Harry walked through a jungle of black aquatic plants, and was greeted by a wide, flat square of gleaming pebbles, surrounded by something resembling rotten wood or dense tangled aquatic plants.

Harry sneered and stopped his progress.

It is understandable that there are aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake, but who can still float rotten wood under the water?

It was either floating on the surface of the water or sinking underwater.

Harry knew what he had come across, and when he was in his third year, he had learned in Professor Lupin's class, the gathering place of Grindillo (horned, pale green devils in the water), the shiny pebbles they used to attract humans or fish, and the things that floated around them were their main bodies, and they would be attacked if they came close.

Harry is ready for battle, and it is said that the magical creature Grindillo will be domesticated by the merfolk for actions such as guarding, and if Grindillo is nearby, it means that the merfolk tribe is nearby.

Passing from the front is the quickest way.

After all, no one knows how wide the range of activities of these Grindilows is.

Just as Harry was about to act, the Grindillow people around the square took action before him.

“%&……%&！”

A series of indeterminate cries rang out, and the Grindilows, who had been disguised as wood and water plants, appeared in their original forms, and fled without looking at Harry or looking back, for fear that if they swam slowly, they would be eaten by something terrible.

'There's something! ’

Soon Harry sensed the movement of the water around him, and something was moving towards him at high speed.

Harry clenched his wand to the creatures that could make so many Grindilows so terrified, at least a plural of kappas or horse-shaped monsters or something.

Soon, in Harry's field of vision, a large black shadow was approaching at a breakneck speed.

In the blink of an eye, Harry was in front of him.

Harry:.

He silently lowered his wand.

And the shadow didn't even attack Harry, but threw something at the fleeing Grindellow.

With a flash of white light, quite a few Grindy Lowes disappeared.

Gollum.

The shadow seemed to be talking to Harry, but only a burst of bubbles came out.

But Harry nodded as if he understood, and then said, "Didn't you go to the front a long time ago?" ”

Harry, who had taken the underwater breathing potion, was able to speak normally, although he didn't know what the principle was, but it was amazing.

"Gollum (it's hard to find this kind of chance to catch magical creatures at will)"

The Black Shadow shrugged his shoulders and squirted another burst of bubbles out of his mouth, "Gollum (I just caught a really big guy)"

That's right, the true face of this dark shadow is Dudley

For the others, the Black Lagoon may be like a giant underwater labyrinth, full of unknown dangers, but for Dudley it's like his own back garden, and he knows exactly where he is.

A few more bubbles erupted from Dudley's mouth, and his lungs seemed to be transformed into an unfathomable oxygen cylinder, storing an inexhaustible supply of oxygen.

A normal person who has been diving for so long and constantly spraying bubbles has long been so deprived of oxygen that he rolls his eyes, but Dudley seems to have just dived into the water.

Just as Harry was about to say something, Dudley spoke again.

"Gollum (the merfolk are coming, I'll go first)"

Without giving Harry a chance to speak, he kicked his legs and turned into an arrow in the water again, and disappeared into the end with a whoosh.

It was a few moments before Harry saw a couple of merfolk with spears swim by.

The mermaid at the head was about seven feet tall, with a long green beard and a short necklace made of shark teeth, and immediately swam over Harry when she saw it.

First, he snorted and said to Harry, but seeing that Harry was still confused, he changed to something that Harry could understand.

"Hey, wizards participating in the human game, you have seen one. A probably."

The merfolk thought for a moment and drew a huge circle at Harrybi.

"Such a big orangutan? He took a lot of our pets and also took our 'anumma'. ”

Harry:???

Before Harry could figure out the situation, someone from the merfolk's side said, "No, Chief, it's not an orangutan, it's a monkey!" ”

"Nonsense, how can there be such a big monkey, it is clearly an orangutan."

The chief seems to hold his opinion.

"Orangutans can't dive!"

The other seems to be holding his own opinion as well.

The last mermaid seemed to know a little more, and only listened to him: "It's the water monkey, the most mysterious underwater creature in that eastern country." ”

After listening for a long time, Harry seemed to finally understand, and they seemed to be looking for . Brother D?

"Excuse me. Where are the people you have taken? I think I should go. ”

Harry didn't think he could afford to waste his time any longer.

"Oh, by the way, you're still having a race."

The merfolk seemed to react, so they pointed to the stone path in front of them on the right and said, "They are in the square over there, don't say that we told you, according to the rules with Dumbledore, we can't help you." ”

Merfolk seem to be quite communicative, and in fact they are, if you know the language of merfolk or they are willing to communicate with you, they are not much different from normal people in nature, and even a little better than humans.

"Thank you!"

Harry thanked him politely, and swam towards the merfolk as they had pointed out.

Soon he came to a place full of stone dwellings (buildings made of stone), with some mermaid faces in the dark windows, and it was clear that this was a mermaid village.

There's a mermaid village at the bottom of the Black Lake?!

Harry was amazed, he remembered reading in a book that most merfolk didn't like human wizards very much, and would choose places that were inaccessible, and he thought there were one or two merfolk in the Black Lake, but he didn't expect there to be so many.

Then he saw the middle of the village. The square is not very large, and on the square stands a large mermaid carved out of a boulder, and on the tail of the mermaid stone statue, four people are firmly tied?

Tied in the middle was a little girl with silver hair, whom Harry had seen at the Ball, Fleur's sister Gabrielle Delacul, but at this point the little girl had lost all the vivaciousness of the ball, her face was blue and she looked lifeless.

To her left was a Durmstrang schoolgirl, whom Harry also knew as a dance partner at Wickdore's Christmas Eve Ball.

Then Harry looked at the third tied up. Stuff creatures

The cats at home don't eat much since they were neutered, and they don't clingy anymore, do you know what the reason is?

(End of chapter)