"Muggle fairy tales are often depicted sitting on rocks singing sweet songs, the most famous of which is a fairy tale called The Daughter of the Sea.

However, wizards who hear this story often laugh, because only they know that the real merfolk are not like that.

The only thing that is right in this story is that the mermaid's song is indeed sweet, and of course it requires you to stick your head into the water in which they live. ”

"Ah, here it is!" Hermione pointed to the one she had just had.

"If you want to hear the beautiful song of the mermaid, you have to stick your head into the water, because mermaids are magical creatures that live in the water, and their communication is also carried out underwater."

"So, that scream in the golden egg is the mermaid's song?" Neville reacted when he heard this, "So we're going to have to open that golden egg underwater?" ”

Clark nodded, agreeing with him.

"Then what are you waiting for, let's take a walk, let's also listen to what secrets are hidden in the song in the golden egg." Hermione said impatiently.

Clark smiled, but didn't refuse, and Hermione packed up their things, left the library, and returned to the Gryffindor dormitory.

"We've got to get some water first," Neville said as he looked at the golden egg Clark had pulled out from under the bed, "Why don't you go to the lake?" ”

"No way!" Hermione immediately said, "There are too many people in there to be suitable. ”

As she spoke, she hesitated, "We still opened it in the bathtub." ”

Without delay, the three of them went to the boys' bathroom in the common room and filled the pool with water.

Clark placed the golden egg under the surface of the water and opened it...... This time it didn't scream.

There was a gurgling sound from the golden egg, and the song came from under the water, so faint that the three of them couldn't make out what it was singing.

"Looks like we need to get our heads into the water too," Hermione said, "come on." ”

They took a deep breath and burrowed underwater—and now, the three underwater heads could hear some strange voices singing in unison from the opened golden egg:

Look for us, where our voices sound, we can't sing on the ground.

When you arrive, the sky and the earth begin to flip, and red and blue are mixed up.

Hurry up your search, here are your most beloved treasures, and your most hated trash.

You can save or you can abandon it, but you only have an hour.

After an hour there was no hope, it was completely gone, never to be seen.

The three Clarkes pulled their heads out of the water, and they shook their heads and flicked their hair out of their eyes.

"Do you hear that? What does that mean? Neville asked curiously, he hadn't been very good at word puzzles like this.

"You have to go and find those who can't make a sound on the ground!" Hermione analyzed carefully, "We've seen this in the book before, and the person who can't make a sound on the ground is a merfolk. ”

"'Hurry up your search, here are your most beloved treasures, and your most disgusting trash.' This shows that there is something in the fish-man that needs to be found by the warriors.

You can save or you can abandon it, but you only have an hour. It should be the time limit of the game, and you can choose to save that thing or you can choose to throw it away, but it's only an hour.

Wait, the word 'saved' means it's a living thing, maybe even a person!

In other words, the second level is about you going deep into the water and saving your most beloved from the merfolk, and it's only going to take an hour.

After an hour, 'there is no hope, it is gone, it will never be there.' ”

Neville watched as Hermione was dumbfounded, analyzing and constructing a complete game.

It's just that, according to her, there are other problems in this song that have not been resolved.

"And what does it mean, 'When you come, the heavens and the earth begin to flip, and red and blue are mixed'? And what about 'there is also the garbage you hate the most'?

Could it be that the merfolk have taken the Warriors' most beloved and the most hated people at the same time, and made them choose between them? ”

Neville's question made Hermione stunned as well, indeed, she did not explain the song properly.

She looked up at Clark and asked for his opinion.

Clark pondered for a moment, then smiled, "Thank you for your analysis, Hermione, I think I already have the answer." ”

"What do you mean?" The two looked at him curiously together.

"Fish-people live in the sea and lakes as if we were living in the air, so what they call 'the sky and the earth begin to flip' is that the sea and the bottom of the sea begin to flip.

And the color of the water is blue, so I think this sentence should refer to a huge undersea earthquake, and only then will there be a situation where red and blue are mixed. ”

"Earthquake under the sea!" Hermione was startled at first, then had a look of realization, "I see, it makes sense." ”

"It seems that the mission of the second project is to require you to save enough people in a catastrophe, but listening to the meaning of this song, when the time comes, not only will you warriors, but also those you like or dislike will be thrown into it?"

Hearing this, Neville looked at Hermione, then at Clark, and then smiled meaningfully.

Hermione, of course, understood what he meant, and glared at him dissatisfied, "Look at what, look at it again, throw you into the second project when the time comes, and see if Clark will save you." ”

Neville forced a smile and said, "Of course he won't save me, he has more important people to save." ”

Clark looked at the two bickering, and could only shake his head helplessly.

In the days that followed, Hermione and Neville began to advise Clark on how to deal with the merfolk underwater and save more people in the cataclysm.

However, there is no rush for this Clark, after all, the second project will not start until the end of February next year, and they still have three months to prepare.

On the contrary, another matter may be considered imminent.

It was fast forward to Thursday.

One cold afternoon, Professor McGonagall's annoyed voice crackled like a whip in the Transfiguration classroom.

"Potter! Weasley! Can you concentrate a little bit? ”

Harry and Ron looked up in surprise at the voice.

By this time the class was almost over, and they had done what Professor McGonagall had assigned to turn a guinea fowl into a guinea pig.

