Hogwarts: Harley from The Witch Way

The huge stone face of the Slytherin moved, and the mouth opened wider and wider, forming a huge black hollow.

According to Lockhart's memory, when Voldemort summoned the basilisk, the basilisk always came out from here.

While this presumably connected to the sewers, Harry suspected that there might be another secret room inside.

After all, it is unreasonable to think that Slytherin does not leave a written inheritance to his heirs, but only leaves a thousand-year-old basilisk.

Looking at the entrance of the hole, Harry didn't hesitate, and his legs exerted a little force.

Using the snake relief on the stone pillar next to the statue and the protrusion of the Slytherin statue itself, she moved quickly, and finally jumped to the entrance of the cave.

As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the cave, an inexplicable smell came over us, and there were some inexplicable things on the ground of the passage, which made people sick.

At this moment, Harry even had doubts about his conjecture.

After all, it was hard for anyone to imagine that the noble Slytherin would build another Chamber of Secrets in such a disgusting place.

But it's all here, and Harry is ready to continue down. She lit the passage with her wand, and at the same time, surrounded by black flames, she walked forward quickly.

The further you walked, the stronger the inexplicable smell became, and there was a faint sound of water coming from the end of the passage.

Damn it, it seems that I guessed wrong, I have suffered for so long in vain.

Harry complained, just about to turn around, but his gaze fell to the side wall.

Harry's movements stopped for an instant, and she saw a small snake-shaped mark at that position.

Is there really a secret room with text messages?

Harry was pleasantly surprised at first, and then raised his vigilance, still holding the wand in his right hand, and had already drawn out the dagger from the family vault in his left hand.

According to Lockhart's memory, Senior Riddle never mentioned this place. Harry also didn't believe that the self-important Voldemort would explore this foul-smelling passage.

What's more, he wouldn't believe that Slytherin would build another secret room here.

So if Harry's guess is correct, no one has explored here, and I don't know what traps are left.

Open!

The little snake burst into green light, and then a small opening opened in the wall.

Harley maintained the principle of caution, first threw a small mirror inside, and then entered with his real body after confirming that there was no danger through his spiritual vision.

This is a not-so-big room with nothing in it except some words carved on the wall.

Judging by the thick layer of ash on the ground, no one has been here for nearly a thousand years.

Sure enough, Voldemort hasn't been here. Harry thought, picked up the mirror, and shook off the dust on it.

The cold air gushed out from Harry's body, quickly freezing the dust on the ground and creating a foothold for himself.

Without thinking too much, Harry came directly to the wall with the words engraved on it.

There are dense words written on the wall, which are messages left by Slytherin in Parseltongue:

My descendant, glad you are here.

By the time you read this passage, I'm probably dead, or not far away.

I didn't want to let these words stay, I was afraid that you would follow the same path as me based on ancient books.

But I didn't want to just leave nothing behind, so I built this secret room of secret rooms.

The reason why I was about to die was because the road ahead that could have been continued was broken.

And the road I once walked is also disappearing, and even the place where I stand is collapsing.

The same happened to Godric, Rowena and Helga.

So we can only choose to embark on another road, a road that is almost dead.

But we have no choice.

I have left some precious magic knowledge in the Basilisk's mind, but it is not particularly harmful. I hope you can make good use of it.

Seeing this, Harry understood why no one came here.

The basilisk had the knowledge of Slytherin in its mind, and Voldemort knew this when he discovered the Chamber of Secrets.

He probably thought that was the entire inheritance, and he would not have thought that there was a secret room hiding a small amount of information deep in the passage behind the statue.

In addition, no one would believe that Slytherin, who has always kept himself noble, would build a chamber of secrets here, so he never set foot here.

As for that Gaunt, according to the records in the book, he just optimized the pipeline system based on the original pipeline of the castle, and by the way modified the entrance of the outermost secret room in Slytherin, so that the basilisk could pass through the wall. move in.

And the pipe outside this room already existed at that time, and the basilisk could go to the outside world through this pipe to prey.

In this way, this basilisk has lived for thousands of years, but it has no brains, so it can be explained.

Harry stroked the writing on the wall, Probably Senior Riddle chose to destroy the Basilisk's brain in order to prevent the magic from leaking.

But thanks to Senior Riddle, if it weren't for his selfish behavior, I wouldn't be able to discover this secret room.

There is a lot of information hidden in Slytherin's words, and it can also be connected with what Nico told Harry last summer and the information of the ancient ghost at the death party.

Harry silently wrote down the information, and then left the room.

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The chamber of secrets was sealed again by Harry. In order not to damage the ceremony, Harry took nothing but Lockhart's two pockets.

In the Room of Requirement, Harley dumps everything out of the bag.

One of the bags contained half a bag of Galleons, probably thousands of them, as well as some pearls and quite a few gemstones.

In the other bag, besides the notes, there were also some potion materials.

Most of these potion materials are related to healing and flesh and blood potions. Harry guessed that it was an additional part collected by Lockhart when he helped Voldemort collect materials.

But what surprised Harry the most was that there was a roll of basilisk shed skin in the deepest part of the pocket.

Although the snakeskin has been carefully rolled, it still occupies most of the pocket.

The color of the snakeskin was very bright, and it had obviously faded not long ago.

Not bad. Harry beamed with joy, after all, the skin on the basilisk had been torn to pieces by his ice spear.

But now this complete skin is obviously more valuable to Harley.

After sorting out the harvest by category, Harley took a shower and didn't go back to the dormitory, choosing to sleep here directly.

...

The semester is over, the grades have come out, and Halle has undoubtedly won the first place.

The auditorium was still bright red. After all, in the next two Quidditch matches, Harry crushed Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, and the Nimbus 2000 easily tore through their defenses.

Although Katie missed the Golden Snitch against Ravenclaw's Cho Chang, it did not prevent Harry from scoring seventeen goals in a single game.

With the extra points from the Quidditch competition, and the points from Harry's Special Contribution Award, Gryffindor is undisputedly number one.

Eight consecutive championships! We should have won eight consecutive championships!

The Slytherins were aggrieved, but they had to admit that Harry had achieved these scores for real, and the professors were not partial.

However, Professor Snape was not so unhappy, after all he knew he was partly responsible.

Anyway, it's only these seven years, once the seven-year period is over, with Professor Snape's bonus, the Academy Cup champion is still theirs!

Besides, after Lockhart's death, Professor Snape once again took the part-time job of his coveted Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and he had no reason to be dissatisfied.

Before boarding the train to leave Hogwarts, Professor Snape found Harry again:

Come to the Leaky Cauldron after you've been staying with the Dursleys for about a week. Then I'll take you to the Potions Tournament.

Professor, how is our route planned? Harry asked.

Dumbledore and old Professor Horace will be with us, when the Ministry of Magic will specially approve a Portkey to go to France.

The next route is to ask Dumbledore.

Professor Snape said softly, When you go back, review the original potion I gave you in the last few weeks.

Don't stress, at your level, no problem.

After saying goodbye to Professor Snape, Harry got on the train home.

On the way, when the girls heard that Halle might not be able to provide answers this holiday, they immediately expressed their condolences.

Hermione looked happy though.

They depend on you too much. Hermione whispered to Harry when she got off the train, Goodbye, I will contact you again during the summer vacation.

Goodbye. Harry said goodbye to Hermione with a chuckle, and then walked towards Uncle Vernon who was on the verge of an enemy.

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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu, c14159267, and Chuwu's glasses for the reward!)