Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 256 Another Investigation Direction

"You..." Batty yelled, his eyes popped out, staring at McGuffin.

He was just going crazy.

At one point, Crouch even wanted to ignore Dumbledore and Fudge in front of him and directly turn the little wizard in front of him into a chicken head with his wand!

— Chicken head, chicken head shit!

While Batty looked at McGuffin's head with an uneasy expression.

Fudge finally coughed and said, "Barty! Don't be angry, fix your robe first, this little wizard is really out of shape...Look at the good students you teach, Dumbledore!"

"But to tell you the truth, MacGuffin . . . now I kind of believe that story you're telling is true."

It seems to be reprimanding McGuffin, but this kind of statement is obviously biased.

"Albert, you haven't apologized to Mr. Crouch!" Professor McGonagall said sharply to McGuffin.

"I'm sorry, please forgive me! After all, I'm still a little wizard..." McGuffin blinked and said.

McGuffin knew that his behavior against Barty Crouch would be bad for him, but he couldn't help it.

MD.
When are you still fighting for power?

A lot of wonderful things!
McGuffin doubted that if he really told the location of the [Chamber of Secrets] now, did they put the suspect's hat on their heads again.

Ron and Hermione were stunned.

"I still have a question?" Snape was irritated, McGuffin!Albert turned this place into a joke show again.

"McGuffin, how did you confirm the basilisk in the first place! You can't know the information out of thin air! There are so many Aurors, things the professor doesn't know...how can you find out?"

"Why do you check these things? It's none of your business, right? Or does it have anything to do with you?"

Even though he said this, Snape couldn't help but think of what Dumbledore said earlier,

——What happened after a while... let it be, is he referring to the basilisk?

How does Slytherin ensure that this guy won't lose control? One must know that there are hundreds of immature little wizards on it, so he is not afraid of monsters getting out of control... While the professors are not paying attention, let all the little wizards 'cook in one pot'?
He shivered and dared not think about it.

Snape's question aroused suspicion from the people around him, and McGuffin could only explain.

"I remember that I seem to have read the record of the basilisk from a book... I have been looking for the book about the basilisk in the library these days to confirm."

"Of course, the most important thing is..."

"I want to do this. Those petrified little wizards are my classmates and my lifelong friends. I must save them..."

In MacGuffin's narration, he very noblely wanted his classmate Dracora Malfoy...and Percy Weasley and others.

Obviously, Snape, who understood the nature of this little wizard, swallowed like a fly when he heard these words.

"enough!"

Barty Krach brushed a handful of his hair vigorously.

The hair that was originally soft, now stood up and was a mess.

His eyes were even more bloodshot, and he stared at the little wizard in front of him with a terrifying gaze.

"Where's the basilisk? Where did the basilisk go?"

"This kind of monster can't be invisible, can't pass through walls, and won't disappear without a trace!"

According to McGuffin's description - then a huge basilisk should not disappear without a trace.

This is the most critical and clear proof, without this... no matter how much McGuffin explains, he will not be able to win the trust of other people here.

"The basilisk disappeared after it left the library...Harry and I guess it must have slipped out of a certain pipe."

"pipeline?"

"Ha, what do you think this is? Hogwarts' defense measures are perfect, and no one can come in from the outside... Do you think that after reading some Muggle novels, you can fake a story and deceive me?"

Clarke yelled.

"What if it didn't come in from outside? This monster already existed in the school?"

McGuffin said coldly, "I learned the legend of the [Chamber of Secrets] from Ravenclaw..."

"Slytherin is said to have built a secret room in the castle that no one has discovered, and left a monster there, a monster that purifies the school."

"Besides, the basilisk didn't attack the little wizard some time ago... I think it's also because the Ministry of Magic device that keeps the temperature in the school is broken, so the pipes all over the school haven't lost their heating effect, and the basilisk can't move because of hypothermia!"

"What did you say!?" Barty said. "What nonsense."

