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Chapter 71: The second task

"Oh come on, there really is nothing here about this?"

"Nope Ron, sorry, nothing on breathing underwater, although I found about 5 Butterbeer recipes in the last 15 minutes."

"Sel, you're sure you don't know anything about this?"

"I really don't I never needed to do it, I rarely ever swam in there, because even in the hottest days, it's ice cold." I thought back to Eve trying her luck. As I predicted, she caught a cold after that.

"We've been here for 6 hours now. And the restricted section is useless, there's nothing there. "

"Say that louder Ron, I think the giant squid didn't hear you." Harry was exhausted by now, and really pissed off.

"Mione, any suggestions?" Ron asked her.

"Huh?" She raised her eyes from a book that Fred recommended her. Their date went wonderful and I was so happy for them. But now we had to concentrate.

"Ok guys I think th-"

"We're sorry to..."

"...interrupt, but Ron and Mione got..."

"...called to McGonagall's office."

When the twins saw Hermione's panicked look, they added.

"But she assured us that..."

"...you're not in trouble."

They left, Fred and Mione behind the others, entwining their hands.

"They're cute together."

"Yeah, they are." Harry admitted, not looking up from the book he was searching in.

"I think I'll go to bed now. And you should calm down. I have a feeling things are going to fall in place. Night." I said, hugging him. It was true, but that feeling was completely drowned by the dread that seemed to fill me.

"Night Sel."

I just wanted to go to bed and get as much sleep as I could. While I was on the hallway at the end of which were the stairs that led up to the tower, I got a strong smell of rotten eggs. I turned around to see where it was coming from, but I didn't really get to see anything other than an old black boot before I was hit with a spell and started floating, unconscious.

Third point of view:

The man got the floating girl and disillusioned her. He then went to McGonagall's office to take the other kids.

"I can take them Albus. I have some gillyweed with me."

"Perfect. And make sure to tie strong knots, we don't want them floating freely in the lake."

"Of course I'll make sure of that, I'm not an idiot."

"We already put the charms on them Alastor, so that's done with."

"Yes Minerva, I'll go now."

He ate the gillyweed before making a bubble around him and using a spell to propel himself to the bottom of the Black Lake, where the mermaids were waiting. They showed him the rock and helped him tie the kids to it. And if they noticed there was an additional one, they didn't mention it.They weren't meddling in the problems of wizards.

The charm Moody put on the fifth kid though was a weak one. He wasn't sure when will it wear off, but surely before the task tomorrow. And she'll stay invisible. No one would find out.

The next day, Harry was walking nervously towards the Black Lake, not having seen Ron, Hermione or Selene since last night at the library, and they were nowhere to be found on the map.

Dobby woke him up in the morning, because he fell asleep in the library and he gave him some weird green algae that was supposed to make him breath underwater. He still wasn't really sure what he had to retrieve from the lake, but he wanted to get it done with and find his friends. So when Moody pushed him into the water, he finally swallowed the ill tasting gillyweed, and he felt his body changing to adapt to the environment.

Selene's point of view:

A sharp pain in my neck, my feet and my hands woke me up. It took a little to remember what happened, but when I did, I didn't have time to think much about it, because I realized I couldn't breath. That sense of dread was now explained. I was at the bottom of the Black Lake with the "treasures" for the second task. There were actual people, one for each contestant: Ron, Cho Chang, Hermione and one of the French girls, the little one. But why was I there? And how didn't the mermaids not notice me? That's when I realized that my back actually felt like ice; I've been disillusioned. So whoever Voldemort sent to kill me was not giving up after a poisoning attempt. He was trying to drown me. I had very little time, since I was not able to breath or make a spell to help me do that. I searched for my wand, it wasn't there. And my legs were tied tightly and then to the stone under us. I realized I couldn't morph into anything and I was getting more and more dizzy. But at least I managed to break off the disillusionment charm. That's when Cedric arrived, freeing Cho with a pocket knife. The others were in a seemingly deep sleep and haven't woken up. I couldn't scream so I moved as violently as I could without fainting from the lack of oxygen and from the pressure of the water on my lungs. Fortunately, he realized fast that there were too many of us and I wasn't supposed to be there. He performed a bubble head charm on my head and grabbed me as well and we left the bottom of the lake. Soon we got to the surface and the charm wore off.

I got a lot of weird looks as I made my way to the dock, and I should've expected that: a champion getting out with two of the hostages? And Cho was to be expected, she was his girlfriend, but me?

As I got to the dock, the twins rushed and helped me out of the water.

"Oh, Selene what is..."

"...happening? Are you ok?"

"Frankly, I'm freezing cold so if you could just..."

Soon enough I was in the Hospital tent, sitting on a bed under a pile of towels, waiting for Madame Pomfrey to finnish her warming spells. That's when they rushed in: Blaise and Draco, and Theo.

"Oh, dear God, what happened? There was supposed to be one treasure for each champion. I'll send a letter to my father, this is not acceptable at all."

"Please let your father our of this, I have worse things to worry about now."

"If you really want this then ok."

Theo thew him an odd look and then joined the conversation.

"Are you ok? Is there something I could do to help you? Selene?"

"I thought I asked you to leave me alone." I said, walking out of the tent to wait for my brother to get out of the lake, and since Hermione was most probably Viktor's treasure, the discussion that will take place when they get out. Still, Fred got her to McGonagall's office last night, so he probably already had that talk.

Man, I almost drowned, this guy wasn't messing around.

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