Harry had just been about to let out a long breath when he spotted a conspicuous speck of yellow light appearing from the direction the Sila Fish had departed.
The speck moved incredibly fast, like a meteor streaking across the night sky. He had only just caught sight of it, with its trail still lingering in his vision, when it was already before him.
He hurriedly raised a hand to cast a spell in defense, but the light abruptly changed direction and flew toward his wrist.
Harry instinctively lifted his wrist and discovered that, at some point, a bracelet had been slipped onto it.
He looked around and realized that the glass bottle containing his wand was gone. It had presumably transformed into this bracelet.
The bracelet consisted of two parts. One was a miniature hourglass.
The other was a transparent curved tube. The speck of light that had just flown toward him now rested inside it.
Harry murmured the lyrics from the Golden Egg, "You have one hour to complete the 'great work'..."
"The hourglass is for timing... Completing the 'great work' means gathering light points to fill the bracelet..."
"Where did this light point come from?" He frowned slightly and looked in the direction from which it had appeared, realizing it was where the Sila Fish had gone.
"You get light points for dealing with these magical creatures?" He gripped his wand tightly. "This test is great. No riddles to solve!"
Compared to those complicated puzzles, he would much rather face magical creatures—even if they were all as enormous as the pumpkins Hagrid grew, swollen to several times their normal size.
Harry's muttering underwater was also displayed on the "Manifestation Projection Screen."
"Exactly like James back then!" Sirius Black laughed until tears gathered at the corners of his