"That's right...then let's get started, please listen - something to \"T

Begins with J, ends with T\', and there is?"

Probably because of the relationship at the beginning, the Sphinx's puzzles are not difficult, at least Harry thinks that it is a children's puzzle-level riddle.

But then Harry was surprised to find that Cedric had a puzzled look on his face.

"\"No way? ' Harry couldn't help but blurt out.

Cedric misunderstood Harry's meaning: "Yeah, it's hard enough to guess, worthy of the legendary \"Mystery of the Sphinx\'"

Harry's mouth opened in surprise - honestly, if he hadn't been around Cedric for so long, he'd even think he was joking.

After confirming that Cedric wasn't joking, Harry had to do his best to remind Cedric in a way that wouldn't hurt his self-esteem.

"Uh...I think it's an anagram," he said.

"Anagrams?" Cedric was taken aback. "I thought he was talking about 'trolls (Trll Factory, but trolls don't have" tails: so something seems wrong.'"

Harry found himself at a loss for what to say about wizards' pre-school education—even though Aunt Petunia had devoted almost all of her energy to Dudley, Harry's pre-school education was better than Cedric's.

"There are usually traps inside this kind of word game." Harry could only continue to prompt down, "Maybe... it's not what it means literally."

Cedric pondered for a moment, and finally realized that Harry was trying to remind himself

"Time is running out, Harry, it's only five minutes... oh no, it's only three minutes left, and if you think of something, you can just say it."

"OK."

Harry was not hypocritical, he went straight to the Sphinx and began to question it.

"How many times can I guess?"

"As many times as you want, little guy, as long as you answer it within time." Sphinx seemed to be very easy to talk.

"So, is it \"tortoise (trtise)\'? ' Harry asked tentatively.

"Sorry, wrong answer." Sphinx lit his paws: "You still have two minutes, dear."

Harry no longer hesitated after hearing the words: "Then, the answer must be 'Teapt'. "

When Harry said the correct answer, whether it was Hermione in the audience or the Ministry of Magic officials who knew the game, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"The answer is correct, congratulations, you can take this door key to room 6."

The Sphinx smiled at Harry, and took out a silver teapot from nowhere and placed it in front of the two of them.

"Take it, this is your reward, it may help you." Cedric hesitated, then reached over and took the teapot.

"Why \"Teapot\'?" He asked Harry, complaining is just an anagram, and there are only two T''s at one end and one at the end, and the T'' in the middle?"

Harry shrugged: \"Because we're going to use it for 'Tea''" Cedric suddenly realized.

It's not that he has no culture, but his brain really can't turn this corner.

As Fudge instructed, the two warriors put their hands together on the door key made of the ten-sided dice.

"Number five... Your destination is Dean Forest, good luck!" Fudge waved to them.

As soon as a blue light flashed, the two disappeared from the scene of the cinema.

Chapter 363 Whose trap

Although the warriors of Hogwarts disappeared from the game, this does not mean that the organizers of the game have lost their ability to track them.

They set up a surveillance device on the other end of the door key early, waiting for the warrior to come to the door.

When Harry and Cedric got up from the ground in a daze, they found themselves in a place that looked like a forest and had been targeted by something.

Cedric was more vigilant, so when a huge bird snake fell from the sky and attacked Harry, he immediately took out his wand and cast a Banishing Charm on it, which prevented Harry from being "fallen from the sky" Give him a hemiplegia.

The attack also made the two warriors know what they were up against and what the teapot the Sphinx gave them was for.

The organizer actually let us face the dangerous wild creatures directly!

Even knowing that the Ministry of Magic must have sent people around to protect them, Harry was still a little unhappy, which may have something to do with him almost making a fool of himself.

He guessed right that someone at the Ministry was protecting him, and it wasn't even just the Ministry.

In the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor's office at Hogwarts, Moody and Lockhart are watching Harry's every move from the screen.

This small screen has been permanently transformed like the screen of Jack Pea and Three Broomsticks, and it is connected to the one in the cinema and can be broadcast synchronously in real time.

Watching the two on the screen deal with the bird and snake according to the Scamander textbook, Moody's face was a little dignified.

"I really don't know why you have to use the port key," he said to Lockhart rather unhappily. "Dumbledore isn't here, and there are too many places in the middle that are easy to be surprised by."

Unlike Moody's worried, Lockhart across from him appears much more relaxed

"If this is not the case, the Death Eaters have no chance to get close to him." Lockhart sneered and looked at the broadcast screen: "Passive defense is not my style. Once the World Cup comes, it is enough."

Moody certainly understood what he was talking about, but it was still unacceptable, and even the ogre-eyed man expressed his master's unease with his non-stop rotation.

