The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

"Look! Treasure chest!" Hermione's eyes were shining, and an unprecedented, indescribable emotion slipped into her heart. This novel feeling made her hair stand on end with excitement. Maybe this is an adventure? She thought to herself, and gradually understood why the children in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" all like to take risks, even Betsy Thatcher, who came from a privileged background.

Hermione ran to the treasure chest and suddenly remembered something and stopped.

"This is a treasure found based on the clues you found, and it is also a puzzle you solved... So, this is a treasure that belongs exclusively to you." She gritted her teeth and suppressed the curiosity in her heart.

Looking at Hermione who was trying hard to hide the curious look on her face but couldn't hide it at all, Tom felt very amused.

"Okay, then don't look!"

"Oh." Hermione's face fell.

"I lied to you."

"Eh?"

"Stop making trouble, this is the treasure we discovered together, let's open it together." Tom put his hand on the lid of the treasure chest and motioned to Hermione to put her hand up quickly.

Hermione smiled cheerfully and stretched out her hand.

"1, 2, 3!"

Tom opened the treasure chest, and then their smiles froze.

There is actually a combination lock under the lid of the treasure chest! But the only consolation is that there is a scroll next to the lock, so it is not in vain.

Although she felt like she had been tricked, Hermione didn't look disappointed at all. On the contrary, she was quite happy. She was inspired by the puzzles one after another.

"Let's take a look at the contents of the scroll first. Maybe there will be hints in it." Hermione looked at the lock and found that it was a four-digit combination lock. She understood that the next task was to find the password to the treasure chest.

Tom opened the scroll, but he couldn't understand the text inside at all. Although they were all English letters, he couldn't understand them when they were arranged.

"It's Latin!" Hermione exclaimed, covering her mouth.

"Latin?" Tom was confused, and soon he realized another question: "You actually know Latin?"

Hermione smiled sheepishly, "My family thought that I might use Latin in the future...some academic journals, nouns, etc., so my father found a Latin teacher for me when I was a child. .”

"Boss, please!" Tom handed the scroll over. Hermione's cheeks flushed when she heard the compliment. She took the scroll and read it, while translating it softly into English.

There wasn't much content in the scroll, so she read it quickly.

"This is Vulgar Latin, which appeared in the Middle Ages..."

Latin was the official language and standard language of the Roman Empire, similar to the "elegant language" of China's Spring and Autumn Period. Latin is divided into Classical Latin, which prevailed from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, and Vulgar Latin, which only appeared in the Middle Ages. The word Latin is now understood by default to mean "classical Latin," and modern Latin textbooks teach almost exclusively classical Latin. But it is obvious that the teacher hired by Mr. Granger is very responsible and Miss Granger is also very easy to learn. She has dabbled in both languages.

From the words on the scroll, Hermione determined that this scroll was left by someone in the Middle Ages. The content inside is also very simple and straightforward: find a magical creature, paste this scroll on it, and you can obtain certain characteristics of this magical creature.

Hermione rolled up the scroll and handed it back to Tom.

"This is yours." She said seriously.

"Okay." Tom put the scroll away, then thought about it and put it against Hermione's back.

Hermione:?

"I wanted to see if I could gain access to your wisdom..." Tom blinked. Hermione gave him a roll of her eyes: to be able to do such a thing, you may really need to brainstorm.

Tom also seriously considered which magical creature to sign a "sacred contract" with, but he couldn't figure it out. Maybe sign with Fire Dragon? In this way, you will either gain strong magic resistance, fire resistance, and if you are lucky, you may also gain the ability to fly or breathe fire. Unicorns can also be used. They may have strong resistance to black magic after signing the contract, but if they get the ability to judge whether a girl is pure, it would be too stupid...

"Okay, let's think about the password." Hermione brought Tom's thoughts back to reality, "I remember that there were handles in the puddles before, which may have something to do with the password."

Tom thought she had a point. The two walked around the house and found that only four of the five puddles had handles, which verified their speculation from the side.

So they drained the water from the puddles, picked a puddle, took hold of the handle on it, and pulled sharply, and a trap door was lifted up. The space under the trap door is not large, just a small secret compartment one foot square. The bottom of the secret compartment is covered with a layer of fine sand, and a writing brush is placed in the middle.

After the trap door was opened, the brush stood up precariously. Even though no one was holding it, it started writing on the sand.

"Fuqi" is the first thing that Tom thinks of.

Soon a line of words appeared in front of Tom and Hermione: Can't stop going

"What is this?" This time it was Hermione's turn to be dumbfounded.

"Change the pool." Tom did not answer Hermione immediately, but went to the other three pools and opened the trap doors. The layout inside was exactly the same, including a piece of sand and a writing brush that could write by itself.

The remaining three lines of the poem are:

Burning incense under the bead curtain to perform divination

It's hard to speak an innocent word if it's dyed into soap

It was clear that they were a good pair of mandarin ducks, but they were cut off by a knife.

Tom took a few glances and said to Hermione: "The four numbers of the password should be four, one, seven, and eight, in the order of the pool."

Hermione:?

"Why? What are these sentences?" She didn't quite understand.

"These are four lines of poetry, each with a word hidden in them." He wrote the four words "Bi", "Xia", "Zao" and "fen" on a piece of sand, and then wiped away the words "Neng", "Bu", "Bai" and "Dao", leaving only Four numbers were placed.

"These are ancient Chinese, very common character splitting methods. The only difficulty is probably to find someone who understands Chinese. It seems that the senior who left the scroll not only understands Latin, but also understands Chinese."

Hermione dusted herself off and wasn't too surprised: "There is magic in Europe, and there should be corresponding mysterious powers in the Central Plains. The seniors who left behind the agency may have learned Chinese in order to understand the ancient witchcraft of the Central Plains."

Hermione's guess was quite reasonable.

"But why do you know this?" Hermione looked suspicious.

Tom just smiled: "Go and open the treasure chest first!"