Dressed as a Hogwarts portrait

Harry followed the trail of a merman for at least several kilometers, through jagged rocks and tall, lush aquatic plants.All the way down, those protruding hard stones formed a narrow waterway. If it weren't for the flexible webs on his hands and feet, Harry doubted whether he would bump into it. Creatures don't know much about it, and they also know that if they are injured, the blood will spread along the water flow, and there will be terrible consequences.

Compared with the bad luck in the last game, I happened to draw the most ferocious Hungarian Horntail. This time it was surprisingly smooth. First, I was distressed because I couldn't find a way to stay in the water for an entire hour, so I didn't want to go to the kitchen. Dobby even whispered to him that he had heard from Mr. Crouch a few days ago that there was a kind of gill grass that could make wizards grow gills for breathing underwater, and Neville took out a book to confirm this method.

Stealing gillweed from Professor Snape's potion collection also went very well (Duke Slytherin: Severus, I don't think you want the savior to drown in the Black Lake. Professor: ...huh, That little monster is cheap, smart enough not to take my other herbs, otherwise!) When passing through the lush water grass jungle, he heard Fleur's terrified cry, probably because he was attacked by Grindylow, Professor Lupine last semester When I said that this kind of difficult things in the water, if you don't have the right spells, it is very difficult to repel them.So far, he hasn't encountered anything scary...wait, what's that?

A black shadow shrouded from above, Harry subconsciously shrunk behind the rock, looked up to see the huge body that was almost forty feet long passed over his head, chasing the mermaid faster than he did.

—Merlin, the Basilisk was eight feet longer than the one he had seen in the Chamber of Secrets.

The savior touched his face and was tangled, so he said how he was safe and sound and did not encounter any danger along the way. It turned out that the basilisk was not far behind him.

Harry swam vigorously, he could already hear the singing of the mermaid in his ears.

Come find us at the source of the sound, on the ground we cannot sing, just give us one hour, you must find it.

Get back what we took.

If it is too late, nothing will exist.

Suddenly, the surrounding dense aquatic plants seemed to have been cleared deliberately, revealing a large open space. Harry finally saw the mermaids in the black lake. They had yellowish-brown hair and spread out in the water like snakes. The body is gray, and the dense scales are not as beautiful and shiny as in fairy tales.Some of them were swimming in the water, and some were sitting on the surrounding boulders, holding pale and sharp bone spears to catch giant squid.With protruding eyes and teeth and no lips, it looked like the beautiful mermaids in those pictures after they had rotted away.

After turning around a few rocks in this way, some stones resembling houses appeared neatly in front of them.There was even an unidentifiable statue in the open space. A few mermaids were originally singing there, but they all screamed and fled when they saw the basilisk jumping out of the nearby aquatic plants.

Three figures float in the water.

It was Hermione and Ron, and there was a little girl with bushy silver hair that Harry knew, Gabrielle Delacour, Fleur's sister.

Their hands and feet were bound by ropes twisted by several thick aquatic plants, and they floated unconsciously in the water, their hair was also scattered, and their skin looked a terrible grayish white in the water, like corpses that had lost their lives.

Harry swam over quickly just in time to see the basilisk wrapping its tail around a fleeing merman.

[Say it!What treasure have you taken from me! ]

It is very difficult to make a sound underwater. The basilisk sprayed its upper throat with magic power, and the hoarse voice echoed terrifyingly around.

[Is it the owner's locket?If you don't give it back to me, I'll swallow you up! ]

The mermaid screamed desperately in fright, and the savior looked at the basilisk with its huge body entwining the mermaid in circles with black lines all over its head.He opened his mouth, but the water poured in and flowed out from the gills growing on his cheeks. After swimming for a long time, he made a low sound: [Aerys... I think it can't understand the snake language. ]

[Yes! ] The basilisk shook its head, then closed its eyes, turned its head to this side, and slowly approached: [Harry, can you speak mermaid language? ]

[…of course not. ] Harry hadn't even heard of the language.

[Now, Harry, you're useless. ]

[…] Harry really didn't know what to say, so he could only keep rubbing his nose, [But, maybe the mermaid can understand English? ]

The basilisk's head tilted, and then slowly moved up and down, turning its head to relax its body, allowing the miserable mermaid to struggle and expose its upper body.

[So, Harry, you ask it for me, if it took my master's locket. ]

"...Hello." Harry gritted his teeth and greeted against his will. The mermaid who was still begging for help and struggling couldn't be called "good" at all, "Iris, I said that the basilisk wanted me to ask you , Mermaid, I mean you, did you take Slytherin's locket?"

