Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way

On the fifth floor of the maze, Harley was moving forward steadily and calmly.

She didn't know the sufferings the warriors below experienced, and even if she knew, she wouldn't care too much.

Who makes their magic level poor? You have to sit back and let others laugh at your own food, instead of being a shockwave and throwing blame every day.

After once again using a water-making spell and a freezing spell to kill two Acromantulas that wanted to attack him, Harley couldn't help but sigh.

What the hell are Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic doing? Why are there either ghouls or swallow-tailed dogs in the maze, or a bunch of Billywigs or those fire crabs that Hagrid squeezed clean?

The most dangerous creatures I've encountered are harmless little creatures like the Acromantula.

Where is Hagrid's manticore that suffered inhumane acts? Where is the poisonous leopard in the Forbidden Forest? And where are those airwings that provoke centaurs every day?

If the Ministry of Magic is really dead, isn't Mr. Newt still wandering around the British Isles? Go and borrow some dangerous magical animals from him!

Damn it, this Six-wizard Tournament is no longer interesting at all!

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Harry suddenly stopped and looked at the three-way intersection not far away with interest.

In the direction judged to be the correct route by his magic mirror divination, there was a smell of sulfur and rotting meat.

Blast-tailed skrewt? Harley tilted her head and looked in that direction, thinking of the pets Hagrid had raised.

Those little cuties have perfectly inherited the advantages of their fathers and mothers. They have no brains, strong physical fitness, high magic resistance, innately good lethality, and extremely violent personalities.

Hagrid originally bred more than one hundred and twenty snails, but as a result, these violent and cruel creatures started killing each other since they entered adolescence.

By the time they reached full maturity, only about twenty of these snails had died due to various reasons.

However, Harley did not feel pity for the scarcity of this creature.

Although it was inconvenient to directly hunt these things for experiments, the snails were born with the instinct to kill each other, so they still provided Harley with a lot of corpses.

She combined her advanced knowledge of potions and studied this creature for a long time, but she still couldn't find anything valuable about these creatures.

The blood of the snail is full of strong corrosives and toxins, but it also carries a stench that is difficult to remove.

If you want to use other materials to remove toxins and replace certain materials with the blood of bomb-tailed snails, the cost of the materials required to remove the toxins is extremely high, even exceeding the price of the replaced materials;

And if you want to use this highly toxic blood to poison others, the price of the materials that can remove this special stench is even more expensive than the best poison on the market;

If you want to take advantage of its highly corrosive characteristics, then when processing the materials, the toxins in the blood of the snails will also remain on the materials. It is not as cost-effective as using the corrosive juice of the wolf tooth flower...

The shells of these Blast-Ended Skrewts are quite hard. If there are extraordinary people who serve as tanks and front rows in the Zhengshen Church and are responsible for physical means of resisting damage, they probably wouldn't mind using the shells of Blast-Ended Skrewts to build a few sets of boards. Armor or tower shield.

But in the wizarding world...these shells are useless. Wizards will definitely choose fire dragon skin, which is cheaper, easier to handle, and has stronger defensive effect.

In addition, there are also the meat, nerves, and internal organs of the fried-ended snail...

Although these can be used as potion materials, the price and time required to process them are even higher than the value of the potion itself.

In short, these materials cannot be said to be useless, but they are as tasteless as chicken ribs and it is a pity to discard them.

Even if these creatures were given to Harley for free, Harley would probably have to consider them.

But now it seems that Hagrid has probably found a job suitable for his babies - serving as guards in various levels.

A blast-tailed snail that was ten feet long and looked like a giant scorpion sprang out.

The Explosive-Tailed Skrewt sprayed out a stream of flames from its tail with a long stinger, aimed at the target, and crashed into Harley.

Hey, isn't it good to live? Harley shook her head. She really didn't want to deal with these low-value materials.

A black flame flew out from the tip of Harry's wand, weaving into a large net and covering the blast-ended skrewt.

The slow movement of this fried-tailed snail was completely in line with its huge size, and there was no time to dodge.

It could only raise its tail high, spit out a stream of flames for attack, and at the same time curl up most of its body into its thick shell.

Is it useful? If you shrink into a shell, I can't do anything to you?

Harley shook her head and didn't do anything more. Black flames instantly enveloped the shell of the snail.

Harley didn't take action seriously, so this flame was at most equivalent to the black flame that the Sequence Five Pain Witch could release.

But even with this level of flame, it was not something that the Explosive-tailed Skrewt could contend with.

Of course, taking into account Hagrid's mood, Harley did not choose to burn him to death directly with black flames, but instead slowly weakened the magic resistance of the shell of the squid.

At the same time, Harley also casually scattered a seed, and a strangling shadow vine grew out in less than two minutes.

This is Professor Sprout's Christmas gift to Harley. Harley feels that she won't need these plants for future combat, so she might as well let them play a role now, which can be regarded as living up to Professor Sprout. Mind.

Under Harley's meticulous operation, the black flames directly wrapped the vine without damaging the vine itself.

The strangling shadow vine quickly pulled out countless branches and crawled along the ground under the interference of the spell.

They seemed to be completely integrated into the soil. Although there were no shadows on the battlefield, they themselves became unnoticed shadows.

Finally, these vines accurately penetrated into the snail's softest abdomen, which was unprotected by armor.

The fried-tailed snail's curled-up body quickly stretched out, as if trying to struggle.

But the black flames attached to the vines exploded instantly, directly destroying the most important organ in the snail's body.

The huge bomb-tailed snail immediately stopped resisting and fell down silently.

