[HP] Noble

The next day, February [-]th, was the day for the second event of the Triwizard Tournament.Early in the morning, the auditorium was crowded and lively, and even Durmstrang's team, which rarely appeared, appeared beside the long Slytherin table—fortunately, the number of Slytherin students was always the smallest , otherwise I really can't sit still.

The students looked too excited to eat breakfast, and everyone was whispering about the content of the second competition project-because in the morning, the prefects were notified by the head of the male and female student unions, and now everyone knows that breakfast Afterwards, they need to go to the specially built stands on the Black Lake.Most people's guesses are close to ten-maybe the warriors have to swim in the freezing lake in the early spring that has not yet fully warmed up.

"Trouble, can you pass me that plate of bacon?" A nasal voice came from behind Scorpius.

Scorpius was stunned for a moment, and when he looked back, he found that Durmstrang's school team captain Renault Dirgabrest was standing behind him at some point, looking at him with a slight frown.The second-year Slytherin nodded in embarrassment, and stuffed the plate of bacon into his wide hands. Renault Dilgabrist didn't have much expression, he nodded, and returned to himself. position up.

Master Malfoy, of course, was noncommittal about this... A plate of bacon, so he didn't even lift his eyelids.She just calmly tore a small piece of bread from her plate and gave it to Bitui who stretched her head out to eat—the tortoise, who always eats meat, shrank her head when the bread was stuffed under her mouth to express her dissatisfaction. The person's silent movements made Scorpius, who witnessed the whole process, feel that he seemed to have done something wrong, and even began to feel uneasy.

Krum propped his chin beside him. The Quidditch star still had a gloomy face today, but he interrupted and said to Alpha: "Why didn't I see that Raynor liked bacon so much?"

He was ignored because Alpha was too busy flirting with Pansy.

Scorpius curled his lips, thinking he saw it, no one would care about you, why ask.

……

After breakfast, Scorpius yawned and followed the Slytherins to the end, slowly walking towards the stands.I met many ghosts along the way, and they were going to the observatory. Due to the ancient magic of Hogwarts, the ghosts cannot leave the castle freely during the day, and the observatory is the only place where you can overlook the entire black sky. lake place.

This is a grand event that even ghosts are unwilling to miss.

"But I don't know what to see. They're underwater." Draco grumbled, "And we can just stare at the lake."

"There are always other ways to see, Dumbledore is not stupid at all." Scorpius reminded.

Zabini walked between Goyle and Crabbe, he frowned, and flicked off Goyle's cake crumbs that fell on his shoulders: "Yes, but it's usually a large-scale magic of the magic seed space mirror type—we can't Count on the clarity of that kind of magic..." He paused, glanced at Scorpius who was hesitant to speak, and shook his head to interrupt his thoughts, "Even the principal will not let this magic become perfect."

At this time, Draco mumbled something next to him, which sounded like "crazy old man" or something.

The Slytherins walked out of the castle and walked up the specially built wooden staircase corridor leading to the auditorium - the audience auditorium is high above the entire Black Lake, tall and slender, and the basic structure Scorpius thinks it is a bit like Diaojiaolou of the Miao family in China.The corridor slopes upwards all the way. Because it is a temporary structure, the workmanship is not very fine. Under the support of the ancient Hogwarts castle, it looks special.

There was a lot of people in the stands, and many students took out the omni-angle binoculars they bought at the Quidditch World Cup.

Zabini was right. At a distance of about ten meters from the auditorium, a magic barrier like a huge screen appeared in mid-air, and the underwater scene could be vaguely seen, with strange fish and The tentacles of the giant squid, and some messy seaweeds and the like - the Gryffindors who live in the tower all the year round find it very novel, and every new thing that appears will make them excited for a long time, while the Slytherins are in the public rest The room is used to seeing these through the window, but it seems much calmer.

"The screen is much bigger than I thought." Zabini said with some surprise.

This time, even Draco didn't say much.

