Chapter 434： Before the game

For the rest of January, nothing major happened, but minor problems continued.

After Professor Moody's return to the classroom, he brought new controversy without disappointment. In the mouths of some senior students, he seemed to have the shadow of'Lockhart' for them to find information, read aloud in class, and vividly tell what happened to him. Personal experience.

His famous saying, "Always be vigilant", once again appeared in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

During this period of time, the little wizards went to the library every day to find materials about the war ten years ago. The records of the war that were originally quite deserted were turned up, including various newspapers from ten years ago.

The little wizards looked at these things every day, and their psychological pressure increased sharply. In addition to the wizarding grade exams in the fifth and seventh grades, many students were in class, but suddenly weeped hysterically and were on the verge of collapse.

Even Fred and George were uncomfortable with the optimists. They breathed a sigh of relief when the Defence Against the Dark Arts course returned to ‘normal’. One afternoon, Fred smoked his nose and said, “In the past, Mom and Dad seldom talked about war with us. If anyone talked about it, the other would interrupt the other, and Mom rarely talked about two uncles... But let’s go. The newspapers of those few years only knew what life they had lived..."

George said with lingering fear: "Every two or three days I can see pictures of houses marked with the Dark Demon, and I have shadows."

Harry didn't want to say more, because there has been a recent trend. Since Professor Moody asked the students to recite the deeds of those who died in the war in class, some of the descendants of ‘war heroes’ have been viewed with awe.

Neville stammered on more than one occasion to explain that his parents had recovered, and also showed the newspaper clippings and newspapers he collected to his classmates, but there were still many people who took the initiative to comfort him. It was the same with Harry. He suddenly realized that Parvati Pettil's expression became gentle again when he saw him...

He doesn't like this feeling, because every time someone looks at him with such eyes, he will remind his parents of the fact of sacrifice. ‘No one becomes a hero just to get their son to be worshipped. Harry thought angrily.

He, Hermione and Ron practiced spells in an abandoned classroom, and learned many useful spells one after another. They were still in a hidden corner, breaking a piece of black lake ice, and experimenting with unskilled warm-up spells and The waterproof curse, shivering out of the lake every time.

When the ice of the Black Lake melted and Krum was wearing a pair of shorts to practice diving from the springboard of the black sailboat, they had already figured out how to maintain combat effectiveness in the Black Lake.

"The effect of spells on land in the water is greatly reduced, especially the flame magic. At most, it shoots a hot stream of water, but it is estimated that the effect against Grindillo is not as good as the curse..." Hermione was nervous. Xi said.

With February, she became like this, when Ron suggested that they could kick these dangerous creatures away with their feet, Hermione glared at him viciously, as if to give him a kick.

"We may need some transformation spells and summoning spells," Hermione said.

"Are you going to let us summon a stick?" Ron asked in surprise.

"Don't be stupid, I mean this," Hermione said. She pulled out her wand and shouted, "Flock of birds!" With a loud noise from her wand, a flock of birds flew out from the tip of the wand, fluttering. The wings circled them three inside.

"What's the use of this?" Harry asked, and he had seen this spell. Before the start of the first project, Mr. Ollivander was invited to check the warriors' wands, and he used Krum's wand to perform the spell.

"They can peck people and obscure sight, but I prefer Professor Flitwick's approach." Hermione said, she maintained her magic with difficulty, her face flushed, Harry and Ron had never seen her use a spell like this. Exhausted.

She seemed to be resisting some kind of invisible resistance. The magic wand drew a half-circle. The birds suddenly swelled up to the size of an owl. Harry suddenly opened his eyes. This is a scene when he was in the second grade. I have seen it, and Professor Flitwick demonstrated it in a duel class.

After two years of close contact with this magic again, Harry looked at the long, sharp beaks of these little birds with horror, three inches long!

With another "bang", these little birds disappeared.

Hermione panted lightly and shook her head, "I still can't handle it easily. In fact, I have always been good at manipulating magic power, especially after practicing with Billy Wigg in the Magic Club..."

When they returned to the castle from the Black Lake, Ron whispered to Harry: "She only has to hide behind the stone and chant the spell. These little birds will help her solve all the troubles, and you can't do anything with her. "

Harry thought about the scene just now, and couldn't agree more.

"How is your bubble curse?" Harry asked in a low voice.

Ron's face collapsed. "It was a nightmare. I have already written to my family and said that I don't need their help... But Fred and George blocked the road ahead of time, do you know? Mom actually praised them in her reply..."

Harry felt sorrowful, especially since the first thing he did every time he saw Ron practicing his head-foaming spell was to take a bath, leaving behind him the smell of a long-lasting dung bomb.

His own humanoid iron armor curse is not progressing smoothly. If he had a choice, he would definitely want to master a protective humanoid iron armor curse instead of a more single-purpose bubble head curse, but now he has to make a choice and consider which one is more cost-effective.

In the next few days, he ran to classroom 7 and even forgot about Occlumency. So when he was awakened by a nightmare one day, he could only blame himself for being lazy on this.

Harry told the incident to Professor Haipu, hoping that the professor would pass it on to Dumbledore, although he did not remember much.

"I only know that he is very happy, something happy has come." He said cursively.

Felix nodded, "Maybe he found a temporary body for himself again, this is no way, they hide it so well." He also hoped that Voldemort would call the door to find Rita Skeeter. Trouble, he can also try to catch little Crouch.

