Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 236 A Similar But Different Destiny Process

McGuffin led Harry and the others to run quickly towards the Gryffindor lounge.

But that voice followed Harry's ears like a shadow,...it...followed them.

Harry stared intently at the ceiling and the painted walls. (The characters inside are looking at a few little wizards running wildly with a strange look on their faces)
He tried to see through the wall what was shuttling through!
--How can it be?How did this voice keep up with them? There was no one around them... Can that thing be invisible?Still walking through the stone walls... Is it some ghost?Peeves?
Thoughts were churning in Harry's mind, and all sorts of weird thoughts kept popping up.

The voice became softer, but they still kept following them closely.

Harry suddenly felt a little hairy.

He suddenly understood why the McGuffin was pulling them wildly, such an invisible thing, speaking Parseltongue, full of vicious words... They really shouldn't stay where they are.

The McGuffin ran at full speed down the corridor, while Ron and Hermione stumbled along.

"McGuffin, what the hell are you doing..."

The two of them spoke intermittently, out of breath.

"I found you... I found you... I want to report to the master..."

McGuffin and Harry pricked up their ears.

Right next to them, behind a certain wall next to them, the voice came again, and the meaning contained in it was chilling.

Even Harry's calf collapsed violently at this moment.

"Run, run!" he cried, and broke into a run.

Ron and Hermione glanced at each other in confusion, and could only quickly follow the crazy two.

But... for some reason, after saying that sentence... that voice disappeared.

"Stop, stop, MacGuffin... I can't seem to hear you!"

Harry jerked the McGuffin and shouted at him.

McGuffin finally regained his senses.

He began to calm down, staring at the ceiling and walls and listening carefully.

——It is true that there is no movement.

"What's going on with you?" Ron wiped the sweat from his forehead, "What did you two hear..."

Hermione also raised her head out of breath and looked at the two of them.

Harry looked at the grim-faced MacGuffin, who seemed really in no mood to explain, so he himself began to describe what they were avoiding just now.

—something that speaks in Parseltongue, either invisible or able to travel through walls, speaks blood and brutality and seems to be looking for them...

Ron, Hermione gasped.

"This... we have to tell Professor McGonagall that they... this may be done by the dark wizard organization that caused a bloody storm in other parts of the wizarding world..."

"That's right,...but Professor McGonagall is back now? Didn't she go to London to find Professor Dumbledore? Or...to find Professor Gilderoy Lockhart?"

Ron didn't expect to say this guy's name out of his mouth, but now staying in Hogwarts Castle, this guy is the only adult wizard he can find.

It just so happened that Ron knew where the guy's office was. (Ron was sentenced to confinement in his office during the Hogwarts 'Catastrophe' event)
Hermione was very happy with this proposal, but McGuffin turned pale again when he came back to his senses.

This... don't make a mess!
This guy will definitely feel that he can't clean up the mess, and then start running like in the plot.

Isn't this the [Forgetting Curse] that makes them eat that guy alive?

Gilderoy can't do anything else, he is very good at [Forgetting the Curse], without Ron's broken wand, without Harry's iron halo,...he doesn't want to taste that kind of amnesia.

"...Let's wait for Professor McGonagall and them!" McGuffin said, "After all, we two can speak Parseltongue, and [Blood Curse]..."

(Speaking of which, due to some voices coming from the corridor not far from the corner, McGuffin's voice gradually became inaudible, but Ron and Hermione, Harry already understood the meaning)
After that, two first-year little witches came over, and they were...

"Ginny! What are you doing here!?"

Ron strode over, staring worriedly at a little red-haired witch whose face profile was slightly similar to his.

She is Ginny Weasley.

She is Ron's youngest sister.

And the companion next to her is also a first-year little witch, Luna Loverod from Ravenclaw, another guy who is called a mad wizard (crazy witch) in Hogwarts.

But because of McGuffin's 'big name', and being not easy to mess with in every sense... her eccentricity seems to be very slight, and she is only slightly excluded among their first-year students.