The homework on the blackboard, which they had also copied in their notebooks ("Give an example of how the Transfiguration Charm must be adjusted when transmuting").

This is the advanced Transfiguration that the fourth-year Hogwarts students are going to cover: transforming one creature into another.

The three of Clark were all stumped by this, because their profession was really not very good at creature transformation, which was only good at the [Transformation System] of the eight major factions of mages.

This also displeased Professor McGonagall, who looked at Clark and Hermione, who had not been able to master the spell after a class, and she poured her anger on the "bad student".

For example, because class was about to end, Harry and Ron, who were holding two fake wands invented by Fred and George, were in the back row of the classroom comparing swordsmanship.

Ron had a tinned parrot in his hand, and Harry had a rubbered haddock in his hand.

"Can Potter and Weasley match their age?" Professor McGonagall said, glancing at them angrily.

Just then, Harry's head fell off and fell silently to the floor—the beak of Ron's parrot had cut it off—

"I have a few words to say to all of you." Professor McGonagall glared at them again, turning her gaze to the others in the room.

"As you probably know, the Santa Ball is just around the corner – it's a traditional part of the Triwizard Tournament and a great opportunity for us to socialize with foreign guests.

Yes, the ball is only open to students from the fourth year onwards - but you can invite a junior if you wish—"

Lavender Brown let out a shrill smirk, Parvati Patil stabbed her hard, and Parvati's own facial muscles tensed as she tried desperately to restrain herself from laughing.

Professor McGonagall ignored them and continued:

"Wear your gown robes at the ball, and the time is set for eight o'clock on Christmas evening, in the Great Hall, and ends at twelve o'clock at midnight. Listen—"

However, the students didn't have the heart to listen to what she was saying, and the classroom was so loud that it was hard to believe that this was Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class.

When the bell rang for the end of class, the students, as usual, stuffed their books into their bags and hurried out of the classroom.

Professor McGonagall beckoned to Clarke, shouting in a noise, "Clark, as a warrior, you must have a dance partner. As is customary, the ball is held by warriors and their partners...... Although this year's Warriors are a bit too much......"

Professor McGonagall's voice silenced the entire faculty, and everyone, or all the girls, looked at Clark.

Without him, as a girl, being able to have the opportunity to dance with the warriors in the spotlight is definitely a beautiful experience worth remembering for a lifetime.

"I see, Professor." Clark nodded, he felt countless enthusiastic gazes come at him like bullets, and as a Psychic Warlock, he was quite sensitive to this aspect.

However, he had already thought about the dance partner, so before Professor McGonagall finished speaking, he smiled and asked Hermione beside him, "Hermione, would you like to come to the dance with me?" ”

Clark's voice was loud and clear, so loud that the entire classroom could hear it.

The boys were shocked at his audacity, and then looked at him with envy, not because of how beautiful Hermione was, but because Clark was able to complete this difficult task so easily.

In contrast, the girls' expressions were much richer and more exciting, some were shocked, some were annoyed, some were lost, and some were even angry, anyway, they all looked at Hermione with unkind eyes.

Hermione, of course, was aware of the stares these people were looking at her, but as proud as she was, she didn't care.

"Okay!" She replied decisively, without hesitation for a second.

The two of them grinned and left the classroom together, not even Neville following them, in case of secondary damage.

Not everyone was able to complete the task as easily as Hermione and Clarke, and for Harry and Ron, they felt that they would rather fight the dragon for a few rounds instead of Clark instead of finding a girl to dance.

As time passed, and Christmas was getting closer, the atmosphere in the school became more and more enthusiastic.

Almost all of the students from the fourth grade onwards chose to stay at school because they couldn't refuse the Ball—at least for all the girls.

Harry and Ron were suddenly surprised to find that Hogwarts had so many girls that they hadn't even noticed before.

As the Christmas Ball approached, the girls often gathered in the hallways to eat and laugh, keep their heads down and whisper about what to wear on Christmas night.

Whenever a boy walked past them, they burst into laughter and excitedly exchanged ideas.

"Why do they all move in groups?"

After dinner, when he came out of the auditorium, Harry went out of his way to find Clark to ask for advice—just as a dozen or so girls walked by, they looked at Harry and secretly giggled.

"How can we wait until they are alone and grab one of them to make a request?"

Clark patted him on the shoulder, "What are you afraid of, if you like it, you can go up and invite him directly." ”

The answer was certainly not what Harry wanted.

"Maybe you can put one on a noose?" Ron jokingly suggested, "Have you figured out who you're going to invite?" ”

Harry didn't answer, Clark glanced at him, if it was according to the original book, Harry should have liked Ravenclaw Cho Chang.

She's Harry's older sister, she's very pretty, she's a very good Quidditch player, and she's very popular, but whether Harry can muster up the courage to invite her is another matter.

Ron seemed to see through Harry's heart, "Listen, Harry, you're not going to be in trouble. You're not a warrior, but you've also defeated the Mysteries, haven't you? I'm sure they'll be lining up to dance with you. ”

This was true, and it was soon fulfilled.

The very next day, a curly-haired girl in the third year of Hufflepuff offered to invite Harry to join her to the ball.

Harry had never spoken to her before, so in his panic, he refused without even thinking about it, causing the girl to leave in a state of devastation.

Throughout his history of magic lesson, Harry had to endure the ridicule and sarcasm of Dean, Seamus, and Ron, who thought it was not easy to have a girl take the initiative to invite him.