But Rita Skeeter, who got his promise, moved quietly and is currently hiding in Diagon Alley to sort out the information that Sirius gave her.

Harry went back with a lot of thoughts, and began to doubt the significance of his participation in the hegemony. Voldemort was ready to be resurrected, and he could only practice the useless Frozen Curse in the Black Lake. Could it be expected that it would freeze Voldemort's rope? Mantra?

The person who supported him through this time of self-doubt was Sirius. If anyone in this world has the closest relationship with him, then only his godfather, including his attitude towards Voldemort.

But to Harry's surprise, Sirius found himself a temporary job. When he saw the school badge of Smeding Middle School through the two-way mirror, he almost dropped his chin.

"Why did you go to Dali school?" Harry yelled regardless, and a fifth-grade student in the common room raised his head sadly and muttered, "It's crazy again." Then he continued to work as if forever. Unfinished homework.

Sirius in the mirror is quite cheerful. "It was introduced by Felix, because I can't get a diploma recognized by the Muggles. I can only do some chores and don't have a lot of money... But how should I say? I did find some tricks to lead students."

Harry listened to Sirius introducing his new job and talking about his teaching assistant job, "When there is no one, I will use my magic wand to handle the equipment, and I will do it quickly and well..."

There is also an old teacher in his fifties who partnered with him, who was out of breath every time he ran.

After Sirius learned how to send off the offending students with a whistle, he stood aside and slackened. So Harry was fortunate to see Dudley dragging his fat body around the field, especially when he was sticking his tongue out and almost rubbing to the finish line, the pressure in Harry's heart suddenly disappeared.

Before the first Hogsmeade weekend in February, he learned the humanoid iron armor curse. His iron armor curse has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The only regret is that he has not been able to turn the iron armor curse into a cool golden or blood red shield.

Ron also ended his special training. On the day when he successfully learned the Bubble Head Curse, he wore a huge transparent cover that looked like an inverted fish tank and walked around in the lounge. He also participated in the discussion between Fred and George, expressing his willingness to pay for it. One or two big **** bombs.

Fred and George grinned and handed him a gift bag of Duke Bee's candy.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione happily finished the day at Hogsmeade, and then threw themselves into intense preparations. Harry and Hermione held the humanoid iron armor curse, and Ron stepped into the depths of the black lake under the bubble curse, and they saw a strange world.

Harry was surprised that he was so strange to Black Lake.

In the tens of feet near the surface of the black lake, they could still see the gray and sly lake above. At his feet is a jungle of undulating, tangled black water plants, scattered with wide, smooth sands of shiny pebbles.

In the distance are large shadows, without any light. They can only see a small area nearby with the help of a magic wand with the help of a glowing curse. The deeper place is a black patch of different shades. From time to time, big things pass by them. They can't determine whether it is a piece of wood or a piece of wood. Some kind of creature, maybe a giant squid!

Harry had another worry, what if the giant squid swallowed them in one bite? Although it would push the students who fell into the water back into the boat when freshmen enrolled in it, he couldn't guarantee that it was always so gentle, especially when Ron said during a breath exchange that they had already invaded its territory.

As time passed, they went deeper into the Black Lake, and even tried to get closer to the mermaid tribe in an adventure.

As he swam around, Harry found that Hermione and Ron were missing, something was pulling him, which made Harry terrified, until a bright, milky white light lit up in the distance, he realized that he was haunting him. A Grindillo.

"Relax!" Harry chanted the curse through the humanoid iron armor. The hand of the pale green creature with horns loosened like a cramp. He swam to Hermione holding a bright ball of light in her hand. , Looked at her in a panic as she was surrounded by a group of mermaids.

At last they were driven out dejectedly. Judging from the rude gestures of the leading mermaid, if they dared to invade the mermaid's territory, they would probably have to wait for Dumbledore or Professor Haipu to lead them.

Harry touched his head and got out of the water wet. He didn't know how the other warriors solved this trouble, but he had just been knocked twice with a spear by a tall and strong mermaid, and his mind was dizzy. .

"Fred and George are lying. They couldn't complete the task of plotting the map of Black Lake." Ron complained: "The eyesight of the mermaids in the water is much better than ours. They are completely adapted to the darkness."

Hermione was still blaming herself on the way back, "I shouldn’t use lighting, but I’m too nervous You disappeared all at once. Something is bothering me, now think about it. It's water plants... I really don't know what we should do during the official game..."

After returning to the dormitory, Ron took off his clothes and showed Harry the bruise on his back: "It was a mermaid. I kicked him. You know, I want to try it in advance... Then there will be two or three. The individual fish rushed up and gave me twice."

Harry helped give Ron the medicine, and he hissed and moaned, "There is another spot on the ass, I'll do it myself."

Two days before the start of the second project, a group of staff from the "Future World" company came to the school and erected a huge projection screen on the shore of the Black Lake. Lupin and Penello introduced them to the role of the projection screen. "They can show your heroic posture in the game."

"Oh, that's what we hoped for," Ron muttered, "shame in front of everyone."

On the last day before the game, their nerves were stretched to the extreme. Harry discovered that despite all their preparations, there was not enough time, and the unfinished items in Hermione's pamphlet grew faster than the crossed out sections.

But no matter what, they ushered in the second project.