Hogwarts Homecoming

On the high platform at the finish line, everyone smiled at Fleur, and they all approved of Harry's proposal.

Facing the friendly smiles of everyone, Fu Rong was caught off guard and shocked.

It is true that she found the pattern and saved everyone, but she never expected that someone else would give up this supposedly very important key.

"You really want to."

Fleur hesitated, as if she still couldn't believe it.

"Oh, just take it."

Harry shrugged and said in a meaningless tone,

"Just like Viktor said, we will try our best in the next competition."

After a pause in his tone, Harry urged again,

"Get it quickly before we regret it."

"oh--"

The corners of Furong's mouth tilted, and her blue eyes flashed with arcs.

"You are so kind!"

Turning around to face the torch-like light, Fleur took a deep breath, stood on tiptoes, reached into the white light, and picked out the key.

Everyone immediately gathered around and looked curiously at the ancient bronze key lying in Furong's hand.

"What purpose does it serve?"

Cedric asked confused.

"have no idea--"

Hermione answered simply,

"Opening a door or something, I guess you won't know until the end."

Furong happily hid the key in her pocket. Before she could thank everyone for their generosity, another quaint stone door appeared on the platform, which they had already experienced twice.

"It feels like a level-breaking game--"

Harry sighed, mentally exhausted.

Complaints are complaints, no matter what, it is impossible to give up.

After everyone adjusted their mood slightly, they set out for a new challenge again.

The expected darkness fell again, and Harry's vision had just adapted to the dimness. The strong white light that shone roughly into his eyes stimulated his eyes to burst into tears!

Wow!

Before the drowsiness caused by the sudden change of environment left Harry's mind, the deep cold that even froze his soul made Harry scream in pain.

"Damn it, what the hell is this place!"

Harry shouted 'miserably',

"Professor Brain got us to the North Pole?!"

The North Pole is just a joke, but the warriors participating in the competition are indeed trapped in the ice and snow.

Everything in sight was white and miserable. The north wind was as cold as a knife, swirling in the air with heavy snow in the sky. The whistling sound reached my ears, as shrill as the wail of a female ghost!

hiss.

Hermione snatched away the sportswear jacket that Harry had helped her hold before and shiveringly put it on for herself. However, the thickness of the sportswear was too thin for such a cold environment and could not be worn at all. The two of them bring enough warmth!

Harry and Hermione huddled together, pressing against each other to keep themselves warm.

"Do something, Hermione!"

Harry continued to scream, the cold made it impossible for him to think about what he should do.

"I'm trying, Harry!"

In less than half a minute, a layer of 'white hair' grew on both of their bodies, Hermione said with a trembling voice.

The cold made her body stiff. Hermione struggled to pull out her wand from her sleeve and waved it several times before she managed to make a bluebell-like flame come out of the wand.

However, the warmth brought by the flames could not benefit the two of them at all, and was carried away by the biting cold wind, which had no effect at all.

"Damn it, this won't work!"

Hermione yelled frantically. She extinguished her own flames, and then used her wand to point Harry and herself.

A warm current traveled through his body, and Harry, whose thoughts were about to be frozen, finally survived. However, before the two could breathe a sigh of relief, the endless cold took away the warm current from their bodies.

"Do it again, Hermione!"

Harry yelled amid the hoarfrost that filled his vision.

So, Hermione used the magic again, and while her body was briefly relaxed, Harry pulled out his wand, letting orange flames emit from the tip of his wand.

The flames were a little brighter, barely able to make the roaring cold wind less biting.

"What do we do now, Hermione!"

In order to overcome the noisy wind, Harry had to shout and speak. He struggled to hold up the flaming wand, and could feel the flames peeling off cocoons, consuming the little magic power he had left.

"There must be a way"

Hermione, whose face was livid, gritted her teeth. She squinted her eyes and looked around. She could vaguely see several figures struggling not far from them, and another person tripped over something and fell to the ground in the snow. .

Besides that, there were a few things standing in the snow.

There was a dark, irregular-shaped but tall thing about a hundred or ten feet away from them, and around it were four door frames?

"I-I want to"

Hermione curled up, her voice was high-pitched,

“What we need is there”

"Red stones on the ground!"

Before Hermione could finish speaking, the man who had just fallen down some distance away from them roared.

It was Viktor, who used magic to amplify his voice,

"Break it and get warmth!"

Harry and Hermione looked at each other, and Harry hurriedly pointed his flaming wand at the snow that buried his knees.

The flames melted the snow on the ground, exposing the black soil.

There were many bright red stones the size of the Quaffle growing one after another on the black land. These stones were extremely fragile. The flame of Harry's wand only swept over the stones, and then, the bright red stones disappeared. It shattered, and several wisps of red fluorescent smoke emerged, quickly surrounding Harry.

"Ugh!"

It was like soaking in a hot spring. The sudden warmth made Harry squint his eyes with an expression of enjoyment!

"What. What's going on, huh-Harry?"

Hermione's teeth chattered, and she looked in surprise at the red smoke surrounding Harry, enveloping him like an erratic smoke ring.

Harry opened his eyes. He glanced at the bright red smoke surrounding him, and then at Hermione who was about to freeze. He suddenly woke up and came on.

"Victor is right, Hermione, break a stone quickly, the smoke can protect against the cold!"

Hermione pointed her wand at another red stone in disbelief. After a flash of silver light, she was also caught in the red smoke.

"oh!"

Hermione opened her hand and touched the white ice and snow everywhere, but she couldn't feel the cold at all.

"This is amazing. I never knew any magic could have such an effect!"

Harry no longer bothered to be surprised by such a thing. He let out a long breath and said,

"Merlin's beard. For Viktor's sake, I forgive Karkaroff!"

Hermione rolled her eyes at Harry and looked at the black figure standing in front of her again.

After the severe cold disappeared, wind and snow became a rare sight.

Harry grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and played with the snowball in his palm, enjoying the strange pleasure of touching the ice and snow without feeling the cold.

"Come on, let's go take a look."

Hermione was obviously more concerned about how they should get through this level. She took Harry's arm, and the two of them rushed toward the tall black shadow, while the warrior teams in all directions also almost passed the level. Feeling astonished, he walked towards the shadow like them.

The thing standing around the black shadow is indeed a stone gate.

Inside the rough stone door frame is a mysterious transparent vortex, which seems to transport them to other dimensions.

The four doors seem to mean that each team needs to choose one.

"Let's go."

Stopping in front of the door for a moment, Hermione pulled Harry again.

They must not be able to escape and enter the door, but before that, they must first figure out what the black shadow is.

When Hermione and Harry arrived under the shadow, several other teams came over one after another.

"Thanks, Viktor!"

Cedric first nodded his thanks to Viktor.

"We almost froze. If you hadn't reminded us in time."

"Oh, you're welcome. It was just luck that I tripped over that red stone."

Viktor raised his sinister brows and said angrily.

Harry walked up and brushed away the floating snow on the surface of the giant thing in front of him, his eyebrows slightly moved.

"Ice cube. What do you mean, do we need to break it?"

Hermione raised her wand again and conjured flames, melting the snow covering the surface of the icy blue ice.

Well!

When the ice cube was completely exposed in front of them, everyone's expressions became slightly eager.

The second key! (End of chapter)