Ravenclaw's Sapphire

"I'll continue to trouble you today, Zoe." Madam Pomfrey handed her a glass of drink, "It's hard work for coming to help early in the morning."

Zoe took the cup carefully, and there were wizards walking around. They first had to pay attention to the seats surrounded by the lake, and they kept discussing how to make the audience's vision clearer. more open.

The sun is bright today, even if there is still a chill in the air that hasn't gone away. "There is still an hour, and the students should enter." Zoe and Madam Pomfrey checked the thick blankets and towels again. On the other side, there was potion boiling in the cauldron, which was used to keep the warriors away from the cold. of.

Even people who don't know the specific content of the game can get a general understanding after seeing everything around here and the conversations of those staff members. "The water temperature is not very friendly at this time, and those children will stay in the water for an hour or two... Let me get some clean towels." Madam Pomfrey said as she raised her wand.

Zooey noticed a loud noise coming from the entrance, and several people walked towards the playing field.Headed by the three principals, Bagman also rubbed his hands and followed excitedly. Zooey didn't see Crouch, but was replaced by an arrogant red-haired young man who sat next to Harry at the Christmas ball .

"Huh..." Zooey was going to look back at this, but she saw several people behind the referees, all of whom had expressions of half-concern and half-curiosity.She knew three of them—"Hermione!" she yelled hastily, put down the cauldron in her hand, and ran over.

"Why are you here?" Hermione was taken aback by her sudden appearance. "Zo, Zoe?" Zooey remembered that she hadn't explained to Hermione that she was still helping Madam Pomfrey, so she briefly explained to Hermione, and Hermione listened carefully.

"It's you, why are you here?" Zooey looked at the four people in front of her, Hermione, Weasley, Qiu, and a little girl with silver hair, who looked familiar, and the little girl also looked at it curiously. Zoe who suddenly appeared.

"Let me explain." Dumbledore said, "As the 'treasures' of the warriors, they will go to the lake in advance later, waiting for their respective warriors to rescue them, and they will be scored according to their performance in doing this. That's the content of this competition." Zooey frowned after listening, and looked at Hermione, who was a little embarrassed, but nodded to her.

"Who are you? Krum?" Zoe asked angrily. "Professors came to me and asked me if I would like to, and I agreed...just as a favor, Zoe. You and I know the truth, and it won't change anything because of it." Hermione looked at her calmly.

"But you have to stay underwater for so long! It's too cold!" Zooey really wanted to grab Krum and beat him up. "Why can't he be replaced? You will catch a cold, catch a cold, and have a fever!"

"The Ministry of Magic has confirmed that all parties involved have agreed, Siegel." After the red-haired boy finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Dumbledore. "I think we should hurry up, Mr. Principal." He said The tone is as if he is such a noble person.

"Of course, of course." Just as Dumbledore finished speaking, the lake suddenly boiled, and several strange-looking mermaids with long green beards (they were all wearing ornaments made of fangs and holding stone spears) or stone axes) surfaced, and as they walked ashore, Zoe noticed a thin membrane between their fingers and toes.

The mermaid who walked in the front had a dark round grass ring made of aquatic plants on top of its head, and its face was more ferocious and its body was stronger than other mermaids.Dumbledore took the initiative to meet it, and after exchanging greetings with their leader, Dumbledore actually began to talk to it-it was a sharp, voiceless raspy tone.

Hermione suddenly realized: "It turns out that the golden egg contains the voice of the mermaid! I read in the book that their voice will become a piercing tone like scratching glass on the shore. Only people who understand the mermaid language To be able to talk to them..."

Zoe followed her words and continued: "If a layman wants to know what the mermaids are saying, they must be in the water. Their voices in the water are completely different from those on the shore. The voices in the water can be heard by human ears. You can distinguish it, and you can understand it.”

After Dumbledore finished negotiating with the mermaid, he walked over again: "Following what we said in the office, I will hypnotize the four of you. But as I promised before, you will never appear alive The danger is just drowsiness, and the moment you surface again, the hypnosis will be lifted."

