Léa smiled at their success and walked to the next compartment. So this was how it would be: trying to reach the first, where the most challenging thing probably awaited. She only "Stupefied!" a few pixies here and there but let Gaston do the most of it, since he was the man here. They got past the pixies without much harm. Only a few strands of her hair was pulled, and she could live with that.

What she couldn't live with was not solving the riddle.

She frowned deeply in front of it and didn't utter a word for a while. "Cedreec was... a golden boy," she said carefully, "but 'e didn't need to be 'called bluff'." She sighed as she read the riddle for the millionth time. "I zink we still go with Lockhart." What was the worst that could happen? They would have to try again. Lose a few points maybe, but Durmies and Hoggies would probably lose some points somewhere too.

Grabbing the quill, she wrote 'Gilderoy Lockhart' under the question and held her breath, wand ready if more pixies attacked them.