Chapter 275: The Silly Boy in the Four-wizard Tournament
More than half of the time has passed, and the current situation on the court is that one warrior has been eliminated, and one warrior has successfully rescued his partner.
The game is still going on.
There are three warriors still swimming hard in the black lake, looking for the "treasure" in the hint given by the golden egg.
Finally, with only ten minutes left before the one-hour limit, Harry swung his webbed fingers, breathed through the gill pouches on the outside of his neck, and swam to the mermaid village that John had visited before.
He swam past the mermaids vigilantly, fearing that the guys raising Grindylow would suddenly stop him. He quickly bypassed the mermaids singing in the small square and swam to the rough stone statue.
On the tail of the giant mermaid carved from a boulder, one of the five people who were originally tightly tied was rescued, and now there are still four people left who have not been rescued.
"Ginny!"
Harry saw the little witch with fiery red hair at a glance.
He swam hard toward where the hostages were, wary of the swarms of merfolk nearby.
Harry thought that the mermaids would attack him with steel forks. Fortunately, these mermaids kept their agreement with Dumbledore and did not do so.
The rope that tied the hostage to the statue was made of water grass, thick, slippery, and very strong. Moreover, these ropes have countless strange knots tied inside and outside them, which cannot be untied in a short time.
However, after the test just now, Harry did not have the ability to successfully use magic spells in the water and was unable to cut the rope with the cutting spell. After all, he couldn't even do the silent spell... Now he just wished he had brought a knife with him.
Harry looked around and saw that many of the mermaids around the hostages were holding sharp steel forks.
So he swam quickly toward a seven-foot-tall mermaid with a long green beard and a necklace of shark teeth, and gestured to ask to borrow its spear.
The mermaid laughed and shook her head.
"We can't help," he said from the water in a hoarse, deep voice.
"Bring it here!" Harry said viciously.
But there were only some bubbles coming out of his mouth, and no sound came out at all.
He quickly swam forward a few feet, grabbed the steel fork in the mermaid's hand, and tried to wrest it from him.
But even though Harry took the gillweed, which allowed him to adapt to the water environment, his strength was obviously not as strong as that of a mermaid who swims in the water all year round.
The mermaid easily pulled back the steel fork, then tossed Harry aside, and then burst into laughter, as if mocking the weakness of this so-called "warrior".
However, Harry had no time to be angry about this. He turned around in the water eagerly, and then looked around, trying to find a sharp object... anything...
Fortunately, there are some scattered stone fragments at the bottom of the lake, many of which are relatively sharp.
Harry swooped down, grabbed a particularly sharp piece, and returned to the statue.
He used the stone to hack at the rope that bound Ginny. Even so, it took several minutes until his arms were so sore that he could break the rope.
Ginny floated in confusion, her eyes closed, a few inches above the bottom of the lake, bobbing in the waves.
Harry took a few breaths from the cheek pouches on the side of his neck and looked around blankly.
John should have rescued a hostage, but the other warriors were still missing.
Harry hesitated.
He heard a voice in his heart saying that as long as Ginny was rescued, the other hostages were the tasks of other warriors and had nothing to do with him.
Moreover, according to the current situation with four people left, John must have only taken away one person... With such a powerful helper, John only took away one person, so why did he have to meddle in those nosy matters?
Harry took Ginny's arm and prepared to lead her back to shore.
At this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a strand of long, silky black hair that was still tied to the stone statue——
Autumn Zhang.
Harry's memory suddenly returned to the second grade, when he was obsessed with this girl.
Even though he has now let go of this youthful movement, it is not so easy to completely let go of him as a stranger... What's more, he was able to reach this point thanks to Cedric.
Harry stopped swimming with his flippers.
His eyes moved, and he suddenly thought that of course there was no need for John to save other people——
When John came here, it was still early before the one-hour limit. All he wanted in his mind was to complete the game as soon as possible, not to doubt that other warriors could not save their "treasure"...
If it weren't for the fact that there were only ten minutes left in the hour, Harry wouldn't have doubted whether other warriors could reach this position.
However, if it was true, as the mermaid's song said, that the hostages would "rot here" after one hour, then he couldn't just sit idly by!
Harry gritted his teeth and suddenly turned around and swam back to the stone statue. He picked up the sharp stone and knocked it against Qiu Zhang's rope.
The next moment, several pairs of thick, gray-brown hands grabbed him.
Six or seven mermaids pulled him away from Qiu Zhang. They shook their green-haired heads and pulled him viciously.
"You can only take your own hostages," one of the mermaids said to him, "don't worry about others..."
"No!" Harry shouted angrily, but only two bubbles came out of his mouth.
"Your project is to rescue your own friends, don't worry about others!" said the mermaid.
"She is my friend too!" Harry pointed at Qiu Zhang and shouted loudly, a big silver bubble emerged silently from his lips, "And I don't want other people to die either!"
Qiu Zhang's face was pale, and her long hair was floating gently in the water. The little girl with silver hair had blue cheeks and looked lifeless.
Harry struggled to get away from the merman, but they pulled harder and pulled him back.
His chest heaved violently, and he looked around desperately.
Where have all the other warriors gone? If he sent Ginny to the surface and came back to rescue Cho Chang and the others, would it still be too late? Can he still find them?
He looked down at his watch, wondering how much time was left...but his watch had long been soaked in water, and the hands didn't move.
At this moment, the surrounding mermaids suddenly excitedly pointed at the top of Harry's head and let out sharp screams.
Harry looked up and saw Cedric swimming towards them.
There is a huge bubble around Cedric's head, making his features look elongated and widened, making him look comically elongated.
"Sorry, I just got lost!" He mouthed, with an equally nervous look on his face, "Fleur and Krum should be here soon."
