Chapter 169

She looked at Nietzsche with a sympathetic but powerless look.

"Wish you good luck~~" Hermione hugged Crookshanks, squeezing his paw and waving it, "There is a surprise ahead!"

But Nietzsche didn't think anything of it. He thought Snape was just consulting him about Moody, but something felt wrong, as if Hermione had pulled him into a whirlpool.

It was four-thirty in the afternoon, in the evening, and there was no trace of natural light in the basement.

Qiu Zhang only walked him to the door of the office and left. The door was unlocked. He pushed the door open and found that not only Snape was in the office, but also Professor Ludo Bagman was also standing awkwardly beside the table. .

Even though he is the Director of the Ministry of Magic, he can't sit still or stand firmly in the 'Bat Lair'.

"Here it comes! It's just you...Child, I just took care of Weasley and Durmstrang's students." He walked over quickly, "Professor Snape has helped prepare all the potions. You wait until the game starts tomorrow..."

"Wait a minute...wait a minute, competition?" Nietzsche thought he had heard wrongly.

He turned his head and looked at Snape, hoping that the other person would correct him, but in the end, his headmaster just silently stuffed a bottle of potion into his hand.

Isn’t the warrior Hermione? Don’t say he was the ‘golden egg’ in the second game.

"Didn't anyone else tell you? Miss Granger wrote in the Triwizard Tournament questionnaire - you are the person she cares about most in this school. Everyone has their own options, so you will be selected tomorrow. Sink to the bottom of the black lake."

Ludo Bagman wiped his sweat and was in such a hurry that he seemed not willing to stay here for a moment.

He paused and continued: "But don't worry, Principal Dumbledore has made arrangements, and nothing will happen to you...Okay, you can spend the night with your dean tonight."

Really, Nietzsche knew that Hermione had no good intentions.

Although he was a little moved when he heard that he was 'the person Hermione cares about the most', when he came back to his senses, looking at the back of Ludo Bagman, he felt a little itchy...

"Hey, hey, it's time to test love." Snape threw the quilt next to the stove and said gloatingly, "This potion can make you breathe underwater and also make you fall into a deep sleep. Holmes, you Just hope for someone else."

Nietzsche fell into silence, and after taking this bottle of medicine, he would be the golden egg hidden under the black lake.

No wonder Hermione said those meaningful words to Crookshanks. Looking back now, cold sweat began to break out on his back... He could do nothing but lie under the water and wait for someone to rescue him.

Oh, by the way, there may be a group of mermaid guards around.

What was even more uncomfortable was that, in order to keep the news confidential, he had to sleep in the same room as Dean Snape tonight.

"With Hermione's ability, I don't worry about myself." Nietzsche pointed out his logical error, "And if Hermione chooses me, then there is no need to test."

"I just know how to talk." Snape lay on the floor and turned off all the lights with a wave of his wand. "I suggest you go to bed early. You will have to get up early tomorrow to be sunk into the water."

Nietzsche came closer. He looked at the dean who turned his back and clutched his right arm. He suddenly remembered Lily Potter, who was mentioned repeatedly by Black and Dumbledore.

He also lay down, muttering in his mind about Snape's past.

"professor?"

"Um."

"Have you been tested?" He thought for a long time and chose to start with the other party's own words.

At least I won't get beaten...

Snape was silent for a long time. Just when Nietzsche thought that the other party didn't want to talk to him and had fallen asleep, he heard him suddenly say: "Not really."

Listen, how vague!

It doesn’t count as having happened... so it’s ‘had’ first, and then it’s ‘not counted’.

"Why doesn't it count?" Nietzsche said curiously, staring at the dark ceiling.

What kind of test was it that made Snape just like to hide in the basement and look at everyone with a bitter look on his face?

"Are you Mr. Know-It-All? You want to know everything." His tone did not waver. "If I were you, I would think carefully about how to save myself if the warriors failed to rescue... from hundreds of mermaids Come out with your hands."

"Professor~ We kill a dragon, not to become another dragon." Nietzsche curled up on the fingertips of his robe and was gently stroking the wand.

"Because it was a wrong thing, there's no inspection, it's that simple."

After Snape finished speaking, there was only the sound of breathing, as if these words had exhausted all his strength.

Chapter 255 The second game

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After Hermione got up the next day, she followed the professor and Cedric to the edge of the Black Lake. The reflection of the auditorium on the calm water was very clear. She looked down, hoping to find some familiar people.

