You put on the Amazon Virtual Reader.

As the world comes into focus, Kinsey Millhone approaches you with a
manuscript in her hand.
"I'm so glad you've arrived", she starts, "we have seven bizarre scenes
that need your expertise."

She leads you through the doors of the Santa Teresa Library and into the
foyer.
"I'll take you to the other rooms later, but we have the first puzzle
here. We have a short story set in some fantasy world. I don't understand it
myself, but maybe you can help."
Millhone hands you the text, and then you see on the wall four small
paintings of a Snake, a Badger, a Lion, and an Eagle. You recognize these
animals as the symbols of each House in Hogwarts, and you turn to the
story…

It all started when a Ravenclaw fifth-year saw something in her Divinations class. Trelawney
gave her house eight points for the vision, but bade her not tell anyone; it would become
clear to all who kept track.

Hagrid's lesson in Care of Magical Creatures that day was on the giant chizpurfle. Ron
earned ten points for Gryffindor when he talked about how the pests had infested his family
home. The class went a bit off-track when the thumb-sized thaumavores escaped, though a
young Hufflepuff earned five points for noticing the hole in their crate.

News of the getaway spread fast. By Transfiguration class, Draco was already openly
mocking Hagrid. Harry came to the half-giant's defense, and the fight they got into had
McGonagall take five points from both Slytherin and Gryffindor before teaching them a
spell to turn chizpurfles into cheeses.

By the time of the Quidditch match, the chizpurfles were swarming, flying through the air
and bonking into bludgers and brooms alike. It was a quite close and rather confusing game,
but Harry's keen senses let him secure the Snitch for the match - and the school
championship, worth twenty points to Gryffindor.

Caught up in the celebrations, Harry was late to potions class. Snape took great pleasure in
deducting six points from his house, one for each minute. To add to the unfairness, not only
did he dismiss Hermione's successful Repulsive Draught, he gave Slytherin five points for
ingenuity after Draco ignored the instructions and made an Attractive Phial instead.

After the chizpurfles got into Flitwick's supplies, Charms was canceled and all the students
met in the greenhouse instead for an applied class in Herbology. Professor Sprout gave each
of them a Quivering Reverbena and instructed them on its care. At the end of the class, she
gave their houses points according to how many leaves their plants had grown - Hufflepuff
in the lead with four new buds, Ravenclaw next with three, and Gryffindor with none at all
but still ahead of Slytherin's loss of two, most likely to hungry chizpurfles.

That evening found the Slytherins at their table early, along with no small amount of
snickering. The reason why became clear when the food appeared - for with it appeared the
entire swarm of chizpurfles, right in front of Hagrid! They'd painted his place with the
Attractive Phial and baited it with stolen Reverbena leaves, all waiting to be triggered by the
cheese-bearing teleportation spell.

A few quick incantations later, the pests were secured and Hogwarts was saved. Despite the
underhanded way they'd gone about it, Dumbledore concluded that the end justified the
means and rewarded Slytherin with twenty points for containing the thaumavore menace.

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