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Harry and Cedric stood there in the darkness for a moment, looking around them. Then Cedric said, Well. I spose wed better go on. What. said Harry. Oh. yeah. right. It was an odd moment. He and Cedric had been briefly united against Krum - now the fact that they were opponents came back to Harry. The two of them proceeded up the dark path without speaking, then Harry turned left, and Cedric right. Cedrics footsteps soon died away. Harry moved on, continuing to use the Four-Point Spell, making sure he was moving in the right direction. It was between him and Cedric now. His desire to reach the cup first was now burning stronger than ever, but he could hardly believe what hed just seen Krum do. The use of an Unforgivable Curse on a fellow human being meant a life term in Azkaban, that was what Moody had told them. Krum surely couldnt have wanted the Triwizard Cup that badly. Harry sped up. Every so often he hit more dead ends, but the increasing darkness made him feel sure he was here near the heart of the maze. Then, as he strode down a long, straight path, he saw movement once again, and his beam of wandlight hit an extraordinary creature, one which he had only seen in picture form, in his Monster Book of Monsters. It was a sphinx. It had the body of an over-large lion: great clawed paws and a long yellowish tail ending in a brown tuft. Its head, however, was that of a woman. She turned her long, almond-shaped eyes upon Harry as he approached. He raised his wand, hesitating. She was https://godeddaddygogogo.cloud/fallout/fallout-4-frost-lore.php crouching as if to spring, but pacing from side to side of the path, blocking his progress. Then she spoke, in a deep, hoarse voice. You are very near your goal. The quickest way is past me. So. so will you move, please. said Harry, knowing what the answer was going to be. No, she said, continuing to pace. Not unless you can answer my riddle. Answer on your first guess - I let you pass. Answer wrongly - I attack. Remain silent - I will let you walk away from me unscathed. Harrys stomach slipped several notches. It was Hermione who was good at this sort of thing, not him. He weighed his chances. If the riddle was too hard, he could keep silent, get away from the sphinx unharmed, and try and find an alternative route to the center. Okay, he said. Can I hear the riddle. The sphinx sat down upon her hind legs, in the very middle of the path, and recited: First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me whats always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and end of the end. And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss. Harry gaped at her. Could I have it again. more slowly. he asked tentatively. She blinked at him, smiled, and repeated the poem. All the clues add up to check this out creature I wouldnt want to kiss. Harry asked. She merely smiled her mysterious smile. Harry took that for a yes. Harry cast his mind around. There were plenty of animals he wouldnt want to kiss; his immediate thought was a Blast-Ended Skrewt, but something told him that wasnt the answer. Hed have to try and work out the clues. A person in disguise, Harry muttered, staring at her, who lies. er. thatd be a - an imposter. No, thats not my guess. A - a spy. Ill come back to that. could you give me the next clue again, please. She repeated the next lines of the poem. The last thing to mend, Harry repeated. Er. no idea. middle of middle. could I have the last bit again. She gave him the last four lines. The sound often heard during the search for a hard-to-find word, said Harry. Er. thatd be. er. hang on - er. Ers a sound. The sphinx smiled at him. Spy. er. spy. er. said Harry, pacing up and down. A creature I wouldnt want to kiss. a spider. The sphinx smiled more broadly. She got up, stretched her front legs, and then moved aside for him to pass. Thanks. said Harry, and, amazed at his own brilliance, he dashed forward. He had to be close now, he had to be. His wand was telling him he was bang on course; as long as he didnt meet anything too horrible, he might have a chance. Harry broke into a run. He had a choice of paths up ahead. Point Me. he whispered again to his wand, and it spun around and pointed him to the righthand one. He dashed up this one and saw light ahead. The Triwizard Cup was gleaming on a plinth a hundred yards away. Suddenly a dark figure hurtled out onto the path in front of him. Cedric was going to get there first. Cedric was sprinting as fast as he could toward the cup, and Harry knew he would never catch up, Cedric was much taller, had much longer legs - Then Harry saw something immense over a hedge to his left, moving quickly along a path that intersected with his own; it was moving so fast Cedric was about to run into it, and Cedric, his eyes on the cup, had not seen it - Cedric. Harry bellowed. On your left. Cedric looked around just in time to hurl himself past the for baldurs gate xvart raids quest h download sorry and avoid colliding with it, but in his haste, he tripped. Harry saw Cedrics wand fly out of his hand as a gigantic spider stepped into the path and began to bear down upon Cedric. Stupefy. Harry yelled; the spell hit the spiders gigantic, hairy black body, but for all the good it did, he might as well have thrown a stone at it; the spider jerked, scuttled around, and ran at Harry instead. Stupefy. Impedimenta. Stupefy. But it was no use - the spider was either so large, or so magical, that the spells were doing no more than aggravating it. Harry had one horrifying glimpse of eight shining black eyes and razor-sharp pincers before it was upon him. He was lifted into the air in its front legs; struggling madly, he tried to kick it; his leg connected with the pincers and next moment he was in excruciating pain. He could hear Cedric yelling Stupefy. too, but his spell had no more effect than Harrys - Harry raised his wand as the spider opened its pincers once more and shouted Expelliarmus. It worked - the Disarming Spell made the spider drop him, but that meant that Harry fell twelve