Holy Grail 4 (Reversed): New Problem.

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Hogwarts Lakeside

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Despite his internal slander, Harry managed to keep up with Opal with Draco. But when he was about to reach the lake, Opal stopped.

"What's wrong?"

Harry subconsciously wanted to ask, but the exit was still a series of bubbles, which made Harry feel a little frustrated.

[You don't want to go up and cause an uproar, do you?] ]

Opal snorted at Draconu, who was being dragged by Harry, [Let's swap people.] ]

Uproar?

Harry blinked, then at Draco on his side, then at the little girl on Opal's side, and Pansie, and his somewhat sluggish brain finally realized what was going on.

Almost the whole school knew that he was at odds with the Slytherin students, especially with Draco, and now if he was so arrogant to follow Opal and bring people up, let others know that his so-called "treasure" was Draco......

Anything else, Draco will definitely duel him when he wakes up...... Absolutely!

After weighing the balance between being found by Blaise to duel after saving Pansy and being found by Draco to duel after saving Draco, Harry did not hesitate to choose the former - persimmons to pick up soft pinch! It's common sense!

Should it be said that Opal really thought things through? Without her reminder, if he just went up like that......

It's going to explode, right? Especially the two houses of Gryffindor and Slytherin......

Just imagining the horrific consequences of doing so, even in the water, Harry was shocked to sweat all over his body.

Thankfully exchanging hostages with Opal, Harry didn't hesitate to drag the two men afloat - in fact, he could already feel his breathing start to lose and lose buoyancy with each kick, presumably swallowed before he got into the water, and the effect of the gill grass Dobby had given him.

Suddenly, he felt his head pop out of the water; Wonderful, fresh, cool air brushed his damp face, and he gulped the air, feeling like he had never breathed well in his life, and he gasped as he pulled Pansy and the little girl on. Behind him, Opal, who was dragging Draco, took a short time before he began to ascend.

The stands were full of people, shouting and shouting, and one by one they all seemed to stand up. Harry guessed they probably thought Pansy and Little Girl, or Draco, were dead, but they were wrong......

On the shore, Pansie, the little girl, and Draco were all opened after being poured the potion that Madam Pomfrey had prepared. The little girl looked frightened and confused, Pansy spat out a large mouthful of lake water, blinked a few times in the bright light, and then sat up and rubbed her temples: "What a terrible experience......

Draco was also awake, but he was sitting on the ground watching Opal in a daze, looking a little silly as if he hadn't figured out the situation yet.

Madam Pomfrey was making a fuss around the participants, all wrapped in thick towels and blankets. Dumbledore and Ludo Bagman were smiling at them. Madame Maxim was squeezing Fleur Delacour. And Fleur was completely hysterical at the moment, desperately struggling to pounce on Harry and Opal.

"Gabrielle! Gabrielle! Is she still alive? Is she hurt? ”

[She's fine, don't worry.] ]

It was Opal who answered, and she shoved the little girl, who had apparently not recovered yet, towards Fleur - and Fleur almost broke free from Madame Maxim's hindrance and put her arms around her sister.

"It's Green Lody...... Those Greenlody are coming at me...... Oh Gabrielle, I thought ...... I thought ......"

"You're all here."

Madam Pomfrey, apparently unhappy with the scattering of the participants, grabbed Harry, pulled him to Hermione and the others, and wrapped him tightly in a blanket that made him feel as if he were wearing a restraint suit that bound the prisoners and the madman. Madam Pomfrey also forced a hot potion into his mouth, and immediately hot air came out of his ears. This made Harry extremely envious of Opal on the side - this guy had already wrapped himself in a blanket and drank potions without being urged by Madam Pomfrey, and obviously did not have to suffer like Harry.

"Harry, well done!"

Hermione, who had already gone ashore, whispered to Harry, "You succeeded, you solved the second project completely by yourself!" ”

"Actually......"

Harry hesitated for a moment - after all, he had only solved the secret of the golden egg in the second project, and it was Dobby's help to get into the water.

