Fudge Nearly Met Merlin Ahead of Schedule
News of this duel instantly spread across all of Europe, creating an enormous impact.
Although Harley had also used the Weather Charm on a large scale during the first task of the Six-Wizard Tournament, even partially recreating that legendary great flood, the Six-Wizard Tournament was, after all, a competition between six schools. Of the eleven officially recognized magical schools worldwide, the number participating had only just exceeded half.
Furthermore, reporters were not permitted to enter the schools to conduct interviews or take photographs, and adult wizards could not attend in person. The only people who had truly witnessed it were the students.
As a result, newspaper coverage of the Six-Wizard Tournament had not actually been as extensive as people might have imagined.
Although Rita had been doing her best to write reports, she was only one person.
But the International Wizarding Duelling Tournament was different. Wizards from any corner of the world could participate, so newspapers from nearly every country had voluntarily sent reporters.
During the qualifying stage, only reporters from Spain and several nearby European countries had entered the arena through their good relations with the officials. Coupled with the uneven quality of the matches, there had been little news of value.
But once the knockout rounds began, so many places had opened up in the contestants' rest area that many newspapers which had failed to secure tickets finally managed to get their reporters into the venue.
And since Harley's match was the very first battle of the knockout rounds, it naturally received the most attention.
Thus, through the efforts of countless reporters and photographers, along with word of mouth from the spectators, the spectacular scene Harley had created spread at an astonishing pace.
Nearly every newspaper ran the grandeur of the