Hermione's face was slightly red, and she lowered her head shyly, like a young willow on the edge of a black lake that was beginning to smoke new shoots.

Ludo looked at her, "Miss Granger, did you and Mr. Potter reveal the news?" We said yes, but we can't."

Hermione shook her head, "Of course I didn't, but I told you that Harry was sharp. ”

"If I take Hermione away now, will the second project be over?" Harry looked at him, his tone brisk.

Ludo's face turned a little blue.

Karkaroff snorted and put his head aside, and Maxim was stunned and looked at Gabrielle thoughtfully.

"I don't think so." Ludo shook his head, "Of course, of course we have to admit that Mr. Potter is indeed very good and values Miss Granger. ”

"But the project is a project, and I think you should still get involved, otherwise the judges will not be able to score points, especially Mr. Karkaroff."

Karkaroff snorted again.

Why is it not good to score?

I didn't participate in the second project, and I scored zero points directly, so I don't need to hesitate?

"Harry, you don't have to worry." Dumbledore spoke, teasing and comforting him, "I'll cast the spell myself, and I won't let Hermione have any problems." ”

Harry looked at Hermione.

Hermione smiled at him, "Harry, I told you, I'd be ready. ”

Harry nodded, waved goodbye to them, and walked out the door, where Ludo lowered his voice and continued to tell the "treasures" of the three of their warriors.

Until nine o'clock.

Under the organization of the professor, the students entered the arena one after another, and sat down in the audience, and the little lions already knew the content of the game, and they happily and proudly introduced it to the others.

Harry sat in the tent where the Warriors waited for the game to begin, Fleur and Krum hadn't arrived yet, he was quietly watching with a book in his hand.

Ron probed his brain, held Crook Hill in his arms, and saw Harry in the tent, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Harry, you are here!" ”

Harry looked up.

He walked in, his steps a little flustered, and his tone was much more relaxed: "Hermione has been with you all the time?" ”

Harry shook his head.

Ron was stunned, his brows furrowed, and he hugged Crookshan tighter: "She's not even with you, Brown said he hasn't seen her since morning, I asked Crookshan, but it's lazy and wants to beat me." ”

Harry didn't speak, looking at him calmly.

She didn't look worried about Hermione at all.

The tent door curtain was stirred, Fleur walked in with a frown, Ron looked at her, suddenly thought of something, pointed out, lowered his voice, and spit out a word: "Treasure?" ”

Harry nodded.

Ron was completely relieved: "Well, that's what happened. ”

"Fred was just talking about why I didn't see you fighting with the Ministry of Magic."

"Fighting? Why fight? Fleur leaned over, her face a little curious.

Ron, who had suffered many losses, was no longer bewitched by her, and looked at her vigilantly: "It's nothing, it's just a little Gryffindor joke." ”

With that, he hurriedly turned around: "Harry, I'll go out first, come on." ”

In the blink of an eye, it is gone.

"He's running away from me, is he hating me?" Fleur frowned, feeling even worse.

"It's not enough to hate you, but it's true to run away from you." Harry nodded.

Fleur pinched her waist and watched Krum walk in from the outside, "Why?" You Britons"

"If you can control yourself and not abuse the magic of the baby, I don't think he will run away from you." Harry interrupted.

Krum agrees with Harry's words, and before the Christmas ball, Fleur invited herself, the kind of invitation that was very insincere, using the magic of the baby to bewitch herself.

Fleur snorted and tilted her head away.

They waited quietly for thirty minutes, and before the game began, the Ministry of Magic officials called them out.

By the lake, there was a long golden-red table where the referees sit.

Ludo raised his wand and aimed it at his neck: "Look, our warriors are coming out, and they are all full of confidence, and they all seem to have solved the puzzle of the golden egg. ”

"Then let me give a detailed explanation to the audience who don't know the content of the second game yet."

"The evil merfolk have robbed the warriors of their treasures."

On the Black Lake, a merfolk let out a disgruntled and terrible scream, but it was muffled by the deafening cheers of the young wizards.

Sirius sat in Gryffindor, waving his wand and commanding a living griffon.

Ludo flicked his wand.

The three huge curtains in front of the auditorium shimmer with a faint sheen, projecting three images.

Three unconscious people soaked in water.

Gryffindor exclaimed.

They recognized one of them, Hermione.

"This game will be held underwater." Ludo excitedly waved his wand and exploded a cloud of fireworks, "The warriors will face an unprecedented test. ”

"The first hurdle they had to overcome was how to dive into the water."

"After that, they will have to deal with the magical creatures of the Black Lake, some of them are dangerous, and the evil merfolk who obstruct them!"

