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Hogwarts, England

Upon entering the labyrinth, Harry noticed that the tall hedges around him cast dark shadows on the path, as if by magic, and once inside the labyrinth, the voices of the audience outside were inaudible. For a moment, Harry felt like he was back underwater.

Once he had his mind set, Harry drew his wand and recited a spell that would have been used in such an environment: "Lumos (fluorescent flicker)!" ”

Harry felt somewhat relieved as a soft glow bloomed at the tip of his wand, illuminating his surroundings. However, I don't know if it was because of magic, Harry felt that the maze was much larger than he expected, and after walking about fifty meters after he estimated it, he saw a fork in the road, and subconsciously chose the road on the left.

Then Harry heard Bagman's whistle blow, and it was supposed that Opal and Krum had entered the labyrinth.

Harry, who had never doubted Opal's ability to be at home in this regard, couldn't help but quicken his pace. The path he chose seemed to have nothing to look like, but it felt a little strange...... He turned to the right along the passage in the labyrinth, holding his wand aloft, trying to see as far as he could, but he still couldn't see anything because of the spell.

At this time, Bagman's third whistle sounded in the distance, which meant that all four warriors were in the labyrinth.

“！”

Harry snapped and looked behind him decisively—he sensed that someone was watching him secretly, but his abilities couldn't tell if the gaze was malicious or not.

The result, of course, was nothing.

Sighing, Harry turned his head and continued to walk forward, now that the maze was getting darker by the minute, and the sky above him was turning blue, the environment in the maze was starting to get worse and worse, and I am afraid that this was the purpose of the third project to be held at night.

Soon he came to the second T-shaped fork in the road.

"(Show me the way)."

Holding his wand in the palm of his hand, Harry whispered another spell he used to use when he couldn't find his way.

The wand spun a little, designating the dense hedge to his right - it was north, and Harry remembered to go northwest to get to the center of the labyrinth. So the best thing for him to do right now is to take the left road and turn right as soon as possible.

The road ahead was still empty, and at a right turn, Harry turned in, and there were still no obstacles...... Harry couldn't help but frown—the labyrinth seemed to be seducing him with a false appearance of safety.

Suddenly, he heard movement behind him, and hurriedly grabbed his wand and pointed it to defend himself, but the light of the wand was Victor, who hurriedly ran out of a path on the right—he was in a hurry at the moment, and there was smoke on his sleeve.

"It's a fried tail snail!"

He hissed, "It's great—I managed to escape!" ”

With that, he rushed straight into another fork in the road in front of Harry, apparently intending to shake off the snail.

Harry was stunned for a moment, after all, when it comes to fried snails, it's easy to think of the ones that Hagrid raised - but those fried snails are definitely not big, right?

At this point, Harry suddenly felt chills all over his body, and then saw a Dementor walking slowly around the corner towards him, twelve feet tall, hooded over his face, and his rotten and scabbed hands stretched out. It approached step by step, as if it were touching him by feeling. Harry could hear the gurgling gasps in his throat, and an icy, sticky sensation hit his body.

Reflexively, Harry raised his wand: "(Calling for the Divine Guard)!" ”

He'd been trained by Opal for so long, and he'd long since passed the requirement to remember happy things before he could use the Patronus Charm. A silver stag popped out of Harry's wand and headed for the Dementors. The Dementor took two steps backwards and tripped over its robes...... Seriously, Harry had never seen a Dementor stumble......

Well, thinking of what Krum said before, you can guess what this Dementor is.

"Ridikuius (funny funny)!"

Almost immediately, Harry recited the corresponding incantation to the Dementor, only to see the Dementor explode with a bang, explode into the first floor of smoke, and vanish.

The silver deer rubbed against Harry, but didn't disappear as it should. Harry, on the other hand, thought for a moment and touched its smooth fur, "Help me find Opal and tell her I need her help." ”

He'd seen Opal and Dumbledore use Patronus Charms to deliver messages, but this was the first time he'd tried to do so, and he wasn't sure it would work. After watching the silver stag nod at him and run away into the labyrinth, Harry suddenly wished it could stay and be his companion......

