Harry walked forward with his wand raised and stopped before the first corner. He remembered Bagman's words: there were magical traps in here.
So he cautiously poked his head around the corner, then immediately pulled it back.
It was pitch-black. He had seen nothing.
This is a bit inconvenient...
With that thought, Harry looked around. Suddenly, he noticed the Tree Wall beside him.
Oh? The Tree Wall isn't actually that tall. I could easily fly up there.
Although this round was all about navigating a maze, Bagman hadn't said before it began that they couldn't fly above the Tree Wall, had he? Judging by his experience in the previous tasks, anything that wasn't forbidden was fair game.
In the previous tasks, he had still needed to worry about other judges scoring him on a whim or deliberately marking him down. But everything would be over after this final task, so why not use every trick he had?
No sooner thought than done. Harry immediately waved his wand, cast a Levitation Charm on himself, and quickly floated upward.
He wasn't the only one.
By now, thirteen of the fourteen Champions had entered the maze. The eleventh Champion, Jean Gardner, had immediately transformed into a peregrine falcon upon entering and shot straight upward.
Almost simultaneously, Ryan Moning Meng and Yi Qianqian had also independently chosen to fly upward.
Just then, the fourteenth Champion, Carlos Blanco, entered the maze as well.
The instant he entered, the small door in the Tree Wall silently vanished, while a huge Viewing Screen appeared on the Tree Wall facing the audience and began showing the Champions inside.
As it happened, four Champions were trying to fly upward by different means at that very moment.
"Haha, after several tasks, our Champions seem to have become much more inventive."