In this Hogwarts without a savior

Chapter 396. 394. Catch a Draco
When formulating the content of the game, Dumbledore obviously didn't pay much attention to the game.

His goal is very clear, as long as the students representing the Triwizard Carriage Tournament can enter the Black Lake in a fair manner, and whether they can gain an advantage in this competition is not within the scope of consideration .

This lake obviously has a very special meaning to Hogwarts, a thousand-year-old school. Not only did the four creators first pass through it to build Hogwarts Castle, but also in the water. Some unspeakable secrets.

Dumbledore believes that after Voldemort became the headmaster of Hogwarts, he must also know the importance of the Black Lake, just like defending Hogwarts Castle, it is also important to Dumbledore in terms of the Black Lake. Lido and the others take strict precautions.

But after actually coming here, things don't seem to be like this.

Jon explored the lake for many days, but he didn't find any signs of tampering with the lake, just like Dumbledore's conjecture was completely wrong. Voldemort actually didn't care about the lake at all. Don't mind what they're going to do to the stuff in the lake.

It's true that they didn't do anything, and they didn't interfere with their contact with the Black Lake. The problem is that after so many days by the lake, Jon didn't find what Dumbledore wanted him to find.

This gave Jon a bad guess. He told Dumbledore about his guess. Dumbledore was silent for a while, and finally let him go into the water on the day of the game to have a look.

But now, he just wanted to see if his guess was correct.

The land under the Black Lake is uneven, but Jon doesn't have to walk along the ground like on land. As long as he can see the bottom of the lake in his vision, he can always float in the lake.

His time is precious. Regardless of the game, the soaking spell that is being maintained on him cannot last for too long. During daily practice, Jon can stay underwater for an hour and a half at most. .

But now he can only allocate at most half an hour to look for the mermaid in the Black Lake.

But in fact, he didn't have to search for so long at all. Soon, he found it in the southwest corner of the entire Black Lake.

It's just that what he found was not traces of mermaids, but a dilapidated underwater building.

There are many stone buildings, but they were obviously damaged a long time ago. There are broken walls everywhere, and green algae are all over the surface of the stone pillars, swaying with the cold water.

Jon frowned. It was certain that this was the underwater residence of the mermaid.

After all, Dumbledore had been a professor and headmaster at Hogwarts Castle for five or sixty years before. Of course, he had communicated with this mermaid tribe living in the Black Lake, and he knew roughly where their territory was.

Jon found this place according to his guidance, but now there are only some schools of fish wandering around.

This involuntarily made his heart sink slowly.

But he didn't stay here, but went deep into the mermaid territory to try to see if he could find the remaining creatures like the centaur in the Forbidden Forest.

But until he passed through here, he didn't find anything, not even a steel fork commonly used by mermaids.

Just when Jon was about to leave here in disappointment, at the end of the ruined wall, he suddenly discovered a huge ditch at the bottom of the lake.

That big ditch was obviously not a product of nature. He could tell from the neatly broken stones around it and the fish bones half buried in the mud that it must have been caused by a magic similar to Shenfeng Wuying.

Such a discovery couldn't help but make him shiver. He didn't know if Dumbledore could do it with such a skill, but he definitely couldn't do it, even if he cast a spell with both hands.

He slowly approached this ditch, and finally stopped at the edge of the ditch.

That deep black ditch that seemed to lead to hell was filled with pale white bones!
The upper body of these bones is basically in the shape of a human being, but the lower body does not have leg bones, but a skeleton like a fish bone!
Looking at the densely packed skeletons, Jon now finally understands where these disappeared mermaids have gone. Just by seeing the number of bones in this lake ditch, he can roughly determine.

This mermaid tribe in the entire Black Lake has been completely wiped out.

If Voldemort really wanted to kill them, he would have less psychological burden than killing the centaurs. After all, creatures like mermaids had less contact with wizards than usual, and they were closer to beasts than humans.But the high probability is that no matter whether it is to kill all the horsemen or all the mermaids, this demon will not have any psychological burden.

Jon's heart was a little heavy.

He wasn't lamenting anything about these unmasked merfolk, he was just feeling the pressure once again to witness the bloodiness of Voldemort's reign.

The blood policy implemented by this man is not just for his own gaining power, he really does not regard any life other than pure blood wizards as human beings.

Centaurs and mermaids may be defined as beasts in the magic world, not humans, but even if they are defined in this way, these species are all thinking, feeling, and civilized existences, just like that enduring problem Similarly, if pigs could speak, think and have feelings like humans, would you still eat pork?
Looking at it this way, under his rule, the generation encounters of the hemp seeds have become remarkable, but they have only become slaves.

But if in the future, Voldemort really fulfilled his long-cherished wish and became the master of the world one day, what would he think of Muggles?

Jon took one last look at the bones in the lake ditch, probably the same fate as the mermaid.

In the end, Jon left the mermaid territory with a heavy heart. Originally looking for the mermaid was just for him to confirm his guess and tried to see if he could find some clues. Now that the mermaids are gone, he naturally does not Will be here for a long time.

It's just that there are no clues now, and Jon doesn't have a clear goal for what he is going to do next.

Dumbledore's biggest purpose for letting him enter the Black Lake was to find the giant squid that lived in the Black Lake, and Jon stayed by the lake for so many days without finding any signs of squid, and later he came from Serbia. Derek learned from Derek that since he entered school, he has never seen the legendary monster living in the lake with his own eyes.

