Fred and George hurried off, planning to go to the library to borrow Practical Home Magic.
Watching their backs, Vizet began to understand why the Selection Examination had been set up here...
Because it was close to the library, making it convenient for students to go back and forth to look up information.
"Vizet..." Ron looked at Vizet as he came back. "Did Fred and George pull you aside to talk to you about something?"
Vizet answered, "They wanted to know which book in the library would be better suited for dealing with this Selection Examination."
"Using a longsword against Devil's Snare..." Harry frowned. "Does Hogwarts's library... really have books like that?"
"There actually are..." Vizet reminded them. "You seem to have forgotten what Headmaster Godric Gryffindor looked like?"
Hermione caught on and said in a rapid-fire stream, "It's said that Godric Gryffindor owned a sword, a weapon he commissioned the goblins to forge..."
"The goblins always wanted to take the sword back, but because of Godric Gryffindor's great power, they could only spread rumors among their people that 'Godric Gryffindor stole the sword.'"
"Even during several later Goblin Rebellions, the goblins made similar demands—return the 'Sword of Gryffindor' and apologize, and the goblins would be willing to stop their next rebel actions."
"That was Godric Gryffindor's property..." Harry said, utterly shocked. "Not only return it, but apologize to the goblins too?"
"Why else do you think... wizards all hate goblins?" Ron shrugged. "But there's nothing to be done... they're just good at all sorts of calculations, which makes them very suited to Gringotts."
"Vizet, that book about using a longsword against Devil's Snare... what's it called?" Neville returned to the original topic. "I want to take a look..."
Michael asked curiously, "Neville, why would you want to fight like