A/N: I'm finally posting the 3rd chapter!!!

Disclaimer: All characters, settings, etc. belong to J.K. Rowling.


...maybe I could ask Lavender, he thought. So he got up his strength and went down to the common room. He went over to
where Lavender and Parvati were sitting.

"Can I talk to you for a minute, Lavender?" he said.

"Umm...sure," she replied

When Parvati didn't leave, Ron added, "Alone." So Parvati went over to talk to Hermione and she gave Ron a
questioning look. "Uh, Lavender, I just wanted to ask you if you... if you'd like to..." He was having trouble saying it. "go out with
me," he finally burst out. She looked at him for a minute.

"Yes," she said.

* * *

The next day, all of the students in the competition gathered. The new riddle was 'Two hunters leave their camp
to go bear hunting. They walk 10 km south, then 10 km east. They kill a bear. Then they walk 10 km north
and get back at their camp, exactly where they left. What color is the bear?'

Everyone had trouble with this riddle, but amazingly, more people got this one right than the last one. Hermione,
Lavender, Ginny, Harry, Blaise Zabini, a Durmstrang student, and two Beuxbatons students got it right.

* * *

Later that day, the students went to Hogsmeade. All the winning students got a coupon for a free Butterbeer.
(Hermione got two because she won the day before, too.) Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Lavender all sat together at a
table in the corner. They got giddy off the butterbeers and finally went back to Hogwarts at around 9:00.

* * *

The next day, there was no riddles, but there was a chart posted on the wall of the scores. Hermione
had two points, but everyone else had one or zero. There was going to be a big feast in order of the quarter mark of
the game. But before the celebration could start, Hagrid burst into the Great Hall. "Professor Dumbledore, you
better come quick, this is really bad!"

A/N: I know, I know, horrible chapter. I'm sorry. Please review anyway. Thx. (P.S. The answer to the riddle is
white, because the only way you can get back to where you started by following those directions is being at
the North Pole.)