Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 597 The Secret of the Golden Egg

This sense of anxiety was still not enough to drive Harry to seek Cedric's help.

As for the secret hidden in this golden egg, McGuffin could not provide any help, and he did not know what it was.

Because the golden egg this time... Obviously, it is completely different from the underwater adventure in the original plot, where the warriors enter the black lake to rescue their most precious "treasure".

(After the golden egg was pulled apart, it did not make that piercing siren scream, which also proved that McGuffin's conjecture was correct.)
Similarly, Hagrid could not disclose any information to Harry because of his status as a professor.

So Harry could only hope in the end... that Sirius would give him some help and guidance.

Just on the first day of the new semester, Harry's first class...is protecting magical creatures.

When he went to class, Harry not only took the book, parchment and quill as usual, but he also put the heavy golden egg in his pocket.

(McGuffin casts [Untraceable Stretch Curse] on Harry's pocket, so that the golden egg can fit in it.)
For several days in a row during the Christmas holiday, the thick layer of snow that fell has not disappeared after all.

Although the professors used magic to drive out many... trails that were 'submerged' in the snow on the grounds outside Hogwarts Castle.

But McGuffin felt that they walked in it, as if they had entered the narrow alley,
The snow-covered walls on both sides, which were nearly one to two meters high, and the snow-colored cross-section of the passage seemed to collapse in the next moment, completely submerging them.

It felt cramped and cold, and it was hard to breathe.

And in this weather, come outside.

The cold wind was blowing in the "alley", and from time to time, it would bring down bursts of foamy snow stubble from the snow pile.

Hit the face, hard and cold.

The knife-like cold wind penetrated through every gap in their robes, bit by bit scratching the nerves on their superficial skin.

In this kind of weather, to be honest, even MacGuffin and Harry didn't want to go to Hagrid's place to take the protection of magical animals class.

What's more, Hagrid has... been asking everyone to breed snails this semester.

This kind of teaching content is even more uninspiring.

Although Hermione said that the first project competition was over, Hagrid didn't expect to breed snails anymore.

But that didn't make the Gryffindors any happier.

Because even Neville knows... Hagrid's unique hobbies, it's hard to say what kind of teaching content he will prepare next.

—a sphinx, perhaps?I saw his eyes light up when he saw this monster!

Ron refuted Hermione secretly. (Hermione rolled her eyes all the way, and treated Ron coldly, and the two of them froze again.)
However, when they came to Hagrid's cabin, they were stunned in place.

Near Hagrid's hut and his vegetable patch, tens of square meters... a large open space was cleared.

On that open space, there are crystal clear ice sculptures.

In all shapes and sizes, there is everything!
Huge monsters that Hagrid loved...

The fire dragon, the three-headed dog, the sphinx... Among them, the largest and most ferocious is a snail... The tail with the sharp barbed hook is flying high towards the roof of Hagrid's hut, as if it is attacking that place.

This situation is very surprising.

Even LS Malfoy, they Slytherins were speechless.

In addition to these vivid sculptures of huge monsters, in front of the hut, there are rows of ice sculptures of girls without facial features.

Most of them are dressed in traditional Japanese ornamental clothing and a cloak.

Compared with others, these ice sculptures are extraordinarily crystal clear... just like diamonds, under the cold morning sun, there are layers of shimmering light, reflecting a rainbow of light.

The tall Hagrid, Chiko Morita, and Eiichi Akagi... were standing in front of the hut, waiting for everyone to come over.

"Hurry up, the school bell has been ringing for 10 minutes...I know everyone is cold, but it's not polite to keep our guests waiting here..."

After seeing the students trembling, they all gathered together.

Hagrid clapped his hands and turned all eyes on himself.

He loudly introduced the two Japanese wizards around him to others.

"Today, with two senior students from a Japanese magic school... Ms. Morita Chiko, and Mr. Akagi Eiichi, I will introduce you to a unique magical creature from Japan, the Snow Girl!"

Chiko Morita corrected Hagrid in a low voice with no expression on her face.

