The days at Hogwarts

On the shore of Black Lake, George and Fred were shouting out their wares. They carried paper and pen with them to ensure that every bet had a receipt and that no orders would be lost.

"Four boys and one girl!"

"The odds are fair, this is the only one..."

"Want a bet?"

"Five people go into the water, how many can survive?"

Just then, two figures walking hand in hand passed by. Hermione looked at them expressionlessly: "Oh, please, you two, please be kind..."

Loren looked at their equipment with interest: "And you promised Mr. Weasley that you would not participate in gambling. Did you forget about the night of the Quidditch World Cup?"

Fred spread his hands: "Oh, we are indeed not involved in gambling."

"We are sitting at the bank." George looked at him and turned around to greet him louder.

"The bet is placed!"

"Fu Rong, pay ten for one."

Loren and Hermione smiled helplessly, turned and walked towards the competition venue.

"Where's Ron?"

"do not know."

"..."

Harry and Neville walked side by side, avoiding the eyes of others and looking at the gilly grass in their hands. It was slimy, smelly, and shaped like countless slippery gray-green rat tails.

"This can make your hands and feet grow webs, greatly speeding up your swimming speed."

"Are you sure, Neville?"

"Of course, that's what the book says."

"Can you hold it for an hour?"

"it should be OK."

"it should be OK?"

"..."

The venue for the second game was set underwater, and the judges scored based on the mermaids' language broadcast. The audience on the water could not watch the game at all. Moreover, five warriors competed at the same time. The game lasted one hour, and it only took one and a half hours including the opening and closing. , so compared to the viewing seats in the first game, this time it was much simpler.

The breeze blew slowly across the lake, causing sparkling ripples. In the center of the lake, three hanging tower auditoriums were built with wood and hay, and narrow wooden boats came and went to greet the little wizards.

On the hastily constructed referee's bench, Ludo Bagman put his wand against his neck, and his voice thundered across the dark lake to the opening stage:

"Welcome to the second event. Last night, all five warriors had one thing stolen - their treasures."

The warriors lined up on the shore, each one ten feet apart, wearing different swimsuits.

Harry was on the far right, and couldn't help but glance to the left. Of course, the boys didn't have much to look at. The one who looked good was Fleur, who was wearing a backless one-piece swimsuit, revealing a large area of ​​smooth, white and tender skin.

Loren and Hermione found a seat in the corner and sat down. There was no live broadcast anyway, so they took out snacks and fed the fish.

"Do you have to feed the fish even if you don't fish?" Hermione glanced at him lightly.

"You don't understand, it's all about accumulating luck." Loren didn't look away and threw down a few potato chips.

"Do Fleur's legs look good?"

"It should be pretty good. Harry was stunned. Click, click, click..." Loren said slowly, chewing potato chips calmly and calmly, "But I don't know, mainly because I haven't seen other girls. Wearing it like this, there is no reference standard, and I can’t tell whether it looks good or not.”

"is it?"

"Yes, so when will you wear it and show it to me?"

After speaking, Loren secretly glanced at her legs. They were straight, with graceful curves and good proportions.

Unfortunately, it's just a pair of jeans.

"Look at this strawberry pudding!" Hermione finally couldn't help but spat at him, reaching out to cover his eyes with her fingers tightly, leaving no space for him.

"Hey, it's not fair! There are obviously more male warriors, but I didn't stop you from looking..."

Loren's protest was drowned in Bagman's explanation: "...these five treasures, one for each warrior, are now lying at the bottom of the Black Lake. To win, each warrior only needs to find the treasure and return On the water, the difficulty lies in the time limit of one hour!”

Sharp whistles echoed in the cold, delicate air, and a burst of cheers and applause erupted from the stands.

Hearing only a few splashes, Hermione released her hand covering his eyes, and the place where the warriors originally stood side by side was now vacant.

"It's all your fault. I didn't even see any magic used by the other warriors." Luo Lun complained outright, "You have to compensate, I want to see the swimsuit!"

