Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 932 Under the water

Among the four warriors, Miss Fleur Delacour was the least prepared. Due to the harsh winter at Hogwarts and the extremely cold water in the lake, after she solved the secret of the golden egg, she did not act like the other warriors. This led Furong to seriously underestimate the difficulty of the second project.

Although the bubble head spell can indeed solve the problem of underwater breathing, Furong encountered big troubles just after entering the lake. The freezing cold water made her hands and feet no longer agile. Where did Bree take it, let alone a mermaid village.

  However, Fleur's most precious sister, Gabriel, is still at the bottom of the lake. Even if she regrets that she didn't make more preparations, it won't help.

  Fleur knew she had to **** Gabriel back from the mermaid.

  Enduring the discomfort brought by the icy cold lake water, Fu Rong swam desperately towards the bottom of the lake using both hands and feet.

   It didn't take long for a guy with a shark's head to overtake her. It was Krum, and Fleur recognized the other's swimming trunks.

  Of course, it is also because Harry and Albert both wear recognizable clothes.

  Harry Potter's speed is also not slow, following Krum and swimming towards the depths of the lake.

Where!

   Keep up with them.

   They must know where the merfolk took the hostages.

   After all, Krum has been in the water a lot in cold weather, so he's certainly not ignorant.

  Furong seemed to grasp the last straw and swam desperately towards the two of them. However, even though she swam with all her strength, the gap between the two sides continued to widen, and eventually both Potter and Krum disappeared from sight.

Dumbledore told several interim referees about the problems that the warriors of the second project might encounter. Furong encountered them all. The lake was really cold, so cold that she was about to lose consciousness in her hands and feet, and the resistance in the lake was also great. If you want to swim a certain distance, you need to spend a lot of effort. What's worse is that the deeper you go to the bottom of the lake, the worse the visibility around you, and you even have a feeling of being blinded, so that Furong has to use the magic wand to illuminate, but the magic wand But the light could not penetrate the darkness at the bottom of the lake, which made her suffer a lot.

  If it wasn’t for Gabriel who was still at the bottom of the lake, Fu Rong might have given up directly, because she actually knew very well that the possibility of completing the second project was extremely low.

  Madam Maxim repeatedly assured her of Gabriel's safety.

   What's more, with a guy like Albert Anderson, the possibility of Beauxbatons wanting to win the Triwizard Tournament is almost zero.

  She actually really wanted to give up directly.

  But when she thought of her sister Gabriel still waiting for her to save her, but she gave up, how desperate Gabriel should be.

  So, Fleur was still clenching her teeth, she slowly swung her arms and swam towards the direction where Krum and Harry Potter left.

  The icy lake water and the worry about Gabriel completely distracted Furong's ability to think, otherwise she should realize that she might be heading in the wrong direction.

  Because she didn't see Albert, as the guy most likely to win the championship among the four warriors, Albert must have a way to find the hostages, and she only saw Krum and Potter just now, which is obviously a problem.

   Fortunately, Furong didn't realize that the direction she was swimming in was not the way to the mermaid village at all, otherwise, after being overwhelmed by despair, she might collapse on the spot.

  When Furong was about to reach the limit, she suddenly felt that something was swimming nearby. She stopped and looked around vigilantly. There was a black shadow swimming towards the distance nimbly. Furong was sure that it was definitely a mermaid.

   This is actually a deliberate attempt by the tournament party to put water on the Warriors.

  The mermaids will haunt the warriors from time to time, helping to keep an eye on the safety of the warriors, and pointing the warriors to the right direction of the mermaid village. As for whether they can seize the opportunity, it is up to the warriors themselves.

  Fleur followed happily. Although the mermaid left in a different direction from the one she swam just now, she still followed with both hands and feet. As long as she found the mermaid, she would definitely find Gabriel's whereabouts.

When Fleur was trying to pass through a lush jungle of water plants, he ran into trouble. A Grindylow poked out of the water plants, holding on to Fleur's legs with long and powerful fingers, and pointed teeth were exposed in his mouth. One bite on her leg, the pain made Fu Rong's dizzy head wake up immediately, she just used the magic wand to shoot down the Grindylo that attacked her, and several Grindylos came out of the water plants and grabbed it again. Holding her leg, he desperately pulled Fu Rong into the water grass, even wrapped her arm around her, trying to drown the prey at the bottom of the lake.

