"I suddenly think this design might not be so bad," Hermione said after casually tossing a slip of paper, on which she had just written her name and Hogwarts School, into the Goblet of Fire.
On Monday morning, the Goblet of Fire happened to appear in the Library.
For the entire two and a half days before that, the Goblet of Fire had never appeared in the Library even once.
Many students, regardless of which school they attended, had thought the Goblet of Fire ought to come there at least once and had therefore made several circuits of the Library-much to Madam Pince's displeasure for a time.
But before this, the Goblet of Fire really had never come there once.
And Hermione, who had been reading and studying in the Library all along, had never seen the Goblet of Fire either. Of course, she had no intention of looking for it.
But when the Goblet of Fire suddenly appeared right in front of her, less than five meters away, Hermione thought for a moment, then wrote her name on a piece of parchment at hand and tossed it into the Goblet of Fire anyway.
"I think Dumbledore must have deliberately arranged this to give everyone some sense of participation, don't you?" Hermione told Harry and Ron at lunch. "Compared with previous tournaments, where most people could only watch, this clearly makes everyone feel much more involved!"
Harry and Ron simply pretended to believe her.
To give every student who wanted to put their name into the Goblet of Fire a chance to do so, Hogwarts even took the unusual step of canceling a day's classes. The search for the Goblet of Fire continued on Monday.
Even so, by the afternoon before Halloween, a very small number of Hogwarts students still