The fourth round of the Top 100 Tournament was especially fascinating. It brought together a select group of the finest young wizards in the Wizarding World, each using their own techniques and often leaving the audience in awe.
In fact, many wizards were at their most creative, grew the fastest, and even reached the peak of their abilities during their school years.
Under eighteen.
At that age, Tom Riddle invented Flight Magic and made his first Horcrux.
At that age, Severus Snape corrected and refined the magical monographs of the greatest Potions masters, improved high-level potion recipes such as Draught of Living Death and Cheering Potion, and invented spells including Sectumsempra, Healing Charm, Toenail-Growing Charm, Levicorpus, Liberacorpus, Muffliato, and Silencing Charm.
At that age, Hagrid had already started raising Acromantulas with a 5X Danger Rating, while the four Marauders had invented the Marauder's Map...
The 98 competitors were divided into 49 pairs.
People could even watch a pair of young wizards transform into Antlered Great White Bears and engage in a brutal brawl. Their enormous, razor-sharp claws tore through the dueling platform with ease, sending blood and flesh flying.
The battle was vicious, yet thrilling to watch.
In the end, one Champion suddenly changed one hand back into a human arm, seized an opening, and won the match by casting the Full Body-Bind Curse with his Wand.
There were also Potions matches. One young wizard casually grabbed herbs and leeches from a shelf, tossed them into a cauldron, mashed them together, and gulped the mixture down. In less than three minutes, he had neutralized the 'Delayed Coma Potion' he had just swallowed.
His technique looked incredibly crude, but it took a deep understanding of Potion Ingredients to pull off.
Unfortunately, Anton had to leave the Top 100 Tournament for the