Chapter 229

Harry just remembered the pronunciation and spelling of this place name, and didn't have time to think about it, because Krum suddenly leaned over.

"Harry, I must tell you, that conspiracy is very terrible, perhaps they are targeting you." Krum frowned and said. "Renata didn't prepare at all before going into the water, she might be playing a fake game, Fleur and Alina at least one of them is playing a fake game, only you and Cedric are kept in the dark."

Harry blinked. Krum's reasoning can't be said to be completely wrong, it can only be said that his thinking is different from ordinary people.

"I thought about it, perhaps the target of the mastermind is you, he wants your and Cedric's lives." Krum said with a serious face. "The third project, no, the Goblet of Fire must be a trap, you must be careful."

"And, I found that Jack Harkness is quietly refining Polyjuice Potion, what does he want to do?" Krum became more and more frightened as he spoke. "Unless, he is not the real Professor Harkness at all."

Harry's heart trembled. He had never heard of this matter, and he had never paid attention to that professor.

"There is a mastermind covering everything, I think all things can be connected, the Dark Mark at the Quidditch World Cup, I happened to see it was a woman who put it, perhaps Cassandra really exists..." Krum seized this only opportunity and tried his best to tell Harry his reasoning. "This might have something to do with the Dark Lord, he is about to return to this world, those disciples are active again, Renata doesn't know anything, her mind is full of those things in the Muggle world, I'd better hide it from her."

"Why hide it from her?" Harry asked subconsciously.

"I don't want her to get involved, I want her to return to the Muggle world safely, no, she doesn't understand how terrible a person the Dark Lord is." Krum trembled when he said this word, he didn't dare to read that name. "I received a divination letter, on the last day, the burial ground, say the answer to the initial and most fundamental question, that name, so the war that originally ended continued."

"Who (who?), who is the mysterious person (youknowwho, butwho?)" Harry muttered.

"Very terrible, I think this must have something to do with you or Cedric." Krum swallowed a mouthful of saliva. "It's best if you and Cedric have nothing to do with the Deathly Hallows, then what I worry about won't happen."

This sentence truly made Harry's heart turn upside down. Could it be that Voldemort has some unknown arrangements in this regard? Yes, he knows the existence of the Resurrection Stone...

"And my headmaster, I saw him meeting with a person shrouded in a black robe sneakily, I have a premonition that things are not that simple." Krum wanted to say something more, but he seemed unable to organize the language. "In short, be careful, Harry, this Triwizard Tournament is not as simple as we imagined."

"Thank you, Krum." Harry said seriously. "I will go investigate again, and I will definitely act cautiously, but the top priority is the second project, you also cheer up."

Krum revealed an awkward smile, then nodded slightly and sat to the other side.

Harry's thoughts were a bit chaotic, but he forced himself not to think about those dark schemes, and instead focused his attention on the competition.

Soon, Madame Maxime settled the champions preparing to start from underwater, and led the three champions preparing to start from the shore to the lakeside. They looked at each other from afar, Harry calmed down and watched the other two champions.

Everyone checked their watches and made sure they were waterproof. Fleur added a Bubble-Head Charm to herself in advance, and Krum drank a tube of potion, letting himself grow a weird frog head.

When the time came, they plunged into the water one by one, only Harry stood on the shore doing nothing.

"Look, the Hogwarts champion is standing on the shore and not moving." The audience discussed.

"Does he have no way to enter the water?"

"Perhaps, he is waiting for something to fly over, for example, a diving suit."

"If you ask me, this is Hogwarts' special strategy." Donna said triumphantly. "Deliberately lagging behind, because in the first level, the competition side provided very good care for the third place."

Zhang Qiu and Ron were sitting beside her, but didn't stop her from spreading rumors to the Beauxbatons audience.

Harry faced the lake water a bit bored. Of course he was not unprepared. He memorized Zhang Qiu's Earth-Gang Summoning Examination Record word for word, and the Ten Commandments of Moxi were even more familiar. Even, he could recite the entire "Exodus" on the spot.

But there is no need for this. For a long time, Harry never felt that doing something special in front of everyone to show his difference was an interesting thing, so he was never keen on doing so, although this seemed to be one of Dumbledore's great hobbies.

In the uneasy waiting, the agreed fifteen minutes were about to run out. Harry began to chant the Ten Commandments of Moxi slowly, clearly, and in a low voice. He didn't want to make any mistakes in any syllable, fearing that this would lead to not being able to connect to the secret ritual Tang Tang Nade mentioned.