'It should be down there by now...' she thought to herself.

Karkaroff and Maxim at the golden referee's round table were very unhappy because of the previous "Daily Prophet", and even the smiles that made them smile at the beginning were gone.

"Is Gabrielle going to be okay?" Fleur said nervously, "I didn't know what that question meant..."

Her previous arrogance had turned into deep self-blame at this moment. She felt that she had dragged her sister Gabrielle Delacour into a very dangerous situation.

"It depends on your ability. Okay, I believe you." Madam Maxime comforted.

On the other side, Krum frowned and kept doing complicated warm-up exercises. He took off his clothes, and the strong muscles he revealed made the witches in the audience cheer and scream.

But the boys... They used to admire Krum, but now they hate him more.

"The reason why Eloise danced with me was that I thought I could get Krum's autograph... Although he was sitting on the Slytherin side to eat, I just didn't want to do it." Theodore shouted loudly, "Come on Granger!"

Warrington and others also whistled a few times.

Hermione heard her name being called by everyone, and looked back to find that the Slytherins and Ravenclaws were all waving flags in unison - there was a logo of a python and a lion dancing on it.

But most of them were boys. They hated Krum. There was nothing they could do. The girls had revealed their intentions after the dance.

As for Slytherin... there was nothing they could do. The only one from the Snake House was Hermione's "golden egg". Who else could they support but her?

Ten minutes later, Harry Potter finally came over. He covered the area between his chest and abdomen and gasped for air, as if his ribs were injured.

"Are you ready?" Hermione asked him with concern.

"No problem. Professor Moody borrowed Neville's book "Magical Aquatic Plants and Properties of the Mediterranean Sea" before, which came in handy..." Harry curled up like a compressed spring.

Scrimgeour, who replaced Crouch, stood up, and Moody, who was sitting in the audience, stared at him intently.

"You only have one hour to take back what you care about most from them... three... two... one!"

The whistle sounded like the first ray of sunlight piercing through the clouds in the morning, echoing on the cold and wet lake surface. Hermione took off her cloak and took out her wand to knock on her clothes.

"Bubble"

Then, she cast a bubble spell on herself before jumping into the lake with Fleur and Krum.

The water in the Black Lake was extremely cold at the end of February. Although her clothes would not get wet, the lake water could still pour in from her wrists, neck, and trouser legs, and her head was like being put in a glass fish tank.

The biting cold caused her some pain at first, and slowly, as she went deeper, her limbs began to stiffen and the surroundings began to become dark.

The depths of the Black Lake were as dark as the bottom of the sea. Ordinary people could not see the surroundings clearly. The twisting water plants below her were like a black forest in the wind.

In addition to the sound of water flow, Hermione's ears were left with some strange roars.

The strong light illuminated a small area of ​​the Eternal Night Zone. Because it was underwater, the buzzing sound was more intense than ever. Several Grindiwogs were cut in half by the hot lightsabers as soon as they stretched out their long claws.

Blood spread in the water, and the hidden water monsters rushed towards her like a group of sharks that smelled fishy smells.

It was inconvenient to move underwater, and the resistance made Hermione's movements even slower. She thought of a kind of flame - lily of the valley blue fire, which could burn underwater with the help of oxygen.

But this was not enough. Although the lily of the valley fire could burn underwater, it could only be maintained in a small cluster.

Therefore, the mermaid language was needed at this time. For mermaids, underwater was like land, which could make the lily of the valley fire burning underwater burn as vigorously as outside.

"The blazing fire (merman language)" Hermione stammered, and wherever the sword passed, it was all flames.

Therefore, people on the shore can see a unique spectacle:

It seems that there is a storm buried under this black lake. The dark bottom of the lake always flashes a few dazzling blue lights. The dragon-like flames of lily of the valley make the black lake look like a cracked mirror.

Dumbledore thought of something and turned his head to look at Grindelwald behind him with an inquiring look.

'It can't be a firestorm...'

Grindelwald and the water plants were turned into ashes by the underwater fire tornado, and at the same time, Hermione was able to see the stone community sitting on the mud.

Then, a figure swam over from a distance.

"I saw those flames and almost got lost just now." Harry had gills on both sides of his neck and webbed hands and feet.

He looked much freer than Hermione, like a real fish, and rushed to her side with a slight shake.

