Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 310 The game is over

Even though the weather was very cold and there was nothing interesting to see at the competition venue.

But the number of spectators at the Black Lake did not decrease. On the contrary, as the one-hour game time came to an end, the endless stream of people coming to watch the game made the Black Lake even more crowded.

The commentator Bagman was working hard on the stage to explain the game so as not to bore the audience.

He is indeed a smart man and knows what the audience wants to know most, so he tells some gossip about the contestants.

Like the story of Krum and his most beloved baby, Hermione, and the somewhat strange relationship between Harry and his most beloved baby, Ron.

These biased and explosive revelations made the audience listen with great interest and excitement.

"Look at the lake! What is that!"

Suddenly someone in the audience shouted loudly, and everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the originally calm surface of the Black Lake was now surging with waves.

Now no one listened to Bagman's gossip anymore. Everyone was staring at the lake.

Everyone in the referee's booth frowned.

No one at the scene knew better than them how deep the Black Lake was. Logically speaking, at such a deep depth, no matter what Mike and his team did at the bottom of the lake, there should be no reaction on the surface of the lake.

Dumbledore shook his head. He sincerely hoped that this was just a small coincidence, otherwise Harry and Mike's situation would become very dangerous, because there were not many creatures in the Black Lake that could make such a noise, and those creatures were not easy to deal with.

But his hopes would eventually be dashed.

The movement on the surface of the Black Lake became louder and louder. The turbulent water flowed from bottom to top, making the lake surface chaotic. At the same time, a faint blue color spread across the lake.

"Oh my god! What on earth happened down there?"

A student of Muggle descent couldn't help but exclaim, and the people around him echoed him.

Everyone was looking at the lake intently, hoping that there would be new changes on the surface, such as something floating up or something.

No one knew how long it had been, but under everyone's gaze, a shark fin appeared on the water and was moving towards the shore at high speed.

Kakaroff jumped up from the referee's table with joy. You know, there are no sharks in the Black Lake, so the shark fin can only represent Krum.

But soon the smile on his face froze, because as Shark Krum gradually surfaced, the human face was surprised to find that he was still hugging two people?
That would have been fine, but what shocked everyone the most was that a glowing rope was tied to Krum's shark, and at the other end of the rope was Mike, who was also holding two people.

At this moment, Mike looked very handsome, just like those handsome surfers on the Muggle beach.

As time passed, Krum, Mike and others rushed ashore, then collapsed to the ground, turned back into human form at an extremely fast speed, gasping for breath.

Mike dispersed the golden magic rope without blushing or breathing heavily, and walked towards the crowd holding Penelope and the silver-haired little girl.

As soon as they left the Black Lake, Penelope and the others woke up. Ron woke up and found himself lying next to Krum. His ears suddenly turned red. When he found Hermione lying on the other side of Krum, his face turned as red as a cooked lobster.

Penelope and the little girl also woke up. Penelope kissed Mike affectionately, while the little girl stared at Mike blankly with her big eyes blinking.

At this time, Madam Pomfrey rushed over with a temporary medical team. They quickly covered everyone with blankets and wiped the water stains on their bodies vigorously.

"Emm, ladies and gentlemen, there seems to be a problem with our game. Mike and Krum seem to have brought up the treasures of Furong and Harry. We didn't expect this before. It seems that the scoring will become very difficult in the future." Bagman explained, "But no matter what, our two warriors have completed their tasks ahead of schedule. Let us welcome them back with the warmest applause and cheers!"

Bagman was trying hard to guide the audience's emotions to a climax, but in fact, he didn't need to say much, almost all the audience had already started cheering and applauding.

Amidst the thunderous applause, Mike changed into a thick winter school uniform and waved to the audience. After a round of even louder cheers and applause, he said to Professor Flitwick who came to check on the situation:

"Professor! I was attacked by mermaids down there! They even summoned a giant octopus, but the giant octopus doesn't seem to be very obedient. Now it is wreaking havoc in the mermaid village."

Hearing this, the smile on Flitwick's face froze, and he asked seriously:

"This is no small matter, Mike. Are you 100 percent sure?"

"I'm sure and sure!"

Mike answered decisively, and Flitwick took a deep breath and walked towards the referee's seat with a stern face.

The faces of the people in the referee's booth changed drastically after hearing what Flitwick said. Fudge's reaction was the most intense. He slammed the table and roared in a low voice:
"I've said long ago that we should drive all these guys away, Dumbledore! Those magical creatures are inherently cruel! There are so many children living here, how could nothing go wrong!"

"Don't be impatient, Fudge. It's too early to draw any conclusions now." Dumbledore took out his wand and stared at Fudge. "Besides, Harry and the others must be in great danger under the Black Lake. How about I go down and pick up Harry and Miss Drakel, and confirm the situation with the mermaids?"

Being stared at by Dumbledore holding the wand did not feel good. Fudge instinctively shrank back and replied in a weak voice:

"can."

Dumbledore nodded expressionlessly, and the wand in his hand shook. Then a layer of translucent film appeared on his whole body.

Then, under the gaze of everyone, Dumbledore shot out like an arrow and rushed straight into the Black Lake.

Many spectators also noticed this scene and were discussing it excitedly.

Seeing this, Bagman had to explain:

"Oh! Please don't make a fuss. Dumbledore is only going to the Black Lake to pick up our remaining two warriors. As you know, their treasures have been brought up, and it would be a waste of time to stay in the lake."

This reason was reasonable and many viewers nodded in agreement.

It was also a good thing for the warriors that Dumbledore could personally come down to help them. After all, they were already getting a little impatient waiting in the snow and ice. If Dumbledore didn't take action, they didn't know when the game would end.

