Harry returned to Gryffindor Tower alone. That's a weird piece of advice. Why can you take a bath to figure out what that screaming golden egg means? Could it be that Cedric was playing a trick on him? He wanted Harry to look good, so that Akihari would like him more in comparison?

Jealousy caused Harry not only to not appreciate Cedric's advice, but also to complain about him for no reason.

On the second day of Christmas, everyone wakes up late. Gryffindor's common room was much quieter than it had been a few days ago. Ron was still asleep when Harry woke up, and Harry saw that he was still smiling at the corners of his mouth while sleeping, and Harry immediately dismissed the idea of waking Ron, and he went downstairs alone to find Hermione.

Although Cedric's snatching of love upset Harry, he had forgotten to tell Hermione about it.

When Harry went downstairs, Hermione was already in the common room, which saved Harry the trouble of going to her.

Hermione's hair was unkempt again. She confessed to Harry that she had sprayed a lot of quick-smoothing toner on her hair in order to attend the prom. "But it's too much trouble to do it every day." She was very practical, scratching at the base of Crookshan's ear, and the cat hummed in comfort.

"Let's find a quiet place." Harry said.

Hermione dropped Crookshank Hill and walked with Harry to an empty classroom, where Harry relayed what Cedric had told hermione.

Harry then told Hermione about the conversation he had overheard between Lady Maxime and Hagrid.

"Actually, I thought he must be a giant for a long time." Hermione said, shrugging her shoulders, "I know he can't be a purebred giant, because they're all about twenty feet tall." But to be honest, we can't afford to be so nervous about giants. They can't all be that scary, it's a prejudice, like the attitude people have towards werewolves. Just a preconception, isn't it? ”

Hermione seemed a little unimpressed, but it didn't take long for her to realize how bad this prejudice in the wizarding world was.

In fact, this is also well reflected in Harry, who began to feel a little urgent again after a week late for the Christmas holidays. Because as soon as Christmas is over, February 24 seems to be much closer, and he still doesn't know what the clue is hidden in the golden egg.

Harry hadn't forgotten what Cedric had told him, but he didn't have a crush on Cedric at the moment, so he wanted to not accept his help if he had a solution. And in Harry's opinion, if Cedric really wanted to help Harry, he should have made it clearer.

He had clearly told Cedric what his first project was, and Cedric had asked Harry to take a shower in exchange for fairness. Hmph, Harry didn't need that kind of worthless help. Moreover, the person who provided him with this kind of help also walked around the corridor with Qiu Zhang arm in arm all day.

Harry didn't even realize that all he had thought before was an excuse, and the last sentence was the key.

It's just that he deceives himself and doesn't want to admit that he has such a stupid act because of jealousy.

Harry tried to find the clue to the golden egg in his own way, and as soon as he returned to the dormitory, he took the golden egg from the box and opened it to listen carefully, hoping to find out the secret. He forced himself to think that the sound could remind him of anything other than thirty saws, but he couldn't remember, he had never heard it before.

He closed the golden egg, shook it vigorously, and then turned it back on to see if the sound changed. No, it's still like that. He also tried to ask the golden egg a question, shouting at the sound of its screams, but to no avail. He even threw the golden egg across the room, though he didn't expect it to be of any use.

Thankfully, Hermione noticed that Harry had been staying in the dorm room instead of going to the library to find information on how to move underwater. Coupled with the fact that Harry was often a little frustrated when he saw Qiu Zhang and Cedric walking together, but he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, Hermione immediately understood what was going on.

After Harry relayed Cedric's solution, Hermione went to the prefect's bathroom that day to try it out.

Hermione quickly found the statue of Confused Boris, a wizard with a blank expression and gloves on both hands worn backwards. Then she walked to the door next to the statue, leaned in and said, "Fresh pineapple!" ”

The door creaked open, and Hermione walked in, locking the door as soon as she entered.

It's not bad to be a prefect, just being able to use this bathroom is worth it. A luxurious chandelier lit with candles casts a warm soft light on the room, and everything is made of snow-white marble, including the bath in the middle, which sinks into the ground, which resembles a rectangular swimming pool. There are about a hundred golden faucets on the edge of the bath, each with a gemstone of a different color on the handle.

There is also a diving board. The windows were hung with snow-white linen curtains; A large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and on the wall hung only a painting, set in a gilded frame. It shows a blonde mermaid lying soundly asleep on a rock, her long hair brushing her face, trembling slightly with her every breath.

Such a comfortable bathroom is something that anyone wants to enjoy, and Hermione is not immune. Fortunately, she will also have the opportunity to be a superior next year and enjoy such a room.

