Chapter 194: Leviathan

On January 1, 1995, Sweden, Finland and Austria formally joined the European Union, expanding the number of EU member states to 15.
In March 1995, the "Schengen Agreement" came into effect, which eliminated border crossing restrictions and made EU member states borderless.
In a sense, Jon Hart is the first British residents to taste the benefits of European integration.
No visa or any other formalities were required. He only bought a ticket from London to Stockholm and soon arrived in Sweden.
There is no problem in terms of language, after all, English is the official language designated internationally... Most people in the Nordic region with higher education levels can easily communicate with Jon.
Rushing to Grums from Stockholm, Jon also didn't spend much effort.
Then, he quickly found Lake Vänern in Grindelwald's memory.
...
It is the end of June, and the temperature here is around 15℃...
Therefore, the water of Lake Vänern did not freeze into ice like in Grindelwald's memory.
You can’t fall off the ice and enter Durmstrand as Grindelwald remembers...So now the question is, how to get to Durmstrand in the summer?
Jon walked around the lake for a long time like a fool; then he simply sat on one side of the beach and observed his surroundings.
After almost half an hour, Jon finally couldn't see a group of people.
Several boys who seemed to be one or two years older than him, they were discussing something while rushing here.
They all wore dark red fur cloaks one by one... Undoubtedly, Jon could recognize this style, the same style as Victor Krum and his classmates.
Therefore, ten of them are Durmstrang students.
The boys didn't notice Jon, probably thinking Jon was a Muggle.
While frolicking, they walked to the lake, then took off their fur cloaks, wrapped them around their waists, and jumped into the lake one by one.
"Could it be that the way to go to Durmstrand in the summer is to swim over?" Jon thought to himself.
Although I can't swim, but...
Jon quickly took out the gills from his pocket... It was prepared during the second event of the Triwizard Tournament, and there are still some left.
After eating a handful of gillsweed that tasted like spider feet, Jon felt the familiar suffocation again.
Putting the baggage in a blistering curse to avoid getting wet; Jon followed the boys and jumped into the lake.
Taking a deep breath of the lake water, allowing the water to flow smoothly through the gills, and sucking oxygen into the brain... At the same time Jon thumped the water with duck webbed hands and feet and followed behind the Durmstrang boys .
The speed of their swimming is undoubtedly incomparable to Jon who ate the gills; but Jon was very sensitive underwater and kept a little distance from them.
The few Durmstrang boys in front swam little by little to the middle of the lake.
Then they started diving...
Jon also started to dive, and at the same time he looked around, but he did not see the underwater castle shrouded in a huge curtain as he had imagined.
However, he suddenly felt the fluctuation of the current.
Something is swimming towards this side, and it may be a big guy.
...
Jon wiped his eyes and looked in the direction of the wave of water.
A black shadow in the water hurriedly approached their position.
For a moment, Jon was almost shocked.
"This is...what...monster?" A series of bubbles came out of his mouth.
That's right, Jon saw a terrible monster, swimming quickly towards this side... From a physiological point of view, this should be a whale, and possibly a sperm whale.
Unfortunately, it is much bigger than the sperm whale Jon imagined.
If the Ukrainian iron belly is the largest creature Jon has ever seen... then this giant whale in the water is at least ten times the size of an iron belly; one eye of light may be as long as one person in diameter... …
I saw that the giant whale opened its mouth, a strong current, and then the students of Durmstrang were swallowed by him.
Jon tremblingly took out his wand, but he couldn't think of any kind of magic to deal with such a terrifying monster for a while.
The whale seemed to have spotted him too, and it began to swim towards Jon.
Too late to escape...
In a strong current, Jon was also sucked into the mouth by the whale.
...
With the hard breathing of fresh air, the gills and webs brought by the gill sacrum began to degenerate a little bit.
Jon Hart regained consciousness.
There was a voice in the ear, it seemed to be the conversation of the few Durmstrang students just now.
"Is he the first time to ride a Leviathan?"
"Could it be the Muggle lurking in, should you inform the principal?"
"Did you not see his wand... and wherever you went to find the principal, he ran away, and now the whole school is in a mess..."
Jon got up, opened his eyes, and saw the men who were big and tall around him.
"Cough..." He coughed violently, and he said, "I'm Christopher Patrick..."
Several Durmstrang students glanced at each other, and obviously none of them had heard the name.
However, the number of students in Durmstrand is several times that of Hogwarts... It is normal to encounter strange faces on campus.
"I have to find Professor Winston Vance, the teacher of the Dark Arts Studies class, I have something urgent!" Jon added quickly.
Professor Winston-Vance~EbookFREE.me~ This is Dumbledore’s letter, who brought him to Durmstrand and needed to find someone.
Upon hearing this name, several Durmstrang students seemed to dispel their doubts.
"How about, do you want us to help you?" one of them asked.
"No need!" Jon got up from the ground, and at the same time looked at the surrounding scene casually.
Just like in Grindelwald's memory... a beautiful underwater castle, surrounded by a huge bubble, you can even see all kinds of swimming fish outside the bubble...
"Let's go back to school!" The Durmstrang students began to set off.
Jon quickly followed behind them, while continuing to quietly look at the surrounding scene.
Soon, they passed through an arched gate with a school emblem painted with a double-headed eagle and a deer head...
At the top of the gate, the word "Dermstrang" is written in Rune.