The mermaid screamed and shook her head furiously.

[Huh? ] Iris was obviously confused, so what did he come to find in the water race?

No matter, let's find the owner's locket first, maybe it's still in the water grass.

[I lost the master's locket, if you can find it for me, I won't eat you! ]

The savior repeated it helplessly, and the poor mermaid nodded desperately, so the basilisk quickly swam towards the water with it wrapped around it.

Harry swam up to Ron, tugging at the ropes desperately.

A light of fire suddenly flashed past his ear, and the current was turbulent. Harry shrank his head and saw Krum, who was half a shark body, catch Hermione who was floating upwards and swim up.

Harry imitated the example and broke the rope with a spell. While holding Ron in his arms, he looked at Gabriel who was still floating in the water. On the way here, Fleur met a group of Grindylows. It took over an hour to get here.Harry swam over and broke the rope as well, holding Gabriel with his other hand and trying to float up.

There are only about 20 minutes left before the end of an hour, and there is still a long way to go to the wooden tower on the water.

Harry swam with all his strength, even though he used his best strength, because he brought two people with him, he was faster before he came.Meanwhile, on the water.

"Look at that, it's a figure! Great job, Krum! Durmstrang won No.1 in this competition!"

When Hermione and Krum surfaced, the mermaid was under the water of the Durmstrang boat, which was far away from the wooden frame tower, under the terrifying gaze of the basilisk. Endless?) Not daring to run away, weeping and touching inch by inch in the dense aquatic plants and sand and stones, there are many small cracks in the rocks that Iris can't help, but the mermaid with slender fingers can.

Finally, a gold locket emerged from the hole of a hard-shelled crab.

The mermaid stretched out her hand tremblingly. The basilisk was very happy. It rushed over and stretched out the chain, then carefully passed it through with the tip of its tail, closing the scales bit by bit, and then opened the scales to push it up to the body. Stopped 6 feet up the tail.

[Merlin, I'm so fat. ]

It leaned down cautiously, but the merman thought that the basilisk would break its promise to eat it, and screamed in fright. Aerys leaned over impatiently and gave it a look, because of the reflection spell cast in advance and the natural refraction in the water , the mermaid froze instantly, and slowly sank to the bottom of the water.

Afraid of being discovered, Aerys circled around a lot, avoided the wooden tower, hid its entire body in the aquatic plants, and slowly swam to the top of the cliff to find a suitable place to change back into its Animagus form.

Because she puts her wand behind a rock and has to find it and come up to the surface.

At this time, two figures quickly floated up from its side.

[Well? ]

Isn't it Ron and another girl who have been spelled and floated up?

Where is Harry?

The depths of the lake were churning, and a group of terrible shadows like small octopuses were tangled together. Those that made them look like octopuses were their slender and scary fingers. A very bright light burst from the bottom of the water.It seems that Harry used the right spell, and these crazy Grindylows ran away in terror, but their masters, the Black Lake Mermaids, rushed over, holding long bone spears, bone forks and other weird weapons, and kidnapped them. Grabbing Harry's arm, he desperately dragged him underwater.Mermaids are followed by their vassal magical creatures. They have two long legs and big ball fish with webbed feet. It is a ball fish that lives in deep sea lakes. They are gnawing wildly. Harry's feet and clothes, the ball fish has no tail or fins, and it is safe to use those two powerful legs to tread water and paddle.

Aerys involuntarily opened his mouth.

Ball fish!The best food in Black Lake!

Without even thinking about it, the basilisk immediately slid down the cliff.

Harry was struggling desperately at this moment, he could feel the effect of the gill grass gradually disappearing, and the webs on his hands and feet were getting smaller and smaller, when a mermaid swam over and whispered in his ear: "You have to Come down with us! Close your eyes!"

Of course Harry wouldn't listen to it, and with a wave of his wand, he drove away a lot of pompom fish.

"You are the fourth person we have received a brief notice. You have saved all the people you need to save. Now, we must take you back. You will sleep deeply in the water..."

Harry's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he seemed to see countless dark things that looked like plant stems. They turned out to be bugs bouncing off the rocks, and spewed out a terrible yellow-green liquid upwards, instantly like the upper waters were dyed strangely. one slice.

The huge black shadow suddenly jumped down, swallowing dozens of colored ball fish amidst the screams of the mermaid.

