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Those last two questions would be really good if I intended to let you do anything that'd require us needing a second, third, or God forbid fourth egg.

Which I don't.

And what exactly are your intentions with it?

Honestly, at this point, my intentions begin and end with "Keep Sherlock from breaking the egg". The second goal, "Get the thing to actually hatch", is a distant, dream-like second, so far off and hazy under all the different ways you could botch this assignment.

It's not exactly an assignment, though, is it? Are we being graded?

Sometimes I feel like getting through the day unscathed is an assignment at this school. I'm erring on the side of a professor leaping out and hurling failing grades at anyone who ends up with egg on their face. Figuratively or literally.

What, exactly, did you mean when you were talking about testing the shell's properties?

Well, stress tests mostly. I'm rather interested in seeing what amount of force is required to break the egg. Also be interesting to see what a developing snake fetus looks like. If I can get more, I can chart the different stages of development and whether the egg surface strength deteriorates, strengthens or maintains.

You really think I opted for this "assignment" for the chance to hatch a baby snake?

Oh, well, then it's a real shame that absolutely none of that is going to happen!

I know you didn't, but I did. Where are you?

My room. Want to come up?

Yes. I'm suing you for custody.

The riddle's answer is Hounds today. If you want it, come and try to take it.

Is anyone milling around? As much as I want to liberate that egg from you, I don't want to get caught either.

"Come and try"? If you enlist Tony to play keep-away with that egg, Sherlock, I swear... things will not be pretty.

Of course people are around. I doubt they'd care; they all have their own studies to see to. Segregation by house is ridiculous and even if it's "in the rule" most people here will agree with common sense over rules any day. And my roommates are otherwise occupied.

[If the written word could sigh heavily, boy oh boy would it be all over this reply.]

Fine. Knowing your typical Ravenclaw student, they might let me by when I explain that I'm actually trying to salvage this assignment. I'm sure the goat fallout is still fresh in their memories.

I'm on my way. Don't do anything that... you know, actually, just don't do anything.

I'll leave it under the heating lamp, shall I?

And do be quick about it, John. This is immensely dull.

[Not really knowing the proper etiquette for dorm trespassing, John settles for giving a small knock as he enters the 6th year dorm.]

You know, when you told me the answer, I was expecting the riddle to be dog-related, not about guessing the names of a bunch of historical wizards' surnames and putting the first letter of each in the right order.

You think they would make it that easy?

[He hops up. Yay, John is in his territory ^_^ ... Actually, he could have picked up a bit. He scoots some books and supplies off his trunk to make a place for John to sit if he likes. His bed has more parchments and books on it with the snake egg on a table under a heating lamp next to a cauldron bubbling away.]

There, see, the egg's just fine.

Shows why I'm not in Ravenclaw. I'd get to the door while I was exhausted, have no idea what it's asking of me, and yell obscenities at it until dawn. Possibly while kicking it, depending on circumstances.

[He walks over and peers at the egg. It certainly looks okay, seeming quite comfortably warm beneath the magically-powered lamp, but how long can that last?]

Well... I'm glad it seems fine. I think I'd still prefer to hang onto it most of the time, though.

[He sits at the offered spot, taking in the general clutter. He doesn't comment, however; Sherlock had told him about that, after all, as well as the... unusual sleeping arrangements that involves.]

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