feet onto his already injured leg, which crumpled beneath him. Without pausing to think, he aimed high at the spiders underbelly, as he had done with the skrewt, and shouted Stupefy. just as Cedric yelled the same thing. The two spells combined did what one alone had not: The spider keeled over sideways, flattening a nearby hedge, and strewing the path with a tangle of hairy legs. Harry. he heard Cedric shouting. You all right. Did it fall on you. No, Harry called back, panting. He looked down at his leg. It was bleeding freely. He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spiders pincers on his torn robes. He tried to get up, but his leg Pubg game for windows 10 quiz shaking badly and did not want to support his weight. He source against the hedge, gasping for breath, and looked around. Cedric was standing feet from the Triwizard Cup, which was gleaming behind him. Take it, then, Harry panted to Cedric. Go on, take it. Youre there. But Cedric didnt move. He merely stood there, looking at Harry. Then he turned to stare at the cup. Harry saw the longing expression on his face in its golden light. Cedric looked around at Harry again, who was now holding onto the hedge to support himself. Cedric took a deep breath. You take it. You should win. Thats twice youve saved my neck in here. Thats not how its supposed to work, Harry said. He felt angry; his leg was very painful, he was aching all over from trying to throw off the spider, and after all his efforts, Cedric had beaten him to it, just as hed beaten Harry to ask Cho to the ball. The one who reaches the cup first gets the points. Thats you. Im telling you, Im not going to win any races on this leg. Cedric took a few paces nearer to the Stunned spider, away from the cup, shaking his head. No, he said. Stop being noble, said Harry irritably. Just take it, then we can get out of here. Cedric watched Harry steadying himself, holding tight to the hedge. You told me about the dragons, Cedric said. I wouldve gone down in the first task if you hadnt told me what was coming. I had help on that too, Harry snapped, trying to mop up his bloody leg with his robes. You helped me with the egg - were square. I had help on the egg in the first place, said Cedric. Were still square, said Harry, testing his leg gingerly; it shook violently as he put weight on it; he had sprained his ankle when the spider had dropped him. You shouldve got more points on the second task, said Cedric mulishly. You stayed behind to get all the hostages. I shouldve done that. I was the only one baldurs gate 3 character creator was thick enough to take that song seriously. said Harry bitterly. Just take the cup. No, said Cedric. He stepped over the spiders tangled legs to join Harry, who stared at him. Cedric was serious. He was walking away from the sort of glory Hufflepuff House hadnt had in centuries. Go on, Cedric said. He looked as though this was costing him every ounce of resolution he had, but his face was set, his arms were folded, he seemed decided. Harry looked from Cedric to the cup. For one shining moment, he saw himself emerging from the maze, holding it. 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Cedric looked down at the Triwizard Cup and then up at Harry. Did anyone tell you the Cup was a Portkey. he asked. Nope, said Harry. He was looking around the graveyard. It was completely silent and Pubg game for windows 10 quiz eerie. Is this supposed to be part of the task. I dunno, said Cedric. He sounded slightly nervous. Wands out, dyou reckon. Yeah, said Harry, glad that Cedric had made the suggestion rather than him. They pulled out their wands. Harry kept looking around him. He had, yet again, the strange feeling that they were being watched. Someones coming, he said suddenly. Squinting tensely through the darkness, they watched the figure drawing nearer, walking steadily toward them between the graves. Harry couldnt make out a face, but from the way it was walking and holding its arms, he could tell that it was carrying something. Whoever it was, he was short, and wearing a hooded cloak pulled up over his head to obscure his face. And - several paces nearer, the gap between them closing all the time - Harry saw that the thing in the persons arms looked like a baby. or was it merely a bundle of robes. Harry lowered his wand slightly and glanced sideways at Cedric. Cedric shot him a quizzical look. They both turned back to watch the approaching figure. It stopped beside a towering marble headstone, only six feet from them. For a second, Harry and Cedric and the short figure simply looked at one another. And then, without warning, Harrys scar exploded with pain. It was agony such as he had never felt in visit web page his life; his wand slipped from his fingers as he put his hands over his face; his knees buckled; he was on the ground and he could see nothing at all; his head was about to split open. From far away, above his head, he heard a high, cold voice say, Kill the spare. A swishing noise and a second voice, which screeched the words to the night: Avada Kedavra. 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Harry couldnt make a sound, nor could he see where Wormtail had gone; he couldnt turn his head to see beyond the headstone; he could see only what was right in front of him. Cedrics body was lying some twenty feet away. Some way beyond him, glinting in the starlight, lay the Triwizard Cup. Harrys wand was on the ground at Cedrics feet. The bundle of robes that Harry had thought was a baby was close by, at the foot of the grave. It seemed to be stirring fretfully. Harry watched it, and his scar seared with pain again. and he suddenly knew that he didnt want to see what was in those robes. he didnt want that bundle zombies pubg: battlegrounds. He could hear noises at his feet. He looked down and saw a gigantic snake slithering through the grass, circling the headstone where he was tied. Wormtails fast, wheezy breathing was growing louder again. It sounded as though he was forcing something heavy across the ground. 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