No big happenings happened for the rest of January, but small problems continued.

After Professor Moody's return to the classroom, he lived up to expectations and brought new controversy. In the mouths of some senior students, he seemed to have the shadow of "Lordhart" - asking them to find information, read aloud in the classroom, and tell the experiences that happened to him vividly.

His famous saying, "Keep alert at any time", appeared again in the Dark Magic Defense Class.

During this period, the little wizards went to the library every day to search for information about the war more than ten years ago. The originally deserted war records were retrieved, including various newspapers more than ten years ago.

The little wizards watch these things every day, and their psychological pressure increases dramatically. Coupled with the wizard level tests in the fifth and seventh grades, many students were originally taking classes, but suddenly cried hysterically and were on the verge of collapse.

Even Fred and George, the optimist, were not feeling well. When the Dark Magic Defense Course returned to normal, they breathed a sigh of relief. One afternoon, Fred sniffed and said, "In the past, Mom and Dad rarely mentioned wars with us. If anyone talked about it, the other would be interrupted. Mom rarely talked about two uncles... But when we went to search the newspapers of those years, we knew what life they lived..."

George said with lingering fear: "I can see pictures of the house with the Dark Magic mark every two or three days, and I have shadows."

Harry didn't want to say much, because a trend has emerged recently. Since Professor Moody asked students to read the deeds of those who died in the war in class, the descendants of some "war heroes" have been seen with awe.

Neville stammered more than once and explained that his parents had recovered, and showed the clippings and newspapers he had collected to his classmates, but there were still many people who came to comfort him. Harry was the same. He suddenly realized that Parvati Pettier's expression became gentle again when he saw him...

He didn't like this feeling because every time someone looked at him with this kind of eyes, he would remind him of the fact that his parents sacrificed. 'No one was to be a hero just to make their son accept worship.' Harry thought angrily.

He and Hermione and Ron practiced spells in the abandoned classroom and learned a lot of useful spells one after another. They were still in a hidden corner and smashed a piece of ice on the black lake. They tried the warm-up spells and waterproof spells that were not skilled, and they trembled out of the lake every time.

When the ice in the Black Lake melted and Krum practiced diving from the springboard of the black sailboat in a pair of shorts, they had already figured out how to maintain combat effectiveness in the Black Lake.

"The effect of spells on land in water is greatly reduced, especially flame-like magic. At most, a scorching stream of water is shot out, but the effect against Grindello is probably not as good as the spell..." Hermione said nervously.

With February's arrival, she became like this, and when Ron suggested they could kick the dangerous creatures away with his feet, Hermione stared at him fiercely, as if she was going to kick him.

"We might need some transformation and summoning spells," Hermione said.

"Are you going to let us summon a stick?" Ron asked in surprise.

"Stop talking stupidly, I mean this-" Hermione said, pulling out her wand and shouting, "Flock of birds!" Her wand made a loud noise, and a group of birds flew out of the tip of the wand, flapping their wings and circling the three of them inside.

"What's the use of this?" Harry asked, who had seen the spell. Before the first project began, Mr. Ollivander was invited to check the warriors' wands, which he used with Crum's wand.

"They can peck and block sight, but I prefer Professor Flitvie's approach." Hermione said, her face flushed with difficulty, and Harry and Ron had never seen her use spells so hard.

She was like she was fighting against some invisible resistance. The wand drew half an arc, and the birds suddenly swelled up, as big as an owl. Harry opened his eyes wide open. He had seen this picture in the second grade and Professor Frevi demonstrated it in duel class.

After two years of close contact with this magic again, Harry looked at the birds' long, sharp beaks, as long as three inches!

With another "bang", the birds disappeared.

Hermione gasped gently and shook her head, "I still can't be able to handle it. Actually, I have always been good at controlling magic power, especially after practicing with Billy Viagra in the Magic Club..."

When they returned to the castle from Black Lake, Ron whispered to Harry: "She just hides behind the stones and chants the spell. These little birds will help her solve all the troubles, and you can't do anything to her."

Harry thought about the scene just now and could not agree anymore.

"How is your bubbly spell?" Harry asked in a low voice.

Ron's face collapsed, "It was simply a nightmare. I had already written to my family and said I didn't need their help... But Fred and George blocked the road ahead of time. Do you know, my mother actually praised them in her reply..."

Harry felt sad, especially whenever he saw Ron practicing the head curse, the first thing he did was to take a bath, leaving behind him with a long-lasting smell of a feces bomb.

His own human-shaped iron armor curse is not going well. If he has a choice, he will definitely hope that he will master the human-shaped iron armor curse with protective ability rather than the more single-purpose bubble curse, but now he has to make a choice to consider which one is more cost-effective.

In the next few days, he kept running to classroom No. 7, and even the brain closure surgery was thrown behind. So when one day he woke up by a nightmare, he could only blame himself for being lazy on it.

Harry told Professor Hepp about this, hoping that the professor would pass it to Dumbledore, although he didn't remember much.

"I just know he's very happy that something happy happened." He said scraping his head.

Felix nodded, "Maybe he found a temporary body for himself. There is nothing he can do about it. They hide too well." He also hoped that Voldemort would come to the door to find Rita Skit's trouble, and he could also try to catch Crouch Jr.