He observed several people carefully, making sure that there was no flinch and timidity in their eyes. "Minerva, Severus, can you two please help me?" The two professors nodded and walked over.

"Hermione." Zooey held Hermione's hand worriedly, "Be careful. If you haven't come out within the specified time, I'll go directly into the water."

"I'll be fine." Hermione reassured her, "Although the sooner I show up, the worse it will be for Harry."

*****

"Are you still worried?" Zooey looked at the lake. Hermione and the others were brought back into the lake by those mermaids after being hypnotized. The rows of seats were filled with black crowds.The students probably thought they were watching a performance, and they all excitedly pointed around.

Zooey nodded. She looked at her potion one after another, and Madam Pomfrey couldn't do anything for her. "Cheer up, little guy. Every preparation we have made now is to prevent the children participating in the game from being hurt that they shouldn't be hurt. This is one of the most proud things for the support staff."

Zooey smiled at her reluctantly.No matter how annoyed she was at first that Hermione was chosen (and she said yes! That pissed Zoe off the most), now that she knew Hermione was somewhere she couldn't see, comatose, Even though she trusted Dumbledore's assurances, she couldn't help worrying.

After a while, the four warriors arrived at the competition site according to the stipulated time. Compared with the nervousness in the first competition, the four warriors were finally much more relaxed this time.They had more time to prepare, and the project seemed far less dangerous than the first time around.

Bagman once again took on the role of host, and his excited and nervous voice was heard by everyone present through the amplifying spell. He explained the rules, counted down loudly, and was about to announce the start of the game.Zoe noticed that Harry had fished out the black vial, and she looked at Snape on the other side of the stand, praying that he didn't see it even if he saw it.

The surface of the lake was calm and without waves, only rippling when the warriors entered the water, and soon returned to calm.Zooey looked at her watch almost every 5 minutes, holding a blanket in her arms, and looked at the lake worriedly from time to time.This feeling is particularly uncomfortable, as if the time of only you is infinitely slowed down, and the panic in my heart expands with the passage of time...

"Come out!" Bagman's exclamation made Zoe jump up all of a sudden, and she looked nervously at the lake. Sure enough, the lake fluctuated a few times, and two heads emerged from the bottom of the water. Zooey's heart jumped It rose high and fell down again.

Cedric pulled Qiu, Qiu had just recovered from the hypnosis, but she soon realized what the situation was now, the two of them swam to the shore, someone was already standing there, and dragged them out of the water.

Zoe ran over and handed them the blanket in her hand. After Cedric thanked him, he carefully put it on Qiu. Qiu untied half of it and motioned for him to get in too. "Wrap your own portion, child. Drink it quickly, and be careful not to catch a cold." Madam Pomfrey handed them two large cups of potion boiled by Zoe, and Zoe brought another blanket, and Cedric wrapped himself up. up.

"Cedric Diggory! The first to complete the competition, the first to bring his 'treasure' out of the hands of the mermaid! He will definitely have a good score..." Bagman was still talking, But Zooey couldn't listen to anything.

Now that Digory was out, why was Hermione still underwater?What the hell is this idiot Krum doing!She kept roaring in her heart, and rushed directly to the shore.

Not long after, there was a new movement on the lake, and Zooey's heart was suspended again. She was not disappointed this time, it was Hermione!She didn't care about Hermione's wet body, she pulled her out of the water into her arms, helped her away, and didn't even look at Krum. "You're so cold... Come, towels, blankets... I'll get you a drink!" She pressed Hermione in a corner sheltered from the wind, and threw towels and blankets on her body one after another.

"Are you going to smother me to death?!" Hermione yelled helplessly, feeling warm in her heart.She huddled in the thick blanket, and took a large glass of potion from Zoe, her body trembling uncontrollably.Krum had just come out of the lake at this time, but his face was the best among several people, and he was very used to this level of water temperature (it can be seen from the fact that he was only wearing swimming trunks).

He took Madam Pomfrey's blanket and cup, and seemed to want to sit next to Hermione, but Zooey was kneeling there helping Hermione wipe her hair, so he had to find another place to sit near Hermione Down.