was asking this question, Matthew's voice, amplified by the amplification spell, rang out again throughout the Quidditch field.
"From the Forbidden Forest to the Black Lake, and from the Black Lake to the castle, this Triwizard Tournament involves every corner of this school, and the final winner will be born in this castle."
"The Triwizard Cup! It's the championship trophy of this game. The warrior who lifts it at the last moment will be the only winner, and his camp will also get everything you promised. The trophy is now hidden in this castle. You need to find clues from inside and find this final glory. There is no time limit for this game, and it will end until someone lifts the Triwizard Cup. At the same time, there are no restricted areas in the castle. As long as you can think of a place that you can reach and enter, it may be the place where the final trophy is hidden."
"The final rankings of the first two games will be used as the order of entry for you to enter the castle and start the competition. Jon Green, who has the highest score, will be the first to enter the castle and start the competition at 10 a.m., while Emil Lestrange and Diane Rosier, who are tied for second place, will enter the castle at 1 p.m., and finally Draco Malfoy, who will be the last one to enter the castle when the sun sets."
After the specific rules were announced, there was an uproar in the audience.
Because as the person leading in points, Jon's advantage in this game is really too big.
He entered the venue three hours earlier than the second place, and almost a day earlier than Draco. If he was lucky enough, he might be able to find the Triwizard Cup and end the game before others even entered.
But even if someone thinks such a big advantage is unfair, the rules are unlikely to change at this time.
Just after Matthew announced all the rules of the game, there were less than five minutes left until 10 o'clock.
At this time, the federation referee from Africa had already conducted a complete examination of Jon.
"What happened to your eyes?"
She asked warily.
Of course, Jon didn't think that the changes in his eyes could be hidden from such an examination. He shrugged and said.
"It became like this because of a failed magic experiment. If you mind, you can ask someone to help change it back to its original state. I can't do anything myself."
The African witch finally found a professional wizard appraiser, who made a rigorous assessment of Jon's condition.
But obviously even the professional wizard had never seen Jon in such a situation before. After observing his pair of flaming light golden eyes for a long time, he couldn't tell what was going on.
As the time for the final competition drew closer, Matthew came forward and did not pursue the change in Jon's eyes, and allowed him to continue the competition as normal.
After confirming once again that he did not carry anything that violated the regulations, it was exactly ten o'clock.
Jon was brought to the wide-open castle gate. Everyone was looking at him. Before he approached the door, he looked back at Dumbledore. The two of them just looked at each other, and there was no other communication.
Finally, he stepped into the castle gate without hesitation.
Just after he entered, the door was closed from the outside and was not opened again until one o'clock.
Seeing the door closed and John officially starting the game, Dumbledore slowly stood up from his seat. Few people were paying attention to him now, as most of the students and reporters were discussing the format of this final game. At this time, he turned around silently and left the stadium and Hogwarts Castle, leaving only Rosier as the representative of the wizarding world.
Crouch discovered that Dumbledore had disappeared just three minutes later.
He looked at the empty seat and turned to ask Snape.
"Who is guarding the French Ministry of Magic?"
"Selwyn Rookwood."
Snape said this calmly. He had obviously noticed Dumbledore's departure, but he didn't seem to be overly worried about it.
"Remember our current status and take good care of the castle for the master. I believe the master is more prepared than anyone else."
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After entering Hogwarts Castle, Jon didn't feel that it was any different from the previous times he came here.
But even so, he held the wand tightly in his hand and remained alert at all times.
As expected before the third game, Voldemort himself still did not attend the final game. Since he came back once when the castle was attacked by a group of dragons in the first event, he has never appeared in public again.
Of course Dumbledore and John would not have failed to notice this. In fact, quite a few people in the wizarding world had been trying to find out about Voldemort himself since the beginning of this year.
There were some results , which is why Jon and Dumbledore said those words before the game began.
While the third game was going on, Dumbledore naturally had to do what he had to do, and this might very well mean facing Voldemort himself.
But this does not mean that Jon is definitely safe.
From the first project, everyone could see Voldemort's attitude towards John.
If getting rid of Dumbledore was the one thing he had to do, then Jon had to be second.
It's not just that Jon is the most outstanding student of the new generation on Dumbledore's side. The more crucial issue is that Jon embarrassed Voldemort in front of so many people in Europe and killed two of his capable subordinates.
Given Voldemort's vengeful personality, if there was a chance to kill John, he would never let it go. If there was no chance to kill John, he would create this opportunity!
