After a loud bang, the five people who were originally sitting in the referee's seat appeared out of thin air outside the competition venue. Their faces looked very ugly, and they were obviously furious at the students' crazy behavior.
"That was close, I thought I was going to die!"
Bagman patted his chest with lingering fear and glared at the culprit with dissatisfaction. No one expected that Karkaroff's "explanation" would directly arouse the dissatisfaction of all the spectators and even make them throw curses at the referee's seat.
"Dumbledore, this is how Hogwarts treats us..." Karkaroff took the initiative and prepared to put the blame on Dumbledore.
"All right, Karkaroff."
Madame Maxime heard a cheer from the stands and interrupted impatiently, "I really don't understand why you gave Anderson 1 point. Don't tell me it's because of his Muggle wizard identity. Now look, how are you going to clean up the mess?"
Karkaroff's face darkened instantly, he snorted in dissatisfaction, and turned and left.
"That's terrible." Bagman looked at Karkaroff's departing back, with disgust on his face. "I really don't understand why Durmstrang Academy of Magic would choose such a guy as its principal. No wonder Durmstrang has always had a bad reputation."
"Okay Ludo, now we should think about how to solve the problem." Dumbledore said gently.
"How can we solve it? As long as Karkaroff doesn't serve as a referee, all problems can be solved." Bagman thought that Karkaroff should be kicked out of the refereeing team. How could a guy who couldn't even be fair and just be qualified to be a referee? He would only cause trouble for them. "However, I have never seen Hogwarts students so united!"
"I can only say that Mr. Anderson has extraordinary charm." Dumbledore asked Crouch: "Barty, how do you think this matter should be resolved?"
"The game must go on." Barty Crouch came back to his senses from his trance and said slowly: "If necessary, Karkaroff can be removed from the referee panel."
"I have no objection, but I don't want to go through what happened just now again." Madame Maxime was also very dissatisfied with Karkaroff.
Some things are done and that's it, but when everyone is outraged, you still treat the audience as fools. How stupid do you have to be to do that
"Why not just take the average?" Bagman suggested. "For Karkaroff's vacant spot, we can just take the average of the four referees' scores. I think that's definitely fairer."
"Okay." Barty Crouch didn't object. There had to be a solution to this problem. Karkaroff felt embarrassed and ran away, but the subsequent game had to go on.
"That's fine with me," Madame Maxime agreed.
"Then let's go back and re-grade!" Dumbledore said happily. Although there was a faint smile on his face, there was no smile in his eyes.
Even Dumbledore didn't think about the situation. Although it was caused by Karkaroff, it still had a bad impact on Hogwarts.
The four of them returned to the blown-up referee's seat. Since they didn't see Karkarov, they stopped throwing things at the referee panel.
After all, everyone just hated Karkaroff.
Dumbledore waved his wand gently to repair the judges' seat that had been blown away by the spell. After the others took their seats again, Bagman cleared his throat and said, "For some reason, Mr. Karkaroff will no longer be the referee of the Triwizard Tournament. His vacant seat will be calculated by taking the average of the four referees, so..."
Full marks! Full marks! Full marks!
There were cheers from the audience, but one could faintly hear the noise of Karkaroff eating shit.
Such a result is satisfactory after all. The most important thing for them is that Karkaroff is no longer the referee and the warriors of the Triwizard Tournament can get fair scores.
"Ahem, the game continues!" Bagman shouted after hearing the whistle: "Let us welcome today's second champion, Miss Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons!"
Albert and Isobel sat side by side in the audience, munching on popcorn and talking intimately in low voices. After hearing Bagman's shout, they both looked towards the competition venue.
"How do you think Miss Delacour will pass the competition?" Isobel took the cup of black tea from Albert's hand, bit the straw and took a sip and asked.
"I don't know. She probably won't confront the Welsh Green Dragon head-on." Albert looked at Furong who was observing the surrounding area and guessed, "I think she will probably try to steal the golden egg."
"Maybe she will use the eye disease spell." Katrina couldn't help but interrupt.
"Krum is more likely to use the Eye Disease Curse, which is more in line with Durmstrang's style." Albert speculated, "Madame Maxime should let her play to her strengths."
