Chapter 274 - 274 Under the Lake

Chapter 274: Chapter 274 Under the Lake

"In fact, the mermaids that Muggles imagine do exist..."

Dracula glanced at the sad Justin Finch-Fletchley and said casually, "They may have seen mermaids in warm waters and recorded the images of those mermaids."

"Are the mermaids in warm waters different from the mermaids in the Black Lake?" Justin's eyes showed a glimmer of hope again, "Are there any mermaids with long hair and very beautiful hair?"

"Of course, the species of mermaids is still more pleasing to the eye." Dracula smiled indifferently, "Including temper, appearance and character are much better than those mermaids in cold water areas."

Speaking of this, Dracula couldn't help but raise a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth.

He had a big conflict with the mermaid tribe, and even personally transformed a mermaid leader into the lowest blood servant among vampires, causing that large mermaid community to fall into serious civil strife.

The thing is, in 1811, the then Minister of Magic, Grogan Stump, set a new definition of "human", and the magic community reached a consensus to define "beast" together -

Humans, that is, wizards and Muggles, as well as goblins, vampires, hags, giants, house elves, veela and werewolves in human form were all classified into this category.

However, centaurs and mermen refused to be called "humans" because they were unwilling to share the name of "human" with vampires and hags, and voluntarily were classified as "beasts".

At that time, these two groups who had no ability but were very self-righteous made Dracula very angry.

He directly picked the two most lively mermaid and centaur groups, easily transformed the leaders of the two groups into blood servants, and then stayed out of it, admiring what those races who thought they were very noble would become after their leaders became vampires that they looked down upon.

Dracula's expectations were not disappointed. The two leaders could not control their desire to suck blood and were soon exposed to the eyes of their tribesmen.

After the mermen and centaurs of the two groups found that their leaders had become lowly vampires, they quickly fell into civil strife. Countless lower-class centaurs and mermen wanted to overthrow the rule of the leaders and maintain the purity of the tribe...

"It's ridiculous that the most arrogant and self-conceited mermaid population is not those pleasing warm water mermaids, but these cold water monsters." Dracula sneered, "I really can't understand what they have to be proud of."

Justin, Ernie MacMillan and Susan Bones shivered at the same time.

They felt that the temperature around them, which was not very warm, suddenly dropped several degrees and became extremely cold.

Justin shivered and glanced at the picture on the Hogwarts title deed, watching those ugly mermaids surrounding Fleur Delacour, whose ankles were entangled by water plants, and silently gave them a pitying look.

Sure enough, Dracula suddenly flew up from the Hufflepuff audience just before the mermaid's fork was about to touch Fleur.

He appeared above the Black Lake in an instant, with a faint sneer on his lips, and waved his wand violently.

The next moment, in the horrified eyes of the crowd, the lake water set off a huge wave, and a huge water column shot into the sky, almost swallowing up half of the sky.

A huge water wall stood high on the lake, with clouds and snow, and the whole Black Lake seemed to be suddenly divided into two halves!

One half was a huge water wall, and the other half was an unfathomable abyss.

The Hogwarts title deed, which had been magnified countless times, seemed like a small building in front of the Skylon Tower compared to the water wall of the lake, standing there tremblingly, no longer as imposing as before.

In the picture on the deed, you can see that Fleur Delacour, who was entangled in water plants and wrapped by mermaids, suddenly had a beam of sunlight shining on her silver hair and the already dim light in her eyes.

Then, a waterspout quietly formed at the bottom of the lake, cutting the water plants in half, and then lifted Fleur's body to the surface of the lake.

The waterspout swept a group of mermaids into it at some point, like a drum washing machine, tossing those ugly mermaids and their pet Grindylows around, shaking them all over, and many of them lost consciousness directly.

Justin, who had been standing with Dracula not long ago, swallowed his saliva.

"Professor Dracula must have done it on purpose, right?" He whispered to Susan and Ernie beside him.

Susan and Ernie nodded silently, agreeing deeply.

"Ahem... Professor Dracula, stop your magic for a while."

Dumbledore stood up from the judges' seat and coughed twice, "Actually, I have reached an agreement with the mermaids. They are just pretending and will not really hurt Miss Delacour."

Some of the dwellings had small green lodi tied in front of their doors, like a guard dog.

Mermen emerged from all directions, looking at John curiously. When they saw the horse-shaped water monster under John, they all showed vigilance in their eyes. Some mermaids took out steel forks from the house, and some covered their mouths with their hands and whispered.

John quickly turned a corner and arrived at a very strange scene.

That place seemed to be the square of a small mermaid village, surrounded by some houses, and a large group of mermaids floating in front of the houses.

Some mermaids in the middle were singing in unison, calling the warriors to come over. Behind them stood a rough statue: a big mermaid carved from a huge stone. Five people were tied tightly to the tail of the mermaid stone statue.

Most of these people's faces were familiar, including Cho Chang, Ginny, Rolf, and a little girl with cloud-like silver hair.

The audience compared the silver hair with Fleur's, and soon realized that the little girl, who was no more than eight years old, was Fleur's sister, Gabrielle Delacour.

In addition to these four little wizards, there was an older wizard wearing the uniform of the Bulgarian Quidditch National Quidditch Team.

The five of them looked very asleep, their heads drooping weakly on their shoulders, and a string of thin bubbles kept coming out of their mouths.

"Ginny! Why is she there?" Ron in the audience exclaimed, "And, isn't that Hilma Dennison? It seems to be Krum's best friend in the Bulgarian national team."

He turned his head to look at Hermione, but found that Hermione's face was a little red.

"What's wrong with you, Hermione?" Ron asked curiously.

"Nothing..." Hermione covered her face with both hands and shook her head heavily.

What she didn't tell Ron was that the staff of the semi-finals originally intended to find her as Krum's "treasure".

But because of the conflict with Ron some time ago, and Harry's dilemma of not being able to find a way to deal with the game, Hermione deeply realized that her two friends might need her more than Krum.

So she rejected the invitation of the staff and chose to stay in the library with Harry and Ron to find a way to deal with the second game.

The staff of the semi-finals had no choice but to settle for the second best and found Krum's best friend in the Bulgarian National Quidditch Team... or only friend, and arranged her as Krum's "treasure" in the depths of the lake.

At this time, in the picture on the title deed, John keenly realized what he should do.

So he took out his wand from his pocket, put it close to the rope wrapped around Rolf, and silently read:

"Diffindo."

As an experienced adult wizard, he was obviously much more effective in using spells in water than Harry.

Although this cutting spell was not as powerful as the one on the ground, it was enough to cut the rope on Rolf.

After rescuing Rolf, John drove the Kelpie to hover above the water without hesitation, causing violent waves.

"Okay, our first warrior has succeeded!" Bagman shouted loudly on the commentary stand, "Mr. John Kowalski, he rescued his partner in less than forty minutes!"

After John surfaced, the whole audience burst into warm cheers.

He smiled a little tiredly, put Rolf on the shore, and waved to the Kelpie.

The 4X-level magical animal turned around in place and disappeared into the deep lake.

However, unlike the excited and cheering audience, Fleur, who was sitting in the medical tent, looked a little lost -

She thought other warriors would help her rescue her sister.

"No need to look depressed." Dracula laughed softly and said to her.

"Even if other warriors don't save your sister, there will still be a fool in this game who will save those who have nothing to do with him despite the advice of others."