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In a blink of an eye, February 2th is the time for the second competition.Alberta only saw Pansy and Blaise sitting on the sofa in the common room early in the morning, but did not see Draco, so she knew that the "baby" should be Draco.

After having breakfast, the three of them headed to Black Lake.At this time, the Black Lake was nothing like it used to be, there were seats all around, and it was a quick circle around the Black Lake.

After saying goodbye to Pansy and Blaise, Alberta walked to the edge of the Black Lake, where Krum and Delacour were already there.After a while, Digory also arrived.

However, Harry didn't arrive until it was close to the start time of the game.

Digory couldn't bear it anymore, he walked up to Alberta, frowned, and asked her, "Mayne, have you seen Harry?"

She shook her head: "I haven't seen him all day."

"This is too bad, it's about to start, why hasn't he arrived yet?" Digory said to himself.

And Alberta was also a little worried.She wasn't worried about what would happen if Harry was late, but about Barty Jr. pretending to be Moody.Although he told Snape and Dumbledore before that Moody was pretended by Barty Jr., but in order to know Barty Jr.'s follow-up actions, Dumbledore did not do anything, but kept secretly observing his actions.Alberta was really afraid that if he was not careful, Harry would be murdered.Although, at this point in time, this possibility is a bit small.

When it was five minutes before ten o'clock, Harry finally arrived.Panting heavily, he ran to the referee: "I...I'm here..."

"Where have you been? The game is about to start." The other party said a few words to him, but didn't say much more, and asked Harry and the other four to stand in a row by the lake.

With the sound of the whistle, Alberta took out a bottle of potion from his pocket, raised his head and drank it.In an instant, the bitter and creamy taste spread in the mouth.Alberta tried hard to suppress the disgusting smell, then pulled out her wand, and transformed the clothes on her body into a shape more suitable for swimming.In the end, she jumped into the black lake in a very standard posture for entering the water.

bang——

The sound of entering the water reached her ears, but it seemed a little far away.She moved her hands and feet, felt that there was nothing wrong, so she shook her hand, took the wand in the invisibility wand cover, and cast a guiding spell.

Immediately, there was a thin silver line that only she could see shot forward, but she couldn't see it clearly after a dozen feet.

In that direction, Alberta swam over with waving arms and legs.

After swimming for about 15 minutes, suddenly, she heard the mermaid singing in the distance, which was more beautiful and ethereal than what she heard in the golden egg.

...I'm afraid, is it an obstacle to guarding "Baby"?

She thought so, but didn't stop.Soon, she saw a merman sitting on a boulder holding a spear.The bodies of these mermaids are all gray, their hair is dark green, and their eyes are yellow. They are completely different from the mermaids in Alberta's fantasy.

But fortunately, these mermaids did not make things difficult for her, but watched her swim past. Some mermaids even poked their heads out of the cave to see what happened.

After swimming for a while, Alberta saw a piece of grass not far away, with a sculpture on it, and five people were tied under the sculpture.But there is a group of mermaids singing around the sculpture.

When Alberta was very close, close enough to see the bubbles spit out by the people tied there, the mermaids still didn't attack her.

"We won't help you, and it's not easy to stop you." One of the mermaids said in a stiff and hoarse voice after seeing Alberta's guarded eyes.

Alberta reversed the direction of the wand in her hand, and cast a cutting curse on the rope on Draco's body.One click and those ropes snapped.She took a few steps forward and caught Draco who had fallen due to inertia.

With one arm around Draco's waist and the wand in the other, Alberta set out on the return journey very vigilantly as she kept an eye on the mermaid's movements from the corner of her eye.

As for the others, Alberta didn't plan to make a move.She was the first to arrive, and the other four hadn't arrived yet.Even if someone is not rescued in the end, these mermaids will send people back to shore.Alberta is not a person who doesn't understand anything. She still knows that Dumbledore can speak the mermaid language.And with Dumbledore's personality, he would definitely make an agreement with these mermaids underwater, so that no accident would happen to these people.