"Advantage?" Katrina asked in a strange tone. "Owing to a dragon?"
Furong first tried to use the flying spell on the golden egg, but it obviously had no effect.
She could only start her actions according to her original plan, using the cover of the surrounding rocks to slowly move closer to the Welsh Green Dragon.
Luckily for her, the Welsh green dragon seemed reluctant to leave its lair, giving her a chance to close the distance so that the spell could hit the dragon's eye with a single blow, putting it to sleep.
The Welsh Green Dragon suddenly stared at the approaching Fleur with vigilance and blew a breath of air at her, causing the beautiful silver-haired girl to give up moving forward.
Fleur hesitated for a moment, then raised her wand and cast a spell on the Welsh green dragon.
"Oh, I'm not sure if this is wise. As we all know, ordinary magic has a hard time penetrating a dragon's skin. Doing this will only anger it."
Fleur's spell successfully hit the Welsh Green Dragon's eyes and actually managed to put it into a semi-hypnotic state.
"Oh my God, Miss Delacour has hypnotized a dragon. Look everyone, she's going to succeed!" Bagman shouted excitedly.
Furong quietly approached the dragon's nest, ready to take the golden egg under the nose of the Welsh green dragon. The Welsh green dragon actually snored and spit out a breath, scaring Furong so much that she dodged in a panic, but the corner of her skirt was still caught by the flames.
Fleur had no choice but to retreat behind the rocks in embarrassment and use her magic wand to conjure water to put out the fire.
Just as she was about to continue approaching the nest, the Welsh green dragon woke up.
"Oh... just a little bit, what a pity!" Bagman couldn't help but sigh. Fleur had already touched the side of the nest and was almost able to get the golden egg.
"Do you think she'll succeed?"
"Yes, but it's very risky. I don't recommend doing that. It's like gambling with your own life." Albert guessed Furong's plan.
Once the fire dragon wakes up, Furong will be dead if the dragon trainer doesn't have time to react.
However, Furong obviously had no intention of giving up and prepared to repeat the same trick. However, it was not easy to hypnotize the fire dragon.
Just as Bagman had said, dragon hide was resistant to most magic, and Fleur's repeated attempts finally annoyed the Welsh Green Dragon, and it flapped its wings and flew towards the rock where Fleur was hiding, sweeping its claws at her.
"Be careful... Oh my god, that was really dangerous."
Furong almost followed the same fate as the lion, but she was lucky enough to jump to the side when the sharp claws swept past her, and awkwardly avoided the fatal blow.
However, the fire dragon had already opened its mouth, ready to burn the prey that provoked it to ashes, and the dragon trainers on both sides were ready to rush out.
Furong, lying on the ground, looked at the ferocious fire dragon, raised her wand, pointed it at its eyes and chanted a spell.
The fire dragon was hypnotized once again.
Furong rolled and crawled towards the fire dragon's nest and picked up the golden egg hidden in the nest of dragon eggs.
"Look everyone, she's done it." Bagman's expression suddenly froze. "Be careful, oh my god, it's awake!"
The Welsh Green Dragon glared at Hibiscus angrily, obviously very annoyed with the egg thief in front of him. It opened its mouth and blew a breath at Hibiscus.
Furong was petrified!
There were screams of fear in the audience, and some people even closed their eyes in horror.
Just as the Welsh Green Dragon's breath was about to burn Furong to death, the dragon's breath suddenly went out.
The dragon tamer, who had been well prepared, rushed into the venue as soon as Fleur got the golden egg, extinguished the breath that was about to burn Fleur to ashes, and used a stun spell on it, and finally controlled the situation.
Fleur's score was not high. Apart from Madam Maxime who gave her 9 points, Dumbledore and Bagman both gave her 8 points, and Crouch gave her 7 points, for a total of 40 points.
"Miss Delacour's tactics were indeed successful, but unfortunately something unexpected happened at the end, which directly affected the final score!" Bagman commented, "If Miss Delacour had obtained the golden egg and successfully escaped from the dragon, the score would have been at least 45 points."