"Compared to your daring plan, I am even more surprised that Dumbledore approved it." Moody said in a gruff voice, "I can't imagine Voldemort following your lead."

"He has no choice if he still wants Harry's blood." Lockhart seemed confident.

"We have no choice either, because we don't want to take the risk either," muttered Moody, \"There's no harm in trying anyway."

"Yes, there's no harm after all," Lockhart agreed.

After going to Little Hangleton last time, Dumbledore deliberately went to Riddle House, the cemetery and the old Gaunt house to have a look.

After confirming that the bones of Voldemort's father had been dug up, Dumbledore also roughly determined how Voldemort wanted to be resurrected.

Although Voldemort may have thought that Dumbledore would not know it, Dumbledore's research on black magic was no less than that of Voldemort when he was young. He guessed the resurrection magic almost as soon as he found old Riddle's body. The bones of fathers, the flesh of servants, and the blood of enemies.

If Voldemort wanted to use that magic, he drank unicorn blood three years ago

There was an explanation for his actions—he was planning to make a new body, so he didn't care about Professor Quirrell's dying body.

But what confuses Dumbledore is that because old Riddle is a Muggle, the body of his bones must be lacking in magic power, even with Harry's blood, Voldemort's once huge magic power It was impossible to come back, and how did Voldemort plan to replicate the changes in his original body into the new one?

So Dumbledore thought of the resurrection stone in the Deathly Hallows.

Through the memory of an old staff member of the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore saw the simple-looking ring on Mr. Gaunt's hand.

As someone who held an elder wand and watched over the Invisibility Cloak for ten years, Dumbledore easily recognized the origin of the ring—the last of the Deathly Hallows, and the most amazing resurrection stone.

Thinking of this, Dumbledore almost couldn't control himself.

Compared with the Elder Wand and the Invisibility Cloak, the Deathly Hallows that Dumbledore wanted most was the Resurrection Stone.

Dumbledore's sister, Ariana, lost control and became a mute because of the bullying of Muggle children; his father used magic to teach the Muggles to avenge his daughter, but he also entered Azkaban , never came; his mother died again because of Ariana's silent outburst, and he accidentally killed his sister in a dispute with his younger brother because of his relationship with Grindelwald...

If Dumbledore was someone who wasn't strong enough at heart, he would have more reason to hate Muggles than anyone else, but he didn't make himself Grindelwald in the end, even if he The same goes for having more power, and that's what makes him great.

But even such a great person was still shaken the moment he learned that he might have the resurrection stone.

Dumbledore felt that if he had the Resurrection Stone, he might be able to undo some of the mistakes he had made, and this idea had been circling in his mind for almost a hundred years.

It is difficult for people who have not experienced all of this to understand why someone like Dumbledore would fall into such an obvious trap, but if he understands this, he will probably understand Dumbledore better than anyone else at that time. Emotions.

As the saying goes, don't be afraid of a thousand tricks, just be afraid of one trick. In history, many alienation schemes and countermeasures are actually quite clumsy in terms of techniques, but it is to grasp the suspicion of the opponent's monarch and ministers, so it has been tried and tested, and there is nowhere to go. unfavorable.

Dumbledore didn't tell anyone after he discovered the traces of the resurrection stone, but kept this information firmly in his heart.

As for Voldemort's resurrection, Dumbledore only said that it might use "the blood of the enemy", but he concealed the existence of the resurrection stone from them, and only said that the members of the Order of the Phoenix should protect Harry well.

This is the fundamental reason why Dumbledore agreed when Lockhart suggested taking a risk using the Tournament to find out where Voldemort was.

If Voldemort had made the Resurrection Stone into a Horcrux, then Voldemort's resurrection would have been almost unstoppable—and Dumbledore was pretty sure of that.

Although the resurrection stone is likely to resurrect a walking corpse, Voldemort's soul is still alive, so all he needs is a walking corpse.

Since Voldemort's resurrection is unstoppable, the best way to deal with it at this time is to destroy as many other Horcruxes as possible before his resurrection, and use some small means to "add some ingredients" to Voldemort's resurrected new body

And this "material" is naturally Harry's blood.

How, then, could Harry's blood be given to Voldemort unwittingly, while keeping Harry safe, and let him use it without question?

This requires risk.

Although Dumbledore was indeed not around the school as Moody had said, he still kept one eye at Hogwarts, waiting for Voldemort to come to the door.

Lockhart, on the other hand, behaved quite leisurely. It was naturally the best to be able to deceive Voldemort or little Crouch to come to the door, and it would not be a loss if he could not deceive him. As long as Harry was still alive, Old Deng would not go berserk.

