"Mr Potter, aren't you going to go in?" Minister Fudge asked Harry who had simply got down onto one knee and was looking down at the lake.
"Slytherin." Harry responded in a way that made it clear that he thought that was a good enough explanation and that he should not need to say any more than that. Harry pointed his wand at a spot in front of the lake. Harry took a small breath before he cast a freezing spell, causing a small part of the water to turn into a small platform made of ice, one that was big enough for at least two people to sit on it. Harry smirked before hoping down onto the platform, he nearly fell right off but was thankfully able to stay on.
Harry, having known about the task, had placed some tracking charms on Daphne the day before the task. Through using a tracking charm to try and find Daphne, he was able to see that she was further into the lake. With a wave of his wand Harry was able to have the ice move forwards, after about a minute or so of that Harry stopped and checked the tracking charm again. Unfortunately for him the tracking charm was telling him that he still had more distance to cover before he was able to get to Daphne, so he sent the ice forwards again and after another minute or so he stopped and checked.
He repeated this until eventually his tracking charm told him that he was to go downwards, Harry rolled his neck before he cast a spell to keep the ice still so it wouldn't float off. He then cast a bubblehead charm and dived in to the water, Harry dived all the way down, he saw several sea ruins and some merfolk, thankfully Dumbledore had been right when he said that the merfolk weren't there to harm them. Harry eventually spotted the hostages, he saw Cho Chang for Cedric, Hermione Granger for Krum, Blaise for Fleur and Daphne for himself.
Harry highly doubted that Hermione and Blaise were the things that Krum and Delacour would miss the most but he figured that they probably counted as 'good enough'. Harry was tempted to try and rescue Blaise as well but he knew that Blaise would be safe, so he put all of his focus on Daphne. Harry cut the binding ropes with a quick cutting curse before he grabbed Daphne, he aimed his wand upwards.
"Ascendio!" He yelled, the spell propelled her and himself up through the water until they reached the surface. Once their heads were out of the water Daphne had woken up and Harry's bubblehead charm burst.
"Whoa!" Daphne blurted out, quickly wrapping her arms around Harry's neck. She looked around and shook her head before she looked at him. "Did...did you win?" She asked.
"Yep," Harry nodded as he helped her up onto the ice platform. "what about you?" Harry asked as he climbed up, he waved his wand and sent the ice platform moving back to the other platforms. "Are you alright?" Harry asked as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"I'm fine," Daphne said in a quiet voice, her face quite red. "just cold." She said as she leaned into him, Harry waved his wand over her and then himself, casting a warming charm. "Hmm!" Daphne let out an appreciative sigh as she felt the charm take place. "Thank you." She said, giving him a small kiss on the lips, she would have gave him a longer one but stopped when she saw the mirrors flying around them.
The next day nearly every student from all schools were talking about the second task, after Harry had gotten back Fleur Delacour had shown up without her hostage, having been taken out of the task by an attack from a group of Grindylows. Thankfully Blaise was brought out of the lake a short while after the task by the Merfolk. Krum had showed up next and Cedric was last, but overall Harry had been the quickest and had scored the most points.
By this point Daphne was getting a lot of jealous looks from other students, students who envied her not just for her good looks but also for the fact that she was Harry Potter's girlfriend. Only a few were foolish enough to actually try anything, Harry didn't even need to get involved since Daphne was able to easily take care of them. She might not have been as good with her wand as Harry but it couldn't be denied that Daphne Greengrass was a talented witch.
Right now Harry and his fellow Slytherin's were in the Slytherin common room, Tracey was feeding Thor who had taken a liking to her while Jet was curled up near the fireplace while Harry sat with Daphne leaning into his side. The group were talking and reading, though their relative peace was interrupted by an argument from the other side of the room. The group and the whole common room were now looking towards two seventh year Slytherin's that were arguing, one with brown hair and the other with blonde hair.
"But it's true!" The blonde one said in an exasperated tone.
"No it's not!" The brown one said in a stubborn voice.
"What are you two arguing about?" Angela asked the two, causing them to realise that everyone was looking at them.
"Well..." The blonde one blushed slightly before he continued, he looked at Harry before he started speaking. "...we were arguing about you-know-who."
"A common topic to randomly talk about." Harry said in a dry voice before he gestured them to continue.
"Well...I was saying that we should let the muggleborns stay in the wizarding world if for no other reason than to stop purebloods from having to work in lower jobs." The blonde said before he gestured to the brown haired one. "and he said that we shouldn't and then it sort of spiralled from there into talking about you-know-who and how he tried to get rid of them."
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