But just as he was about to confess to Hermione, he saw Karkaroff staring at him. Of the referees, he was the only one who didn't leave the table, and he was the only one who didn't show joy or relief when he saw Harry, Opal and Draco, Pansie, and Fleur's sister return safely.

"yes, that's right."

Unable to say whether it was intuition or anything, Harry immediately changed his words, and deliberately raised his voice a little so that Karkaroff could hear it.

"He-Mi-en, the ......"

Krum spoke on the side, as if trying to draw Hermione's attention to himself—perhaps to remind Hermione that he had rescued her from the bottom of the lake.

"Victor, I have something to say to Harry, can you wait a minute?"

However, to Harry's surprise, Hermione first turned to Krum and said this, and then turned her attention back to Harry without waiting for him to answer, "It's just that Harry, you're out of time...... Was it with Opal or did she help you? ”

"No, in fact it wasn't too late for me to find you, but Opal did arrive first."

Inexplicably happy at Hermione's actions - although Harry felt that something was wrong - Harry suddenly accepted himself as if he shouldn't be nosy, after all, even if he didn't save people and wait for Krum and Fleur, Dumbledore wouldn't let the hostages have trouble, not to mention Opal on the side......

Maybe he's the only one who takes the mermaid's song seriously......

Thinking of Dumbledore, Harry couldn't help but turn his head to look for him, and found that he was crouching at the water's edge, talking closely to a particularly rough and ferocious female mermaid who looked like a leader who had surfaced on the lake. Dumbledore made the same high-pitched, harsh sound that a merfolk made on the surface of the water, and apparently, he could speak the words of a mermaid as well. Finally, he straightened up and turned to the other referees and said, "Let's have a meeting and then score." ”

Several referees get together. Madam Pomfrey brings Fleur and her sister. Fleur's face and arms were covered in scars from the left and right, and her robe was torn, but she didn't seem to mind and wouldn't let Madam Pomfrey clean it up for her.

"Go take care of Gabrielle."

She said to Madam Pomfrey, then turned to Harry, who was almost out of breath and blush, "You saved her, even though she wasn't your hostage." ”

“……”

Looking at Fleur at this moment, Harry really couldn't open his mouth to tell the truth.

[Indeed.] ]

It turned out that it was Opal who was on the side, [Harry was already there when I arrived, and he insisted on waiting for the other warriors to save the man first.] ]

"Don't talk about it......"

He couldn't be cheeky enough to take other people's business on himself, and Harry's face was a little red at the moment - he wished he had left it alone.

Of course, Harry's reaction seemed modest to the uninformed.

"Thank you so much, thank you for saving my sister."

Fleur lowered her head and kissed Harry twice on each cheek (Harry felt like his face was on fire, and he wouldn't be surprised if there was any more heat in his ears), and then said to Opal, "And you—you helped too—"

"Hey you!"

Hermione looked furious.

[Nothing, just a gesture.] ]

Opal, who didn't want to be kissed, directly raised his hand and hugged Fleur, [care is chaos, I believe that if it were someone else, you wouldn't be calm like this......]

"Probably, but ...... It's really nice that Gabrielle is okay......"

These are Fleur's heartfelt words.

[Okay, if you don't mind, I'll take your sister in to change clothes, after all, it doesn't feel good to be in wet clothes.] ]

As she spoke, Opal took the lead in a large towel and walked into the tent next to her to change clothes, and with her Pansy dragged the obviously frightened little girl into her destination.

"Honey, can you explain why I was rescued by Harry?"

As soon as she entered the tent, Pansy grabbed Opal's neck and gritted her teeth, "Shouldn't I be your treasure?" ”

Don't tell her about this idea of swapping treasures, it would be Harry's tendon who came up with it, even if Voldemort and Dunbee danced the veneer dance, Harry would not have had this kind of twisted mind, so the culprit could be Opar's natural black if he thought on his toes.

[Because I thought about it, it was necessary to avoid the terrible news of our golden boy being knocked out by his treasure afterwards.] ]

Completely ignoring someone's claws around his neck, Opal replied matter-of-factly.

