Finally, on the day of the competition, the second event was held at Hogwarts' Black Lagoon.

Harry and Hermione stood to the right of Cedric, and all the warriors stood in a line on the edge of the lake, ten feet apart from each other.

Ludo Bagman asked, "Do you know what you're going to do?"

Harry, the nine of them nodded. Ludo Bagman returned to the referee's table, pointed his wand to his throat, as he did at the World Cup, and said, "Loud voice!" Then his voice roared like thunder, sweeping across the dark lake to the stands.

"Listen, our warriors are in place. As soon as I whistled, the second project began. They had a full hour to reclaim what had been snatched from their hands. I counted to three. One, two, three! ”

A shrill whistle echoed through the cold, still air. The stands erupted in cheers and applause.

Krum and his two Warrior benches, all wearing only swim trunks, jumped straight into the water. It seems that they are all good in water, but in this game, relying on water alone will not work.

Beauxbatons were all witches, and they wouldn't do what Durmstrang boys did, and Cedric was surprised to see that they all used the Bubble Head Charm and went into the water.

It seems that they did not think of it themselves, but Madame Maxim told them the method directly.

Cedric and Hermione similarly used the Bubble Head Charm and went underwater.

Hermione had expected Harry to use the Bubble Head Charm like they did, but he didn't, and Harry didn't know what to take out of his pocket, shoved it into his mouth, and stepped into the water.

After the warriors entered the underwater, the audience suddenly felt that this event was far less interesting than the first one, which was not entirely because the fire dragon was more interesting than the underwater creatures, but mainly because the second event they couldn't see the underwater competition from the audience, and they didn't have a mobile phone to pass the time, so it was extremely boring.

In the referee's seat, Mr. Crouch was not there, and it was Percy Weasley who came in his place, and the smug expression on his face was overflowing.

At this time, a wizard walked up to the referee's bench and said something to a few referees, Percy seemed a little dissatisfied, but Ludo Bagman seemed to have a very excited expression on his face, Dumbledore seemed to agree, Lady Maxim did not object, and Karkaroff was noncommittal.

The wizard walked away with a smile on his face, and it seemed as if he had done what he had to do.

Ludo Bagman stood up at this point, as if to announce something.

In the audience, there were a few sharp-eyed wizards, and they suddenly felt that the wizards who had just walked by seemed to be somewhat familiar...

"Loud voice!" "Ladies and gentlemen, good news for you, the wizard from E. TV told me that they have a way to broadcast the underwater game, and I discussed it with several other referees and decided to allow them to broadcast the game!" ”

"What? It was amazing to see the underwater races! ”

The bored spectators in the audience all cheered enthusiastically.

Then, in the midst of the cheers of the students, a few wizards brought in four things that were somewhat unfamiliar to most of the students, and only a few Muggle-born students felt somewhat familiar.

Four square boxes of about the size of four Quidditch ghost balloons are placed on the edge of the Black Lake, and the wizard who placed the box moves the shot.

After they had debugged the equipment and left the site, the four boxes suddenly released four different images in four different directions.

"What is this?" Seeing the four unknown black boxes projecting a three-dimensional underwater image, the students first opened their mouths in surprise, and then suddenly cheered.

With the magic of magic, a camera that can shoot underwater is trivial. Unlike the Muggle world, which has to deal with the effects of various harsh underwater conditions such as light, water pressure, and fluctuations, wizards only need magic to solve everything.

A lot of things in wizards don't appear not because they can't do it, but because they can't think of it. If wizards had the spirit of scientists like Albert Einstein to explore the unknown, it would not have been a few years before the wizarding world could have become richer than life would have been in the Muggle mobile Internet decades later.

"Cedric Diggory of Hogwarts has used a wonderful bubble head charm... The Hufflepuff students cheered.

