Chapter 618 Cedric's Little Secret and Mermaid

In fact, Sirius and Hagrid's urging put great pressure on Harry, and he had to put this matter on the agenda and accept all forms of help.

He couldn't let these two people down, and the day of the competition was coming soon.

Harry didn't know how long it would take him to bathe before he could figure out the secret of the egg, so he decided to do it at night.

He decided to think slowly in Xilinfei's bathing room, because few people could enter here, so he would not be afraid of being disturbed.

Reluctantly as he was, he lowered his arrogance and considered Cedric's advice.

The last time he got up in the middle of the night and climbed over the wall to walk out of the school, he was caught by the administrator Filch. He didn't want something like this to happen again.

So this time, he was well prepared. It would be very useful to bring the invisibility cloak. He also brought the Marauder's Map, which showed the layout of the school. There were also many paths, secret exits, and more importantly, in the corridors. People walking around in the bathroom will be displayed with small dots at any time, so that if someone approaches the bathroom, he will know it immediately.

He discussed it with Fan Lin. In fact, Harry invited Fan Lin to go to the bathhouse together, but Fan Lin didn't seem to have this intention.

According to Fan Lin's idea, Harry can find the answer himself. This is not his game, and there is no reason to reveal too much.

Moreover, it would take a long time for Fan Lin to fuse to change his body through alchemy to adapt to phantom transformation, and he would have to practice more.

He has not been to the Black Lake yet. This is largely the reason why he learned the mermaid language. He cannot rely 100% on that memory to act.

Naturally, on Thursday night, Harry slipped out of bed alone, donned the Invisibility Cloak, and slipped down the stairs, much like Hagrid had done the night he took them to see the dragon.

This time Harry asked Ron to wait outside and gave him a code word.

“Fried Banana Pie!”

"Good luck," Ron murmured, crawling into the large room just as Harry crawled out and passed him.

It was extremely uncomfortable for Harry to walk with the egg in his hand and the map in front of his nose while wearing the invisibility cloak.

Fortunately, the corridor was filled with moonlight, and with the help of the map, Harry was sure he wouldn't bump into anyone he didn't want to see.

When he reached the statue of Boris, he stopped, leaned against the door on the right, and softly said "novel pine tree." This code was told to him by Cedric.

The door creaked open, and Harry slipped in, took off his invisibility cloak, and looked around. He suddenly felt that it would be good to be a prefect if he could have such a bathroom.

The room was filled with chandeliers lit with candles. Everything is paved in marble, even the bath in the middle of the house. There are a hundred gold faucets around the pool, each inlaid with gems of different colors. There is also a diving board above the swimming pool. The long white curtains hung gracefully, and a gold-framed oil painting hung on the wall, depicting a blonde beauty sleeping on a stone.

He put down the golden egg, map and invisibility cloak and walked towards the bath. There was a sound of footsteps echoing in the house. He now suspected that Cedric was lying to him. Why did he ask him to take a bath? What does this have to do with golden eggs?

However, he was still put on a towel, knelt under the faucets, turned them on and started flushing.

Harry soon discovered that the foam coming out of each faucet was different, and he had never seen such magical foam before. The bubbles coming out of one faucet are blue or pink, as big as footballs; the bubbles coming out of another faucet are like snowballs; the water coming out of the third faucet is purple smoke.

When the bath was nearly full, Harry turned off all the taps, took off his pajamas and slippers, and slid in.

The bath was so deep that his feet could barely reach the bottom, and Harry swam happily around.

When he returned to the edge, he stared at the egg, but still had no clue. Harry reached for the egg and opened it, and the melodious sound immediately filled the entire room.

But this time the sound didn't seem as suppressed as before, but it was still unpleasant to hear, and Harry suspected that it was just an illusion of his.

He closed the egg again, fearing that the noise would wake Falk.

"If I were you, I would put the egg in the water." Harry was so frightened that he choked on his water.

Moaning Myrtle—a melancholy female ghost who often cries in the toilet—is sitting with her legs crossed on one of the faucets.

"Myrtle," Harry shouted angrily, "I have nothing on."

Although there were a lot of bubbles in the pool, he still felt like he was being peeked as soon as he entered.

"My eyes were closed when you came in." Myrtle said with a nervous smile, "It's just that you haven't seen me."

"Okay then." Harry bent his legs slightly, leaving only his head above the water to prevent Myrtle from seeing anything.

