"Quiet!" A roaring version of Dumbledore appeared.
The previously nervous Old Crouch quickly retreated behind him, like a bullied little wife.
The situation was brought under control.
Basil just wanted to roll his eyes. If it were his brother-in-law Dumbledore, he would definitely unleash a powerful, deep voice, calm yet undeniable, followed by an all-seeing gaze that would silence everyone and inspire awe.
And what is before our eyes
It's hard not to say that the students shut up because they were frightened.
Just like Mad-Eye Barty Crouch Jr.. taking another sip of Polyjuice Potion to calm his nerves.
The Death Eater who played Moody throughout the entire school year constantly displayed his signature moves—licking his lips, baring his teeth, and making spitting noises—was not nearly as good in terms of acting skills and mental fortitude as the novel version.
It can only be said that the film cut out a lot of clues and metaphorical plots to save time, and can only be hinted at through the actors' body language, facial expressions and actions.
It must be said that the actors who played Barty Crouch Jr.. and Moody were both very good.
But if we translate this into the real world, Basil doubts whether Dumbledore is faking his blindness.
Dumbledore pretended to be blind, wasn't just someone who could roar.
He quickly offered a sweet treat to the students whose eyes clearly showed their dissatisfaction—a touch of the golden tower with an osteoporotic version of the Elder Wand.
The sound of sand scraping through a metal container filled the air, and the Golden Tower disappeared visibly from top to bottom.
A huge cup-shaped metal statue appeared.
A blue, gas stove-like flame, reminiscent of Grindelwald's, bursts from the rim of the cup.
The students' initial resentment turned into curiosity.
"The Goblet of Fire"
"Students who wish to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, please write your names on parchment."
"Put it into the fire before this time on Thursday night."
Please consider carefully before registering.
"If you're chosen, there's no turning back."
"Because from that moment on, the Triwizard Tournament had begun."
"To prevent underage students from succumbing to temptation," Dumbledore, raising his arm in a circle, shimmering mist rising from the tip of his staff and encircling the Goblet of Fire like a ring of celestial bodies. "The age limit. No one under the age of seventeen may cross this line."
However, this time, the younger students who wanted to participate in the competition did not erupt in protest.
Confident of standing out from the rest of the students, they immediately thought of ways to fake their age the moment they heard the word "age limit".
For example, the Weasley twins thought of Ageing Potion.
Old Crouch, seeing that the students' emotions had calmed down...
Then he jumped out again, saying, "Let me add a few more words here."
"Since it's a competition, there should be rewards."
"The chosen Champion will not only be exempt from the exam, but will also receive a cash reward of 1,000 Galleons upon winning the competition."
"This money comes from the Ministry of Magic."
After that, apart from people like Basil whose hearing is beyond that of ordinary people, no one could hear clearly anymore.
The Great Hall was filled with joy.
Almost everyone cheered, as if they had become Champion.
Ron's eyes were glazed over. 1000 Galleons, and no exam required.
Especially since there's no exam, if he's Champion, even if he fails, it's worth it!
There are many students like Ron.
The elimination of exams ignited the enthusiasm of all the underachievers.
Even Harry, who doesn't like to stand out, had a flicker in his eyes.
Only Hermione whispered with relief, "Luckily I'm not 17 yet, otherwise I almost wouldn't have been able to take the exam."
Upon hearing Hermione's voice, Basil didn't feel like she was in Versailles. She was given many of the highlights that originally belonged to Ron and Harry. The movie version of Hermione, who became famous for "Hermione and Two Useless Men," is hard to imagine Cedric surpassing her if he were old enough.
Thinking about this, Basil suddenly realized that he was actually nearly 20 years old.
Aside from the rapid passage of time during the journey, he also experimented with casting the [Hour Reversal Charm] with his bare hands more than once.
In fact, Basil had also considered traveling directly to the distant past to create Dream Realm and collect more emotional energy, namely, "Dream Fragment."
After all, the increased age brought about by time travel is just a harmless joke for someone who is immortal.
However, time travel in the Harry universe could have serious consequences for the world.
There is no force in the Harry world that maintains the fixed course of time.
Eloise Mintab is a good example.
She is an Unspeakable Department of Mysteries, and she once used Time-Turner to travel back in time during an experiment.
