Chapter 607
: The Song in the Golden Egg
Chapter 607: The Song in the Golden Egg
When he walked out of the tent, Harry thought there would be a grand ceremony. He was nervous and quickly smoothed his messy hair. He looked at his robes that could not be completely restored and felt worried.
However, the reality was unexpectedly simple. They did not return to the podium of the stadium to accept the cheers and applause of the audience.
Bagman simply led everyone to a new tent. As soon as they entered the door, the people walking in front squinted their eyes because of the flash lights.
"Aha, our warriors are here!" Rita Skeeter, wearing an exaggerated blue hat, said in a raised voice, and began to write quickly with a feather pen beside her.
In the tent, there was a young man with freckles all over his face. He jumped up as if there were springs under his feet, and the camera in his hand was flashing "click, click" at everyone.
Harry suddenly felt a little scared and stopped subconsciously, then was accidentally bumped into the tent by someone walking behind him.
Bagman ignored all this, just as he ignored the little blue bird that flew into the tent with the others, and just said enthusiastically:
"Oh, now officially confirmed, the list of warriors who passed the first project is--"
"Viktor Krum of Durmstrang;"
"Hope Cruise of Salem;"
"Cedric Diggory of Hogwarts, Harry Potter, Weed Grey;"
After hearing three names in a row, even though everyone knew this already, they still looked at them again.
"Adam Cagney of Ilvermorny;"
“Natalia Petrova of Kodos Dorris;”
"Kitajima Tachibana of the Magic House;"
"Clementine Durand of Beauxbatons."
"Jabari Weaving of Ouagadou."
"That's all, ten of you, right?" Bagman counted them off solemnly. Then he said, "Show me your golden eggs, please."
"Warriors, please raise the golden egg higher! Yes, that's it!"
The freckled reporter shouted excitedly, and the sound of camera shutters was as continuous as machine guns.
Bagman, still ignoring the noises around him, clapped his hands and said, "Well, I just have a few words to say—"
"The second project will start at 2:24 am on February th next year. I still can't tell you what the content of the second project is..."
At this point, he paused deliberately, with a sly smile on his round face:
"But if you are smart enough to solve the clues provided in the golden egg, you can be prepared before the competition comes."
"Is everything clear? Do you have any questions? Very good, you can go back and rest."
……
As he walked out of the tent, Harry looked back with lingering fear.
Rita Skeeter, in her bright green robe, was holding onto Jabari from Uagadou and asked with a smile on her face:
"Congratulations, Mr. Weaving. I think you are the easiest contestant to cross the fire dragon! You have successfully advanced to the second round. Do you have anything to say? Would you like to tell us why your Animagus form is a gerbil?"
Behind Rita, the shorthand quill was suspended in the air with excitement, like a shark smelling blood.
Harry breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that this scary reporter seemed to have lost interest in him.
"I don't know what the clue to the golden egg is." Harry looked down at the golden egg and asked Wade, "Do you think our clues are the same? Do you want to open it and see?"
Wade glanced around and shook his head slightly: "Let's talk about it when we get back."
"You're right." Harry put the golden egg into his pocket: "There will definitely be a celebration party at the college tonight, and I don't know if Cedric's bones can grow back in time." Wade felt that this was not going to happen.
At the beginning, only one of Harry's arm bones was removed, and it took a whole night to grow. The bones in the thigh are much longer than the bones in the arm, so the regeneration process must be longer and more painful.
But then again, even if Cedric couldn't get up tonight, Hufflepuff would definitely hold another celebration for him. They never lacked food for a banquet anyway.
After parting with Harry, Wade first reported his safety to his parents - although they must have watched the normal game through the live broadcast - and then some friends called to celebrate, and after chatting, he asked Marchionne for a complete copy of the game video.
Afterwards, Wade came to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor of the castle. When he grasped the brass door handle and opened it, the room had turned into a spacious and bright space comparable to a Roman bath.
The bathing pool in the center of the room was at least 20 to 30 meters long, with wisps of hot steam rising from the water surface and the white marble sheen like a pearl. There were also twelve graceful mermaid statues standing around it, holding musical instruments or vases with clear water constantly flowing out of the vases.
Videll took off his clothes and shoes neatly, took a deep breath, jumped into the water and swam back and forth happily, splashing crystal water on the surface.
The boy was as agile as a mermaid in the water. The warm water of the bathtub took away his fatigue from the competition. He turned over and dived into the water. When he surfaced again, he was already at the edge of the swimming pool.
Wade shook his wet black hair, then took out the golden egg from the pocket of his clothes by the pool and dived into the water again.
Although there are more participating schools and the content of the competition is not exactly the same, since the officials from the British Ministry of Magic are still designing the competition items, their thinking mode of setting puzzles should not change much.
It's just that the difficulty of the competition content has increased a lot.
Wade opened his eyes in the water, put his fingers on the crack of the golden egg, and pulled it hard, opening the golden egg.
Suddenly, a string of strange and ethereal songs flowed out -
Come, come and find it,
Where our voices are heard.
We cannot sing on the ground,
As you search, consider:
Hearts of steel sleep in darkness,
The red of sunset lingers between the tentacles,
The full moon engraved with stars is sealed in the ancient stone door.
When the three become one, you will know where to go.
Be careful, be careful...
If you want to get out of your cold nest,
Only wisdom and courage can lead to success...】
Wade surfaced, picked up his wand and cast a Bubblehead Charm on himself, then dived back into the water and listened to the song twice more from beginning to end, committing the entire content of the song to memory.
"it is as expected……"
Wade emerged from the water, wiped the water off his face, and raised his hand to comb his wet hair back.
"The content of the competition has changed, but it's still about searching in the Black Lake... But this time, we're not looking for a person who is the 'treasure', but for three things..."
He produced a piece of parchment and wrote down the lyrics, staring at the words with a slight frown.
"Heart of Steel, Red Sunset, Full Moon?"
"I always feel that... this is much harder to find than a living person..."
(End of this chapter)