Shaking his head and shaking off the thought, Harry continued on his way, walking as fast and silent as he could.

Turn left, turn right, turn left...... On two occasions after finding himself at a dead end, Harry recited another orientation spell and found that he had gone too far to the east. So he had to turn back, turn right at the fork in the road, and ......

In front of him was a large silver serpent, staring at him with those beautiful blue eyes, as if waiting for him.

"Opal?"

It was impossible for Harry to forget the appearance of Opal's Patronus, the silver serpent in front of him was obviously the Patronus of Opal, and it seemed that his Patronus had completed its task very well.

The silver serpent nodded at Harry's words, then turned and began to swim along the passageway, apparently motioning for Harry to join it.

This is in ...... Directions? Could it be that Opal has arrived? Although it is very easy for her to know this kind of maze, she seems to have entered the second group, right? Do you want to be so fast?!

Harry was embarrassed to follow the silver serpent, but not long after he left, he heard a scream that pierced the silence around him.

"Fleur?"

After a tentative shout, Harry found silence around him.

The silver snake stopped and turned to look at him, then turned back and began to swim - but what was the matter with that look? Are you despising him? Right, yes, yes?!

Suppressing his desire to complain, Harry didn't think about meddling in his affairs, but honestly followed the silver snake, and for ten minutes he didn't encounter anything or walk into a dead end, but came to a new road, and Harry followed the silver snake and jogged along it.

The fluorescent glow of his wand flickered, causing his shape-shifting shadow to flicker across the hedge, and soon they turned another corner, and the silver snake stopped moving, then vanished into thin air in front of Harry.

Over here?

Harry looked around a little strangely - there was a corner of the labyrinth not far ahead, but ...... Someone seems to be over there?

Then at this moment, he heard Krum's sharp, somewhat pitched voice: "Crucio!" ”

Almost immediately, Harry rushed over. But when he turned the corner, there was a black line, and it was Krum who had fallen to the ground and made a miserable scream, and he was almost convulsing and rolling on the ground, and after a moment he did not move.

Opal, on the other hand, stood not far away with a calm expression, not even holding her wand, but a small trinket on her chest lit up her surroundings with a soft glow.

Harry knew that this trinket was the product he had endorsed, after all, and it had cured an activating fluorescent charm and a reflection charm, and the price was definitely not cheap.

Clearly, Krum was miserable by the trinket - or should he say he did it himself?

[Harry, you're too slow.] ]

Just as Harry was making his inference, Opal walked over there, "Why is it only here now?" ]

"Something happened on the way."

Harry had no choice but to find an excuse for this, "If it weren't for your Patronus coming to me, I might have wasted more time...... By the way, I seem to have heard Fleur's voice on the way here......"

[Ah, she was attacked by Krum, it's strange that she doesn't scream.] ]

Opal shrugged his shoulders and replied rather lightly, then walked over to Krum, who should have lost consciousness by the moment, and stretched out his foot to make sure that his condition was completely incapacitated.

"It's hard to believe...... I thought he was pretty good. ”

Harry said as he stared at Krum.

[Knowing the person, knowing the face, not knowing the heart.] ]

Opal was noncommittal, [Harry, what are you going to do with this guy?] ]

"I'd love to leave this guy here like this......"

Harry thought for a moment, then said, "But I think we should fire red sparks and have someone take him away...... Anyway, he is already disqualified, and if the scene is too ugly, others will find something to say. ”

[I don't care.] ]

Opal took two steps back and watched as Harry raised his wand and fired a string of red sparks into the air.

Sparks swirled over Krum, marking his location.

[You're with me next?] ]

It wasn't until Harry had done that Opal asked again.

"Of course...... You said you weren't interested in the Goblet of Fire. ”

The two players who qualified to be competitors were out, and Harry seemed very relaxed at the moment - he never doubted that Opal would lie to him, not to mention that in Harry's opinion, Opal, who was already much stronger than him, would take it for granted even if he really tried to get the Goblet of Fire, and he would not have any resentment about it.

