Lawrence walked barefoot on the Black Lake, and in the eyes of the audience, he walked slowly, step by step, he seemed to be very steady, as if full of confidence,

In fact, the lake water in February was so cold that it made people shiver, from the soles of his feet all over his body, the slippery and faintly undulating lake water was not as easy to walk as it seemed, he had to concentrate to prevent the spell from failing, in order to save his physical strength as much as possible, he didn't want to enter the lake so quickly, and not long after, he walked to the black lake about the center of the lake,

Here, it feels pretty much the same. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Lawrence took off his robe, revealing the swim trunks he was wearing inside, he folded the robe and threw it on the surface of the lake,

Lawrence took a deep breath, and the whole person sank under the surface of the lake and disappeared without a trace, leaving only his robe, which landed firmly on the original drop, and did not float around with the lake, proving that someone had indeed crossed half of the black lake just now and came to the center of the black lake.

Dumbledore sat in the judges' seat, watched Lawrence sink into the Black Lake, got up, smiled apologetically at the judges around him, and left the judging table,

The other judges didn't care, a large part of the scoring work of this task had to rely on the feedback of the mermaids in the lake every time, and finally the judges discussed the scores of the warriors according to this.

Dumbledore walked over to the large tent set up not far away, where Madam Pomfrey and the Hogwarts professors stayed in case of an emergency.

Headmaster, the potions will be ready soon, I promise that none of the warriors or hostages will catch a cold, Madam Pomfrey was stirring the cauldron, looking at Dumbledore who walked into the tent and said angrily, but I must say that it was not a smart decision to let the warriors go into the Black Lake on a mission in the cold winter.

Thank you, ma'am, and I'm sorry for that. Dumbledore said softly, turning his head to look at Snape, who was chatting with Professor McGonagall,

Do me a favor, Severus. Dumbledore whispered,

Headmaster? Snape frowned and asked,

Remember what I mentioned to you in November...... Dumbledore whispered, and Snape gave a look of surprise, nodded, and left the tent,

Has anyone seen Alasto? Dumbledore looked around and asked in a brisk tone,

Moody went around the area, and I thought there was nothing wrong with being careful, but—Professor McGonagall said, she looked disapproving, and I thought he was a little suspicious.

Oh, he's always like that, Dumbledore didn't pay much attention to it, and asked him to let me know if he had something, okay?

Professor McGonagall agreed, and Dumbledore left the tent and walked in the direction of the judging table.

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In the Black Lagoon of Hogwarts, in addition to the common lake creatures in the Muggle world, there are three main types of magical creatures, Grindillo - these little demons in the water, with sharp, long and powerful fingers, merfolk - Scottish mermaids are generally less than elegant - Muggle mythology, beautiful mermaids are more likely to haunt temperate waters, giant squids - they are generally friendly to Hogwarts teachers and students, if someone accidentally falls into the water while cruising in the Black Lake, The giant squid will send him back to the boat or ashore, and on a sunny day, they will bask in the sun in the shallow stalls and play games with the students who tickle their tentacles.

Lawrence envisioned that when he entered the Black Lake, he would be stopped by the merfolk, who would surely drive Grindillo to attack, and the elusive, but the giant squid, which was inactive in the winter, was excluded by Lawrence—he had never seen them in the lake in a month.

Lawrence who was submerged in the black lake, a thin film-like light stuck to the surface of his skin, in addition to isolating direct contact with the lake water to have a slight warmth effect, it can also help him breathe in the water.

Relying on a month of practice, after Lawrence sank into the lake, he quickly judged the direction he was going to go, that is, to follow the mermaids, and he could easily identify the merfolk in the range he could feel and the groups of Grindy Lowe.

But at this time he was in trouble, and it was annoying, after he easily avoided a few groups of Grindy Lowe, he was attacked by a huge black shadow, although he was already on guard against this creature swimming towards him, but the other party was more flexible in the water than he imagined, Lawrence had turned around in advance, but he was surrounded by the other party again, he was struck by a whip-like thing,

Even with the water as a buffer, Lawrence still hit the bottom of the lake, but luckily he hit the silt at the bottom of the lake instead of the stone pillars that stood like hills, Lawrence struggled to tear open the aquatic weeds that were wrapped around him, and only then did he see his opponent clearly, it was a giant squid, its original black and white eyes turned bright blue,