Definitely a great win for Dumbledore.Scorpius shrugged and sat down obediently in the audience.The sky outside was gloomy, and the surrounding area was damp. The bottom of the robe was wet and splashed a lot of muddy water along the way. The auditorium seats were all made of wood. Like on an absorbent sponge.

Beatri poked her head out from under Draco's robes, which made her very happy in this weather.

"Just your ass is heavy, get up." Almost at the same time, Draco's voice of reproach came from above his head, and when he looked up, Prince Slytherin was holding up his wand, and at his feet, the wooden chair was no longer The dark brown of the wet one, but the light yellow of the wood itself.Looks like he took credit for dry household charms or something, and now, he's trying to do something to Scorpius and his chair.

Scorpius stood up jerkily, watched as Draco muttered a mantra in a low voice to dry the chair, and touched his own butt resentfully, not ashamed to ask others to dry his pants too.

So the platinum nobleman frowned, and ordered displeasedly: "Turn around, what are you dawdling about?"

Scorpius rolled his eyes, turned his back on him, and experienced first-hand how much a quick-drying spell can do to wet clothes.After a few clicks, Scorpius felt that his whole body became warm, and he was about to say thank you to Draco symbolically and compliment him, but he was suddenly interrupted.

"—Potter is late."

Pansy's voice attracted most people's attention, and everyone looked in the direction she pointed, and they saw Mr. Savior of Gryffindor running towards the direction where the professor and the warriors gathered. Wearing a simple robe, jeans and a shirt underneath—

"He must have never looked in the mirror before he went out." Scorpius twitched the corners of his mouth, "This match is so strange."

"Since even you can see the problem..." Draco was full of sarcasm, "I have to say, it's really embarrassing."

Under the table, Miss Beauxbaton's Fleur reached out and tugged at her robe when Harry felt it. The mud spots brought by Harry's running seemed to splash on her light blue robe. The expression on the girl's pretty face Definitely not enjoyable.

The game is about to start, and all the players are on the reserve bench.Draco withdrew his gaze contentedly. When he turned his head, he saw Scorpius holding a piece of purple talisman in his hand, and he was happily folding it. The game played by this girl made the platinum nobles somewhat disdainful. He snorted, lowered his The voice said disgustingly to Scorpius: "Mr. Gretel, you don't think Potter is too embarrassing enough, do you want to add something to him?"

"What? I didn't." Scorpius hummed a little song and repeated his own, and replied calmly.

Pansy, who was sitting there bored, stretched her neck, leaned over meddling, and said, "What are you talking about—oh Scorpius, what is this? It looks so cute!"

Obviously pleased by Pansy's praise, Scorpius narrowed his eyes with a smile, and blew on the stack of paper in his hand, and immediately there were stacks of paper in the shape of three-dimensional goldfish with bulging bellies in his hand.

"Excuse me, a floating spell, it's a bit windy today." Scorpius kicked Tidrako's boots under the stool, "See if you can hit the head, we have to let it fall right into the black lake."

Zabini asked with interest: "And then?"

"Then we will have a freely controllable high-definition monitor - follow Potter all the way, and never miss any of his embarrassing moments," Scorpius said triumphantly, "how about it, is it attractive?" , whispered a few simple Chinese mantras, and the little purple goldfish immediately jumped alive in his hands, as if it was really a dehydrated fish.

As Scorpius yelled "Hurry up or the fish will die of thirst", Draco reluctantly used a floating spell and sent the goldfish into the black lake unharmed.Paper stuff still dies?Draco was a little taken aback.

As if seeing Draco's thoughts, Scorpius shook his head and said seriously: "It was a live goldfish just now."

Draco glanced at him. "My eyes are fine."

"It's just paper on the outside," Scorpius held his chin, "I just wanted to try it out, it seems that some student at Hogwarts happened to have a tank of small goldfish, otherwise this spell wouldn't work— —To put it simply, it is to temporarily put the soul of a living goldfish nearby into a small paper goldfish for use. Have you seen the purple talisman——Soul transformation is not an ordinary spell. bloody."

