Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 245 The Weasley Brothers ([-])

"You should all know that Hogwarts was founded more than 1000 years ago - the exact date is uncertain - by four of the greatest wizards and wizards of the time. Four houses are named after them..."

Hermione's attention was clearly distracted by the topic.

Being a good teacher, she started to talk about the history of Hogwarts school.

"...In the first few years, several founders worked together harmoniously, but gradually differences appeared among them, and the standards of students recruited by the four wizards became more and more different.

"Ravenclaw requires wizard apprentices to be the smartest and wisest, not mediocre... Only in this way can we go far on the road of exploring magic and not waste our time..."

"Gryffindor is a test of a student's faith and courage. He believes that the road to magic is full of ups and downs. Only courage can overcome all difficulties and not go astray..."

"Hufflepuff believes that only wizards who are hardworking, persistent, and never give up can persevere in the process of learning magic and explore the mysteries of their magic..."

"As for Slytherin, the rift between him and others is getting bigger and bigger. He believes that only those wizards who are talented, ambitious, and have a strong drive to explore magic are eligible to learn magic... At that time, most of the young wizards from wizard families met his requirements..."

"So he became more picky and felt that magical education should only be limited to purely magical families. Not only talent, but also the ridiculous anti-magic and various religious persecutions in the Muggle world at that time... also made him think that Muggle students were unreliable, so that in the end he completely refused to accept them. This led to a fierce quarrel between him and the other three giants, and finally Slytherin left the school!"

"But before he left, there were rumors that this powerful wizard had created a secret room in Hogwarts Castle, which the other founders knew nothing about."

"It is said that there is a terrible monster imprisoned in that [Chamber of Secrets]. Only when the real heir of Slytherin appears, it will wake up and start purifying Hogwarts, and expel all Muggle students who are not pure-blooded from here..."

Hermione paused, and continued, "Of course, this kind of statement is very unreliable. People have always thought it was a weird legend..."

"It wasn't until a few decades ago that Hogwarts even had an extremely serious and vicious incident, which even reached the point of closing the school... People didn't doubt that this rumor was true."

"I don't know what happened in the end... After the death of a student, this matter just went away..."

"Looking at the situation at the time...someone should have caught the culprit at the time and locked him up."

"But I haven't found any news about the last incident from any book in the library, any newspaper that survives..."

"It feels as if someone has erased all information about this..."

After Hermione finished speaking, she let out a slow breath.

Listening to Hermione's doubts, McGuffin realized that it really seemed that someone had blocked and eliminated all this information.

Is it Dumbledore, or Voldemort?
Or is it that Slytherin has already cast a spell to protect the secrets of the [Chamber of Secrets] from being leaked, similar to the spell of [Red Loyalty Curse] or the like.

Ron shuddered, "I knew there was something wrong with that old lunatic in Slytherin! Just look at how many dark wizards have come out of Slytherin House..."

"By the way, Harry, McGuffin, I don't think you should use Parseltongue... If you are found out, it is very likely that you will really be regarded as the heir of Slytherin..." Ron said.

"What heir!"

Someone's voice came from behind them, making them jump in fright.

"Ron!"

Percy Weasley called out to a few of them behind them, the prefect's badge gleaming on his chest.

He stared at Ron in surprise.

Beside Percy was another wizard, tall and slender.

It was Wood, the Quidditch captain of Gryffindor.

He frowned and looked gloomy.

"What are you doing here! Mrs. Narcissa Malfoy complained to Professor McGonagall several times... She said that you are interfering with Decora Malfoy's recovery and harassing her house elves..." Percy taught a few people in a stern tone.

"I don't know since when, Percy, you and the Malfoy family got mixed up..."

Ron said, staring at Percy in disgust.

"You can't talk to your brother like this, or a prefect..."

Ron's words made Percy's face very embarrassing, and he said very bluntly.

"Anyway? Draco Malfoy was the victim of that attack, and it's also true that you're always going to the school hospital to harass other house-elves..."

"I'm warning you, don't--go--to--"

As he spoke, he came over and waved his arms to drive them away, urging them to leave quickly.

