Beyond the Competition

Rather than a village, this was more like a botanical garden.

As far as the eye could see, apart from a handful of houses, everything else was greenhouses filled with a wide variety of magical plants.

Before coming here, they had been told that the Magical Garden was actually a forest, which was why everyone wore such strange expressions.

As for the two wizards at the village entrance, everyone simply ignored them. It could not be helped—most people could not understand what they were saying.

Well!

Aside from the three from Hogwarts and Karkaroff.

The wizard was actually speaking English, though his accent was rather peculiar.

"I'll take you to your temporary lodgings so you can rest." The wizard repeated himself three times, in English, French, and Bulgarian.

Having to work as both translator and guide was not easy for him.

In truth, the most frustrating part of the Magical School Potions Tournament was the translation issue. Most wizards came from different countries and spoke different languages, making proper communication impossible. Wizards like Dumbledore, who were fluent in several languages and could speak to anyone without difficulty, were ultimately rare.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry primarily used English, Beauxbatons Academy of Magic primarily used French, while Durmstrang Institute primarily used Bulgarian.

Durmstrang Institute was located on the Scandinavian Peninsula, and its use of Bulgarian had to do with its founder, Nerida Vulchanova.

She had been a Bulgarian witch.

Therefore, anyone from a European country who wished to attend Beauxbatons Academy of Magic or Durmstrang Institute first had to learn the school's official language.

Otherwise, students from across Europe would be unable to speak or understand one another. Even daily life would become a problem, let alone attending lessons. Making an eleven-year-old child master another foreign language was a miserable