After a cursory look, Hermione put it aside, it was still important to be here for business.

She walked over to the edge of the pool-sized bath, then knelt down and unscrewed a few taps. The faucets spewed out a variety of bubble baths mixed with hot water, completely different from the bubble baths she was used to, one of them spewed pink and blue bubbles the size of a football; The other squirts a crystal clear, dense and thick foam. The third faucet spewed a fragrant purple mist that filled the water.

It didn't take long for the deep bath to fill with hot water, foam, and bubbles, and it was so fast that such a large bath was full so quickly.

Hermione took out the golden egg and opened it. Still the same as before, the shrill screams immediately filled the bathroom, echoing and oscillating between the marble walls, but the sound was still so inexplicable, and mixed with all the echoes that were all the more incomprehensible.

Hermione immediately closed the golden egg, and then Hermione remembered Cedric's words, and she put the golden egg in the water.

Hermione opened the golden egg under the foamy water, and this time it didn't scream, and there was a gurgling song from the golden egg, which came from under the water, but she didn't hear anything outside the water.

It seems that she doesn't have to take a shower in it, as Cedric said, but just buries her head in the water.

Sure enough, as soon as Hermione's head got into the water, she immediately heard the sound of the golden egg—

Chosen Warriors, come to our rescue!

Our enemies have used evil magic against us,

Immobilizes us.

Come where our voices sound,

We can't sing on the ground.

Find the last Guardian of our race,

They will guide you,

Find the treasures of my people,

They can awaken the saints of our people,

He will defeat all enemies,

Save us from the darkness.

They have not yet reached the hands of the Holy One after the time limit.

and it will slip out of your hand,

You only have an hour to spare.

Hermione had a good memory, and she memorized all the words of the golden egg after listening to them once, and then thought about it.

Who is the one who can no longer make a voice on the ground?

The sound of golden eggs can only be heard underwater, and it is supposed to be related to underwater creatures.

Underwater, underwater, what is there that makes a human sound?

Could it be a mermaid!

Hermione looked up just in time to see the picture of a sleeping mermaid on the wall, and she was even more convinced of her judgment.

As long as you put the golden egg underwater, you can hear the sound of the golden egg, but Cedric made a point of mentioning that they should use the prefect's bathroom, and Hermione also understood what the reason was, it turned out that it was because there was a portrait of a mermaid here.

It turns out that the sound made by the golden egg is the voice of the mermaid, if you are not proficient in the language of the mermaid, how can you crack the secret of the golden egg?

This is not a puzzle that students can solve at all, and to come up with such a difficult question, is it tacitly allowing the warriors to cheat?

After taking a shower and clearing the pool of bubble water, Hermione left the prefect's bathroom with the golden egg in her arms and went to the library to find a way to breathe underwater.

On the first day of Christmas, the grounds were still covered with thick snow, the windows of the conservatory were covered with fine droplets of water, and they couldn't see out the window during their herbal medicine class.

When they arrived at Hagrid's hut during the magical creature class, they didn't see Hagrid's burly figure, and an elderly witch stood at the door. Her gray hair is cut short and her chin is very prominent.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it's been five minutes since the class bell rang." She snapped at them. They walked through the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and walked towards her.

"Who are you?" Ron glared at her and asked, "What about Hagrid?" ”

"I'm Professor Graplan." She said crisply, "It's your temporary substitute teacher for the Magical Creatures Protection class." ”

"Where's Hagrid?" Harry asked aloud again.

"He's not feeling well." Professor Graplan was reluctant to say more.

Harry's ears suddenly rang out with a malicious chuckle. He looked back to see Draco Malfoy and the rest of the Slytherin classmates walking over. They were all elated, and when they saw Professor Graplan, none of them looked surprised.

"Please go this way." Professor Grapeland said, skirting the makeshift stables into the distance, where the Beauxbatons horses were shivering in the morning. Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed her, looking back at Hagrid's cabin as they went. All the curtains were drawn. Is Hagrid in there? Sick and lonely?

"What's wrong with Hagrid?" Harry asked as he took a few steps to catch up with Professor Graplan.

"You don't care." She said, seemingly thinking he was nosy.

"I'm going to take care of it." Harry said excitedly, "What the hell is wrong with him?" ”

Hermione's face suddenly looked ugly, and Harry had thought she was because of Professor Graplan. But following her gaze, Harry saw Maple, and he didn't stop to say hello when they came, and Hagrid didn't know what was going on, so he didn't care to ask.

Maple's indifference to Hagrid, who Harry cared about so much, made Harry a little unhappy.