[Harry stabbed me in the head, not you!Only I can eat him!he's mine! ]

The little girl screamed violently, opened her mouth, and was fed by more than a dozen colorful ball fishes that could not escape, but unfortunately, the basilisk opened its mouth too much, and accidentally sprayed the venom. The weapon's Loba worm also swallowed a big mouthful.

[Ouch...what a strange smell...]

The basilisk curled its tail, circled the sinking Harry and floated to the surface of the water.

"I think I saw the fierce battle underwater! Yes, Mr. Weasley and Miss Delacour are very good. It should be Harry Potter who rescued them. Now our warrior—Merlin! What is it!"

Ludo Bagman opened his mouth wide in horror. In fact, everyone saw the huge and terrifying shadow appearing under the water.

Harry Potter was washed onto the wooden board by a huge wave, struggling to keep vomiting.Everyone waved away the splash of water and wanted to take a closer look, but the shadow had disappeared. A few seconds later, the thin girl floated to the surface of the water holding a wand with a painful expression on her face.

"Something must have happened underwater! Yes, we all saw it, it's unbelievable! There is a mysterious creature in the Black Lake of Hogwarts, I really don't know what it is, Headmaster Dumbledore..."

The white wizard approached the water, and a female mermaid stepped on the water. Its terrifying appearance caused the children to scream, and the mermaid uttered a scream that was as sharp as scratching glass. Everyone frowned. Dumbledore listened carefully. He made the same terrible sound, and kissed the merman's withered yellow fingers very politely, saying goodbye to it. The merman with the bony crown on his hair showed a terrifying smile, and then sank into the lake.

Iris was helped ashore by several classmates, lying beside Harry and kept throwing up, but she wasn't drowning, but who knows?The little basilisk girl rolled pitifully on the ground, grabbed the hem of Lingcha's robe who came over, and burst into tears.

"...Ugh... so scary..."

Sobbing and burying his head in his master's arms:

"...It's so unpalatable!"

Ling Cha's hand stroking the little girl froze, and for a moment, he had the urge to throw Iris back into the lake again.

"Now, I declare that the second competition is over. Miss Fleur Delacour has withdrawn from the competition due to danger in the middle. very."

"Thank you, Harry, thank you for saving my sister!" Fleur didn't listen to the score at all, she hugged Harry who was lying on the ground, and kissed his forehead and cheek.

"Next is Victor Krum, who was the first to come out of the water to complete the task. The Transfiguration Curse is perfect! It's a rare sight, we'll give him [-] points!"

Krum's expression was not good, because Hermione, who was drenched all over, was busy asking Ron, who was also in a mess, and Harry, who had scars bitten by colored ball fish on his hands and feet.

"Then there is our Harry Potter, the great savior boy who once again performed a miracle. He not only saved his friend, but also reached out to help Miss Gabrielle Delacour. We will follow him...Deng Not good for the headmaster?"

"Hey, everyone, I just asked the mermaid, and it said that Miss Nyx was the first to arrive, and Harry was second, and wasting time underwater to save others, so this should be counted as a bonus, and— —”

Everyone was looking at Aerys, because she had brought nothing.

But the little girl didn't think so, she touched her feet, then her thighs, very anxiously looking for the locket that was supposed to be on her tail, and finally found it on her waist, and quickly opened it Unlocking the buckle, he happily handed it to the owner, looking up at it as if flattering him.

"He successfully dealt with a group of Grindylows, and waited for Miss Nix's rescue. Yes, the person Miss Nix needs to save is Harry Potter. Because the list is repeated with the warrior candidates, the mermaid took the underwater The creature attacked Harry at the end and was about to take him under the deep water, and Miss Nix, who didn't know anything, also saved the person she was supposed to save. Let's applaud them!"

There was applause, and the little girl looked dumbfounded at Harry next to her, and then at her master.

"Why is my baby Harry? Odie isn't Garfield's baby!"

"..." Ling Cha silently moved his eyes away,

Why, because neither he nor Salazar will be underwater waiting for the basilisk to come to his rescue, and the second name given by the Goblet of Fire is the Savior.When the list is repeated, the requirement of the Triwizard Tournament is to keep Aerys from knowing who she is really trying to save.This was proposed by Karkaroff, obviously the Dark Lord would not believe that the basilisk would be in the mood to save others.

"...Courage and character to save Harry Potter that is not his own task, 75 points! Miss Nix's accurate judgment, 24 points, now I announce that the third match will be held on June [-]th..."

The locket gleamed between the fingers, there was no longer the breath of black magic on the box, and the soul piece was no longer here——