Professor The Vampire Earl of Hogwarts

"Harry isn't here yet?"

On the field of the Final Four, Bagman looked at his watch and asked worriedly.

"There is only one minute left before the start of the game, Dumbledore, the warriors in your school don't seem to be very happy to abide by the game time." Karkaroff said coldly.

"Don't worry, Professor Karkaroff, hasn't the match officially started yet?" Dumbledore responded calmly.

"But the other warriors have already prepared, and now everyone is waiting for him alone!" Karkaroff said unwillingly.

Just then, Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed panting from the direction of the castle.

Ron and Hermione rushed to the audience seats, while Harry ran straight to where the other warriors were on the lake shore, put his hands on his knees, and panted heavily.

"I... I'm not late, am I?" Harry asked babbling.

"Where have you been?" A domineering voice suddenly rang out, "The race is about to start!"

Harry turned his head while panting, and saw Percy Weasley sitting at the referee table, Mr. Crouch's seat - Mr. Crouch was not able to come to the game again, so Percy, a young The assistant made an exception and became the judge of the Final Four.

Although Percy's voice and tone sounded domineering and dissatisfied, it also interrupted Karkaroff's next attack on Harry.

"Okay, okay, Percy!" Ludo Bagman waved his hand and stopped Percy, "Let him take a breath!"

When he saw Harry, it seemed that a stone in his heart fell to the ground. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth at first, but then he became a little worried.

He was worried that Harry rushed to the scene in such a hurry, whether he was unprepared or did not pay enough attention to this game...

In fact, the three of Harry attached great importance to this match.

They specially asked Fred and George for help yesterday, arranged a fireworks show for Snape that seemed to be very logical, and by the way used a big dung egg to baptize the Slytherin students' lounge, successfully attracting Snape Pu's attention even led him from the underground to the height of the eighth floor.

However, Snape's title of "Score Smasher" is not for nothing after years of fighting against students.

Although Snape failed to catch Fred and George on the eighth floor of the castle, he quickly understood his plan and realized that these two troublemakers suddenly made such a big move today, they definitely had other plans.

So he quickly rushed down from the eighth floor and returned to his office at an extremely fast speed.

Fortunately, Harry, Ron and Hermione had found the gillsweed before he rushed down, and left the potion storage room in time.

They thought that Snape wouldn't find out so easily if they just took a gill weed from those potion collections.

However, Snape didn't know what kind of madness he had that day. After he came out of the potion storage room angrily, he rushed directly to the high place to block the door opening of the Gryffindor common room, and muttered some inexplicable things in his mouth. if:

"Lacewings, tree snakeskin, bicorn feet...I've known for a while that someone has been coming into my storage room, and that person is definitely making Polyjuice Potion...it must be you, Potter... "

The matter concerned his own potion ingredients, and Snape was surprisingly patient, waiting outside the Gryffindor common room until dawn.

As a warrior, Harry never dared to go back to his lounge. He could only wear the invisibility cloak and accompany Snape to endure the cold and hunger outside the door, but he couldn't go back to the dormitory to get his supplies.

Because of this, Harry didn't arrive at the venue until less than 1 minute before the start of the game.

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On the referee's seat, Dumbledore and Professor Hicks smiled at Harry. Although Percy looked dissatisfied, the expression in his eyes was also relaxed with Harry's arrival.But Karkaroff and Ms. Maxim seemed very unhappy to see him... Judging from the expressions on their faces, they obviously thought he would not show up.

It seems that it is inconvenient to pick the thorns of a 14-year-old child, Ms. Maxim turned to point the finger at Dracula——

"Mr. Security Officer, I think you should have already understood that since today's game is played in the water." She said, "We can't see the specific content of the game at all, and it is difficult for the warriors to have a chance to send a distress signal... …So I was thinking, how do you find the opportunity to save the warriors from danger?"

When Dracula was mentioned suddenly, he glanced at Ms. Maxim in surprise.

Immediately, he said casually, "It's not that I can't see it, it's just that I'm not ready yet."

"Prepare?"

"Indeed, why do you think it's so complicated when you just need to do a little preparation?" Dracula said casually, "Look——"

I saw an old parchment flying out of Dracula's pocket. Dracula waved his hand and let the parchment go to the black lake.

From the perspective of Dracula's radiance, countless magic power nodes gathered together and continued to extend below the black lake.

The Hogwarts title deed was suddenly rendered with gloomy colors, which were fragments of light in the depths of the Black Lake.

The parchment suddenly swelled and became larger, and gradually filled the entire arena under the shocked and amazed eyes of the audience.

Afterwards, Dracula waved his magic palm and placed the parchment on the side of the arena where all spectators could easily see it, forming it into a huge projection, broadcasting what was happening under the Black Lake in real time.

"Do you still want to question me now, Ms. Maxim?" Dracula looked at her with a half-smile and said.

Ms. Maxim and Karkaroff both sighed deeply.

They felt that their chances of bringing down Hogwarts were getting slimmer.

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On the playing field, Ludo Bagman had already come among the warriors and ordered them to line up on the bank with a distance of ten feet between each.

Harry was last in line, next to Krum.Krum, in a pair of swimming trunks and shirtless, has his wand out and ready.

"How is it, Harry?" Bagman led Harry a few steps forward, avoiding Krum, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know what you're going to do?"

"Yes." Harry gasped, clutching the gillsweed in his pocket.

This is his lifeline.

"Very well, I wish you success, Harry." Bagman squeezed Harry's shoulder hard, and returned to the referee table.

Pointing his wand to his throat, he said, as he did in the Quidditch World Cup final, "Loud!" and his voice thundered across the dark lake to the stands.

