The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The moment Quirrell stepped into the corridor, Dumbledore's eyes narrowed. He said to Professor McGonagall: "Minerva, I remember you have classes in the morning, right?"

Professor McGonagall responded, "Indeed, but it doesn't matter, I can be late -"

"How can that be done!" Fudge immediately put on a distressed look, "We can't wrong the children. Transfiguration is a very important course. Minerva, hurry up and go to class. I will discuss it with Professor Dumbledore." Let’s talk about unicorn poaching.”

"My child, you should hurry up and go to class. You must study hard and try to work at the Ministry of Magic in the future - your grades are very good. If you join the Ministry of Magic, you may be a minister again!" Fudge did not forget to tell Tom before leaving. One sentence.

After talking to Tom, he took his subordinates and Dumbledore away as quickly as possible. They needed to go to the Ministry of Magic.

A butterfly also flew from the window to Professor McGonagall's hand, and turned into a note with words on it, which read: Take Tom to that place, quickly!

Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows and immediately chased after Tom where he left, and then stopped him near the Ravenclaw common room, where he was chatting with Hermione.

"Tom, come with me immediately." As soon as they met, Professor McGonagall couldn't help but drag Tom away.

Hermione wanted to follow, but was glared at by Professor McGonagall, who was so frightened that she dared not move - Hermione was most afraid of Professor McGonagall.

Tom begged Professor McGonagall: "Professor, let me go back to the dormitory for a minute..." He roughly guessed what he was going to do, but his Uzi gun was still in the dormitory! This caught him off guard, and he lost a powerful means of output. But it’s not Tom’s fault. Who would carry a submachine gun to breakfast?

But he touched the teapot in his arms and gained confidence again.

"No, it's too late." Professor McGonagall refused him without looking back, and instead accelerated her pace.

Tom suddenly realized something and asked tentatively: "Professor, are you..."

"Albus asked you and I to pick up something important. He said you are more familiar with the levels." During the conversation, the two of them had arrived at the closed corridor on the fourth floor.

Professor McGonagall pushed the door open with a slight push, which made her expression change - the door was locked before she left.

She walked up to the trap door and said to Tom, "Jump down!"

She originally thought that Tom would be coy and afraid to jump, but Tom jumped down immediately. The air inside the trap door was damp and cold. Tom fell for a long time before he fell on a soft mass. The trap door was directly above his head and was now only the size of a postage stamp.

It's easy to figure out the distance from the ground. You only need to know the size of the trap door, and then based on the size of the "stamp", you can roughly estimate the distance, but Tom has no such intention.

Professor McGonagall also jumped down. The moment she stood up, she pulled out her wand: "Burning flames!"

The flames quickly dispersed the plants beneath them.

"Devil's Net likes dark and humid environments, but is afraid of fire." She glanced at Tom, "Professor Sprout should have taught you this in class, but you have been here in a daze without taking any measures. "

"Professor, if I had taken measures, you might not be able to talk to me now." Tom was also speechless: Could he not know that this was a devil's trap? It’s not because you haven’t jumped yet!

Professor McGonagall's tone paused, and then she cast a lighting spell to illuminate the surrounding environment. Below the trap door is a passage, and at the bottom of the passage is a room filled with devil's net - this kind of plant is actually quite lethal. If you don't listen carefully in herbal medicine class as a child, even adult wizards will hate it.

The exit of the house is also a long passage, and the walls of the passage are covered with moss. This passage does not have a downward trend, but it is claustrophobic, long, narrow, and winding. It should be a tunnel that was preserved when Hogwarts was built, leading to the "underground secret room" of Hogwarts.

The professors of each subject were very conscientious and did not place any traps in the passages. Quirrell left in a hurry and did not set any traps - Tom would have designed countless vicious traps. For example, the two sides of the passage will slowly shrink until the intruder is crushed into a pulp; whichever mechanism is triggered is a lighting spell followed by a flying crossbow - in such a dark environment, if your eyes are suddenly exposed to strong light, you may be blinded; Or simply pour quicksand...

But none of these mechanisms worked, and Tom and Professor McGonagall arrived at the end of the passage safely. At the end is a room with a large iron cage in it. In front of the cage are five cube stones with petal-like patterns on them. There are hundreds of birds that are as dazzling as gems in the cage, flying jinglingly in the cage. If you look closely, you will see that these little birds are all turned into keys.

Across the room is a locked wooden door.

Tom was shocked as soon as he came in: How did Quirrell speed through this level?

He designed this level for Dumbledore. The idea of ​​solving the puzzle is also very simple. First, arrange the square stones in order so that the number of petals on each stone lights up is the same, so that the lock of the cage can be opened and the key can be unlocked. Fly out and use the broomstick to grab the corresponding key.

Theoretically, Quirrell should have been stuck here for a long time, but why had Quirrell already successfully cleared the level when Tom and Professor McGonagall arrived? Tom looked at the bird in the cage and suddenly had an idea: Didn't Quirrell just reach in and grab the corresponding key and come out?

Looking at the gaps in the cage and the density of keys, Tom felt that it really could be done.

Tom was speechless for a moment: Quirrell is really good at exploiting bugs...

However, he still planned to use traditional methods to solve the puzzle - after all, he knew the standard answer. And it's not difficult to see from Professor McGonagall's blank eyes: she doesn't know how to solve the puzzle.

Five stones are arranged in a row, and each stone has three petals on it. Some petals are bright and some are dark. Tom's purpose is to make the number of lit petals on each stone the same - the number is different. Important, one piece, two pieces, or three pieces can be used.

From left to right, the number of petals that light up on the stone are 1, 2, 3, 2, and 1. The pattern of the stone is also very simple. Every time you poke the stone, the number of petals that light up on the stone will change. The numbers on both sides of the stone will change. The stone will also change. However, the stones on the far left and right will only change with the stone next to them.

When the stone is hit once, the number of petals that light up on it will increase by one. If all three petals light up, then only one petal will light up.

Tom stepped forward, ready to solve the puzzle.

Hey hey hey, do you know how to solve the problem? The answer is in the next chapter!