Volume 4: The Sea and the Ship Heading North Chapter 205 Big Fish! It’s a big fish!
The first contact with Dumbledore did not last too long. At noon, Dumbledore said that he had more things to do and ended the Floo Network call.
However, although the time was short, it obviously made the students on the entire ship more energetic.
Fawkes took away the diary that Jon found in Azkaban, as well as the Floo powder sent by Scabior and McNeill, which also gave them a two-way channel to communicate with the professors.
However, before ending the call, Dumbledore also reminded Jon not to use the Floo network at will unless it was an emergency.
Voldemort is monitoring and controlling the Floo network throughout France. If it is used too frequently, it will be easy for him to discover problems.
The Hogwarts was sailing on the sea at a fairly fast speed. By December, they had completely left the North Sea and reached the Norwegian Sea.
The further north you go, the colder the weather becomes.
Fortunately, although the students were a little tired of this kind of sailing life day after day, and initially felt that the fresh sea and scenery had become boring, but overall, everyone's mental state was still positive.
Especially when Christmas is approaching this year.
They had spent Halloween at sea and were looking forward to the coming Christmas. In the second week of December, less than three weeks later, the second Hogwarts fishing competition began.
Although Jon did not mean to disapprove, after all, there were very few entertainment activities on the boat, and the only thing was fishing, which had never been used as a pastime on land before. However, he still felt speechless about holding the second fishing competition at such a time, especially when he heard what George said when applying for approval for the activity.
"It's too superficial to hold it according to the time. Our fishing competition is based on the sea area. There must be a difference between the fish species in the North Sea and the Norwegian Sea. This certainly makes sense to hold the second competition immediately!"
He spoke with great confidence and Jon made a few comments, but of course he did not disagree.
The fishing competition, a new entertainment activity that emerged after going out to sea, brought great enthusiasm to the students on the ship.
There are more students participating this time. The rules of the competition are that you need to bring your own fishing rod. The competition takes place on a whole day on Saturday when there are no classes. At the end, the ranking is based on the weight of the fish you catch.
Of course there are no fishing rods on the boat. The fishing rods used by the contestants are all made by themselves through Transfiguration. This sets a threshold for some lower grade students who have not yet reached the standard of Transfiguration learning, but they can also ask senior students for help.
The champion of the first fishing competition was Justin. It is said that when he was still at home, he often went fishing by the river with his father and had rich theoretical experience. Later, he accidentally caught a small shark (the shark could have broken free from the hook and broken the fishing line, but the moment it emerged from the sea, Justin accurately cast a petrification spell on it).
Of course, this was also the first fishing competition and there were not many students participating. None of them had fished before and were a little shy. But now many people have become interested and they have accumulated a lot of practical experience during the time since they left Azkaban Island.
On the day the competition started, the deck was full of students. The participating students found their own positions around the deck. Finally, at the command of the referee Nick, everyone began to hang bait and cast hooks.
Jon was also among the audience. He had never even touched a fishing rod before, so he didn't participate in the competition, but it was quite interesting to see the regretful expressions of these young anglers when they caught empty hooks.
Last year's champion Justin was ambitious about winning the championship this time, but his luck didn't seem to be good. He didn't catch any fish in the whole morning, but some...bugs.
"The seventh Loba worm! Good job, Justin! You have the most bites this morning. Unfortunately, this is a fishing competition, not a worm fishing competition, so the worms cannot be counted as part of the catch."
Nick floated in the air, looking at the fat worm twisting its body on Justin's hook and praising loudly.
But his praise caused laughter from the people around him.
"Maybe the fish in the Norwegian Sea don't like you. They may love me more."
Ron, who was beside Justin, said proudly that his bucket had a good harvest and could at least rank in the top three among all the contestants.
Jon looked at the bugs Justin angrily threw into his bucket, and spoke to Gabrielle and Hermione beside him with some confusion.
"Maybe it's not that Justin is unlucky. Creatures like the Loba worm shouldn't be caught by humans."
"Why?" Gabrielle asked curiously, "Don't they have mouths? Can't they eat the bait?"
Hermione, who often spent time in the library, explained to her.
"It's not because they don't have mouths. This kind of bug is a magical animal classified as xxx by the Ministry of Magic. They usually only live on the bottom of the sea. Justin's fishing rod and the length of the fishing line obviously can't reach the bottom of the sea at all."
Gabrielle's transparent little face was immediately filled with surprise when she understood.
"Then how did he catch it?"
Just as Gabrielle asked the question and Justin threw the fishing hook into the sea, a huge force suddenly pulled the fishing hook!
The fishing rod he conjured up with his own hands instantly bent into an arc, and he almost lost his grip on it, causing it to slip out of his hand!
"There's a big catch! There's a big catch!" he shouted excitedly.
The attention of everyone around him was attracted to him again. Many people were eager to try, but no one went up to help. The rules stipulated that if the fish wanted to be counted in the score, they had to catch them themselves. Of course, there was no restriction on the use of magic.
While holding the fishing rod tightly, he reacted extremely quickly and pulled out his magic wand, aiming it at the point where the fishing line touched the sea surface with great experience.
Ron, who had been talking big before, could only watch with envy. Just by looking at the strength of the fish's struggle, he could be sure that its weight would be equal to the bucket of fish he had caught in the morning.
Justin did not compete with the fish in the sea. After the big fish was hooked, the test of the fisherman's skills began. When he was trying to test the strength of the fish, the force transmitted from the fishing rod suddenly became much lighter.
He lifted the hook almost effortlessly .
But what emerged from the water along with his fishing hook was not a big fish at all, but an arm as big as a human!
