In the summer of 1994, the entire wizarding world had only one topic of conversation.
The Quidditch World Cup!
Tris was not particularly interested, but he ended up hearing plenty about it anyway.
There was no helping it. Almost everyone around him was a die-hard Quidditch fan. They attended every match in person, and Tris went along too.
In the original storyline, the Weasley family had been strapped for cash and could only pull strings to attend the final match of the Quidditch World Cup.
Now, though the Weasley family was not exactly wealthy, they were far from strapped for cash after Tris had poured over a hundred thousand Galleons into their coffers. They could certainly afford to watch a few matches.
Of course, that was not the point.
The point was that they had Sirius, their resident rich man. He had already bought luxury boxes for every match and was just waiting for the games to begin so he could drag his friends and family along.
Tris still had no interest in Quidditch, but he might run into Barty Crouch Jr. at the Quidditch World Cup, so he reluctantly agreed to join in the fun.
In the original storyline, Barty Crouch Jr. had only appeared after the final, but so much had changed now. Who knew whether that idiot might change his plans too?
So Tris decided to accompany them the whole way through.
The matches were not held every day, though, so Tris still had plenty of time for his own pursuits. And no, that certainly did not mean homework!
Tris had finished all his homework in the first week of the holidays. After that, he used Astral Teleportation to collect all kinds of magic books around the world.
His main targets were Greece, Egypt, and Mexico.
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