But Rita Skit, who received his promise, quietly moved home and is currently hiding in Diagon Alley to sort out the information Sirius gave her.

Harry went back with great worries and began to wonder what the meaning of his participation in the Contest was - Voldemort was ready to resurrect, and he could only practice the useless frozen curse in the Black Lake. Can he still expect it to freeze Voldemort's life-seeking curse?

The person who supported him to spend this self-doubtful life was Sirius. If anyone in this world had the closest relationship with him, then he was his godfather, including his attitude towards Voldemort.

But to Harry's surprise, Sirius found a temporary job for himself. When he saw the school badge of Smetting Middle School through the two-way mirror, he almost fell off his chin.

"Why did you get to the place where Dali went to school?" Harry shouted regardless, a fifth-grade student in the common room raised his head sadly and muttered in a low voice: "I'm crazy again." Then he continued to work on the homework that he seemed to never finish.

Sirius in the mirror was quite cheerful. "It was introduced by Felix, because I couldn't get a diploma recognized by the Muggles, I could only do some tricks and didn't have much money... But how to say it? I did find some tips to guide students."

Harry listened to Sirius introducing his new job and told about his teaching assistant. "When there was no one, I would use my wand to deal with those equipment, and I did it quickly and well..."

There is also an old teacher in his fifties whom he works with, who is out of breath every time he runs.

After Sirius learned how to send the foul student out of the field with a whistle, he stood aside and took a laziness. So Harry was lucky enough to see Dudley dragging his fat body around the field, especially when he stuck out his tongue and almost rubbed to the finish line, the pressure in Harry suddenly disappeared.

Before the first Hogsmeade weekend in February, he learned the human-shaped iron armor curse. His iron armor curse has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The only regret is that he cannot turn the iron armor curse into a cool golden or blood-red shield.

Ron also ended his special training. On the day he successfully learned the head curse, he walked around the lounge with a huge transparent cover like an upside-down fish tank. He also participated in the discussion between Fred and George, saying that he was willing to pay for one or two feces.

Fred and George smiled and handed him a candy gift package from the Duke of Bee.

Harry, Ron and Hermione finished the day in Hogsmeade and then went into intense preparations. Harry, Hermione supported the human-shaped iron armor spell, and Ron walked step by step into the depths of the Black Lake with the spell, and they saw a novel world.

Harry was surprised that he was so unfamiliar with Black Lake.

At the dozens of feet near the water of the Black Lake, they could also see the bright and treacherous lake water above. At their feet were a jungle made of wavy and tangled black aquatic plants, scattered with wide and flat mud and sand with sparkling small stones.

There were large shadows in the distance, without any light. They could only hold their wands and use the luminous spell to see a small area nearby. The deeper place was black color blocks of varying shades. From time to time, big things passed by them. They could not determine whether it was a piece of wood or some kind of creature, or maybe a giant squid!

Harry was worried again, what if the giant squid swallowed them into his stomach in one bite? Although it would push the students who fell into the water back into the boat when the freshmen entered school, he couldn't guarantee that it would have been so gentle, especially when Ron said during a breathing change that they had already invaded its territory.

As time passed, they went deeper into the Black Lake and even tried to get close to the Mermaid Tribe in an adventure.

As he swam, Harry found that Hermione and Ron were missing. Something was pulling him, which frightened Harry. Until a bright, milky white light appeared in the distance, he realized that it was a Grindillo that entangled him.

"Strengthen loose!" Harry chanted the spell through the human-shaped iron armor spell. The hand of the pale green creature with horns was loosened as if it had cramped. He swam towards Hermione, who held a bright ball of light in her hand, and looked around in panic. She was surrounded by a group of mermaids.

Finally, they were driven out with a dejection. Judging from the rude gesture of the leading mermaid, if they dared to invade the mermaid's territory again, they would probably have to wait for Dumbledore or Professor Hepp to lead the people.

Harry touched his head and came out of the water with wet all over. He didn't know how the other warriors solved the problem, but he had just been knocked twice with a tall and strong mermaid with a spear, and his mind was drowsy.

"Fred and George are lying, it's impossible for them to complete the mission of mapping the Black Lake." Ron complained: "The group of mermaids have much better eyesight in the water than us, and they are completely adapted to the darkness."

Hermione was still blaming herself on the way back, "I shouldn't have used lighting, but I was too nervous. You guys disappeared all of a sudden. Something was pestering me. Now I think it might be aquatic plants... I really don't know what we should do during the official competition..."

After returning to the dormitory, Ron took off his clothes and showed Harry the bruises on his back: "It was a mermaid who hit him. I kicked him. You know, I want to try it in advance... Then two or three mermaids rushed up and gave me twice."

Harry helped to apply medicine to Ron, and he hissed and moaned, "There is another place on his butt, I'll do it myself."

Two days before the second project began, a group of staff from the Future World company came to the school and erected huge projection screens on the shore of the Black Lake. Lupin and Penelo introduced them to the function of projection screens, "They can show your heroic posture during the game."

"Oh, that's exactly what we hoped," Ron muttered, "in shameful eyes in front of everyone."

Their nerves were extremely tense on the last day before the game. Harry found that despite so much preparation, there was not enough time, and the unfinished items in Hermione's booklet grew faster than the crossed parts.
Chapter completed!