Became good friends with the Boy Who Lived

Chapter 116 The 2nd Project

On February 24th, the sky was very clear, but dry and cold.

The enthusiasm of the students in the auditorium was even higher than that of the first project. From time to time, a student pretended to pass by and asked casually: "Good morning, Aeris (or Harry), you must be ready, right? What was the second project?"

"It's obvious, isn't it?" Aeris answered vaguely while enjoying his meal. "There are spectator stands over the Black Lake, so the competition must be held in the water..."

After hearing what Aris said, the classmates who tried to find out the news would smile awkwardly and walk away. There was no way. Secrecy seemed to be a tradition in the wizarding world. It could be seen from Ron's family. His five brothers all went to school at Hogwarts, and even the eldest and second brothers had graduated. Ron didn't know the specific process of the sorting ceremony before he went to school.

Hermione looked at Aris who was eating voraciously and seemed to be hesitant to speak. Does a person's appetite improve when he is nervous?

After a while, Professor McGonagall came over quickly. Aeris thought that Professor McGonagall was here to ask him and Harry to participate in the competition. Just as he was about to stand up, Professor McGonagall said, "Miss Granger, Miss Weasley, follow me. Mr. Grindelwald, Mr. Potter, you need to go to the lake to prepare."

"I thought you were coming for me and Harry, Professor!" said Aris.

"Don't you know the way to the lake, Mr. Grindelwald?" Professor McGonagall said impatiently, then left with Hermione and Ginny.

After Aris and Harry finished their breakfast, they walked out of the castle together. Draco hurried to catch up. After Cedric said goodbye to Zhang Qiu, he also hurried to catch up.

"Can you do it, Potter?" Draco said in a worried tone, "You were very lax when practicing the Bubble Head Charm yesterday. Are you going to give up the game?"

"No," said Harry, "I just found another way..."

Cedric and Draco both looked at Harry curiously, "Don't worry, I'll be fine." Harry said.

They left the castle and crossed the large lawn. The chill in the air made them tighten their robes.

"It's so cold, and they actually let us carry out the project in the lake. What on earth are they thinking?" Draco complained dissatisfiedly.

Layer upon layer of tall stands have been built on the edge of the Black Lake, and some students have already rushed to the Black Lake stands to occupy a good viewing position.

Aris noticed Ron, who had found a good seat for himself, but Hermione was nowhere to be seen. Ron seemed very confused there, looking around.

When Aeris, Harry, Draco, and Cedric arrived at the referee's table, Viktor and Fleur were already there.

Mr. Bagman greeted Harry cordially, and a familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar voice came: "Are you okay? Aris!"

Aries looked towards the judges' table. Percy Weasley was looking at him with a high-spirited look on his face. Aries smiled and said, "Very good, Percy! Nice to meet you."

Mr. Bagman chatted with Harry for a while, then returned to his seat and used a loudspeaker spell to say:

"Our warriors have taken their positions. Everyone listen carefully. When the salute sounds, the second event will officially begin. Each of our warriors has lost a precious item. They only have one hour to search for it in the cold lake. Everyone listen to me and count to three. One..."

There was a "boom" and everyone looked towards the source of the sound. Mr. Filch was spreading his hands with an innocent look on his face and the salute next to him was smoking in the air.

Viktor cast a not very successful Transfiguration spell on himself, and his head turned into a shark's head. Without thinking much, he plunged into the cold lake.

Aeris, Draco, Cedric and Fleur cast spells almost at the same time, covering their heads with the Bubble Charm, while Harry took off his robes on his own.

Under everyone's puzzled gaze, Harry stuffed the gillyweed he had been holding in his hand into his mouth and seemed to swallow it in one gulp.

Aeris paid no further attention to Harry, or anyone else, as he dove into the icy water, Draco seemingly beside him.

Hermione hasn't shown up yet, and Aries is a little worried. He is afraid that Hermione is the precious thing Aries is looking for. It is better to be safe than sorry. Aries is really worried that Hermione might be in danger.

The visibility in the water was very low. Eris was wandering in a hazy and strange scene. He lost all trace of everyone. Eris gritted his teeth and transformed himself into a giant electric eel.

Observing the underwater world from the perspective of the electric eel is quite amazing, with all kinds of magical aquatic animals and plants, jungles formed by huge black water plants, and ordinary fish swimming happily.

The electric eel that Aeris transformed into swam towards the depths of the Black Lake based on his feeling. Suddenly, several tentacles rolled towards him. When those tentacles firmly grasped the electric eel that Aeris transformed into, Aeris activated the magic power in his body, and the electric eel that he transformed into immediately emitted high voltage electricity.

Not only was the owner of the tentacle caught off guard, but all aquatic animals within a twenty-foot radius, centered on Eris, fell into a state of stiffness.

The electric eel that Aeris transformed into immediately began to look around. The tentacle that had caught him was retracting into a shadow. Aeris could see clearly that it was a giant squid.

The giant squid found a direction and ran away. Eris quickly followed. After chasing for a while, two shadows attracted Eris' attention.

Draco was being entangled by an aquatic dark magic creature. Aeris swam over quickly and entangled the aquatic dark magic creature with his electric eel body.

Draco looked terrified, and the big bubbles on his head made his frightened expression even more ridiculous. Draco quickly fled to the deeper bottom of the lake.

Aires, in the form of an electric eel, released high voltage electricity, knocking the aquatic dark magic creature unconscious, and then chased in the direction Draco fled.

Draco seemed to notice that he was being watched, and he tried even harder to escape. Aires became playful and chased him slowly in the form of an electric eel. Draco escaped and Aires chased him. Draco could not escape even if he had wings.

A melodious song was heard: Please don't delay, half of the time is over, and your treasure will rot here.

Draco hurried to the direction where the singing came from, and Aeris returned to his human body and also rushed to the direction where the singing came from.

In order to see more clearly, Aerys' pupils turned red and gold, and he saw the singing creature: iron-gray skin, dark green hair like a mess of algae, yellow eyeballs, and jagged yellow teeth, with pebbles as decorations around its neck.

"Is this thing a mermaid? It's obviously a water monster!" Aeris complained to himself.