Days wandering around Hogwarts

Chapter 526 Golden Egg
Seven golden dragon eggs were neatly lined up on the table in the Gryffindor common room, attracting everyone's attention.

Ginny asked the question everyone wanted to ask: "Harry, what are you doing?"

Harry was holding a golden egg with his ear pressed against it and tapping it with his hands.

He replied: "I am listening to see what the differences are in them."

Hermione said helplessly, "Harry. This is not a watermelon."

One year when Charles and his father went to London, they met Hermione's family in a supermarket. Charles was holding a watermelon and knocking on them one by one. In the end, the watermelon he picked for Hermione was just the right ripe one.

Harry naturally also learned how to pick watermelons, but he never thought of using it here.

He asked Hermione curiously, "Do you think there is a spell to pick watermelons?"

Hermione said unhappily, "Who would study such a spell?"

Charles on the side said: "Who said no."

He took out his magic wand and tapped a golden egg, chanting the spell: "qiāo guā."

The golden egg immediately shook, making a "dong dong" sound, and it sounded like it was hollow inside.

Seamus asked Charles expectantly, "Can you open them?"

He tried several times but couldn't find a way to open the golden egg.

Charles shrugged and said, "That's your problem to solve."

Seamus was a little disappointed.

Dean asked him, "Can you explode the golden egg?"

Neville pointed to the bag on his head and said, "I've tried it. The golden egg is very strong. It will only fly out, not be blown up."

The people around were shocked that there was something in the world that Simo couldn't destroy!

Hermione said seriously: "I told you that the golden egg cannot be opened by brute force. To open it, you need to break the spell on it."

Seamus muttered, "Charles said explosion is also a way to crack it."

While the others were chatting nearby, Dean asked curiously, "What's inside the golden egg?"

Harry said: "It could be something really scary, like Charles singing."

Charles glared at him and said, "Believe it or not, I sent the Dementors to have tea with you during the summer vacation."

Harry backed off immediately.

Neville said, "I guess it might be the map and the key. Stories often say that someone finds the treasure map and the key, and finally finds the treasure."

Lavender also said: "It's likely to be a map, the next game to find the key, and the last game to find the Goblet of Fire through the key."

No one knew what the next game would be about, but after reading a lot of novels and discussing it, it seemed like it was really happening.

Ron suddenly asked Seamus, "Have you ever tried burning them in the fire?"

Seamus shook his head.

Parvati asked Ron, "Will fire help?"

Ron said, "I heard a story that if you put a blank piece of parchment over a fire, a treasure map will appear."

There was still a fire in the fireplace, and Seamus asked everyone to help take the golden egg to the side.

He threw a golden egg into the fire, and a group of people around him were curious and nervous, waiting for the result.

But five minutes later, there was no change to the golden egg.

Hermione suddenly said, "Seamus, replace it with the golden egg you got from the Welsh Green Dragon."

The patterns on the golden eggs obtained from different fire dragons are different. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first. It is very likely related to the way of cracking it.

Seamus used two pieces of wood to pick out the golden egg and put the green dragon's golden egg back in.

"Moved!"

The geometric pattern on the golden egg suddenly changed, although it was slow, it was still clear.

The intricate patterns seemed to be unravelling, but too slowly, moving only a little after several minutes.

Seamus put the remaining golden eggs into the fireplace, but only the golden egg from the green dragon reacted.

"Different golden eggs have different ways of breaking them," Hermione said thoughtfully, "Try the others with water."

Soon someone brought a pot of tea and poured it over the golden egg. "It's absorbing water!"

The golden egg obtained from the Chinese Fireball absorbed all the water poured on it. Everyone kept pouring water into it, but it was like a bottomless pit. Even all the tea in the public lounge was poured into it, but there was no change.

But that’s not a problem, there’s a big lake at Hogwarts.

Seamus and the others didn't believe that the golden egg could absorb all the water in the lake. Besides, Hogwarts was not far from the sea.

George found abandoned tables and chairs in the warehouse in the basement, and quickly tinkered with a wooden box. He made a few holes in it, and planned to put the golden eggs and stones in it tomorrow. He would then tie it up with ropes and put it in the lake. If he opened the box, he would not have to worry about the things inside falling to the bottom of the lake.

The remaining five golden eggs were impervious to water and fire, leaving everyone scratching their heads.

Hermione said, "It seems that the only way is to remove the curse."

She knew that this brainstorming would ultimately fall on her head.

The problem is that fourth grade students are still far behind sixth and seventh grade students in terms of knowledge reserves. It is not easy to break the above spell, and a lot of knowledge needs to be learned from scratch.

Hermione looked at Charles, but in an instant her anticipation turned into resentment.

If I ask Charles for help, he will definitely help me, but the price will be that he will have to grow cat ears and a tail!
This is unbearable. I can only rely on myself.

There is a month left, including the Easter holiday, which should be enough.

Charles saw expectation in the girl's eyes, then anger, and finally fighting spirit, and he couldn't understand it for a moment.

If you can't figure it out, just forget about it. No one can guess what a girl of this age is thinking.

The next day was the Hogsmeade Weekend in March and the students and professors headed to Hogsmeade.

As they were leaving the castle, many people saw Fleur seriously saying to Charles, "You can't give her such a big Easter egg this year!"

Lavender asked curiously, "Miss Delacour, how big are the eggs you are talking about?"

Furong gestured to the size of an ostrich egg and said with a dark face, "It's all made of chocolate, with dozens of different flavors of chocolate beans in it!"

Charles said seriously, "The eggs for Gabrielle won't be this big this year."

Furong said unhappily, "It will be bigger, right?"

Charles nodded.

Hermione was walking nearby and accidentally kicked Charles' leg unhappily. The Easter egg he gave her last year was made of chocolate with liqueur filling and was only the size of a quail egg.

Charles said helplessly: "Don't you guys need to study the golden eggs?"

At this time, Krum's voice came from behind: "Charles, it is necessary to relax after the game. Do you want to go for a drink together?"

When Furong saw him coming, she snorted coldly and walked away. It seemed that she was still upset about the sneak attack yesterday.

Krum said to Charles apologetically, "I'm sorry."

Charles waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. The game is the game and life is life."

"I have a friend who is a muggle and an excellent athlete."

"He didn't understand the difference between the game and off the court at first, but now he is gradually understanding it."

Krum had always been curious about Charles. He had heard that he had a Muggle friend who was also an athlete, so he asked curiously, "What sport does your friend play?"

Charles said, "Football."

Krum said, "Oh, I heard about this Muggle sport from a fan, his favorite player in that sport is me and another player called... Hristo Stoichkov."

Charles said, "I know him. Last year during the Quidditch World Cup, the Muggle Football World Cup was also going on, and he was one of the two players with the most goals."

"In his last game, his teammates were creating opportunities for him to become the player with the most goals, but he just fell short."

Krum, who doesn't understand football but knows the players, couldn't help but say, "Oh, that's a shame."

Charles nodded. He made a fortune in the World Cup in the United States last year and originally wanted to watch the final, but gave up when he thought of the background after Baggio missed the penalty.

The two chatted as they came to Hogsmeade. Krum made an appointment with someone at the Hog's Head Inn, and Charles went to Farbottom Castle and found that Hermione had been following him.

Charles asked curiously, "Are you going to Farbottom Castle too?"

Hermione pouted and said, "If you don't want to help me, I can only ask others for help."

Charles was confused and had no idea what she was talking about.

(End of this chapter)