Stage 5:
Ånge to Sollefteå (53 miles)

Sollefteå is another reasonably small town, with around 8,700 muggle inhabitants. Although Sweden's statistics only count settlements with over 10,000 inhabitants as cities, Sollefteå is still counted as a city for historial purposes, having been granted city status in 1917.

Pick up some more time bonuses by completing the challenges below.

Time Challenge: In the grid below, each letter has a different value from 1 to 26. Use the clues provided below most of the letters, and your powers of deduction, to find the correct number for each letter - there are 4 numbers already filled in to start you off. Gain 5 seconds for each correct number / letter combination of the remaining 22 that you send me. For an additional 5 seconds time bonus, tell me the total "value" of your HOL name by adding up the numbers that correspond to the letters in your name. (Symbols: + Plus; - Minus; / Divided by; x Multiplied by; > More than; < Less than)

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Bonus time challenge: For this puzzle, there are two parts. Firstly, follow the clues below to find the 33 places from the Harry Potter books. All of these have appeared at some point in the 7 books, or possibly Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them or Quidditch Through the Ages. When you have found the names, put them into the spiral starting at the top left and following the lines around until you reach the centre square.

The clues are not in the order the names appear in the spiral, so it is up to you to try to fit them in as best you can. In the spiral, the first letter of each place name is the last letter of the previous name, and they will share that letter in the grid, which appears in a purple square. For example, if you had Canada and America as two answers, they would appear in the spiral as CanadAmerica, with the A shared between the two places, rather than appearing twice. This 'A' would therefore appear in a purple square. The purple squares will help you to get started, as you can count the spaces between them to figure out where some of the place names may go.

Tell me the names you find, in the order you put them into the spiral, and gain 2 seconds of time for each correct one, and and extra one second of time for getting them in the correct place.

Clues:

1. A family of goblins was killed here by Voldemort during the Dark Lord's first reign of terror.
2. A prison which once held one of the wizarding world's most famous dark wizards.
3. A Quidditch team from this town lost in the European Cup final of 1956.
4. A street in Clapham where one of the Order of the Phoenix lived.
5. A witch named Modesty Rabknott lived here some centuries ago.
6. According to Gilderoy Lockhart, he saved the people of this town from a series of attacks.
7. Apparently a good hiding place if Sirius Black is trying to attack your portrait.
8. Back in Harry's first year, he noticed posters for the football team from this part of London on one of his friend's walls.
9. Cho Chang supports a Quidditch team from here.
10. Cormac McLaggon went nogtail hunting here once.
11. Frank Bryce was held in a police station here.
12. Harry noticed that there were representatives from the witches institute here when he was at the Quidditch World Cup.
13. Harry's second favourite building in the world!
14. Hermione has been on holiday to this French town, and Hagrid has also visited the same area.
15. Hermione sent her memory-modified parents here to keep them safe.
16. Home to some Peruvian tree-skimming Quidditch players.
17. Home town of the Quidditch team that often wins the French league.
18. Ignotus Peverell is buried here.
19. Madam Marsh's destination on Harry's first Knight Bus trip.
20. Privet Drive, Magnolia Crescent and Wisteria Walk can all be found here.
21. Recently defeated the Welsh team in a Quidditch World Cup match.
22. Reguritating toilets were found here and in Wimbledon, before popping up in Bethnal Green.
23. South American nation whose Quidditch team have made it to the quarter finals of the World Cup in the last century.
24. Swedish town which has been the starting place of a flying event for over 1,000 years.
25. The Harpies and Catapults are two Quidditch teams from this country.
26. The Hippocampus is usually found in this body of water.
27. The Meteorites Quidditch team hail from here.
28. The referee in the Quidditch World Cup Final is from here.
29. The Weasleys and Diggorys bumped into each other here before the Quidditch World Cup.
30. There's a permanent task force for the International Confederation of Wizards in the mountains here.
31. Tibbles, Snowy, Mr. Paws, and Tufty live here.
32. We first get introduced to Rufus Scrimgeour by Cornelius Fudge here.
33. When he was young, Albus Dumbledore's family lived here.

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The answers can be located here.

Send your answers to by January 20th with the subject "ab123 - Broom Race Stage 5" (where ab123 is your student ID)