Unfortunately, she was accidentally trapped in 1402 for five days.
When she finally returned to the present, her body had aged five centuries and suffered irreparable damage, eventually dying at the St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.
But the most horrifying thing is that her travels changed the life trajectories of everyone she met in the past, with at least 25 descendants disappearing from the modern world and becoming 'never born'.
In addition, time itself was also affected.
Her Tuesday after returning to the modern world lasted two and a half days, while Thursday lasted only four hours.
It took a long time to return to normal.
This is why Basil, upon hearing that one of the international students had the surname Suzuki, suspected that there was Conan in Japan, the country of Sakura, across the ocean.
After all, Conan's bizarre time travel is too much like a wizard accidentally traveling too far in time, causing a time distortion.
This is why Basil has never materialized the Staff of Time.
Why create the Time Rule Kurumi uses to spy on this world?
Why is the Time Chamber the first place lit up when the Ministry of Magic is activated?
Although current Time-Turner are now limited and cannot travel too far back in time.
However, it would be disastrous if one of these Unspeakable, who work in the Time Chamber of the Department of Mysteries and have a profound understanding of time, suddenly decided to take revenge on society.
He certainly didn't want some idiot's time travel causing him to be inexplicably never born.
However, the rules of this world are different, and he gained some knowledge of the Time Rule of this world when he created Kurumi.
Time travel in this world.
Amid the noisy crowd, Basil's fingertips glowed, and countless 0s and 1s flashed in his eyes.
The Pupil of Insight, which peers into the basic structure of objects, 'captures' countless streams of information as the basic data for 'making a wish'.
Time and space are definitions of intelligent life; they are not merely metaphysical concepts, but are also rooted in the material universe.
Therefore, observing the matter itself is equivalent to observing time.
The waste products of the 6 million-year-old spiritual treasure consumed by Behemoth, which were used to build the [Dream Sea], began to flow into Basil's body as the energy source for 'wishing'.
A phantom appeared in every place: Hogwarts, which was a flat plain a thousand years ago; the Dartmoor tournament in 1379; the sewers of Paris where Newt was imprisoned in September 1927; and the epic duel between the White Wizard of the ages in 1945, observing everything.
A second passed, and the light on the fingertip went out.
Basil also arrived at the answer.
In this way, no force in the world maintains the fixed course of time.
But he didn't lose money.
He collected all the emotional energy that had been lost and ignored in the past.
After calculation, there is still a profit.
He also gained a better understanding of time.
At least in this world.
[The world]
The world turned gray, and everyone's movements came to a standstill.
Basil stood up and walked to the Goblet of Fire.
An idea created a more stringent contract, and a greater miracle was embedded in it, along with several names that should not have appeared in it at all.
"How can the Holy Grail War only involve Masters? Heroic Spirits should be included as well."
"Yes, we have to thank Xiamang. Without him, he might have been resurrected directly with his power of bringing the dead back to life."
At this point, he smiled and looked at Dumbledore, Snape, and Harry's faces.
Perhaps they crave the latter more.
Go back to your original seat and sit down.
'Really, an indestructible body, Eternity life, and the power to stop time—where did I come from, Dio?'
As Basil was thinking this, time resumed its flow.
The noise started again.
No one noticed the change in the Goblet of Goblet of Fire, not even Albus Dumbledore was standing right next to it.
"Silence!" the roar rang out again.
This startled Old Crouch, who, with his subconscious under control, was now more prone to showing his emotions.
"Alright, it's getting late. It's important that you all be refreshed and clear-headed when you enter the classroom tomorrow morning. Go to bed! Hurry up!"
Although no one wanted to sleep, the students still stood up one after another.
The Great Hall was filled with clicking and banging sounds.
The students stood up and rushed to a double door, entering the Entrance Hall.
Here the crowd begins to disperse.
Beauxbatons and Durmstrang's students walked out the door.
They walked toward the carriages at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and the small boats on the lake.
Basil then noticed that the person in the gymnastics uniform was actually a little girl, Gabrielle, Phoebe's younger sister.
To be honest, she's prettier than Phoebe, maybe because she looks more like a Russian woman than a Frenchwoman?
