Harley was originally looking forward to the Delacour sisters coming to stay overnight, but she soon regretted her decision.
Gabri, a little girl who just turned eight, is really full of energy and can make a lot of noise.
She was always asking questions, and even if water ran into her mouth while taking a shower, it didn't stop her from continuing to talk afterwards.
It wasn't until almost twelve o'clock in the evening that Harry managed to fall asleep.
When Harley had breakfast the next day, she was still yawning and looked very tired.
Fleur was also very sorry for this and quickly dragged Gabrielle away.
Although the little girl tried hard to stay one more night, she was ruthlessly suppressed.
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Over the next week, Harley and her professors devised a plan for the second round.
When entering the magic garden to collect materials, the most important thing is to ensure that the materials collected are enough to brew a magic potion.
There are no magical animals in the magic garden, only some ordinary mosquitoes or small animals at most, so this greatly reduces the scope of the magic potion.
Based on these two points, Harry quickly selected several potions.
The backup potions are shrinking potion and sobering potion. The main materials required for these two potions, shriveled fig and sobering grass, are not particularly rare.
Professor Slughorn also told Harry that these two plants can be found on the periphery of a certain area of the Magic Garden.
And their auxiliary materials are even more common. Some are not even magic plants, but common wild flowers on the roadside, such as daisies that are used in shrinking potions.
However, the shrinking potion is a little more troublesome and requires mouse spleen and locust juice.
These two common creatures definitely exist in the magic garden, but they are more troublesome to catch. Removing spleens or extracting juice is even more delicate work.
Moreover, if Harley chooses these two potions, the score will not be particularly high.
After all, these two potions are not very difficult, and Hogwarts will choose to teach students to brew them in the fourth or fifth grade.
The first target potion that Harry prepared was the Illusion Potion, a high-level potion that many potion masters could not brew.
The main ingredients of this potion are the fresh leaves of Phantom Flower and Shadow Tree, both of which are precious and endangered plants.
Although these two plants also exist in the magic garden, they are located very deep.
It takes a long time and a lot of effort to find them.
But Harley developed a new method and used the more common phantom grass instead.
Harley is very confident that when she brews a new version of the phantom potion, she will definitely get a very high score.
The biggest problem now is how to deal with phantom grass in a short time.
After all, Harley's original method of processing took a lot of time.
Although she had a prototype of a plan to deal with the phantom grass in a short time some time ago, it has not been able to form a systematic method.
It took Harry three full days to finally decide on a plan that would be 100% successful.
Apart from spending time at Professor Slughorn's house and concentrating on studying potions, Harry didn't do anything else.
This disappointed people from other magic schools or some potions masters. After all, they wanted to visit Harry for various purposes.
Ten days is not a short time, but it is not a long time.
After the first round of competition, it was the morning of the eleventh day.
All the players gathered in the square again and sat in their assigned positions.
The contestants all wore brand-new school uniforms issued by the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists in order to prevent someone from secretly carrying some hard-to-find materials.
Someone once did this, but he was very unlucky to meet a natural Legilimency master.
After that, there was an additional rule in the competition: the clothes must be worn uniformly issued by the Pharmacists Association.
At the same time, because many magical plants are extremely fragile, surveillance magic cannot be used on a large scale to watch the players' search for materials.
Therefore, the referees could only choose to apply positioning magic on the school uniforms to ensure that if any students were in danger, timely rescue could be provided.
However, accessories did not seem to be within their detection range, so when Harley appeared wearing white silk gloves, no one paid attention to this.
"The second round is about to begin." President Hector said from the referee's seat, "I will repeat the rules one last time.
You will have ten hours to enter the magic garden to search for materials and use them to brew a potion.
The International Federation of Wizards has arranged patrols in the magic garden to ensure that your lives are not in danger.
If you encounter irresistible danger, you can shoot red sparks into the sky.
However, this also means that the player's journey to find materials has officially ended, and he can only use the collected potion materials to brew them.
In addition, I would like to give you a final warning not to attack each other.
Although we cannot use magic to monitor, if a player claims to have been attacked, we will use a flashback spell to check your wand.
Now I announce that the game begins! "
The tip of President Hector's wand shot a golden firework into the sky, and the contestants quickly left their seats and headed towards the entrance of the magic garden at the end of the square.
Harry and Fleur entered the entrance together, and then parted ways.
On the one hand, they belong to different schools, and on the other hand, Harry and Fleur are both proud witches.
Harley has always been very confident in her own strength and doesn't think she needs companions for such a simple task.
Fleur also refused to join forces with Harley.
She looked down upon all the Beauxbatons students, which was why she had such a close connection with Harley. She even hoped that her only serious rival and friend could come to Beauxbatons to attend school.
So Fleur's pride made her walk into the magic garden alone.
After entering the forest, Harley jumped up and landed lightly on the tree. The school uniform on her body was transformed into a lightweight sportswear by the transfiguration technique.
Like a shadow, Harley quickly shuttled between the branches, looking for the materials she needed.
There are tall trees everywhere outside the magic garden, and Harry seems to have returned to the Forbidden Forest.
Obviously, most of the materials here are ordinary and do not meet Harley's needs at all.
Harry's destination is the swamp area and ice and snow area in the magic garden. The swamp area is far away from the entrance gate of the magic garden, and the ice and snow area is to the east of the swamp area.
The phantom grass needed by Harley likes to grow in swamp areas the most. The various plants needed to deal with phantom grass grow in ice, snow and swamp areas respectively.
If Harley wasn't confident enough in her speed, she wouldn't have chosen this potion at all.
The environment in the swamp area is very harsh. There aren't many trees here and the roads are pretty bad.
Although the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists has discovered dozens of safe routes and marked them.
However, based on common sense, the high-quality phantom grass that has matured in these places must have been picked long ago.
So there is a high probability that we will go deep into the swamp.
Just as she had guessed, after arriving at the edge of the swamp, Harley silently looked at the safe route marked by the Association of Extraordinary Pharmacists.
There are indeed some phantom grasses on both sides of the road, but the quality is not high, or there are congenital defects, or they are not yet mature.
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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu for the reward!)
(End of chapter)
