Hermione's face turned slightly red and she lowered her head shyly, like a young willow tree beginning to sprout by the Black Lake.

Ludo looked at her: "Ms. Granger, have you told this news to Mr. Potter? We agreed not to..."

Hermione shook her head, "Of course I didn't, but I told you, Harry is very perceptive."

"If I take Hermione away now, will the second project be over?" Harry looked at him with a light tone.

Ludo's face turned a little blue.

Karkaroff snorted and tilted his head to the side. Maxim was stunned and looked at Gabrielle thoughtfully.

"I don't think that's possible." Ludo shook his head. "Of course, we have to admit that you are indeed excellent, Mr. Potter, and you value Miss Granger very much."

"But the project is a project. I think you should still participate. Otherwise, it will be difficult for the judges to score, especially Mr. Karkaroff."

Karkaroff snorted again.

Why is it so difficult to rate?

If you don’t participate in the second project, you will get zero points directly. Is there any need to hesitate?

"Harry, don't worry." Dumbledore said, teasing and comforting him, "I will cast the spell myself and will not let Hermione have any problems."

Harry looked at Hermione.

Hermione smiled at him: "Harry, I told you, I'm ready."

Harry nodded, waved goodbye to them, and walked out the door. In the room, Ludo lowered his voice and continued to give instructions to the three warriors' "treasures".

Until nine o'clock.

Under the organization of the professor, the students entered the stadium one after another and sat in the audience seats. The little lions already knew the content of the game, and they introduced it to others happily and proudly.

Harry was sitting in the tent where the warriors were waiting for the game to start. Fleur and Krum had not arrived yet, so he was reading a book quietly.

Ron peeked in, holding Crookshanks in his arms, and saw Harry in the tent, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Harry, you're here!"

Harry looked up.

He walked in, his steps a little hurried, his tone much more relaxed: "Hermione has been with you all this time?"

Harry shook his head.

Ron was startled, his brows knitted together, and he hugged Crookshanks tighter. "She's not with you. Brown said he hasn't seen her since this morning. I asked Crookshanks, but he was lazy and wanted to beat me up."

Harry said nothing, just looked at him calmly.

He didn't look worried about Hermione at all.

The tent curtain was lifted, and Fleur walked in with a frown. Ron looked at her, and suddenly thought of something. He pointed outside, lowered his voice, and uttered a word: "Treasure?"

Harry nodded.

Ron was completely relieved: "Okay, that's what happened."

"Fred was just talking about why he didn't see you fighting with the Ministry."

"Fight? Why do we have to fight?" Furong came closer with a look of curiosity on her face.

Ron, who had suffered many losses, did not fall for her trick again. He looked at her with a vigilant face: "Nothing, just a little joke of Gryffindor."

As he said that, he turned around and said, "Harry, I'm going to go out first. Good luck in the game."

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared.

"He is avoiding me. Does he hate me?" Furong frowned, and her mood became even worse.

"I don't hate you, but I'm avoiding you." Harry nodded.

Furong pinched her waist and looked at Krum walking in from outside: "Why? You British people..."

"If you could control yourself and not abuse your Veela magic, I don't think he would avoid you," Harry interrupted her.

Krum agreed with what Harry said. Before the Christmas ball, Fleur had invited him, but it was a very insincere invitation, the kind that used Veela magic to bewitch him.

Furong snorted and tilted her head away.

They waited quietly for thirty minutes, until the Ministry of Magic officials called them out before the game started.

By the lake, there was a long golden and red table where the referees sat.

Ludo raised his wand and pointed it at his neck: "Look, our warriors are coming out. They are all full of confidence and it seems that they have solved the puzzle of the golden egg."

"Then let me give a detailed introduction to the content of the second game for those viewers who don't know the content yet."

"Evil mermen stole the warriors' treasures."

On the Black Lake, a mermaid let out an unhappy and shrill scream, but it was drowned out by the deafening cheers of the little wizards.

Sirius sat in Gryffindor, waving his wand and commanding a vivid griffin.

Ludo waved his wand gently.

The three huge curtains in front of the auditorium glowed with a faint luster, projecting three pictures.

Three people were soaking in the water, unconscious.

exclaimed the Gryffindor.

They recognized one of them, it was Hermione.

"This game will be held underwater." Ludo said excitedly, waving his magic wand and exploding a ball of fireworks. "The warriors will face unprecedented tests."

“The first hurdle they have to overcome is how to dive into the water.”

"After that, they will have to deal with the magical creatures in the Black Lake, some of which are dangerous dark magic creatures, as well as the obstruction of the evil mermaids!"

