Harry Potter and the Attack of the Squibs

"How can I open the sealed stone statue? If I destroy it, the fishman will kill me."

Snape sighed: "Since you can talk to fishmen underwater, then cast spells underwater..."

Then Snape froze.

Lu Ke nodded: "This reminds me that I have a particularly reliable helper."

Carrot standing next to him nodded proudly.

Snape was silent for a moment: "Wizards use magic spells to solve problems...but these are not useful words for you, sorry Lu Ke."

Lu Ke shook his head: "I'm going to take a look under the Black Lake."

Snape nodded: "Goodbye, Luke."

Then Carrot snapped his fingers, and Lu Ke disappeared into the air.

Then Lu Ke found himself back at the bottom of the Black Lake.

The matriarch was obviously unhappy about Lu Ke's sudden appearance. She looked at Lu Ke and shook her head: "You should say something in advance next time you come, or come down from above. I think it would be impolite to appear suddenly like this."

Lu Ke smiled helplessly: "The matter is urgent."

The matriarch was stunned for a moment: "What happened?"

Lu Ke sighed: "The algae inside the statue is very dangerous."

The matriarch glanced at the statue standing in the center of the mermaid village: "What happened?"

So Lu Ke began to explain to her what he saw in the book.

"A magical plant created by a dangerous dark wizard... It's not a water plant at all, it's a bloodthirsty monster... We actually..."

The matriarch's expression changed with Lu Ke's description, becoming more and more gloomy, but in the end, she smiled and shook her head: "But it has protected the entire village for a thousand years, and there is one more thing..."

The matriarch looked at Lu Ke and showed the fangs in her mouth: "Mermaids are not human beings. We ourselves are very bloodthirsty."

Lu Ke nodded: "But now the time has come."

Considering the size of the statue, and the common size of this magical plant, there is more than one plant in the statue, whether it is completely dead or completely changed, in short, the balance has reached a time that cannot continue.

The matriarch shook her head: "I won't allow you to do anything unless you have proof."

Lu Ke nodded: "Carrot, it's your turn."

Carrot bowed proudly, then pointed at the statue with a long finger.

At that moment, as if part of it was melting in the water, the statue began to become transparent.

At the junction of transparency and opacity, a cross section reveals the plants hidden within the statue.

It was a densely packed patch of algae. It didn't look like such a scary plant at all, and its dark leaves didn't look that dangerous at all.

Along with the movement of the magic spell, the transparent section was slowly moving towards the inside of the statue. When Lu Ke and the matriarch could finally see the scene deep in the statue, they sighed together.

"Has it actually reached this level..."

Lu Ke was a little surprised. Even if he had been mentally prepared before, he still found it a bit difficult to accept, let alone the matriarch.

"Why is this happening?"

Deep inside the statue, algae-like plants are entangled with each other. Most of them are gray in color. Only the middle stems of the leaves are left, and the surroundings are covered with black mud. They should be plants that have died long ago.

There is a lot of space inside the entire huge statue, but most of it is black mud, and only one-tenth of the remaining plants are alive.

And it can be clearly seen that the dead parts are still slowly spreading outward.

The matriarch swung her huge fish tail and swam back and forth around Lu Ke. The water waves she brought up were very powerful, making the bubbles around Lu Ke's body sway back and forth. From time to time, she opened her mouth full of fangs and let out a sharp curse.

"We can't lose these plants, no matter whether they are the product of black magic or not, Lu Ke, help me."

Lu Ke nodded: "That's why I'm here."

When he could see everything in front of him clearly and knew what was happening, everything in front of him was no longer a problem for Lu Ke.

It is impossible for Hufflepuff to completely use the bloodthirsty plant created by a dark wizard. According to that theory, when the algae comes into contact with the blood of a mermaid, it will turn into a deadly predator and penetrate the injured mermaid.

The reason why the plants in the statue have undergone such changes is mostly because the injured mermaid had too little blood, so there was no nutritional supply and died naturally. Some of them were chosen because they could not get the mermaid blood over a long period of time. Changing plants.

They chose to adapt to this environment, so they lived better, so they occupied more positions and killed the original plants.

There should have been at least thousands of these dangerous plants here, but now there are only a few left.

Lu Ke looked carefully at the scene in front of him and began to think.

The problem before him was actually very simple, that is, to find the plants that Hufflepuff had left behind, and to deal with the new plants to make room for them.

The biggest problem here is that Lu Ke doesn't know what the plants left by Hufflepuff look like.

The descriptions of bloodthirsty plants seen in books are obviously not the same as those left by Hufflepuff.

Lu Ke carefully identified among the densely packed plants, and then he found at least ten different plants.

Some gave up their leaves and turned into rope-like water plants, some became completely transparent, and some began to corrode the inside of the statues and relied on the nutrients provided by the rocks to survive.

Lu Ke and the matriarch searched for the correct answer among the dense plants, and finally Lu Ke gave up completely.

They found at least thirty new plants, none of which could be identified as Hufflepuff.

Lu Ke sighed, then swam in front of the stone statue and put his hand on it.

Then there are plants slowly approaching.

Lu Ke remained motionless on the spot, feeling the algae leaves passing by his hands.

Then he suddenly laughed.

"Actually, plants are probably not that complicated, right?"

The matriarch shouted to Lu Ke impatiently: "Say something useful, Lu Ke!"

Lu Ke nodded: "Now that the injured fishman is here, what other plants will appear? Let's just give it a try."

The matriarch shook her head: "Isn't the plant we want to leave behind Hufflepuff? Only it can allow you to pass the test."

Lu Ke shook his head: "The important thing is the herbs that are useful for mermaids. Just think that I guessed the answer. I think Hufflepuff thinks so too."

The matriarch shook her head: "Although I should help you as a friend, I still think the clan is more important."

"So I'll listen to you."

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