Chapter 150 A Different Welcome Dinner

"Perhaps you have seen it on the Change today, but you must still have some doubts. Since the new students have not yet been divided into classes, I would like to give you a special introduction-the transfer student, Maca McLean."

In the auditorium of Durmstrang Castle, a routine welcome dinner is being held.

This is a large auditorium not much smaller than the Hogwarts auditorium. Although the furnishings on the four walls are very simple, they are as meticulous as Durmstrang's school management philosophy.

The school badges and pennants composed of extinct double-headed waterfowl and sheep-horned skulls are neatly arranged on the walls on both sides. Although they are not fancy, they are very imposing.

But on the back wall facing the gate, there is only an ancient long rod wand carved, and an unknown shield-shaped emblem with a black perfect circle in the background, which makes people wonder.

The dinner party atmosphere in Durmstrang was also very different from that at Hogwarts. The tables here were all placed horizontally, and everyone sat neatly in fixed positions, with only the sound of tableware colliding and deliberately lowered whispers.

And at the very front, besides the teaching staff's dining table, there is also a large platform with a height of half a person, and there is no one on it at the moment.

It can be seen that under Karkaroff's ruthless teaching policy, the individuality of the students has been suppressed.

At this moment, Karkaroff's words made the whispers below a little messy.

Needless to say, the influence of such a major event as the Quidditch World Cup in Durmstrang, where there are many fans, there were many students and even teachers at the game site at that time.

And the name "Maka McLean", not to mention well-known, is not much different.

"...Then, all freshmen are welcome to enter!"

As soon as Karkaroff finished speaking, the door of the auditorium opened, and the freshmen, led by Maca, walked slowly to the faculty seats in front of the hall.

"Principal, is this all right?"

At this time, a thin male teacher with a stooped back suddenly asked a question.

Karkaroff frowned, and said impatiently: "Of course it's okay, Orson."

The other teachers just glanced at the two of them and didn't say much. In their view, not arguing with Karkaroff is the most appropriate choice.

The old wizard who didn't know whether his surname was "Olson" or his first name opened his mouth, but finally shook his head and ate the food on his plate.

In front of the auditorium, the freshmen lined up with Maca and stood in front of the teaching staff with a little uneasiness.

Most of them hadn't eaten yet. Seeing that meals had already started in the auditorium, the stomachs of several young wizards were growling.

"McLean, you are different from other freshmen. You are a transfer student, and logically you should be promoted to the fourth grade... But I hope you know that in terms of teaching arrangements, our school and Hogwarts There is a big difference."

Karkaroff paused for a moment, then continued, "For freshmen entering our school, each teacher will freely select students to teach, and each student also has the right to change their teacher at any time - the number of times that can be changed will be determined by each of you. The credits earned are determined."

Yes, credits!

This is a very interesting rule in Durmstrang: in this school,

Many resources can be exchanged for credits, including library borrowing, potion materials, various magic props, and so on.

It is said that this is a key school regulation introduced by the second principal of the school, Harfon Monte.

And the headmaster who established Durmstrang Academy's tradition of focusing on duels and combat magic, even established the way for students to obtain credits on the strength of each little wizard.

Whether it's an individual ranking in the three duel competitions in each semester, or a team ranking in the class competition at the end of each school year, or even an invitational duel because of various personal grievances - as long as you are in the venue specified by the school and If you win in the rules, you can get the corresponding credits.

It has to be said that when Maca learned of this regulation from Krum, he immediately became very interested in this very competitive teaching model.

"Teachers, who of you wants the transfer student McClain?" Karkaroff asked very directly to the teachers sitting on both sides of him.

However, the teachers who had been staring at Maca from just now fell silent.

Maca made a big fuss at the World Cup, and what he did against the British Ministry of Magic made headlines. Now who would dare to accept such a thorn as a student?

I heard that he even fought Dumbledore once, although it seems that it didn't work out, but even if he escaped from Dumbledore's hands, it would be an astonishing and remarkable achievement.

To be honest, would you be beaten if you were his teacher?

If anyone had asked Karkaroff that, he would have told you—this kid might be wielding an "Expelling Weapon" with his right hand while he punches you hard in the face with his left!

