How Can You Take Risks Without Danger?
After carefully observing the challenges the professors had set, Bell had only one thing to say, "Couldn't you have put in a little more effort?"
Look at these levels; apart from the Troll Quirrell introduced, all the other levels are completely safe. And Quirrell even managed to take care of the Troll himself.
Adventure, adventure! If there's no danger, what's the point of taking any risks? Could it be that Dumbledore's plan was actually to humiliate Voldemort with this kind of brain-dead challenge, intending to infuriate him to death?
Okay, let's take a breath and go through all the challenges that Harry and his friends went through from the beginning.
The first challenge: Hagrid's Fluffy.
According to Bell's observation, as long as they don't force their way through Fluffy's guards, Fluffy won't attack wizards. Otherwise, when Hermione, Harry, and the others accidentally entered Fluffy's room at the beginning of the school year, they would have been dead long ago.
Furthermore, the Invisibility Cloak Fluffy. If it were to attack proactively, Harry, Neville, and their companions would be bitten to death the moment they entered the room. It's a perfect situation: one head eats one person, fair and square... well, eating Neville's head would be a slight advantage, but we're all on the same side, and we'll all end up in the same stomach anyway, so let's not fuss over such trivial matters.
Snape was bitten by Fluffy because he tried to enter the trapdoor. Of course, it's also possible that Hagrid secretly instructed him to do so?
"Come here, baby, smell this scent. Once you meet the owner of this scent, don't worry about anything else, just bite them hard!"
Of course, that's not important; such an arrangement is understandable for safety reasons. However, what Bell wants to complain about is that not all sounds can be called music; there's also the word "noise"!
Hagrid's handmade, broken flute, combined with the three kids' haphazard playing, would probably get him starved by his grandmother if Neville dared to do that at home.
However, this very noise that made Bell want to cover his ears actually made Fluffy fall asleep instantly!? So, is it true that you can make Fluffy fall asleep just by yelling at the top of your lungs?
The poor puppy had been so badly abused by Hagrid that it couldn't survive on its own. Bell was considering doing a good deed by rescuing the poor dog and taking it home, hoping to find a way to train it to live independently.
If things don't work out in the end, at least Bell can give it a decent funeral. I've always heard dog meat is delicious, but Bell has never eaten it before.
"Slurp~"
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Don't get me wrong, Bell isn't lusting after Fluffy's body, he's not despicable at all! It's just that if Fluffy can't get rid of his habit of fainting when yelled at, even if Bell releases him back into the wild, he probably won't live more than a few days before being devoured by other animals.
This is so cruel! The kind-hearted Bell felt heartbroken just imagining it.
So, to prevent Fluffy from experiencing that kind of pain, it was Bell who had to personally grant Fluffy eternal peace. He swore he wouldn't feel any pain!
According to the primal laws of nature, living things return to nature after death. Compared to corpses, excrement is more easily recycled by Mother Nature. Therefore, everything Bell did was truly just to make the world a better place. Really!
The second challenge is Professor Sprout's Devil's Snare.
... Sorry, everyone, Bell really doesn't want to call those Devil's Snare an obstacle. They were just a cushioning layer that Dumbledore specially set up to prevent Harry and the others from getting hurt!
It has to be said that Dumbledore knows Harry quite well, or is that how Gryffindor are? This silly kid really didn't take any precautions and just jumped down like an idiot.
If the Devil's Snare hadn't caught him, he probably wouldn't have died from the fall, but breaking a leg would have been a certainty. In that case, the three little ones would have had to crawl to Quirrell's feet.
As for the problem of the Devil's Snare entangled in any living creature that got close to it? That's not a problem for the wizard at all.
The Devil's Snare may pose a certain danger to ordinary animals and Muggle. However, it poses zero danger to Devil's Snare, even to underage Little Wizard.
When Little Wizard encounters danger, the magic within him goes berserk. Although the rampaging magic can cause some damage to the body, in minor cases, a healing Potions will cure everything.
Sometimes, even an adult wizard can be seriously injured if they are not careful when facing Little Wizard whose Magical Outburst. So if the Devil's Snare really binds the three of them too tightly, then it is not far from its death.
The third challenge is Professor Flitwick's Flying Keys.
Professor Flitwick truly deserves his title as Headmaster of Ravenclaw, where Bell resides; he is practically the conscience of Hogwarts.
Of all the challenges, Professor Flitwick's was the most difficult, without a doubt! At least for Harry, Meghan, and Harry—it was the most difficult. They also spent the longest time on that challenge.
Harry, his two friends, and Belle were probably too busy with the exciting and tense game to keep up with the pace of the game to check their watches, but Bell, who was waiting on the sidelines and almost fell asleep, was deeply moved.
The three kids spent a whole hour on that level!
Poor Professor Quirrell, I hope he doesn't get killed by Voldemort because he can't find the Philosopher's Stone.
While the difficulty of this level was acceptable, the design was rather flawed, so it didn't diminish Bell's urge to complain.
Perhaps it's because wizards lack common sense? Or perhaps Bell is the unqualified wizard? In any case, Bell has never heard of anyone who, after locking the front door, not only leaves the key openly at the door but also prepares Flying Broomstick to retrieve it in case a thief can't reach it.
so,
"Why are Harry and his friends able to accept this setup so easily?! Am I really the one with the problem? No way! Could I really be the strange one?!"
Bell was having some existential doubts and decided that she would ask her sister to comfort her when they chatted the next day.
Ahem, let's get back to the original topic.
The fourth challenge is Professor McGonagall's Wizard's Chess.
Many Little Wizard have a deep misunderstanding of Professor McGonagall. They all believe that Professor McGonagall is the strictest professor at Hogwarts. In fact, this is all slander.
Let's see what Professor McGonagall usually does.
After discovering Harry's talent for flying, she not only did not blame Harry for flying without permission, but also immediately took Harry to see Oliver Wood, the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team, and made an exception to arrange for Harry to join the team as the Seeker.
If this isn't enough for everyone to appreciate Professor McGonagall's gentleness, then what follows will certainly do.
After Harry successfully became the Seeker, Professor McGonagall, in order to encourage Harry to be more active, gifted Harry a brand-new Flying Broomstick — the Nimbus 2000— at public expense!
(Bell doesn't believe Professor McGonagall bought it with her own money; it must have been a misuse of public funds.)
Hogwarts ' School Rules clearly state that "first-year students are prohibited from bringing Flying Broomstick." Therefore, Professor McGonagall was actually risking being expelled by Headmaster Dumbledore for leading the way in violating School Rules when she bought Harry the Flying Broomstick!
Now everyone understands, right? Professor McGonagall is actually a very gentle and very kind professor.