Chapter 273
The audience outside the field looked at the image on the old parchment. The movements of the five warriors were divided into five boxes, all of which were clearly visible.
"Harry wants to use the force leakage spell to attack the mermaid. It seems that the effect of this spell has some problems in the water..." Bagman's attention has been focused on Harry. After seeing his actions Explain immediately.
Some of the audience looked at the box where Harry was, and saw that the tip of his wand did not emit the red beam that should have appeared. Instead, a large number of bubbles burst out, and drove a beam of hot water to touch the box. On the ugly mermaid.
When the water flow came into contact with the mermaid, the mermaid did not appear as weak as it should have been. There were only a few red patches on the brown skin that had been scalded by the hot water. It seemed that its movements were not affected.
"We all know that as the youngest warrior, Potter has not experienced many courses. This is the disadvantage of his inexperience..." Bagman explained with a worried look, "The spell is in the water and in the air. There is a difference...unless you are strong enough to not be affected by water."
The picture on the parchment changed again——
Mermaids living in high latitudes almost always survive in cold water. Although they are not hurt by the stimulation of hot water, they are furious in their hearts.
He opened his mouth, and although the audience couldn't hear it, they could guess that he made a series of sharp screams.
Then, more and more ugly brown-skinned mermaids holding steel forks gathered from all directions, driving a large group of Grindylows and surrounding Harry in the middle.
If there was no miracle, it would be impossible for Harry to escape from this dense encirclement.
Gillweed can only allow him to adapt to movement and breathing in the water, but it cannot improve his combat capabilities in the water.
Under such circumstances, a little wizard who was only in fourth grade was obviously no match for the ferocious mermaid who had lived in the water since childhood.
However, safety officer Dracula, who was lazily floating over the Black Lake, had no intention of helping. He even had the time to stuff a blood-flavored lollipop into his mouth and watched with interest. With the vastly expanded Hogwarts title.
Not only did Dracula seem nonchalant, but other viewers didn't seem to care about Harry's condition at all... In fact, their attention was focused on another box, and they basically didn't see it. What happened over there——
There was a figure riding a majestic horse-shaped water monster. It was really like riding the wind and waves in the black lake, speeding through the water.
Such a magical sight was so impressive that the little wizards looked at it with envy, imagining that they would also have the opportunity to ride such an amazing magical animal and steal the show in front of everyone.
Now in the entire arena, only Bagman and Harry's Gryffindor friends were worried about Harry being trapped in a tight situation.
"Professor, Harry is about to be attacked by a mermaid, aren't you going to help him?"
Hermione and Ron happened to be sitting close to Dracula floating in the air, and Hermione was anxiously raising her head and shouting to Dracula.
"Don't worry, it's not time for me to take action yet." Dracula took the blood-flavored lollipop out of his mouth and said to the little witch in the audience.
"But……"
"Don't you see, Potter will no longer be alone soon." Dracula said.
He lifted his chin toward the other box on the other side of the title deed.
Hermione and Ron looked over and found that two clearly distinct boxes suddenly trembled. Then, the two boxes overlapped together in an instant, forming a larger box.
"That's... John Kowalski!" Ron screamed.
In the scene shown on the land deed, John Kowalski, the most popular warrior in the audience, rode a horse-shaped water monster, breaking through the waves, and rushed into the mermaid group surrounding Harry.
The ugly brown-skinned mermaid was scattered in all directions by the waves caused by the horse-shaped water monster. The mermaid flipped over on its back...or rather, the mermaid flipped over on its back. In the blink of an eye, a large hole was opened in this unbreakable encirclement.
John rode the horse-shaped water monster and quickly came to Harry's side, pulled him onto the saddle-shaped waist behind the water monster, and then rushed out from the mermaid again.
As a magical animal of 4X level and famous for its water nature, the water monster swims much faster than the mermaid. In the blink of an eye, they broke away from the mermaid's pursuit, leaving only the sharp and piercing roar of the mermaid behind them. Disperse...
After getting rid of the mermaid completely, John put Harry down from the back of the water monster.
There was no normal conversation between the two of them in the water, so John just glanced at Harry, made a few gestures, and gave a thumbs up.
Harry understood what John meant.
Because Cedric had the same expression last night when he gave him the herbal book containing the gillyweed.
John also accepted Harry's favor for telling him the content of the first project, and helping him today was also to return that favor.
Seeing that Harry understood what he meant, John smiled and nodded, then rode the horse-shaped water monster back and forth like the wind, and then went to look for the "treasure" mentioned in the golden egg prompt.
Harry stood there for a moment, then started laughing.
His seemingly silly "capitalization" move in the first game saved his entire second event.
All I can say is that there are still many good people!
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Harry smiled knowingly under the water, but the situation on the water surface did not seem peaceful.
"Professor Hicks, what do you mean by your warriors?" Karkaroff stood up from the judges' seat again and asked angrily, "You Yinfa Mori are planning to form an alliance with Hogwarts to suppress Our Durmstrang and Beauxbatons?!”
Their previous conflict had just been suppressed by Dumbledore and Bagman joining forces.
At that time, thanks to Percy's discovery of the rule that warriors could use any object on the playing field to help themselves compete, Karkaroff had no reason to continue making trouble.
But just a few minutes after he calmed down, when he saw the two warriors joining forces, he couldn't help but want to rant again.
"I don't quite understand, Professor Karkaroff, do you have some kind of persecution delusion?" Professor Hicks was not an easy person to deal with, and he stabbed back without mercy, "A kind person, Is there anything wrong with helping others when you see them in danger?”
"We don't want and have no need to waste time and effort targeting you Durmstrang!"
