"First think of a person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tell naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?"
Sorry, felt like posting this with the sphinx and everything.
Did you actually solve that on your own, or have you read Harry Potter and remembered the answer from there? Or did you look it up on Google or some such?
That's from Harry Potter? I must have remembered the answer from there without realising, because I figured it out pretty easily while I usually can't solve riddles. I got the "spy" part fairly quickly, as well as the "er" part, and then I figured the answer must be "spider," so that made it easy to figure out how to get the "d" in order to make spider. Anyway, thanks for posting that, now that I know what it's from I want to read the Harry Potter books again!
Yep, it's from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (which I've just finished). Harry had the same process of solving the riddle in the books, solving the "spy" part first, skipping the "d", and then figuring out "er" since that was the sound he was making when he was trying to think of the sound in question. Then he just said those two ("spy" and "er") together a lot and got spider.
Who deals in secrets and tell naught but lies.
Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?"
Sorry, felt like posting this with the sphinx and everything.