The whole hall was stunned! This wasn't cooking, it was the Wizarding World's Industrial Revolution!

She instinctively covered her mouth and spoke to the classmate beside her, keeping her voice extremely low:

"Their knife skills... are even more precise than our palace kitchen's chief sous-chef's!"

"No, these aren't knife skills."

A Beauxbatons boy wearing a silver badge stood beside her, his gaze sharp.

"This is art."

At the Ravenclaw table, several older students had already taken out their Quick-Quotes Quills.

"Unbelievable! This is collective Thought Manipulation!"

"They must be sharing their computational abilities through some Emotional Link unknown to us to achieve such a terrifying degree of synchronization!"

"This isn't cooking anymore, it's an application of a Living Alchemical Matrix!"

On the conductor's podium, Dobby's gestures suddenly changed.

That gentle elegance vanished.

In its place came impassioned, powerful sweeps.

The second movement, the roar of brass!

Before the team responsible for Chinese cuisine, four enormous iron woks rose off the stoves, supported by invisible magic.

Whoosh!

Flames surged from the stoves, no longer ordinary tongues of fire, but concentrated columns of blue-green flame that licked precisely at the bottoms of the woks.

Perfect "wok hei"!

The House-elves kept their hands behind their backs, their expressions focused.

With their thoughts, they controlled the spatulas, performing dazzling "wok tosses" amid the flames.

Ingredients tumbled, leaped, and danced in the fire dragon's breath.

Syrup melted, vinegar steamed, and both collided with scorching oil.

Sizzle-!

That explosive sound was like a bugle sounding the charge.

An overpowering aroma, sweet and sour intertwined, burst forth in an instant and swept through the entire Great Hall.

Flaming Sweet and Sour Pork!

It was an Eastern dish Professor Douglas had once described as an analogy in class!

Meanwhile, on the other side.

The House-elves in the French cuisine team presented an entirely different scene.

Before them stood rows of exquisite white soup