Chapter 818 Trouble
In order to help Albert win the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting Techniques, Bud started giving Albert tutoring as soon as he arrived in Spain.
In Bud's view, Albert's spell casting skills are actually very good. The reason that hinders him from winning the prize is that Albert has no knowledge of the content of this competition.
So, Bard told Albert a lot about Barnabus Finkley's excellent spell-casting competition, trying to help Albert deepen his understanding of the game and guide him to show his advantages.
"Your spell-casting skills are already excellent. The problem now is how to show it off. Although most judges have good eyesight, you still need to take the initiative to show off your excellent spell-casting skills. This is very important. "Bud has great confidence in Albert, otherwise he would not highly recommend Albert to come and participate in this competition.
However, what Bard doesn't know is that Albert's current spell-casting technique comes from Voldemort, the famous Dark Lord. His understanding of spell-casting is naturally far beyond that of ordinary wizards, and he has his own unique set of spell-casting techniques. Technique.
It’s just that when Albert usually uses magic, he doesn’t make his spell casting techniques too obvious.
As the person who knew Voldemort best, Dumbledore would easily attract his attention if he was too arrogant in front of him. This was definitely not what Albert wanted to happen.
Anyway, Dumbledore will die in a few years, and when Voldemort is sent away by Harry, the Dark Lord's spell-casting technique will completely change into Albert's shape.
Although plagiarism is a shameful thing, if the target is Voldemort, there is no need to feel embarrassed.
Towards evening, there was a knock on Bud's door. The person who came to visit Bud was a middle-aged woman who seemed to be an acquaintance of Bud.
Bud chatted with the man in the corridor for a few words, then came in and invited Albert to come downstairs for dinner.
The bar hall is bustling and noisy, surrounded by various languages. Contestants come from all over Europe, including several from the UK.
Among them, there is also an acquaintance of Albert, Terrence Higgs, the prefect and former seeker of Slytherin in the previous term.
It’s just that the encounter between the two parties was not a pleasant one.
The old wizard who brought Terrence Higgs to the competition didn't like the interaction between him and Albert, so the two sides just said hello and there was no more interaction.
"Come on Higgs, don't let me look down on you." Bard said to the old wizard, "Your prejudice is still so annoying."
"This is none of your business, Brod." Old Higgs also disliked Bud very much and walked away with his grandson.
"Pure-blood prejudice." Bard said contemptuously, "They even intend to pass this prejudice to their own descendants."
"I think this should be a matter of interest. This kind of prejudice can allow them to integrate into that circle. Currently, that group of stubborn purebloods still have a large say in the Ministry of Magic." Albert expressed his views directly, " If one day, this prejudice can no longer bring them benefits, maybe they will choose to give up this prejudice.”
"You see it very clearly." Bud looked at the back of old Higgs with a disdainful sneer at the corner of his mouth, "I really know that there are many similar cases in the magic world."
Albert smiled and looked like he was listening.
"Take the Malfoy family for example. A long time ago, the Malfoy family was actually close to the Muggles. They had deep connections with the Muggle nobles. However, due to the "Secrecy Act", they were ostracized by the Ministry of Magic. After their interests were damaged, the Malfoy family changed from being close to Muggles to being loyal supporters of the pure-blood faction. The Higgs family was once close to Muggles, and there was even more than one case of intermarriage with Muggles in their family history, but later They simply modified their family tree to try to obscure that history."
In the pure-blood sect, many wizard families actually have similar cases.
Bard casually took off the underwear of some pure-bloods. No wonder he hated those guys.
However, this topic did not last long, and Bud brought the topic back to the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellent Spellcasting Techniques, and also told Albert about the origin of this award.
The Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellence in Spellcasting actually comes from the book Finkley's Trick.
“Wizards of that era actually didn’t pay much attention to these issues, and most wizards performed quite poorly in using magic and even in duels with others.”
“As far as I know, even the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic are learning this, so that their spellcasting can be more smooth, elegant, and arbitrary, and the spells they use will also be enhanced to a certain extent for some reasons.”
Later, in his later years, Finkley used the money from the sale of "Finkley's Trick" to organize the Barnabus Finkley Award for Excellence in Spellcasting.
The International Federation of Wizards also believed that this award was very meaningful, so they deliberately retained this award. Some wizards who benefited from Barnabus Finkley's spell casting techniques funded this competition, hoping to benefit from other wizards. Get more excellent spell casting techniques there.
What was once "Finkley's Trick" has become today's "Barnabus Finkley's Spellcasting Techniques". This book has been revised for several generations. Many extraordinary wizards will also use this book to improve themselves. method of casting spells.
After listening to Bud’s story in silence, Albert really admired the old man’s knowledge reserve. He actually knew everything about this kind of thing.
However, their conversation did not continue. A middle-aged witch who still had charm came over with a quill and parchment to register the players who were about to participate in the competition. Albert recognized the person as the one who knocked on Bard's room not long ago. A middle-aged witch.
“He is the Albert I mentioned to you before.” Bud introduced him to the other party. “He will also participate in tomorrow’s trial.”
"Please register your name here." The middle-aged witch placed the parchment and quill in front of Albert, "Write your name, age and where you are from."
Albert glanced at the parchment and quickly filled in his name on the form.
“Sixteen years old?”
The middle-aged witch couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she saw Albert's age. She probably didn't expect that Bard would bring an underage wizard to compete.
“Please keep this badge.” The middle-aged witch took out a badge from her robe and handed it to Albert. The number 17 was written on the badge.
“She is Diana, the owner of this bar.” Bud introduced to Albert after the middle-aged witch left, “She is a quarter vampire.”
Albert noticed that the woman's name was Diana.
Having said that, Diana is not a name that Spanish people would choose, it is more like a British name.
Moreover, the so-called vampire bar is just a gimmick.
“She doesn’t look much like a vampire, except that her skin is a bit white.”
He said that if the bar was really opened by a vampire, it would have been closed by now.
“Well, it’s really not much different from ordinary people.”
“You seem to be familiar with her.” Albert asked tentatively,
“I’m not very familiar with it. I’ve met it several times before.” Bud said to the passing waiter, “Give me a glass of whiskey. What do you want?”
“I don’t drink.” Albert shook his head and continued eating.
To be honest, Albert was a little doubtful whether Miss Diana was Bud's lover.
However, given the age gap between the two, it seems possible that she is Bud's daughter.
It's no wonder that Albert is so suspicious. There seems to be an inexplicable familiarity between Bud and Diana, and there must be something to do with it.
(End of this chapter)