Harry Potter and the Secret Inheritance

Chapter 33

From the time Adriane got the wet suits to the time of the second task, Adriane and Fluer had been practicing swimming and casting magic underwater. Fluer was a veela, this meant that she had a huge disadvantage when underwater. Fluer also told Adriane about the treaty that the Veela's had with the Merpeople after Adriane mentioned there being mermaids in the lake.

Adriane made sure to contact the merpeople and mention that one of the champions was a veela, She was a bit surprised at how angry that made the merpeople. Luckily she managed to calm them and reassure them that Fluer would not attack them unless they attacked her first and that she would do her best not to stay in the lake for too long.

After talking to the merpeople they agreed to let Fluer in the lake on the day of the first task but that was the only day that she would be allowed in the lake. The merpeople were thankful that Adriane had thought to tell them about Fluer ahead of time, they were even more thankful when she warned them that the judges would try to put Fluer's younger sister in the lake as her hostage.

They were furious when hearing how young Gabrielle was, children were precious to all magical creatures. Adriane hadn't known that she had thought it was just Goblins but she was pleasantly surprised, now if only witches and wizards thought the same as the magical creatures.

Well, Adriane made sure that Fluer could handle herself underwater by using the ROR as a replica of the black lake, they both memorized the way to the merpeople's village during training.

Adriane gathered up all her friends and Fluer's sister and snuck them to the chamber of secrets the night before the second task. She got them down there before dinner, she was expecting that the Professors would let the students eat dinner first before kidnapping them to place at the bottom of a freezing cold lake.

Adriane and Fluer were both approached by a professor asking if they knew where their friends and Fluer's sister were, both girls pretended that they didn't know. Fluer even pretended to be worried about where her sister was. Thankfully the professors believed the two girls and left them alone for the rest of the night as they searched for the group, the professors never found them so they needed to use different people as the two girls' hostages.

Adriane had a feeling that they would use either Granger or one of the younger Weasley's as her hostage and they would probably just use Fluer's date to the Yule Ball as her Hostage. The Professors probably knew that Fluer didn't have many friends in her own school so choosing her date as her hostage would be easier than trying to find someone she was truly close with.

Adriane and Fluer spent the night having a sleepover with their friends, they made sure that they went to bed early, because they wanted to get plenty of rest for tomorrow's task.

The next day before the second task

"By now we expect that each champion has figured out what the clue is?" Adriane and Fluer both stayed silent as Krum and Cedric agreed.

Adriane had taken some time the night before to change the colors of the diving suits she and Fluer would be wearing to a color other than black. Adriane had charmed hers to be a rich purple with a single strip of lighter purple on each arm up to the neck area.

She charmed Fluer's to be a nice light blue color and had charmed it sparkle slightly whenever she moved, it was a very nice outfit. Fluer and Adriane both had a simple utility belt that divers had whenever they went swimming. They both had two pocket knives ready to help them, either for defensive or for them to help cut whatever the judges used to tie the hostages.

"Now there was a slight misunderstanding when it came to the clue, instead of taking an object you would miss we have instead taken the person you would miss most!"