Alyssa came down from the Girl’s dormitory into the Common Room. It was almost past 9:00 at night and there were only a few students sitting around, either reading or chatting with each other. She took out the woolen sock and dropped the egg into her hand, this time making sure that she gripped it a little tighter. She was prepared for it to 'bounce' out of her hand again. But nothing happened. The egg felt warm to the touch. “Just nice. Room temperature.” Alyssa told herself. She brought the egg closer to her face because she wanted to examine it more closely.

Then suddenly the egg bounced up hit her on the nose and then landed on the ground and rolled away….AGAIN!!.

“Ouch!! Darn it! You were playing possum all along. “Alyssa yelled chasing after it. “You can roll but you can’t hide for long. I’ll find you,” she said aloud knowing that the egg could understand her. Either that or she was going crazy. She looked every inch of the floor in the Common Room but couldn’t find it. Then she saw a glint from the corner of her eye. She saw something leap into the fireplace. “Oh No!! Please don’t let it be Queenie”. Alyssa quickly ran to the fireplace and looked inside, and sure enough, the egg was lying among the burning embers. Quickly taking her wand, she pointed it at the egg and said “AK-ee-oh Egg”. The Accio spell worked, and the egg came flying back to her. Alyssa caught it with one hand and almost dropped it because it was singeing hot.

Alyssa quickly placed the egg on the table and took out her wand. She was going to have to perform the Argentum Frigidus to cool it down. But she knew that she couldn’t cool it down too fast, or the metal might expand and crack. So she decided to cool it down slowly first by wetting it with water. She twirled and pointed her wand at the egg and cast the wetting spell by saying “Ar-gent-um Humid-us”. Water started spurting from the egg. Alyssa touched the egg and it was starting to cool down slowly but not too fast to cause an immediate change in temperature. She soaked the egg for a couple of seconds, then switched to the drying spell Argentum Siccus to dry the egg. She twirled and pointed her wand at the egg again, and said "Ar-gent-um Sik-us".

The droplets of water on the surface of the egg, started to evaporate. She touched the egg and it still felt warmer than it should be. So she used the cooling down spell to cool it down faster. She swished and tapped the egg with her wand, saying “Ar-gent-um Frigid-Us” at the same time. She leaned over to touch the egg. It felt cooler now. “Maybe if I do it two more times, it will eventually go back to its regular temperature.” So Alyssa repeated the spell two more times and when she touched it again, the temperature of the shell had returned back to room temperature. “Whew! Now that was a close call.” Alyssa sighed in relief.

She picked up the egg and noticed tiny scorch marks on the shell. “I need to use the Excolo spell. Hopefully that will remove these marks.” Picking up her wand again, she traced it all over the egg, while saying “Ex-CO-lo”. A yellow light engulfed the egg and when it disappeared, Alyssa picked it up and closely examined the metal shell. The scorch marks were gone.

“All nice and shiny,”Alyssa told her egg. “Now will you please behave”, she whispered to it, just before she placed it back in the woolen sock and tucked it back into her bag. Then she took out a rag and wiped up the water on the table before heading off to bed.