It seemed Professor Dumbledore knew that if it were merely a test of reactions and coordination, a huge number of young wizards would clear it on the first day.
That way, the trial would never stay popular for two weeks.
So the professor had designed quite a few routes for the kites.
Many of those routes led to dead ends...
Cypher's luck had not been very good. After obtaining the first reward, he entered a dead end.
Then came Cassandra, followed by Luna and Iris.
In the end, they stopped at the location of the second reward.
That was because Cassandra and Cypher could handle sudden situations on unfamiliar paths, while Iris and Luna were much worse in that regard.
They were not decisive enough when it came to movement, but fortunately, they could steadily follow the paths Cypher and Cassandra had opened up.
After dinner, the four of them gathered in the study around one side of a long wooden table.
Spread across it was a map of the routes they had taken and seen that day.
"How much does the professor like the number seven?!"
In the first trial, each of them had collected seven strips of cloth.
For the second trial, they had already found the locations of two sets of cloth strips.
However, there were seven forks in the road between the starting point and each of the next two locations.
According to their tests, some forks required two strips of cloth, while others required seven.
There were even paths that required at least eight strips.
Don't ask how Cypher knew.
The conclusion about seven strips came from him stepping on a kite that burst out of the Quicksand River at the very limit of the distance.
As for paths requiring more than eight, it was