"Listen, everyone, our warriors are in place. As soon as I whistle, the second project begins. They have a full hour to take back what was stolen from them. I count to three. One...two ……three!"

High-pitched whistles echoed in the cold, still air.There was a burst of cheers and applause from the stands.

Krum first used a crude body transformation to transform his head into a big shark, and then jumped into the black lake in February, not yet fully spring, in swimming trunks.

"Oh? Quite ingenious human body deformation. I didn't expect that Mr. Krum's level of deformation is not inferior to his flying ability!" Bagman said appreciatively, "I heard that Durmstrang's students are very resistant. It is freezing and can swim in the water in winter, so there is no problem with his choice of jumping directly into the cold water."

Furong cast a bubble head curse on herself, and then gracefully fell into the lake with a slim figure.

Harry glanced at Cedric, who was helping him with this project, and found that he also chose the Bubble Charm, but he also used some body deformation to make his hands and feet more suitable. swim.

Harry didn't have time to watch what the other warriors were doing. He just took off his shoes and socks twice, took out the gill grass from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, and waded into the lake.

The lake in February had just melted ice, and it was bitingly cold. I felt the skin of my legs burning hot, as if it was on fire.

The further he walked, the deeper the lake was, and the drenched robe fell heavily.Now the lake was up to the knees, and my two quickly numb feet stepped on the sand and smooth, sticky stones, slipping non-stop.

He chewed the gill grass quickly and vigorously. It didn't feel good, it was tough and slippery, like the tentacles of an octopus.He stopped in waist-deep water, swallowed the gill grass, and waited for a miracle to happen.

Then, all of a sudden, Harry felt as if an invisible pillow was pressing against his mouth and nose.When he took a breath, he felt the world spinning in his head.His lungs were empty, and there was a sudden sharp knife-like pain on both sides of his neck—

Quickly grasping the throat with both hands, Harry felt for two long, narrow slits just below the ears, opening and closing in the cold air...he had gills!

Without hesitation, he took the only reasonable move—a plunge into the water.

Taking your first sip of icy lake water is like getting the oxygen you need for life.

His head stopped spinning, so he took another deep breath of the lake water, feeling the water flow smoothly through his gills, sending oxygen into his brain.

He stretched out his hands in front of him, looking carefully.They were greenish underwater and weird looking, and had webbed fingers and webbed toes, as if his feet had suddenly turned into duck webs.

At the same time, the water was no longer freezing cold... On the contrary, he felt very cool and comfortable, and his body became very light.

Harry continued to paddle forward, surprised to find that those webbed feet allowed him to move faster in the water than on land.He also found that he seemed to be able to see clearly without blinking at all.

Soon, he was swimming far away, and then plunged down to the bottom of the lake.

There seemed to be cheers from the auditorium in the distance, and Harry raised the corners of his mouth in the water in relief.

……

In truth, those boisterous cheers and screams weren't really for Harry.

Apart from Harry, Krum, Fleur, and Cedric, John, who is also a warrior, seemed particularly unhurried.

He stood on the shore lightly like that, picked up a green leaf in his hand, and gently put it to his mouth.

"Woooo-"

A weird and melodious playing sound came from John's mouth.

The next moment, the water in the Black Lake seemed to be boiling. Countless bubbles burst out of the water, and a large number of ripples appeared on the originally calm lake surface.

"Whoa!"

There was a loud splash of water.

Accompanied by water splashes all over the sky, a large water monster that looked like a steed and covered with broad-leaved cattails as a mane suddenly drilled out of the lake, landed in front of John, shaking quietly.

"That's...that's..." Bagman, who was the commentator, was so surprised that he couldn't speak clearly, "It looks like a horse-shaped water monster!"

Seeing that John grabbed the "mane" of the horse-shaped water monster and stepped on the back of the water monster, as if he was about to ride such a powerful and magical animal into the lake, the referee's seat couldn't sit still.

"This is a 4X-level magical animal. It is absolutely impossible for the warriors to participate in the competition riding such a monster that destroys balance!" Karkaroff jumped up all of a sudden, protesting loudly.

Ms. Maxim also stood up angrily.

"Isn't this a blatant borrowing of foreign objects?" She also said loudly, "I don't agree with him participating in the game in this way!"

"John can tame the magical animals in the competition field. Isn't this his own strength?"

Professor Hicks also stood up and confronted the two headmasters of Beauxbaton and Durmstrang.

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Harry didn't know anything about what happened on the referee's bench.

Under the reflection of the Hogwarts title deed, the audience saw that Harry had already begun to swim around in a dark and hazy strange scenery.

There was silence in Harry's ears.He could only see for a ten-foot radius, so with each stroke of the water a new view suddenly emerged from the darkness ahead: a jungle of undulating, tangled black weeds, scattered with glittering The wide and flat sand of small pebbles.He swam deeper and deeper, toward the middle of the lake.His eyes were wide open, looking through the gray, treacherous water, to the shadows in the distance, where the water was dark and misty.

He looked hard into the distance, and in front of him was a piece of green water grass, two feet deep, really like a very dense lawn.Harry stared straight ahead without blinking, trying to make out shapes in the shadows... just then, without warning, something grabbed him by the ankle.

Harry writhed and turned around, and saw a Grindylow - a horned monster.

Grindylow leaned out from the water plants, his long nails gripping Harry's legs tightly, and his sharp fangs were exposed in his mouth.

Behind the water monster was an ugly brown-skinned mermaid... It was this mermaid that was driving a water monster like Grindylow to attack Harry.

Harry quickly put his webbed hand inside his robes and touched his wand.

But as soon as he grabbed the wand, two more Grindyllos emerged from the weeds, grabbed Harry's robes, and pulled him down desperately.

"Relashio!"

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