Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 817 Hunting Action
And Lockhart was terrified by Anduin's look, and asked nervously, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong? Do you know that witch?"

"It's nothing..." Anduin smiled lightly, "I just suddenly have a new impression of you, maybe there is a place that is more suitable for you than the Ministry of Magic."

"Oh? Really?" Lockhart was overjoyed when he heard that. He thought it must be that Anduin saw that he was very cooperative and was going to let him go.

"Yes, fainted!" Anduin sneered, and then stunned the other party without any explanation, and then turned on a communicator, "Hogg, come to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office."

After a while, Hogg poked his head in from outside the door, "My lord, did you call me?"

"Yeah." Anduin nodded, and then turned to Lockhart on the ground, "Drag him back to the research institute and put him in storage!"

"It's the old liar..." Hogg walked up to Lockhart, smiled and poked his paw, then raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Aren't you going to hand him over to Dumbledore?" ?”

Hogg was also very clear about Lockhart's situation. He knew that Anduin would deal with this guy sooner or later, but according to the previous plan, he was going to hand it over to the Ministry of Magic. Why has there been a change now?

"Lockhart knows some secrets that I'm interested in." Anduin murmured while putting away the materials in his hand, "but this secret still needs to be verified, and the information he dictated is too vague, so it needs to be checked carefully memory."

"What about Dumbledore? It's not easy to just detain a professor like this?" Hogg asked worriedly.

"Dumbledore knows about Lockhart's situation, so I'll just hand him over afterwards." Anduin smiled indifferently, "Do as I say, and you should pay attention these two days, Now the basilisk is a favorite in the eyes of those little ghosts, so be careful not to be discovered by them."

"Haha...then I have to teach them a good lesson!" Hogg wagged his tail excitedly, as if inspired to fight.

After dealing with Lockhart's matter, Anduin resumed his life as a professor, and became busier than ever.

After all, in addition to educating students, he still has a lot of affairs to deal with.

The experiment with the Deathly Hallows is coming to an end, and now is naturally not the time to stop. Although there are already many clues about Haierbo's trail, it will take a lot of time to sort it out.

Not to mention that he now has a Voldemort in his hand, and Anduin is counting on this guy to find Peter Pettigrew and the rest of the Death Eaters lurking in the UK.

While Anduin was immersed in the busyness, Hogwarts also started a vigorous adventure in the secret room.

Lockhart revealed that the situation that night had been spread throughout the campus by those hundreds of students, so even though Lockhart did not appear again in the next few days, everyone did not show any surprise.

As for the bounty offered for the monster in the secret room, it was well known to passers-by, and the reward of hundreds of college points also aroused the strong desire of the little wizards.

Soon, the four colleges in Hogwarts united together and organized groups specializing in chambers of secrets and monsters. After all, the points awarded were related to the honor of the entire college.

And after a high degree of organization, each college has also subdivided into various branches, such as the history group that specializes in inquiring about the school's historical records and trying to find clues about secret rooms and monsters.

An exploration team composed of senior students who are proficient in detectives will use various tracking magic to try to locate the monster's range of activities and where it is going.

In addition, in order to avoid recurring victims and discover monsters as soon as possible, each college strictly stipulates that everyone should at least form a pair when going out, and spread the news as soon as possible after encountering a monster. The security team responsible for patrolling,
At the same time, because they wanted to find out the information held by other colleges, they even asked those wizards who had lovers with other colleges to help spy on the information.

Yes, they even have spies!
Therefore, in just one week, the atmosphere in the entire Hogwarts gradually became more subtle.

It is often seen that some students are lying in the corner of the castle, not knowing what they are doing. When someone goes to ask questions, the other party will immediately get up and pat their clothes, and leave as if nothing happened.

But if they didn't pay attention, these guys started to look around on the wall and floor again.

Obviously, these little wizards were conducting a blanket search of Hogwarts, and their pervasive spirit even surprised Anduin.

Now he wondered how long the basilisk could hide. Now thinking about it, as a beast that has lived for thousands of years, it is really ironic that it is being searched for by people like a mouse.

In the face of this situation, the professors in the school, especially the deans of the four colleges, were happy to see the results.

After all, it is very gratifying that this kind of behavior of students uniting and fighting for the honor of the college together.

Especially Professor McGonagall, she also very much hoped that Gryffindor could win the Academy Cup again, so she even thought about giving some hints to the little lions.

But being an upright person, she finally gave up the idea of ​​cheating, and at the same time, she warned Snape specifically about this, after all, this guy might really make trouble for those little snakes.

But when the potential of the little wizards is developed, it is really not to be underestimated.

After a whole week of exploration, although they found no secret rooms and monsters, these little wizards found more than a dozen secret passages through the school!

Some of these secret passages allow people to travel through the school, and some even lead to the outside of the school.

And because of the existence of spies, the locations of these secret passages were quickly found out by each college. Soon, a set of three-dimensional topographic maps of the secret passages of Hogwarts appeared in the common room of each college.

Knowing the clues of the secret passage, it is impossible not to investigate. After all, there may be clues to the monster in these secret passages.

As a result, in addition to the original group of "squatting parties", there were a bunch of "surprise parties" in the school. When the Dachang family was walking, a person would suddenly appear behind the surrounding walls, tapestries, and statues. , quite a few professors have been intimidated by these guys.

After exploring the secret passage, they found many traces left by monsters, and even collected many samples such as scales and saliva.

It's just that everyone has never seen the basilisk, so it is still impossible to judge what kind of creature the other party belongs to.

Although these discoveries have nothing to do with the Chamber of Secrets, they also made the young wizards very excited. After all, exploring the secrets and treasure hunting is very attractive to most young wizards.

