Harry Potter's Coolest Aunt

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Everybody got up late on Boxing Day. The hangout room was much quieter than it had been lately, with many yawns punctuating the lazy conversations. Hermione's hair was bushy again; she confessed to the gang that she had used liberal amounts of Sleekeazy's Hair Potion on it for the ball, "but it's way too much bother to do every day," she said matter-of-factly, scratching a purring Crookshanks behind the ears. Theo and Hermione seemed to have agreed not to discuss their argument. They were quite friendly to each other, though oddly formal. Aishi and Harry wasted no time in telling the gang about the conversation they had overheard between Madame Maxime and Hagrid. Still, Hermione didn't seem to find the news that Hagrid was a half-giant nearly as shocking as others did. 

"Well, I thought he must be," she said, shrugging. "I knew he couldn't be pure giant because they're about twenty feet tall. But honestly, all this hysteria about giants. They can't all be horrible. . . . It's the same sort of prejudice that people have toward werewolves. . . . It's just bigotry, isn't it?" Theo looked as though he would have liked to reply scathingly, but perhaps he didn't want another row, because he contented himself with shaking his head disbelievingly while Hermione wasn't looking. It was time now to think of the homework they had neglected during the first week of the holidays except for Aishi who finished it earlier and helped the other with their homework. 

Everybody seemed to be feeling rather flat now that Christmas was over — everybody except Aishi, that is, who was starting (once again) to feel slightly nervous. The trouble was that February the twenty-fourth looked a lot closer from this side of Christmas, and she still hadn't done anything about working out the clue inside the golden egg. She therefore started taking the egg out of her trunk every time he went up to the dormitory, opening it, and listening intently, hoping that this time it would make some sense. She strained to think what the sound reminded her of, apart from thirty musical saws, but she had never heard anything else like it.

She closed the egg, shook it vigorously, and opened it again to see if the sound had changed, but it hadn't. She tried asking the egg questions, shouting over all the wailing, but nothing happened. She even threw the egg across the room — though she hadn't expected that to help. Aishi had not forgotten the hint that Cedric had given her, she wondered what it meant...till she decided to try it out. She doesn't feel right listening to it in a bath and that is when she remembers Professor Percy's office has a large fountain. 

She hurried there and saw no one was there, she saw the fountain and placed the egg underwater. She then heard faint singing coming from it as she opened it. she then stuck her head underwater and listened.

"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 sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look And to recover what we took, But past an hour — the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it won't come back." 

She tried to listen again but was pulled out of the water by a worried percy. " Aishi! Are you okay what are you doing???" She said thinking someone tried to drown her " I am fine Mrs. Jackson.....I was listening to the clue." Aishi said coughing. "what..." she said now noticing the egg in the water. "oh....lucky it was just me and not my son "

"yeah....do you might..." Percy nodded and levitated the water with the egg in it as they both heard the music. "The voice was not able to be heard above water but in the water..." Aishi said thinking before looking at the wall designs where she saw mermaids. " Mermaids.....professor jackson are there mermaids near here?"

"yeah in the black lake...I have tea with them sometimes......Oh.....why the hell are they...." Percy said, "Take what you'll sorely miss..what will that mean?" Aishi said, "Forget that I need to find a way to breathe underwater bye professor!!!" She said running off with the egg