Hermione put her hand into his bag of potato chips with an expressionless expression: "Cedric and Fleur used the bubble spell, but Fleur didn't seem to have fully mastered it yet. Krum used human transformation to become half human and half shark. , Graves couldn’t see anything unusual, it seemed like he had something like a leaf in his mouth..."

"I don't care. This game is nothing to watch in the first place. You compensate me for my viewing experience." Loren glanced at her expression quietly.

"..."

Hermione suddenly felt the weight of an extra leg on her legs. Looking down, she saw that the man had put his left leg on her legs and was sitting in a strange posture, with his butt still on the stool.

"This is not compensation, this is just interest. Compensation must be calculated separately."

"..."

Hermione stood on tiptoes and wiggled twice, changing to a less awkward angle.

"Your legs are soft and flexible. Can I sit on them all?" Loren fed her a potato chip.

"Crack, click, click..."

"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you agree?"

Hermione was silent for a long time, and then said softly: "I don't agree, but I can help you with your astronomy homework."

Loren clicked his tongue and looked meaningfully into her eyes, but she turned her head to look at the water, looking like she was watching the game intently, chewing potato chips in her mouth: "Kacha kacha..."

"I don't agree!" Loren said in a deep voice, "I should be the one tutoring you. I've done a great job in astronomy!"

"..."

Chapter 485 The Second Project

"Four male warriors, one female warrior... you can place bets before the end of the game. Do you want to see it, my dear little Ronnie?"

In the stands on the shore of the Black Lake, the Weasley brothers, who had been busy all morning, were selling gambling to their younger brother. They knew that Ron still had a small amount of pocket money on him.

"Furong pays ten for one..."

"Harry loses eight to one!"

Ron's expression was cold and unmoved, and he even yawned: "Don't think I don't know, as long as I make a bet, you will steal my money, and then threaten me by writing a letter to my parents..."

"Oh, little Ron has become smarter." George and Fred looked surprised.

Ron hummed proudly, raised his chin, and left here with long strides.

Harry got up early in the morning to prepare for the game, and the other roommates also got up one after another to prepare for the game. Only his mind was in a mess last night, as if dozens of Peeves were yelling in his ears, causing him to keep his eyes open until the early morning before he lost consciousness. , so I got up late.

Harry's treasure turned out to be Ginny, which was really infuriating. A few days ago, they both despised anyone who was in love, but they didn't expect that his best friend would be in love with his sister in the blink of an eye!

And Ginny, this competition is obviously his time to shine...

Ron looked around, planning to find someone to denounce these two people.

The tower-like grandstand is set up on the water and is divided into several levels. Loren and Hermione are sitting in the corner, staring down at the water and whispering something, probably observing the movements under the water.

Neville was in the front row, while Seamus and Dean sat further away, taking Creevey and his brother with them, taking pictures of the dark gray water.

Another Harry fan.

Ron thought for a moment and decided to go and denounce Harry to Loren.

……

Because the little witch's legs were numbed, Loren was forced to return to a normal sitting position, holding an empty bag of potato chips and watching blankly as the fish ate the potato chips that fell into the water.

He poked the little witch's thigh and complained: "It's all your fault, couldn't you have said it properly when you asked me to come down? If you had to do it, I would spill all my potato chips!"

"You have to feed the fish anyway."

"Can I feed them all?" Loren poked with a sullen face, "I don't even have to eat now."

"I'll make it up to you." Hermione took out a brand new, unopened bag of potato chips from the pendant and handed it over.

"feed me!"

A look of helplessness appeared on Hermione's face, but she still tore open the bag, silently picked up the potato chips and fed them to her.

Ron, who was about to approach, was stunned for a moment when he saw this.

Damn it, another couple is in love!

He turned away in disgust, his good friend Neville was still reliable.

Suddenly there was a girl next to Neville, it was Hufflepuff's Hannah Abbott. The two were very close to each other when they were talking, with an intimate smile on their faces.

"..."

Ron couldn't help but remain silent.

