A week later, in the evening, Ivan turned into a merfolk he had seen before, and grunted and talked to the leader of the merfolk.

"You must have mistaken the wizarding headmaster's orders, Dumbledore is asking us to host the second game......

It's hosting! Understand?

You... You savor it!

If we didn't do anything while we were playing, he would be very angry.

So we have to do something, not just to protect the hostages, like to set up the venue? Or maybe intimidate the contestants......"

Ivan gushed on, spending more than an hour successfully distorting the merfolk's understanding of Dumbledore's orders.

Of course, he doesn't plan to do anything bad, the main thing is to increase the difficulty of the second game and make it more tense and exciting, so that the warriors can have an epic playthrough experience.

After all this, Ivan left the Black Lake satisfied, and prepared to return to his dormitory for a rest.

However, when passing by the Gryffindor common room, Ivan was surprised to see Harry, Ron, and Hermione hurrying over.

"What's wrong with you?" Ivan asked in surprise.

"We've found that clue, it's a merfolk!" Harry gasped and looked excited, he spoke in a very fast tone. "Remember the kind of sound we heard that day? That's the mermaid's song! ”

"How do you know it's a merfolk, and has anyone given you any clues?" Ivan's expression immediately became a little serious, and he hurriedly asked.

Harry and Ron stopped talking, and Hermione pursed her lips and looked a little angry.

Ivan looked at the expressions of the three of them, and he didn't know why, but fortunately, Harry explained in time. "It was Hermione who found it, and she had at least turned through hundreds of books related to sound in the past few days, and finally saw a similar record in a book of "Underwater Magical Creatures".

"yes, she even suspected at first that it was some kind of special code, such as some special message hidden in the sound frequency, and she listened to Harry's golden egg a dozen times...... "Ron added.

Ivan looked at Hermione, knowing that he had lost his words, and hurriedly made amends. "I'm sorry, Hermione, I shouldn't have said that......"

"You suspect that the person who threw Harry's name into the Goblet of Fire would secretly tell Harry the clues to the second level?" Hermione interrupted Ivan before he could finish speaking, and said thoughtfully.

"It can't be! It couldn't be that the mysterious man's men suddenly wanted to help Harry win the championship, right? Ron couldn't help but laugh when he said this.

Harry looked at Ivan in bewilderment.

Ivan shrugged his shoulders, feeling very helpless, he couldn't tell what hadn't happened, so he had to talk nonsense. "Triwizard Tournament projects are dangerous, if someone really wants to harm you, as long as they deliberately tell you some wrong information, it is enough to kill!"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione thought Ivan's casual nonsense made sense.

Imagine if someone told the warriors that they needed to face a few red hats instead of a fire dragon in the first level, then everyone would be very relaxed and would not deliberately formulate a strategy, and it would not be impossible to die in the dragon's mouth when the real game came.

"Now that you know it's the mermaid's song, have you figured out what the second game is about?" Ivan asked.

Harry nodded hesitantly, then shook his head, indicating that he only had some guesses, and retold the song he had heard.

"We cannot sing on the ground, and when you search, consider carefully:

We have snatched your most beloved treasure, you have only one hour to find and retrieve the object we have taken, and after an hour there is no hope, it is completely gone, never to be seen. ”

After Harry had finished speaking, Hermione went on to explain. "I think the second game is for you to dive into the bottom of the Black Lake to find something that the merfolk have stolen, and you only have an hour, and once you do, the merfolk will take that thing forever, and the game will be lost!"

Ivan nodded, Hermione was basically on point, but she didn't guess that it would be a hostage hidden at the bottom of the lake......

"But how can we stay underwater for so long?" Harry soon realized the serious problem after having the joy of solving the puzzle.

In the past, when they were at home, the Dursleys never let him learn to swim because they were expecting him to fall into the water and drown.

In contrast, Dudley was a good swimmer, and he often bragged about it, but Harry had always thought it was nothing great, because Dudley was fat like a large lifebuoy that could float quickly when dropped into the water.

"Otherwise, you can try the Transfiguration Charm and turn yourself into a swimming fish or something." Hermione suggested, and then, as if remembering something, looked at Harry apologetically and continued.

"Oh, I almost forgot, this kind of transformation magic is not taught until the sixth grade, and it is very difficult for few people to master, Ivan may be able to do it, but you definitely can't......"

"yes." Harry said weakly, his mind constantly thinking about ideas, but unfortunately none of them could.

"You can use the gills, Harry!" Ivan said suddenly.

"What? Gills? What is that? Harry turned his head and looked at Ivan excitedly.

"A potion ingredient that will allow you to temporarily grow gills and webs that allow you to breathe and move freely underwater." Ivan explained.

"Like those merfolk?" Hermione thought of the description of the mermaid in the book "Amazing Creatures Underwater".

"Almost, it's only partially transformed, and it's certainly not as agile as a merfolk underwater..."Ivan said, and there was another drawback he didn't mention, and that was that the appearance would be uglier after transformation.

Harry clearly didn't care about that, though, and the fact that he could breathe freely underwater by eating a herb was enough to make him ecstatic - that meant he didn't have to be the first warrior ever to drown in a lake.

"Now that there are a few days left before the second game starts, you can take the time to go to Hogsmeade Village and buy some cheek grass, and practice in the Black Lagoon when you have nothing to do......"

Ivan reminded, then told Harry to try to pretend that he hadn't found any clues, trying to keep an eye out for anyone who tried to tell him the news.