When formulating the content of the game, Dumbledore obviously didn't put much thought into this game.
His goal is very clear, as long as the students representing the Triwizard Tournament on the Carriage can enter the Black Lake openly, and whether they can gain an advantage in this competition is not within the scope of consideration.
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This lake obviously has a very special significance to Hogwarts, a thousand-year-old school. Not only did the four founders cross it before building Hogwarts Castle, but there are also things in the water.
Some unspeakable secrets.
Dumbledore believed that after Voldemort became the principal of Hogwarts, he must also know the importance of the Black Lake. Just like defending Hogwarts Castle, the Black Lake also had a great influence on Dumbledore.
Li Duo and the others were on tight guard.
But after actually coming here, things didn't seem to be like this.
Jon tested the lake for many days, but found no sign that the lake had been tampered with. It was as if Dumbledore's conjecture was completely wrong. In fact, Voldemort didn't care about the lake at all.
I don't mind what they plan to do to the things in the lake.
But it was true that he didn't do anything and didn't interfere with their contact with the Black Lake. The problem was that Jon still didn't find what Dumbledore wanted him to find after spending so many days at the lake.
This gave Jon a not-so-good guess, and he told his guess to Dumbledore. Dumbledore was silent for a long time, and finally asked him to go into the water and have a look on the day of the competition.
And now, he just wanted to take a look to confirm whether his guess was correct.
The land under the Black Lake is uneven, but Jon doesn't have to walk along the ground like he does on land. As long as he can see the bottom of the lake in his field of vision, he can always float in the lake.
His time is precious. Let’s not talk about the competition. The soaking spell that is being maintained on his body cannot last too long. During daily practice, Jon can only stay underwater for an hour and a half at most.
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But now he can only allocate at most half an hour to look for the mermaid in the black lake.
But in fact, he didn't need to search for so long. Soon, he found the location in the southwest corner of the Black Lake.
But what he found was not traces of mermaids, but a ruined underwater building.
There were many stone buildings, but they had obviously been damaged a long time ago. There were broken walls and ruins everywhere, and green algae had covered the surface of the stone pillars, swaying with the cold water.
Jon frowned, this was definitely the underwater residence of the mermaid.
After all, Dumbledore had been a professor and principal at Hogwarts Castle for fifty or sixty years. Of course, he had communicated with the mermaid tribe living in the Black Lake and roughly knew where their territory was.
Jon found this place based on his guidance, but now there are only some fish swimming around.
This made his heart slowly sink.
However, he did not stop here, but went deep into the mermaid territory to try to see if there was any chance he could find the remaining creatures like the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest.
But until he penetrated this place, he didn't find anything, not even a steel fork commonly used by mermaids.
Just when Jon was disappointed and about to leave here, he suddenly discovered a huge ditch at the bottom of the lake at the end of the ruins.
That big ditch was obviously not a product of nature. From the neatly broken stones and fish bones half-buried in the mud, he could tell that it must have been caused by a magic similar to Shen Feng Wu Ying.
Such a discovery could not help but make his heart tremble. He didn't know if Dumbledore could accomplish such a feat, but he definitely wouldn't be able to complete it, even if he cast a spell with both hands.
He slowly approached the lake ditch and finally froze at the edge of the ditch.
The huge black ditch that was as deep as leading to hell was filled with pale white bones!
The upper body of these bones is basically in the shape of a human being, except that the lower body does not have leg bones, but has a skeleton like a fish bone!
Looking at those densely packed skeletons, Jon now finally understood where these disappeared mermaids had gone. Just by seeing the number of bones in this lake ditch, he could roughly determine it.
The entire mermaid tribe in the Black Lake has been completely extinct.
If Voldemort really wants to kill them, the psychological burden will be less than killing the centaurs. After all, mermaids have less contact with wizards and are closer to beasts than humans. But there is a high probability.
Yes, whether he kills all the centaurs or all the mermaids, this demon has no psychological burden.
Jon's heart felt a little heavy.
He was not grieving for these mermaids who had never been masked before, but he was just feeling pressured once again by witnessing the bloodshed of Voldemort's rule.
The blood policy implemented by this man is not just to gain power for himself. He really does not regard any life other than pure-blood wizards as human beings.
Centaurs and mermaids may be defined as beasts in the magical world, not humans, but even if they are defined in this way, these species are thinking, feeling, and civilized beings, just like that enduring question
Likewise, if pigs could talk, think and have feelings like humans, would you still eat pork?
Looking at it this way, the conditions of the hemp breeders under his rule actually became remarkable, but they just became slaves.
But if we look forward to the future, and one day Voldemort really fulfills his long-cherished wish and becomes the master of the world, then what will he think of Muggles?
Jon took one last look at the piles of bones in the lake ditch. They probably had the same fate as the mermaid.
In the end, Jon left the mermaid territory with a heavy heart. He originally came to see the mermaids just to confirm his conjectures and tried to see if he could find some clues. Now that the mermaids are gone, he naturally doesn't.
Will stay here for a long time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It’s just that now that the clues are gone, Jon doesn’t have a clear goal for what he wants to do next.
Dumbledore's biggest purpose in letting him enter the Black Lake was to find the giant squid living in the Black Lake. Jon stayed by the lake for so many days without finding any sign of the squid.
Derek learned that since he entered school, he had never seen the legendary monster living in the lake with his own eyes.