On the return journey, the speed was slower because of Draco.Alberta also saw Harry on the way, and the two silently greeted each other with hand gestures, and then continued their respective games.

After about 20 minutes, Alberta saw that the light became brighter and the water became much more transparent.Draco also started to move as he approached the surface.It seemed that the coma effect was about to wear off.

bang——

Alberta speeded up and rushed out of the water.She poked her head above the water and swam to the shore.And Draco was already awake, leaning against her.

Alberta didn't know what Draco was thinking, she just felt his hair pricking her neck, a little itchy.

"Draco, are you okay?" Alberta asked uneasy after thinking about it.

"It's okay." Draco murmured back.

Soon, Alberta brought Draco to the shore.Pansy, Blaise, and Neil were already there.Pansy took the blanket and wrapped it around Alberta as soon as she came ashore, and kept asking her if she was cold.

Blaise also took the blanket and wrapped it around Draco.And Draco was uncharacteristically silent, in stark contrast to Pansy's barrage of questions.

"I'm fine, really, Pansy." Alberta dismissed Pansy, turned her head to look at Draco, she frowned, and said, "Draco, are you really okay? Or go to Ponfort?" Let's take a look at Mrs. Lei's place?"

"That's right! Go to Madam Pomfrey's place!" Pansy pushed the two of them, asking Alberta and Draco to go to Madam Pomfrey's place together.

Unable to hold back Pansy's enthusiasm, and she also wanted to know what happened to Draco, Alberta took the opportunity to walk towards Madam Pomfrey's place.

By the time Alberta and Draco came out from Madam Pomfrey, the score was already out.Alberta scored 48 points.

"Oh, Your Highness, you didn't see, that fellow Potter appeared with two people in his arms. Tsk tsk, that's really arrogant. But don't worry, Your Highness is still the first in your score. Diggory got 47 45 points for Porter, 10 minutes for Krum, and 25 points for that Veela." Seeing Alberta approaching, Pansy hurriedly told what happened just now, and at the end, she still tried her best Said a bad word about Delacour.

Blaise rolled his eyes in a very ungentlemanly way: "Come on, Pansy. You still think that Delacour is pretty, so you always speak ill of her?"

"Oh, you only see her appearance, right? That's because she has maintained well. Think about Veela's appearance, it's so ugly. Moreover, her strength is really bad. I don't know if it's just because of her strength. , How did she become a warrior. Every time she came to the bottom, she simply discredited her school." Not to be outdone, Pan Xi immediately countered.

Blaise didn't want to start a fight with her, so he spread his hands out to the sides of his head in a gesture of surrender.

However, to Alberta's surprise, Draco ignored her the day after the match!

What rhythm is this?

Alberta said that she didn't understand Draco's mind at all.It's really a boy's heart, the sea needle!

"...I don't understand, Draco, what's the matter?" Alberta asked Blaise blankly.

Upon hearing this, Blaise covered his mouth, grinned sullenly, and replied after a while: "Leave him alone. If he figured it out, it will be fine."

"...Okay." Alberta felt that this was probably the only way to do it.She really couldn't bear Draco's ignorance without warning.

Draco, on the other hand, was having a hard time.Talk to Alberta, he has ignored her before, and now he can't save himself.Don't open your mouth and continue to fight coldly, he feels uncomfortable.

He even trembled with anger when he learned that Blaise asked Alberta to leave him alone.

"What are you shaking? Didn't you ignore it first?" Blaise said leisurely after drinking some black tea.

"It's up to you!" Draco blurted out, yelling at Blaise.

Blaise took good care of himself, shrugged his shoulders after receiving the roar, and said, "Okay, okay, I don't care. Don't ask me for a solution then." Then, he raised his legs and was about to leave.

Seeing that Blaise was about to leave, Draco hurriedly said, "Don't leave!"

Blaise was very helpless: "Since you told me to leave it alone, it's useless for me to stay in your dormitory."

"... In short, don't leave yet."

Blaise: ……………………… He is not a nanny!Don't look for him for anything!

Before the relationship between Draco and Alberta became normal, the person who attacked Alberta with a spell was found.