"Don't you look at what Hogwarts is like now...don't bother the professors anymore! And don't run around in the corridors of Hogwarts in the future...Ron, you have caused enough trouble for school and home this semester, can't you stay in the Gryffindor common room safely?"

"Why can't we go..." Ron huffed, glaring at Percy, "I'm still suffering from a cold and I have to go see Madam Pomfrey... You don't care about your brother at all, you're just worried that I'll ruin your prospects as Head of the Boys' Council."

"Five points from Gryffindor." Percy was visibly annoyed, too. "Don't think that I don't know anything. Your cold has already been completely cured."

"I hope this teaches you a lesson, or I'll write to mother."

He strode away with Wood, the back of his ears turning red.

After Percy left, Ron's mood turned very bad.

Harry wanted to divert Ron's attention from the meeting he had just had.

"I don't know what Wood wants to discuss with Percy... I heard that he is very dissatisfied with the school's plan to cancel the Quidditch match this semester. Wood thinks that a Quidditch match is needed at this time to boost morale. He is now trying to get Professor McGonagall's consent to start the Quidditch match again."

"But I think it seems a little unlikely!"

"Oh, really!" But obviously Ron was still worried about Percy's remarks, he echoed weakly, and then turned his attention to Percy.

"What the hell is that Percy guy doing this term? He's been sneaking around... Once I caught him in an empty classroom, wondering what he was doing, and always making trouble for me..."

"Oh, I saw it too... Probably because he found a girlfriend!"

McGuffin was trying to please Ron, who had enough troubles.

"What!" Ron staggered, almost falling on the spot with his left foot and right foot.

Sure enough, the topic got Ron excited.

"It's a Ravenclaw prefect called Perrone what?"

"Penello Clearwater!" Ron exclaimed, jumping to his feet, not knowing how on earth he knew the name.

"Okay! That guy Percy, it's really good to hide..." A strange expression appeared on Ron's face.

"I just said?..."

"I'll tell you why I met him in that space classroom once, and he was always looking at the position in the corner on the other side, and drove me out of that classroom in a hurry..."

"This guy must have used his girlfriend... Hermione, McGuffin! What kind of spell is that, used to become invisible..."

"Illusory Curse!"

"Yes, it is to use this [Illusion Curse] to become invisible..."

"Yes, there is also MacGuffin, Harry, do you still remember that guy during the summer vacation this year, who locked himself in the room and sent so many letters to somewhere?"

"It must be written to my girlfriend!"

"Hey hey! I can't even dream of it..."

Ron's face was full of excitement, his eyes glowed, and he swept away the downturn. Seeing his happy look, it seemed that his birthday had come early.

"That guy still has the face to write a letter to tell mom..."

Harry watched Ron walking up and down the corridor, talking to himself.

In this cold temperature, his body was steaming like a furnace.

It's exactly the same as just now.

"Ron, don't tell Percy that I told you," McGuffin ordered.

"Of course not! I have to take this matter seriously with George, Fred and the others are happy, happy. I'll just see how Percy has the face to face us..." Ron secretly smiled as he replied.

"Ron! You wouldn't secretly tease him about this, would you? No way?" Hermione stared at Ron suspiciously.

"Absolutely not!" Ron faced Hermione's suspicion with a 'righteous' face.

But the guy turned around and asked McGuffin, "McGuffin, where did you see them, did you see them kissing?"

"I think that Percy guy must have secretly dated Penello all over the school..."

"Okay! This guy, relying on the authority of the prefect... ran around in the school, looking for a date... and then taught us a lesson!"

"I must……"

"Ron?!" Hermione glared at him.

"..." Ron stopped talking, but the sneaky smile on his face that seemed to steal honey obviously indicated that this matter was not over yet.

……

Finally, the semester is over, and the castle is covered with [-]% snow... The Christmas holiday is here.

Because of the current situation in the wizarding world and the small number of professors in the school, this Christmas party was canceled and it was held by the little wizards of the four colleges in the common room.

