Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 134 The Second Game Begins

In the early morning of February 24th, before Peter got up, he was called by Professor McGonagall's patron saint.

"Didn't the game start at ten o'clock in the morning?" Peter asked sleepily.

"Hmph, who knows what prestige Cornelius Fudge is playing? He asked our teacher to help arrange the venue, and he insisted on notifying him in the early hours of this morning. According to him, it is for the sake of confidentiality. I think..." Professor McGonagall pouted, What follows is self-explanatory.

Peter and Professor McGonagall braved the cold wind in early spring and came to the Black Lake together. Both of them wrapped their robes tightly. Peter looked up, the horizon was white, the sun had not yet risen, and the Durmstrang ship was shrouded in the sky. In the mist.

By the Black Lake, Peter saw Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout and Professor Snape were already waiting there, besides the three deans, Professor Hagrid and Professor Trelawney were also standing in the cold wind, Everyone's face was livid, even Professor Frivy, who was good-tempered, was silent.

"Where's the Ministry of Magic?" Professor McGonagall asked.

Hagrid spread his large hands and shrugged.

"So our honorable director of the Department of International Magical Cooperation didn't come out except for sending a few pieces of parchment and asking us to set up the venue?" Her lips were tightened angrily, and she reached out to gesture towards the Durmstrang ship. After a while, "If it wasn't for fear of losing the etiquette to foreign guests, I would have sent everyone back to bed long ago!"

Peter took the parchment from Professor McGonagall, and glanced at it roughly. It was full of pages, listing many things that needed the assistance of Hogwarts teachers.

"Professor McGonagall," Peter said calmly, "I can do most of the arrangements, so please rest first."

"Peter, don't do all the work by yourself," Professor Flitwick said hastily, "Let's do it together. We might be able to catch breakfast if we finish early."

Professor McGonagall waved her hand, "Peter, Felius, in fact, the Ministry of Magic asked us to help arrange more than that, and there are also personal tasks assigned to everyone." She took out a stack of "M "The wax-sealed letters were handed to the teachers one by one.

Peter opened his letter and wrote: "... Item 18: Catch [-] colorful ball fishes and cast a polishing spell on each; Item [-]: Arrange [-] entangled aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake... No. [-] Items : All black lake set projection spell;”

Good guy!The scales of the colored ball fish have to be polished!Why doesn't the Ministry of Magic have them waxed?

He raised his head angrily and amusedly, and the other teachers had similar expressions on their faces, Snape's mouth almost turned to his ears.

Peter still proposed to concentrate all the tasks on him and let him do it. He has substitutes and engraving spells, which are more efficient than others. Moreover, he just picks some meaningful ones to do, such as in the Black Lake Set the projection spell in it, as for polishing the ball fish?When he met Fudge, he wanted to give Fudge a big polish first!

As soon as his suggestion was put forward, the three headmasters except Snape expressed their opposition. At this time, above the Black Lake, a flying horse pulled a gorgeous carriage and flew towards the shore. After the carriage stopped, A middle-aged woman with gray hair and serious face got out of the car.

"Ms. Burns?" Professor McGonagall hurried up to meet her. Ms. Burns held her hand tightly and bowed politely to her.

"I'm really sorry, Professor McGonagall, and teachers, the notice sent by the Department of International Magic Cooperation has not passed the review of the department, please go back and rest quickly, these trivial matters are handled by the people of the Ministry of Magic, but there are some arrangements, please Teachers, please help."

"That's okay, as long as things are reasonable." Professor McGonagall's attitude softened a little.

The teachers went back to the auditorium for breakfast, and Ms. Burns angrily stayed by the Black Lake to wait for Cornelius Fudge and Dolores Umbridge. It seemed that at least Fudge was going to be in trouble.On the way back, Peter saw people from the Magic Education Committee, and Constantine followed listlessly, but Peter didn't say hello to him.

After breakfast, people from the Ministry of Magic came over one after another, and politely called the teachers away one by one, until Sirius poked his head out from the small door at the back of the auditorium, "Wormtail? Come on, Dumbledore asked Let's be security guards together."

Peter stood up and followed Sirius out of the auditorium. Halfway there, Snake poked his head out from under his cloak.

Sirius turned his head to look, and laughed loudly, "I didn't expect you to bring a basilisk as a security officer, it wouldn't be the first to eat Harry!"

The dictionary in Peter's arms hissed, "Snake, you can look after the four warriors for me, but you can't bite or hurt anyone, okay?"

"Yes...my master..." it said with its neck straightened.

"Compared to the wizard, the basilisk is more water-oriented, and the ancient magic will bind it to obey my orders." Peter explained.

They came to the shore of the Black Lake, and a tent had been set up on the shore. A dozen staff members of the Ministry of Magic were busy. Mr. Hope led Peter and Sirius into the tent, and Ludo Bagman waited happily inside. , Explained the specific content of the second project to Sirius and Peter.

Meanwhile, Harry sat distraught in the Great Hall, waiting for Professor McGonagall to call him, but instead he was met by the wobbly Squib Filch, who led him to Peter and Sirius In the tent I visited, Cedric, Krum, and Fleur had already been sitting in it, and all three of them had pale faces.

The audience in the stands sat down one after another, and a huge projection of the Black Lake appeared in the air. Ludo Bagman led four warriors to the edge of the Black Lake, and a burst of warm cheers sounded from the crowd.

Harry looked up. Both Professor Peddie and Sirius were wearing cloaks and riding broomsticks, hovering low over the lake. He winked at them, and Professor Peddie quietly stretched out his thumb. A bright smile broke out on his face.

But none of the other three warriors around Harry was in the mood to look around. Their faces looked worse than when they fought the dragon. Harry wondered if they hadn't figured out the secret of the golden egg in the end.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Bagman explained brightly, "The second project is about to begin! Voila!"

He dramatically pointed towards the center of the Black Lake, and a vortex stirred the lake violently. Soon, a huge horse-headed mermaid emerged from the water, and there were endless exclamations from the stands.

"In this project, the warriors must return to the surface of the water as quickly as possible on a horse-headed mermaid! And the tool to guide the warriors in the black lake is the golden key!"

Harry took out the key from his robe, and Cedric, Fleur, and Krum all stared at it with desperate eyes. Bagman seemed to have expected this to happen, and he took out three yellow keys. , blue and white silver keys, handed out to the warriors who failed to solve the golden egg puzzle.

"Warriors who failed to get the golden key don't need to be discouraged. The silver key can guide you as well, but the effect will be slightly worse. Alright, all warriors, please swim to the center of the lake and get ready to start the competition!"

As Harry took off his robes, he looked at the other three's silver keys. He noticed that the handle of the silver key had five grooves, while his gold key had only four.

The warriors swam to the middle of the lake, and Harry took a deep breath, drank a whole bottle of water and inhaled the potion, and beside him, Krum transformed himself into a shark, and both Cedric and Fleur chose the Head Curse.

"Professor Peddie is here!" Ludo Bagman shouted.

Peter pointed at the lake with his wand, and another vortex appeared, and all four warriors were sucked into the bottom of the lake.

(End of this chapter)