Chapter 49 The exchange between the two schools begins
Harry Potter stood in line in the foyer of Hogwarts, and the professors of the various houses were directing them to greet Durmstrang exchange students, even though Harry had a bad impression of the school, Tomalford's blessing, which was firmly tied to the dark arts in Harry's mind - "The students there can't all be people like Malfoy!" β
Harry asked Ron in a low voice, to which Ron whispered, "It's a pure-blooded school...... I can't imagine hundreds of Malfoy together. That must have been a nightmare. β
Hermione, too, was quietly listening to their conversation, and when she heard the words, she slammed into the back, and Ron was knocked by her, and complained to her in a low voice, "What are you doing?" β
"Preventing you from saying anything more excessive!" Hermione scolded, turning her head secretly.
"Durmstrang is one of the three major schools of witchcraft and wizardry in Europe, with a significant reputation in the wizarding world, and is also a friendly school of our school, as documented in Durmstran: The Hall of Duel, although this school teaches dark arts, its students are mostly unbiased against Muggle and half-blood wizards, they only learn dark magic because of tradition."
"Many Hogwarts seniors have formed genuine friendships with Durmstrang students...... This can be read in the library "The Origins of the Triumph". β
Ron muttered dissatisfiedly twice until the person next to him stopped, "Don't say it!" Something is approaching, and it should be Durmstrang's exchange student! Did you hear anything? β
Harry listened attentively, a strange sound floated from the darkness, mixed with the sound of waves and inhalation, like bubbles through the whirlpool formed by the current, sucked into the bottom of the lake, a faint, bone-chilling cold spread, the surface of the black lake in front of him suddenly steamed up a fog, just began a thin layer on the surface of the lake, and in the blink of an eye, it filled the entire lake.
The moonlight in the sky was obscured by the fog, and as the fog filled, a faint and graceful song came from the bottom of the lake.
The upperclassmen began to stir, and someone whispered, "Is this a fish man singing in the Black Lake?" Soon, some senior students retorted: "The song of the fish-man cannot be transmitted to the surface of the water, and the language used in the song is not the language of the fish-man...... Is it a Kraken? Sirens? β
"Lake!" Lee Jordan pointed to the lake below and shouted, "Look at the lake!" β
Harry could clearly see the surface of the lake, although it was covered by fog, but this time the fog was not so thick, like the morning mist, he could still see most of the lake, at this time the lake was already agitated, the smooth surface of the lake was rippling, a series of bubbles emerged from the center of the lake, and then the sound of inhalation came out again - the windless surface of the lake had set off a three-foot wave, hitting the shore.
In the center of the lake, a huge whirlpool is forming.
The whirlpool churned the bottom of the lake, and Harry could see a terrified fish-man tumbling from the side of the whirlpool, the hideous-toothed monster with a coral-aquatic mess of hair clinging to its face, hideous and frightened, it seemed to be struggling out of the whirlpool, reaching out its claws at the Hogwarts students - but it was dragged down as if someone were pulling it down, and it disappeared into the water.
"Don't worry...... Fish-people don't drown in water! Pomona looked at the nervous faces of the students and smiled and comforted them.
But Harry heard it...... Ever since he had entered the spirit realm through the spell on the Golden Sutra of the Sun, he had noticed that his senses had changed beyond that of a normal wizard, and he could hear the sound of the waves of the lake hitting the wood, and there seemed to be a boat hidden, the squeaks and keels of the ship, and then Harry could hear the snapping of bones as they were rolled into it.
In his mind's eye, there was a picture of flesh with bones and scales, torn between the keel and ribs of the ship.
The tentacles of the giant squid in the black lake whipped out of the lake, and it could be seen that it was extremely frightened, almost running for its life, and disappeared at the edge of the whirlpool, and several Grindylow monsters screamed - at this time, even the professors felt uneasy!
While the students at Hogwarts were in a commotion, the bow of a galleon protruded from beneath the water, like a great white shark lifting its hideous head to peek out into the sea, and then the rest of the ship rushed out of the lake like a flying ship out of the lake, with a turbulent mist and violent waves, a black Spanish galleonβand so it burst into everyone's eyes.
"Cool!" The Weasley twins were the first to react and shouted.
Harry felt a slight pain in the scar on his forehead, even ...... Fear, the ship seemed to be dead silent, it sailed towards Hogwarts Castle in a menacing manner, but there was no light on the ship in the night, a vague shadow stood on the bow of the ship, he was thin, dressed in black robes, and only a vague shadow could be seen in the night.
The mist had cleared unconsciously, and the moonlight shone on the ship, it looked very strange, skeleton-like, as if it were a restored ship, and by the moonlight, Harry finally saw the situation on the deck, and the Durmstrang students who had come to communicate stood quietly on the deck, just behind the shadow on the bow of the ship, they were silent, and under the moonlight, they were frozen like dead people.
Harry felt that this scene was strange and unpredictable, and the Durmstrang wizards above ...... To be fair, like a ghost.
After a while, they heard the splashing of the anchor being thrown into the shallow and the creaking of the planks - Harry's familiar voice, and he saw the broken ghost ship turn over its belly to reveal the rotten keel at the bottom of the ship, the keel and ribs creaking like a doorshaft without oil, and Harry saw a huge crack in the bottom of the ship open like a large mouth, the broken deck and keel jagged like sharp teeth......
Harry took a step back in horror and looked at the 'big mouth' of the black hole, wondering if it was the 'big mouth' that had swallowed something, and his ears were reminded of the sound of flesh and bone rubbing against the planks - creaking
The people above are off the boat!
They weren't as scary as Harry thought they were, like monsters, and on the surface they looked like a bunch of ordinary little wizards, they were a bit tall, generally similar to Harry's strongest classmates, Harry was like a chicken compared to them - the point was that the girls seemed to be the same, they were taller, just not so.
As Durmstrang's exchange students got closer and the light in the antechamber shone through, Harry noticed that they were tall because they were wearing thicker fur cloaks, and that the professor at the front was unexpectedly young, and that he was an Oriental like Zhang Qiu.