Popular Web NovelsChapter 485 The Second ProjectChapter 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?"
< br>In the stands on the shore of the Black Lake, the Weasley brothers, who had been busy all morning, were promoting gambling to their younger brother. They knew that Ron still had a small amount of pocket money on him.
"Fleur pays ten to one..."
"Harry pays 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 capital, 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 messed up last night, as if there were dozens of Peeves yelling in his ears, causing his eyes to keep spinning. I didn't lose consciousness until early in the morning, so I got up late.
Harry's treasure turned out to be Ginny. It's really irritating. A few days ago, they both despised people who were in love, but they didn't expect that his best friend would be in love with his sister in the blink of an eye. Got it!
And Ginny, this game 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, looking down at the water and whispering something, maybe observing the underwater. movement.
Neville was in the front row, while Seamus and Dean sat further away, taking Creevey and his brother with them, taking pictures facing the dark gray water.
Another Harry fan.
Ron thought for a moment and decided to go and denounce Harry to Loren first.
...
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 the fish eat and fall. Potato chips in 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 we feed them all?" Loren poked with a sullen face, "I don't even have to eat now."
"I'll pay you." Hermione took out a bag of brand-new future food from the pendant. Pass the opened potato chips.
"Feed me!"
Hermione had a look of helplessness on her 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 when he saw this.
Damn it, another couple is in love!
He turned away in disgust, his good friend Neville was still reliable.
I suddenly saw a girl beside Neville, it was Hufflepuff's Hannah Abbott. The two were very close to each other when they talked, 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!"
...
"[Power] Relax and let go]"
Harry's wand was aimed at Grindylow who was holding tightly on his legs. Instead of spraying sparks, it seemed to shoot them with a boiling water column, and they were hit by the water column. Where it hit, the green skin suddenly turned red, and the ugly and ferocious water monster immediately floated toward 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 were connected by 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 took effect. Harry waved his flippers and swam forward with all his strength, leaving Grindylow far behind him. From time to time, he released some hot water jets behind him.
Occasionally, Grindylow would grab his foot again. When the number was small, he would kick it away hard, and when the number was large, he would use a magic spell.
I don't know how many Grindylows were scattered. Finally, he felt that his feet touched a horned head. When he looked down, there were more than a dozen kicked unconscious Grindylows floating around. Floating straight down the water, the few awake Grindylows waved their fists at Harry and disappeared into 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 solemnly. He seemed to be the "kidnapper leader", with dozens of mermaids standing behind him, holding harpoons in their hands. , with a fierce look in his 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 and 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 facial features and also smiled laugh.
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. 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 on her body. The problem was that his new teeth had a weird structure, and all small things got stuck between his teeth. There is no use in biting for a long time.
It does look like a shark brain... Harry fired 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 him was Graves of Ilvermorny. He had no air bubbles on his head, and no fish fins or webs on his body. His lips were tightly pressed together, and he looked ordinary. A common human appearance swam over.
His skin was red, his limbs were trembling, and he looked very cold.
Graves glanced at Harry who was guarding the hostage. His expression seemed a little suspicious and he said nothing. He tremblingly issued a cutting curse to break the rope, held Butt on his shoulders and floated some distance away. He turned around and asked:
"Why don't you leave? What are you waiting for?"
A string of big silver bubbles came out from between his lips. His accent and intonation were very strange, ha. Leigh knew what he had in his mouth as soon as he heard it, and his voice was very similar to the way he spoke when he had a mandrake in his mouth. "Have you seen Fleur?"
Graves pointed to the water, bubbling in his mouth: "Her head-bubble spell broke and she has gone ashore."
"What about Gabrielle?"
" Don't worry, nothing will happen!"
Harry didn't answer and looked at the only two hostages left. Gabrielle's head was resting on Ginny's shoulder, her silver hair falling with the water, her face expressionless. Turn blue.
Although he felt that nothing would happen, looking at the little girl's lifeless face, Harry silently clenched the wand in his hand.
He didn't dare to gamble.
Graves was hanging above and had not left yet, looking at the youngest and smallest warrior with doubts.
"[Split apart]"
A spell accurately cut the two ropes. Harry grabbed the back collar of one person's clothes with one hand and vigorously swung the flippers upstream.
Harry swam several times, but never felt the resistance of the water, and the surrounding scenery did not change much. He lowered his head and saw the water plants wrapped around his ankles below, and couldn't help but fall silent.
Was his action just now particularly stupid?
Graves grinned and spit out a string of bubbles. If his doubts could be heard, he would definitely nod vigorously,
"Your project is to rescue your own friends, don't worry about other people." The bass mermaid said expressionlessly.