"And they only have an hour, and they have to overcome problems and overcome difficulties in just one hour, otherwise they will lose themselves."

At this point, Ludo noticed Harry's gaze and barely changed his face, he pursed his lips and continued, "Otherwise they will lose the glory of being a second-round passer!" ”

"Of course."

"In order to prevent us from sitting here for an hour like stupid melons, staring at the dark lake, the Ministry of Magic has placed a number of wizards underwater, and they will use magic to broadcast it to us in real time."

"Now, then, all the warriors take their positions and stand by the Black Lake."

Harry, they walked over.

Ludo pulled a Weasley firework out of his pocket and exploded in the air, spreading out into a glittering Triwizard Tournament trophy: "Three, two, one!" ”

"Warriors, go and work for your own glory and your treasures!"

On the screen, the camera immediately pulled out from the bottom of the lake and fell on the three people.

Ludo performed his duty as a narrator: "Oh, we see Mr. Krum, who casts a very advanced transfiguration spell on himself, turning his head into a shark's head. ”

"It's a very smart thing to be able to move underwater and be aggressive."

"Miss Delacour uses the Bubble Head Charm, and I think one of the methods that most wizards think of when faced with this situation is the Bubble Head Charm."

"Let's look at Mr. Potter, oh, he pulled out another bottle of potion."

"We knew in the first round of the project that Mr. Potter was very good at potions, and this time we brought out potions that were beyond my knowledge, Professor Dumbledore?"

He skillfully handed over the conversation to the white-bearded old man beside him.

Dumbledore nodded, and spoke slowly, his voice as loud as Ludo's: "Yes, this is also a new potion that Mr. Potter has researched. ”

"I've heard Professor Snape mention that this potion not only allows him to breathe underwater, but also gives him the freedom to be in the water as if he were on land, and seems to enhance his magic."

He explained.

Harry jumped into the water, and unlike Fleur and Krum, who had to swing their arms and swim in the water, as soon as he entered the water, he flew out like an arrow.

None of the wizards in charge of the broadcast could keep up with him.

Luckily, they had wizards at different depths, and the curtain was cut frequently, barely catching Harry's figure.

Ludo watched in amazement, and after a few moments, he came to his senses: "We saw Mr. Potter flying out, yes, he was flying!" ”

"This potion is amazing."

"He's way ahead of the other two warriors, and he's aiming for a clear goal, swimming in the right direction, oh, flying!"

Even with potions, the underwater environment is still different from the surface environment.

The breath was washed away, becoming extremely faint, or Hermione's breath spread evenly across every body of water.

But that didn't bother Harry.

At the beginning, Ludo gave them a picture to introduce the treasures of the warriors.

It was the merfolk tribe in the deepest part of the Black Lake, and he was familiar with it, and Sirius took them to harass this merfolk a lot last year.

He quickly dived to the bottom of the lake and floated on the algae.

A huge rock bulge, with some ancient Lune characters engraved on it, but the water is worn and it is not easy to see, except for the words, there are some drawings.

Ancient merfolk warriors wield spears and magic to drive away a giant squid.

The mermaid's song also sounded in my ears.

The destination is almost here.

Just as he had just flown over the boulder.

Boom -

A spear was nailed towards him, unaffected by the current, silent and ferocious.

Harry dodged with the dexterity and fell to the ground, drawing the Gryffindor sword.

"That's him!" A mermaid jumped up, floating three or four meters high, and pointed at Harry, in a dissatisfied and fierce tone, "When I went to play on the lake, he was the one who played a prank on me!" ”

Harry tried to speak, and a string of bubbles popped out of his mouth.

He waved his wand, and the water condensed in front of him into words: "It was just an accident, I came to save my treasure this time." ”

"The humans? Triwizard Tournament? The merfolk clapped his hands, "It's great that you're a warrior too." ”

"I was floating up there, listening to that old, fat wizard of yours say that we are evil?"

"Now, then, let the evil merfolk stop you!"

It began to sing, and gradually a dozen merfolk came over, and they waved their spears in their hands and charged towards Harry.

He looks fierce, but he doesn't have any malice on him.

Harry raised his wand.

on the Black Lake.

Ludo watched this scene in horror: "This is not in our arrangement, the merfolk will have a test, but this is not the case, should Professor Dumbledore stop them?" ”

"The merfolk promised us that they would only send one at most to test the warriors."

He was terribly worried.

Dumbledore laughed and shook his head, "They're joking on Harry. ”

"Just kidding!" Ludo exclaimed, his eyes full of disbelief.

More than a dozen mermaids beat up a little wizard, is this a joke?

(End of chapter)