  Furong's vigorous counterattack failed to scare away the group of Grindylos, but aroused the ferocity of the Grindylos. More Grindylos rushed towards Fleur, drowning this beautiful warrior.

   During a chaotic struggle, Fleur accidentally lost her wand and fell into despair. When she was awakened, she was already lying on the shore, and Madame Maxime was looking at her worriedly.

   "Gabriel!" Fleur struggled to get up from the ground, "A group of Grindylos attacked me."

"Don't worry about Fleur, Gabrielle will be fine, we won't allow the hostages to have an accident, after the game, your sister will be sent up, and you need treatment now." Madam Maxim stretched out her hand to hold Fleur She took her to a nearby medical tent to receive treatment from Madam Pomfrey. Fleur looked a bit miserable, with scars left by Grindylow on her face and arms.

In the stands, Sirius' expression was not very good. He thought that the second project would be easy when he saw Albert come back from rescuing the hostages easily, but after seeing Furong being sent ashore after failing, he realized that the second project might It's not as simple as he thought.

   "How's Harry doing?" Sirius asked Lupine.

   "We haven't found a mermaid village yet, but everything else has been prepared, so it should be fine." Lupine explained.

   "You didn't find Albert?"

   "Harry said he couldn't conjure that thing. In fact, even I probably couldn't do it." Lupine couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face. It's too exaggerated to conjure it with just a stone.

"Stupid, even if you can't, don't you know how to use the Flying Curse? Ask Albert to get one in advance, he will definitely not mind getting one for you, at worst, spend some Galleons to buy one." Sirius really didn't understand why If you don't ask Albert for advice, there is a ready-made answer out there, so what if you copy the answer, anyway, they don't compete for the final championship.

   "Sometimes, Harry prefers to rely on his own strength to complete."

  Lupine was a little helpless. He actually wanted to do that, but Harry obviously preferred to rely on his own ability to complete the task, so he didn't go directly to Albert in the end.

   "Complete the task by your own strength?" Sirius was silent, he knew it was Harry's pride.

  But, does Harry really have that ability?

  He didn't!

   Both the clothes and the warming spell were copied from Albert, and they even reminded him of the head soaking spell.

  However, Harry seemed to have forgotten.

  Sirius could understand why Lupine didn't do that, they were also taking good care of Harry's fragile dignity.

  Perhaps, teenagers are like this!

   Sirius sighed as he recalled what he and James had done when they were young.

  With Furong's exit, she no longer has to endure the torment of the icy lake, but there are still two warriors still struggling at the bottom of the lake.

  The form of half-man, half-shark does not bring much advantage to Krum. Although the problem of breathing underwater has been successfully solved, swimming is still a big problem.

In fact, Krum's situation is not much better than Fleur's, but he still has his own advantages. Among the four warriors, Krum has the best resistance to cold, and because he has been trying winter swimming and Diving, Krum's situation is much better than Fleur's. He was also guided by the mermaid and changed his direction, but the vision deep in the lake was not good, and Krum was still lost. What's worse, he met Big trouble.

The group of Grindylows who were swept away by Albert happened to be lurking in the aquatic plants passing by on Krum's road, which caused Krum to encounter a large number of Grindylows just as he was trying to pass through the aquatic plants. attack.

  This warlock from Durmstrang School was more than a little stronger than Fleur, and immediately started a tragic fight with the sneak attacking Grindylow.

  If Harry Potter hadn't stretched out his hand when passing by, maybe Krum's game would have ended here.

  Even if he finally defeated those annoying Grindylows, Krum's body was still scarred and looked particularly miserable.

   "You go first!"

  Krum thanked Harry Potter for his help, and rejected the other party's kindness, letting Harry go first.

   Krum probably gave up.

  Although there was one less competitor, Harry couldn't be happier.

  Because he was also very depressed from the beginning of the game to now, and the trip to the bottom of the lake did not go well.

  Harry wasn't very good at swimming, and just traveling took a lot of energy. The muscles in his hands and feet were screaming and protesting, but he still had to keep moving in a certain direction.

  To be honest, Harry really didn't dare to get close to the aquatic plants anymore, for fear that he would follow in Krum's footsteps, but he heard Hermione mention that the mermaid village was hidden in the aquatic plant jungle.

  Just as Harry was still rushing towards the mermaid village in an unknown direction, he suddenly felt something swimming past on the right side, which scared him to stop quickly, and raised his wand to be vigilant around him.

