An eagle cried out, and Kettleburn and Hagrid on the shore were both stunned!
What had they just seen?
A second-year student had actually performed an Animagus Transformation with such proficiency in the middle of a duel?!
Even the phoenix, which had been dozing, instantly opened its eyes.
Harry did not actually mind displaying his Animagus abilities in front of the staff. After all, power was meant to be used once it had been cultivated. Animagus Transformation was merely an auxiliary ability, not some ultimate trump card. There was no need to hide it away.
Besides, his Animagus Transformation was legal. Scamander had helped him register it with the Ministry of Magic.
Having the ability to transform but refusing to register it, insisting on becoming some illegal Animagus—honestly, Harry did not think that was cool at all.
You had to sneak around every time you transformed, and if it was exposed, you could be sent to Azkaban. What was the point of that~
At that moment, Harry, soaring through the air with his wand clenched in his beak, had already locked onto Merkus, who was fleeing beneath the water with his sharp eagle eyes!
Folding his wings, Harry dove from the sky like a meteor. At the same time, the horse-shaped water monster in the lake cooperated by using water weeds to entangle the fleeing Merkus. Before the other merpeople and the giant squid could close in, it rammed Merkus out of the water with all its might!
"Th-this is bad!" Suspended above the water's surface and facing the diving Harry, Merkus shut her eyes nervously.
Yet Harry did not attack her. As they passed each other, he merely used his sharp talons to sever the spear in her hand, then plunged headfirst into the lake.
"This human..." After falling