Professor Grapeland didn't seem to hear him. She led them through the stables, where the massive Beauxbatons steeds stood, snuggled up to each other against the cold. They walked towards a large tree at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, under which a beautiful unicorn was tethered.

Many girls are amazed when they see unicorns.

"Oh, it's so beautiful!" Lavender Brown said, "How did she get it?" Unicorns are said to be hard to catch! ”

The unicorn was dazzlingly white, and the snow around it was a little gray in comparison. It uneasily scraped the dirt with its golden hooves and raised its horned head.

"Boys, stand back!" Professor Grapeland shouted, throwing up an arm and slamming it on Harry's chest, "Unicorns love women's touches. The girls stand in front, approach it carefully, come here, relax... ”

She and the girls walked slowly towards the unicorns, while the boys stayed by the fence of the stables, standing there watching them. Harry saw that Professor Grapeland was walking away and couldn't hear him, so he turned to Ron.

"What do you think happened to him? It's not going to be a whelch—"

"Oh, Potter, if you're worried about that, I can tell you that he's not being attacked," Malfoy whispered, "no, he's just too ashamed to show his big ugly face." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Harry snapped.

Malfoy reached into the pocket of his robe and pulled out a folded newspaper.

"See for yourself." He said, "I don't want to tell you this, Potter... ”

He smirked as Harry grabbed the newspaper and unfolded it, and Ron, Seamus, Dean and Neville gathered around and watched with him. It was an article with a picture of Hagrid on it, and the look on his face was sneaky.

Dumbledore's major mistake

Our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that the eccentric Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has always dared to hire controversial teachers. In September, he hired Apto Mad Eye Moody as a teacher for Defence Against the Dark Arts class, a decision that came as a surprise to many in the Ministry.

Moody is a notorious evil god who has been an Auror in the past, and is known to attack anyone who suddenly moves in front of him.

However, compared to the half-human, half-demon hired by Dumbledore to teach the protection of magical creatures, Mad Eye Moody was conscientious and kind.

Rubeus Hagrid admits that he was expelled from Hogwarts in his third year and has been a gamekeeper at the school ever since, a job Dumbledore had found for him.

Last year, Hagrid unexpectedly used his mystical influence over the headmaster, winning from a number of more qualified candidates, and securing himself the position of protecting the teacher of the magical creatures class.

Hagrid, a large, fierce-looking man, abuses his newfound power to scare the students he cares for with a horrible array of animals.

In a series of lessons that many have called "very horrifying", Hagrid has caused several students to be injured and disabled, and Dumbledore has turned a blind eye to them.

"My friend Vincent Crabbe was bitten hard by a Flober caterpillar." A fourth-grader named Draco Malfoy said, "We all hate Hagrid, but we dare not speak out. ”

However, Hagrid had no intention of stopping his intimidating behavior. In a conversation with a reporter for the Daily Prophet last month, he admitted that he was cultivating a creature he named the "Fried Snail," which is a dangerous creature that is somewhere between a human-headed sphin-tailed dragon tail and a fire crab.

The cultivation of new types of magical creatures is usually closely monitored by the Department of Magical Beasts Management and Control of the Ministry of Magic. But Hagrid thought he could go beyond such cumbersome rules.

"I just think it's weird and funny." He said, and then hastily changed the subject.

As if that weren't enough, the Daily Prophet recently uncovered evidence that Hagrid was not a pure-blooded wizard as he himself used to pretend. In fact, he wasn't even a man of pure blood.

We can exclusively reveal that his mother is none other than the giantess Friedvafa, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.

Brutal and bloodthirsty by nature, giants were on the verge of extinction in the last century due to cannibalism. The dozen or so remaining joined the Mysteries, who were responsible for some of the most brutal Muggle massacres during the White Terror of Mystery's reign.

Many of the giants who worked for the Mystic were killed at the hands of the Aurors who fought against the dark forces, but Friedwa was not one of them. It is likely that she fled to some giant village that still exists in the mountains of a foreign country. However, if we analyze the odd behavior in the Conservation of Magical Creatures class, Friedvafa's son seems to have inherited his mother's cruel nature.

Surprisingly, Hagrid is said to have developed a close friendship with a boy who caused the Mystic to lose power, causing Hagrid's biological mother to go into hiding incognito like the rest of the Mystery's followers.

Perhaps Harry Potter was not yet aware of the unpleasant things about his large friend, but Albus Dumbledore undoubtedly had a responsibility to ensure that Harry Potter and his classmates were aware of the dangers of associating with half-blood giants.

Book Reading House