Half an hour later, Dumbledore came out of the water holding Fleur and Harry. Fleur pushed away the medical staff who wanted to cover her with a blanket as soon as she landed, and rushed to the silver-haired girl crying like crazy, and hugged her in her arms.

The medical staff on the side frowned, and now they had to help the little girl wipe it again.

On the other side, Harry had a dull look on his face as he was being wiped by the medical staff. He looked like a puppet being manipulated at will.

"Harry, are you okay?"

Mike's voice brought Harry back to his senses. He turned his head tremblingly to look at Mike and stammered:
"I...I'm fine, I...I'm just a little...a little scared!"

"It seems that you have also seen the octopus. Please forgive me, Harry, the situation was too urgent, so I had to bring everyone up with me."

Not sure if it was because of the cold or fear, Harry's body was still shaking. He opened his mouth slightly and was about to reply when Fleur rushed over and hugged Mike, kissing his cheek madly while saying excitedly:

"Thank you! Thank you Mike! Thank you for saving Gabrielle! I really don't know what I would do if anything happened to her!"

Furong's sudden attack caught Mike off guard, but he noticed that Penelo, who was not far away from him, was looking at him with murderous eyes. He gently pushed Furong away, coughed twice and said:

"It doesn't matter, this is what I should do."

"From now on, I can do anything for you, Mike!" Fleur's eyes were red and her face was sincere, "I would feel so guilty if anything happened to Gabrielle! If I had known that they would take Gabrielle away, I would never have participated in this damn Triwizard Tournament!"

Mike shook his head helplessly, and finally coaxed Furong away after a while.

By this time, Harry had almost recovered. He wrapped himself in a thick blanket and said:
"Mike, I don't blame you. You made the best choice at the time."

"Thank you." Mike said, "Can you tell me how Dumbledore brought you up here?"

At this point, Harry's face clearly showed an abnormal blush. He shook off the blanket and stood up, gesticulating while speaking in a trembling tone of excitement:

"That was so cool! You didn't see it, Dumbledore fell from the sky like a superhero, and he just waved his wand! Then the octopus monster was shrunk by 10,000 times! It turned directly into a small octopus!

Then he waved his hand again! All the buildings in the mermaid village below that were damaged by the giant octopus began to automatically recover!

Finally, Dumbledore talked to the mermaids for a while, and then brought us up!"

After saying this, Harry was obviously still a little unsatisfied. He smacked his lips, as if he was recalling the scene at that time and then told Mike more about it after a while.

But at this moment Bagman's voice suddenly rang out.

"Ladies and gentlemen! We have finally made a decision. Mermaid leader Mercus has told us everything under the lake. We have decided to give the following scores to the warriors based on a full score of fifty...

Fleur Drakel, despite her excellent use of the Bubblehead Charm, was held up by Grindylow and failed to rescue the hostages. We give her twenty-five points for this."

There was applause from the stands, but Furong lowered her head in shame.

"Harry Potter took Gillweed and achieved amazing results. Unfortunately, he got lost along the way and failed to rescue the hostages. Therefore, we give him 25 points."

The Slytherin students burst into laughter, and Harry wanted to find a hole to crawl into immediately.

He felt like he had let everyone down.

"Victor Krum used Transfiguration, which was incomplete but still very effective. He returned at the same time as Mike, and rescued Harry's treasure, Ron, out of humanitarianism. We should have given him more points, but the Mermaid Queen told us that Krum originally planned to return with his treasure directly, but Mike forced him to take Ron with him. So we give him 40 points!"

Karkaroff, sitting in the referee's seat, closed his eyes with a sullen face. He felt very embarrassed about the deductions made against Krum.

On the contrary, Krum himself seemed not to care about the score at all.

At this moment, he was surrounding Hermione, asking her about her well-being and being extremely attentive.

"Finally, it's our contestant Mike Townley!" Bagman roared at the top of his voice. "Not only did Mike return here with Krum at the same time with his treasure, he also protected everyone else's treasure!"

"Most of the judges," Bagman said, giving Karkaroff a disapproving look, "felt that this was a high moral character exercise. However... Mr. Townley's score was forty-five!"

As soon as these words were spoken, there was a mixture of boos and cheers from the stands.

The boos were because everyone understood what Bagman meant by most referees, and the cheers were because their Warrior Mike still maintained his absolute lead in the standings.

Penelope and the others were clapping hard, and Mike was waving in response to their enthusiasm.

They saw it most clearly. Although Krum surpassed Harry and became the second place directly with this wave of points, Mike's lead was too big.

In this case, Karkaroff's tricks were harmless.

"The third and final event will be held on the evening of June 24th," Bagman said. "The Warriors will be informed of the details of the event one month in advance. Thank you for your support of the Warriors!"

The second event finally ended, and the audience left the Black Lake one after another, and Mike and other warriors also began to leave.

But when Mike was about to return to the castle, Professor Flitwick suddenly grabbed Mike.

"Mike, can you come to the principal's office this evening? The password is honeycomb cake." Before Mike could ask what was going on, Professor Flitwick continued, "It's about you being attacked by a mermaid underwater today. We have specially invited the Mermaid Queen. I believe that after collecting intelligence in the evening, she will give you a satisfactory answer."

"Okay, I know."

Mike nodded, and Professor Flitwick smiled and said:
"Okay, let's not talk about these serious things for now. To celebrate your success in winning the competition, how about we go out for a big meal at noon!"

Mike also laughed when he heard that, and then the two of them looked at each other and walked into the castle.

(End of this chapter)