The giant squid did not let Lawrence go, it saw Lawrence not moving at the bottom of the lake, paddling the tentacles, and instantly approached Lawrence, the huge tentacle waved down, Lawrence rolled at the bottom of the lake to avoid the attack, but the other tentacle quickly slapped over, Lawrence ate a solid plan, the halo on his body was shot away, he drank two mouthfuls of lake water, desperately rolled into another messy aquatic weed, through the cover of aquatic weeds, he held his breath, did not recast his magic, but carefully swam in this aquatic weed, Stay as far away from this giant squid as possible,

Damn it. Lawrence observed the giant squid through the gap between the aquatic plants, it did not give up looking for Lawrence, but cruising above this large area of aquatic plants, Lawrence knew that he had to make a decision quickly, because the lack of oxygen had made him a little dizzy, he leaned against a large rock, regathered the magic, this little halo was very conspicuous in the dark lake water, the giant squid found Lawrence, swam over again, and attacked,

Lawrence leaned against the boulder, already ready, the long aquatic plants around him seemed to come to life, grabbing the tentacles that launched the attack, the giant squid obviously did not expect its attack to be hindered, it wanted to withdraw the entangled tentacles, but Lawrence did not give it a chance to exert force, the aquatic plants pulled down violently, pulling it towards Lawrence,

Eat my fist. Lawrence finally let out the resentment of being beaten just now, and the boulder he was leaning on suddenly grew an arm, and threw a punch, smashing the giant squid into the aquatic weeds, Lawrence hurriedly commanded the aquatic weeds to tie him up,

Whew—Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief, and he paddled away from the place, and by feeling, he swam towards the mermaid-rich place,

Soon, he felt that there were many merfolk swimming around, but they were all some distance away from him, because the view in the lake was not good, so he could not see them directly, and the mermaids' songs became clearer and clearer.

Lawrence knew that he was in the right direction, he had not been to such a deep place when he practiced before, there were simple stone buildings standing around, some of the buildings even had clearly manicured aquatic plants in front of the door, one by one, mermaids, poking their heads out of the buildings, looking at Lawrence, some of the mermaids had harpoons in their hands, but they obviously did not mean to attack Lawrence, but pointed at Lawrence curiously,

Lawrence swam to the song in this mermaid settlement, and came to a place in the settlement that looked like a square, and a large group of merfolk were floating in the middle of the square in a certain order, singing.

Behind the merfolk was a humble statue of a mermaid carved out of a boulder, with four sleeping men tied to his tails.

Lawrence also breathed a sigh of relief, he did worry too much, the song of the golden egg had no other meaning that he didn't understand, because he didn't think Dumbledore would joke with human life, he recognized the little girl with shiny silver hair as Fleur's sister, next to Hermione was tied up, then Ron, and next to Luna,

Lawrence raised an eyebrow, swam to Luna, reached out and stroked the sticky and slippery rope of aquatic plants that bound the hostages, the rope cracked, Lawrence pulled the unconscious Luna, paddled the water, and left the square, the merfolk songs faintly heard from behind him,

You've run out of half of your time...... Stop wandering around...... lest the things you seek rot and die here......

An arrow-like figure broke into the merfolk settlement, he swam so fast that Lawrence recognized it as Harry who had eaten gill sac grass, Harry saw Lawrence, waved his webbed hand at him, and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he could only spit out a bunch of bubbles, but Lawrence recognized Harry's mouth shape, and he was asking where the hostages were.

Lawrence smiled at Harry, and although he was a little surprised that Harry knew that the treasured thing was a hostage, he also knew that now was not a good time to ask,

They are there. Lawrence lip-spoke to Harry, pointing to the statue with the three hostages tied to him, and Harry gave Lawrence a thumbs up to show that he knew, although he didn't know too much because of the webbed, Lawrence knew that Harry already understood, and he pulled Luna to swim towards the lake.

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Author's words: Well, the cover of the vertical and horizontal was taken at Harry Potter Park in Universal Studios Japan, with modifications, in fact, the color of the castle is close to light gray, (just like in the movie) was originally intended to use the castle and the black lake (the castle is reflected in the lake), but it turned out that the photo was too long, and after doing it, I found that the words were too thin (spread hands), and there were reference posters and traditional book fonts when making words, (the most obvious should be the lightning bolt in the lion of the lion), and the result was still too fine to make it not obvious.

By the way, I've always felt that Cedric's physical strength is really amazing, diving for an hour is easy, Wickdor at least used the Transfiguration Charm to transform into a half-shark man, and Harry even used gill sac grass directly.

Note 1: Of course, it is okay to write the blood color casually, because I am an author who likes to write as rigorously as possible (in short, I like to ask for trouble), so I specifically checked the blood color of the squid: blue in the aerobic state, transparent and colorless in the state of oxygen release.

Thank you for the reward.

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