Seeing the expressions of "don't ask me for this matter" from the teachers, Maca shrugged involuntarily, and stretched his hand to the position of the "Olsen" who spoke just now.

"Professor Orson, would you like to teach me?"

Orson froze for a moment. He looked at Karkaroff, then at the other teachers around him, and finally nodded hesitantly.

"Then follow me and learn..."

Immediately, some students below all stared - obviously, those should be Orson's existing students.

Then, after the freshmen were also selected by a kind of teacher, the dinner officially started. Maca saw that Karkaroff didn't seem to be planning to arrange a seat for him, so he simply found an empty seat at the back and sat down.

The meal was quiet, and he could sense that the students didn't want to get too close to him. A little fat man next to him even moved the chair purposely to make room for Maca.

On Maca's right hand side, the little witch who looked a bit weak did not move, but her head was lowered lower and lower, and the tip of her nose almost touched the vegetable salad on the plate.

It didn't matter that Maca himself was ignored, but he seemed to scare the little girl a little.

...

Compared with Durmstrang College, the atmosphere of the Hogwarts welcome dinner was much hotter.

At this moment, in the auditorium of Hogwarts, Dumbledore began his speech...

"Okay!" Dumbledore said, looking at everyone with a smile, "Now that we've all had our fill of food and drink, I must ask everyone's attention again. I have a few announcements to make."

"Mr. Filch, the janitor, wants me to tell you that this year, a few more items have been added to the prohibited items in the castle, and they are screaming balls, toothed flying saucers, and combo boomerangs... The entire list includes about four hundred items. Thirty-seven items can be seen in Mr. Filch's office, and those who are interested can check them."

You can notice that the corners of his mouth seem to twitch a few times.

He continued: "As before, I want to remind everyone that students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest on the other side of the venue, and students under the third grade are not allowed to visit Hogsmeade Village."

"I also regret to inform you that there will be no House Cup Quidditch this year."

Everyone couldn't help but burst into an uproar.

Dumbledore continued: "This is because a large event will begin in October and continue throughout the school year, taking up much of the time and energy of the teachers - but I am sure you will all have a great deal of fun out of it. I It is my great pleasure to announce that this year at Hogwarts—"

At this moment, a deafening thunder sounded from the clouds outside the castle, and the door was roughly pushed open.

A man stood in the doorway, leaning on a long cane and wrapped in a black traveling cloak. Everyone in the auditorium turned to look at the stranger, and suddenly another forked lightning flashed across the ceiling, and Hermione gasped.

The lightning illuminated the man's face so clearly that the students couldn't help shrinking their heads, because they had never seen such a face before.

It looks like it was carved out of a piece of rotten wood. If there is only one word to describe it, it is "incomplete".

Every inch of the skin on that face seemed to be scarred, the mouth was like a big crooked opening, and the place where the nose should be protruding was missing.

And the most terrifying thing about this man is his eyes.

One of his eyes is small, but it shines brightly and sharply; the other eye is big, round like a coin, and is a bright blue with a faint glow.

The blue eye didn't blink, it just kept moving in the socket, turning up and down, side to side, completely irrelevant to the direction the normal eye was looking at—later, the blue eye The child turned over suddenly, and simply turned to the inside of the man's eye socket, leaving only a big white eyeball in the eye socket.

The man walked to Dumbledore very quickly with one foot deep and one shallow foot leaning on crutches. He held out a hand, which was also scarred like his face.

Dumbledore shook hands with him and whispered something. He seemed to be asking the man something, but the weird man shook his head expressionlessly and answered in a low voice.

Dumbledore nodded, motioning for the man to take an empty seat to his right.

The stranger sat down, shook his head, brushed his long gray hair from his face, and pulled a plate of sausages, holding them up to his mutilated nose, and sniffing them. He took a pocketknife from his pocket, poked it through the end of a sausage, and ate it.

His normal eye was fixed on the sausage, but the blue eye was still constantly moving around in its socket, looking at the auditorium and his classmates.

"Allow me to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher," Dumbledore happily broke the silence, "Professor Moody."

Under normal circumstances, when a new teacher meets everyone, everyone will applaud, but now, except for Dumbledore and Hagrid, no teacher or student applauds. )!!