It took even Ron a long time to remember who the little silver-haired witch in front of him was.

(At the end of this summer vacation, they and Luna came to Hogwarts in the same carriage... They shouldn't have forgotten it, but there have been too many 'headache' eating melons in just half a semester this semester...)
Although Ginny didn't lower her head when she saw Harry like she did during the summer vacation, and hurriedly avoided..., but she still avoided her eyes and didn't dare to speak loudly.

It's not at all like another Harry's crazy fan, Colin Creevey... He will always chase Harry for a while to take pictures no matter what time of the day, so that Harry even has to write down the curriculum schedule of this little first-year wizard to avoid this guy.

(The ban these days makes it even harder for Harry to avoid this guy!)
Ron was obviously very angry when he saw Ginny and Luna, a little crazy witch... wandering around Hogwarts without obeying the prohibition.

"Why are you two here... Isn't the school not allowing students to run around and have to stay in the common room?"

Ron asked sternly.

"Good way to say it!" Ginny whispered, looking at Ron and the others panting, she must have thought they were just running away from Filch, who was hunting around like a maniac these days for those little wizards who didn't follow the new school rules.

"The yelling letter from Mom...it didn't say I was here..." Ginny blushed and glanced at Harry,
But Ron had evidently heard the whisper, and he was so visibly annoyed that he said aloud:

"I'll tell Percy, and he'll take care of you... It's too dangerous for you little first-year wizards to wander around. At this time, you should stay in the Gryffindor common room, that's what's best for you... I'll ask you for some autographed photos from Harry when the time comes, so you'll just stay there!"

It was obvious that Ron had just lost his mind with Ginny's anger, and he could even say such a thing.

"Ron Weasley...I hate you!" Ginny yelled, and pushed Ron's body away directly. Her face was smoking, her ears were red, and tears were falling down one by one.

"Ron!" Harry yelled angrily.

As for Ginny simply lowering her head in embarrassment, avoiding Harry, and bumping Ron away with her body...

She staggered and dragged Luna to the corridor on the other side.

It seemed that Ron had completely offended his little sister.

"Ron, what did you just say!"

Harry forgot all the Parseltongue and monsters that were in his head just now, and he ran to Ron with a reproachful face and scolded him.

"Harry, I'm a little mad... I was talking nonsense just now..."

Ron apologized profusely to Harry.

"It doesn't matter to me, Ron, you speak too much to Ginny...he's your sister..."

"No matter what, you have to go to her and apologize first..."

Harry's voice hadn't finished yet, a piercing and sharp scream cut through the deserted to dead atmosphere in the corridors of Hogwarts these days.

"Ginny!"

Ron's face suddenly collapsed, pale and pale.

He hurriedly rushed in the direction where Ginny had run just now.

Seeing this, Harry, Ron, and Hermione hurriedly followed, but after the previous '[-]-meter run', they didn't have much energy left.

Especially McGuffin, after suddenly relaxing his mind and body just now, he can't gather his energy now... he can't run at all, and can only fall directly behind Hermione, panting.

And he had some doubts just now——

From time to time, Ginny holds that Tom Riddle notebook as in the plot. (That is, the first Horcrux created by Voldemort when he was young)
However, he dispelled this doubt when he saw that Ginny's flushed face was not at all as weak as being protected by Voldemort's soul fragments.

Because according to the description in the original book, after being protected by Voldemort, Ginny Weasley's body became weaker and weaker, and finally became a vegetable because all the vitality was absorbed by Voldemort.

What's more, when McGuffin himself was staying in [The Burrow], he had already confirmed that Ginny didn't get the [Horcrux] at that point in time.

——The original plot has been completely destroyed, and Dobby did not try his best to prevent Harry from entering the school as he warned, and the Bludger did not lose control in that game (different from the original book), which means that the Basilisk has not recovered a few days ago, or the [Chamber of Secrets] has not been opened, and Dobby has no need to stop Harry from staying in Hogwarts.

But then... what the hell had he and Harry heard just now?

