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Running all the way, Harry and Hermione left the dark and cold dungeon, but when they arrived near the stairs of the auditorium on the first floor, they both stopped in their tracks...
Appearing in front of them was a small Gryffindor freshman, holding a camera in his hand, poking in place motionless, his body stiff like a stone sculpture.
"Colin?" Harry's eyes widened unconsciously.
Why did this kid have an accident? !
"Harry, look at the wall..." Hermione tremblingly pointed to the wall beside Colin.
There were two lines of hideous writing, and the scarlet imprints snaked down like a blood book.
The chamber of secrets was opened.
Those who are enemies of the heir, be vigilant.
"Colin should have come out to find me."
Harry guessed that Colin didn't see him at the Halloween banquet, so he took his camera out to look for it, but he encountered an unknown attack in the corridor on the first floor!
Chamber of Secrets, heir, what the hell is that?
The sharp-eyed Harry noticed that there was a shallow trace that seemed to be water-stained around Colin, but before he could confirm where the trace led, a loud noise suddenly came, followed by several Hundreds of well-fed and well-fed students swarmed up and immediately surrounded the crime scene...by the way, they also destroyed all possible clues.
When these students saw Colin who was motionless, all the previous noisy voices disappeared.
They watched the terrifying scene in front of them quietly, cast their eyes on Harry and Hermione, and gradually became vigilant.
"Those who are enemies of the heir, be vigilant! The next one is you, mud... woohoo!"
"To shut up!"
Hearing the schadenfreude voice behind him, Harry hit Malfoy with a flying brick without even thinking about it, and slapped Malfoy all over his face, knocking back everything he wanted to say.
"asshole!"
"what are you doing?!"
Harry's behavior naturally aroused the enthusiasm of the Snake Academy, but when they saw Harry's fierce eyes, they all became hesitant again, and did not dare to take a step further.
"Very well, Malfoy seems to know something, so this matter has nothing to do with you Slytherins?" Harry scanned the students in the Snake Court one by one with his knife-like gaze, and every student he stared at People will involuntarily shudder.
"Who did it? I advise him to stand up. If he is found out, it will be too late to admit his mistake!"
"Harry, don't do this!" At this time, Dumbledore also rushed over with other teachers. Seeing the tense situation in the corridor, he hurriedly stood between Harry and the students of the Snake Academy.
"In any case, we need to check Colin's condition first." Dumbledore said in a deep voice, "Let's go to the school hospital first, Harry, Hermione, and you come too."
"Okay..." Harry nodded silently, he picked up Colin himself, and left the scene behind Dumbledore.
Chapter 130 Hermione Needs Full Protection
In the school hospital on the second floor, Harry carefully placed Colin on a hospital bed and handed it over to Dumbledore for a detailed examination.
Hermione shook Harry's hand nervously, her palm was now sweaty and trembling.
The situation was obviously bad, Dumbledore almost put his face on Colin, but still failed to give an answer.
"It must have been a spell that killed him, I guess it was the Transfiguration Curse." Lockhart chattered away, "It's a pity I wasn't there, otherwise..."
"Professor Lockhart!" Snape interrupted Lockhart's rhetoric with a sullen face, "Principal Dumbledore is checking, you need to keep quiet now."
Snape was actually helping Lockhart, because from his point of view, if Lockhart continued to chatter, Harry would definitely draw out his wand.
"Student Colin is not dead, he was just petrified." Dumbledore tapped Colin with his wand, checked it carefully, and finally came to a conclusion.
"Minerva, what happened to Colin's camera?" He turned to look at his most trusted vice principal, as if he wanted to get some good news from him.
"Completely burnt out, no useful information found in it."
Professor McGonagall shook her head regretfully. She would rather not use this kind of Muggle item now, so maybe there is more hope.
"Hmm...Harry, can you tell me why you're there?" After being teased by Sri Lanka once, Lockhart seemed to have found a way to show his presence again, straightening his back and asking Harry .
He also probably sensed that Harry, the savior, ignored him, so he also knew that his wish to use Harry to become famous might come to nothing, so he should simply use Harry to maximize his reputation.
For example... Regarding the issue of petrification, I should intimidate the suspect, Harry, to show my sharp eyesight~
"Principal... how does Colin recover from this situation?" Harry ignored him at all.
Hermione on the side wanted to say something, but she held back in the end. Obviously, she also felt that Lockhart's questioning was a bit harsh.
"This is luck among misfortunes, Harry." Dumbledore said happily, "Fortunately, Mrs. Sprout recently got some Mandrakes. When they grow and mature, we can configure Mandrakes to resurrect Potion, used to cure Colin's petrification."
Dumbledore also ignored Lockhart. In fact, this outsider didn't understand Harry's weight in the hearts of all the Hogwarts teachers!
