Harry Potter and Shafik

Chapter 22 Blood on the Wall

What's going on here? What's going on?"

Filch, no doubt drawn to Malfoy's shout, squeezed his shoulders through the crowd.Then he saw Mrs Norris, and he stumbled back a few steps, grabbing his face with his hands in horror.

"My cat! My cat! What happened to Mrs. Norris?" he screamed.

At this moment, his bulging eyes caught sight of Harry.

"You!" he screamed. "You! You killed my cat! You killed it! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to?" "Filch!"

Dumbledore arrived on the scene, followed by many other teachers.In the blink of an eye, he was past Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and unhooked Mrs. Norris from the torch holder.The tip of Dumbledore's long hooked nose almost touched Lady Norris' fur.He looked at it carefully through the half-moon-shaped glasses, poking here and there with his slender fingers.Professor McGonagall bent over, almost touching the cat with his face, squinting his eyes and watching carefully.Snape stood behind them, half hidden in the shadows, looking eerie.The expression on his face was odd: it was as if he was trying desperately not to laugh.Lockhart hovered around them, constantly scheming.

"Come with me, Filch," he said to Filch, "and you, Mr. Shafik, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger."

"Filch, your cat isn't dead, it's just petrified."

"He did it, he did it!" said Filch, spitting, "I didn't touch Mrs. Norris at all!" cried Harry, uncomfortably aware that everyone was watching him, " Nonsense!" Filch snarled, "Allow me to say something, Headmaster," said Snape from the shadows, and Harry's sense of foreboding intensified.He believed that nothing Snape said would do him any good.

"Perhaps Potter and his friends just weren't supposed to be in that place at that time," said Snape, with a slight sneer on his lips, as if he deeply doubted it, "but we did encounter a series of Why on earth did they go up the corridor? Why didn't they come to the Halloween party?"

"Harry, he is helping me reply to fans."

"It's not him, it's you! Shafiq!"

"No nonsense!" Snape said together with Ling Xu who rushed over.

Filch shivered with horror.

"I can attest, Filch, that Mr. Shafik attended the banquet in the Great Hall tonight." Dumbledore said slowly.

"My cat is petrified!" he screamed, eyeballs bulging outward. "I want to see someone get some punishment!"

"We can cure it, Filch," said Dumbledore patiently. "Mrs. Sprout has got some mandrakes recently. Once they're big enough, I have a cure that will make Lori Mrs. Si is back from the dead."

For several days, the students talked about nothing but the attack on Mrs. Norris.Slytherin was no exception, and several senior students even mentioned Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

On Sunday, Taoist Lingxu walked into the Slytherin common room. As soon as he walked in, many students immediately applauded to welcome him. "When I entered the door just now, I heard you guys discussing the secret room! What is the secret room?"

"We don't know either. The Chamber of Secrets is just a legend."

"Maybe you can ask Professor Binns, he might know!" said a senior boy.

Today, the classroom is as boring as usual.Professor Binns opened his notes and read in a dry, low, monotonous voice, like an old vacuum cleaner, until the whole class fell into a daze, occasionally coming to their senses, and copying down a name or a date, Then fell back into a semi-sleep.After he spoke for half an hour, something happened that had never happened before.Hermione raised her hand.

Professor Binns was explaining the International Conference of Wizards in [-] very boringly. He looked up and looked very surprised. "You are..." "I'm Granger, Professor. I wonder if you can tell us what happened to the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione said clearly.Dean had been staring out the window with his mouth open just now, and suddenly he woke up from his trance; Lavender Brown's head was raised from his arms; Neville's elbow was lowered from the table .

Professor Binns blinked.

"My course is History of Magic," he said in his dry, breathless voice. "I study facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He cleared his throat and made a soft sound like The sound of chalk breaking, continued: "In October of that year, a special group composed of magicians from Sardinia...?"

He stammered to a halt.Hermione waved her hand in the air again.

"Miss Granger?"

"I would like to ask, sir, legends are based on facts, don't they?"Professor Binns looked at her in astonishment.Harry believed that no student had ever interrupted Professor Binns in this way, whether alive or dead. "Well," said Professor Binns slowly, "yeah, I suppose, you could say that." He looked at Hermione hard, as if he'd never had a good look at a student before. "However, the legend you mentioned is a very sensational, even ridiculous story."

