Draco cast the Wand-Lighting Charm again, causing the corresponding images on the curtain to vanish once more.
"Potter has made an extremely risky suggestion! What exactly are they..." Ludo Bagman had only gotten halfway through his sentence when the curtain was once again flooded with white light.
"Merlin's beard!" Watching the image on the curtain shift from pure white to pitch black, he hammered the judges' table again and again, clearly beside himself with anxiety. "At a crucial moment like this, of all times! Everything depends on this!"
Several headmasters were clearing their throats, and Ludo Bagman realized he had lost his composure. He really had gotten a little carried away.
"If Potter and the others succeed, I should receive word very soon..." Ludo Bagman recovered quickly. "Let's take a look at the Beauxbatons champions!"
"The Beauxbatons champions' luck is quite..." Hearing Madame Maxime cough, he immediately changed tack. "The Beauxbatons champions' strength is quite extraordinary. They were in the lead just now."
"As expected! Their wristbands have also turned orange. They've already been attacked by the merfolk team. Delacour is attacking the merfolk directly! What magic did she use on the merfolk?"
"The merfolk has been affected by magic! He's swinging his tail uncontrollably—the entire lakebed is his stage! Beauxbatons' pre-match preparations were also outstanding! They're actually using the Dance Step Charm against merfolk!"
"Oh no! Lefevre's arm is injured! Dealing with so many Grindylows is still too much for her! Laroche can't get free at all! She's also dealing with the Grindylows' entanglement!"
A Grindylow's fingers had sliced a wound across Adele Lefevre's arm, and blood spread through the lake water, looking like a vast cloud of Blood Mist.
Claudia Laroche was startled by the sudden Blood Mist, and two Grindylows seized the chance to pounce.
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