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{Season 1|EP.9}

{Season 1|EP. 9}

It was Felicity's job to figure out the message in the egg. For it would reveal the details for the final test. She figured out earlier that night that it shrieks if you opened it wrong. So Felicity decided to try a different approach. Since she wasn't allowed in the White Swan Corps just yet she was staying at a hotel nearby.

Felicity had no idea how long a bath she would need at the sauna near the hotel to work out the secret of the golden egg, she decided to do it at night, when she would be able to take as much time as she wanted. Reluctant though she was to accept more favors from Charles, she also decided to use the prefects' bathroom; far fewer people were allowed in there, so it was much less likely that she would be disturbed.

Felicity planned her excursion carefully, because she had been caught out of bed and out-of-bounds by Fawkes the caretaker in the middle of the night once before, and had no desire to repeat the experience. The Invisibility Cloak would, of course, be essential, and as an added precaution, Felicity thought she would take the Tackers Map, which, next to the cloak, was the most useful aid to rule-breaking Felicity owned. The map showed the whole of , including its many shortcuts and secret passageways and, most important of all, it revealed the people inside the castle as minuscule, labeled dots, moving around the corridors, so that Felicity would be forewarned if somebody was approaching the bathroom.

On Thursday night, Felicity sneaked up to bed, put on the cloak, crept back downstairs, and, just as he had done on the night when Hagrid had shown him the dragons, waited for the portrait hole to open. This time it was Alice who waited outside to give the Fat Lady the password ("banana fritters"), "Good luck," Alice muttered, climbing into the room as Felicity crept out past him.

It was awkward moving under the cloak tonight, because Felicity had the heavy egg under one arm and the map held in front of his nose with the other. However, the moonlit corridors were empty and silent, and by checking the map at strategic intervals, Felicity was able to ensure that he wouldn't run into anyone he wanted to avoid. When he reached the statue of Boris the Bewildered, a lost-looking wizard with his gloves on the wrong hands, he located the right door, leaned close to it, and muttered the password, "Pine fresh," just as Charles had told him.

The door creaked open. Felicity slipped inside, bolted the door behind him, and pulled off the Invisibility Cloak, looking around.

His immediate reaction was that it would be worth becoming a prefect just to be able to use this bathroom. It was softly lit by a splendid candle-filled chandelier, and everything was made of white marble, including what looked like an empty, rectangular swimming pool sunk into the middle of the floor. About a hundred golden taps stood all around the pools edges, each with a differently colored Jewel set into its handle. There was also a diving board. Long white linen curtains hung at the windows; a large pile of fluffy white towels sat in a corner, and there was a single golden-framed painting on the wall. It featured a blonde mermaid who was fast asleep on a rock, her long hair over her face. It fluttered every time she snored.

Felicity moved forward, looking around, his footsteps echoing off the walls. Magnificent though the bathroom was - and quite keen though he was to try out a few of those taps - now he was here he couldn't quite suppress the feeling that Charles might have been having him on. How on earth was this supposed to help solve the mystery of the egg? Nevertheless, he put one of the Huffy towels, the cloak, the map, and the egg at the side of the swimming-pool-sized bath, then knelt down and turned on a few of the taps.