The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Scuba, skip two levels." Cedric made a decision quickly.

He did not choose the better-looking Gillweed, but chose scuba, a diving prop used by Muggles. The reason is that he can maximize the use of points by choosing this way. 20 points can be used to buy equipment, and 60 points can be used to jump twice. close. In this way, he only needs to pass one level to directly enter the Black Lake to save people.

"An unexpected but reasonable choice." Bagman nodded, handed the scuba to Cedric, helped him put it on, and handed him the booklet below.

Cedric opened it and found that the booklet was actually a scuba instruction manual. For a moment, Cedric didn't know what to say.

From a certain perspective, the organizer was very considerate.

After Cedric finished his selection, Krum walked to the stage. After some consideration, he did not take away the ball of gillyweed, but used points to skip a level.

He already has countermeasures on how to move underwater. Naturally, he does not need to spend points to buy props, but uses limited points to skip levels.

Krum chose this way because Fleur still had 32 points, and she could afford it whether it was gillyweed or a jump level. If she could only afford the gilly grass points but not the jump level, then Krum Mu would not hesitate to buy the gillyweed and cause some trouble to Fleur.

Many times, the competition for victory and defeat is not only about the upper limit, but also the lower limit.

Amid deafening cheers, the three warriors set off. Cedric will start the challenge from the third level, Krum will start from the second level, and Fleur, who bought the Gillweed, will have to start from the beginning.

The three warriors were brought to the starting point of the wooden tall building by Bagman.

As they got closer, they could see more clearly. It was a three-story building. Fleur was left on the first floor, Krum was on the second floor, and Cedric was taken to the entrance of the third floor.

"Push the door open, and your level is inside. Of course, if you want to take a breath of fresh air outside, that's also great." Bagman "motivated" Cedric with his signature smile. This is not because Cedric is a British wizard or his father knows Bagman, but simply because Cedric winning the Triwizard Cup is the most beneficial to Bagman.

Yes, the Director of the Ministry of Magic's Sports and Physical Education Department is on the market again.

Cedric certainly wouldn't waste precious game time to breathe some fresh air. He just adjusted his mentality and then pushed the door open and entered the third floor of the wooden building.

After opening the door, the scene behind the door was somewhat beyond Cedric's expectation. He originally thought that there might be a wizard guarding the door, and he could not enter the next level without defeating him, or that there might be some weird magical animal inside, guarding the exit. But when he actually walked in, he found that it was just an empty room.

There is something wrong with calling it a house. "Courtyard" may be more vivid. The world behind the door is more like an open-air courtyard with rockeries and pine trees. Looking up, you can see a blue sky. But it was this blue sky that made Cedric understand that all this was an illusion of magic - there was no such good weather in the Scottish Highlands in February!

The door behind Cedric closed at some point, and the game officially began.

He pulled out his wand, put the scuba on his back, and carefully walked into the courtyard. There was nothing unusual in the courtyard, and there were no clues left in the rockery or pine trees.

But at the root of the pine tree, Cedric found a sundial buried in the soil with a silver pointer on it. He poked the sundial with his wand, but found nothing out of the ordinary. The hands on the sundial seemed to be moveable, but part of the right side was stuck by the roots of a pine tree.

After some exploration, Cedric felt that this should be the decoration of the initial venue. His eyes passed through the courtyard and fell on the wooden door at the end of the courtyard. He felt that the real level should be behind the wooden door.

He walked to the door, took a deep breath, and pushed open the wooden door. He didn't know what he was going to encounter, but he knew that the test was about to begin.

Behind the wooden door is a room decorated like a common room - armchairs, round stools, and chandeliers are all available, and based on the red and gold color scheme, it looks very much like a Gryffindor College lounge.

Not only Cedric had this idea, but the students watching on the field outside also felt the same way. However, Gryffindor students also stood up to refute the rumors, saying that it was just a similar style, but not the original Gryffindor common room.

Looking at the decoration and thinking that the wooden building had three floors, Cedric made a bold inference: the first and second floors might be levels based on Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.

Now he suddenly felt that the sixty points he spent were well worth it. He has no idea about those two schools. There is a high probability that he will get stuck when encountering an unfamiliar style, which would be disastrous.

There is a similar door at the end of the Gryffindor Common Room. Cedric walked to the door with the mentality of giving it a try and pushed it.

Sure enough, the door was locked.

Obviously, this is a level and not a Hogwarts decoration style display. Cedric took out his wand rather hopelessly and knocked on the lion-shaped door lock.

"Open the Alaho hole!"

The door lock doesn't respond.

Cedric:…

Solving puzzles? He looked at this "lion head" thoughtfully, and suddenly he remembered the Ravenclaw door knocker that his girlfriend mentioned when chatting with him.

Will this lion head be like the Ravenclaw door knocker, which requires guessing? Considering Gryffindor's style, it doesn't have to be a real fight to win, right?

Cedric tapped the lion's head warily, but nothing happened.

Cedric was speechless for a while: This will make me look stupid!

Indeed, his cautious appearance was indeed very humorous, and there were already bursts of laughter in the stands.

After his suspicion was proven wrong, Cedric began to circle around the common room. In the end, he really discovered something strange.

"There are too many lion elements here, right?" He found that there were many lion statues about one foot in here. If you count carefully, there are thirteen of them. Even if the symbol of Gryffindor is a lion, there are too many of them.

Cedric was startled and immediately began to look at these lion sculptures seriously. He soon discovered that the bases of these sculptures could be twisted.

After observing carefully for a moment, he looked at the wooden door through which he entered. There was also a lion sculpture beside the door, which was slightly larger than the other sculptures in the room.

