#395 - Chapter 395 The Secret of the Golden Egg

The day after Christmas, the Gryffindor common room was shrouded in a lazy atmosphere.

After a night of revelry, everyone got up very late, as if everyone's energy had been exhausted yesterday.

Harry got up very early. It wasn't that he didn't want to stay in bed a little longer, but he had a reason to get up early.

Last night at the ball, he learned a shocking piece of news from Krum: Beauxbatons' Fleur had already cracked the secret of the golden egg.

This news made him a little uneasy, because if Beauxbatons knew the secret of the golden egg, it meant that Durmstrang, Mahoutokoro, and Ilvermorny all knew the secret of the golden egg.

After all, these schools had already formed an alliance to share the information in the golden egg.

They had four golden eggs in total, and now there was a high possibility that they had collected all the information and started preparing for the second task.

This meant that, among the five wizarding schools, only the champions of Hogwarts were still stuck on cracking the secret of the golden egg.

Harry admitted that he had been a little lax since the first task and hadn't focused on cracking the golden egg.

In fact, not only him, but Malfoy and Cedric were clearly the same.

The three had solemnly agreed to compete to see who could crack the secret of the golden egg first, but when they met last night, they found that none of them had figured out what was going on in the golden egg.

Harry looked at the golden egg on the table, his face full of distress.

Ron, who was next to him, crossed his arms. He tried to help, but found that he couldn't do anything, so he could only stare at Harry with wide eyes.

"Seriously, Harry, it's time for you three champions to team up again. It's already this late, why are you still looking for clues separately?"

"We agreed last night that if we still don't have any clues after this holiday, we'll find a way together."

Just then, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the direction of the stairs, and Hermione walked over quickly, holding a stack of thick books.

"Morning, Hermione, why didn't you do your hair? It looked so good yesterday..." Ron said with some regret. He wanted to admire it for a few more days.

Hermione smiled lightly, piled the books on the table, and casually tucked her slightly messy curly hair behind her ears.

"It's too much trouble to do my hair. It took me an hour to do it yesterday," she raised her eyebrows and looked at Ron, "I can't spend so much time every day, it's more comfortable this way."

She pulled out a chair and sat down next to Ron: "Let's help Harry find clues to the golden egg first."

After speaking, she pulled out a thick magic book from the pile of books and began to look for content related to sound.

Seeing this, Harry and Ron exchanged a look and each picked up a book and began to read.

Time passed bit by bit, and only the rustling of pages turning remained in the common room.

However, they still made no progress until after lunch.

"We're looking for a needle in a haystack, this won't work at all," Ron frowned, "Harry, do you want to ask Professor Swan for some hints? After all, he helped you with the first task."

"Professor Swan helped us with the first task because Malfoy got the news about the dragon in advance."

Harry sighed softly: "Even if I take a step back, it's not convenient for me to disturb him now. He and Aunt Mia are sunbathing on the beach in Australia."

Hermione looked up at him, then looked down and continued flipping through the book.

Honestly, she didn't plan to get involved in this matter at first, because according to the rules of the competition, it was the champions' responsibility to crack the secret of the golden egg.

However, the first task was dragons, and she was a little worried that the second task would be as dangerous as the dragons.

So, she couldn't stand by and do nothing. She wanted to help Harry figure out the secret as soon as possible, so that they would have more time to prepare for the second task.

"Our efficiency is indeed a bit low if we just flip through books aimlessly like this," Hermione frowned, tapping her finger lightly on the pages, "This may be some kind of code, or some kind of magical effect."

"Harry, why don't you ask Sirius what he thinks of the golden egg?"

This method is good. Sirius also likes to tinker with some alchemical gadgets, maybe he can see the secret of the golden egg.

The three immediately set off and came to Hogsmeade, where they found Sirius resting in the rented house.

Faced with Harry's request, Sirius was extremely happy. Without any hesitation, he immediately took the golden egg in his hand.

"Sirius, this golden egg can be opened, the clue is inside, but..."

Before he could finish speaking, Harry saw Sirius prying his fingernail into the groove on the golden egg and easily opened the golden egg.

Harry didn't expect Sirius to be so direct at all, and didn't even have time to stop him.

The next second, an extremely shrill, hair-raising scream suddenly resounded in the small rented house, the sharpness of the sound making the air seem to tremble.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione reflexively covered their ears, with painful expressions on their faces.

"Silencio!" Sirius reacted extremely quickly. With a wave of his wand, a magical barrier quickly enveloped the golden egg, instantly isolating the terrifying scream.

"Merlin!" He put the golden egg back together, "Is this the scream of a banshee? Could it be that your next task is related to banshees?"

He felt that this guess was very likely. After all, Harry had already dealt with fire-breathing dragons, so it wouldn't be surprising to deal with banshees again.

"No," Hermione objected, "The sound of a banshee is not like this. Professor Lockhart has a book called 'Break with Banshees', which says that although the sound of a banshee is mournful, it will make the listener feel sad."

Sirius nodded.

That made sense. The sound just now didn't sound sad at all. On the contrary, it was a bit lighthearted, it sounded a bit like singing......

As soon as this thought appeared, Sirius automatically threw it aside.

After all, he really couldn't think of any creature whose singing would be so unpleasant.

After studying it for an afternoon, he couldn't figure out anything from the golden egg.

"Although I don't want to admit it," Sirius clicked his tongue, "But I really can't give any answers. By the way, didn't you ask Swan, Harry?"

Harry shrugged and explained Sebastian's situation to Sirius.

"Magical contract?" Sirius scoffed, "That guy is cunning, ordinary magical contracts can't stop him at all."

"Think again, maybe he's already given you a hint."

A hint?

No...

Harry scratched his hair, carefully recalling the scenes of his recent interactions with Sebastian. However, after thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of any signs of a hint.

"If you can't think of it, don't think about it," Sirius waved his hand, "I feel like this might be the sound of a magical creature, why don't you go back and ask Hagrid?"

The sound of a magical creature?!

"I seem... to know what Professor Swan gave me to help," Harry stammered, "The Christmas gift he sent me was a magical creature language translator."

Harry was a little speechless. Yesterday, his mind was on the ball, so after unwrapping the Christmas presents, he put them away and didn't associate the presents with the golden egg at all.

If it weren't for mentioning Professor Swan now, he wouldn't have thought of this even after a few more days.

After saying goodbye to Sirius, Harry quickly returned to the dormitory and took out the translator.

He found an empty classroom, opened the golden egg, put on the translation headset, and endured the harsh sound, trying out the languages of magical creatures one by one.

However, this translator included nearly a hundred kinds of magical creature sounds, and Harry couldn't find the correct answer for a while.

Just as he was being tortured by the screams to the point of dizziness and wanted to continue tomorrow, the ringtone of his magic phone completely saved him.

"Hello, Harry, Cedric has already figured it out."