  The bottom of the lake is very dark and visibility is very low. Even if Harry's wand shimmers underwater, it still means nothing.

   Yeah, pointless, Harry is lost again.

   Or rather, get lost from the start.

   But he was still swimming aimlessly, looking for the village of the mermaids.

  Harry regretted not bringing Hermione's flame that would not go out in water, at least he didn't have to worry about the poor light underwater.

Harry, who failed to take gill grass like in the novel, really experienced the difficulty of the second project. He had to struggle under the lake like other warriors. The only thing that made Harry more gratified was that even if he failed The hostages will be fine.

   Albert must have a way to easily complete this task!

  As for Fleur, Harry disliked that girl very much.

   As for Krum, he looks seriously injured and will probably choose to give up.

Harry tried to distract himself with other things, forgetting how long he had been swimming like this. Just when his whole body was almost numb, he felt something swimming around him. This time Harry saw clearly what was going on. Something swam by, it was a mermaid, and that mermaid looked back at Harry before swimming away.

   "What does this mean, is it guiding me?"

  Harry felt that the mermaid might be leading him or misleading him, but he had no choice. Otherwise, at the bottom of the lake with such poor visibility, he doubted how he would find the mermaid's village.

  Even the last dive with Lupine, Harry failed to find the mermaid village.

Harry swam towards the direction where the mermaid was swimming, and after an unknown amount of time, he finally heard the mermaid's unforgettable song coming from a large piece of aquatic vegetation, but Harry hesitated in front of the aquatic vegetation, because once he entered If the water and grass jungle were ambushed, his situation would definitely not be much better than Krum's, not to mention that he was almost out of strength now.

  After hesitating again and again, Harry gritted his teeth and followed the sound. To his surprise, no Grindylos appeared in the aquatic jungle, and the group of Grindylos seemed to have disappeared collectively.

  Looking for the singing of the mermaid, Harry finally found the mermaid village.

The mermaids in front of him are completely different from the mermaids in the painting in the prefect's bathroom. Their skin is iron gray and their hair is dark green. Those mermaids holding spears look like veteran murderers. He is very worried. The opponent suddenly rushed forward and stabbed himself into a sieve with a spear.

   Harry was relieved to see that the merman didn't attack him.

  After entering the mermaid village, Harry quickly found the hostages under the mermaid statue, and sure enough there were only three people left: Ron, Hermione, and a little girl with silver hair.

   "Albert has indeed completed the task."

  Harry stepped forward to check the situation of Ron and Hermione, and was relieved again after finding that they were just asleep.

  He raised his wand and carefully used the Splitting Charm to help Ron break the weeds that were binding him.

  But Harry didn't take Ron back immediately, but stayed and waited for a while, waiting for the other warriors to arrive.

  However, Harry quickly realized a serious problem. His breathing became more and more difficult. The Bubble Head Curse was clearly at the limit.

Just when Harry was hesitating, the scarred Krum finally rushed over. This Durmstrang warrior was obviously tougher than he imagined, and he still insisted on watching Krum rescue him. After leaving Hermione, Harry finally didn't need to worry about not being able to leave with the three hostages.

   Regardless of the mermaid's obstruction, Harry swung his wand to push back the mermaid who tried to stop him from saving people. He reached out to hug the little girl by the waist, grabbed the collar of Ron's robe, kicked his feet, and led the two of them away from the bottom of the lake.

  However, Harry seemed to have overestimated his abilities a bit.

He was moving so slowly, even though he was beating his flippers desperately, Ron and Fleur's sister were like two sacks full of potatoes, dragging him to the bottom of the lake. It might be the best choice to lose the ability to think and leave the hostages to go up, but Harry didn't do that in the end, and he sank to the bottom of the lake with the two hostages.

  The next moment, Harry felt a thrust that brought him up, and it was the merfolk who helped him, and brought him and the two hostages out of the water.

  After surfacing, Harry immediately lifted the head-bubble spell, and took a big breath of fresh air. He had never felt that the air was so wonderful.

   Around him, many green-haired, disheveled heads emerged from the water with him, and Ron and the little silver-haired girl were brought up together.

He failed.

  Harry knew, but he never regretted it.

  After arriving at the mermaid village, I didn't have much strength.

  Harry didn't think that he might not be able to surface with the little girl, but he only knew that he couldn't leave the little girl at the bottom of the eerie lake.

  (end of this chapter)