Chapter 271: Black Lake
Now Hermione is no longer obsessed with S.P.E.W. activities, and there are no other special activities other than asking Darren to pay for a batch of flyers to be distributed to Hogwarts students, and this change obviously relieved everyone around her. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Great," Neville whispered to Darren while Hermione wasn't paying attention while eating in the auditorium, "I can't believe you made her stop," he pulled out an S.P.E.W. badge, "Unfortunately, if only you had done that earlier, I wouldn't have taken this, and she would have been glaring at me." ”
"But it's even worse if she sees you don't have it, she'll pester you and talk about it," Ron muttered as well, "It's only been a few days, but she's always been in the Gryffindor common room promoting the 'House-Elf Advocacy', and holding Hogwarts, a school history, and saying, 'It's more appropriate to call it 'A Revised Hogwarts History,' or 'A Prejudiced and Selective Hogwarts History Where the dark side of the school is obscured.'" ”
"Why?" Darren had been busy studying magic with Krum every day, but rarely spent time in the Gryffindor common room, and he thought that Hermione had been learning Beauxbatons magic from Fleur.
"House-elves!" Ron mimicked Hermione's voice, "In the thousand-plus-page book Hogwarts, a School History, there is not a single mention that we are oppressing a hundred slaves together!"
"But house-elves are like slaves," Hermione's voice popped up next to Darren and them, and Ron didn't control the volume as he imitated her.
Ron and Harry and Neville next to him all looked at Hermione in awe, as if waiting for a trial, and Darren turned to Hermione, not knowing how she would react now.
"Well, I did go too far a while ago, and it won't be like that in the future," Hermione said calmly, "I apologize to you for the trouble I caused you. ”
"......" Ron, Harry, and Neville all gaped in amazement, while Darren smiled, "That's great, I think S.P.E.W. should have a better chance of succeeding now than before!" he nodded, just like Hagrid.
As February 24 approached, Darren's preparations for the second game of the Triwizard Tournament continued, and he finally went down to the Black Lagoon in a full wetsuit, and he had been in the prefect's bathroom before, because he was worried that those inexplicable bubbles and smoke would not damage the wetsuit, he didn't use it, after all, no one knew what chemicals were in it, and it would be miserable if it reacted with a valve or something.
Of course, he doesn't need to wear a wetsuit exactly according to the method Penelope taught him, after all, he is a wizard is not, the wetsuit after casting the "waterproof and moisture-proof spell" can greatly simplify the operation method, after all, the focus of the dry wetsuit is to keep the user's body dry, in fact, in fact, Darren does not have to be a dry wetsuit, as long as it can keep warm, the spell can naturally keep the clothes on his body from being soaked in water.
However, what made Darren laugh and cry was that after he waded across the shore of the lake and walked into the deep water, he found that he couldn't dive into the lake because his buoyancy was too great!
Generally speaking, the density of the human body itself is quite close to water, after all, water accounts for about 70% of the composition of the human body, in addition to the density of muscles and bones is greater than water, the density of many organs in the human body is very small......
Facts have proved that when inhaling and holding breath, the upper body of a person can lie flat on the water, that is, the density of the upper body is less than that of water, so when a person cramps, he can save himself by the action of "static floating", of course, this requires certain skills, otherwise it may be exposed on the water that has no respiratory organs in the back of the head, in addition, some lightning guys may also sink directly to the bottom......
But now Darren has a layer of dry diving suit on his body, and he directly rises his body outward, and he also casts a "bubble head charm" on his head, and the underwater volume is even larger, directly floating on the water, no matter how Darren flutters, he can't sink at all, is it possible to forcibly use magic to press himself to the bottom of the water? Although it is not impossible, but how tiring it is, he sighed, Penelope is still unprofessional in the end, and he should bring a lead weight by the way.
But fortunately for wizards, as long as they know how to solve the problem, nothing can stop them, he waved his wand, equipped himself with several large pieces of lead with a Transfiguration Charm, and hung them on his belt, with them, Darren finally sank into the water as he wished, and saw the scenery in the black lake.
The water was dark, and because of the bubble head spell, the light was refracted and reflected at the junction of air and water, making everything look vague and hazy, and there was silence in the ears.
Darren tried to observe his surroundings, and found that with his naked eye, he could only see within a radius of ten feet, and with each stroke he made in the water, a new scene suddenly emerged from the darkness in front of him, fluctuating, The jungle of tangled black aquatic plants, the wide and flat mud and sand scattered with shiny pebbles, this experience is quite interesting, the competition is to find things, more precisely to find people, so it is not good, compared to the volume of the black lake, the vision of ten feet is similar to that of a blind man, let alone looking for things and people, I don't even know where I am.
Darren shook his head and headed towards the deep water in the middle of the lake, his eyes wide open, his gaze piercing through the gray, eerie waters of the lake, looking into the dark shadows in the distance, where the water was dark and hazy.
The little fish swam swiftly past him like silver darts. Once or twice, he seemed to see a big creature moving in front of him, but when he swam closer, he found that it was just a big black log, or a dense and tangled mass of aquatic weeds, and he didn't see a giant squid, and he knew that there were indeed such creatures in the black lake, and they often basked in the sun in the diving on the shore.
He looked far away, and in front of him was a field of turquoise aquatic grass, two feet deep, like a very dense lawn...... Just then, suddenly, Darren felt something grab at his ankle, and he twisted and turned around to see a Grindy Lowe, something Lupin's Defence Against the Dark Arts class had taught about last year, a water monster with horns on its head.
It poked out of the aquatic weeds, its long nails gripped Darren's legs, and its long fangs peeking out of its mouth!