Now the whole class was listening intently to every word Professor Binns said.He watched them blindly, every face turned towards him.Harry could see that Mr. Binns was being too embarrassed by the unusual interest shown.

"Oh well then," he said slowly, "Let me see.. Chamber of Secrets" As you all must know, Hogwarts school was founded over 1000 years ago? Not sure about the exact date?? Founder The four greatest wizards and wizards of the time.Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin.They built the castle together, away from the prying eyes of Muggles, for in those days the common people were afraid of magic and wizards and wizards were persecuted a lot. "

Professor Binns paused, looked around the classroom with blurred vision, and continued: "In the first few years, the founders worked harmoniously together, looking for young people who showed signs of magic, and bringing them to the castle. Nurture well. Slowly, however, there is a divide between them. The rift between Slytherin and the others is growing. Slytherin wants Hogwarts to be more selective in recruiting students. He believes that magical education Should be limited to purely magical families only. He was unwilling to accept Muggle-born children, thinking they were unreliable. Some days later, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a violent argument over this issue, and then Slater Lin left the school."

Professor Binns paused again, pursing his lips like a wrinkled old turtle.

"That's all the solid historical sources tell us," he said, "but these pure facts are overshadowed by a queer legend about the Chamber of Secrets. The story says that Slytherins built a secret chamber in the castle, and that other who know nothing about it.

"According to the legend, Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school. Only that heir could open the Chamber of Secrets, release the horrors inside, and let it purify the school. , remove all those who are not worthy of learning magic."

When the story was over, the class fell silent, but not the usual sleepy silence of Professor Binns's class.Everyone continued to stare at him, hoping that he would continue, and the atmosphere was unsettling, and Professor Binns looked slightly annoyed.

"Of course, the whole thing is nonsense," he said. "Naturally the school has investigated whether such a chamber exists, many times, and only the most learned wizards and wizards have been hired. The chamber does not exist." .It's just a story designed to scare the simple minds."

Hermione's hand was up in the air again. "Sir? What did you mean when you said 'horrible things in the Chamber of Secrets'?" "People think it's some kind of monster that only the heirs of Slytherin can control." Professor Binns said with his dry, weak voice said the voice.

get out of class has ended.

Hilbert, who was walking behind and thinking about the problem, walked slowly, and the Iron Triangle was in front of him.

"Who do you think the descendants of Slytherin are?"

"What do you think, who among us despises Muggle-borns the most?"

"If you're talking about Malfoy!"

"That's right, Hermione, you see that their family has been graduated from Slytherin for several generations, they are the most likely."

"Then how do we know if it's Malfoy?"

"I have a way, but this way will make us violate fifty school rules, and it will be very troublesome."

When I came to the door of the westernmost room on the fifth floor, Hilbert knocked on the door, the door opened automatically, and Hilbert walked in.

A quaint brush character "Tao" is placed on the wall, and sandalwood is burning in the incense burner next to it, and the sound of the guqin is unknown.It makes people feel extremely peaceful.

Nearly Headless Nick is asking Taoist Lingxu to help him cut off his head.

Taoist Lingxu, who was so annoyed to the extreme, pulled out his magic weapon, the Hunyuan Golden Sword, and chopped off Nick's head, only to see that Nick's head fell off, and Nick, who was almost headless, held his head up and quickly thanked him I can finally join the Headless Horseman.After Nick left, Taoist Lingxu poured a cup of cloud tea for Hilbert who was sitting cross-legged across from him.Hilbert picked it up and took a sip, feeling as if the dirty things in his internal organs had been cleaned by a brush.Unspeakably smooth.

"Any news?"

"Not yet, do you really have no memory of this school year?"

"Yes, but I need clues to remember it, such as does the secret room really exist?"

"Okay then, what are you going to teach us in fairy art class on Friday afternoon?"

"First teach you a few small spells, such as eye protection spells, five elements escape, etc."

"When are you going back to your house?"

"I have plenty of time. I can teach at Hogwarts until you graduate."

"Oh, yes, I forgot that you old thing has lived tens of thousands of years," Hilbert joked.

(End of this chapter)