"Oh, I was wrong. The Snow Maiden is not a magical animal. They are similar to the centaur, a magical creature with high intelligence. It's just because of people's prejudice that they are classified as magical creatures... They have very special magic, and this talent is born..."

"Our friends who came from afar are so kind. After communication, they agreed to let these amazing magical creatures...appear before our eyes for us to understand and learn from..."

Many girls were already impatient, and they stared at the statues shining like diamonds in front of Hagrid, and they were full of admiration.

"Beautiful!" even Hermione agreed.

McGuffin, Harry, Ron and the others felt that the faceless girl was a bit intrusive and didn't care.

Hagrid went on to say loudly, "Girls can step up and check up close, and boys can just look at it from a distance..."

"Snow Maiden hates any man, you don't want to see what kind of damage they will cause when they are provoked!"

"The snow girls are widely distributed in the high mountains of Japan's magical secrets. They appear in the most severe cold wind and snow... Maybe there are some on the snow mountains of XZ in China..."

"As I said...they have very powerful mana, and they can control the weather to a certain extent, summoning an extremely terrifying blizzard, which will not end for days and nights. They can breathe out a frigid air current, and they can freeze anything they touch into various shapes..."

"Every snow girl is a master of ice sculpture, and all their works are as lifelike as the most outstanding works of art..."

Hagrid turned around and pointed to the huge ice sculptures around him, and said, "The thing they fear and hate the most is fire, but I warn you that it's best not to have such thoughts..."

He glared at Malfoy and the others, and yelled, "Don't conjure fire, or ignite anything... Otherwise, when you turn into a block of ice... I won't take the responsibility."

After finishing speaking, Hagrid nodded to Chiko Morita beside him.

The Japanese witch produced an oddly shaped wand (like a golden cone... one thick and the other thinner).

Put it near your mouth and blow on it.

A cold wind, howling,

On the top of the snow walls surrounding this clearing, gusts of cold snow were blown out... Macguffin and the others could barely open their eyes.

In this vast expanse of whiteness, those originally transparent and crystal-clear statues of young girls gradually turned into snow white...the skin was like milk,

They gradually melted their facial features, and most of them looked very similar to Morita Chiko.

The crystal notches on the head gradually melted into a head of silver hair.

The color is so dazzlingly white that the surrounding white snow looks a bit gray in comparison.

As Hermione and the girls slowly walked towards the Snow Girl, the faces of those girls... gradually resembled each of them again.

Hagrid shouted, "Yes, that's it... Relax, you can reach out and touch their skin... Don't be afraid of the cold, when you are approved by the Snow Maiden, they will give you some small gifts."

"Just like the ice sculptures next to you, you can let them shape something according to your imagination..."

When the girls touched the snow girl's cold skin with joy, the boys started playing around under the ice sculptures of huge monsters.

After Hagrid and the two Japanese student representatives whispered a few words, they walked over to McGuffin and the others.

"Very good, Hagrid... I thought it was a snail again? What about those snails, what did you do with them?" Ron asked happily.

"Uh, the goblins from Gringotts took it away... They said this thing can guard the underground vault."

"Huh?" Several people couldn't believe it.

"They gave me a lot of Galleons?" Hagrid said proudly, tugging at his beard.

"Ha!" This made several people even more surprised, they didn't expect that such things could be sold.

Before a few people could react, Hagrid said excitedly again, "I used that money to...adopt a dragon egg in the Fire Dragon Habitat Sanctuary in Romania. Charlie Weasley said...when the time comes, you can let me participate in the hatching of this little dragon..."

Hagrid's face was bright, while McGuffin and the others looked at each other, and they all knew the helplessness in each other's eyes.

In first year, Hagrid's baby dragon caused all kinds of havoc, and they still haven't forgotten it.

Fortunately, Hagrid finally learned this time, and secretly hatched dragon eggs without directly violating the laws of the Ministry of Magic.

Seeing Hagrid talking from the dragon egg... to the little dragon he once raised, 'Noble', Harry and the others knew for a while that Hagrid hadn't stopped by himself.

Harry had no choice but to interrupt Hagrid, talking about his own affairs, "Hagrid... Where's Padfoot? I have something I want to ask him..."

