In the third grade classroom, there was a wooden box inlaid with jewels on the desk.
"Why does it look familiar?" Ginny whispered. Next to her sat a little witch with fluffy hair, who looked like she hadn't woken up yet.
Felix knocked on the lid of the box with his wand, and the wooden box creaked open, revealing a crudely made wooden goblet inside. When it was revealed, the little wizards all opened their eyes wide, and the quills in the hands of two students fell.
"Goblet of Fire!?"
There was a uniform inhalation. A student shouted in surprise, looking at the blue flame burning quietly on the goblet in disbelief.
Felix smiled, "Of course... not," he panted.
"The Goblet of Fire has gone out. This is a replica. I picked up a piece of wood while walking on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. At that time, I was worried about how to arouse your interest..." He smiled and said, "So I thought, take the opportunity of the competition to create a souvenir."
All the students sat upright and stared at him intently.
"This is the prize for today's test. I'd like to make it clear that the flames on it are not dangerous."
"Professor Hep, is this the Gublerite Fire?"
"No, it's a kind of fire that burns forever, so it's also called the Eternal Fire," Felix explained. "Although I can also perform it, it's still quite time-consuming to do..."
The students looked at the professor's expression of being bothered, and they were inevitably disappointed.
"Although it's not the Gublerite Fire, it has its own advantages," Felix added.
He put his finger into the flame of the goblet, took out a small blue flame, and watched it burn quietly in his hand. It took a long time before it gradually disappeared.
When he looked up again, he ran into a pair of eyes that were twinkling with stars.
He smiled slightly. It seemed that the one-time props that took five minutes to make were quite effective. The only problem was what name to use next time. "Well, let's start today's test. Take out the 'Answer Parchment'. I have updated the latest assessment information on it..."
The little wizards below took action one after another, spreading out the answer parchment, tapping their wands, and silently reciting spells. Soon, they found a new symbol in the area of ancient magic runes, which was exactly the Goblet of Fire outlined with simple lines.
Ginny quickly clicked it. She wanted the Goblet of Fire model very much. At this moment, her hands were shaking with excitement. She poked the wand twice, with such great force that people doubted whether she would pierce the thin parchment.
But no student had done this yet, because the professors personally cast a firming spell on it.
The Goblet of Fire symbol on the answer parchment was slowly lit up, and a jumping blue flame burned from the mouth of the cup, and then a gift box with a bow was spit out from it. The gift box kept getting bigger. In her surprised eyes, a blue light gathered from the top of the parchment, and then the parchment rolled up a rotating vortex, and the gift box appeared in reality from the vortex.
She recognized that it was the effect of magic, because the surface of the gift box did not look real, and it was flashing with blue ripples.
She quickly glanced around, and everyone, including the confused Luna, was staring at the gift box being lifted up by the vortex in a daze, although she was not sure whether her good friend had broken away from her usual state.
Ginny gently touched Luna with her shoulder, "Let's see who is faster!"
"Okay," Luna said, looking at her blankly, then lowered her head, revealing a small braid in her fluffy hair.
The gift box opened silently, and inside was a bronze book, which was locked. She tried to use the unlocking spell, but it didn't work at all. "I'm so stupid." She patted her forehead, and used her wand to outline a few magic runes on the blank space on the cover of the bronze book, and the lock disappeared silently. She
opened the first page and saw a question, "What is your motto?"
She quickly wrote on it: "Take the initiative like a lion." It was not until she finished writing that she realized something was wrong. She stared at the light blue-green page for two seconds, and there was no change on it. She realized something and quickly translated this sentence into ancient magic runes.
Fortunately, she had asked Luna this question.
So the bronze book turned to the next page. She took this opportunity to secretly glance at Luna. Her answer was completely different from hers, but she also passed the test smoothly. This made Ginny realize that there was no unique answer.
She restrained other emotions and looked at the second page attentively. There was a string of scattered magic characters on it, and at the top was a sentence: "I was disrupted." She quickly recalled the magic runes on it. There was one that she didn't recognize, but she already knew the answer. It was a sentence from the text "Nar and the Clay Doll".
When she fiddled with a magic rune hidden deep in the pattern of the page, she breathed a sigh of relief. She saw from the corner of her eye that Luna had turned to the third page, and she couldn't help but feel anxious.
Time passed by little by little. Felix sat leisurely on the chair beside the podium, sorting his magic book. Occasionally he stood up and walked around the classroom to see the students' progress.
At present, Luna was the fastest, followed by Ginny and Colin Creevey. Even he had heard of the name of the "Harry Potter Fans Club" of the latter and his brother. It absorbed many young wizards in the first and second grades. After the first competition project was over, the members had already tended to spread to the senior grades.
The performance of the three was slightly different.
Luna shook her head gently and answered the questions slowly. Sometimes she had to adjust the order of the sentences to make them as neat as possible. Ginny and Colin were sweating profusely. The youngest Weasley girl's fiery red hair stuck to her forehead.
"There are still ten minutes left. If you exceed the time limit, it will be counted separately." Felix reminded.
Ginny was sweating anxiously. There were only a few pages left in the bronze book in front of her, but the questions were getting harder and harder. She shook her hair in annoyance, which looked like a bunch of bright, jumping red flames, complementing the Goblet of Fire on the podium.
It's too late...
Ginny thought, Luna seemed to be silent for a long time, has she finished answering? Why didn't she hear the report? She forced herself to forget all this and eliminate distractions. After five minutes, she finally finished the answer.
In an instant, the bronze book "rustled" to the first page and finally closed. A blue vortex appeared on the 'answer parchment' again, and a large number of colorful fireworks poured out from it.
The sudden noise made the young wizards look up blankly and look at Ginny's position.
"Oh, it looks like the first person to finish has appeared," Felix stood in front of her unknowingly, holding a rough wooden replica of the Goblet of Fire with dazzling blue flames dancing on it, "Here, it's yours, Miss Weasley."
After class, the others surrounded Ginny enviously, asking for her permission to touch the blue flame.
"It's so beautiful... I was just a little bit short." Colin Creevey said in annoyance, "I've finished the last question, what about you, Luna? You've always been good at this, I thought you would win!"
"I also stopped at the last question." Luna said in a singing voice.
"Really? That question is really difficult. Maybe give me another five minutes..." Colin said regretfully, "You're so lucky, Ginny... Ginny?" Ginny
was looking at Luna with a scrutinizing look. She bit her lip and whispered, "Luna, did you 'stop' on the last question?"
"Oh, uh, yes," Luna shook her hair, "It's quite difficult, isn't it? I thought about it for a long time... It's really beautiful." She stared at the Goblet of Fire with her slightly bulging eyes.
"Do you want it? I can give it to you." Ginny said.
"Oh, what?" Luna said a little flustered, "I don't need it... because, because"
"Because she already has something more precious." Felix said gently on the side, "Is that what you mean, Miss Lovegood?" "
Of course." Luna nodded hurriedly.