Draco seemed a little interested: "What if the paper goldfish dies?"

Scorpius thought for a while, hesitated a little and seemed very hesitant: "Perhaps the one in the fish tank will die too?"

"Probably? Well, I suddenly feel that this doesn't sound like a friendly spell." The platinum nobleman twitched his lips.

"Now I feel the same way," Scorpius stuck out his tongue from his dazed expression to a little scared, "This is the first time I've done this——I've only brought this with me throughout the semester." It’s just a piece of purple talisman paper. Well, you have to promise not to tell Professor Wen Xin that I did this, or you might get beaten.”

As soon as the words were finished, a small circular picture appeared in front of Slytherin's seat.

At first, it was very blurry like a layer of fog, and then it gradually became clear and the colors became brighter-it was more than ten times smaller than Headmaster Dumbledore's, but it was better. When the clarity is good, even the transparent shrimps that swim in the sand and bring up small fine sand can be seen clearly.

This small screen has attracted the attention of many people.

Scorpius was tired of being questioned, so he had to bite the bullet and tell them "it's just a little trick that doesn't matter".

At the end, someone asked again, and he said directly: "What Draco taught me—what, you want to learn? Ask him, I myself teach people half-toned."

Looking at Scorpius' flickering and sincere dog eyes, and then turning his face to look at Master Malfoy sitting beside him with a blank face, most of them shrugged and walked away bored. The ancient wizarding families all have some spells handed down within the family... It's not surprising that Draco Malfoy can do something that ordinary people can't do.

Everyone quickly put their enthusiasm back into the game, because the players had already started to enter the water.Except for one Ravenclaw girl—it was hard for Scorpius to notice her, and besides her extraordinary courage and curiosity, she wore an impressive pair of Butterbeer stopper earrings.She tilted her head, as if looking for a moment to come up and ask a question about the small screen.

"I saw that goldfish, oh, that's really amazing." The girl's voice was ethereal... well, in fact, she was all ethereal, as if she would turn into a fairy after a thunderstorm at any time (... ...).

Scorpius laughed dryly, watched Potter put something in his mouth and ate it, and jumped into the water without hesitation.

"Did he ask the mermaid to borrow Shen Haizhu?" Scorpius laughed.

Goyle and Crabbe laughed unceremoniously and whistled like hooligans.

Draco raised the corners of his lips slightly, revealing a mean and sarcastic smile.

"What? What's that?" asked the Ravenclaw girl - Scorpius felt a little sad that she was the only one still free and ready to talk to him now.So he shook his head and smiled gently: "In Chinese mythology, the beads of the sharks are beads that allow people to breathe underwater and sink into the bottom of the sea easily. It is rumored that the sharks were originally the people of an ancient nation. We live on land with us, and by chance they got this, and they have it in their mouths to live underwater."

"In England, mermaids are mermaids, and they've always been magical creatures that live underwater—although my father and I don't think so, and we once published a paper on mermaids in my family's monthly magazine, that It clearly states that mermaids cannot actually be regarded as magical animals, they should be descendants of humans and fish, a magical creature that has failed to evolve." Luna Lovegood spoke with eloquence in her ethereal voice.

At least she has a deep understanding of magical creatures and magical animals, aha, Ravenclaw!Scorpius nodded with a little shame... Fortunately, at this time, Viktor Krum's perfect Animagus transformation in the water entry area under his feet won the applause of all the halls, and Scorpius followed Dems symbolically. Trump applauded and howled—although Draco gave him a supercilious look, at least he didn't have to rack his brains to continue the conversation with this strange Ravenclaw girl.

Fleur Delacour of Beauxbatons happened to be using the bubble head spell that Scorpius said, and it was the same as Cedric's, with a big bubble that could make a person's face look long or even deformed from the outside. After soaking, the two entered the water one after another.

"Oh, listen, what's that sound?" Crabbe stopped laughing and tugged at Goyle's sleeve excitedly.