It was fourth-year Theodore Nott, a Slytherin who adored the Dark Lord.

"There are traces of the Imperius Curse on his body. It seems that he was manipulated to do this at the time. He will start on Valentine's Day, probably because of the chaos." Neil will hear from Ravenclaw The news went to Alberta.

Alberta thought for a while, but raised a doubt: "I don't believe that Nott would be hit by the Imperius Curse so easily and controlled."

"Thinking about it...it's a little suspicious." Pan Xi thought for a while, and said, "That Nott is crazy about the mysterious man, and he usually works very hard to become the mysterious man's subordinate. If this kind of person can be so easily I don't really believe that the Imperius Curse has been manipulated. Unless the person who does it is someone he knows well, it's possible to succeed if you don't investigate for a while."

Alberta squinted her eyes, but raised another possibility: "What if... was controlled voluntarily?"

"Who is so stupid to be controlled by the Imperius Curse voluntarily?" Blaise sneered at this possibility at first, but after saying that, he suddenly came back to his senses, "It's not impossible! If the other party's purpose is different from his own What does it matter if it overlaps and is temporarily controlled?"

"Thinking about it this way, it really is very possible!"

But which possibility it is, after they discussed it, they still couldn't decide.But after that, they paid more attention to Theodore Nott...

Shortly after the game, March ushered in.The weather has become drier, and the biting cold wind is blowing on every inch of exposed skin, making it painful.

Harry complained to Alberta more than once that the damn weather made the delivery of owls a little slower, and the owls were often blown off course by the wind, making him and Sirius' letters a little late.

Alberta drank the steaming milk, a little puzzled: "Isn't it just a short while? Can't you wait?"

Harry looked at her with tears in his eyes: "But... I always feel flustered if I don't receive Sirius' letter sooner..."

"Paternal control." Alberta labeled Harry like this, and then asked him again, "Recently, Black, um, and Lupine, are you okay?"

Harry thought for a while and replied, "Sirius always complains to me that there are a lot of things that the family needs to deal with, and there are also a lot of things in the ministry." Black went back to be an Auror, his old job. "Remus is fine, but he is quite tired after taking care of Sirius, right?"

"...It's quite tiring just looking at it." Alberta had expected it a long time ago. People like Sirius Black are really like children who can't grow up. Although they are quite strong, they can't stand to act impulsively ah!If Lupine wasn't there to help, something might have happened.

Thinking of this, Alberta looked at Harry with an expression of "You are working hard", patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Before the third project starts, relatives can visit. You should be able to see Black. But, I think, you could make an appointment with Black on one of Hogsmeade's days, and meet him in Hogsmeade."

"Huh? That's right, there is another way!" Harry was so happy that his green eyes narrowed into two slits.

Alberta couldn't help but want to put her hand on her forehead.Stupid, can it be infected with parchment?

But within a few days, another thing happened.

In Wizards Weekly, Skeeter is at it again.She wrote about Harry's lost parents, about his fictional love with Hermione, about the love triangle between him, Hermione and Krum.

When Alberta knew about this, it was not too late, but it was not too early either.At least, both Harry and Hermione knew about it.

Alberta tapped the table again and again, thinking about the problem.Pansy glanced at the "Wizard Weekly" held by Alberta in the other hand, and couldn't help asking: "This woman is just scribbling, Your Highness, don't worry about it."

"No, I'm thinking about a question." Compared to Pansy, Alberta thought a little more. Skeeter didn't respect the facts and scribbled, of course she knew, but what she wanted to know more was..."Skeeter How does this woman know some too private things? For example..." She pointed to somewhere in the magazine, "She even wrote about Hermione's possible visit to Krum in the summer. It's not like It's something that can be imagined through the events between Harry, Hermione and Krum."

"Who knows? Maybe the know-it-all lady told someone else, and someone else told Skeeter." Pansy muttered softly.She wasn't too happy that Alberta spent too much time and energy on the Gryffindors.Oh, even if it's Draco who grew up together, if he really chases after Alberta in the future, she won't give him face!