Relatively speaking, it is more important to continue to improve one's own magical strength. Because in the next war, the Death Eaters will not believe in magic, they will only submit to their fists

Fortunately, after learning the mutant version of Soul Torrent, Lockhart felt that although he was far from T-level in terms of combat power, he couldn't catch up with the "top-notch Professor Flitwick, but he was at least a "level wizard." , and the way of fighting is also more distinctive, it should be able to have a fight with Dolohov, it depends on when Voldemort returns.

Seeing Lockhart so calm, Moody felt somewhat relieved.

For the next war, Moody is already determined to die, because he knows that his level is not what he once was. But the only thing that worried him was that the fighting force of the Order of the Phoenix might fall apart with his death.

This is no joke. Although Dumbledore is the spiritual banner of the Order of the Phoenix in the original book, even after Dumbledore's death, the Order of the Phoenix can still organize the protection of the Ministry of Magic and the transfer of Harry Potter.

But after Moody's fall in the "Battle of the Seven Potters", the Order of the Phoenix collapsed faster than Dumbledore's death, and the Order of the Phoenix has never organized any effective action against the Death Eaters since then. Resisting, Kingsley obviously does not have the ability and prestige to take on this responsibility.

This can tell some questions, such as who is the backbone and operational commander of the Order of the Phoenix.

Dumbledore set up a separate command center in addition to Moody, seemingly separated from Moody.

Di's authority, but isn't that protecting him?

After thinking about it, Moody's stopped commenting on it.

Stop playing around. ' he whispered to Lockhart.

Lockhart misunderstood what he meant, and he thought Moody was talking about the two Harry who were fighting the bird and snake.

"Don't worry," he assured. "The venue we chose is the Quidditch pitch in Dean Forest. There is a constant feather spell, and we have also hinted in the consciousness of the bird snake that it will not kill it. ."

Moody sees Lockhart misunderstanding, but doesn't correct him because he doesn't want others

people know his fragility

Instead, he's going to be tougher.

"I'm idle anyway, why don't we take advantage of this time to learn more?" Moody suggested, "Let me see what new tricks you've learned recently.

my pleasure. ' Lockhart replied.

Chapter 364 The real plug-in

Perhaps Lockhart would have lost without knowing that Moody's current weakness was mental, but not now.

Even if the overly conspicuous Confusion Charm cannot be used, Lockhart can still lay out patterns with irritating and chaotic effects next to him while laying out the Iron Armor Charm, which is enough to make Moody unable to sober up. Think.

After half an hour of practice and sparring, Lockhart sat back down with a two-match record and poured Moody a cup of tea.

Moody no longer adhered to his rule of never drinking drinks poured by outsiders, took the teacup and took a big sip.

\"You kid really has a set...and you've improved again.\" He said in a stern voice.

Lockhart is also not humble: "Accept, I happen to be very good at this kind of magic.

Now his confidence is indeed a little inflated. Except for Dumbledore, Voldemort and Professor Flitwick, he dares to touch everyone else.

Moody's just couldn't understand it: "How the **** did you do it? I don't think you look like a gifted person."

Lockhart resolutely refuted this statement-if a master who has taken countless risks against the dark magic cannot be regarded as "talented and intelligent", then there are not many intelligent people in this world.

Moody sneered when he bragged about his "innumerable adventures," apparently disagreeing.

"Your book is full of misconceptions, and while you're doing the right thing when dealing with dark creatures, it's more of a misunderstanding, because you don't understand the principle of doing that at all... Honestly, you Should strengthen the training of magic theory.

He says.

Lockhart realized two meanings from his words - one is that Dumbledore really did not tell others that his original owner was a liar; the other is that the original owner's book was full of flaws in the eyes of professionals.

Fortunately, his performance in the past two years has finally supported the character of this "adventure master", so Moody thought that he was just not good at theory.

However, Moody's suspicions are not without reason - the reason why Lockhart was able to make his magic level surpass one vote of the Order of the Phoenix boss in more than two years, of course, did not rely on any normal way, but a few "Plug-in"

The first "plug-in" is naturally money. With enough money and the backing of the Extraordinary Apothecary Association, Lockhart is not short of all kinds of potion supplies, all kinds of potions to restore magic power and improve mental power. He can pour down all the medicines without any money, and practicing magic spells will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

The second plug-in is Ravenclaw's crown. After removing Voldemort's soul, it has become a real "intellectual agent". As long as it is worn, no matter what the difficult magic theory is, he can be very Quickly understand and make the most suitable training method for you.

Although I am very embarrassed to Professor Flitwick, Lockhart does not intend to return this crown.