The scene just now was exactly the same as the original plot... And Ginny's scream just now proved that she was definitely not the one to open the secret room.

Shir!
What the hell is going on here!

McGuffin's mind is like a square dance now, all kinds of men and women are arguing, it's about to turn the sky upside down.

--what!

The screams continued to echo.

This proves that Ginny did not encounter the basilisk head-on.

This made McGuffin relax a little bit.

Or if it happened as in the plot... Could it be that Mrs. Norris of Filch was petrified?
MD!

"Why is Dumbledore not at Hogwarts at this time... That old bee is not here, I really have no idea... Maybe we should find out that [Chamber of Secrets] exists? It's too dangerous for a basilisk with an empty stomach to wander around Hogwarts!"

"But who should I tell? ... Wait for Professor McGonagall to come back? Let's see what Ginny encountered?"

McGuffin had no time to think.

He hurriedly followed Ron around the corner of the corridor, up a staircase, and down another corridor.

Although it was daytime, the light here was particularly dim for some reason.

Ron stopped in front of him and stood still.

"This……"

Hermione also gasped after passing by, she couldn't believe it, and backed away in fright.

If it hadn't hit the McGuffin behind him, he would have been paralyzed to the ground.

Harry's hairs were also standing on end, his scalp was numb... He immediately thought of the strange Parseltongue he heard just now.

If McGuffin hadn't dragged a few people out of there in a hurry... Maybe they would have become like this.

Harry took a careful look at McGuffin, maybe it was an illusion... In just a short moment, he always felt that what flashed in the eyes of his good friend was not shock and fear, but a kind of relief and determination.

As if he already knew what was going on.

But Harry soon decided that he had been delusional, because after the McGuffin walked over, he still looked as weak and tired as before.

When everyone stayed in place, holding their wands for several seconds to beware of the unknown monster around them.

McGuffin pricked up his ears and listened, but he didn't find the hissing of Parseltongue, or the sound of the basilisk creeping and sliding in the pipe.

Just in case, though.

McGuffin still conjured up an oversized magnifying glass to cover his face.

-Avoid direct gaze from the basilisk.

He was about to walk forward. (McGuffin has to figure out what's going on, this similar but different plot progression, it's almost like the goddess of fate is playing with her skirt on purpose)
But he was pulled back by Ron. With a stiff face, he said coldly, "McGuffin, what are you doing?... You can tell it's Malfoy at a glance!"

Indeed, there in a dim corner stands this stiff and frightened 'living sculpture',
It was Draco Malfoy.

He shrank his body and held his head, his whole body was cold and stiff.

A terrified expression froze on his face, and his eyes stared blankly at the direction of another corridor next to him.

The windows were wide open, letting in the cold air from outside.

The feeling of extreme horror emanated from that 'living sculpture' a little bit, making the hearts of others tremble.

A cold wind hit.

"Let's get out of here quickly!" Ron shuddered, not daring to look directly at the statue, and turned his head to look at McGuffin. He thought that this guy's madness had relapsed.

"I said, from time to time, we should find a way to see if he's still alive..." Harry said a little unnaturally, and he didn't expect to say this one day.

— the day to save Draco Malfoy.

"Listen," said Ron, "we don't want to be found here. And that thing, whatever it was that put Malfoy in this way, certainly hasn't gone far. We've got to be careful!"

"Look at their appearance, it may be some kind of petrification, or a curse..."

"No matter what we do, it's too late now, not to mention that we have nothing to do... let's go!"

"You say yes, Hermione! You should know!"

Harry turned to look at Hermione, and Hermione hesitated and said, "Ron is right, we can't do anything about it. And Ginny and Luna are still here. We must take them out of here, and then go to inform...Professor Gilderoy Lockhart!"

"What's more, in this period... wandering around in the school? It's hard for us to be found here, and everyone knows about our relationship with Malfoy... it will definitely cause a lot of suspicion..."

Hermione's words stopped, her attention was attracted by the crazy witch Luna who came over.

(End of this chapter)