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EDIT: Final Answer

The message is: "I am your mother. I love you and miss you. The whole magic world needs your help. Good Bye and Good Luck - Your Mom", so the white witch is Harry's mom.

Solution:

Taking LeppyR64's find that the base64 encoded string had "follow the river" by taking every two letters, I looked at the other letters and they were "dirgahsuebure" which backwards is "erubeushagrid". I tried this as a password at the texthost site but it didn't work. Then I realized hagrid's first name is rubeus so I removed the extra e and it worked!

Here's another partial answer with slightly more information:

The first step is obviously to do ROT13 to the message in the letter (most would try that without the hint). Going to http://freetexthost.com/i5kqe2psfo, a password is needed. The string above, "ZGZpb3JsZ2xhb2h3c3R1aGVlYnJ1aXJ2ZXI=", decodes in base 64 to dfiorlglaohwstuheebruirver, all lower case letters which can't be a coincidence. Finally, the author confirmed that the story is necessary and that Hagrid is "The Keeper" who will "help you through". The base64 string somehow needs to be decoded to get the password to the texthost site.

Here's another partial answer with slightly more information:

The first step is obviously to do ROT13 to the message in the letter (most would try that without the hint). Going to http://freetexthost.com/i5kqe2psfo, a password is needed. The string above, "ZGZpb3JsZ2xhb2h3c3R1aGVlYnJ1aXJ2ZXI=", decodes in base 64 to dfiorlglaohwstuheebruirver, all lower case letters which can't be a coincidence. Finally, the author confirmed that the story is necessary and that Hagrid is "The Keeper" who will "help you through". The base64 string somehow needs to be decoded to get the password to the texthost site.

EDIT: Final Answer

The message is: "I am your mother. I love you and miss you. The whole magic world needs your help. Good Bye and Good Luck - Your Mom", so the white witch is Harry's mom.

Solution:

Taking LeppyR64's find that the base64 encoded string had "follow the river" by taking every two letters, I looked at the other letters and they were "dirgahsuebure" which backwards is "erubeushagrid". I tried this as a password at the texthost site but it didn't work. Then I realized hagrid's first name is rubeus so I removed the extra e and it worked!

Here's another partial answer with slightly more information:

The first step is obviously to do ROT13 to the message in the letter (most would try that without the hint). Going to http://freetexthost.com/i5kqe2psfo, a password is needed. The string above, "ZGZpb3JsZ2xhb2h3c3R1aGVlYnJ1aXJ2ZXI=", decodes in base 64 to dfiorlglaohwstuheebruirver, all lower case letters which can't be a coincidence. Finally, the author confirmed that the story is necessary and that Hagrid is "The Keeper" who will "help you through". The base64 string somehow needs to be decoded to get the password to the texthost site.

Source Link
Quark
Quark
  • 6.1k
  • 1
  • 24
  • 48

Here's another partial answer with slightly more information:

The first step is obviously to do ROT13 to the message in the letter (most would try that without the hint). Going to http://freetexthost.com/i5kqe2psfo, a password is needed. The string above, "ZGZpb3JsZ2xhb2h3c3R1aGVlYnJ1aXJ2ZXI=", decodes in base 64 to dfiorlglaohwstuheebruirver, all lower case letters which can't be a coincidence. Finally, the author confirmed that the story is necessary and that Hagrid is "The Keeper" who will "help you through". The base64 string somehow needs to be decoded to get the password to the texthost site.