Well. There are some that they consider their 'classics.' I don't think they'd ask anything too hard in this setting, do you?
Our eagle doesn't seem to have anything like that sort of consideration. There you really can get stuck all night outside the common room if you can't figure out the answer.
But. I'm sure it's got to be a fairly easy one. Because she can't eat him if he gets it wrong.
Although if the Sphinx eats Harry, and then Diggory comes along and gets the riddle wrong it and it eats Diggory, too, do you suppose they'll let Viktor and Delacour back into the maze?
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:09 am (UTC)all nightno time at all.no subject
Date: 2012-06-12 03:10 am (UTC)Usually it's the one about walking on four legs at morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at dusk.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:13 am (UTC)I wonder if it has to come up with its own riddles?
How smart are Sphinxes anyways? I mean, they can talk and all... but only in riddles.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-12 03:14 am (UTC)Our eagle doesn't seem to have anything like that sort of consideration. There you really can get stuck all night outside the common room if you can't figure out the answer.
But. I'm sure it's got to be a fairly easy one. Because she can't eat him if he gets it wrong.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:11 am (UTC)I heard Sphinxes kill you if you don't answer right.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:14 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:15 am (UTC)Whew.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:16 am (UTC)Uh
Do you see the
thuh
uh
spider?!
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:18 am (UTC)They're THAT BIG????
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:19 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:20 am (UTC)I say, that's
Er.
Blimey.
-Justin
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:19 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:20 am (UTC)Lots.
They've had two years to grow?
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:21 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:23 am (UTC)Or will they, if he doesn't send up sparks???
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:20 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:20 am (UTC)He's making it really, really, really freakin hacked off!
It's going to
to
I can't look
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:23 am (UTC)Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good
Date: 2012-06-12 03:26 am (UTC)Argh!
What's Diggory doing?!!!
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:23 am (UTC)UGH.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:20 am (UTC)This is a lot scarier than the sphinx.
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Date: 2012-06-12 03:24 am (UTC)It just bit Harry!