"She's my friend too!" Harry shouted, pointing at Gabrielle.
The bass mermaid pointed the harpoon at him: "Your referee Crouch specifically told him that each warrior can only take one hostage. This is the rule!"
The mermaids around him stopped smiling and stared at Harry with their yellow eyes.
Hermione's voice came to Harry's mind. After returning from the underwater trip, she read a lot of mermaid information and recited it every day when doing homework. He also listened to some useful information. For example - most mermaids know nothing about magic.
Harry picked up Ginny by the waist, grabbed Gabrielle's collar with his fingers, and pointed his wand at the mermaid with one hand.
A string of bubbles came out of his mouth: "I'm counting to three!"
Before he could start counting, the mermaids suddenly dispersed and swarmed up.
The mermaid was breaking his fingers, pulling the hostage and wand in his hand, the mermaid was dragging him down, and the mermaid was covering his mouth...
He struggled to paddle his webbed hands. His feet were completely unable to push his body up. Ginny and Gabrielle were like two sacks full of potatoes, dragging him down... Harry swam with all his strength until his legs became stiff. , and my shoulders hurt terribly from the drag of Ginny and Gabrielle.
Swimming so slowly.
Looking up at the sky, Harry knew that he must still be under very deep water, and it was still pitch black from the surface.
"The rigid British gentleman..."
Graves rolled his eyes, took But's hand and turned around, aiming his wand at the surging mermaids below.
"[Relaxation of strength]"
...
On the referee's bench, Principal Albert Fontana stared at the water with a solemn expression. The one-hour deadline is approaching, and their Ilvermorny warriors haven't come out yet.
Ms. Maxim's face became even more ugly. Fleur Delacour was the first to come out, but that was because the bubble head spell broke and the competition failed. Beauxbatons was destined to be at the bottom in this round.
Bagman, the commentator and referee, glanced at Karkarov quietly and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Durmstrang's warriors were the second to complete their mission and emerge from the water. In the past, Karkaroff would have been making fun of other schools in a sinister manner.
It's actually quite quiet today!
"The same is the Bubble Curse. Cedric Diggory of Hogwarts is very skilled. In comparison, Miss Fleur Delacour has not yet fully mastered it. Principal Dumbledore's teaching is very good. There are results." Crouch said slowly.
Ms. Maxim's face became even more ugly: "Don't forget, there is a warrior down there in Hogwarts, maybe he drowned because of his arrogance!"
Dumbledore was unmoved, his smile still gentle: "I believe Harry."
"..."
Fontana sat in the middle, feeling that he should say something to break this Stiff atmosphere: "Mr. Crouch, please introduce us to the underwater situation. You and Mr. Bagman have done long-term tests, so you should have a good understanding."
Bagman's expression was condensed. , looked resentfully at Crouch beside him.
"I just followed the process in the plan to prevent accidents." Crouch said unhurriedly, "Speaking of underwater, I would like to ask Principal Fontana more , how do the warriors of Ilvermorny breathe underwater, your method seems to be different from others?"
"Well..." Fontana laughed, "It's a strange magical plant leaf, a specialty of Ilvermorny, so I won't introduce it in detail."
Crouch's eyes flickered.
"It's out, it's all out!"
Suddenly cheers rang out from the stands, and the little wizards were noisy and shouting, and they all stood up.
With the support of magic, Harry, Graves, Boot, Ginny and Gabrielle broke through the water at the same time and fell on the shore.
The three hostages opened their eyes one after another. They were unconscious underwater and had no idea what was happening. Their expressions were frightened and confused.
Graves spit out the chewed rotten leaves and swallowed the fresh and wonderful air: "You have suffered miserably, you brainless British gentleman."
"You too, the warm-hearted American wizard."
Harry breathed heavily but smiled happily. His gills and webs retracted into the flesh and disappeared, leaving only a faint red mark.
He saw many green-haired heads emerging from the water, and the bass mermaid smiled kindly at him.
Outside the crowd, Loren shook the chip bag at him, and Hermione stood nearby.
Ms. Pomfrey draped a thick blanket over them, and Ron nervously dried Ginny's hair with a towel, muttering that he was wasting his time.
In the midst of the chaos, Ginny let Ron hold her head and rock it, in a happy mood, looking at Harry without blinking.
Suddenly, she saw someone rushing over quickly, his lips rubbing against Harry's cheek again and again, it was so shameless!
Fu Rong thanked her excitedly: "You saved her, even though it was not your responsibility! Thank you!"
Ginny lowered her head silently, feeling her fist harden.
(End of this chapter)