"Oh my God, that's Victor Krum of Durmstrang, did he use a Transfiguration Charm on himself? We can see that he turned his head into the head of a shark, and looking at his speed underwater, it is almost as fast as a fish... ”

"Unfortunately, our other two devices didn't catch the Warriors. The picture is advancing, and yes, the underwater camera seems to be moving, looking for traces of the warriors. There seems to be someone in front, who is that? ”

"Oh, it's incredible, is that Harry? He didn't morph like Krum, nor did he use the Bubble Head Charm like Cedric. But, behold, he moved under the water with ease, as if he were swimming faster than the Crum and them, and what method did he use? Let's ask the other referees! ”

"Gills, Harry Potter used them. Look at his ears, there is an extra crack under his ears, like the gills of a fish, and his hands and feet, like duck webs. What a genius idea, look, he swims faster than anyone else. ”

"That's, see, Harry was the first to meet the Fish-Man's guide." It was an old fish-man with a somewhat old face, and his lower body had no feet, but was fish-like.

"Harry negotiated with the Fishmen, yes, he was the first to get a yellow pearl from the Fishman Guide, and when he walked into the area where his quest was located, the pearl in his hand would glow...

When they dive to a sufficient depth, will the Fish-Man Guides find them?

Seeing Harry, Krum, and Cedric getting a pearl from the Fish-Man Guide, Maple thought to herself, lurking in the water.

The underwater environment has a lot of restrictions on the Illusion Charm. Stealth is not the disappearance of the body, and the movement of the water flow when moving is easily noticed by others.

And in order not to be noticed when entering the water, Maple dived into the water before the game.

When the wizard who found his TV station underwater setting up an underwater camera, Maple really felt like he was cocooned. Because the lenses of these moving cameras moved around, capturing as much of the warrior as possible, his movement was not a small restriction.

Fortunately, there was only one fish-man guide they had arranged, and Maple could quickly find Hermione's whereabouts as long as she kept an eye on the somewhat elderly fish-man.

Silently lurking, Maple saw Harry taking the gills, and it seemed that Dobby had helped him steal Snape's gills. It was a Mediterranean herb, and the professor in the herbology class was only interested in growing living animals, and the gill plant could only be found in Snape's private treasure trove.

Harry had become a little fish-like after taking the gills, but the gills were the most effective, and Maple had taken them, and he had three of them.

Gills grass is amazing, not only does it give you the ability to swim as a fish, but it also has clear vision underwater.

After taking the gill grass, in the black, hazy water, Maple could also see the scene within a radius of ten feet—turquoise aquatic plants, swimming fish.

After Harry left, then the half-human, half-shark Krum, who received a colored pearl from the fish-man guide, was attacked by a large octopus and then a Grindillo.

He's out of luck, isn't he?

Seeing someone's embarrassed appearance, the audience on the ground was very worried, but someone's heart was much more comfortable.

Cedric's head was surrounded by a huge bubble that made his facial features look elongated and widened, as if a fish bowl had been attached to his head, which was very funny.

Finally, Maple saw Hermione swim over. As she got the pearl and left, Maple dodged the camera lens and quietly followed.

With no underwater camera in sight, Maple sprang into action.

Although Hermione and Cedric were a little behind at the start, they had some advantages later.

Because the bubbles of the Bubble Head Charm block the flow of water and do not affect their speech, and Harry and Krum, unless they are proficient in silent spelling, will cause them a lot of trouble in underwater combat.

Harry, who was at the front, had already met a Grindy Lowe. Harry stopped when he saw Grindy Lowe's shadow in the distance, only to be caught in the ankle by the weeds.

Grindy Low swam over at once, his long nails gripped Harry's legs, and his mouth bared with long, sharp teeth. Harry quickly reached into his robe with his webbed hand and touched his wand. But as soon as he grabbed his wand, two more Grindillos emerged from the weeds, grabbed Harry's robes, and pulled him down with all their might.

"Loose and energetic!" Harry shouted, but there was no sound. A large blister came out of his mouth, and instead of spewing sparks at Grindellow, his wand seemed to shoot a boiling jet of water at them, only to see where their bodies were hit by the jet, and their green skin suddenly turned red.

Harry freed his feet from Grindillo's entanglement and swam forward, occasionally sending out some hot jets of water behind him. Occasionally, he felt a Grindy Low grab his foot again and kick it away with all his might. Finally he felt his foot hit a horned head, and when he looked down, a kicked Grindy Lowe floated down the river with straight eyes and his companion swung his fist at Harry, and disappeared into the weeds.

In the same case, after Hermione met Grindy Low, she easily stunned him with a stun charm.