Harley didn't even look at it and passed directly by it.

The strangling shadow vines also remained in place, and were not reduced to seeds by Harley's magic.

After Harley walked away, the camera moved away and followed Harley as she continued moving forward.

What no one noticed was that there was a faint shadow of a snake head flashing on the vines, and then the vines plunged into the artificial soil in the maze.

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There are not many dangerous magical animals on the next journey, and there are only two interesting magic traps at most.

However, the staff of the Ministry of Magic are obviously not that good at fighting, and their magical attainments are also average.

So Harley cracked these two magic traps without any obstacles and successfully reached the sixth floor.

The maze on the sixth floor is already very small, at most the size of a Quidditch pitch.

However, at the only entrance to this maze, a guardian appeared for the first time.

When Harley stepped here, two statues suddenly jumped out.

The two statues were made entirely of stone, clad in iron armor and holding steel spears.

They look menacing and not that easy to pass.

But Harry always felt something was wrong. Why did these two statues... look so much like the statues in the corridor outside the Transfiguration classroom?

And before the two statues came out, Harry faintly heard a female voice: Shidun is out!

This voice... sounds like Professor McGonagall's...

Something is wrong, ten or even nine points.

But Harley thought about it carefully and decided not to delve into it further.

Professor McGonagall's little-known hobbies are not just a matter of time.

In the Transfiguration Club, she mentioned more than once that she wanted to control all the statues in the school to play a game of wizard chess.

Now, it is understandable to take advantage of the opportunity of competition to make myself feel good.

But Harley really feels that these two statues are not even as dangerous as magical beasts.

After all, these two statues have obviously been activated and do not need to be activated again using spells.

And the previous sentence Send out the stone pier was not a spell, it was just a command to let the two stone statues drive away the intruders.

According to the magic set up around it, as long as a warrior steps onto this floor, the password left by Professor McGonagall will be activated, causing the two stone statues to be dispatched.

That is to say...

The stone pier is still!

Harry waved her wand without even looking at the two statues.

After hearing the command, the statue stopped directly and remained motionless in place.

Harry looked at the two happy statues of Professor McGonagall, shook his head, and walked in the direction of the trophy.

Professor McGonagall's happiness has been sanctioned by herself, and she hopes that the professor will not put her in solitary confinement (bushi) because of this.

As Harley continued to move forward, she realized that she was getting closer to the most powerful door key.

Finally, the rest of the road turned into a long and narrow path, and you could see the end at a glance.

At the end of this path is a large room with a golden trophy on a high platform.

And before that trophy, there is still one last obstacle.

It was a scary lion with a large body, but it had the head of a woman.

It's the Sphinx.

It was originally lying on the spot, but when it saw Harley in front of it, the Sphinx immediately stood up, blocking the passage behind it and blocking the championship trophy of the Six-wizard competition.

You are the first warrior to come to me. It spoke, with a low and hoarse voice.

This means that you are very close to your goal. If you don't want to go around again and spend more time, then passing by me is undoubtedly the fastest way.

I imagine that a little wizard with excellent grades like you should know the rules of the Sphinx.

If you want to pass me, you have to answer my riddle. You must guess it right the first time before I let you pass.

If I don't guess correctly, I will pounce on...

Sphinx suddenly felt that his voice was getting lower and lower, and his body was shaking a little.

It's obviously summer now, why do I feel so cold?

Also, why is this empty maze suddenly covered with frost?

I don't know when, a faint blue halo emerged from the soles of Harley's feet, covering the large open space around him.

The ice flexibly bypassed the four claws of the Sphinx and turned the surrounding area into silver.

...If...if you didn't...if you didn't choose to answer the question...then I'll let you go...I won't hurt you...

The Sphinx's speech became slower and slower, and he became more and more stuttering, until the last sentence could not be uttered.

Its eyes were filled with fear, and its teeth began to tremble.

Actually, I didn't say anything. Do you believe it?

I remember the book said that you sphinxes always like riddles.

Harley ignored it, but put her hands behind her back with a smile on her face.

Then let me ask you a riddle too.

You sphinxes originate from ancient Egypt, and the god of death in Egyptian mythology is Anubis.

So, what do you think, if Anubis really exists, do you want to see him now, or do you want to see him in the future?

The Sphinx swallowed, feeling the dangerous aura emanating from the girl in front of him at some point, and her body unconsciously lowered a lot:

I think...I think it would be better to see Him in the future.

Yeah, I think so too. Harley took a small step forward and gently patted the Sphinx's face.

The Sphinx's face was filled with humiliation, but she obediently lowered her head so that the girl could touch her.

Now that the distance between the person and the beast is very close, it stands to reason that with a slight lunge forward, it can easily press Harley under him and tear her into pieces.

But the corner of the Sphinx's eye glanced at the frost on the floor again, and at the same time, the instinct from the beast was also frantically alarming.

Therefore, it did not dare to make any unnecessary movements, but quietly retracted its sharp claws to avoid being misunderstood by the adults in front of it.

Look, you have already answered my riddle. Harley's voice was extremely soft, Can you please step aside now?

Or do you feel that your body is too big to move, so you need me to help you move out of the way?

by the way……

Harley's voice became gentler, like a close sister,

...My strength is very small, so I can only move part of your body at a time.

The Sphinx had no time to remain silent, and her hair on her temples exploded instantly. It even started to nuzzle Harley's hand with its head obediently, while saying loudly:

That's right, the answer to my puzzle is a body part! You can pass!

That's so good. Harley patted the Sphinx on the head, You have a great future.

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