Charles Graves took the wand Harry handed him, barely able to contain his curiosity. "You can see through this fog?"
"I can't..." Harry shook his head, somewhat puzzled as to why Charles Graves would ask such a question.
"You can't?" Charles Graves looked confused and asked bluntly, "Then how did you discover my Weather-Changing Charm?"
"Because the puddles on the ground disappeared..." Harry explained. "When I was turning things into glue, I noticed all the water on the ground had vanished..."
"I remembered Wizet doing something like that before, using water vapor to provide the conditions for a Weather-Changing Charm... Don't you know that spell too?"
"So I figured you might have used a similar method, and decided to give it a try. If I used fire to destroy the water vapor, wouldn't that disperse the clouds?"
"I didn't expect my guess to be right. You really had used a Weather-Changing Charm..." He shrugged. "And then you got stuck in my glue."
"Your defensive method was spreading glue on the ground..." Charles Graves did not know whether to laugh or cry. "You actually broke my Smokescreen Charm that way... That was truly bold!"
"I was only copying what I'd seen!" Harry smiled, recalling how he had once been covered head to toe in glue during a duel with Wizet. "Actually, this was all..."
"Cedric, you should get up there..." Draco called loudly, interrupting Harry before he could finish. "Weren't you going to challenge Uagadou's Champion?"
Charles Graves sighed and said with deep feeling, "I concede wholeheartedly..."
He truly meant it. Harry possessed remarkably sharp combat instincts—something he had never expected.
Before this, all his attention had been focused on Wizet. He had believed Wizet alone was his opponent, overlooking the other Hogwarts Champions.
Yet reality was that he had lost