To be precise, a man and three women, all of them seemed to have passed out with their eyes closed, their bodies tightly restrained by aquatic plants, and their loose hair swayed gently with the current.

There are also several vicious fish-man guards standing in front of the statue, which is very difficult to deal with at first glance.

"Hermione? Ginny?! ”

Upon seeing this image, Harry couldn't help but exclaim, and immediately recognized the two hostages tied in the middle of the lake.

"Gabrielle!" Fleur was even more excited than Harry, she was completely panicked, and she looked at the picture in the crystal ball anxiously, eager to jump into the water and chase away the mermaids and save Gabrielle.

But this kind of sneaking away was not allowed, and the Aurors around her who were responsible for maintaining order were always watching her.

In desperation, Fleur had to turn her head to look at the referee's seat and asked anxiously.

"Headmaster Maxim, how did my sister Gabrielle end up there? She's only nine years old, how can you bear to just throw her into the Black Lake? ”

Maxim didn't reply, as Dumbledore had already done so.

"Miss Delacour, we have already obtained the consent of these girls, they have voluntarily agreed to be hostages, and we trust you warriors to rescue them from the bottom of the lake within the stipulated time limit......

"What if we fail? What will happen to Gabrielle? Fleur asked urgently, she hadn't forgotten what Bagman had said before, once the time limit was exceeded and the rescue was not successful, then they would lose their most cherished "treasure" forever.

"Let's just put it this way, the waterproof and cold-proof magic I set on a few hostages can only last for an hour!" Dumbledore's face was very serious, and he didn't mean to joke at all.

Fleur's heart was completely cold, she didn't want to believe that the competition party would really be so cruel, but she didn't dare to bet on this possibility......

Harry on the side was also very flustered, after hearing Dumbledore's indifferent words, he only felt a chill in his hands and feet, Hermione was his best friend, Ginny was Ron's sister, no matter which one went wrong, he couldn't accept it.

Harry was worried about whether he would be able to complete the hostage rescue mission with his own abilities, and none of the fish-men seemed to be so easy to deal with.

In order to avoid suspicion, Ivan's face also showed a little eagerness, but his eyes were on the strange wizard on the crystal ball screen.

Based on the school uniform on the other party, Ivan quickly recognized that this should be a Durmstrang student, most likely a close friend of Krum's.

Thinking of this, Ivan looked at Krum with a deviated gaze, and sure enough, the other party's face became very ugly.

The contestants had to be so accurate that they didn't choose the dance partner that Krum had invited to the ball.

After all, what they need are hostages who can shake the faith of the warriors!

Ivan even speculated that the real test of this game was whether the Warriors could think calmly and successfully complete the rescue mission at such a critical juncture.

And Fleur's previous aggressive performance may have made her lose a lot of points......

On the judges' bench, Dumbledore sat down again after explaining, and Bagman coughed lightly twice and stepped forward to continue his commentary.

"Well, I think the warriors can't wait! So, now I declare... The second game has officially begun! Bagman shouted, raising his wand and firing a beam into the sky.

Ivan, Fleur, and Krum jumped into the lake as quickly as the beam exploded, but Harry was a step slower, frantically ripping open the jar of gill grass and stuffing what looked like a gray-green rat's tail into his mouth before jumping into the lake with the group.

The little wizards in the stands stretched out their necks to see more clearly, and Ron and the others were worried about the safety of Ginny and Hermione, so they got up from their seats, but unfortunately, the black lake was so deep that they couldn't see anything.

"You say Ivan and Harry can get people out, right?" Ron looked at George and the others next to him worriedly, and asked.

"I think Ivan will definitely do, Harry is more suspense......" George said hesitantly.

With his record in the first battle of Fire Dragon, he had a lot of confidence in Ivan, but Harry's magic level was clear to him, and if he had to describe it in one sentence, it was not much better than Ron.

"But in any case, the hostages should be fine." George added, not believing what Dumbledore had said.

"Not necessarily, Professor Dumbledore is too risky for me to put all the hostages in the lake without even an Auror around to supervise them, what if those merfolk suddenly go crazy or something goes wrong with the protective spell?" Fred was furious, worried about Ginny's safety.

"If you can think of it, the referees must think of it too," George retorted.

"Okay, you all don't quarrel, look over there!" Charlie interrupted several people's arguments and pointed to the center of the lake.

At this time, George and Ron discovered that the four crystal balls floating in mid-air were faithfully recording the performance of various warriors underwater.

After jumping into the Black Lake, Krum quickly cast a shapeshifting spell, his head getting bigger and bigger, and black fins growing out of his back, as if he wanted to turn into a shark.

However, human transfiguration is the most difficult of all transfiguration magic, and Krum's level is obviously not up to this level, so he is forced to stop halfway through the transformation and become a humanoid monster with a shark's head on its head.

The little wizards in the stands all showed disgusted looks, although this magic looked powerful, but I have to say that Krum's appearance at this time was too ugly.

Harry's image wasn't much better than Krum's, with unsightly gills on his neck and his palms and toes resembling those of the merfolk.

In contrast, Ivan and Fleur are particularly pleasing to the eye.

As soon as he fell into the water, Ivan waved his wand and tapped his wizard's robe and put a waterproof and moisture-proof spell on it, as if a transparent film was separating the water from him.

Then, Ivan's black robe stretched out in the water and turned into a pair of wide "wings", which could drive his body far away with a slight wave.

Fleur is very good at water, and her speed is even comparable to that of Krum, who has become half a shark, and she probably relied on this to put a bubble head charm on herself, and dived into the water, as if she was going to swim over it.

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