Therefore, the behavior of the students became more and more crazy, even forcing Hogg to avoid it for a while.

Because now all the little wizards will no longer be alone, and there will be at least two companions when they act on campus.

And in the secret passage that could be used to transfer the basilisk in the past, now there are people wandering around almost all the time.

This made Hogg very unhappy, and at the same time aroused his desire to win.

Immediately after that, he planned two more attacks in the next two weeks, the first one directly brought down two little wizards because of surprise.

But this quickly drew backlash from the students, and even the search team organized by the little wizards almost caught up with the fleeing basilisk.

For this reason, Hogg almost died of anger. He clearly drove a basilisk, who would have thought that he would be stalked by a group of students.

However, there is really no way around this. As far as the little wizards in Hogwarts are concerned, in terms of combat effectiveness alone, whether it is skills, experience or will, they are all exceptionally good. They are all very courageous, let alone a basilisk. Well, even if the fire dragon comes, maybe they can't help it.

And because of the tactical training courses, the tactical literacy of these students in the school is extremely high. Not only are their scouting and tracking skills top-notch, they even formed a capture formation when chasing them.

Hogg, who was humiliated by this, was naturally not to be outdone, and in order to retaliate, he quickly planned another attack.

But this time the effect was not even as good as last time. Those students had become more and more sophisticated, and even learned to fish and enforce the law.

They will arrange for a wizard volunteer to wander alone in the remote part of the school late at night, and then the rest will use the illusion spell to hide around and wait for the attack of monsters.

Fortunately, before preparing for the attack, Hogg found a few students who failed to renew the Disillusionment Charm due to mistakes, otherwise he would have plunged into the trap.

Therefore, the second attack had to be terminated halfway through, and at the same time left a large number of traces of the basilisk.

Also because of the discovery of these traces, the little wizards were sure that the secret room monster almost stepped into the trap they set.

And this also made the little wizards more determined to catch the basilisk, because they found that the monster in the secret room was actually scared!

The monster in the secret room that once terrified everyone was actually scared, which made the little wizards feel extremely excited, and their mentality towards this monster has undergone earth-shaking changes.

After being deflated, Hogg became more cautious and let the basilisk hide in the secret room for the next period of time.

But although the basilisk didn't move, the little wizards got closer and closer to it, until they discovered the location of the secret room.

The cause of the matter still happened to the Harry foursome.

Knowing that the monster responded to his Parseltongue, it only took Hermione a short time to lock the monster on to the basilisk.

But at the beginning, Hermione and the others were a little hesitant about this guess, because in the records, the sight of the basilisk would kill people, but now all the people who were attacked were only petrified.

But the various performances of that monster made the group of four more sure that it was a basilisk.

As for the reason why the basilisk's lethality would decline severely, Hermione naturally suspected Anduin.

That's right, not long after the reward for the basilisk was issued, Hermione and the others realized that the basilisk might be related to Anduin.

After all, the professor asked Harry to learn Parseltongue before, but the basilisk appeared not long after learning it. How could it be such a coincidence.

However, they didn't expose it, because the reward for catching the basilisk was also what several people longed for.

But the trouble is that although their intelligence is ahead of many colleges, they are completely inferior to the strength of the group when they really start to search.

And the reason why Hermione and the others did not share information with the college, but chose to investigate independently, was mainly because they were numb by the infernal affairs experienced by the college during this period of time.

No matter what information the college collects, no matter how strict the secrecy is, the other three colleges will always get it within two days.

Of course, Gryffindor can also receive the information obtained by other colleges immediately.

It can only be said that in the current wizarding society, the flow of information is really too fast. Everyone has a communicator in their hands, and it is impossible to know who is telling the secret.

Therefore, Hermione and the others did not dare to act together with the college, for fear that the information they had would be obtained by other colleges.

But soon there was a turning point. Because of that failed attack, the lion house led by Percy harvested a scale left by the basilisk.

In the end, it can only be said that there are so many people and the strength is great. The students of the Lion Academy have actually confirmed the information that the monster in the secret room is a basilisk just by relying on this scale.

At the same time, because of this key clue, those neurotic "squatters" and "ghosts" discovered the entrance to the secret room located in the bathroom on the second floor.

No way, although the serpentine pattern on the sink is very obscure, it is not completely invisible.

But let everyone be sure that this is the entrance to the secret room, or because of the confession of Myrtle in the bathroom.

Due to Anduin's previous threats, Myrtle directly shook off the fact that she died from the basilisk when she heard the little wizards asking.

When the students heard this news, they were all shocked. They did not expect that this secret room not only existed, but also that the basilisk inside was the real murderer of the murder 50 years ago.

This news even alarmed the professors in the school, because besides the secret room, this murder also involved another party, that is Hagrid.

For this reason, Professor McGonagall, together with Dumbledore, took Hagrid to the Ministry of Magic and applied to the Department of Legal Enforcement to start a new investigation, with the intention of rehabilitating Hagrid.

And just as the two principals left Hogwarts, the little wizards in the school were thinking about how to open the secret room and catch the basilisk inside.

Their initial plan was actually quite rough, that is to blast the entrance open with magic spells and force their way in.

Of course, such a proposal was quickly rejected. Actively destroying school property would result in penalty points and confinement. They were looking for secret rooms for extra points, so the loss outweighed the gain.

It was at this time that Harry's foursome found Gryffindor College, Percy who was in charge of organizing the hunt.

"What? You said you know how to open the Chamber of Secrets?" Percy looked at the four of them suspiciously.

(End of this chapter)