At this time, a wizard with a brown beard stubble came up behind him, and he whispered in Batty's ear.

After that, Barty Krach's face changed from cloudy to cloudy.

—It does seem to be as McGuffin guessed.

These pipes throughout Hogwarts are the same pipes used for heating.

After hearing all this, the wizards talked a lot,—it sounds like they can indeed be matched one by one.

Some people even used wands to try to make the walls transparent, to see if there were really... those big amazing pipes.

But now it is already transformed by Dumbledore.

After the outer wall was made transparent by these wizards, what appeared was only some kind of stone wall and wooden boards that had been transformed by the spell, and there were no pipes inside.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed softly.

All eyes were drawn to the past.

—Harry woke up from that bed, clutching his head.

"Basilisk!" After he screamed, he realized that this place is no longer a library, but a slightly weird circular room.

—he had never seen it here before.

Harry's exclamation allowed others to fully confirm the authenticity of McGuffin's words.

Most of the Ministry officials now seemed to accept that what McGuffin had said was true.

One by one, they raised their wands and started pointing at the surrounding walls, as if a basilisk would pop out from here and attack with its huge mouth open.

"It seems that things have a new direction of investigation! Fudge..." Dumbledore stood up and said gently.

Follow him with a wave of his wand.

The walls, the floor, and everything around them began to slowly return to their original state.

"Madame Pomfrey, first take the little wizards to the school hospital to let them rest. After going through this incident, they should have a good rest!"

Just when Harry was a little confused, the place had already begun to return to its original state.

The floor and walls flowed and deformed like water, and the red and yellow colors of the decoration gradually faded away... those refreshments and beds also disappeared in the air one by one.

——This is a corridor again.

"Okay, Kratch... don't be angry. This little wizard is just a child..." Cornelius Fugui continued to 'comfort' Barty Cratch.

Those adult wizards are also constantly discussing the topic of basilisks.

The very ridiculous point is.

These guys, they are actually discussing the plan to send roosters to patrol Hogwarts in a serious manner.

— Gan!

Take it, take it!
I convinced you!

It seems that after the little wizard wanted to turn this place into a seminary...

These adult wizards are not much better, they want to make Hogwarts a

—A chicken farm?

"It's really the Ministry of Magic that killed me... Hogwarts' heart is not dead!"

Before the MacGuffins were taken away by Madam Pomfrey, they heard Dumbledore, Fudge, and Snape talking.

"Hagrid Ruburt..."

"Okay, after confirming going back... we will release it immediately..."

"It was a big mistake, we made a mistake..."

"Dumbledore, it's not just because of this that you brought so many wizards here!" Snape and Professor McGonagall stared at Minister Fudge and Dumbledore wondering.

"We have some clues from a new giant plant in the Mediterranean..."

"There are some clues... The next time, or the place where the next attack will be attacked is likely to be Hogwarts... When we heard that Hogwarts was attacked, we still thought it was that kind of giant plant..."

"McGuffin, get out of here! You need to rest!"

Just as McGuffin paused here, wanting to listen for a while, Madam Pomfrey reprimanded her with a livid face.

The point is that Professor McGonagall and the others also found that McGuffin was eavesdropping.

So after taking a look at this 'not easy to mess with' little guy, they cast a spell to isolate their voices, and went to the side of the corridor next to the window to continue the discussion.

Gan!
At this time, Pomfrey had already taken Harry and the others away, and her urging voice came again.

It seemed that he was very impatient, and wanted to come over and 'escort' him, a disobedient little wizard, in person.

"alright, alright!"

"coming!"

McGuffin had no choice but to catch up with Harry and the others in two steps, and then left.

……

At night, McGuffin and the others were still lying on the hospital bed at the school medical office.

Madam Pomfrey said that they would not be allowed to leave, saying that the few of them had been greatly frightened today, and only here could they have a good rest.

