Time travel at the same time: Is the golden finger actually me?

"Secret news?" Rock was a little surprised.

George looked around and pulled Rock and others to a corner, "Have you ever heard of the legend of the clever key?"

"Ah!" Hermione exclaimed, "I seem to have seen it in a book."

"It is said that Hogwarts has 16 ingenious keys that can open the college treasure chests of the four major colleges, and the treasure chests of each college contain robes unique to their own college!"

George snapped his fingers happily: "Correct answer!"

"Is this the news you want to say?" Rock said that he had known it for a long time and had collected it while playing games. The clothes in the treasure box were his favorite game graduation sets because the clothes were really good-looking.

But if he is asked to collect this again, it will be too tiring. Who knows where these keys are hidden in the nooks and crannies of Hogwarts a hundred years after the game.

"Of course this is not the news we want to say." Fred added: "In fact, all the students have collected the keys, but there was just a little trouble..."

"Little trouble?"

"Each treasure chest of the four major colleges requires sixteen keys to be inserted at the same time to collect them all, but these sixteen keys are scattered to different students in different colleges..."

Yes, this is right!

This is why Rock doesn't want to collect it. This thing is just like collecting all the Dragon Balls. You are not looking for it alone.

What if fifteen keys are found, and the last one is collected by another person, and the person refuses to give it to him, will that mean all the hard work has been wasted? You can't just kill them!

"So after discussion, the students who collected the keys decided to secretly hold a wizard duel. The victorious wizard can get sixteen keys and will own the ownership of four treasure chests!" George expressed happily.

"This will be a winner-takes-all duel!" Fred also said grandly.

Hermione was a little puzzled: "Then why don't the four colleges cooperate together? Open your treasure chest first, and then our treasure chest. Wouldn't it be a win-win situation for everyone?"

Win-win?

George and Fred looked at each other, not knowing how to explain to Hermione, a little wizard who had just come to school.

Let’s not talk about whether Gryffindor and Slytherin, the two houses that are at odds with each other, are willing to cooperate and achieve win-win results.

The conflicts of interest between wizards and wizards alone make it difficult to cooperate.

There is only one special robe in the treasure chest of each college. Even if all four treasure chests are opened, it means that only four people in the whole school can wear the robe. The wizards within the college will still have to fight among themselves, and in the end they will still have to rely on each other. Duel speaks.

And the main problem is still caused by the Lion Academy and the Snake Academy - both academies want to open the other's treasure chest, and even threaten to wear the other's exclusive robe and then show it off. In this way, the losing academy will always be suppressed in the future.

But as soon as this idea came out, the other two colleges also felt a sense of crisis. No one wanted their college's clothes to be taken away by other colleges.

It feels like a chain of suspicion. The four major colleges are on guard against each other, so they are unwilling to cooperate. They just want to get the key in their hands to feel relieved.

Secondary issues are those of power and prestige.

The Snake Academy is the academy that has collected the most keys, but before the competition was decided, they were almost exhausted fighting for keys among themselves!

There are endless methods of acquisition, family pressure, and private duels.

Exclusive robes are certainly expensive, but the pure-blood family of the Snake Academy is obviously not short of money. What they value is the prestige brought by the exclusive robes.

It doesn't matter whether it's acquisition or duel gathering, because this is a way to show family or personal strength.

Whoever gets all the keys in the Snake Yard first means - whose family has the strongest power, or who has the highest magical power.

Think about the Dark Lord, and then think about the savior Harry Potter, although Harry's own strength prevented him from catching this overwhelming reputation...

But now he went out for a walk, and when he heard it was Harry Potter, someone immediately came over to him. There are monsters, monsters, monsters, both strong and weak, Lockhart, Potions Master Slughorn...

There are plenty of people who would be willing to help him out for the sake of fame.

Therefore, any ambitious wizard will not give up the opportunity to improve his reputation.

So this competition in which all four major colleges participated was born. After all, it is better to be the strongest in one college than to be the strongest in four colleges.

The duel over the ownership of the key became more and more serious in private, and in the end the contestants even included all the prefects of the four major colleges.

And of course Gryffindor's Percy Weasley - George and Fred's older brother, who desperately wanted power and prestige.

The exclusive robe has unknowingly become an accessory to the ultimate reward of reputation.

"Interesting, what are the competition criteria?" Rock was a little curious.

"Participation standards?" George shook his head, "I don't know, Percy never mentioned it, I just know that the people who can participate in the competition are very strong."

"Do you want to participate in the competition? Stop making trouble. Logically speaking, no first-year wizards would know about this competition. We didn't even tell our brothers." Fred tried to dispel Rock's curiosity.

"Although I heard that your magic skills are good, it's best not to participate in this competition. Even the student president is participating this time, and he is the best student in the seventh grade! Little wizards like us have no chance."

They just want to bring a few people together to watch the game, not to work exhaustingly to play the game.

"Which house dominates this competition?"

"Slytherin, because they have the most keys." George sighed.

Fred then added: "The venue is the bell tower in the South District Bell Tower Courtyard. It will be held tomorrow night. The code to enter is the duel staff."

Slytherin is hosting it...

Luo Ke felt confident.

However, there was a Transfiguration class tomorrow afternoon, so he wouldn't have to worry about a competition all day long. He still had to review his knowledge of Transfiguration after dinner in the auditorium.

In the evening, Rock embarked on his first night tour. In fact, it was not a night tour, that is, between nine and ten o'clock.

Because senior students have a curfew at ten o'clock, and first-year students have a curfew at nine o'clock.

Rock wasn't willing to sacrifice the time he needed to sleep at his age, but he did need to collect pages from practical guides and practice his spell skills on the road.

…

The next afternoon.

Professor Maomao’s class has started!

There was a silver tabby shorthair squatting on the desk, but the news that Professor McGonagall could turn into a cat to fish for law enforcement had already spread along with the news that Harry was late for class for the first time.

This is also the disadvantage of being famous. Being late once makes people nag you for a lifetime.

Rock felt a little pity. If they had taken the first transfiguration class, Rock might still have a chance to play with the cute kitten.

It doesn't work now. Now he knows the law and breaks the law. When the time comes, Teacher McGonagall will definitely give him a one-level penalty.