"But this is in a game, not in a casual day." Karkaroff was furious and said loudly, "He is helping his competitors, which is both for Kowalski himself and other warriors. unfair!"
"If you have enough charisma, you can definitely ask other warriors to volunteer to help your warriors instead of jumping around like a clown." Professor Hicks glanced at him contemptuously and shook his head casually. Shake his head.
"You...you are insulting a referee!" Karkaroff's face turned red with anger, and his right hand kept twitching, as if he was trying not to pull out his wand and cast a spell.
In other words, if he could have fought it, he might have pulled out the wand long ago.
But Professor Hicks is a well-known master of spells. She was a well-deserved first-tier combat force in the global wizarding war against Grindelwald decades ago, and she is not as good-natured as Dumbledore, so she is stuck. Karloff was really embarrassed when facing her.
"I am also a referee, Karkaroff." Looking at Karkaroff's expression, Professor Hicks showed a faint smile and corrected, "In my opinion, we just have different opinions on the judgment of the players. It was just a little friendly conflict."
Seeing that Karkaroff's face was getting darker, Bagman, as the only official from the Ministry of Magic present, quickly stepped forward to smooth things over between the two.
"Professor Hicks, Professor Karkaroff, it is normal for two referees to have conflicting opinions," he said, "but there is really no need for you to argue..."
"Including the previous incident of riding a horse-shaped water monster, since Harry and Mr. Kowalski did not violate the rules, they cannot punish the two warriors;"
"Similarly, since Mr. Karkaroff believes that their actions are unfair to other warriors, it would be better to reflect this in the scores. This is a meaningful thing, right?"
Bagman wiped his sweat and felt that all his emotional intelligence in this life was used today.
Karkaroff snorted coldly and sat back in his chair, indicating that he recognized Bagman's statement.
It is conceivable that in this game, he will severely lower the points of other contestants...
In the auditorium not far away, the little wizards didn't know that a fight almost broke out on the referee's side. They were still looking at the huge piece of old parchment with interest, and carefully watched the five warriors' wonderful operations in the lake.
Of course, the most eye-catching one is still John riding a horse-shaped water monster.
Before the other warriors had swam far, he had already ridden the water monster through a large area of the Black Lake.
"It's really strange, why didn't I see Rove come to watch the game? I'm still waiting to ask him for specific information about the handsome water monster his cousin is riding!"
In the auditorium of Hufflepuff House, Justin Finch-Fletchley, a Muggle born in the same class as Rolf and Harry, looked around and said with some disappointment.
"Yeah, this game is so interesting, it would be a pity if Rolf doesn't come." Susan Bones nodded in agreement.
"Perhaps Rolf took a position in another college?" Ernie MacMillan guessed, "Isn't he always hanging out with that crazy girl from Ravenclaw?"
Just as the little wizards of Hufflepuff kept guessing, a voice suddenly rang in their ears:
"Don't guess, he has other more important tasks today."
Ernie, Susan and Justin all turned their heads and saw Dracula's iconic silver hair and black and red cloak.
"Professor Dracula, have you finally wandered here?" Susan said in surprise, "We were still thinking just now. You have almost circled around the arena, why haven't you come to Hufflepuff yet? !”
The corner of Dracula's mouth twitched. He always felt that the little witch used words like "swaying" and "floating" to describe himself, which was a bit unpleasant, but he couldn't find anything worth refuting.
Fortunately, Ernie MacMillan on the side quickly changed the subject, so that Dracula no longer struggled with how to refute Susan's description.
"Professor, did you just say that Rolf has other more important tasks?" Ernie asked, "What tasks can he have? It can't be to tame another horse-shaped water monster, right?"
"That's not true." Dracula looked at the picture on the land deed, smiled and shook his head, "But judging from Kowalski's progress, you should be able to find out soon."
On the land deed, the large box formed by Harry and John split into two again.
Currently, John is still far ahead, riding a horse-shaped water monster and looking around.
Among the other four warriors, Harry's progress is the fastest.
On the one hand, the effect of the gill grass is indeed good. He carefully avoided the search of the mermaid in the lake and could swim quickly with his palms and flippers adapted to the aquatic environment.
On the other hand, when Harry was rescued by John, he also took a ride on the horse-shaped water monster. He rode for a long distance, thus opening up a large gap with the other three people.
Judging from the progress of the exploration, among the remaining three warriors, Krum, who turned into a shark head and had excellent water properties, made the fastest progress; Cedric, who combined the bubble head spell with human body transformation, was second; only one The Hibiscus Bubble Curse is at the end.
Fleur's swimming skills are actually no worse than Krum's. In addition, her body is slim and slim, so she receives very little resistance. Her ultimate speed is even faster than Krum's.
But after all, she was not a student from a school built at a higher latitude like Durmstrang, and she could not compare with Klum's ability to adapt to cold water. The cold lake water in February caused her body functions to drop a lot, and she was unable to exert her full strength at all. play.
Seeing another group of mermaids surrounding Fleur, who was making slow progress, Justin Finch-Fletchley, who nervously watched the land deed screen, became a little anxious.
"Why are there these ugly mermaids again? They are so abominable!" He said angrily, "And these mermaids have ruined all my fantasies about mermaids, wuwu..."
"Oh?" Dracula became interested, "What fantasies do you have about mermaids?"
"I originally thought mermaids were the kind of mermaids in fairy tales - the kind with long hair and a good figure." Justin murmured sadly,
"But the mermaid in the Black Lake here at Hogwarts cannot be said to be beautiful at all - iron-gray skin, disheveled hair, incomplete teeth..."
"Sure enough, fairy tales are all lies!"
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