Combined with what happened to these mermaids, Jon already had a bad feeling in his heart, but in the end he still had to go and check it out for himself.
Originally, he had planned to get some information about squid from the mermaid, but it was obviously not feasible now.
Just as he was circling the Black Lake to try his luck in the surrounding area, a timid figure hiding among a pile of water plants suddenly caught Jon's attention.
He looked with interest at Draco, who was surrounded by water plants and did not dare to look in his direction.
"What are you doing here? Taking a dump?"
Draco immediately blushed. Logically speaking, after he followed Lucius and witnessed the deal his father made with Jon, he no longer had to be afraid of seeing Jon, but in France
That night in the Ministry of Magic Ballroom was always lingering in Draco's mind.
But although the gilly plant allows him to move freely underwater, it cannot speak like Jon. As long as he opens his mouth, he can only drink water from the Black Lake.
Fortunately, Jon thoughtfully helped him release a bubble spell. When he saw Jon casting the spell, Draco's face showed a look of despair, and then he realized that he had not been stunned, knocked down or hit.
Instead of killing, he can speak.
"No, it's not."
"Then what are you doing? Are you planning to ambush me here to surprise me? Eliminate me to prove yourself to the first round?"
Facing what he said, Draco just gritted his teeth and finally took out two pearls from his pocket.
"Give it to you! Give it all to you! Let me go, don't let me go out in such a disgrace! They have already talked about me a lot behind my back! They say I am a pure-blood waste!"
Seeing his actions and words, Jon couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
He held the wand with great interest and came to Draco's side, glancing at the two pearls in his hand.
"You've gained quite a lot. In just a short period of time, you've found two out of ten. If you find one more, you'll be able to stabilize yourself and not be at the bottom. You don't actually have one secretly hidden, right?"
"Just these two!"
Draco looked a little angry, because he was angry at his own cowardice and Jon's push.
Jon stretched out his hand to take the two pearls from Draco's hand, during which the eldest son of the Malfoy family was obviously in great pain.
It can only be said that he was lucky to find two so quickly. When he just landed in the Black Lake, he found a fish with pearls in its mouth. He was smart enough not to attack the fish immediately, but followed it from a distance.
Behind the fish, another pearl was found where it passed.
Then Draco didn't wait any longer, he directly killed the donkey, knocked the fish unconscious, and took the one it was holding in its mouth.
As a result, before he could wait for his excited fantasy that if he became the first in this game, he could wash away the stigma of previous failures and show off his power among pure bloods again, he saw Jon floating over.
In panic, Draco could only choose a piece of water grass nearby. He didn't have time to think about whether he would be entangled, and immediately hid in it.
However, even so, he still did not escape Jon's clutches.
Not only was Jon not angry at his sudden tantrum, he even looked at him with a smile.
"How about we make a deal? Master Malfoy."
Draco suddenly became alert, and his body that had come out of the water plants retracted again, as if this could give him some sense of security.
"What do you want to do?"
Jon shrugged.
"Don't be so wary of me. In any case, your father and I can barely be called business partners, right? I have a very good proposal. I will give you a pearl. You can give Emile Lester
How about telling me Lanqi’s location?”
Draco's eyes widened when he heard Jon's suggestion.
"This pearl was originally mine!"
"But you just gave them to me, so of course they are mine now."
"I can't possibly say that!"
"Are you quite loyal?"
"Emil is required by the principal to get the first place in the Triwizard Tournament. If I help you deal with him, I am going against the principal. If you expose this matter later, my whole family will be affected."
Danger!"
Jon looked at Draco and marveled.
"You're not stupid yet."
Jon's praise not only didn't make Draco feel proud at all, but it was full of humiliation.
"Okay, but we can also talk about another deal." Old God Jon looked at him, "It's also a pearl as a reward, as long as you can tell me something valuable to me.
Yeah, what about the rumors about this lake you heard in school?"
Draco seemed a little hesitant at this time.
Of course he wanted to get the pearl back from Jon, but he knew very well that he couldn't defeat Jon at all. Even his father was extremely cautious when dealing with him, let alone him.
"What do you want to know about these?" Draco asked cautiously.
"Don't worry, I'm definitely not trying to trick you. If I really want to do something to you, wouldn't it be better to just use the Imperius Curse on you now and waste time here with you?"
Draco believed in this, and even had no doubt that Jon could master the Imperius Curse.
Does this need to be questioned? For other fourth-year students, maybe it does, but Jon Green is certainly an exception.
If it is said that he does not know the Imperius Curse, then this matter needs to be seriously questioned.
Such words made Draco lower his guard a little, and he thought about it very seriously.
"I heard, from a seventh-grade student, that there used to be a giant squid living in the black lake, but now it's gone."
"Do you know when was the last time anyone saw this giant squid?"
"have no idea."
Jon immediately shook his head in disappointment.
"Not counting this one, are there any others?"
"That's not fair! No matter what I say, you don't count, so you're not treating me like a fool!"
"Do you have the right to choose? If you try, you might be able to get a pearl from me. If you don't try, you will get nothing."
Draco gritted his teeth and continued to think for a while before speaking hesitantly again.
"There's another one, I don't know if it's a rumor or not. I heard my dad say that when Hogwarts was still divided, the Slytherin House's lounge was underground and deep into the Black Lake."