"What?" Hagrid was rather reproachful at first.

But when Harry saw part of the golden egg emerging from his pocket, he immediately stopped talking.

Obviously, Hagrid really couldn't reveal anything to Harry about the golden egg.

So he left the boys in a hurry, came to those snow girls a little further away, and began to list all the students one by one...the magical attributes of the snow girls, the various ice magics they possess, and their characteristics...

His voice was so loud that it almost made the snow walls surrounding the clearing vibrate slightly.

Hagrid's lesson hit the itch of all the boys and girls.

Girls like this rare, crystal-clear and beautiful creature that can cast all kinds of ice magic, while boys like those huge ice monsters even more.

Although most people hate scary monsters, people have grown to like them when they are still and harmless.

Even LS Malfoy and Slytherin witches like Millicent couldn't fault this class.

Under the guidance of Chiko Morita, the girls worked with Yuki on to create various ice sculptures in mid-air.

The snow girl blows crystal white snowflakes out of thin air, or huge, cute, or beautiful ice and snow sculptures appear out of thin air little by little, in different shapes.

When get out of class is over, everyone is very happy.

Many people refused to leave, reluctant to leave.

It wasn't until the Yuki girls disappeared in a gust of snow under the magic of Morita Chiko and Akagi Eiichi that the students (mainly girls) slowly left.

Then, McGuffin and the others followed Hagrid to his cabin.

Sirius has been living here all this time, secretly protecting Harry.

He wanted to know every bit of Harry's life,
Especially on Christmas night, when he had seen Little Hangleton... what had happened to the Muggles.

"Harry, you have to be careful! I heard from some sources...something is wrong in the dark magic world in London, England, you must be careful!"

After Black glanced at McGuffin with some trepidation, he turned to Harry and asked repeatedly.

"I know." Harry struggled to take out the golden egg from his pocket, and handed it to Black.

"However, now I have a problem... The secret of this thing can't be solved no matter how I think about it, can you help me find out?"

"Hermione said the marks engraved on it... are runes!" Harry added.

"Well, this is indeed the earliest and oldest magic incantation in the European magic world... from those ancient Nordic druids..."

Blake carefully picked up the golden egg, held it in front of his eyes, carefully turned it to check the traces on it, and from time to time followed the cracks on it...Pick it open and see.

"I'm sure it should be Professor Dumbledore's handwriting. Back then, when I was in Hogwarts, he liked to secretly prepare some puzzles for students to explore..."

"Since this has given a clue, it should have something to do with it!" Black said.

"But, why are we all in the library...can't find any records related to those Nordic wizards, the original druids...or magic..." Hermione asked.

"It doesn't have to be magic!" Blacknor thought.

"These things have always been related to legends in the pure-blood wizard family... I remember it should be like this..."

"The most famous thing about the ancient Nordic druids is that when they cast spells, they rely on the magic runes to cast spells. They can control various magical plants, and certain transformations into animals..." Black recalled the things in his mind, and told Harry and the others bit by bit.

"Well, that's right, the most famous thing about these ancient Norse barbarian wizards is that they guarded the original World Tree, which is the only world tree that can be confirmed in history. And they are extremely good at cultivating various plants..."

As Black spoke, McGuffin remembered what happened to them in the Forbidden Forest some time ago.

At that time, according to Hagrid and Professor Sprout's statement and performance, this Forbidden Forest should be the venue for a certain event.

And based on the calculation of time, it should be very likely to be the venue for the second event.

After connecting these things, McGuffin subconsciously followed the intuition in his mind, snapped his fingers subconsciously, and summoned——

On the top of his head...a young sapling slowly emerged,

This thing is emerald green and illusory, and its shape is completely composed of extremely refined magic power.

Just when Harry and the others didn't know what the hell McGuffin was doing.

The inscriptions on the golden egg in Sirius' hand lit up one after another, and the pattern on it turned and expanded... The whole golden egg turned into a spherical basket woven with gold bars, and the cracks inside were full of green light.

There is a greenery in the room under the photo.

--This is?
Everyone understands,

What is preserved in this golden egg must be the seed of another world.

(End of this chapter)