Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 262 Entrance to the Chamber of Secrets

"I remember it very clearly. It happened here, and I died in this toilet. At that time, Oliver Humbey laughed at me for wearing eyes like a four-eyed dog, and I hid here."

"When I locked the door and cried secretly, I suddenly heard someone come in."

"It's the boy talking...in an unintelligible language..."

— Parseltongue!

Ron and Harry looked at each other excitedly, which confirmed their previous guess.

"What next?" Harry asked eagerly.

"Then I got very angry of course and opened the door and told him to go off and go to my boys bathroom and—"

"And then?" Hermione, Harry asked.

Myrtle puffed out her chest, nearly doubling her body like an inflated balloon, and said in a smug tone, "I'm just dead!"

"How did you die!"

Myrtle's face was radiant, and she deliberately lowered her voice mysteriously and said, "I don't know, I mean I saw a pair of astonishingly large yellow eyes, and then my whole body seemed to float..."

- surprisingly large yellow eyes, which sounds like a basilisk!But they never really saw the eyes of the basilisk.

However, contacting the Parseltongue and looking straight at the clues of the hang... this is the Basilisk.

So……

Harry thought.

"Where did you see those eyes?" he asked.

"Right behind you, No! It's—there!"

Myrtle pointed to the pool opposite.

Because no one has come to maintain it here, most of the tiles there have peeled off, and the gaps between the remaining tiles are full of various grayish-yellow mottled stains.

"And then I came back again. You know I was all about trying to get Oliver Hornby back. . . . Oh! . . . "

McGuffin was already lying on the other side of the sink.

Behind them, Myrtle kept talking about her journey of becoming a ghost... Apparently, there were little wizards listening to her talk about these things, which made her very happy and felt a sense of satisfaction of being recognized.

Seizing this opportunity, she said nothing.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

McGuffin had already seen the little curved snake mark on the side of a copper faucet.

As described in the plot.

Next, just open the [Chamber of Secrets], and call a bunch of professors to beat up the little basilisk.

"This faucet!"

Following McGuffin's gaze, Harry and the others also found the snake's engraved mark.

Ron immediately went up and twisted it, but there was no change.

Hermione took out her wand and changed the spell to open Might and Magic several times, but it didn't work.

"This faucet never comes out of water."

"And last time the Aurors almost took it apart...and found nothing!" Myrtle said happily when she saw Harry's movements.

She was happy to be able to give this little wizard in front of her some information they didn't know.

"Say a few words, say a few words in Parseltongue!" Ron said hastily.

"McGuffin, Harry, you two, try to say a few words..."

"Open it!" said Harry.

A real Cockney accent.

As Harry stared at the faucet, trying to hypnotize himself that the snake was alive.

McGuffin couldn't wait.

He actively activated the [Blood Curse] in his body.

His own eyes immediately turned into some kind of snake-shaped vertical pupils.

then……

"Hiss... (open!)"

Suddenly, the faucet emitted a white light and began to rotate, and the pool began to slide.

All the pools gradually separated towards the two sides, and a very large water pipe appeared on the middle floor, which could accommodate a person to get in.

"found it!"

Hermione took a breath.

"We have to go to Professor McGonagall..."

However, before they finished speaking.

Professor McGonagall's voice began to echo in the corridor, amplified many times by magic.

"All students return to their residence halls immediately. All teachers return to the staff lounge. Please act now."

--what happened?

They stared at each other immediately, puzzled in their eyes.

"Did something happen again? At this time?"

"But didn't we find the entrance?" Ron asked.

"It's just one of them... You forgot there must be one in the library!" Hermione said in response.

"But now there are so many roosters in the school...it should be impossible for the basilisk to come out!"

"what should we do?"

"What the hell happened?"

They looked at Hagrid.Now this situation is unexpected by everyone.

"Go back to the dormitory, I'll go to Professor McGonagall to see what's going on, and then tell them the entrance you found..."

Hagrid tugged at his beard, looked at the dark entrance, and said.

"Then put this thing here? No need to close it...in case something gets out of it..." Harry asked.

"What if we need Parseltongue next?"

"Why don't you take us along to see..."

Harry was very anxious, he wanted to know who was being attacked again.

McGuffin froze in place.

Such a coincidence! ?

This is wrong, very wrong!
The intuition in his heart kept sending out warnings.

"No!" Hagrid rejected Harry's proposal, "You can't participate in this matter, it's too dangerous! You have to go back to the common room and stay with other little wizards... Don't worry, I will tell Professor McGonagall what you find."