"The mermaid tribe is down here." Hermione was suspended in the air.

The mermaids seemed to be frightened by the previous scene. Their skins appeared lime-gray under the blue-white light, and their heads looked like a ball of dark green algae stuck on a round stone.

The mermaids rushed over from all directions, holding tridents and iron spears, piercing Hermione's yellow fangs, and grinning maliciously.

"How are we going to get through?" Harry took out a silver knife from his waist and held the wand in his right hand.

"Your...project...is inside." One of the merfolk swam over with a little Grindiwog on a waterweed and pointed behind him, "The powerful warrior...guardian...must survive..."

The grammar was terrible, and Hermione didn't understand the inversion at first.

Dozens of merfolk made way and looked along their yellow eyes. In the middle of the settlement was a mermaid square. Under one of the huge mermaid girl statues, Hermione saw four unconscious people and a...broom:

Nietzsche, Ginny, Gabrielle, and Qiu Zhang were lying under the mermaid girl's tail, with a long string of bubbles constantly spitting out of their mouths.

As for the flying broom, she suspected that it was Krum's favorite thing.

"What guardian?" Hermione said in the mermaid language, with potholes.

"You can speak our language too..." said one of the mermaids who was wearing a shark tooth necklace. "The guardian is the creature that protects this Black Lake. The whole village lives under its protection."

If there is anything in the Black Lake that can protect these mermaids, Hermione's first thought is Headmaster Dumbledore.

But in this game, it is obviously impossible for them to deal with the referee...then there is only one possibility-the giant squid!

The mermaids looked at Hermione who made underwater fireworks with curious eyes, and pushed out the drums from the stone house. The drums sent waves and bubbles at the bottom of the lake. Then, several mermen blew the conch horns.

In this mysterious ceremony, a dark and huge shadow rose from behind the mermaid square, covering the entire mermaid tribe tightly.

The huge tentacles that once surfaced to bask in the sun and let the students help scratch their itch were just the tip of the giant squid.

"Fhtagn!"

Chapter 256: Mr. Ke gives out candy!

The shadow that blocked out the sun was probably as big as two giant lighthouses, and that didn't include the tentacles that were flying around and stirring up the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake. Hermione raised her wand high, and she could even see the teeth in the suckers.

Of course, how could the second game just be a dive for the warriors?

It's not that simple.

"Save people first." Harry swiped his arms back and rushed to the bottom of the mermaid statue like a torpedo.

But he was a little embarrassed, and he seemed a little embarrassed to hold Ginny, so he changed to carrying her on his back.

At this moment, a shark rushed over... However, this was a freshwater area. When the other party swam under the statue, Hermione and Harry saw clearly that it was Krum, who was wearing swimming trunks on his lower body and had a shark head.

He bravely hit the mermaid statue, causing the flying broom embedded in it to fall out.

"Is this your goal?" Harry widened his fish eyes.

This is too unfair. If he had known this, he would have just picked something at random instead of waiting until the game to worry about Ron's sister's life.

"What else? I don't have anything to remember from Hogwarts." Krum's shark head made a hoarse voice, "This broom accompanied me to the Quidditch World Cup final..."

人 Following closely was Cedric, who hugged Qiu Zhang's waist, just as handsome as the posture at the Christmas ball, and the girl in his arms was still smiling.

Hermione supported Nietzsche's back with one hand and held up a barrier above the heads of several people with the other hand.

"Where's Fleur?" She shouted in the hood.

"I don't know, maybe she got lost... I say, what should we do now?" Cedric responded loudly.

"Cooperation."

But Krum ignored her suggestion and stepped onto the flying broom first, rushing upwards without a word. From his shark head, it was unclear whether he was laughing or not, and he rose rapidly without looking back.

But in a second, the giant squid's tentacles flicked lightly, and he was thrown back to the bottom of the lake, and the splashed mud polluted everyone's vision.

"That... cooperation seems to be the only way." Krum said, covering his head.

"But we can't just leave her alone, can we?" Harry looked back at the silver-haired girl with a pale face, and struggled to say, "Although I can't say I like Fleur, I won't let her sister die here."

"You are still trying to be a hero, no one will die in this game." Krum said in a muffled voice.

Although they felt that with Dumbledore around, nothing serious would happen, but Hermione, who had grown from the first grade to the fourth grade, didn't trust him so much. It was a miracle that she could live safely until now, okay!