The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"The goblin rebellion that took place in Hogsmeade... this must have happened in 1612, right?" Professor McGonagall looked at the big screen and said with some uncertainty. When she was bored, she followed the three warriors and took some test questions given by Hermione. To her shame, she felt like she couldn't get full marks. Although Minerva McGonagall is a professor at Hogwarts, she teaches Transfiguration rather than History of Magic.

"If the answer is 1612, then the little girl in France got it wrong." Professor Sprout, who was sitting next to Professor McGonagall, showed a happy expression. She had just seen clearly that Fleur Delacour had chosen the year 1621.

Even better, Cedric has chosen all the correct answers so far!

"Well, it happened in 1612. At that time, the wizarding headquarters was still located in the Pig's Head Bar." Professor Flitwick reassured his two colleagues.

"Great! I noticed that Cedric didn't seem to have made any mistakes. Pomona, you can do it!" Professor McGonagall glanced at Flitwick and suddenly realized that talking about the goblin rebellion in front of him didn't seem right. A correct choice, so she decisively changed the topic.

Professor Sprout didn't think as deeply as her best friend. She was proud of Cedric. However, although she was extremely happy inside, she still said modestly that it was the students who strived for their own success, and she only made a small contribution.

"Yes, the balance of victory is tilting towards us." Professor McGonagall also showed a happy smile on her face. She liked everything that was beneficial to Hogwarts.

"Krum's progress seems a bit slow," Professor Flitwick discovered details that others had not noticed: Viktor Krum's answer speed was much slower than Fleur and Cedric.

"It seems that some warriors have been 'eliminated'." Professor McGonagall suppressed her inner joy and said in as calm a tone as possible.

"No, no!" After nearly half an hour of the exam, Krum pushed the parchment forward and gave up resistance.

He just glanced left and right and realized that he couldn't pass the exams of Cedric and Fleur, the two top students. In terms of knowledge reserve, he is much inferior to the two.

"Winning is just a fragment of the magic ring." Krum comforted himself, making himself feel better.

Krum's choice was not a cowardly escape. It was a decisive act like a strong man cutting off his arm even if he stopped his losses.

He has clearly realized that even if he takes the exam hard, there will be no results - the rewards are for the first place or those who get perfect scores, both of which are unrealistic for Krum. In other words, he was destined to return empty-handed.

So even though the questions on the test paper were not too difficult and Krum could do most of them, he still gave up competing with the other two.

Many people simply cannot be as decisive as Krum when faced with this situation. For example, if a stock is locked up, or a business starts to lose money, many people simply cannot cut off their wrists and cut them off in time.

Giving up is a kind of courage in itself.

It's just that the "mission issued by Yodel" that Fleur mentioned before made him a little uneasy.

What is the mission? Now that there is a mission, what is the next reward? In this regard, Klum, who lacked key task processes, was as confused as King Louis XVI of France.

But he will not change the decision he has made easily. So he closed the test paper and pushed it aside.

"I give up." He looked at Hermione and asked calmly, "Can I leave now?"

"Of course, you can leave here at any time." Hermione was not surprised by this, she was just surprised by Krum's decisiveness.

"Thank you." Krum stood up under the complicated looks in Cedric and Fleur's eyes. He looked at Hermione seriously and seemed to have a strong interest in this girl.

"Did you come up with these questions? Or did you prepare them in advance?" He asked the confusion in his heart.

"I made it up after I was sent to the Forbidden Forest," Hermione's face turned slightly red when she said this, "but I also borrowed a lot of questions that I usually encounter in exams."

The corner of Cedric's mouth on one side raised slightly: Yes, at least 80% of the questions on the test paper are the original questions or slight modifications of the original questions!

The professors at Hogwarts are not very keen on giving questions. They often come up with three or four sets of questions and then use them interchangeably. Before each exam, just fine-tune the questions and answers - for a course like Transfiguration that focuses on practical operations, I don't even bother to update the question bank. After all, it's useless even if you know in advance that the final exam will take the hedgehog transformation test. If you can't do transformation, you just can't.

Thanks to the laziness of the professors, Hermione asked questions that Cedric had more or less been exposed to back then.

This is also Cedric's hidden advantage. Hermione is not a fairy, and it is amazing to come up with a set of questions in a short period of time. If it were an original title, it would be too outrageous. So she would unknowingly use the questions given by her professors.

Therefore, Fleur was doing the new questions and Cedric was doing the familiar questions, so the first-mover advantage was quite large.

Hearing Hermione's answer, Krum nodded, and at the same time glanced at Cedric without any trace, a look of envy flashed in his eyes.

"Can I know your name?" Krum admitted that he wanted to get to know this little girl.

"Hermione, Hermione Jane Granger." Hermione had quite a lot of patience with the Quidditch superstar in front of her.

"Hermione? I remember it. Goodbye." Krum wrote down the name and left without looking back.

"It's Hermione," Hermione rolled her eyes, Krum had a really strong accent.

Krum's departure has made the competition between Fleur and Cedric more intense. However, Cedric has too many advantages: the mother tongue test uses the original questions, and the mentality is more relaxed...

It is extremely normal for him to win. The only suspense is whether he can get full marks.

The exam lasted for nearly two hours, and Cedric was the first to hand in the paper. At this time, Fleur had three questions left to answer. A few minutes later, Fleur, who was sweating slightly on her forehead, also handed over the test paper.

Hermione glanced through their test papers and regretfully returned Fleur's paper.

"You answered two questions incorrectly. The time when the goblins rebelled was..."

Not only did he give the score, but he also pointed out the mistakes for Furong, making her convinced that she had lost and couldn't find any mistakes.

Fleur sighed, "Then what's his score?"

She could only hope that Cedric got more questions wrong than she did.

