Through Hell And Back, Together

The ultimate sacrifice is made...

**Through Hell And Back, Together** is the ninth episode of MintORGs Season 1: Hogwarts.

## Story

With the Lupin and Slughorn tribe phase coming to the end, the players are just one step away from merge. The only thing standing in their way is the House Cup. The two houses with the least points will attend a joint Tribal Council.

Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were safe, sending Hufflepuff and Slytherin to a tribal consisting of just four people - Andy, Duolingo, Laura and Vinny.

### Gryffindor & Ravenclaw

Seeing Meredith get voted out confirmed **Hayleigh** and Vinny’s suspicions that the Slytherins were getting pagonged. Hayleigh feels a little safer now that she’s back with Gryffindor.

**Jace** was really sad to see Meredith go, blaming Duolingo for her elimination. He doesn’t feel safe at all with the Ravenclaws, and wants to target Duolingo in future.

**Kyle** and Wei worked together to try and figure out who had the horcruxes. He plans on voting out Hayleigh, and wants Duolingo to be safe at tribal. Out of everyone in the game, he trusts Wei most right now, and Jace least.

**Nick** is sad to see Meredith go, and is hoping to regain Wes’s trust in him. He’s pleased to have made the merge, and suspects the game will become more intense from here. Nick told Tomato that he was ride or die with him.

**Nikki** submitted a **video confessional** this round!

**Rips** was more keen on voting out Jace, but wanted to stand by Imke. He wants to try and vote out Vinny, Andy, Laura or Tomato.

**Tomato** doesn’t trust Wes one bit. He’s also noted that Jace and Imke don’t trust each other, which is not good for him because he wants to work with both of them. He also doesn’t trust Hayleigh as she flipped on him and Nick.

**Wei** isn’t wanting to get dragged to the end, and is hoping to make some moves by himself.

### Hufflepuff & Slytherin

**Andy** has hatched a plan to do some storytelling. He’s going to make them believe in a story that isn’t entirely true, depending on who gets voted out. Arriving at the final pre-merge tribal, Andy was shocked that Duolingo was encouraging each other to do a 1-1-1-1 vote and go to rocks. He considered flipping on **Vinny**, but then changed his mind.

**Duolingo** is so happy to be reunited with **Laura**. He tells her Nick is a really smart player and needs to go. He pushed for the 1-1-1-1 vote idea, but then started to feel nervous, thinking Vinny was likely to flip and vote on him. He decided to vote for Vinny, making it a 2-1-1. Soon after, feeling just as paranoid, Vinny decided to vote for Duolingo.

After the 1-1-1-1 vote fell through, it became a 2-2 vote with the Hufflepuffs on one side, and the Slytherins on the other. Andy played his 50/50 horcrux, which successfully worked, granting him safety this round despite him picking up no votes. It was a tie between Duolingo and Vinny, with Laura and Andy revoting. Andy knew he had leverage due to having immunity, so insisted he wasn’t flipping on Vinny.

This left Laura with two choices: go to rocks, where she’d be the only one drawing a rock, or vote out Duolingo, the only other Hufflepuff and her ride or die.

Duolingo desperately tried to encourage Andy to flip, revealing he has the Nagini horcrux, but to no avail. In a shocking twist, Laura decided to stick with her vote, meaning she willingly drew the only rock out of the bag, eliminating herself to save Duolingo. A true Hufflepuff to the very end!