Unfortunately, she was not within his hunting range.
In this world, Basil also intends to keep a clean record.
However, it looks like it will be difficult.
Normally, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw students would head up the stairs to go higher up.
Hufflepuff and Slytherin went down, towards the basement.
Given the small number of students at the school, there shouldn't be any traffic jams.
However, a large group of students stood at the top of the stairs, gazing at Basil.
Among them were even students of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.
"Hey! Bucky! Hey!" Hermione forced her way through the crowd.
Behind him was Ron, panting heavily, and Harry, holding Ginny's hand.
"Hello." Cedric, who had been standing next to Basil introducing him to Hufflepuff, greeted them.
Hermione ignored him and hung directly on Basil.
In an instant, countless envious gazes were cast upon her.
Hermione tilted her head back disdainfully, her body suddenly stiffening.
Because in those gazes she spotted her roommates, the Parvati Padma sisters.
And then there's Lavender Brown, but her eyes look strange, just like Ginny's before.
Obsession mixed with hesitation.
The hesitant gaze actually came from Ron Weasley!
This surprised her greatly.
She couldn't fathom why Lavender liked Ron.
Is it because he doesn't shower, or because he eats a lot?
Thinking of this, she quickly got off Basil.
Now is not the time to indulge in pleasure; eliminating a potential competitor is the most important thing.
To Basil's surprise, Hermione exchanged a few pleasantries with him, saying that she would leave with Harry and Ron after they met again the next day.
Everyone else assumed it was their intimidating gaze that made Hermione back down.
But only Basil knew that wasn't the case.
He heard Hermione walk up to Lavender and say, "I can introduce you to Ron."
That's completely outrageous.
Is this even possible?
This made him quite bored with the seemingly interesting bucket in front of him.
"It's the secret weapon that no outsider has ever entered our lounge," Cedric said, pointing to a pile of large wooden barrels placed on a dark stone trough.
Behind him was Basil, a first-year Hufflepuff student.
The students who were originally lingering at the stairwell should have followed Basil down.
But as Cedric said, these barrels are a secret weapon.
So, the Hufflepuff among those students attracted the menacing Snape, scaring away students from other schools and houses.
"Our lounge is also the only college common lounge equipped with a eviction device to prevent unauthorized intruders."
"I suppose I don't need to explain further," Cedric said with a smile. "Simply tap the bottom of the second barrel in the middle of the second row in the rhythm of 'Helga Hufflepuff,' and the lid will rotate open, revealing the passage to the Hufflepuff Common Room."
"On the contrary, if the person who wants to enter doesn't strike the right melody, strikes the wrong barrel, or strikes the wrong number of times, then the lid of the other barrel will burst, and the intruder will be covered in vinegar."
The young wizards nearby started chattering and asking questions.
"Will these buckets repair themselves?"
How is vinegar replenished?
"Is it a constant continuation spell?"
"Quiet." The same quiet, Cedric said in a soft voice.
But with that Batman -like face, the noisy students all shut up.
"This involves another secret."
"The extra food we ate tonight didn't just appear out of thin air."
"In fact"
As Cedric recounts Hogwarts Kitchen, the history of Hufflepuff's adoption of House-elf, and the magic of food, Basil listens attentively, while his Evil Body returns to the tower in the Dream Sea.
Before using Xiamang's magic to summon the dead, he needs to use the power of [Resurrection] to gain insight into the afterlife of this world.
The reason he was able to successfully resurrect Ariana using the [Salem Witch] talent was that even in a world with a completely different worldview and underlying structure.
It is driven by two Mental Power: magic and emotional power.
Furthermore, the Salem Witch's ability to "resurrect" is also purely superstitious.
Only in this way can the differences be forcibly ignored and the technology successfully used.
Furthermore, Death doesn't consider resurrection a taboo at all.
But what if there is no afterlife like the underworld to receive the dead?
Or perhaps the ruler of the afterlife forbids resurrection.
Or perhaps consciousness, which doesn't even possess a soul, is simply a successful application of the world of brainwaves.
The amount of power required would probably be Astronomy.
Basil was worried about the second scenario.
If it's the second type, then the only option is to use time stop to take them all out in one go.
Hopefully, Death will be sensible, like rat tail juice.