"She was lucky that the dragon trainers reacted quickly, otherwise she would have become a charred corpse." Albert felt that if "Harry Potter" was not a "fairy tale", Miss Delacour would have become a charred corpse long ago.
"It seems that I have to be careful." Albert muttered. Although the probability was small, he didn't want to become Diggory's scapegoat for no reason.
Barty Crouch Jr.!
You have to be well prepared, he will never give experience packs any chance.
"What's wrong?" Isobel asked.
"Nothing." Albert looked at the busy dragon tamer and said softly, "I just think the Triwizard Tournament is really unreliable. No wonder such a competition was called off."
"Then why did you still participate?" Katrina asked puzzled.
"To fulfill someone's wish." Albert said calmly.
"who?"
Albert didn't plan to answer, and Isobel knew the answer. They looked at each other, neither of them planning to tell Katrina.
The dragon trainers in the audience took a long time to finally get the Welsh Green Dragon away. Then, they placed the Chinese Fireball's nest and dragon eggs on the field, and then placed the Fire Dragon on the nest.
After the dragon trainers were ready and blew their whistles, Bagman held up the microphone and shouted, "Let us welcome today's third warrior, Viktor Krum from Durmstrang Academy of Magic."
Krum's appearance was extraordinary, and there was a burst of shouts from the audience. His fans were cheering for him!
"Both Mr. Anderson and Miss Delacour have brought us unexpected surprises." Bagman shouted happily, "I am looking forward to what surprises Mr. Krum will bring to everyone!"
Krum behaved quite calmly. After observing the surroundings, he raised his wand and quickly approached the fire dragon in full view of everyone.
The audience was stunned.
What does Krum want to do
Are you planning to confront the Chinese fireball head-on like Albert did
Everyone soon got the answer.
Krum did choose to confront head-on. He took advantage of the Chinese Fireball still crouching in front of the nest and attacked. It all happened too quickly, so fast that the audience didn't have time to react, and the light of the spell accurately hit the fire dragon's eyes.
The Chinese fireball let out a terrifying, earth-shattering roar that made the audience gasp.
"Very bold," Bagman shouted. "Player Krum has completely angered Chinese Fireball. This is not good news."
Krum was indeed very daring. After injuring the dragon's eyes, he continued to cast spells on it, trying to lure the dragon away from the nest and give himself a chance to take the golden eggs.
"You're right, but why don't you use the Eye Spell to deal with the fire dragon?" Katrina asked puzzledly. She didn't think that Albert didn't know how to use the Eye Spell.
"Look at the fire dragon's nest." Albert reminded, "You won't get too many points for destroying the dragon eggs."
In the chaos just now, many dragon eggs were crushed by the runaway Chinese fireballs.
"You can lure the fire dragon away first, and then use the Eye Disease Spell to attack it." Katrina didn't understand why Albert didn't use this method.
"It's harder than you thought to hit a moving target. If the spell fails to hit, the warrior will be in trouble. The fire dragon won't give you too many chances." Albert thought Katrina's idea was too naive. If her life was really in danger, she would have no time to aim at the fire dragon's eyes.
"Mr. Krum rushed forward, and he showed extraordinary courage - and yes, he succeeded in getting the golden egg!" Bagman shouted.
However, Krum has created a big problem, and an out-of-control fire dragon is not easy to deal with.
After Krum got the golden egg, the dragon trainers rushed forward and started fighting with the rampaging Chinese fireball.
This is much more interesting than the match between Fleur and Krum.
There were also many people in the audience who watched with wide eyes how the dragon tamer subdued the runaway fire dragon.
A large group of people fighting a fire dragon is a rare scene.
The dragon trainers took great effort to finally subdue the runaway Chinese fireball and bring it into the competition venue.
"Ahem, let's take a look at Krum's final score." Bagman coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention back.
This time, all four judges gave Krum only 7 points.
"Mr. Krum's score is obviously too low. It would have been a better choice to lure the dragon away and use the Eyesickness Charm, but he didn't do that." Bagman gave a reasonable explanation before the audience started another commotion. "He shouldn't have destroyed those dragon eggs. Everyone knows that dragon eggs are precious. If they hadn't been destroyed, Mr. Krum would definitely have scored more than 45 points."