"Principal, I want to know the details of the Chamber of Secrets." After confirming that Colin's life was not in danger, Harry asked the key point directly.
He is not the Harry Potter in the original book who is submissive to all teachers. Problems arise, clues are collected, and problems are solved. This is the basic process for dealing with any situation.
"I'll let Felius talk to you about the Chamber of Secrets." Dumbledore shook his head at Harry. "Now, you and Hermione can leave first."
"Okay." Harry also knew that what Dumbledore had to do now was to settle down Colin, so he simply took Hermione out of the ward.
After receiving Dumbledore's signal, Flitwick turned around and followed.
"Principal, I can prepare the mandrake resurrection potion. I can memorize the recipe of that thing in my dreams. Besides, I still don't think I should be so gullible about Mr. Granger..."
"Gidero, the potions professor at Hogwarts, it's Severus." Before someone finished speaking, Dumbledore's pair of deep eagle eyes stared closely at him, "And I have to tell Yours is, for me, Harry is absolutely trustworthy. I hope you will firmly remember this matter under any circumstances!"
"Yes..." Lockhart agreed uncomfortably, and stepped back in embarrassment.
On the other hand, in the office of the dean of the Eagle Academy, Professor Flitwick had already followed Dumbledore's request and introduced the situation of the Chamber of Secrets to Harry in detail.
The history of Hogwarts and the grievances and grievances of the Big Four can be skipped directly. The so-called Chamber of Secrets is the Chamber of Secrets built by Salazar, and the heirs are naturally the heirs of Slytherin.
This castle was originally the hometown of Salazar Slytherin. After he broke up with the other founders because of the idea of pure blood supremacy, he built a secret room in the school and left a terrifying monster behind. Waiting for his heir to open the secret room again, thus cleaning out all the students of ordinary people in the school.
If the history provided by Flitwick is true, then Harry has to say one thing... Slytherin is such a crazy old man!
And now, he finally understood why Dobby was so worried before.
His mother, Lily, came from an ordinary person, so she was not a pure-blood wizard in the strict sense, and was later adopted by an ordinary family; and Hermione, who was beside her, was a wizard from an ordinary person!
Hermione would definitely be targeted for cleaning by the monsters left by Slytherin, and she... might also happen to be by the way!
"Heir...Professor Flitwick, I wonder, has the Chamber of Secrets ever been opened?" Harry pressed.
If there are some previous clues, it may be able to analyze the problem faster.
"Maybe it has been opened, but I don't know the specific situation, after all, it was a long time ago..."
Professor Flitwick's tone was heavy, and when he looked up, Harry noticed that the old professor's eyes were red.
"I...I really can't believe that such a thing can happen! Mr. Creevey, he is just like that, oh...but I'm more worried about you now, Hermione!" Flitwick looked worried. Hermione, "You have the same origin as Mr. Creevey, and you may also be attacked by the heir of Slytherin..."
"I will do my best to protect Hermione!" Harry subconsciously grabbed Hermione's hand, and he held it so tightly that Hermione felt a little pain.
"This is the best way, Hermione. You must not act alone these days. I will ask Miss Clearwater to make arrangements to ensure that you are protected at all times." Professor Flitwick also instructed Hermione solemnly. sensitive.
"Hmm...Professor, thank you~"
Hermione pursed her lips tightly and bowed gratefully to Flitwick.
Penelope Clearwater is the female prefect of Ravenclaw. Flitwick's implication is that even when Harry is not with Hermione, he will entrust the prefect of Ravenclaw, also Or her other female students, who are always by Hermione's side!
This kind of unreserved attention and protection is indeed worthy of Hermione's gratitude.
As for Harry, between him and Hermione, there was no need to use gratitude to emphasize the relationship.
"The heir of Slytherin... So we really have to keep an eye on Malfoy, and the whole Slytherin house?" Hermione tentatively guessed after returning to the Ravenclaw common room.
"No...I'm going to find Ron tomorrow!"
After thinking about it carefully, Harry denied Hermione's idea.
Chamber of Secrets-Dobby-Lucius... After listening to it and thinking about it for a while, Harry realized that this series of information seemed to point to the fight between Lucius and Arthur!
Chapter 130 The second case logic is hard to understand
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can find that what Dobby wanted to remind Harry during the holiday should be about the Chamber of Secrets.
Therefore, the reason why the Chamber of Secrets was opened must be related to Lucius.
But after Harry calmed down, he felt that the heir of Slytherin might be hiding in the Snake Court, but it might not be Malfoy.
Because according to the behavioral analysis, if Malfoy really opened the Chamber of Secrets, then he should at least keep a low profile in front of Harry, and jump out immediately without reason to make people suspicious.
What's more, with the doting temperament of the Malfoy family, even if Lucius had any conspiracy against Hogwarts, it was impossible for his son to carry it out himself.
