Homecoming from Hogwarts

The broken pieces of glass were like the approaching god of death, and the sound of the glass shattering was like the fierce roar of the god of death swinging his scythe!

Hermione and Fleur, already out of breath, put all their efforts into testing the routes for the four teams of seven people, including themselves.

But as time passed, death finally caught up with them!

Click!

The fourth-to-last pane of glass shattered under the pre-set magic.

"I think I'm screwed, Harry!"

Ron, who was standing at the end of the line, had pale cheeks and said with a sad face.

Harry did not try to comfort the dejected Ron. What was the use of comforting him in this situation? He was the next to Ron after he fell into the abyss, it was just a dozen seconds later.

"Can you speed up a little, Hermione, Fleur?"

Harry leaned over to look at Hermione at the head of the line and said through gritted teeth, his heart filled with shame. He knew that Hermione and Fleur must have tried their best.

"We. Huh."

After Hermione pulled Fleur up with a gasp, she quickly moved forward a step, her teeth clenched tightly, too tired to say anything.

Click!

Ron, who was at the end of the team, had just jumped up one square, one step closer to being eliminated, when the last piece of glass shattered again.

"Twelve seconds!"

Luna, who was in the third position of the team, suddenly spoke up.

"The time between each piece of glass breaking is twelve seconds, and if you choose the wrong glass pane, it will also take twelve seconds to move forward one square."

Luna's words made everyone's hearts, which were already immersed in panic, fall to the bottom.

Although the time is balanced at present, Fleur and Hermione have limited physical strength. Even if the two girls try their best, they can't stop their own physical strength from being drained.

Click!

When the second to last piece of glass shattered and Ron was one step away from being eliminated, he took another step forward and kept a distance of two pieces of glass from being eliminated!

Everyone, including Harry, Luna, Viktor, Cedric and Harry in the middle of the team looked back and forth, sometimes looking with concern at the two girls who were sweating profusely and whose T-shirts had become transparent with sweat, and sometimes staring with a tense expression at the abyss that was approaching behind Ron!

"Harry."

Twenty breathtaking seconds passed, and he was just one step away from being eliminated.

Ron was sweating profusely, and he shouted tremblingly. Ron had already accepted the reality, and he didn't cry to Harry anymore, but just had a resigned expression on his face.
"I suppose it wouldn't hurt much to fall, Harry?"

"Don't lose heart, Ron, we can make it in time!"

Harry's breathing quickened.

"If the board behind you breaks, come to my glass board and stand with me!"

"stand together?"

Ron was stunned. He subconsciously looked at the size of the glass plate under his feet.

“That may not be easy.”

"It doesn't make any difference if it's a step earlier or later, right? I'd rather be eliminated with you!"

Harry said firmly.

I'd rather go out with you
Ron opened his mouth and stared at Harry's determined face, feeling as if a huge rock was blocking his chest.

click-
Twelve seconds passed in a flash, and the last glass panel behind Ron shattered under the livid and almost pleading gaze of Harry. Harry quickly glanced at the front of the queue. Unfortunately, Fleur had chosen the wrong glass panel again. Hermione was gritting her teeth and trying hard to pull Fleur up.

"Come here, Ron!"

Harry quickly turned his head and reached out to Ron, who was still in a daze at the critical moment.

Everyone was counting down silently, counting the twelve seconds.

There was no point in sympathizing with Ron. They could only hold on for two minutes longer than Ron.

"Come on, what are you daydreaming about!"

Harry roared, reaching out to grab Ron's wrist. He was now standing, and if he didn't get Ron onto his board in advance, then when Ron fell, he would be pulled directly into the abyss by the force of the fall.

"Oh, no--"

What surprised Harry was that when his hand reached out to grab Ron's wrist, Ron actually dodged his hand by moving his shoulder.

"This is too dangerous. Two of us are standing on a piece of glass." Ron said slowly. He seemed relieved. His expression was not so tense, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth that annoyed Harry.

"What are you doing, Ron!"

Harry was so anxious that he wanted to put one foot on Ron's board, but Ron blocked Harry's foot with his foot, preventing him from coming over.

“That’s enough”

Ron said.

Click!

The Grim Reaper's scythe finally fell!

Time slowed down, and Harry's astonished and angry eyes followed Ron's falling body. He saw Ron's lips moving slowly with a light smile on his face. It was not until Ron was completely swallowed by the darkness that he heard Ron's voice.

"I can't always hold you back, can I?"

In this extremely long and tormenting moment, Harry had the urge to jump into the abyss with Ron. His body had even been driven most of the way out of the glass plate by his subconscious, but Cedric's hand grabbed the back of his collar again, pulled him back, and dragged him forward to a piece of glass that Fleur and Hermione had just occupied!

"Ron!"

Clang!

Harry clenched his fist and smashed the glass, howling like a wounded animal.

"Calm down, Harry!"

Cedric patted Harry's shoulder heavily and said heavily.

Hermione knew what happened next, but she didn't dare to look back. She bit her lips tightly and tried to hold back the tears in her eyes.

Both Fleur and Hermione knew that now, whether the four teams could survive depended entirely on them.

The two girls used up all their perseverance and determination to rush forward, but the reality was extremely cruel.

Click!

The sound that had become a nightmare rang out again, and the pain of her arm being pulled by gravity attacked Furong's nerves again. Furong had tears in her eyes as she watched a sharp triangular piece of glass rolling in front of her eyes. After two meteors reflected by the broken glass passed by, the glass merged into the darkness.

As if struck by lightning, Furong looked dazed as if she had been struck by lightning.

"What are you staring at? Keep going!"

With Ron already out and Harry about to follow in Ron's footsteps, Hermione finally couldn't keep calm anymore and she screamed.

"Shut up, Hermione!"

Fleur's response was also very forceful. She turned back and glared at Hermione.

“I got some inspiration!”

Inspiration, what inspiration?!

Hermione wanted to ask, but Fleur had already turned her head back, staring blankly at the starry sky that seemed like a dream at first glance, but seemed empty and lonely after a long look.

The deep space above their heads created by magic is light years away from them and out of reach. Can they jump to the stars?

Everyone in the team fixed their eyes on Fleur, including Harry, whose gazes no longer showed much urgency, as if they had resigned themselves to their fate.

Snapped!
This time, it was not the sound of glass shattering, but Furong's unexpected step!
Without Hermione's protection, she actually took a step forward to the left!
Hermione's scream had already reached her throat, but the safe glass finally forced Hermione to swallow her shock and anger. At the same time, some long-awaited yet unbelievable hopes emerged in her heart!

Hermione wasn't the only smart person.

Considering the "inspiration" Furong just mentioned, everyone speculated that Furong might have discovered something!
Snapped!
Without Hermione's protection, Fleur took another step forward. This time, she also chose the glass panel in front of her left.
Success again!
"What the hell is going on, Fleur!"

The joy in her heart was like a volcano erupting. Hermione immediately followed suit. She covered her mouth and cried.

“You found the pattern!”

Ron was out. But at least Harry seemed to have a chance of survival.

Furong didn't say anything, but focused on the starry sky. After two successful choices that saved the team from death, she turned her head and looked at everyone.

"It's a shooting star!"

Fleur had always been aloof and aloof in front of the students at Hogwarts. Harry had never seen Fleur have such a complicated expression in front of others.

It seems like crying, laughing, angry, helpless, and excited.
"A meteor in the starry sky streaks two times and goes to the left, streaks one time and goes to the right!"

Furong screamed with a confused and collapsed expression,
"This is the hint that Amosta left for us!" (End of this chapter)