"Stop interrupting!" Harry glared at Draco. "That's called being clever!"
"Right, clever..." Draco casually raised his hands, looking as though he had no intention of arguing further. "Go on."
"Ahem!" Harry cleared his throat a few times and returned to the subject of the Golden Egg. "Hermione reminded me that the sound the Golden Egg makes is so strange because..."
"It's actually hinting that the second task will take place underwater, and definitely not at the surface. We'll have to go deep down to the lakebed... and perhaps encounter merpeople."
"Merpeople!" Cedric seemed to think of something and instinctively echoed the word. "No wonder..."
"Merpeople?" Draco raised an eyebrow. "So we need to dive to the bottom of the Black Lake, because a group of merpeople live there."
"That's right!" Harry nodded. "We also looked up the relevant information and learned that the merpeople are at the bottom of the Black Lake."
"I copied down the lyrics from the Golden Egg..." He pulled a strip of parchment from his pocket. "Have a look first!"
While Cedric and Draco read the parchment, Harry brought up the two lines he found most concerning. "I feel like the line, 'At the very beginning, you will lose the treasure you rely upon to live,' is very important..."
"It means we'll lose something, and it must be extremely important. And the final two lines mention 'returning fully laden' and 'returning empty-handed'..."
"This may be similar to the first task. Completing the so-called 'great work' is like taking the Golden Egg. We need to bring the completed 'great work' back in order to truly complete the challenge."
Draco asked, "Then what could this 'treasure you rely upon to live' be?"
"I think it should be a wand," Wizet said. Approaching it from the perspective of alchemy,