So assuming that Malfoy didn't know about the Chamber of Secrets, then the fact that Lucius was able to meet with the school from the vacation to the present is very likely to be the fight with the Weasleys.
For Lucius Malfoy, who regards pure blood as an honor and self-proclaimed aristocrat, he personally got off the stage to tear up with Arthur Weasley. This behavior is like Lockhart handing out papers in class, pure It's for the sake of covering up.
What Lockhart was covering up was the nature of his magic straw, and what Lucius wanted to hide, he had to ask Ron.
After class the next day, Harry made an appointment with Ron in advance, asking him to help ask the Weasleys to see if anyone had found any clues.
Then he found an empty classroom, where he was going to gather information with Ron alone.
"Ron, you... why did you bring Ginny?"
But when Ron arrived, Harry frowned slightly, because the other party didn't come by himself, and his sister, Ginny Weasley, was behind him.
"Sorry, Harry~" Ron scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, "Ginny knew that I was coming to see you, so she insisted on arguing that she wanted to come and see, but I couldn't resist, so I had to bring her along. "
Of course, what Ron didn't know was that the reason why Ginny insisted on following was because she knew it was a rare private meeting between Harry and Ron.
As a small fan who also pays close attention to Harry, Ginny does not have the gender advantage that Colin has. She can go to Harry anytime, anywhere to ask for autographs and photos, and follow Harry as a tail, so she can only stay in the distance. quietly watching.
No way, Hermione's deterrent power is too strong.
In her presence, no female creature in the school, whether human or ghost, would approach Harry with impure motives, and Ginny was no exception.
"Forget it...Ron, how is the situation? Do you guys recall anything unusual?"
Shaking his head slightly, Harry didn't pay too much attention to Ginny, and went directly to the topic with Ron.
"Not at all." Ron spread his hands helplessly, "Percy stood far away, Fred and George were busy with me dealing with Malfoy, only Dad was fighting that nasty Lucius, we didn't pay attention ah."
"What about Ginny?" Harry asked, frowning, "Did you notice anything unusual?"
"I...I was also..." suddenly asked by Harry, Ginny faltered unconsciously, her heartbeat began to accelerate rapidly, and her face was almost as red as her hair.
But at the same time as shy, she suddenly fell into deep worry.
Harry is obviously suspicious of the entire Weasley family now, and his guess is infinitely close to the truth, once he finds out about that...
Thinking of Harry's eyes when he stared at the whole Snake Court yesterday, Ginny couldn't help but feel chills all over.
"Harry, do I think your train of thought is a bit off?" Just when Ginny was about to be unable to withstand the pressure from Harry, Ron's voice suddenly sounded like a 'sound of heaven'.
"I also read that "Hogwarts, A School History". Since the Chamber of Secrets was built by that old lunatic Salazar Slytherin, his heir must be a member of Slytherin. Even if you want to check , You should also interrogate the people in the Snake Court!"
"Ron, that's not how things work out." Harry patiently explained, "I have definite information that Lucius Malfoy was the man behind the opening of the Chamber of Secrets, but I need to know now, how did he This method indirectly opened the secret room. And your family had contact with him before the holiday, so it might be used by him."
What Harry is currently doing is actually a process of screening related objects. Assuming that Lucius is a pathogen, then all the people who had close contact with him during the holidays may be the objects he uses!
Find the object of use, and then find the key tools for committing the crime, so that the suspect can be locked faster, and the efficiency is definitely much higher than looking for a needle in a haystack to find an heir.
Unfortunately, Harry's case-handling logic seemed incomprehensible to Ron.
"Harry, I think this is really strange. Since you know that the culprit is Lucius, why don't you go to Malfoy and ask him, instead of coming to suspect us?"
"Ron, I'm not suspicious of your family, but I'm worried that you will be used by him!" Harry eagerly explained, "The heir of the Slater may be hidden in the school, but he may not be Malfoy. Asking now will only scare the snake away. And the way to open the secret room may not be as simple as the appearance of the heir, maybe there is a key, or even an ordinary note, it is possible..."
"Wow!!"
Just as the conversation between Harry and Ron gradually escalated into a dispute, Ginny on the side suddenly burst into tears without warning.
"Harry, you scared Ginny!" Ron stood in front of Ginny displeased, and his face gradually became angry, "Do you know how much she adores you? During the holidays, she pestered you all day Watching the few of us tell her about you, I have been looking forward to being able to enroll and meet you! But what about you, you are in front of her, doubting our family for no reason!"
"I...forget it." Harry opened his mouth, and finally gave up on continuing to explain.
"I think it's okay, let's stop here today." The words were not speculative, and Ron was also unhappy. Ginny, who was taking care of the pear blossoms, turned and left.
...
"Since you've come back, I'll go about my own business first."
Ravenclaw's prefect, Penelope Clearwater, is absolutely an impeccable beauty in anyone's eyes.