Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall, Explain Yourselves! Ted suddenly understood as well. That was right—these animal statues and the magical symbols on the ground really did resemble the magical puzzles on several of the hidden doors they had cracked before. At the very least, they were the same kind of thing! "So, we put the statues outside those magic arrays into the blank spaces in the arrays?" Ron asked.
Hermione stared at the magic array and slowly shook her head. "Hiss... no, the symbols in the array seem to be wrong?"
She looked at Ted. After all, Ted had gone through nine years of compulsory education and had barely received higher education. Though he had returned it all to his teachers by now, he was still better off than these kids who had never taken any proper math classes.
Besides, his Intelligence stat was very high now, and he was quick at mental calculations.
During several of their previous hidden-door puzzles, he had been the one responsible for the calculations.
Ted cast "Arcane Brilliance" on himself, then used Ravenclaw's Wisdom (Blue) to raise his Intelligence before beginning to "calculate on his fingers."
More than ten seconds later, he said, "That's right. There are several errors in the symbols of this magic array too! They must be deliberately planted misdirection traps!"
If they simply calculated the numbers represented by those statues and filled them into the blank spaces in the array, they would fall for it.
As for what would happen after they fell for it...
Ted glanced at the Stone Swordsmen and Stone Wizards standing in a row not far away. Those things could not possibly be there just to set the mood, right? But who had set up this trial in the first place?
And besides, how had Quirrell