"They will send someone to deal with this right away!"

"Let's go! It's too dangerous here!"

"Myrtle, you should get out of here too!" Hagrid turned around and said, pulling a few people to get out of here.

What he said made De MacGuffin secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

——Anyway, when the sky fell, there was a tall man holding it up.

He had already told Hagrid about the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets], so he didn't care about what happened next.

McGuffin thought so.

But when they go out to the bathroom.

"Oh! Harry! . . . Hagrid, and the little wizards . . . "

Gilderoy Lockhart suddenly appeared here for some reason, and he greeted with a smile.

"Sorry - I dozed off on patrol - going to the staff room now!"

Then, he seemed to notice that several people came out of the women's bathroom.

"Hagrid! What are you?"

He looked at the few people and the women's bathroom in extreme surprise.

And at this time, Myrtle's singing sound came from behind, she hummed and floated over the heads of several people.

"You guys are so kind! I'll save you a toilet seat!"

After she left such a sentence, she drifted away.

"Myrtle? Ladies' room? Toilet seat?" Lockhart gasped in shock, his eyes widened, almost bursting.

— Obviously this guy's brain is not healthy!

"What are you doing!"

After glancing back and forth at several people exaggeratedly, Lockhart took a deep breath, and finally he asked this question.

"Nothing! Nothing!" Hagrid hurriedly waved his hands and explained, "We're just looking for clues, right, right, that's it..."

"We found the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]!" Harry also hurriedly said.

"What!" Lockhart yelled.

Several people stepped aside quickly so that Lockhart could see the bottomless pipe behind the sink in the bathroom.

"Then... is that the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]?"

"I...I...have to go to Professor McGonagall, yes!...to the other professors..." Lockhart stammered.

"Hagrid, go tell the professors, I'll escort these little wizards to the Gryffindor lounge first!"

He changed the subject, and said this in a hurry.

"Okay, that's it."

Hagrid hurriedly bid farewell to several people, turned around and strode towards the staff lounge on the first floor.

"Hagrid!"

McGuffin yelled, looking eager to say something.

But in just a few seconds, Hagrid had already gone far.

Only Lockhart was left smiling and staring at the little wizards.

Harry was so dejected that he was ready to follow Lockhart back to the dormitory with the bastard.

"Soul out of the body!"

Suddenly MacGuffin's voice came from behind him.

Immediately, a green light shot out, rushing towards Gilderoy Lockhart.

"McGuffin!"

"Albert!"

Hermione and Ron looked at McGuffin together in surprise.

—He actually attacked a professor!
"What are you doing?!"

McGuffin ignored it, and carefully stared at Professor Lockhart Gilderoy in front of him with his wand.

Something is wrong!He knew in his heart that this situation was very wrong.

Although Lockhart was still up to his usual standard, something was wrong... Whether it was Professor McGonagall's shouting before, or the fact that they ran into this guy just outside the door.

It's all -- not right.

A certain awkward feeling stuck in his heart like a thorn.

In an instant, Lockhart's abnormal performances that were slightly different from those in the original... quickly appeared in McGuffin's mind, turning over like a comic strip.

McGuffin's doubts about this guy began to deepen.

He originally thought it was because the reality was slightly different from the original book, after all, it was a living wizard.

But McGuffin remembered that the last time they were attacked by a basilisk in the library, this guy was also the first to arrive, and he had just seen Hagrid heading towards the staff lounge on the first floor... It was clearly the opposite direction from the direction this guy had just come over...

This guy is coming for them... His purpose is very clear, that is, he is coming for the entrance of the [Chamber of Secrets].

McGuffin was stunned for a few seconds just now, and when he thought about it, he realized that Hagrid had gone far.

in case!

It's better to act first... No matter what, this is a matter of his own life, and he doesn't want to fall into the situation he was in last semester.

Lockhart was stunned and did not respond, as if he had been hit by the [Imperius Curse].

McGuffin waved his wand, and the guy had a kind of half-smile look on his face instead.

He immediately realized that his feeling was correct, this Lockhart... the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor did have a problem, and he hurriedly shot another spell at him.

"Passed out!"

Red light flashed. .

I saw this guy who was usually ignorant, waved his wand lightly, and easily dissolved the (magic) red light spell... It was like popping a bubble.

Instead, Lockhart let out a blue light from his wand by the way.