And, if it really couldn't be connected, Harry also made preparations. He stuffed a handful of Gillyweed and a Disillusionment Charm with water-avoidance spells in his pocket. He believed that even if he started fifteen minutes late, as long as he used invisibility to avoid fighting, he would still have time to complete this project within the time limit.

"The Tenth Commandment, you shall not covet your neighbor's house, nor shall you covet your neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's." When Harry's voice fell, he felt something connect to his body along the back of his neck, a familiar feeling, just like the first time he held a wand.

Next, it was the "spell" of this "wand". Harry's voice gradually became louder, "Flowers, trees, sky, breeze..."

And some audience saw him opening his arms, facing the lake water and chanting, suddenly began to become restless. They discussed one after another, Harry finally had action, which made the auditorium suddenly lively.

"... stones, gravel, earth!" After chanting the inexplicable spell, Harry felt a huge amount of magic power pouring into his body, as if someone was holding his hand and teaching himself to release this magic. His arm raised uncontrollably, and his wand pointed directly ahead.

The lake water boiled. After several explosions, the lake water split into two, gradually fading to both sides, revealing the riverbed full of silt below. Harry looked at the scene that only appeared in myths and legends excitedly, and couldn't help but think of the first time he witnessed the brick wall of Diagon Alley opening the door. Magic can always create amazing miracles.

The audience cheered and screamed as the water curtain opened. When the scene underwater was completely displayed in front of everyone, the original slightly weakened noise erupted violently again.

Although Harry was nearsighted, he could still recognize from the distinctive clothing that it was Renata and Alina, and they were dueling.

Originally, the two were still firing spells at each other underwater. When Harry's spell took effect, Alina fell out of the water curtain first.

"Harry, you're so timely!" She laughed, stepped on the mud with bare feet, and ran around. Renata's spells couldn't hit her at all. And in the water, Renata, who was inconvenient to move, found it difficult to dodge her spells and had to use the Iron-Shield Charm to defend with difficulty.

At first, Harry was still wondering why Renata was unwilling to leave the water wall. But when he walked down along the riverbed, he saw the fish fin-like structure on her face, and guessed that she should have used Gillyweed, which made her unable to breathe in the air.

"You are not allowed to do this," Krum suddenly jumped out of the water curtain behind Alina and raised his wand at her. "Croak-down!"

Perhaps, his frog head caused the spell's pronunciation to be non-standard, and the wand didn't react at all. Krum paused slightly, and rushed toward her fiercely.

"Exactly, I've had enough of these red tapes," Alina broke her Bubble-Head Charm. "Now I am Kaslana, a Valkyrie!"

Taking advantage of the two fighting together, Renata turned her head suddenly and shot a spell at Fleur who was trying to sneak attack her.

Harry hurriedly ran along the riverbed, and Cedric also swam toward the water wall here. He had been a little distance away from the dry land revealed by Harry parting the river.

Now, the two groups of champions underwater were fighting together. Harry and Cedric seemed to have the advantage, but in fact, they were still far from the center of the lake, and it would take about two minutes even if they ran with all their strength.

Alina seemed to have learned some fighting techniques. Although her height and strength were obviously not as good as Krum's, she actually had the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat. Harry didn't find it strange. After all, she is Tang Tang Nade's student. And Krum relied on the muscles he exercised on the court and the powerful senses brought by the frog head, trying to counterattack. It seemed that most of his attacks missed, but in fact, this showed that Alina didn't dare to take Krum's punches, and frequent dodging made her attack rhythm not coherent.

When Harry ran to a distance enough to interfere with the battle with his wand, and Cedric finally left the water wall, broke the Bubble-Head Charm, and began to run on the riverbed, Renata finally used a Stupefy spell to knock Fleur unconscious, then waved her hands and feet and turned around, wanting to start shooting spells at Harry.

Harry saw Fleur floating toward the water surface with her own Bubble-Head Charm, and no longer worried about her, but focused on dealing with Renata's attack.

By now, no one cared why they were fighting. Anyway, the rules didn't limit champions from attacking each other. Once someone fired the first shot, it was unlikely to end peacefully. Clearly, the treasure chest was close at hand, and anyone could touch it, but the audience reached the same conclusion tacitly: only the champion who stood to the end was qualified to enter the password.