In this chapter... Harry decides to take Cedric’s advice and take a bath, in the Prefect’s bathroom, with the golden egg. The Prefect’s bathroom has a massive swimming pool in it, with lots of different taps. Moaning Myrtle, the ghost which usually haunts the girls bathroom, assist Harry with the egg – she is watching him trying to figgure it out. She suggests putting the egg under the water, and then listening to to the egg. Harry learns,from the egg, that something he loves will be taken from him and kept at the bottom of the lake. Harry has to figure out how to stay underwater for an hour.
Harry runs into trouble when he comes out of the bathroom, still under the Invisability Cloak. While looking at the Marauder’s Map, he sees Barty Crouch snooping around in Professor Snape’s office. Crouch is supposed to be too ill to jude the Triwizard Tournament, so Harry plans to investigate. Harry’s foot gets caught in the stairs . He drops the egg down the stairs – and it begins to wail – and also drops the Marauder’s Map. The noise draws Filch, the caretaker, and Professor Snape, to the stairs. Luckily, Mad-Eye Moody shows up and steers them in the wrong direction. Professor Moody says to Professor Snape that Professor Dumbledore likes giving people second chances. Professor Moody is extremely interested when Harry tells him Crouch was inside Hogwarts. Harry loansProfessor Moody his Marauder’s Map to help him investigate.
“Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you’re searching, ponder this:
We’ve taken what you’ll surely miss,
An hour long you’ll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
Bit past an hour – the prospect’s black,
Too late it’s gone, it won’t come back.”
Who, besides Cedric Diggory, helped Harry figure out the puzzle of understanding the task of golden egg? Moaning Myrtle
Chapter 26: The Second Task
In this chapter... Sirius arranges to meet the Trio in Hogsmeade, on their next visit. The Trio desperately seek help in the library, trying to find a way, or something, that will help Harry breath underwater, for an hour. They keep coming to a dead end. The night before the second task, Ron and Hermione are summoned to Professor McGonagall’s study. They do not return. Harry keeps checking book after book he gets sleepier and sleepier. He wakes up on the morning of the second task to find Dobby poking him with a wad of slimy gillyweed, which he claims will help Harry breathe underwater.
Harry races to the lake. He eats the gillyweed and dives into the water, his job to retrieve what has been taken from him. When he finds the merpeople’s city he’s surprised to see four hostages there – Ron, Ron, Hermione, Cho, and a little girl are all down there, asleep. The Triwizard Champions are supposed to take only one hostage tup above. But there is no sign of Viktor, Cedric or Fleur. Finally Viktor and Cedric appear – Viktor takes Hermione while Cedric takes Cho.
There is still no sign of Fleur, and the hour is almost up. Harry finally fress Ron and the little girl, who looks like she’s Fleur’s sister. He heads to the surface. Even though he was the first to get to the captives he was the last to return, and feels like an idiot for waiting so long and ruining his chance for a win. He gets high marks, however, for showing moral fortitude.
Powers You Never Knew You Had And What To Do With Them Now You’ve Wised Up
Who gives Harry some Gillyweed before the second Triwizard task? Dobby
Chapter 27: Padfoot Returns
In this chapter... Ron is also a celebrity, after being underwater for so long. Rita Skeeter strikes again when she publishes a story about Harry and Hermion’s love life, throwing Viktor Krum’s name into the mix as well. Professor Snape throughly enjoys reading out the article, in Potions. Professor Karkaoff has another whispered conversation with Professor Snape. Hermione starts to wonder how she’s getting all this secret information.
The Trio meet Sirius in Hogsmeade a few days later in a hidden cave outside of town. They discuss the current mysterious absences of Barty Crouch, his history fighting Death Eaters, and who might be inside Hogwarts that wants to kill Harry. Sirius says that Barty Crouch’s son went on trial, for being a Death Eater, Barty Crouch senior – his son was also called Barty – sent his son to Azkaban. Barty Crouch junior died in Azkaban, and Mrs Crouch died a few months later.
“I could’ve taken those mer-idiots any time I wanted.”
“What were you going to do, snore at them?” said Hermione waspishly.
What is Veritaserum? Truth Potion
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