Malfoy was lying on the bed next to McGuffin, and across the way Percy and Penelope were lying on a big bed, holding hands.

McGuffin was wandering in his mind now, thinking about the public execution Percy would face when he woke up.

These two poor couples will encounter this kind of thing when they make boyfriend and girlfriend friends.

This will definitely leave a serious psychological shadow.

Speaking of the shadows in my heart, everything is fine here, but it's a bit intrusive.

Especially not being able to find the moonlight on the three stiff faces, the eyeballs are still slightly reflective.

Although I knew that they were only petrified, but seeing that lifeless eyes, staying in the same room with this lifelike 'sculpture'... they didn't even breathe.

Even an iron-headed kid like Harry was a little scared and couldn't sleep at all.

But honestly...

Now it can be said to be the safest place in Hogwarts.

There are two more Aurors standing guard outside.

It is said that it is to prevent the sudden attack of the basilisk.

Even Narcissa Malfoy was kicked out from being with his little Dracula.

This made Lucius Malfoy, who rushed over, very angry.

After a big quarrel with Madam Pomfrey who was here, it was Dumbledore who came over to separate the two.

Knowing that Harry and Ron had been attacked, Mr. and Mrs. Weasley rushed over to check again.

Seeing the intact Ron this time, Mrs. Weasley did not sob, but kept her ears open for a good lesson.

But from the scorched eye circles, it can be seen that Mrs. Weasley is still suppressing worry and sadness, suppressing the pain in her heart, so as not to worry Ron and the others.

Mr. Weasley, he was always going back to the cause and effect, but he obviously didn't tell Mrs. Weasley everything he knew.

I'm afraid that even knowing the moment when Ron confronted the basilisk, this introverted and powerful Mrs. Weasley would not be able to bear all this.Especially since she already had a son petrified there.

"Tell me, Ron...have we made Mrs. Weasley angry!"

"Just now she was very worried about everything you encountered in school...!"

In the silence, Harry suddenly asked.

There was guilt in his tone.

Everyone couldn't fall asleep, not only Percy and his petrified faces were a bit creepy, but also a few of their little wizards closed their eyes... they would feel the huge body of the basilisk emerging from the darkness, and feel that huge monster covered with green scales, slowly spitting out letters and moving slowly on the ground here.

The rustling phantom sound continued to sound in the darkness.

Although none of them had seen the face of the basilisk head-on, even a small part of its body.

But this kind of incomplete imagination and unknown uncertainty will bring the most fearful step into it.

"Don't think too much! This kind of thing is beyond your control... Besides, you didn't risk your life to save us at that time..." Ron comforted.

"Yup!"

"Besides, didn't you rush to pull us out of the dangerous situation at the first time?"

"But to be honest..."

"That cluck, cluck!"

"what!"

"Harry, what do you think... don't you know old hens..." Hermione couldn't stop laughing when she remembered the scene at that time, and imitated Harry's 'crow' at that time.

"Don't talk, don't talk!"

In the dark, Harry didn't want to bring up this topic, apparently recalling his scene in the library, his brain shut down.

But this topic made them feel much better.

Only McGuffin sighed, and he turned to stare at Harry in the dark for a long time.

Finally, he said, "Harry, don't do that in the future! That would be irresponsible to yourself! You might die like that..."

McGuffin's tone was serious.

"McGuffin...but then..."

Apparently Harry was terrified, but if it happened again, he'd do it anyway.

The atmosphere became a little silent, and it was obvious that Hermione and Ron were also very worried about Harry's dangerous behavior.

Although at that moment, Harry subconsciously rushed out directly to save them.

McGuffin knows what he says, and it won't work.

He thought about it, but couldn't come to any conclusion.

I had no choice but to turn around awkwardly, with some indescribable feeling rolling in my heart.

In the end, I could only sigh to myself.

"It's really... stupid!"

The sound echoed for a long time.

(End of this chapter)