Harry felt a stone fall to the ground. He watched with envy as Cedric took out his wand from his pocket and used a silent spell to turn a stone into a knife. He quickly cut the rope and rescued Cho Chang.
After cutting the rope, Cedric turned back and nodded to Harry, pulled Qiu Zhang upstream, and soon disappeared.
Harry looked around and waited.
He wanted to ensure that Fleur and Krum rescued their companions in time to prevent the hostages from having any accidents for more than an hour...
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On the shore, outside the medical tent, Fleur looked at the Hogwarts title deed erected in the distance with red eyes.
"Is this the friend Rolf made at Hogwarts?" John also came to the medical tent, stood next to Fleur, and sighed softly, "He is indeed a silly boy, but he has to be admired."
He came here after rescuing Rolf, and handed Rolf to Madam Pomfrey for a physical examination.
"Am I right? There will be a stupid boy who will save your sister." Dracula chuckled, "I may be able to guess why Dumbledore likes him so much."
At the judges' table, Professor Hicks turned his head to look at Dumbledore and smiled softly.
"Albus, you Hogwarts warriors gave up the second place, but why do you feel so elated?" she asked.
"Oh, it's nothing, I suddenly thought of something happy." Dumbledore said, unable to hide the smile on his face.
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Deep in the Black Lake, another warrior came to the square where the hostages were.
Harry turned around and saw a huge thing swimming towards them. Below it was a human body, wearing swimming trunks, and above it was the head of a shark...it was Krum.
It seems that he wanted to transform himself into a human body, but he was not very successful...or, he was only half successful.
Even so, being able to deform half of the human body is quite impressive.
The half-man, half-shark Krum swam straight to his Bulgarian national team teammate, Hilma Denison.
Harry had a feeling that Krum seemed a little disappointed when he saw that his "treasure" was Hilma, as if he thought the hostage here should be someone else.
After Krum came to Hilma, he had no idea what to do. He used the shark's mouth to pull and bite the rope on his body... The problem was that Krum's new teeth had a strange structure. He could bite anything smaller than a dolphin. It all looks awkward.
And Harry was sure that Krum's movements were not careful, he was about to tear Hilma in half... Harry rushed forward, patted Krum's shoulder hard, and lifted the piece Pointed stone.
Krum grabbed him and started hacking at the ropes around Hilma.
Krum proved to be much stronger than Harry, and he succeeded after a few seconds.
He grabbed his teammate's waist and, without looking back, quickly led him up to the water.
Now there is only one last hostage left, the little girl with silver hair.
Furong hasn't come over yet, what should I do? Harry thought anxiously.
He was not sure when the game time would reach one hour. It seemed that Furong must have encountered some trouble... There is no other way now, only...
Outside the medical tent, Fleur looked nervously at the picture on the land deed. Harry grabbed the stone Krum threw and came to Gabriel Delacour's side.
But the mermaids gathered around Ginny and Gabrielle, shaking their heads at Harry.
Harry pulled out his wand viciously.
"Get out of the way!" A string of bubbles came out of his mouth.
But he clearly realized that the mermaids understood what he meant, because their expressions suddenly changed, and their muddy yellow eyes stared at Harry's wand, looking very scared.
They were outnumbered, and Harry was alone.
But Harry could tell from the panicked looks on their faces that they seemed to be afraid of magic... Just twenty minutes ago, the mermaid he faced had not shown such emotions.
Bagman in the commentary box had a strange expression and looked at Dracula standing on the shore.
"Obviously, these mermaids are afraid of the wand in Mr. Potter's hand..." he said, "If my guess is correct, it should be the spell that Professor Dracula used when rescuing Fleur not long ago that gave it to the mermaids underwater. It left a huge shock and gave them an unprecedented awe of magic..."
Deep in the Black Lake, Harry raised his wand high above his head.
"I'm counting to three!" he yelled, a stream of bubbles erupting from his mouth.
Harry held up three fingers just to make sure they understood what he meant.
"One!" He put down a finger. The mermaids looked at him blankly, but hesitated and did not move.
"Two..." He put down a second finger.
The mermaid finally couldn't suppress the fear in her heart and scattered away, looking back at the wand in Harry's hand from time to time, for fear that he would suddenly attack.
Harry rushed forward and slashed at the ropes around Gabrielle as he had done when he freed Ginny.
Finally, Gabrielle was free too.
Harry picked up the two little witches Ginny and Gabrielle one by one, kicked them off and left the bottom of the lake.
Even with the effect of the gillweed, it was still very difficult for Harry to lead two people to swim towards the lake, especially in this situation where both hands were unable to paddle smoothly.
Fortunately, the weight of the two little girls was very light, so he could barely support them.
Harry flapped his webbed feet desperately, but within a few minutes, he found that the feet had once again transformed into ordinary human feet...
His heart sank suddenly as he realized that an hour had passed.
The mermaids swam up with him, and Harry saw them swimming around him with ease and ease, watching him struggle in the water... Now that the time was up, would they pull him back to the bottom? Do they eat people?
Harry was getting more and more out of breath, and all kinds of terrible speculations kept popping up in his mind...
He began to realize very clearly how wet and cold the lake water in his mouth was... His consciousness gradually became thinner, and the two slender little witches holding his hands seemed to have turned into two Heavy shot put...
"Professor, Potter seems to have lost his strength..." Fleur's eyes were red, she stood up from her seat, and said anxiously to Dracula, "Please save them quickly!"
Dracula frowned, seeming a little dissatisfied with the result. But he finally nodded and took a step forward.
At this moment, John suddenly stopped Dracula's movement.
He picked up a leaf that he had already held in his hand and played a melodious melody.
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