Artist: Alenea Ballard
Title: The Mermaid's Hostages
Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper
Size: 16x20 in.
Artist Statement: 
"Harry darted forward and began to hack at the ropes binding the small girl to the statue: and at last she was free. He seized the little girl around the waist [...] and kicked off from the bottom. Merpeople were rising with him. He could see them swirling around him with ease, watching him struggle through the water." From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (2000)