Hogwarts Homecoming

"What did you see, Harry?"

When Harry was pulled out of the raging snow and rolled over, Hermione finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Harry who was intact. At least his body parts were still intact.

Hermione quickly dropped the rope, stumbled forward, and helped Harry, who was strangled and out of breath, up from the ground.

Harry was obviously frightened, his face turned blue, and his expression was bitter.

"Our guess is not wrong, Hermione."

Harry tugged at the rope that reached his chest to help him breathe easier.

He didn't show off and said directly,

"Those are two giants."

Seeing Hermione's sudden change in expression, Harry quickly explained,

"Oh, it's not a real giant, Hermione. It was Professor Blaine who used Transfiguration to turn the stone into a giant. It looks a bit weird. The giant has no legs, only oval stone pillars to support its body. It seems that it can stand on the ice. slide!"

"Didn't you wake them up, Harry?"

Relying on the blurry black silhouettes in the wind and snow and Harry's narration, Hermione roughly imagined what the two stone giants looked like, and she asked in a tight voice.

"No--"

Harry shook his head,

"The stone giants are not moving, but if we attack them, I bet they won't stand there quietly anymore!"

Without thinking too much, their mission must be to destroy these two giants, and then, they should get something that can melt the ice outside.

That being said, this matter is quite difficult!

Although it is not clear how powerful these two stone giants are, they are not easy to deal with based on their size.

What's more, there was slippery ice under their feet, making it difficult to even walk normally, let alone move quickly in the fierce battle.

"I'll have to see it with my own eyes, Harry, before I know what to do."

Hermione said, noticing that Harry was looking at her eagerly, frowning and thinking hard.

Harry's close observation just now confirmed at least one thing.

That is, these two stone giants will not blindly attack those who approach them, so there is no danger in observing them closely.

Bang, bang!

Hermione was about to move closer to the center of the duel field to observe, when two soft sounds in succession made the two people's expressions suddenly change!

"what sound?"

Harry immediately became alert. The two strange noises just now were right next to them, very close. He raised his wand and looked around vigilantly. He found nothing, and the coldness that was imposed on him again made Harry understand. What's going on!

Gedeng, gudeng, gudeng--

The two people's teeth chattered at the same time. Hermione looked at Harry and then turned her gaze to herself.

"It was the red smoke that helped keep us warm. The effect of the stone has disappeared."

Hermione shrank into a ball again and said with a pale face,

"This should be a rule. The warming effect of red stone only lasts for about ten minutes, and it will disappear after that. We have to replenish it."

"Oh, damn!"

Harry yelled, cursing this perverted setup and the wizard who came up with it.

"Then what are we waiting for? We will freeze to death during the Triwizard Tournament. This will make the entire European wizarding community laugh out loud!"

The extreme cold made the two of them unable to think, and they crawled towards the stone door leading to the outside world.

The brilliance flashed again, and they appeared in the outside world again.

Hermione couldn't wait to look at the ice block surrounded by four stone doors. When she found that the huge ice block was still standing unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, two of the other three stone doors flashed with light one after another, and Viktor, Cedric and Luna also hurriedly ran out.

Needless to say, they were also bruised and swollen from the cold. Moreover, the clothes of these three people were a bit messy, as if they had already started fighting with someone.

Harry was about to ask what happened to Cedric and Luna, but then he thought that it seemed to be someone else's secret, so he stopped, and he and Hermione supported each other across the snow and ran towards the slope.

Fleur was coming down the gentle slope. She had already replenished herself with warmth. She saw the three teams escaping from the space behind the stone door in embarrassment. She asked the nearest Harry with interest,

"What happened to you in there, Harry?"

"Oh, I can't say yet."

The lightning of the disarming curse exploded the snow layer, and the cursed light penetrated a piece of red stone. Along with the red smoke, the warmth returned to his body.

"It's not a secret, Fleur. The situation is not very clear right now."

Seeing that the teams of Viktor and Cedric, who had also replenished their warmth, rushed back without hesitation, Harry and Hermione also knew that they had to hurry up. Harry said something to Fleur, and the two rushed into the duel field again. in the space.

Harry glanced at the watch on his hand to confirm how much time they had to overcome this level.

"What now, Hermione?"

Facing ordinary opponents, Harry knew how to act, but for such a huge stone giant, he had to use his brain.

"The giant doesn't have nostrils like the troll. I can't stick the wand into its nose."

Harry said helplessly.

Hermione said nothing, biting her lip in confusion.

"We have to get over the mobility problem first, Harry—"

Hermione looked at the ice beneath her feet, frowning.

"If we can't even walk, then we can't defeat giants. Oh, to be honest, I'm not very good at sports like skiing and skating."

"Me too."

Harry shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly,

"The Dursleys wanted to let Dudley try it, but they couldn't find a pair of skates that could bear Dudley's weight."

"Well, it's unrealistic to burn the ice. In such a large venue, we are not as good at fire magic as Professor Blaine. Moreover, at this temperature, even if we melt the ice into water, the cold will make the water quickly Condensation into ice”

Hermione mused,

"We don't know how to skate. Oh, I thought of that!"

Hermione's frown suddenly relaxed, and before Harry could ask, she pointed her wand at Harry's sneakers.

Harry, who was confused, suddenly felt that he had grown a little taller. He blinked, lifted one foot and turned it over to look, and found that there were some dense 'nails' growing out of the sole of his shoe!

"That's a good idea!"

Harry said excitedly, he put his feet down and jumped, and then tried to walk again.

"Much better than before. You're such a genius, Hermione!"

Hermione also made her shoes grow "nails". She moved around the stone door. Faced with Harry's praise, she just smiled.

"It's still useful, but it's definitely not as flexible as we usually are. Come on, Harry, I want to take a closer look."

The two people looked solemn and tried to make their footsteps as soft as possible.

When Hermione saw the giant, she understood why Harry said it looked weird.

As Harry said, what supported the stone giant was an oval, flat stone.

The other body parts of this stone giant are also very rough. The body is a huge oval stone, the two arms are long strips of stone, and the head is a round stone.

Although it looks crudely made, the sense of oppression brought by the two-story-high body will not make anyone underestimate its power!

Gulu——

Harry swallowed and looked left and right at the two identical stone monsters on both sides of the center line of the duel.

"Which one do we mess with first, Hermione?"

"That's not important, Harry, the point is-"

Hermione took two steps back, wrinkled her nose and observed the body structure of the stone monster to judge its attack range.

"Obviously, we can't fight a monster like this up close, so..."

Hermione looked at the stone monster's one leg, then her eyes fell to the feet, and finally settled on the stone door where they entered the duel.

After a moment of silence, Hermione took a deep breath and the light in her eyes stabilized.

"Listen, Harry, here's the battle plan!" (End of Chapter)