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Chapter 570: First Communication with the Merpeople
🕑 Added 2019-08-08 15:50:57 +0000 UTCThe Hogwarts Magic newspaper's report on the Triwizard Tournament and the interview content were printed and published the next day after the interview.
This report caused a lot of sensation and reaction in the wizarding world.
Apart from the vampire hunt, which had not made much progress, the Triwizard Tournament was the hottest topic in the wizarding world.
Wizards all wanted to know who the champions of the three wizarding schools were and wanted to get to know them. They also wanted to know the specific reasons why there was an extra champion, as well as the content of the tournament and so on.
Evan and Hermione’s reports were very timely, and the detailed content also satisfied everyone’s curiosity. The sales were very good.
This was not surprising, but it was strange that Rita Skeeter’s report had not come out. She and the Daily Prophet did not seem to be in a hurry. Obviously, their concerns were not the same as those reported by Evan and Hermione.
It seemed that they were going to wait until the heat of this report in Hogwarts Magic was over before publishing their own report.
Over the next two weeks, school life returned to its former tranquility.
Hufflepuff and Slytherin seemed to be tired of endless hostility with Gryffindor. Although not very friendly, they returned to talking to other people in normal communication. Only when they faced Ron would they show obvious hostility and endless ridicule.
Gabrielle became more and more familiar with everyone and became almost a full member of Gryffindor.
Ron also finally recovered from the excitement of becoming a champion and began to think about how to face the first task.
He finally began to be afraid of having to perform an unknown, dangerous, and extremely difficult task in front of all the students in the school. With the help of Evan, Harry, and Hermione, he finally learned a lot of magic and spells.
These things were too low-level; Ron had skipped on too many lessons before and had much to learn.
However, Evan did not see how learning these low-level spells could help in dealing with dragons.
And Ron didn't study too hard, spending a lot of energy on other things. Although he began to attach importance to this matter, on the whole, he still did not realize the seriousness of the situation and did not think that the first task would be to face a fire dragon!
In addition to occasionally guiding Ron, Evan’s Mermish was finally getting started. At least, that's what he thought. He memorized most of the words he saw in the book.
On the second weekend, he was ready to go to the lake to try to communicate with the Merpeople and test his learning outcomes.
If he was lucky enough, he might get information about the Four Founders’ secret treasure keys.
Unlike the lake near the Temple of the Moon of the Centaurs’ colony, the lake in front of the school castle was wider and deeper.
After five minutes of quick dive in a dark, awkward and strange scene, Evan came to the bottom of the lake.
There was a jungle of undulating, tangled black plants, and broad, flat sands with shimmering pebbles.
Moving forward, he could encounter a Merman and giant squid at any time.
In the central position of the lake, he also saw many Merpeople remains.
For example, a large rock emerged out of the muddy water. It had paintings of Merpeople on it; they were carrying spears and chasing what looked like the giant squid or a strangely shaped stone statue.
After some exploration, Evan found the Merpeople tribe in the deepest depression in the middle of the lake. It was a cluster of crude stone dwellings stained with algae.
When Evan approached, at the dark windows, some faces suddenly appeared and peered at him. They were all Merpeople, and the scene was rather creepy.
In the deepest part of the dark water, Evan was instantly surrounded by Merpeople coming out of all directions.
Unlike the blond mermaids in the fairy tales, they had grayish skin and long, wild, dark green hair, with a malicious smile on their faces, as though they were monsters from the abyss.
Their eyes were yellow, as were their broken teeth, and they wore thick ropes of pebbles around their necks.
These Merpeople were beating the water with their powerful, silver fish tails. After seeing Evan, they did not say anything, and attacked, spears clutched in their hands.
After a brief contact, Evan was able to communicate with them calmly. Of course, he did that not with the language he had just learned, but with magic.
It wasn't really very difficult. The merpeoples looked fierce, but when they saw the light coming out of Evan’s wand, they immediately turned around and fled back into the stone dwellings.
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Evan had never seen such a timid creature, and they stared at his wand with their yellow eyes, looking very scared.
Even though they were numerous, and Evan was alone, the look on their faces showed that, like the giant squid, they knew nothing about magic and remained awed.
Evan used magic to control the Merman closest to him. It was a very strong guy. He stared with his big yellow eyes at Evan and his wand in horror, his body trembling.
The following communication was not smooth either. It was not pleasant for Evan to keep spitting bubbles out of his mouth in the water.
From the face of this guy on the opposite side, Evan doubted whether he could understand what he was talking about.
It took him a few seconds to spit out a lot of bubbles at Evan.
This time, Evan could be sure that he couldn’t understand what the Merman was saying. He could only recognize a few words.
Just as he was about to make further attempts, the Merman that was under control couldn't stand the tension and simply fainted.
Evan gave a wry smile, not expecting such a result.
Looking around, the dark stone dwellings were like ghost houses, and the traces of the Merpeople were no longer visible.
In the end, he had to give up the failed exchange and go up the dark and cold lake and return to the castle.
This was definitely not going to work. This failed communication experience told Evan that some gifts should be prepared for these timid Merpeople. Perhaps this would make them feel his goodwill.
From the book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, he could know that the oldest recorded Merpeople appeared in ancient Greece. They lived in warmer waters, had beautiful appearance and powerful magic ability.
After thousands of years of development, Merpeople existed now throughout the world, and they varied in appearance. With the different living places, their appearance and abilities were also different.
To put it simply, these Merpeople settled in the lake in front of Hogwarts Castle were a group of ugly creatures that did not know magic.
They might have great strength, but they had nothing to do with the Mermaids that frequently appeared in many legends and myths.
The love of music was probably the only hobby they had inherited from their distant ancestors.
Evan decided to prepare some classical human music for them next time he came, which might work.