Combined with the experience of these mermaids, Jon already had a bad feeling in his heart, but in the final analysis, he still needs to check it himself.

Originally, he planned to get some information about the squid from the mermaid, but now it is obviously not feasible.

Just as he was circling the Black Lake to try his luck, a figure cowering and hiding in a pile of water plants suddenly caught Jon's attention.

He looked with interest at Draco who was surrounded by water plants and didn't dare to look in his direction.

"What are you doing here? Shit?"

Draco blushed immediately. It stands to reason that after he followed Lucius and witnessed the deal between his father and Jon, he would not have to be afraid of seeing Jon, but in France Draco couldn't get his mind off that night in the Ministry Ballroom.

However, although the fish gill grass allows him to move freely underwater, he can't speak like Jon. He only needs to open his mouth, and he can only drink the water in the black lake non-stop.

Fortunately, Jon thoughtfully helped him release a bubble head spell. When Draco saw Jon cast the spell, Draco's face showed a desperate ashes, and then he realized that he hadn't been stunned, knocked down or knocked down. Kill, but can speak.

"No, it's not."

"Then what are you doing? Prepare to ambush me here to surprise me? Eliminate me to prove yourself in the first round?"

Facing what he said, Draco just gritted his teeth, and finally took out two pearls from his pocket.

"Here! I'll give you everything! Let me go, don't let me go out in such a shameful way! They have already talked about me a lot behind my back! They say I am a waste of pure blood!"

Seeing his actions and words, Jon couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

Holding the wand with great interest, he came to Draco's side, and glanced at the two pearls in his hand.

"The harvest is quite a lot. How long did it take you to find two out of ten in total? If you find another one, you will be stable. It's not the last one. You don't actually have one in your possession, do you?"

"Just these two!"

Draco was a little out of breath, because he was angry at his own cowardice and Jon's progress.

Jon reached out to take the two pearls from Draco's hand, and the young master of the Malfoy family was obviously in pain.

It can only be said that he was lucky to find two so quickly. He found a fish with pearls in its mouth when he just went down to the black lake. He was clever and did not attack this fish immediately, but followed it from a distance. Behind the fish, at last, indeed, another pearl was found in the place it had passed.

Then Draco didn't wait any longer, and directly killed the donkey, stunned the fish, and took the one he was holding in his mouth.

In the end, he hadn't waited for his excited fantasy that if he became the first in this game, he would be able to wash away the stigma of his previous failure, and when he was once again showing off in the pure blood, he saw Jon floating over.

In a panic, Draco could only choose the nearest piece of aquatic plants, and he didn't have time to think about whether he would be entangled, so he hid in it immediately.

However, even so, he still did not escape Jon's clutches.

Not only was Jon not angry at his sudden tantrum, but he also looked at him with a smile.

"How about we make a deal, Master Malfoy."

Draco suddenly became vigilant, and his body that had already come out of the water plants shrank back again, as if this could give him some sense of security.

"What do you want to do?"

Jon shrugged.

"Don't be so wary of me. Anyway, your father and I can barely be called business partners, right? I have a very good proposal. I will give you a pearl. You will give Emile Lester How about Lankey's location tell me?"

Hearing Jon's suggestion, Draco's eyes widened.

"This pearl is mine!"

"But you just gave them to me, and of course they are mine now."

"I can't say that!"

"Are you quite polite?"

"Emir is the headmaster who asked him to win the first place in the Triwizard Tournament. If I help you deal with him, it is against the headmaster. If you expose this matter later, my family will suffer. Danger!"

Jon looked at Draco in amazement.

"You are not stupid."

Not only did Jon's praise not make Draco feel the slightest pride, but it was full of humiliation.

"Okay, but we can talk about another deal." The old god Jon looked at him, "It's also a pearl as a reward, as long as you can tell me something that is valuable to me Yes, what about the rumors you heard about this lake in school?"

Draco was a little hesitant at this moment.

Of course he wanted to earn the pearl back from Jon, but he knew very well that he couldn't play with Jon at all, even his own father was extremely cautious when facing him, let alone him.

"What do you want to know?" Draco asked cautiously.

"Don't worry, I'm definitely not trying to trick you. If I really wanted to do something to you, wouldn't it be better to just use the Imperius Curse on you now and waste time with you here?"

Regarding this, Draco believed it, and even believed in the fact that Jon knew the Imperius Curse.

Does this need to be questioned?It may be necessary for other fourth graders, but Jon Green is certainly an exception.

If it is said that he does not know the Imperius Curse, this matter needs to be seriously questioned.

Such words made Draco let go of his guard a little bit, and he thought about it very seriously.

"I heard, from seventh graders, that there used to be a big squid living in the black lake, but now it's gone."

"Then do you know when was the last time anyone saw this giant squid?"

"do not know."

Jon shook his head in disappointment.

"That doesn't count, is there anything else?"

"It's not fair! No matter what I say, you don't count, you are not cheating me for a fool!"

"Do you have the right to choose? Try it and maybe you can earn a pearl from me. If you don't try, you will lose nothing."

Draco gritted his teeth and continued to think for a while before hesitating again.

"There is another one I don't know if it is a rumor. I heard from my father that when Hogwarts was still sorted, the lounge of Slytherin College was underground, and it went deep into the Black Lake."

(End of this chapter)