Of course...... There will definitely be regrets.

[Then come with me.] ]

Opal nodded, and walked straight to the northwest corner of the labyrinth, [Hold close.] ]

"Oh!"

Harry then watched in amazement as Opal walked unhindered—it seemed that the dense bushes that had been magically grown would automatically make way in front of her, and then immediately revert back to their original state as soon as he and Opal had passed through.

No wonder Opal is so fast...... This is cheating at all, right?!

Although he knew that Opal had a high affinity for magical creatures, he faced the scene where Opal was directly squared by communicating with various creatures that were placed in the maze and collided with him...... Harry still felt that his three views were constantly refreshed, and the urge to call the police made the corners of his mouth twitch.

Professor! Someone here is hanging up!!

Just when Harry secretly slandered himself that if it weren't for Opal's own lack of will, the Goblet of Fire would definitely be in her pocket, he found himself and Opal walking down a long, straight path, when an extremely strange magical creature appeared in the middle of the road.

Its body resembles a frighteningly large lion: huge claws, a long yellow tail, and a tuft of hair at the tip of the tail, but it has the head of a woman - it is a sphinx, and its picture is shown in the "Yokai Book of the Monsters".

[Yo, I didn't expect them to even find you, how are you doing?] ]

Opal smiled and patted the sphinx's paw in a smile, greeting him.

The Sphinx turned his long almond eyes to Opal, then smiled and stepped out of the way to let her pass.

But when Harry followed, she blocked the road again, and then spoke, her voice low and hoarse, "She can pass, but you can't." ”

"Why?"

Harry glanced at Opal, who was smiling at him behind the Sphinx, and spoke helplessly.

Open and hang like this, Opal is like this, he really doesn't even bother to vomit - there is no one to treat this differently.

"Unless you can answer my riddle. Once you guess - I'll let you pass. If I didn't guess - I'd pounce. If you don't answer - I'll let you go away without hurting you. ”

Harry's heart sank. Although he had seen it in the book, guessing riddles was Hermione's forte, not his.

He weighed it, if the riddle was too difficult, he could not answer it, the Sphinx would not hurt him, and he could find another way to the center of the maze.

"Okay."

He said, "Can I listen to the riddle?" ”

The Sphinx sat down on her hind lap, stood in the middle of the road, and read:

"Think about what kind of people always wear masks, act secretively, and lie a lot."

"Tell me what is always sewn and mended, the middle of the middle, the tail of the tail?"

"Finally, when I couldn't think of a word, which word was often spoken."

"Now connect them and answer me, what is an animal you wouldn't want to kiss?"

Harry looked at her with his mouth stammered.

"Can you read it again...... Slow down? ”

He asked tentatively.

The Sphinx winked at him, smiled slightly, and read the poem again.

"All the clues add up to an animal I don't want to kiss?"

Harry asked.

The Sphinx only smiled mysteriously, which Harry thought meant "yes".

Harry then began to think about the many animals he was reluctant to kiss, and the first thing that came to his mind was the fried tail snail, but he vaguely felt that it was not a mystery. He had to work on answering......

The pleading man turned his gaze to Opal, who saw Opal, standing behind the Sphinx, writing a glittering word in the air with his wand.

Then Harry broke out in a cold sweat and noticed that the Sphinx seemed to sense something, and was about to turn his head in Opal's direction.

“spider！”

Harry cried out almost as soon as the Sphinx was about to look at it, "Answer, it's a spider!" ”

The Sphinx smiled more kindly, she stood up, straightened her front legs, and stepped aside: "Okay, although you cheated, but after all, it was she who helped you, and you passed this level." ”

“……”

Harry, who had silently rubbed his temples, hurriedly thanked him, and then walked past the Sphinx to Opal.

Is it so obvious to put the water?

Forget it, as long as you can pass the test smoothly, after all, as a direct beneficiary, it seems that he is a little too hypocritical to complain so much.