The first task now! OoooOO!

I've noticed that this is very like the third task in GOF but oh well...

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The first obstacle Robbie had to face was a boggart. He had learned about these in third year, so when a zombie began slowly walking towards him he quickly quashed his fear and shouted "Riddikulous!" First challenge out of the way. For a couple of minutes he walked up the hill without any interuptions, so he began to run but as soon as he did, a Erkling came out of nowhere and bit his leg.

"AHH!" He clutched his leg in agony, as he heard cries out from the audience for the first time. Only the embarrasment of dropping out after five minutes kept Robbie going. "Stupefy!" The red shot missed , he tried again, and again until finally the spell connected with the under belly.

As it lay on the ground, Robbie hurried around it. But he could barely walk up the hill with the deep gash in his leg. He thought back onto his classes in Care of Magical Creatures, and remembered his father saying, "Now their bites are'n' poisonous but they're mighty sore so stay away from its mouth." He breathed in relief. Yes, their bites weren't poisonous. "Scougify." He cleaned up the blood and continued limping up the grassy hill.

He got to middle of the hill where it suddenly grew very foggy and he could barely see a thing. "Lumos," he muttered. A light came on at the end of his wand but then he saw another light up ahead, Robbie was hurrying towrds it, but then stopped, it might be a Hinkypunk. So instead he walked as far from the light as possible, while still going forward. Soon the fog ended, and he was out in the open again.

"GRRRRRR!"

Robbie's blood went cold. He knew that sound. And that roar was not his friend. The grassy slope beneath his feet began to tremble, and another roar rumbled from the mountain troll's large, pale-green neck. The audience gasped but Robbie heard none of this, he was staring up at the trolls large, bald head. The troll was still. He was stil. The audince was still.

"RRRAAGHHH!" The troll charged, swinging his club dangerously.

Robbie panicked and shouted out the first thing that came to his head, "EXPELLIARMUS!"

As he watched the club fling out the troll's hand, he was relieved that his random spell had worked. His relief was shortlived as the club came spinning in his direction. "Impedimenta!" He shouted. The club slowed down, and Robbie could catch it with ease. He had heard of how Ron had dropped a troll's own club on his head to concuss it and decided to follow in his godfather's footsteps.

"Wingardium Leviosa." Robbie lazily zoomed the club at the troll's charging head. He had mastered the spell in first year after all. He watched in satisfaction as the club connected with its master's skull with a hollow thunk, causing the troll swing his arms about wildly as he went crashing to the floor. And with another flick of his wand and an incantation, the troll was bounded up in ropes, lying on the floor with a rather unpleasant red lump sticking out from its head.

Robbie hurried past the troll, he didn't want to linger around its revolting smell.

As he walked up a quiet part of the hill, he felt so thankful that he had always been intertested in magical beasts, as he probably couldn't have lived through this task without the knowledge of them.

He stumbled on a bit of rock and he winced, his leg was still extremely painful and now that he had no obstacles to distract him, he really felt it.

He took a deep breath and looked up. A wild grin spread across his face. There – right in front of him were three tall wooden posts.

He whooped. He had made it, the first task was over!

He rushed up, the pain in his leg completely forgotten. He was ten metres away, five metres, one metre when -

"Halt."

A clear voice stopped him dead, as a sphinx stepped in his path. With an olive-toned face attached on a lion's body, it was a magnificant creature and through Robbie's irritation, he had to admire it.

"I will give you a riddle, no knowledge of the answer i will let you retreat peacefully. Get it right and i'll let you past, but get it wrong and i shall attack." Robbie stared at her, he knew about sphinxes, and awaited the riddle.

The silence stretched and Robbie had to awkwardly clear his throat. "So, ehr...can i hear it then?"

And as though the half-lion, half-human creature had just been waiting for the right time began the riddle, unembarrased.

"Judge no book by its cover, it is said amongst the wise
My unappealing outside my true usefulness belies
The swiftest means to reach thy goal lies well-concealed in me
Extend thy hand then, pilgrim, and embrace thy destiny."

Robbie panicked, what in Merlin's pants was that?

"Err..would you mind repeating that, like slower?" He watched her anxiously, afraid she was going to be insulted and attack, but her expression did not falter, and she readily repeated the riddle.

Robbie slumped on the ground, he had once told Leanne that sitting helped him to think.

Judge no book...my unappealing outside my true usefulness belies...

Well, he figured, that means that there's an object or an animal that's useful but ugly...he considered mimbulus mimbletonia but then he remembered the third line, the swiftest means to reach thy goal lies well-concealed in me... which obviously means the thing brings you somewhere.

Thoughts were swirling around in his head. A Hippogriff? Thestral? Winged horse? Broomstick? Portkey? Magic Carpet? A Fwooper?

But then he panicked, what if it didn't mean physically bringing you somewhere but it meant that you could reach your dreams? Like a prophecy?

"Sorry what's the last line?" Robbie asked, hoping that would narrow things down a bit.

"Extend thy hand then, pilgrim, and embrace thy destiny."

Robbie scratched his head, that crossed out all the creatures and left a portkey, a broomstick and a prophecy, as all these things you only use your hand to pick up.

Between those three, he narrowed it down. The outside is said to be unappealing...

And then it clicked. He punched the air. "I got it!"

"Yes?"

"It's a portkey!"

There was a silence and Robbie's confidence in his answer began to fade away. He watched her face anxiously, wondering what his fate will be.

After a lifetime she smiled. "You may pass."

"YES!" He punched the air and hurried to the wooden posts. He looked at the top in excitement. He could make out a package up there.

"Accio package!" He said confidently. The package didn't move. He repeated the spell. Still no movement. He sighed, this would need a bit more thinking. "Flipendo!" He used the spell that knocks objects backwards and was relieved to see the package falling from the top of the post.

He grinned and caught the package deflty like it was a quaffle.

The audience went mad and it felt good. Yes, it felt very good.

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