As the exams went on...
The houses suddenly discovered a secret-the Ravenclaw paper was Hufflepuff's paper from the previous month's exam; the Slytherin paper was Gryffindor's previous paper.
This delighted the students who had yet to sit their exams.
Most Ravenclaw students disdained seeking ready-made answers. They had great confidence in themselves.
A few who wanted high marks had considered it, but they felt asking Hufflepuff for answers would be too embarrassing and eventually gave up.
The Hufflepuffs felt doing so would let Professor Holmes down, and they saw no glory in winning first place through cheating. Most importantly, even if they obtained the answers, they would still have to memorize them. It simply wasn't worth it.
Gryffindor and Slytherin managed to get along for once.
The class representatives from both houses who had yet to take the exam privately reached an agreement to exchange answers for the Defense Against Dark Magic exam.
Each side gave the other the answers to their paper from the previous month.
Then the clever ones spotted the problem as soon as they received their exam papers.
They silently cursed the other side for being devious.
But every house had a few muddleheaded students...
After the exam, they clutched their textbooks in utter despair.
No one dared make trouble with the other house over the wrong answers.
Although both sides had deliberately tried to sabotage the other, strictly speaking, it still amounted to cheating and helping others cheat.
If Professor Holmes found out, they would all be in serious trouble.
But they hadn't stopped to think: since Douglas had dared to do this,
he had already counted on the problems between their houses.
Why hadn't he swapped Hufflepuff's and Gryffindor's papers? Because those two houses got along too well, and with a little more daring,