0087 Three Strong Cup
Hogwarts' new semester is about to begin. Before the students returned to school, professors of various courses have returned to school early.
At this time, in the huge conference hall of the school, there were five actual administrators of Hogwarts School, who were the principal Dumbledore and the deans of the four major colleges. Among them, Professor McGonagall, the dean of Gryffindor, also served as the vice president of the school.
As the principal, Dumbledore had just rushed back to school from the Ministry of Magic in London. This time he returned to school, he also brought back shocking news.
"Professor Dumbledore, is all this true? The Ministry of Magic really agreed to restart the Grand Three Cup that has not been held for many years?" Professor McGonagall asked in surprise.
The Three-Three Cup is also known as the Three-Three Championship, which was held more than 700 years ago by Hogwarts, Demstrong and Boothbaton, three largest magic schools in Europe.
This competition is not only a bridge for exchanges between students from the three major European magic schools, but also an incentive to engage in healthy competition while establishing friendships.
The Triumph Championship is held every five years and is hosted by three magic schools in turn.
During the competition, each school selects a wizard student who can represent the school and participates in three carefully designed magic projects.
These three magic projects are usually accompanied by considerable dangers, and the wizard's ability can be tested in various aspects such as talent, advantages, courage, theoretical knowledge and adaptability.
For each project, the professors responsible for ratings in the three magic schools will give ratings based on the contestants' completion status. In the end, the player with the highest scores in the three projects wins and can win the Goblet of Fire, which represents the victory of the Triple Championship, back to his school.
Winning the Triple Championship has been the highest honor of the wizards of the European Magical Academy for a long time!
However, because the death rate of wizard students in the Triple Tripod Championship was too high, some opponents in the wizarding world called for the stop of this competition, and the three major magic schools were also forced to stop the Tripod Cup under tremendous pressure from the outside world.
After several centuries and today, the Top Three Cup has been a competition that only exists in legends. Even the magic prop "Gouth of Fire" that represents the honor of the Top Three Cup is still sealed in the principal's office of Hogwarts.
The deans of the other three colleges were also very concerned about Professor McGonagall's questions just now, and everyone stared at Dumbledore and was waiting for his answer.
Dumbledore nodded and said slowly: "This is a joint decision between the Ministry of Magic and the principals of the three major magic schools, and it is imperative. This game will start within two weeks, and this game will be held in Demstrong."
Although Dumbledore himself does not think the strength of the Strong Three Cup is suitable for young wizards in the academy, many wizards in the European wizarding world have hoped to resume this event over the years, among which Demstrong's principal Ikarov is the most staunch supporter.
During the period when all magic schools were on vacation, Ikarov raised the topic of whether the Triple Championship would be restarted again. After more than a dozen meetings of discussions, we finally came to a conclusion yesterday.
The Ministry of Magic's International Magic Cooperation Division and the Magic Sports Division both recognized Ikarov's idea and felt that the time was ripe to try to restart the Grand Three Cup.
In order to show support, the Ministry of Magic gave a winning prize of 1,000 Gallon and would send a special person as notary for the Triple Championship.
However, the security issues raised by some opponents have also received attention from the Ministry of Magic, so two security measures have been proposed.
The first point is that the way contestants sign up has been changed.
Originally, the Championship was a competition that allowed all interested students to throw parchment paper with their names into the Goblet of Fire. Finally, the Goblet of Fire automatically selected one contestant from each of the three schools.
However, the Ministry of Magic now requires limiting the quota of wizard students who put parchment into the Goblet of Fire. This quota is not a fixed number, but is decided by the professors of the three major magic schools.
Only students who have been recognized by professors in the three major magic schools are allowed to put parchment with their names into the Goblet of Fire. This means that there is an extra threshold for professors to check, and it will not allow insufficient wizards to participate in the Three Thousands Championship.
The second measure is to require the magic school responsible for holding the competition to do a good job of safety and arrange for the school professor to monitor the competition process throughout the whole process. If a huge danger occurs, you should help in time.
Of course, once the professor takes help, the assisted student will naturally not score very well in the competition.
Then Dumbledore slowly spoke out some of the details discussed by the Ministry of Magic and the principals of the three major magic schools. The deans of the four major colleges also had different expressions after hearing this.
Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout showed concern, while Professor Flitvie fell into deep thought, and Snape still had no expression on his face.
"This time, I would like to ask all professors to come. In addition to notifying everyone about the event of the Top Three Cup, I also need to ask everyone to recommend an outstanding student from the academy as a candidate. Of course, in addition to requiring outstanding abilities, the most important thing for candidates is to be voluntarily." Dumbledore said slowly.
The candidate Dumbledore mentioned refers to the candidate who can put his name into the Goblet of Fire. In the end, the Goblet of Fire will only select one contestant from each school, so he is not prepared to nominate too many candidates. It is enough to produce one student in each college.
After the short discussion meeting ended, the four deans began to consider the students suitable for their colleges to participate in the Grand Three Cup.
Among them, Snape, the dean of Slytherin College, already had a satisfactory candidate in his heart, and this candidate was naturally August who was about to return to school.
Chapter completed!