Hermione's ankle was similarly tangled in the weeds after dealing with a stupid rush at her, but the weeds on her side seemed to grow much longer than Harry's.

"Loose and energetic!" The weed in her right foot was unraveled, but her left foot was entangled again, and Hermione was about to cast the spell again when suddenly another Grindy Low rushed at her.

And not one or two, but a group of Grindylow, as many as seven or eight, and after seeing the one Grindy Low that Hermione had knocked unconscious, they all angrily attacked Hermione.

Hermione fired a spell that stunned another Grindylow, but the other Grindylows were faster.

Grindillo is getting closer and closer, and the Stun Charm alone is too late to deal with all the enemies. Unfortunately, Hermione felt as if her right foot was getting tangled in water again.

Is it really bad luck? No, Hermione suddenly thought of a way. This time, instead of attacking Grindillo directly, she cast her magic on the aquatic plants beneath her feet. The aquatic plants immediately grew wildly, and under the guidance of Hermione's magic, they tied up all the surrounding Grindillo.

After putting another layer of restraint on Grindillo to make sure they couldn't be freed, Hermione began to deal with the aquatic plants beneath her feet.

Just as she had just broken free of her feet from the water weeds, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared above her head.

That's—

The legendary giant squid in the Black Lake?

When the big squid saw Hermione, he immediately pounced.

Seeing the speed of the big squid in the water, Hermione felt that she couldn't escape, so she could only go straight on.

"Faint!" Hermione used the Stun Charm, but it wasn't as underwater as it was on land, and her spell had to pass through the water before it had an effect on the target.

Hermione's spells are passable, but the larger the magical creatures, the more resistant they are to spells.

Such a huge squid is obviously not something that can be solved by a stun spell, but if it is too far away, the big squid can dodge it with the speed of swimming. The flow of water hinders the spell not only in terms of power, but also slows down the speed at which the spell fires.

As long as the big squid didn't rush forward as stupidly as the Grindy Rock before, Hermione would never be able to stun the big squid when its tentacles attacked her.

Hermione used the same method used to deal with Grindillo and tied up the large squid with a rope, but the large squid was far from Grindillo's size, and it broke free at once.

However, the restraint of the rope also hindered the speed of the large squid, causing it to pause and give Hermione more breathing time.

"It's all petrified!"

"There are many obstacles!"

Hermione used several more spells, but they didn't seem to have any effect other than to provoke the squid.

At this moment, one of the Grindy Lowes who had been trapped by Hermione somehow broke free and immediately rushed towards Hermione with water.

Hermione seemed to have all her eyes on the big squid, seemingly unaware of the small movements of the Grindy Low beneath her.

It wasn't until Grindy Low came to her that Hermione seemed to notice the danger beneath her, and Hermione dodged a little embarrassed, but her arm was still scratched by Grindillo's claws.

The left sleeve of Hermione's robe was cut through by Grindy Lowe's long nails, leaving a wound on her arm. Luckily, the wound on Hermione's arm didn't seem to be deep.

Grindillo's attack continued, and Hermione hurriedly dodged again, but this time Grindillo did not attack Hermione, but its claws broke the bubble on Hermione's head.

After the bubbles of the bubble spell burst, the air inside quickly drained away. Hermione soon had trouble breathing and her body sank.

The large black shadow of the large squid quickly overtook Hermione, and Grindy Lowe writhed in place, as if doing some comical movement. Then he fled, and the most important thing was to escape from the great squid rather than to take revenge on that hateful human.

The squid opened its bloody mouth and was about to swallow Hermione in one gulp, when ice suddenly appeared next to it, and in the blink of an eye, all the water around its body froze, forming a huge ice prison that imprisoned it firmly.

The big squid struggled, but couldn't break free.

Ignoring the frozen squid, Maple immediately swam to Hermione's side, took out another gill grass, put it in his mouth and chewed it, then picked up Hermione and kissed the chewed muzzle grass into Hermione's mouth.

"All petrochemicals!"

"Quickly revealed!"

Maple's mouth opened wide in surprise to see Hermione, who immediately opened her eyes.

Hermione snatched Maple's wand from him, and a smug smile appeared on her face, as if to make a declaration of victory.

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