Accompanied by a soft sound of air burst, McGuffin was knocked down heavily, looking like a mature crayfish.

— shrink into a ball.

"--what!"

"what!"

He yelled in pain, his internal organs seemed to be torn and burned, the pain was like being hit by the [Cruciatus Curse].

"Professor Lockhart! This..."

Harry, Hermione looked at the extremely changing scene in front of her, at a loss, and didn't know what to do.

--In the end what happened!
Soon, they realized that the person in front of them was different from the usual Professor Lockhart.

"Professor, MacGuffin, what are you two doing? What's wrong!"

They asked, drawing out their wands and taking precautions.

"Yeah! What's the matter! I'm also surprised..."

"How on earth did you find out! MacGuffin Albert!"

Lockhart said coldly, there was no usual frivolity in his tone, he was always showing off his feelings all the time.

"Stop pretending... That curse only makes your stomach feel pain for a few seconds...it's not like [Cruciatus], or you want to experience this black curse!"

McGuffin slowly got up, still holding his wand tightly in his hand, it seemed that he just wanted to sneak attack while Lockhart was not prepared.

"Ha! Sure enough, I read it right! You really look like me..."

"However, while there is still time, can you answer my doubts... You found out that something was wrong with me!" He asked again.

With that said, Lockhart pointed at the back with his wand, motioning for them to enter the empty bathroom again.

McGuffin pursed his lips and stared at Gilderoy Lockhart.

Recalling this guy's performance just now in his mind, he weighed his chances of winning a sudden attack.

He is not a wizard like Quilinus Quirrell who was drained of magic power by Voldemort last semester. Judging from the level of just resolving the spell, he is a wizard with professor-level strength.

Although I don't know what happened to the other party.

But now the opponent is not a parallel importer who is only good at [Forgetting Curse] like in the original book.

When Lockhart looked impatient, McGuffin had no choice but to speak.

"It's not such a coincidence..."

"What!" Harry asked softly, he also wanted to know what was going on!

"There are no accidents in the world, only inevitability! Your appearance here is the biggest problem!" McGuffin said.

"Heh!... Hahaha!"

After a sneer, Lockhart said in a piercingly cold tone, "That's right, there is no accident, everything is preordained. Everything is done deliberately, there is no innocence or coincidence...Why didn't I think of it?"

"not to mention……"

"What's more, what happened in Hogwarts...in the end, it was discovered that it was related to the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts..." McGuffin said firmly.

Hermione couldn't comprehend, - such a ridiculous reason to attack a professor!
Lockhart smiled, he just took it as MacGuffin's nonsense.

After more than half of the semester, he could be considered to know this little wizard a little bit, he must be trying to divert his attention by talking nonsense like this, and find an opportunity to attack himself.

For example, Lockhart deliberately took out a package of colorful candies from his pocket, peeled it off with one hand, and stuffed it into his mouth.

really……

At this moment, the MacGuffin once again

He just waved his wand without chanting.

——Is it a floating spell?Smart way!
Lockhart slammed towards the ceiling hard and extremely fast.

McGuffin yelled at Harry, "Run!"

Taking advantage of Lockhart's moment of weightlessness, they wanted to rush to the bathroom.

But almost in an instant, the bathroom door turned into some kind of thorny bushes, covered with sharp thorns and withered black vines tightly entangled with the wall, inseparable, unable to get rid of 2.
At this time, Gilderoy Lockhart, who was behind, slowly fell slowly.

"Okay, time is running out. Which one of you will go down first!" He said sheepishly.

"There's a great wizard waiting for you down there, Harry!...After all, it's not a wizard's etiquette to make people wait for a long time!"

Under Lockhart's pressure, Harry and Ron slowly came to the entrance of the cave.

"Get down! Harry, don't make me!"

One by one they slide down the pipe.

After Hermione also slowly got into the tube, let go and let herself slide down.

Lockhart instead kept the McGuffin off the edge of the pipe.

"Don't worry! MacGuffin!"

"We have other tasks!"

"Let's go!"

Lockhart pointed at the McGuffin with his wand and came to the side of the pool.

——After the entrance to the secret room was exposed, the sink that originally covered it was moved to another location in the bathroom.

"Okay, I know you can [Parseltongue]!"

said Lockhart, forcing the MacGuffin to the stagnant faucet.

"The spell that just opened the entrance to the [Secret Chamber] is what you said..."

"Now say it again in Parseltongue..."

"Don't disturb the sleeping dragon!"

(End of this chapter)