"Senior Diggory got perfect marks, so he won." Hermione announced the result.

"Okay." Fleur looked a little disappointed, "I shouldn't have participated in this unequal game from the beginning."

Only now did she realize the injustice hidden in this seemingly fair exam. At the same time, I also feel that Krum’s operation is really wise. At that time, she was still complacent when he quit, but she didn't know that after Krum quit, she was the one who was trapped.

In two hours, God knows what good things Krum found...

Hermione spread her hands, indicating that she had tried to be as fair as possible. In reality, there are many more unfair exams than this one. If she had a dark heart, she could add an interview after the written exam. The interview accounts for 30% of the score. Isn’t that excessive? The final right of interpretation belongs to the question maker. If you can give me a chance to take the exam, just have fun.

Furong left unwillingly. She knew exactly what Cedric would gain by winning the exam. She could only compete with Klum for second place.

After Fleur left the camp, Cedric hurriedly said to Hermione: "Granger, I need you to write me a note asking Yodel to help me."

Hermione:?

The hand she put into her trouser pocket froze. She really didn't expect Cedric's request.

After Cedric explained the ins and outs of the matter to Hermione, Hermione was even more speechless. Tom actually regarded himself as part of the test? You can really get whoring for nothing!

However, this request is very reasonable, and Hermione has no chance of making things difficult. She quickly wrote a note and handed it to Cedric.

[Tom, go help Senior Diggory]

Looking at the short line of words on the note, Cedric didn't know where to complain.

"Okay, I'll go find Yodel right now." Cedric decided to seize the moment, but then a voice came from behind them.

"No need to bother, I'm already here."

Cedric turned his head, a question mark on his face.

"Yordel, why are you here?"

The person who spoke was none other than Tom. At this time, he took off his armor and looked at the two people in the camp with a smile.

"Why can't I come? There's nothing in the rules that prohibits volunteers from moving around, so I'm here."

Tom didn't tell Cedric that he came here because he was bored. As for the way to get here, Tom found it all the way through divination...

Cedric:…

Fortunately, I acted quickly, and this co-authoring task was time-limited! But at least it’s done.

Cedric looked at the "naked" Tom and frowned: "Where's your armor? And the Hippogriff, why are they missing?"

"Buckbeak doesn't want to run around anymore. Who wants to trek in the forest wearing such heavy armor without a mount?" Tom was also helpless. Buckbeak, who had been working all the time, went on strike because he no longer wanted to carry Tom around. Tom, who had lost his mount, would naturally not wander around wearing that bulky armor. Although there is magic weight loss, this armor that can even cover the face is not very convenient in the jungle.

Cedric:!

Will this character be weakened if he joins the team? ! The goods are wrong! What I want is the knight in shining armor, not the person in front of me! Are you an instant noodle? Do you want a picture for reference only?

Cedric felt like he had been cheated.

But Tom had already joined the team, and he couldn't say anything more, so he could only suffer the loss of being mute silently.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Tom took out a small bag from his pocket and threw it to Cedric.

"I cleaned up some resource points along the way and got a lot of good things."

When Cedric opened the bag and took a look, he almost blurted out "Fuck". But at the last moment, he held it in and avoided the collapse of his image.

The bag contains seven magic ring fragments!

The trace of resentment that the goods were not right disappeared without a trace, and Cedric's heart was filled with happiness. I have gained a lot of weight now!

Counting the fragments he already had and the one in Hermione's hand, his total number of fragments reached an astonishing ten! Can all the other warriors combined have half as much as me?

Looking at Cedric who was in ecstasy, Tom smiled slightly: "Next, I will take you to fight!"

"Wait, you said 'you'?" Hermione was stunned.

"That's right." Tom glanced at Hermione strangely, "Don't you want to join our adventure?"

Hermione: ...

Although there was a feeling of imperial approval, Hermione agreed and became a member of Cedric's adventurous team.

Faced with this "buy one, get one free" situation, Cedric felt another burst of unexpected ecstasy.

With this sleeping dragon and phoenix chick, I have the advantage!

As Cedric opened the small bag, an eerie silence fell on the Quidditch pitch at Hogwarts. Then the stadium erupted with a loud noise like a boiling kettle.

"Is this reasonable?"

"That makes sense!"

"I am already a mature volunteer and I have to learn to farm treasures myself."

Everyone is in awe of the amount of pieces in this bag. Cedric didn't know the status of the other two warriors, but as the audience, they knew it very well. So far Fleur still has zero, and Krum has only gotten one piece. Therefore, the total number of fragments between them is only one-tenth of Cedric's.

After Tom joined, the way the game started has changed a lot - from "Land of Survival: Forbidden Forest" to "True Wizard Unparalleled". Facing bosses big and small, Tom has only one strategy, and that is to be "reckless". If you go ahead and be reckless, you will win. If you don't win, try harder.

With the addition of Tom, the pace of the game instantly accelerated. Later, Krum and Fleur would even arrive at the treasure location, only to find that someone had already arrived there first.

In a game, the Matthew Effect actually appeared, which is outrageous.

"We're not far from the final BOSS on the map." Cedric looked at the map and hesitated, "Do we really want to provoke that guy? The map says it's a fire dragon!"

Some resource points will be marked in treasure chests or map fragments obtained from volunteers. Different maps have different levels of detail. The most basic map only has the location, while the more advanced ones will indicate the strength of the NPC guarding the treasure.

The piece in Cedric's hand was a high-level map fragment. The resource point they were going to next had a note about the fire dragon on the map.

"It's not a big problem. The fire dragons here are not yet adults." Perhaps because of his contact with Norbert, Tom was not afraid of fire dragons.

"Okay." Seeing Tom insisting, Cedric couldn't say anything. The group of people set off following the markings on the map.

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Four thousand words combined into one chapter!