Although many students who knew Harry had chosen to stay at Hogwarts, the majority had still chosen to go home for the holidays.
Among them was Mafalda Weasley, who had now been confirmed to be Ron's distant younger cousin, on either his mother's or his father's side. However, rather than returning to her faraway home, Mafalda had moved into Weasley Manor with her parents.
Yes, Ron's house.
All seven children in Ron's family were away from home, yet there was still a Weasley child in the house... how absurd.
Ginny and Mafalda got along surprisingly well.
Perhaps it was because they were both girls, or perhaps Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Weasley had asked Ginny to look after her younger cousin. Either way, the two had become quite friendly without Ron and the others knowing anything about it.
Ginny had been worrying about the Golden Egg for several days, and then mentioned it, casually or otherwise, in her correspondence with Mafalda.
Mafalda's suggestion was to burn it, just as one would hatch a Dragon egg.
Ginny told Mafalda that they had already tried burning it.
But Mafalda asked one more question on that basis.
How long had they burned it?
Huh?
Ginny paused slightly when she saw the question.
One of the first methods Harry and the others had tried after getting their Golden Eggs was burning them. But it had had no effect.
The first method Ginny had chosen after borrowing Ron's Golden Egg was also to burn it, with equally little success. Even when Black Ginny used some relatively sophisticated fire-based Dark Magic, it still did not work.
Black Ginny did not know Fiendfyre-at least, she said she did not. But if a prop in an interschool student tournament required Dark Magic on the level of Fiendfyre, that would