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“They stepped over the threshold and immediately a fire sprang up behind them in the doorway. It wasn’t ordinary fire either; it was purple. At the same instant, black flames shot up in the doorway leading onwards. They were trapped…”
Harry Potter and Hermione Granger find themselves in a room whose two exits are blocked by raging flames. On a table in the room stand seven bottles, along with a piece of paper inscribed with the following verses:
Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,
Two of us will help you, whichever you would find,
One among us seven will let you move ahead,
Another will transport the drinker back instead,
Two among our number hold only nettle wine,
Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line.
Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,
To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four:
First, however slyly the poison tries to hide
You will always find some on nettle wine's left side;
Second, different are those who stand at either end,
But if you would move onward, neither is your friend;
Third, as you see clearly, all are different size,
Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;
Fourth, the second left and second on the right
Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight.
Hermione, who is an exceptionally avid student, realizes that she can use reasoning to determine the bottles that they need to escape from the room. As she says, "This isn't magic - it's logic - a puzzle. A lot of the greatest wizards haven't got an ounce of logic, they'd be stuck in here forever." Hermione thinks hard, and in a few minutes she is able to identify the bottles that allow escape. They both drink the potions and she returns through the purple flame to assist Ron and get help while Harry goes forward through the black flame toward the Stone and H.W.M.N.B.N.
Can you figure out the contents of each of the seven bottles below, just as Hermione did?
To get the final coordinates to this puzzle, you need to find what each bottle contains and enter your answer in the keyword checker below. The solution to this riddle will only contain numbers in this order: poison potions, nettle wines, forward potion and backward potion. Example "1234567", in which 123 would be the poison potions, 45 the nettle wines, 6 the forward potion and 7 the backward potion. If your answer is correct, the final coordinates to this puzzle will be given to you!
