Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

After being slapped by Gray, the diary in Neville's arms fell to the ground.

He shook off Gray's hand and ran straight to the faucet in the bathroom.

Gray took two big steps to catch up with him and grabbed him.

"Don't touch me!" Neville yelled.

But Gray refused to let go.

Neville wanted to shake him off again, but he couldn't stand firm and fell to the ground. There was water on the ground and a few splashes hit his face.With this fall, his confused eyes became clearer, and his expression was as if he had just woken up. He raised his head and looked around, as if he didn't know what he had just done.

"Mo...Professor Morris?" Neville was confused.

"Gray, what's going on?" Mag came at this time, "The induction spell has taken effect, is there anyone? Oh——"

McGonagall took a breath when she saw Neville sitting on the ground with a blank look on his face.

"Professor McGonagall, I just saw Longbottom enter the women's bathroom regardless of obstruction."

"Longbottom, come with me, we need to have a good talk about this matter." McGonagall said very sternly.

Neville reacted and realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, and Professor McGonagall was very angry now.

"I'm sorry! Professor McGonagall, I know I can't run around...but...but I don't know why I'm here! And I definitely didn't intentionally enter the women's bathroom, I'm not a gangster-" He burst into tears. gush out.

"Why is it so busy here recently?" Myrtle popped out curiously to see what was going on. She glanced at everyone, and finally stared at Neville and said, "There you are again! You little fat guy——"

"Wha...what? Again?" Neville's face turned pale.

"Didn't you come in before?" Myrtle floated in front of him with an angry expression, "Brown is hair... white is boys... Little fat guy, you are the one! Can I still admit my mistake?!"

Myrtle said at first that there was Neville.

"I...I've never been here!" Neville cried, almost desperate.

"You dare not admit it in front of the professors! Coward! You smashed me when you saw me before! Attack me! Unless I hide in the toilet! I don't know why, this is my territory, but I can only hide ! You hate me so much, and you came here specifically to bully me! You must have called me Fat Myrtle behind my back, but I’m not thin even without you—"

After saying this, Myrtle began to scream and cry again.

"Okay, the result is obvious. But the specifics of what happened should be explained to the principal's office, not here." McGonagall said, "Follow me, Longbottom."

"The principal's office?" Neville's tears rolled down his eyes, "I'm sorry... I really didn't know what I did... It would be over if my grandma found out..."

"Don't be nervous, you just need to explain things clearly." Gray said and walked to the door, bent down and picked up the diary lying at the door.

When Neville saw Gray picking up the diary, his face was as white as myrtle.

Gray shook off the tattered black cover with water on it, opened the book, and on the first page, he saw the name T Riddle written in blurry ink.

He didn't understand how this thing got into Neville's hands.

"I think you need to bring this too, Professor McGonagall." Gray held up the diary. "I saw Mr. Longbottom rushing into the women's bathroom holding the diary. Maybe it has something special."

"Day... diary..." Neville murmured.

"You are right." McGonagall said, "Let's go, Longbottom."

Neville lowered his head and shivered all the way, tears kept rolling in his eyes, and he almost tripped when he went up the stairs.

Passing by Emery Switch, he saw Neville walking behind the two professors, with tears on his face, sobbing softly along the way, and nodded to Gray, expressing that he was very satisfied with the way the matter was handled.

When we arrived at the door of the principal's office, there were voices coming from inside.

"There is actually a secret room in Hogwarts, and there is actually a basilisk inside. Such a huge hidden danger is actually hidden inside Hogwarts. You didn't handle the secret room well 50 years ago. You said there was No? Armando?" A woman was speaking.

"Well... yes... yes, I was negligent at the time." The voice sounded weak and vicissitudes of life.

"But Dumbledore said he didn't know who had opened the Chamber of Secrets." came another gruff voice.

"The Slytherin Chamber of Secrets will of course be opened by us Slytherins."

"You do take this matter very proudly, Phineas. It's a pity that Potter is the only one who knows Parseltongue, but not you Slytherins." The woman's tone was slightly mocking.

"It's impossible for him! How could Salazar Slytherin let a Gryffindor kid open the Chamber of Secrets?"

"But it was true that Potter opened the secret room last night, and then everyone killed the basilisk, Phineas. Didn't you hear that? Were you asleep?" said the person with a rough voice.

A few seconds of awkward silence.

"...Well, he has Parseltongue. It's no surprise. Since he can open the secret room, why not catch him? Is there a second person who can speak Parseltongue?"

"That's not true. Dumbledore said there was no evidence to prove that Potter was responsible for the attack."

"I'm definitely not kidding, Delis, Salazar Slytherin is a member of the Chamber of Secrets. He is great. The method of opening the Chamber of Secrets is not sloppy. You can't just imitate a Parseltongue." Can it be opened? It would be ridiculous to say that someone could open the Chamber of Secrets by imitating Parseltongue. It would be even more bizarre if there was a Gryffindor. This is absolutely impossible to happen. The successive headmasters of Slytherin are a guarantee of character——"

The door of the office opened. McGonagall led Neville in, and Gray followed. The people who saw the portraits stopped talking when they came in, closed their eyes and pretended to sleep.

"What happened? Minerva." Dumbledore appeared in the room at some point.

"Just now, the induction spell took effect in the women's bathroom. After I sensed it, I went to the scene and found Neville Longbottom there. He insisted on breaking in despite Professor Morris's obstruction."

Dumbledore approached, and behind him a chair automatically moved in front of him. "Please sit down, Longbottom."

Neville sat down on the chair carefully, "Headmaster...I...don't know what happened..."

"Don't be nervous, how about some lemon sorbet first?"

"No... no..."

"Okay, where's the cockroach pile?"

"no thank you……"

"Well, it's a pity. In fact, the sweet taste can calm people down." Dumbledore said in a very calm tone.

"Then...thank you...headmaster..." Neville took a piece hesitantly.

"Don't be nervous, we just want to ask you some questions, such as why you are alone in the bathroom at this time?" Dumbledore's tone gave people a sense of reassurance.

"I...actually...I don't really know. I...don't know why I'm there. I feel...controlled by someone...I don't know what to do in the bathroom..." He had a look on his face. There were two traces of tears.

Surrounded by portraits, everyone squinted their eyes to peek.

"Controlled by someone?" Mag was a little surprised.

"No wonder you changed so much just now." Gray added, "When I stopped you for the first time, you yelled at me and shook my hand away, but when you fell to the ground, you looked confused."

"I... I yelled at you?" Neville's voice trembled, "I'm sorry, Professor... I don't know... I'm sorry..."

"Don't worry, I don't think Professor Morris will blame you." Dumbledore smiled at Gray and then said to Neville, "Have you come into contact with any strange things recently?"

"The strange thing is..." He stole a glance at the diary in Gray's hand.

"This is quite strange, Principal." Gray held up the diary, "Longbottom dropped it on the bathroom floor just now. There was water on the floor, but it didn't get soaked at all, and -"

He opened the book to the first page.

"And it also has a long-ago name written on it - Tom Riddle."