HP - Shadow Monarch! [BOOK 1]

Chapter 199 - The tournament begins.

[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV

Durmstrang Institute.

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Once again, the headmistress of the Durmstrang Institute began to give a speech, talking about the prohibition of walking around the school at night after curfew.
She said that anyone caught would be severely punished, citing the case of the "entire night," as she described it, when someone was seen trying to access the board.

Certainly, it was not well-regarded by the school officials, who were watching the two institutions, both Hogwarts and Beauxbatons, with suspicion.
Many were not in favor of the presence of students from these schools causing trouble so quickly, for trying to walk around their school during the night.

In any case, Snape didn't give much importance to it. He was thinking whether he should simply show up in front of the board or not, before the end of the tournament.
"Maybe I should just win this competition... this won't be difficult at all." he ended up deciding instead of actually trying to sneak into the board.

"You're whispering again." Clarisse murmured next to him, though she didn't actually hear what he said.
"Just some thoughts." Snape said.

"Would you like to walk around the school? They're going to show it to us and we'll have some classes with the Durmstrang Institute students in the coming days while the tournament hasn't started yet, since they don't want us to miss our lessons." Clarisse said, while Snape nodded, turning his gaze to all the Hogwarts students there, with some staring at him as always.

Be it out of fear, curiosity, or even some resentment. But he didn't care.
'It's a shame I won't have my exact classroom here...' he couldn't help but think.
"Alright... let's check this place out to kill some time." he decided.

He had his phoenix, which didn't seem to have limits as long as she was already in place. Snape could return to England without anyone knowing it, but he would also have to do that at opportune moments and only when there was a real need to return, since he didn't seem to have that problem.

In the end, breakfast finished and they followed some students that the professors ended up announcing as their guides, while Professor Rosaria would be responsible for the group and Professor Flitwick and Professor Longbottom were discussing how the tournament and its rules would work with the professor from _______.

Snape remained silent the entire time while the students were speaking in Nordic languages, but with a translation spell, it was easy to understand what they were saying as they showed the castle, warning about not going into certain places.

"You seem to be bored." Rosaria approached Snape, where there wasn't the stench she picked up from the other students.
"You could say that... this place is kind of tedious." he admitted, not even feeling the urge to look at the paintings in search of new dungeons.
"Haha. That's true. Here there's only snow and the stiff faces of these people from the Nordic countries." she laughed.

They continued moving through the castle, while Rosaria had to call out to some students to stop them from messing around. Snape stayed there with Pandora and Clarisse by his side if Rosaria wasn't glued to him.

At noon, a new school arrived, the school from Brazil, which shared lunch with the students and the headmistress gave the same speech they heard last night, talking a bit about the tournament.

Snape wasn't very interested in those students, seeing nothing special beyond students, with most of them, like almost everyone there, nervous.

The routine through the school continued, while Snape grew tired of it and went to look for paintings, disappearing from the group with his teleportation and invisibility, certain that Rosaria would cover for him.