Scorpius listened carefully for a while, and sure enough, he heard beautiful and sad music coming from the big screen of Principal Dumbledore. The tune Scorpius swore he never stopped, when it didn't prevent it from being Scorpius One of the best songs in my heart.

only one hour

To find and recapture what we took...

"It's the mermaid's singing." Draco said lazily, "The mermaid's singing has a certain ability to charm. In Northern Europe, the mermaids living freely in the sea will surface and sing on the night of the full moon. The sailors lure them into the sea, drag them down to the bottom of the sea, and mate with them to produce offspring."

Scorpius thought of poor Hagrid, and patted his forehead: "Why is it the same as the sea snake? All creatures in the sea like to play this game?"

"So they can only be magical animals."

...It turns out that you were actually listening to what that Ravenclaw said just now.Scorpius suddenly realized.

Draco glanced at him coldly: "You look so stupid, Mr. Great."

Scorpius smirked at him: "Thanks for the reminder, Master Malfoy."

Draco snorted and ignored him, and most of the Slytherins squeezed forward, preferring to watch Scorpius than Professor Dumbledore's big screen-to be fair, the big screen every Every 5 minutes, they will switch the situation of a concerned player in turn, and Scorpius is paying attention to Harry Potter the whole time.

Although their original intentions are not so good - no one wants to miss the scene where Potter (Gryffindor) makes a fool of himself.

At this moment Potter was swimming through the dark, undulating waterweed—he was no longer what he used to be, and looked very strange, with two narrow slits split from the bottom of his neck, flapping freely, It's like the gills of a fish.And his fingers and toes had a thin fleshy membrane in the middle of the finger joints.Like the wings of a bat, it is similar to the pure existence of Pu.

"What he was chewing happily just now was gills grass - I now know why Potter looked at me so enthusiastically in the library that day." Scorpius said dryly, "It's you who reminded me of feelings in the end." I have left him, Draco, and now I have to express my doubts whether your hatred for Potter is real hate or true love."

Draco ignored him.

Scorpius smiled, his eyes narrowed into a crescent, and he nudged the young master next to him with his elbow in a mean way: "Yo, talk."

Draco's face was as cold as ice, and he slapped his hand away, ignoring him.

Scorpius continued his efforts without getting a response, and made further progress: "Put your head out from here, and the lake is below—here, you can jump."

"Shut up, Gretel."

This time it doesn't even have "Sir", it just becomes "Gretel", doesn't it?So Scorpius smiled and shut up.

"Potter has a brain problem, so he keeps digging into the aquatic plants." Zabini shook his head and said disapprovingly, "The messy aquatic plants always block the way forward, and there are always some strange things in the aquatic plants—" He continued. Before falling, a green claw stretched out from the water plants, grabbing Potter's ankle suddenly, Zabini shrugged, showing a "look" expression.

It was a Grindylow with horns on its head. Harry struggled to pull out his wand. Everyone saw an unusual jet of water spray from the tip of his wand, and Grindylow was burnt red. Opening his hands, Scorpius thought it was a spell like the boiling spell, oh, another ancient black magic derivative magic derived from "blood boiling".

When Potter was struggling with more and more Grindylows who were rushing towards him, a huge black shadow suddenly slid past behind them—the black shadow was swimming very fast, almost completely hiding it all at once. After reaching the tall and thick aquatic plants... When Harry realized something was wrong and wanted to look back, there was nothing behind him.

Scorpius looked up to see Krum's live broadcast on Professor Dumbledore's magic screen.

Scorpius laughed dryly, and suddenly asked, "Does anyone remember what happened to Professor Hagrid's sea snake?"

Zabini said: "I heard that it was buried in the pumpkin patch by Professor Hagrid."

"Hey, didn't you mean to make potion ingredients for Professor Snape?" Draco asked lazily.

Crabbe raised his eyebrows: "No, when I was put into labor confinement last week, the container in the college office that held the sea snake meat was covered with dust."

