Even when the final exams arrived, the students still had not figured out how to defeat the Basilisk.
Lord Voldemort was entirely unhurried. Dumbledore had already prepared the sword of Gryffindor and the Sorting Hat, and the old hat squirmed as it waited for the phoenix to bring it over.
"Are we starting the exams with the first-years again?" the Sorting Hat asked sluggishly. "Oh, Merlin's beard, the little girls from the Weasley and Potter families are quite good, and that Grindelwald child isn't bad either."
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