"And they only have one hour. They have to overcome the problems and difficulties in just one hour, otherwise they will lose their..."

Ludo paused here, noticing Harry's gaze and almost unchanged expression. He pursed his lips and continued, "Otherwise they will lose the honor of passing the second round!"

"certainly……"

"In order to prevent us from sitting here for an hour like idiots, staring at the dark lake, the Ministry of Magic has deployed many wizards underwater. They will use magic to broadcast the live broadcast for us."

"Well, now please all the warriors take your positions and stand by the Black Lake."

Harry and the others walked over.

Ludo pulled a Weasley firework from his pocket, which exploded in the air and spread out into the shining Triwizard Tournament trophy: "Three, two, one!"

"Warriors, work hard for your own glory and your own treasures!"

On the screen, the perspective immediately pulled out from the bottom of the lake and fell on the three people.

Ludo performed his narration duties: "Oh, we see Mr. Krum, he cast a very advanced Transfiguration spell on himself, turning his head into a shark's head."

"It's a very smart approach, being able to move underwater and still have a certain level of aggressiveness."

"Miss Delacour used the Bubble Head Charm. I think the Bubble Head Charm is the first method most wizards would think of when faced with this situation."

"Let's see Mr. Potter, oh, he got out another potion."

"We knew during the first round of projects that Mr. Potter was very good at potions, and this time he brought out a potion that was beyond my knowledge, Professor Dumbledore?"

He skillfully handed over the conversation to the white-bearded old man beside him.

Dumbledore nodded and spoke slowly, his voice as loud as Ludo's: "Yes, this is also a new potion developed by Mr. Potter."

"I heard Professor Snape mention that this potion not only allows him to breathe underwater, but also allows him to be as free in the water as on land, and it seems to enhance his magic power."

He explained.

Harry jumped into the water. Unlike Fleur and Krum who had to paddle their arms to swim, as soon as he entered the water, he flew out straight and like an arrow.

Even the wizard in charge of the broadcast couldn't keep up with his speed.

Fortunately, they had arranged wizards at different depths, and the screen was frequently switched on the curtain, so Harry's figure could barely be captured.

Ludo looked at him in surprise, and it took him a while to come to his senses: "We saw Mr. Potter flying out. Yes, he was flying!"

"This potion is amazing."

"He is already far ahead of the other two warriors, and he has a clear goal. He is swimming in the right direction. Oh, flying!"

Even if you take the potion, the underwater environment is still different from the ground environment.

The breath was dispersed and became extremely weak, or rather... Hermione's breath was evenly spread in every area of ​​water.

But this didn't cause any trouble to Harry.

At the beginning, Ludo gave them a picture to introduce the warriors' treasure.

It was the mermaid tribe in the deepest part of the Black Lake. He was very familiar with it. Last year, Sirius Black had taken them to harass the mermaids there many times.

He quickly dove to the bottom of the lake, floating on the algae.

There is a huge rock protrusion with some ancient runes engraved on it, but it is not very clear due to being worn away by water. In addition to the words, there are also some pictures.

An ancient merman warrior wields a spear and uses magic to drive off a giant squid.

The mermaid's song also rang in my ears.

The destination is almost here.

Just as he flew over the boulder.

With a whoosh sound——

A spear came piercing him, unaffected by the current, silent and fierce.

Harry dodged nimbly, fell to the ground, and drew the sword of Gryffindor.

"That's him!" A mermaid jumped up, floating three or four meters high, pointing at Harry, with an unhappy and fierce tone, "It was him who played a prank on me when I went to play on the lake!"

Harry tried to speak, but a string of bubbles came out of his mouth.

He waved his wand, and the water condensed into words in front of him: "It was just an accident. I am here to save my treasure this time."

"Those humans? The Triwizard Tournament?" The merman clapped his hands, "You're a warrior too, that's great."

"I was just floating up there, and heard your old fat wizard say that we are evil?"

"Now, let the evil mermaid stop you!"

It started singing, and gradually more than a dozen mermaids came over, waving their spears and rushing towards Harry.

He looked fierce, but there was no malice in him.

Harry raised his wand.

On the Black Lake.

Ludo looked at the scene in horror: "This is not in our plan. Mermaids will have tests, but not this kind. Shouldn't Professor Dumbledore stop them?"

"The mermaid promised us that she would send out only one at most to test the warriors."

He was very worried.

Dumbledore smiled and shook his head: "They are playing a joke on Harry."

"You must be kidding!" Ludo exclaimed, his eyes full of disbelief.

More than ten mermaids surrounded and beat up a little wizard. Is this a joke?