Scorpius: "..."

Draco: "..."

Zabini: "..."

Scorpius cleared his throat: "I think I thought of something bad."

Draco twitched the corner of his mouth: "No, stop that, that's impossible—it's, already, dead!"

Zabini: "I'm starting to sympathize with Potter, but he's really unlucky, isn't he?"

"Not necessarily." Pansy, who was sitting next to her and playing with her nails, said arrogantly. After successfully attracting the attention of all the boys to her, she proudly pointed the direction of the big screen with her chin, "Here, You see, that Beauxbaton's vase has announced his retirement."

Everyone looked up in surprise, and they saw a group of staff who had cast waterproof spells and bubble head spells appearing on the screen, and the magic spells shot out, driving away a group of Grindellos who surrounded something. The little nixes scattered in a rush, revealing Fleur Delacour who had fallen into a coma inside.

Madam Maxim sat on the judges' seat, her worried and annoyed expression was not very pretty.

Dumbledore bowed his head and whispered to her for a while, then stood up and walked towards the water's edge. At this point, the judges announced that the No.1 contestant officially announced that he would give up the second event, and they will score according to her performance in the first half of the competition ——Of course, because she withdrew midway, her score would definitely not be higher than that of the contestants who persisted until the end.

One contestant had already retired - and Harry, who was in the same situation as her, managed to get rid of Grindylow and was ready to move on.

And in the gaps in the water plants behind him, rough dark blue scales suddenly appeared faintly, the water wave swayed, and a barbed tail swayed past.

This time he couldn't be sure what it was, unless he was blind.Scorpius stood up abruptly.

Draco said blankly, "Where are you going? Sit down."

"Sea Serpents are definitely not part of Dumbledore's plans—they're not going to make the Triwizard Tournament a live... er, gross movie."

Draco narrowed his silver-gray eyes in an orderly manner: "What's the rush, let's observe later."

Scorpius shook his head and said: "... After watching Potter, he will be captured by that female sea snake—I really admire Hagrid, what does he think of as a black lake? A small fish tank in the back garden of the hunting ground? Put it in!"

"Everyone thought the sea snake was dead," Zabini said slightly sarcastically, "but our Professor of the Care of Magical Creatures cured it... He's actually pretty good at it, isn't he? I don't know yet." Unknowingly put the sea snake into the black lake - no wonder Greens saw a huge scaly creature by the window... At that time he insisted that it was a dragon." Zabini shook his head, "We still Everyone said he was lying."

Scorpius snorted angrily: "He is really talking nonsense, that's not a dragon - you saw a Chinese dragon! It's not that good! That's a sea snake - I said the sea snake died the next day Hagrid's face is all red and he doesn't see any sadness at all! Emotions are not dead at all! They live freely and happily in the Black Lake!"

"Oh Scorpius, my dear, I think you're getting too excited," Pansy said sweetly.

"That's necessary, I think I've been cheated." Scorpius pouted, sat down, and sat there with folded arms and said like a master, "Okay, okay, I don't mind my business, anyway, the savior of Gryffindor If something goes wrong, remember to mention Dumbledore, who is the culprit."

"No need to mention it, Dumbledore must know about it." Draco muttered, "He just likes to help that big monster mess around."

Now on the public big screen is Krum - as a shark, with a big mouth, gods block and kill gods, gods block and kill gods.Along the way, he swallowed countless small fish and two Grindylos. At that time, Crabbe asked Goyle enviously if Grindylos were delicious. Scorpius almost vomited his breakfast and his stomach together. come out.

All of Cedric's time was spent on repairing his bubble head spell. As Hermione once said, the bubble head spell is too fragile. If it hadn't been specially adapted for the spell, it would last for a very short time, and It shattered—sometimes the bigger fish that swam by would get in the way—and he had to take a different route to avoid them.

The screen shifted to Harry - and sure enough, now, he had drawn his wand and was about to face off with a hungry female sea snake.