Since awakening to the Qi bloodline in his body, Draco, who has become half-Qi, has gone through the devil's special training in the secret realm of the lake, and his strength is basically in the entire Slytherin except for Opal, no one can suppress him, although Harry has been trained by her, but it is just bullying and bullying Pancy Bress and them, and it is really not enough to see Draco.

"So, dear, do you mean that my Brace is a soft persimmon that deserves to be pinched?"

Pansy quit, "And me...... Did you just abandon me? Leaving me to be saved by Harry's guy? Aren't you afraid that if you're not careful, I won't be able to come back?! ”

[Why worry?] For the sake of reputation, Dumbledore wouldn't let anyone drown! ]

In this regard, Opal felt that Pansie's statement was completely unreasonable, and at this moment she had already changed her clothes and was helping the little girl named "Gabrielle".

Pan Qian could only roll her eyes, change her clothes, and walk out of the tent.

When Opal came out of the tent, Ludo Bagman's magically amplified voice suddenly sounded in their ears, startling them and quieting the spectators in the stands.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally made our decision. Merkus, the leader of the merfolk, told us exactly what was happening under the lake, and we decided to rate the warriors on a 50-point scale as follows......

Despite his excellent use of the Bubble Head Charm, Fleur Delacour was unsuccessfully able to free the hostages when he was attacked by Greenrodi as he approached his target. We gave her 25 points. ”

There was applause from the stands.

"I deserve a zero."

Fleur shook her head and said in a hoarse voice.

"Victor Krum used Transfiguration, which was incomplete but still effective, and he was the first to return with the hostages - even though he was nearly 10 minutes out of time. We give him 40 points. ”

Karkarov slapped extraordinarily hard, looking triumphant.

"Harry Potter used gill sac grass to amazing effect."

Bagman continued, "He was the second to return, well over the allotted hour. However, the Merfolk Leader tells us that Mr. Potter was the first to find the hostages, and that he was unable to return in time because he wanted to make sure all the hostages returned safely, not just his own. ”

Hermione glanced at Harry, half regretfully, half sympathetically.

Harry, on the other hand, had a slightly furrowed mouth, unable to believe his ears - it was Opal who was the first to arrive, wasn't he? Why did the merfolk say they were the first to arrive?

"Most referees ......"

Speaking of this, Bagman glanced at Karkaroff with great dissatisfaction, "I feel that this fully embodies the noble Taoist demeanor." So...... Mr. Porter's score is 45. ”

Hermione was surprised to hear this, stared at Harry blankly, then laughed happily and clapped desperately with the rest of the audience.

Fleur was slapping her face hard, but Krum looked upset - he wanted to talk to Hermione again, but she was just cheering for Harry and ignoring him.

I have to say that Harry felt a dark feeling when he saw this scene.

"Finally, our little sister Opal Snape showed us a wonderful quick potion set-up, even though she was the last to come up and was severely overtimed. But the merfolk leader said she had helped us save the people of Harry-Yong - you know, it was not easy for two to send three hostages to the lake. ”

Bagman glanced at Opal, "So we decided that the score for Miss Opal is ...... 40 points! ”

There was a cheer from the Slytherin House.

"The third and final project will take place on the evening of June 24."

Bagman continued, "The warriors will know the details of the project a month in advance. Thank you for your support. ”

It's over......

Harry thought in a daze, it was over, he had passed the second event...... But why did Opal do that?

As the crowd climbed the steps, Harry couldn't help but glance back at the playing field—Hermione was talking to Krum with some excitement; Opal is talking to Draco and Pancy Blaise, who looks like he's going to blow up (Harry can't help but shrink his head, thinking he'll have to walk around the Slytherin bloodline for some time in the future); Fleur is holding her sister Gabrielle to comfort her; The Gryffindor students were discussing something with great interest in the Hufflepuff students, while the Slytherin students were around Opal; As if noticing Harry's gaze, Dumbledore winked playfully at him, and Professor Snape beside him had the same bitter and deep face as ever......

So he doesn't have to worry about anything until June 24th?