Cedric pushed it first, only to find that the sculpture was motionless as if it had been welded to death. This was different from other sculptures. Cedric immediately determined that there was something wrong with this sculpture.

After thinking about the knowledge he usually learned in class and combining it with common sense in the magical world, Cedric tapped the lion's head with his wand.

Here's a little bit of common sense in the wizarding world: various magical traps can be triggered using a wand, such as the wall in the backyard of the Leaky Cauldron. The wand is an important tool for wizards to distinguish wizards from Muggles. Therefore, if a mechanism is to be triggered by wizards without being accidentally touched by Muggles, then using a wand as a medium is the most common way.

As expected, a small ball of golden-red flame came out of the mouth of the lion that had been struck by the wand. The flame slowly floated and flew into the mouth of a lion statue not far ahead. Then it changed its angle and continued to fly. , until it flew to the wall and disappeared with a snap.

Cedric looked at the sculpture in front of him, then looked at the lion door lock opposite, and suddenly realized.

Next, he kept adjusting the angle of the lion sculpture, and finally let the flame fly to the door lock. After the fireball hit the lion's head, the lion trembled and turned into a door handle.

At this time, Cedric walked over and pulled the door open.

Behind the door, there was another room. The decoration in this room was mainly bronze and cyan. It was the "Ravenclaw Common Room". In this room, Cedric also saw several statues. Bronze raven sculpture and a door with a raven's head.

Although it was a bit repetitive, it was great for Cedric to be able to solve two problems with one idea, so he repeated his old trick, but this time after the golden-red flame hit the crow's head, the crow's head Nothing has changed.

Cedric:?

He tried again without believing in evil, but it was no different from the last experience.

Cedric fell into silence: Sure enough, the level designer couldn't let him use one way of thinking to pass through two rooms.

He observed the room in front of him again, and found anything unusual. The flames in this lounge fireplace are not yellow, but blue!

And blue is the color of Ravenclaw!

Cedric tried again, this time deliberately sending the fireball into the fireplace. The fireball didn't disappear, but turned blue. Now, the door to Ravenclaw can be opened.

After Ravenclaw's "lounge", there's Hufflepuff's.

Only this time Cedric fell silent as he looked at the four little badger sculptures on the ceiling.

The ceiling was twenty feet high from the ground, and he couldn't reach it even by stepping on the table.

It's true that it can't be reached by just stepping on one table... Cedric thought briefly and then gave a simple solution: Can't it be reached if I put two more tables on it?

The tables in this room look pretty solid, not the kind of junk that can break if stepped on. Cedric also knows a useful spell that can strengthen these pieces of furniture so that they can bear greater weight.

Cedric is a man of action and will implement whatever he thinks of immediately. He walked over to a table, reached under the table, and then -

Use force!

Use force?

The table didn't move at all.

Cedric:? ? ?

Then he discovered that no matter how hard he tried, the ordinary wooden table in front of him could not move at all. Even if he used magic, he couldn't move these tables.

"Permanent Sticking Spell!" Cedric realized that these tables were all cast with permanent sticking spells and were fixed in place.

He had a bad premonition, and then he discovered that all the large pieces of furniture around him were fixed in place by permanent adhesive spells, and only the small ornaments and cushions could be moved.

"Ah..." Cedric felt a sense of despair. He seemed to understand what to do.

He waved his wand, turning each of the soft cushions into items that could be used to rest his feet. They were stacked one on top of another, finally allowing him to touch the badger sculpture on the ceiling.

When the orange flames opened the locked door, a smile appeared on Cedric's face: This room tests the warriors' level of transformation! Wizards who cannot turn their mats into stepping stones will be trapped here.

Fortunately, his level of transformation is not bad!

Seeing Cedric's way of clearing the level, Dumbledore's face twitched twice in the stands, and a look of dumbfounding appeared on his face.

"What's wrong?" Madam Maxime was keenly aware of Dumbledore's change in mood.

"Uh... Digory used a... um... quite unexpected way to solve the puzzle." Dumbledore said, dumbfounded.

"What is the correct way to solve the puzzle?" Mrs. Maxim was quite curious.

"There is a pole in the room. When you pull it down, the room will turn upside down, so that the badger sculpture on the ceiling is on the floor... For this reason, I also specially applied permanent adhesive to all the furniture that might hurt someone. Curse." Dumbledore spread his hands and said helplessly: "Students will always find weird ways to solve problems."

When Mrs. Maxim heard this, she couldn't help laughing, and there was a joyful atmosphere in the referee's box.

"But it would be too naive to think that this is the only thing in this level." A glint flashed in Dumbledore's eyes: "The best is yet to come!"

While the two principals were talking, Cedric had already successfully solved the last Slytherin-themed room and opened the door.

There was a corridor behind the door, but when he reached the end of the corridor and opened the door at the end of the corridor and saw the scene behind the door, he was shocked.

He returned to the courtyard where he started, and it was nothing like he expected!

The little wizards in the stands also let out a burst of exclamation, and no one could figure out why this happened.

Because from their perspective, Cedric was always facing forward, and the wooden building he was in looked like an arc from the outside, not a closed circle.

So why did he return to the starting point? It can only be that the corridor is causing trouble, or that the level has more than four rooms...

Cedric rushed across the courtyard and ran into a very familiar room, a small room that looked like the Gryffindor common room.

Everything returned to the starting point, he stood blankly in front of the lion sculpture.

Looking at this familiar layout, he couldn't help but curse: The person who designed this level must have some kind of psychological problem!

The layout of the room is exactly the same, even the angles of the lion sculptures have not changed.

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