This Hogwarts is not normal

Krum didn't dare to act rashly. He stared at the mermaids guarding the hostages from afar.

They were all looking at the leader, seemingly asking for advice.

However, the leader did not react at all, as if he was sleeping with his eyes open like an owl.

The two sides confronted each other for more than two minutes, and Krum slowly swam forward.

The mermaids asked more anxiously, but their leader still did not respond.

Vincent on the statue's forehead suddenly became confused.

The mermaid leader's condition is very abnormal. Under normal circumstances, its task should be to test the warriors, and it would never be so unresponsive as it is now.

Krum inched his way around the mermaids to the statue's tail, and as he tried to untie the ropes that bound Charlotte, Harry swam to the village.

Now that the second warrior has arrived, the mermaid leader should have a reaction, right?

When Harry came near the statue, the leader finally raised the obsidian spear in its hand.

"Youyi, white bigi!" Its voice was not loud, but it could cover the chorus of the mermaids.

Krum, who was untying the rope, turned around reflexively.

He had had several unpleasant encounters with mermaids, and whenever he approached a village, he would hear this mermaid language.

Although I don’t know what this sentence means, the tone today is obviously different.

The mermaids beside the leader looked at each other first, then raised their spears high.

Seeing that they were about to attack, Harry had no choice but to raise his wand.

With a "whoosh", the spear shot straight towards him.

Harry didn't have time to chant a spell and used all his strength to kick towards the water under his feet.

The spear was moving extremely fast and stabbed heavily into the mud at the bottom of the lake, leaving a cut on his arm.

"Oh no..." Vincent on the statue's forehead could no longer sit still.

Dumbledore had already greeted the underwater magical creatures in the Black Lake in advance. Even if it was a test, there was no need to let the warrior get hurt right at the start.

Under the stimulation of the cold lake water, even the strongest person will quickly suffer from hypothermia due to wounds.

It was obviously not a wise choice to rescue the hostages now. Harry swam decisively backwards, but the second spear came.

This time he was prepared. He dodged the attack and pulled out the first spear that was shot at him.

"Noliya bigi milayer!" The mermaid leader's tone became heavier again, as if expressing anger.

The mermaids looked at each other again, and seeing Harry swimming farther and farther away, they threw their spears one after another.

An invisible stream of water slightly deviated from the trajectory of the spear. Vincent on the statue's head stared at the mermaid leader below with an extremely solemn expression.

Its eyes were still dull, and its movement of pointing the obsidian spear at Harry seemed a little stiff, as if it was being controlled.

at the same time,

Wizards around the world who were watching the live broadcast couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for Harry.

If it weren't for the blessing of old man Merlin, he would have been stabbed into a pulp by those dozen spears.

Mermaids have no weapons, so they probably won't attack easily.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the mermaids in the village took action, including those who were singing loudly.

They returned to their simple stone dwellings and took out strangely shaped weapons.

Furong, who had just arrived at the village, was frightened by the scene and her hand holding the wand was shaking.

The mermaids, weapons in hand, chased after Harry as if they were hunting.

They learned their lesson this time, perhaps sensing something, and did not choose to throw weapons. It seemed that they planned to rely on their underwater speed to launch an attack.

Seeing that Harry was about to be caught up, the Aurors hiding in the village finally could not sit still anymore.

An invisible barrier stopped the mermaids. This strange situation made them at a loss and they all stopped in front of the barrier.

But before the Aurors could feel relieved, the voice of the mermaid leader sounded again.

This time its tone was particularly firm, as if it was giving some orders.

The mermaids scattered, as if they had given up the attack.

Krum, who was standing in front of the statue's tail, seemed to have sensed something. He pulled hard at the rope on Charlotte, trying to break it with brute force.

Through the footage from Furong's side, we can see the mermaids returning to the village, seemingly looking for something.

Dumbledore's expression at the referee's table became increasingly solemn. Although the live broadcast only had images but no sound, he still felt that something was wrong.

He raised the magic communicator on his wrist and clicked on the two messages Vincent had sent earlier.

First: The target did not show up.

Article 2: Professor Dumbledore, I know what you and Professor Moody are worried about. Please believe me, we will catch him.

The other four referees also noticed that something was wrong.

"Faster..." Karkaroff clenched his hands into fists, "Faster, Viktor..."

Madame Maxime's face was filled with worry. Although Fleur didn't dare to approach the village, who knew if the mermaids would suddenly attack her.

Bagman and Old Barty also looked worried. If they guessed correctly, the mermaid was probably looking for those hidden Aurors.

"Buzz--" Dumbledore quickly clicked on the message he had just received. There were only two short words on it, but they made his pupils shrink instantly.

Another person who received the message was Hermione, who had transformed into Vincent after drinking the Polyjuice Potion. Those two words made her whole body tremble, and her face was full of disbelief.

The "Imperious Curse" is one of the three unforgivable curses, the Imperius Curse.

"Impossible...how is this possible..."

"What's impossible?" James looked at her strangely. "Old Wen, why are you so flustered?"

Hermione quickly turned off the projection screen of the magic communicator and said calmly, "Nothing."

"Ok."

Since it was the Imperius Curse, that meant the Death Eaters might not be in the Black Lake.

So, when did he take action?

These days, she and Vincent would go down to explore the Black Lake whenever they had free time, and the mana detection device buried in the mud on the seabed had not sounded an alarm.

Before that?

No, of the four warriors, only Harry successfully got the golden egg. Before the clues were cracked, no one would know the location of the second event in advance.

The staff from the Ministry of Magic came here early this morning. She and Vincent were in the lake at the time and did not come ashore until everyone came to the stands.

Did you do it in the gap before the project started?

Impossible. There is Dumbledore's magic on the lake. If someone went down there before the project started, he would know it first.

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes once said: When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how incredible, must be the truth.

The Death Eater is not hiding in the campus, he is actually hiding in the Ministry of Magic.

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