Chapter 424: Pet (Edited)

The audience erupted in cheers and applause at the sound of Ludo Bagman's passionate voice. Thousands of flags waved at the same time, accompanied by a jumble of national anthems, and it was a lively scene.

The scoreboard with the announcements on the pitch, which had also been transformed into a scoreboard, now read: Bulgaria: 0, Ireland: 0.

"All right, without further ado, let me introduce.... the mascot of the Bulgarian national team!"

On the right side of the stands was a bright, clean red square, and at that moment loud cheers erupted.

Everyone looked curiously towards the exit of the hall, under the stands on the right, and Fish was no exception, for Professor McGonagall's talk about interesting creatures had completely piqued Fish's curiosity.

Then he saw a hundred or so long-haired silver-haired women with moon-bright skin and wind-less silver hair emerge from the tunnel and float around the stadium before coming to the center of the hall and dancing to the music.

"Minerva, where are the magical creatures? why are there only a handful of girls?".

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Fish looked at Professor McGonagall with distaste, thinking she was trying to trick him again....

"Hmm?" Professor McGonagall looked in surprise at Fish who was not responding, but was soon relieved to see that her own cat was not influenced by the Veela, which was perfectly normal, wasn't it?

"They're magical creatures," Professor McGonagall explained to Fish with a smile, "You should have heard of them, they're Veela."

"Veela!"

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Of course Fish had heard of them, both Dumbledore and Newt had speculated the possibility that he had Veela lineage, and Fish had taken the trouble to find out more about them....

The cat looked in awe at the hundred silver haired girls still dancing in the stadium, their appearance seemed to match what he had learned, then he looked around and saw Rolf and Luna's father, and all the men in the stadium, looking like they had been starving for ten days and had seen food.

Fish even saw someone with one leg over the edge of the stands, apparently intending to jump.... Well, that would be Harry, and next to him, in what appeared to be a position to jump off the diving board, would be Ron.

"Fish won't let people get like that nya!"

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Fish angrily protested to Professor McGonagall, and then remembered what happened when he was surrounded by a group of girls....

"I don't think... nya?"

He looked uncertainly at Hermione and Luna off to the side.

Luna was struggling to hold on to her father's arm, not letting Mr. Lovegood keep stirring her caramel white hair... he seemed to want to shape her hair into a broom shape.

And Hermione was so proud to see that Fish hadn't been affected by the Veela like the other men, so she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him fiercely on the cheek.

The cat, who had been attacked, rubbed his cheek and returned the kiss decisively.

(つ｀3′)つ

He never lost a kissing game with Hermione!

It was only when Professor McGonagall stopped them that Hermione realized what she had just done in public, and would have run off the pitch had most people not been distracted by the Veela's.

By then, the music had stopped and the Veela's had stopped dancing and were lined up on one side of the field.

There was a roar of anger in the stadium, most of the men did not want to see the Veela leave, they wanted to see her dance, and even some of the men who had supported the Irish team were destroying their belongings as fast as they could, they were so influenced by the Veela that they just wanted to support the Bulgarian team.

Only some of the men gradually recovered, but they too were in a trance, like Mr. Xenophilius Lovegood next to him, whom Luna had pushed back into his seat, disregarding his unruly hair.

Fish was also very dissatisfied with the Veela....

"I thought they were turning into some kind of weird bird nya? Why don't they?"

?(? `ω′?)?

Fish protested angrily and then looked at Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall twisted the corners of her mouth, not knowing how to explain this problem to him.

But soon Ludo Bagman's voice rang out again, "Now, please raise your wands in the air...to welcome the Irish team mascot!"

And then, with a whistle, a huge green and gold object flew into the stadium like a large kite. It flew around the stadium and then split into two smaller kites, each of which headed for a goal. A rainbow of arcs suddenly appeared across the field, linking the two large, bright balls.

This beautiful spectacle instantly attracted Fish's attention, and those who had been absorbed in the Veela came to with a roar of admiration.

With Fish's eyesight, he could easily see what was in the cluster of lights: a group of green-skinned figures, with red vests and red whiskers, each carrying a small gold or green lamp, which formed the two huge clusters of lights on the doorpost.

At that moment, the rainbow faded and the large glowing balls joined and merged to form a huge glowing clover that rose into the air and began to float above the grandstand.

The little shamrock man began to toss gold coins downward, which landed on the heads and seats of the spectators.

"They're gold galleons nya!"

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Fish cheered excitedly and then scrambled for these gold coins like most people... he still remembered that he wanted to save money to buy a Fire Saeta for Professor McGonagall.

But after grabbing a good handful of gold coins, Fish suddenly realized that neither Professor McGonagall nor Hermione were doing anything, and Luna was merely picking up a few that had fallen to her at random.

"Why don't you pick them up nya? Gold galleons can buy a lot of things."

?ω?

Fish asked, cocking his head to the side in confusion.

"They're leprechauns in Ireland, the gold coins they make only last a few hours, they can't buy anything."

Professor McGonagall patiently explained to Fish.

"Damn, what a bunch of liars!"

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Fish took the gold coin in his hand and sat back down with his hands clasped together, grumpy.

The wizards next to him, who had also been fighting over the coins, heard what Professor McGonagall had said and stopped fidgeting, smiled and sat back down.

Rove was very embarrassed. Even though his grandfather was an expert on magical animals, he still fell into the trap of these two magical animals.... Earlier he had been bragging to Luna that he was an expert on magical animals, having learned it from his family.

The young man looked cautiously at Luna, who was standing next to him, and was both relieved and slightly disappointed to find that she was still unconcerned and oblivious to his embarrassment.

When the two pets were done, it was the turn of the two teams.

But the fun part was over for Fish, and if it weren't for the crowd noise and Bagman's comment, he would have reverted to his cat form and jumped into Professor McGonagall's or Hermione's arms to sleep.

With nothing else to do, Fish could only obediently follow Professor McGonagall around, watching a game he really didn't like.