Just as the war between the United Kingdom and the United States that Sirius Black had spoken of was beginning to intensify, the ferocity of this exam once it officially began also shocked some of the Beauxbatons and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry students and parents who had come to observe—especially those from Durmstrang, because Hogwarts had originally modeled its Duelling Class after theirs, and quite a few of them had signed up for today's exam in an attempt to obtain this certificate.
In fact, the subjects Hogwarts Floating City had originally planned to test were the initial twelve courses plus the new Ancient Magic Class, for a total of thirteen, but now, because Beauxbatons and Durmstrang had joined in, and because Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, which was still processing its incorporation procedures and had not yet completed its ascension, also needed the United Kingdom to preside over the exam.
So subjects such as Beauxbatons' Alchemy and Durmstrang's Dark Magic had also been included in this year's exam scope—though of course, not many young wizards from schools without these courses came to take these certificate exams. After all, students like that could only study on their own in their spare time, and reaching the level needed to obtain an Ultimate Wizard Exam certificate was no easy feat.
Allen Harris taking part in many non-Hogwarts course exams was not enough to surprise the non-Hogwarts students and parents, but what shocked them over these past few days was that among the ordinary Hogwarts students, quite a few had actually applied for one or two additional courses that Hogwarts had not originally offered—although no one yet knew how well they had done on the written exams, their practical exam performances were plainly excellent, proving they had not come merely to