Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 269 The school year has begun

That night Sainz received a thick email, all of which were from friends expressing their concern, asking him why he didn't come to school and whether something had happened.

Sainz could imagine the scene: not long after the opening party began, a few friends sneaked out to mail a letter.

In fact, he didn't need to imagine, Tom and Jerry had already told him the scene.

Even though Sainz did not attend the opening party, he may know more details of the party than other students.

At today's sorting ceremony, the Sorting Hat finally sang out the words about the Big Four's criteria for selecting students from their respective houses, and also revealed that it was originally worn on the head of a Gryffindor.

After the sorting, old Dumbledore announced that this year's House Cup Quidditch match would not be held. Just as he was about to announce another major event of the year, an ugly figure with a cane broke open the door of the auditorium with a thunder.

Mad-Eye Moody, here we go!

To be honest, Sainz couldn't judge whether this Moody was real or fake. After all, many things had changed. It was hard to say whether Barty Crouch Jr. would still pretend to be Moody.

Sainz found that he was a little too early to return the Marauder's Map to Harry.

But it doesn’t matter. I’ll borrow it and take a look at it after I get back to the castle.

Moody - whether real or fake - caught everyone's attention as soon as he appeared on the stage. He was wrapped in a black traveling cloak and walked with a cane. Every step he took made a hollow sound echoing in the auditorium, and with the lightning flashing in real time reflected on the ceiling, it was as if an evil ghost had entered the auditorium.

All the students' eyes followed him in complete silence.

As a martial arts master, Moody had fought in the military all his life and suffered many injuries. His face looked like it was carved out of a piece of rotten wood, and the carver was definitely not an expert, but just a clumsy beginner. His mouth looked like a random, crooked cut, and the ridge of his nose was forgotten to be carved.

The most impressive thing is definitely his two eyes, one big and one small.

One normal eye was small and shiny black, while the other eye was as big as a coin protruding from the eye socket, emitting bright blue light. It was a fake eye, a magic eye that could see through the invisibility cloak.

After the evil eye turned around, it returned to the head. Don't think it was resting there. It was just looking at people from the back of its head.

Yes, this fake eye can see through things!

Sainz wondered in his heart, wondering what the principle of this thing's perspective was. Was it an imaging method like X-rays, or was it the real adjustable perspective that some LSPs expected?

If this is really a true perspective, it would be so disgusting!

There are so many young girls at Hogwarts!

Even if it is not adjustable real perspective, but just X-ray perspective imaging, it is equally annoying. Sainz cannot accept the existence of such a thing.

He decided to verify it after returning to the castle, even if it meant offending Moody who didn't know whether it was true or not!

After "Moody" came on stage, he whispered a few words with Old Deng, then sat down casually and started eating a piece of sausage as if no one was around.

Old Dumbledore gave up on announcing the big event he was about to talk about, and instead happily broke the silence by introducing this year's new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to everyone, "Professor Moody!"

No one applauded, except old Dumbledore himself. This was even more miserable than when Professor Lupin came last year.

Normally, professors and students would always be polite out of symbolic courtesy, but this time no one applauded. Instead, they were all shocked by his appearance.

It would be fine if the students were shocked, but there was no reason for the professors to be shocked. Even if they were not very familiar with him, they would not be intimidated by his appearance.

Maybe he didn't expect that the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor invited by old Dumbledore would be him.

Speaking of which, Sainz exposed the rat in advance. He thought that without the rat and the big black dog incident, Lupin's identity as a werewolf would not be so easy to be exposed.

The result was even more thorough than the original trajectory.

In the original storyline, he almost hurt Harry and the others after he lost control, so he voluntarily resigned and left Hogwarts. In fact, there were not many students who knew that he was a werewolf at that time.

This time it was different. During the week when the students had finished their exams and were waiting for the results, there happened to be a full moon night, and this time he was caught by a senior classmate.

Hermione was not the only smart student at Hogwarts, and the suspicious features of Lupin were too obvious. After the end of the semester, the Ravenclaw student brought a group of classmates to question him in person.

Lupin is also a bachelor and was blocked by someone at the door. He didn't struggle and just admitted it directly!

There is no way he would deny it. When a person begins to doubt something, unless he is really wrong, he will definitely be able to find more evidence.

Public opinion exploded all of a sudden. If the Quidditch World Cup had not overshadowed this incident, Dumbledore would have had more trouble.

This is also the reason why he actually considered the feasibility of this matter when the topic of asking Old Deng to help operate a board seat was raised.

Sainz guessed that Malfoy must have caused a lot of trouble for old Dumbledore because of this incident, and he might even use threats and inducements to other directors to stand with him because of this incident.

This is probably why old Dumbledore did not deny this possibility when Sai mentioned kicking Malfoy out of the board of directors.

After introducing Moody, old man Dumbledore continued to talk about the major events of this year. He announced that there would be no Quidditch matches this year, and all energy would be used to hold another more grand event - the Triwizard Tournament!

At this time, some young wizards who were not from the magic world and did not usually pay much attention to collecting information learned that there were more than just Hogwarts as a magic school in Europe.

When several friends who found out that Sainz didn't come to school returned to the auditorium after sending their letters, they heard the news. Fred exclaimed loudly: "Are you kidding me!"

Old Dumbledore smiled and said, "I'm not kidding, but speaking of jokes, I know a joke about a troll, a hag, and a leprechaun..."

Professor McGonagall interrupted him immediately, "Ahem..."

Old Dumbledore said tactfully, "Well... it's not appropriate to talk about this now... let's continue talking about the Triwizard Contest, which began about seven hundred years ago."

Before Old Deng could finish, the students below were already whispering, "I'm definitely going to participate!"

Old Dumbledore was still introducing the Triwizard Tournament. "…a friendly competition between the three largest magic schools in Europe…Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and German Shepherd Strong…each school selects a champion…three magical events…held every five years…takes turns to host…a good way for young wizards to build friendships…too many deaths…it was interrupted…"

Old Dumbledore continued, "Many attempts have been made to restore it over the centuries... Now, our Department of International Magical Cooperation and the Department of Magical Games and Sports believe it is time to make another attempt!"