And in this last game, it is undoubtedly one of the best opportunities.
Of course, Jon didn't know what Voldemort was thinking or what he was going to do, but he knew that he had to be extra careful at this time.
Now that he could enter the castle openly, he certainly had nothing to hide anymore. Let's not talk about looking for clues for now. He walked up the stairs and headed straight for the seventh floor. He soon came to the principal's office, which was a restricted area for all students and professors in the entire castle. Without extending his hand, he waved his wand and pushed open the door.
Looking inside from where the foyer was, Jon didn't notice anything wrong.
There were no living creatures guarding anything here, and when he stepped into the principal's office, there was no sign of any magical device being activated. Everything was so normal.
The furnishings here have basically not changed from when Jon first came here, and all the traces left by Hermione's previous battle have been cleaned up.
Of course, the four relics on the middle desk were not taken away and placed somewhere else. John didn't know that Barty Jr. and Snape could not contact Voldemort now. He just thought that Voldemort himself had his own support and knew that the four relics related to the castle could not be secretly taken away in this way.
After staying in the principal's office for a while, Jon walked up the corner staircase in the room and finally came to the tower where the Pen of Acceptance and the Book of Admission were once stored.
At this time, the table in the middle of the tower was empty, with nothing on it, and there were no magic portraits on the surrounding walls. It seemed as if the place had been emptied.
After searching the surrounding area carefully and finding nothing, Jon left in disappointment.
Yes, even if Voldemort allowed Matthew and his men to set up the competition venue in Hogwarts Castle, they probably wouldn't dare to hide the Triwizard Cup in the headmaster's office in such an offensive way.
So Jon returned to the headmaster's office and first tried to see if he could pull out the sword of Gryffindor. He thought that even if he couldn't take it out of Hogwarts Castle, he could use it in the castle.
But it turned out that the blade of the sword seemed to be completely integrated with the entire desk, and no matter how hard Jon tried, he couldn't pick it up from the desk.
In the end, Jon had no choice but to give up, and he didn't even fulfill his wish of becoming a Gryffindor swordsman.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave the principal's office that could no longer bring him any benefit, he suddenly stopped as if he remembered something.
Enter the castle openly...
Can he now walk into the castle openly?
After confirming this, Jon turned his back to the door of the principal's office, faced the direction of the desk and spoke something.
"Throw rotten eggs at my head, Hogwarts."
This was a strange secret order that Dumbledore told him after the second task was completed.
Four months have passed, and Jon's memory is already quite fuzzy. After all, Dumbledore didn't act very serious when he said these things. It sounded more like a joke, so Jon didn't take it too seriously.
But now he suddenly remembered this matter. Anyway, it was here, and Dumbledore would not harm him if he gave it a try.
And just after Jon finished saying this secret order, the entire principal's office became extremely quiet. Nothing changed, and no one or ghost jumped out to actually throw rotten eggs at his head.
Just as Jon waited for three or four seconds, spread his hands, thinking that this might just be a joke made by Dumbledore, and was about to turn around and leave the principal's office, a slightly weak but extremely lively and excited voice suddenly sounded in his mind!
"Hey! Hey! Hey! It's been so long, it's been so long! There are still people who can come here!"
Jon, who had already taken half a step, stopped in an instant. He turned around and looked at the still empty principal's office, but couldn't find the source of the sound .
"Why are you not talking? Are you looking for me? If so, please move on."
Instead of doing what the voice in his head said, Jon asked quietly.
"Who are you?"
"Who am I? You don't know who I am? Then why did you say those words to wake me up? Don't be ridiculous, my friend."
"This is what Professor Dumbledore taught me. Do you know him? Albus Dumbledore."
The voice suddenly fell silent, and Jon couldn't figure out what happened. Just when he was about to speak again, the voice let out a long sigh.
"Albus Dumbledore, Albus... Of course I know. You call him Professor? Are you his student?"
"Yes, my name is Jon Green, and I am a fourth year student at Hogwarts under his guidance."
"After he left here, he established a new Hogwarts? The school was divided?"
"It is divided, but it is not a new Hogwarts. We have always firmly believed that there is only one Hogwarts, and the current castle is not worthy of being called a school. Now we are preparing to take it back."
After saying this, Jon continued to ask tentatively.
"Who the hell are you? Castle?"
The voice seemed amused by Jon's question.
"Haha, castle? Me? If you really want to know who I am, why don't you just do as I say and come forward? A fourth year student at Hogwarts - Jon Green."