"I shouldn't come to this bathroom, right? Is this for girls?"

"You've always been like that, and you've never cared," Myrtle said sarcastically.

"Someone asked me to come here. But I won't come here again." Harry said with a cold sweat.

It was really bad enough that we had the wrong bath. But...the password Cedric knew was to open the door to the prefect's bathroom...

This is something worth pondering.

What if Cedric had an invisibility cloak, or... Harry suddenly remembered the magic spell that Fan Lin had used, the Disillusionment Charm...

This is much more convenient than the invisibility cloak, as long as the caster's emotions do not fluctuate violently...

It seems that Cedric has some unspeakable secrets. If...

Harry was thinking about the female prefects at Hogwarts...

"I see." Myrtle didn't seem to notice what Harry was daydreaming about, she said quickly, "But I'd rather put the egg in the water and try it, like Cedric did."

"You peeked at him too? What's wrong with you? Do you hide here every day to peek at the prefects taking a bath?" Harry said angrily.

(Well, Cedric always uses the female prefects' bathroom to take a bath, this is big news!)

"Only occasionally, but I never talked to anyone." Myrtle said innocently. "What do you think a ghost thinks?"

Uh... Harry was a little speechless, Myrtle was also a woman, and this was the female bathroom, so... However, when Harry stood up, he still asked Myrtle to turn around, then wrapped himself tightly with the towel, and then took the egg.

"Open the egg and put it in the water," said Myrtle. Harry did so. Then he heard the sound coming from the egg. This time the sound was completely different, gurgling, gurgling, accompanied by some lyrics, but Harry couldn't hear it clearly.

"You have to dive into the water too," said Myrtle.

Harry took a deep breath and submerged his head in the water.

This time, he finally heard what it sang: "Come to us along the sound. We can't sing on the shore. We will steal the things you miss most. You will find them in an hour, and then you will have to exchange them with us. After an hour, everything disappears. If it's too late, nothing will exist anymore."

After listening to it, Harry surfaced and brushed away the hair stuck to his eyes.

"Did you hear what it said?" asked Myrtle.

"Yes, but I want to listen to it again." As he said that, Harry dived into the water again. He listened to it several times again, but did not float up immediately. Instead, he thought hard for a while under the water.

"I'm looking for someone who can't talk on the shore. Who is this person?"

"You're too slow." Myrtle surfaced. Harry surfaced and saw Myrtle's happy look. He looked away and continued to think about who it could be.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on the mermaid on the wall.

"Yes. It's the mermaid. Myrtle, but isn't there no mermaid in the world?"

"When you were in the Muggle world, didn't you see a unicorn?" Myrtle asked back.

Harry felt a little stupid. He had read Vanlin, the textual research on mermaids, and heard that the mermaids in the Black Lake could be seen from the Slytherin Common Room.

Well, the mermaids in the Black Lake!

"Great, Diggory thought about it for a long time last time before he figured it out."

"It must be it. The second task is to find the mermaids in the Black Lake." Harry was very happy.

However, when he thought that he was not a good swimmer, Harry felt as if he was punched in the stomach.

He had hardly practiced swimming.

When he was a child, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon didn't let him learn because they were afraid he would drown.

It was okay in this bath, but the lake was big and deep. And the mermaids lived under the lake...

"Myrtle, teach me how to breathe in the water." Harry said.

"You are really offensive. You actually told me to breathe." Myrtle cried.

"I'm sorry, I forgot you were..." Harry felt a little troubled. The most terrifying thing about Myrtle was crying, but he just...

"Of course, I was easily forgotten. No one would remember me when I was alive. It took them a long time to find my body after I drowned. I was sitting here waiting for them-"

Harry didn't want to listen to the rest. The basilisk had been solved. Logically speaking, it was still him and Vernon who avenged Myrtle.

He continued to think about the lyrics below. What does "Your lost things are with us" mean? It probably means, will they come to steal things? What does it want to steal? "

"And then... so I had to live in the toilet -" Myrtle chattered.

It seemed that Myrtle didn't hear it at all.

"Yes," Harry said, "I know now..., hey, turn around, I'm coming up."

"Will you come to see me again in the future?" Myrtle asked reluctantly.

"I'll try my best." Harry said embarrassedly, and he put on the invisible cloak.

"Thank you for your help, goodbye."

"Goodbye." (To be continued)