Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Dragon Egg Is Always Ready
"What's wrong with you?" The smile on Ron's face stiffened, the dragon egg was obviously not hatched yet, this is a good thing, he looked at everyone and didn't know why, he should be happy now, how could it be an unnatural expression.
"Ron, I said that when I was in the Great Hall," Hermione tilted her head to look at him, "the dragon egg should have hatched about fifteen days ago, and this dragon egg is clearly not normal. ”
"It's not normal......," Ron fiddled with his cuffs a few times, his eyes staring at his toes, "that's a dragon egg that hasn't hatched yet!"
"Oh my God!" Hermione slapped her forehead and said weakly, "What you say makes so much sense!"
I couldn't go on this day.
Dudley had taken the egg from Hagrid's hand, it had been the first time he had touched it, the last time he had only looked at it through the fireplace in the fireplace.
The shell of this dragon egg was as smooth as jade, and if he didn't know that it was a dragon egg, he would have doubted that he was holding a huge jade in his hand.
One thing is even more concerning.
The coolness from the eggshell stimulates the skin, you must know that normal dragon eggs will not have this cold feeling, fire dragon eggs are at room temperature when they are not hatching, and the surface temperature of the eggshell will slowly increase during the hatching process.
Dudley held the egg to his ear and shook it vigorously.
"Don't... Don't!" Hagrid hurried to stop Dudley's actions, "What if you stun the dragon!"
And this statement?
What kind of strange brain circuit does Hagrid have?
Dudley's eyes widened as he heard some thick sounds from the dragon's eggs as if they were filled with liquid. There was a vague guess in his mind, "This... This can't be a dead egg. ”
Hermione immediately dismissed Dudley's suspicions, saying, "I've read in the book "Dragon Egg Analysis" that dragon eggs are not like the eggs we are familiar with, the dragon egg is liquid at the beginning, and only gradually changes into a small fire dragon during the hatching process. ”
Dudley frowned and thought about it, he had seen this book too, basically any book Hermione had read, he had read it.
There seems to be such a statement in the book, but ......
Dudley carefully placed the dragon egg on the bed, and Hagrid was worried about the dragon egg again. He pulled the thick fuzzard to the side.
The quilt is a little moist, mainly because it tastes very sour!
He glanced at the quilt in his hand, and buried the dragon egg and his head in the quilt in his heart.
"Whew!" Dudley let out a heavy puff of air, feeling like it was much harder to breathe.
"Fluorescent flickering. ”
The smell was really unbearable, he held his breath and pressed the light source behind the dragon egg, his head was dizzy, the light couldn't penetrate, and he was busy in vain.
"What are you doing?" asked Harry as he watched Dudley emerge from the covers.
Dudley pursed his lips and tried to put on a smiling face at them, and he turned and ran out of Hagrid's hut and took a big breath.
Nearly choking, he flicked his wand in frustration, "Knox," the light on the tip of the wand went out in response.
Dudley raised his palm and looked at it, eager to slap himself, after a brainstorming session, he actually wanted to use Hagrid's quilt, this quilt had been in the hot environment for at least twenty days, and it was okay to conjure up a new quilt or use a clean-up spell!
Greeted by Harry's eager eyes as he re-entered the house, Dudley waved his hand and said, "It's okay." He sat on the edge of the bed and pulled out the dragon egg that was still under the covers.
"You've been fiddling around with it for so long, what have you discovered?" asked Hermione.
"Probably. Dudley glanced at Hermione and then stared back at the dragon egg, considering whether to just open the eggshell and take a look, if he told Hagming, he would most likely not agree.
"Hagrid, or... Let's take a look at the dragon eggs?" Dudley finally told Hagrid that the dragon eggs belonged to Hagrid after all.
"Okay!"
Dudley was startled, wondering if there was something wrong with his ears, and Hagrid readily agreed.
He guessed Hagrid's idea wrongly, in fact, Hagrid also wanted to know what was going on with this dragon egg, and it couldn't hatch into the dragon.
What's more, opening a small opening in the dragon egg will not have any effect on the dragon egg, otherwise the author of "Dragon Egg Analysis" would not have been able to write this book.
Dudley solemnly placed the dragon egg on the bed, and he let Harry and Ron hold the dragon egg alone.
"Then I'll start," he said, holding his wand and drawing a square against the shell above the dragon's egg, "falling apart." ”
This spell is very deceptive, when Dudley first saw this spell, he thought it would have the same effect as the spell of Broken Bones, but after some study, he realized that it was actually a cutting spell.
The wizarding world is really full of all kinds of geniuses.
"Float into the air!"
Dudley moved the cracked eggshell, and everyone craned their heads curiously to look at the opening.
The eggshell has a sticky white egg white, surrounded by a large number of small blue dots, and the middle position is the 'egg yolk'.
Neither is it right......
I think it can be called 'egg black' because it's a black mass in the middle.
"So that's what the inside of the dragon egg is. Ron said with interest.
"It's a dead egg!" Dudley affirmed.
Hagrid suddenly sobbed, looking inside the eggshell with tear-blurred eyes, "My poor little cutie, it died before it could see the beautiful world out there. ”
Hermione glared at Dudley and whispered to comfort Hagrid, "Hagrid, don't cry yet, I always feel that something isn't right." ”
Hagrid bit his lip, his eyes filled with anticipation.
After a few minutes, Hermione remained thoughtful. Dudley was about to ask Hermione to speak up and discuss it, but Hagrid first cried with his mouth cursed, "We... We put this... Bury the poor child. ”
Harry and Ron stared dryly, not knowing how to comfort the grief-stricken Hagrid.
Hermione lowered her head in shame, her earlobes flushed, and the thought of Hagrid's eyes made her cheeks heat so badly that she wanted to lift her skull to see what was wrong.
Dudley's eyes lit up, he wasn't happy to see Hagrid sad, but he thought of a way to soothe the pain, and that was to eat. He had to give a thumbs up for his wit, it really was the best of both worlds.
"Hagrid, don't be sad," he patted Hagrid on the shoulder, "Hey, I know it's a dead egg that makes you very sad, so let this dragon egg play its last role!"
"The final effect!" they shouted almost at the same time, it was hard to imagine what a dead dragon egg could do.
"That's right!" Dudley grimaced, "it will always be with us!"
If he were to cast some magic, he looked like a compassionate angel at the moment.
Hagrid clapped his palms happily, and although the results were not satisfactory so far, he would always be with the dragon egg, which was the only good news among all the bad news.
Dudley looked at him embarrassedly, wondering if Hagrid had been fooled by him.