What's there to talk about in love? Why can't you study hard?

At this moment, Creevey, who was in charge of taking pictures, suddenly screamed: "Look! Someone is coming out!"

……

"[Strength is loosened and strength is released]"

Harry's wand was aimed at Grindylow, who was clutching his legs tightly. Instead of spraying sparks, it seemed to shoot them with a boiling water column. Wherever they were hit by the water column, their green skin suddenly turned green. The red, ugly and ferocious water monster immediately floated towards the bottom of the water.

Harry freed his feet from Grindylow's entanglement. Now his feet were completely different from normal human feet. The toes had become longer and connected with webs in the middle, as if his feet had become duck webs.

I thought swimming was the most difficult thing underwater, but I didn't expect it was these water monsters that were the most difficult thing to deal with.

Fortunately, the gillyweed had played its role. Harry waved his flippers and swam forward with all his strength, far behind Grindylow, and from time to time he released some hot water jets behind him.

Occasionally, Grindylow would grab his foot again, kicking it away with force when the number was small, or using magic spells when the number was large.

He didn't know how many Grindylows he had beaten up, but finally he felt his foot hit a horned head. He looked down and saw a dozen Grindylows floating around him that had been kicked unconscious, their eyes wide open as they drifted downstream. The few Grindylows that were still awake waved their fists at Harry and hid in the water plants.

A smile appeared on Harry's face, and he swung his flippers and swam in the direction pointed by Myrtle.

All the way to the mermaid village and the somewhat familiar statue square, Harry saw the bass mermaid again.

"Your project is to rescue your own friends..." the bass mermaid said in a deep voice. He seemed to be the "kidnapper leader". Behind him stood dozens of eyeing mermaids, with harpoons in their hands and a fierce look in their eyes.

Harry looked past the group of mermaids and towards the tail of the mermaid statue, where the five warrior treasures were tightly bound.

Ginny was tethered between Cho Chang and Gabrielle, along with Boot from Ilvermorny, the tall girl from Durmstrang. All five of them seemed to be sleeping deeply, their heads hanging limply on their shoulders, and a string of thin blisters popping out of their mouths.

Just as he was taking stock of the situation, the mermaids around him suddenly started talking excitedly and looked above his head.

Cedric swam toward them. There was a huge bubble around his head. The refraction at the contact surface between water and air made his facial features look elongated and widened, which looked very funny.

When he saw Harry's gills, a smile appeared on his face, and he mouthed: "The shape is good."

Harry looked at his distorted features and smiled too.

While speaking, Cedric took out the knife from his pocket, cut the rope, put one of Qiu Zhang's hands on his shoulder, and put his right hand on Qiu Zhang's waist.

Harry's smile faded. Although he was no longer obsessed with Cho Chang, he just wasn't happy.

"Don't be dazed, Graves and Krum are coming soon." Cedric hugged Qiu Zhang and went upstream, and soon disappeared.

Graves and Krum... why not Fleur?

A trace of doubt flashed in Harry's mind, and out of some concern, he did not take Ginny away immediately, but stayed next to the hostage and swam slowly.

Five minutes later, the mermaid suddenly screamed with joy. Harry turned around and saw a huge creature swimming towards them. Below it was a human body, wearing swimming trunks, and above it was a shark's head.

Harry looked at him silently, wondering whether he had designed this shape specially, or whether the transformation was not successful and was only half completed.

Krum, the half-human shark, swam directly towards the big girl, biting and pulling at the rope around her body. The problem was that his new teeth had a weird structure, and all small things got stuck between his teeth, and he couldn't even bite for a long time. use.

It certainly looked like a shark brain... Harry cast a cutting spell and cut his rope.

Krum glanced at him, turned around, grabbed the girl and swam up, taking her quickly to the water.

Following closely behind him was Graves of Ilvermorny. He had no bubbles on his head, and no fish fins or webs on his body. His lips were tightly pressed together, and he swam like an ordinary human. come over.

His skin was red, his limbs were trembling, and he looked very cold.