(It is said that the giant plant has also been discovered in the wizarding world in Germany... causing half of the European wizarding world to fall into a kind of hysterical panic. Almost all adult wizards panicked. Now almost half of the young wizards in Hogwarts stayed here for Christmas.)
So this Christmas is the coldest and the most lively.

The common room has become extremely noisy since the day before yesterday, and almost most of the students happily participated in it, providing all kinds of help... The little wizards bought devices for arranging the Christmas party through owls, and arranged them through their own spells.

Even Percy walked up and down in it, putting on airs and making suggestions.

And Fred, and George, are even more lawless in this atmosphere...

They placed their specially-made Filipard fireworks all over the common room, wanting to make a Christmas surprise, and they even borrowed McGuffin's [Rocket Magic Broomstick], saying that it would be used as a part of the surprise mechanism, and they don't know what they are going to do...

McGuffin was a little skeptical that if Percy hadn't caught them right and taught the two of them a lesson, they'd be blowing everyone up on Christmas Day.

In short, the tumultuous atmosphere was unbearable for MacGuffin.

He is now eager to find out what happened to [Chamber of Secrets], that is, (Malfoy's attack)?

And for the rest of Gryffindor (even Harry and Ron) they obviously couldn't understand the fear in McGuffin's heart.

Only Hermione accompanied McGuffin to the library... to search for information, trying to figure out what was going on.

But now the library is not dull anymore, there are hardly any people... It can be said that it is extremely quiet.

Even Mrs. Pince didn't care much.

So now McGuffin and Hermione can grow up here and talk about [Chamber of Secrets] and Parseltongue...

(Actually, McGuffin stuffed a stack of Gilderoy Lockhart's copied signature jumps for the middle-aged witch, and combined with a few photos of Harry and Lockhart before, the effect was achieved)

Most of the time, of course, it's just Hermione deducing things for herself. (McGuffin has too many things to say)

In front of them was a long piece of parchment, on which Hermione organized all the information they knew so far:
Lucius Malfoy (not the killer, but related)

Dracora Malfoy (the victim, but a pureblood wizard...not true to legend)

Voldemort (possibly one of the heirs of Slytherin, and most likely involved in this incident)

[Chamber of Secrets] (According to rumors, there is a monster that will purify the school and remove all Hogwarts Muggle-born students)

——[Doubtful——Malfoy was attacked]

This was later added by Hermione.

There is a crooked line next to it, which is not written by the same person.

——There was an important item that originally belonged to Lucius, but was lost or transferred from the Malfoy family in other ways... Now Malfoy doesn't know where this thing is... It is very likely that it is the key to opening the secret room and the 'culprit' of this incident.

"That's not right!"

Hermione crossed out the last word 'culprit' and re-added it as 'key'...

"It's the key to this 'event'!"

Hermione thought for a while, dipped the quill pen in ink, and added a line of words on it:

——It is very likely that the same force is responsible for the giant plant incident that is causing an uproar in the magic world.

After the two of them sorted out the information, they looked it over carefully.

Hermione picked up a pen and drew a few lines.

All the lines on the parchment converge on the unknown (Voldemort's Horcrux, notebook).

She said, "It seems that the key is to find out what caused this incident..."

"It's a pity that Dobby refuses to say..."

McGuffin shook his head.

He knew it was actually Voldemort's Horcrux—the notebook,

But he couldn't say it clearly.

"No, things don't matter, what matters is who owns them now!"

"Do you remember when Dobby tried to warn Harry when school started?"

"I think Lucius Malfoy disposed of that thing during the summer vacation... maybe he gave it away, maybe he sold it... I remember Mr. Weasley seemed to raid his home at that time... so..."

"Hermione, do you think a student picked up that thing, maybe he has a grudge against Malfoy, that's why..." McGuffin made a conjecture.

Before he could finish speaking, Hermione's eyes widened, and she stared across.

Freeze completely.

——As if petrified!
"Hermione?"

cried the MacGuffin tremblingly, as a terrible idea came to his mind.

—she didn't respond.

(End of this chapter)