Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 136 The Examiner in Shackles
Harry squinted his eyes and stared at the crystal ball in the lake, but all he could see was a cloud of black smoke, in which something white seemed to be floating.

Usually in the prophecy class, he couldn't see anything in the prophecy ball, let alone the interference of the muddy lake water next to it.

If it wasn't for the Triwizard Tournament, he would have made up one, such as "dog spirit", Professor Trelawney likes these unlucky things, but this is a competition after all, "Success, the power of command belongs to you body; fail, and everything will come to naught."

When Harry was in trouble, the old woman waved the raven's cane again, and a glowing box appeared in the water. The box was divided into four and sorted in clockwise order. The small boxes wrote in turn:
"A. White dove."

"B. A stack of parchment."

"C. Pale corpse."

"D. White sheets."

It turned out that this was a multiple-choice question. Harry was struggling with how to speak underwater. He put down the crystal ball and chose "C. Pale Corpse" without thinking.

The old woman nodded, a string of air bubbles emerged from her veil, and she waved her crutch again, the words in the box changed:

"The tone of the prophecy you have identified is:"

"A. The cycle of life."

"B. A miraculous turnaround."

"C. Painful drowning."

"D. Poignant love."

Harry chose "C. Drowning in agony" without hesitation, and the old woman nodded again—maybe all prophets are crow-mouthed, and they love to interpret all omens in the scariest way.

Afterwards, the old woman gave Harry five more questions, including dream interpretation, astrology, etc. Harry didn't read the questions carefully, and chose the most inauspicious option in seconds to pass the test.

After he predicted for the third time that he would be drowned in the Black Lake, the crone was finally satisfied, and she hung a small statue on Harry's wrist like the previous masked man.

Before the old woman could drive Harry out, he quickly drifted away from this unlucky level. Now that he was able to command the two horse-headed mermaids, he continued to search for new fragments, but for some reason, this link became different from before. So easy, some of the little treasure chests, when opened, would spurt out a large jet of ink, blackening the surrounding water and making Harry dizzy.

It took him almost half an hour to find all four fragments. On the way, he had a fierce fight with a Kabbah. Fortunately, Harry had carved some ropes in advance and tied up its limbs, so that he got rid of the entanglement.

Under the guidance of the key, Harry found the third item. The lake here was extremely cold and extremely cold. Looking down, Harry couldn't see the bottom of the lake, but only a dark mass, like an abyss. Open your mouth wide enough to swallow him up.

"It's just a competition." Harry kept reminding himself, forcing himself to calm down, and he deftly swam to the bottom of the dark water, but he never reached the bottom of the lake, let alone the shadow of the examiner.

Finally, he found a sunken large wooden ship. This ship looked exactly like a ghost ship, even more eerie than the Durmstrang ship. Its broken portholes were dark, and there seemed to be some green rot inside. The water flowed out, and instead of sails, the tattered mast was covered with chains, like torture tools for students in Filch's office.

Harry swam hesitantly a few times, and suddenly felt a gust of cold water rushing from behind, gurgling in his ears, and he turned around, startled by what he saw.

A man in a robe floated behind Harry: he was wearing a pale mask with no face but two black round holes, like a skeleton; The cuffs are covered with blood; the most bizarre thing is that there are rusty shackles on his right wrist, and the iron chains are floating around his body.

The rational side of Harry told him that this was just an examiner, and that the Ministry of Magic must have designed it for the effect of the show, but the emotional side of him kept screaming and forced himself to run away.

The man in chains moved, and before Harry's face, he hung the statuette Harry desired at the very top of the mast, and stood with his arms folded in the gazebo on the mast, the two The black hole stared at Harry.

Harry understood that this project only looked scary, but it was actually just swimming to the mast to get the statuette. The shackled man waved his sleeve, and a black vortex slowly spun under Harry's feet, a huge The suction pulls him down.

He swam with all his strength. He had already been active underwater for so long, his muscles were sore and his breathing was no longer smooth. The shackled examiner tilted his head mockingly, looking down at Harry's face A hideous look.

After swimming for a while, Harry felt his lungs hurt like they were on fire, but his body didn't move forward much. As soon as he relaxed, the vortex pulled him down a few feet. The vortex is sucked in, and the gloomy examiner will definitely fail him when the time comes.

He looked up at the iron lock on the mast, and came up with a way. He carved a long and strong rope, used the floating spell to slowly send it to the iron lock, passed through the iron lock, and then used the flying spell to lift the rope. Pull the head back into the hands.

It took him three tries to succeed, the water was fast, the chains and ropes were wobbling, and several times Harry's wand almost fell into the whirlpool.

He grabbed the rope and pulled himself upwards, and after five minutes he finally climbed to the crossbar, removed the statuette at the top of the mast, and floated in the water for a short rest, exhausted.

The intimidating examiner suddenly jumped at Harry. Harry thought he was going to attack, but he just shoved a bottle of potion into Harry's hand, and then roughly pushed Harry out of the project area.

Harry drank the potion, and the soreness in his muscles suddenly eased. He had got the three statuettes, and he could go back and try to see if he could pull the carriage.

He swam back to the place where the mermaids lived, but to his shock, two carriages had already been pulled to the middle of the lake, only two-thirds of the distance from the water surface.He raised the figurine hastily, and the mermaids, laughing, harnessed the three horse-headed mermaids to the cart, and Harry climbed swiftly into the carriage, which was immediately pulled away.

He raised his head and looked anxiously at his opponents. A funny shark's head appeared on one carriage, while Cedric's back was clearly visible on the other carriage.

Harry wondered why the other warriors needed to collect five shards to start a project, so why were they progressing faster than himself?
Only then did he notice that Krum and Cedric had only two horse-headed mermaids in front of their carriages. It turned out that they only completed two tasks before returning, while Harry completed three!

Harry suddenly remembered the mermaid song: "Desire is your shackles..." This sentence was originally to remind the warriors not to be greedy when participating in the project.

He stared at the keys on his wrist with great chagrin, but when he looked up again, he saw that his carriage had followed quickly, and Cedric Diggory was on his right, looking at him.

(End of this chapter)