Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Strange things happen every year, especially this year.

Bourne didn't expect it at all. He just lamented that Haierbo was knocked down by a boomerang, and he himself received a boomerang in his head.

When he traveled back in time to the 19th century, in order to explain why he appeared in London in the middle of the night, he once made up a reason.

He told Sherlock and the others that the reason why he left Hogwarts Castle was because he wanted to represent the school in the seventh-year Potions Championship.

Later, Sherlock and the others described a series of thrilling events that night to Longbottom, the director of the Auror Office, and investigators from the Department of Mysteries, and also fully reported the "lie" that Bourne had casually made up.

Thanks to the excellent matching mechanism in Britain, the internal workflow division of the British Ministry of Magic has always been relatively chaotic.

The Auror Office is part of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, which has not yet changed to magical paper airplanes to deliver messages within the department, but still uses owl couriers.

When one of the Aurors was filing and sealing the recorded confessions, out of carelessness, he handed the documents directly to the owl postman without clearly writing the delivery address.

He believed that those owls had been working in the Ministry of Magic for so long, and under the influence of magic, they had always been able to accurately deliver documents between departments.

That Auror was right, because in most cases, the owl postman was actually more reliable than the wizard.

"What a wonderful misunderstanding."

As soon as the documents are placed on the table and the stamp is stamped, the work is completed.

As a result, in the Department of International Magical Cooperation, there was another careless wizard who, while reading the Daily Prophet, used a little magic spell he invented to process the documents sent by the owl.

As a contestant, you will soon receive an invitation from the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists. The invitation to participate was a hazelwood seed soaked in a "growth potion" that had just been invented at the time. Contestants need to use the seeds to crack the formula of the "Growth Potion" in order to pass the first round of that year's Potion Championship.

Because there was indeed a Potion Championship taking place during that time, so the owl postman recognized the words "Potion Championship" in the file through magic, and directly sent the file with Bourne's information to the International Magic Cooperation manage.

In this way, Bourne's name became one of the contestants in the Potion Championship.

Principal Dumbledore chuckled, and immediately announced some not particularly good news to Bourne.

However, the owl postman who delivered the seeds to Bourne was unlucky. It flew near Hogwarts Castle and could not find "Bourne".

In the end, the owl postman had to cater to the excellent matching mechanism of Britain and threw the hazel seed into the Forbidden Forest...

However, this "Owl Work LAN" also has very few errors, such as the situation he encountered at that time.

Bourne told Principal Dumbledore exactly what happened, which also aroused the old wizard's admiration.

"When I was in school at Hogwarts, I once participated in a Potions Tournament. Like the Triwizard Tournament, this tournament was imbued with powerful contract magic when it was first created.

Each contestant is an elite selected from various magic schools. In order to compete for honor, once selected, the competition must be carried out to the end.

Although your qualification for the competition is a wonderful misunderstanding, the contract magic contained in it has not lost its effect..."

Bourne's eyes widened.

isn't it?

A lie casually made up by a young wizard, coupled with the loose operating mechanism of the British Ministry of Magic, was approved by chance, an almost "joke" qualification for a magic competition. The contract magic in it has been rigorously maintained for more than a hundred years. No loss of effect.

Whether this is considered loose or rigorous, Bourne no longer knows how to evaluate it.

"...Although people don't yet know what the punishment will be for violating this contract - qualifications for the Potions Championship are very valuable and represent the honor of each magic school in potions. So far, no one has withdrawn from the 62nd competition without reason. The contestant appears - but I still recommend that you face this matter squarely and remove the contract magic caused by this misunderstanding as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the Potions Championship will be held this year. Just next semester, Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will host the 63rd competition.

This is your only chance. If you don't participate, the 64th competition will be held seven years later. By then, you will have graduated from Hogwarts and will no longer be able to represent Hogwarts in competitions. "

Dumbledore gave Bourne a solution. Although he didn't really want to make this trip, Bourne had to admit that he really had to go to the competition. After all, he could strictly maintain the contract magic for more than a hundred years, but he was not willing to try the punishment of breach of contract.

While the two wizards, an old one and a young one, were chatting, Dumbledore also changed the terrain of the place and created a large enough underground cave.

The old headmaster thought this place was not bad, and the cave in the Forbidden Forest was more suitable for the thousand-year-old basilisk to "retire" than Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

It doesn't matter if it wants it or not, Dumbledore arranged it here anyway. In order to prevent people with ulterior motives from looking for this basilisk, he also cast a loyalty spell on this place, and the secret keeper of the spell is himself - he doesn't want to say it, and no one can force him to say it.

Regarding his decision, Basilisk has no right to deny it. Having lived for almost a thousand years, it clearly smelled danger in this old man who was clearly not a Parseltongue but could hear and speak Parseltongue.

If he didn't want to look decent, the old wizard would probably have more than nine ways to make it look decent.

The only one who is a little dissatisfied with this is Little John. The mixed-breed Sniff is worried that he will not be able to find this "smart big tree" in the future. But just as it was about to talk, Bourne's pet Ryan stretched out his paw to pull it aside, and then pointed with his paw at a Madago cat that was following him like a follower.

Little John thought for a while, and immediately understood the meaning of "Cat Boss": with this Madago cat that can constantly clone itself, and its own ability to travel through space, even if it is protected by the Red Heart Loyalty Curse, it is still not possible to Difficult to detect.

After thinking about this clearly, Little John regained his good mood and followed Bourne and Dumbledore on his broomstick all the way back to Hogwarts Castle.

Arriving at the gate of the castle courtyard, Bourne saw his dean waiting there at a glance. Professor McGonagall, an old woman, clasped her hands together as if they were very nervous.

"Mr. Slughorn, it seems that you are in good condition..." Professor McGonagall looked at Bourne with concern, looking up and down carefully.

The headmaster of Gryffindor was relieved, and then immediately warned Bourne in a tone like the vice-principal of Hogwarts.

The boomerang is coming again!

"...Before I increase or decrease your academy points as rewards or punishments based on your performance, I must remind you that you have missed many courses in the past year and a half.

Moreover, Severus had already told me something about the pretender. I have a general understanding and feel that I must remind you of a question.

That pretender pretended to be you and took all the final exams, and all the results were invalid.

This school year, if you fail to pass the special exam that several of our professors will prepare for you in half a month, it is very likely that you will be like an acquaintance of yours - that is, Marcus Flint of Slytherin House. , facing the dilemma of repeating a grade.

Presumably, you don’t want your Grandpa Horace to know about your repeating a grade, right?”