The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

Three minutes, four minutes, two and a half minutes...

Groups of students entered the examination room, but no one could leave awake! The only difference between each group is the length of time they persist.

The faces of the students gradually became ugly. Especially when they saw the candidates who had entered before them leaving the examination room with pale faces and exhausted expressions, everyone's mood became even more tense. Moreover, those who had taken the exam before were driven out of the exam room by Professor Lu Ping as soon as it ended, which also left everyone ignorant of the specific status of the exam.

Of course, two of these people were sober: Harry and Hermione. They can all guess the reason for the extremely low pass rate of this exam.

It's Tom. Professor Lupine has added Tom to this exam!

After seeing Tom's strength that night, Harry felt that it would be difficult for him to survive ten seconds under Tom's hands at his own level and that of other students.

But the strange thing is that the candidates did not disperse, but lingered around the examination room with pain in their faces.

Professor Luping was also a little surprised. He didn't expect Tom to be so serious and treat all the students who came over equally. Considering the physical and mental exhaustion caused by continuous fighting, Professor Luping could only say that he still underestimated Yodel.

The only thing Lupine regrets now is not putting Tom in the last level, which resulted in some preparations not being used.

After taking a look at the progress, Lu Ping felt a headache: more than half of the students had participated in the exam, but no one had entered the final assessment!

According to the regulations, none of these people can get "excellent", but if they really cause an entire army to be wiped out, how can I explain to Dumbledore? Although I... can't break the jar.

If this continues, the only choice is to lower the scoring standards. Lu Ping sighed secretly.

"The next group, Padma Patil and...Hermione Granger!" Lupine's eyes lit up. Hermione's strength, Lupine felt, was on par with Tom's. If Hermione were there to consume a wave of Tom's energy, then the passing rate of the subsequent candidates would probably be higher.

However, isn’t this unfair to those who take the exam first? The thought flashed through Lupine's mind, but he pressed it again. How can there be absolute fairness in this world? The exams of other professors cannot guarantee that a bowl of water will be flat. Just like Snape, whoever he stood behind during the exam would perform abnormally. Where could these candidates go to reason?

Padma was very nervous when she was called. She took Hermione's hand and said to her tremblingly: "Boss, this is all up to you! I don't need to be excellent, just pass..."

Hermione had no choice but to keep comforting her partner, telling her "it's not a big problem", "be normal", "take a deep breath"... but it was obvious that these clichés were not very encouraging to Padma.

"It's okay. I'm very familiar with Tom's various spells." In the end, Hermione could only say this before trying to comfort Padma.

In fact, Hermione herself wasn't sure. She couldn't guarantee that she could defeat Tom in a battle with Tom Curse.

But Hermione didn't have a choice.

After putting on the bracelet, she set off with her partner Padma.

After entering the examination room, the environment suddenly changed. What appeared in front of Hermione and Hermione was a deep pond.

"Be careful, I doubt there will be a Grindylow in the pond." Hermione first picked up a stone from the shore and threw it in. The stone disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye, proving that the water here was deeper than imagined.

When Padma mentioned Grindylow, Padma suddenly remembered the key point of dealing with Grindylow taught in class: fingers.

"I hope there won't be murlocs," Hermione prayed. Fighting the murlocs in the water is not a good choice, and the murlocs have tamed Grindylow and kept them as pets, so the murlocs are likely to launch a coordinated attack with Grindylow.

Fortunately, Professor Lupine was very "tolerant" to the third-grade wizards, and he did not stuff a few murlocs into the pond.

Hermione and Padma were only attacked by several Grindylows midway. To deal with them, a single extraction spell can shake them off.

After swimming through the pond, the two came to a pothole.

"Fluorescent flash!" A beam of light emerged from the tips of their sticks, illuminating the way forward for them.

"Be careful!" Hermione, with quick eyesight and quick hands, gave Padma a hand.

"That's a mud puddle." Hermione pointed her wand at the spot where Padma almost landed. The fluorescence dispelled the darkness and revealed what was there: not solid ground, but a puddle of mud.

"Look." Hermione waved her wand, illuminating the ground in front of her. What appeared in front of them was a swamp, coupled with the environment of potholes, Hermione suddenly felt that not all the people before were defeated by Tom...

"There is a light over there, should we go and have a look?" Padma saw what seemed to be a light on the left front, so she suggested Hermione go and have a look.

Hermione immediately thought of a magical animal: hinkpunk. This animal is active in swamps and has no physical form. It looks like a wisp of smoke. It lights up a lamp at night, luring passers-by into the mud.

Should we go in the opposite direction? Hermione began to feel confused. Because this Xinkpunk may also be the clue left by Professor Lupine here, you need to go to it and solve a certain task before you can enter the next level.

Finally, Hermione made a decision: go in the opposite direction!

Because the light is right there, if the route in the opposite direction is wrong, just go towards that light.

After explaining this conjecture to Padma, Padma chose to listen to the big boss - if you hug your thighs, you must have the consciousness to hug your thighs!

The two of them walked hard in opposite directions. The farther away from the light spot, the more Hermione's heart was shaken. At this moment, the bell on Hermione's foot suddenly rang.

"Armor protection!" She quickly cast an armor spell on herself, and then there was a strong wind that cut through the air and a "bang" sound. Hermione felt that her armor spell was shattered, but the intruder It was also ejected by the reaction force.

"What's wrong?" Padma looked confused.

Hermione raised her wand, and a dwarf-like guy appeared in Padma's field of vision. The monster also had a broken stick in his hand.

Hermione clicked her tongue, "It's Red Hat. It seems we may have overestimated Tom's strength."

She casually added a magic spell to knock out this guy who liked to sneak up on people with a wooden stick.

"I'll bet there's a bunch of redcaps surrounding that hinkpunk - that kind of stuff attracts other magical creatures, and if we got there we'd probably be knocked unconscious with sticks."

Uh-huh! Padma nodded repeatedly, feeling that she was extremely lucky to team up with Hermione!

After the two solved the red hat, they continued to set off.

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What we had for lunch was still the same, but the presentation was a little more refined. I don’t know when such days will end...