When the woman turned around, her face became cold and arrogant.

It was as if that slight smile was an illusion.

(Fuck sex benefits ahead.)

Dumbledore smiled and began to applaud and welcome, and the students clapped in cooperation.

"Pah, pah, pah, pah..."

There were many people standing on tiptoes, trying to get a better look at this woman.

The woman's face softened a little, she showed an elegant and distant smile, stretched out a sparkling hand, and walked towards Dumbledore.

Although Dumbledore was also tall, he barely bent down when he kissed the back of his hand.

"Dear Madam Maxime," he said, "Welcome to Hogwarts."

Madame Maxime said in a calm voice, "Dumbledore, I hope everything is well with you."

Dumbledore smiled and said: "I'm very fine, thank you for your concern."

Mrs. Maxim waved her hand, pointed to the crowd behind her and said, "These are my students."

About a dozen male and female students were getting off the carriage and were standing behind Madame Maxime.

Judging from their appearance, they were all around seventeen or eighteen years old, and all of them were trembling slightly.

This was not surprising, since their robes seemed to be made of fine silk, and none of them wore thick cloaks.

It was very cold in England at this time.

In addition, looking at their expressions, they were all a bit frightened. From time to time they looked towards the dark forbidden forest behind them, obviously afraid that the two monsters just escaped from them.

There were also a few students who had their heads wrapped in scarves or turbans. They all looked up at Hogwarts with a look of awe on their faces.

Madame Maxime secretly sighed, Beauxbatons still couldn't compare to Hogwarts.

In the minds of Hogwarts students, Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is full of unknowns, but in the minds of Beauxbatons students, Hogwarts is not a legendary school.

The first wizard school in the wizarding world, the legendary Big Four, Dumbledore, the most powerful wizard of this century, etc., have long been shocking to people.

Mrs. Maxim said: "Dumbledore, my two Pegasus ponies are no longer at your Hogwarts. What do you think we should do?"

Dumbledore didn't want to take the blame. He smiled and said, "In my letter to you, I explained not to pass over the Forbidden Forest when coming."

"Humph." Mrs. Maxim felt very distressed. Each rare Pegasus is worth nearly ten thousand galleons.

Madame Maxime asked: "Is Karkaroff here?"

Dumbledore said: "He's coming soon. Would you like to wait here for him, or would you rather go in first to warm up?"

Mrs. Maxim said: "It's better to warm up first. My students can't stand it anymore, but those horses..."

"Our Care of Magical Creatures teachers will be happy to look after them," said Dumbledore.

Mrs. Maxim had some doubts about this: "They are very powerful, and ordinary people cannot subdue them..."

Dumbledore made a gesture of pointing his fingers up and to both sides, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, no one knows how to take care of Pegasus better than Hagrid."

Madame Maxime said: "Okay, but please tell him that these horses only drink single malt whiskey."

Dumbledore said: "I will."

Madame Maxime said to her students majestically: "Come on."

The crowd at Hogwarts moved out of the way, allowing her and her students to walk up the stone steps.

…

A while after Madame Maxime and her students left, a loud and strange sound sounded from the darkness. It was a suppressed rumble, as if a giant was beating a drum across a mountain.

Lee Jordan pointed to the lake and shouted, "The sound is coming from the lake."

"Look at that lake, something seems to be rushing out!"

Standing on the slope of the lawn overlooking the field, they could clearly see the calm, dark water, which seemed to be boiling and violently turbulent.

There was a commotion in the water in the middle of the lake. Huge splashes arose on the water, and waves crashed onto the wet lake shore. Then, a large whirlpool appeared in the center of the lake.

A long black pole-like object rose diagonally from the center of the whirlpool, and then the sail and deck were exposed out of the lake.

It turns out this is a ship.

Slowly, this strange ship, which seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog, completely rose out of the water.

The huge ship sparkled in the moonlight.

It looked a little weird, like a skeleton, as if it were the remains of a sunken ship that had just been salvaged. The ship's windows shone with a dim, foggy lavender light, and it looked like the eyes of a ghost.

Finally, with a faint splashing sound, the water in the boat flowed out from the deck, like a small waterfall.

The big boat bumped on the undulating lake and began to sail towards the lake shore.

A moment later, the students at Hogwarts only heard a splash, and a black figure was thrown into the water.

"Something bad happened, the body was dumped into the sea!" I don't know who shouted in panic.

"Can I ask you to shut up? This is the anchor, do you understand?"

The big ship was at least twenty meters high. After the ship reached the shore, a long and wide wooden board stretched out from the stern of the ship and was placed on the lake shore with a snap.

A burst of very loud footsteps came, and many figures emerged from the cabin.

Their bodies looked as tall and oppressive as Crabbe and Goyle who used to attend Hogwarts.

This made the students at Hogwarts hold their breath, feeling like they were a group of fierce people.

However, when they walked onto the board and the Hogwarts students took a closer look, they realized that they were not that big, and were almost the same size as them. It was just that these people were wearing a kind of fur cloak with shaggy and tangled fur.

It looks very majestic.

The man who led them to the castle was wearing a white fur that was soft and smooth, just like his hair.

As soon as the man walked up the slope, he shouted enthusiastically: "Dear old man, are you okay?"

Dumbledore said: "I'm fine, Professor Karkaroff."

Karkaroff is tall and thin like Dumbledore, and he is also an old man, but his white hair is very short, and the goatee he wears cannot cover his thin chin at all.

He walked up to Dumbledore and shook hands with Dumbledore happily with both hands.

"Dear old Hogwarts, long time no see." He looked up at the castle and said with a smile.

Although he was smiling, his eyes were still cold and sharp.

This made the students who had just welcomed Madame Maxime feel very uncomfortable, because Professor Karkaroff with a smile on his face was not as pleasing to their eyes as Madame Maxime with a cold face.

Professor Karkaroff said nostalgically: "It's great to be here, it's great... Viktor, come here and warm yourself up... Do you mind, Dumbledore? Viktor has a little cold.

Already..."

Karkaroff motioned for one of his students to come forward.

The boy has a striking hooked nose and two thick, black eyebrows.

As soon as he stepped out, the people around him whispered and recognized the figure.

Hermione said doubtfully: "It seems that we saw it some time ago..."

"Oh my God, it's Krum!" someone exclaimed.

"Really? Which Krum?" someone asked.

"Who else could it be? Of course it's the star Quidditch player, one of the best seekers in the world." It seems that he has quite a few fans.

Hermione said strangely: "Isn't he just a Quidditch player? Is it such an exaggeration?"

"What do you know!" A wizard who was excitedly telling the people around him about Krum's most exciting game turned his head angrily and said.

This is Ron.

But seeing that it was Hermione who was speaking, and Harry beside her, Ron stopped for a moment.

He quickly turned around and continued to communicate with the people around him as if nothing happened: "Merlin, he is my favorite Quidditch player! I have a complete set of his action figures. I must ask him for his autograph.

!”

Hermione said angrily: "Why are there so many crazy fans?"

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Chapter completed!