HP Polar Night

Madam Pomfrey gasped when she saw the petrified Colin, and quickly asked in a low voice, "What's going on?" "It was another attack, and McGonagall found him at the stairs." Dumbledore road.

Professor McGonagall said: "I guess he might have sneaked here to see Potter, and found a bunch of grapes beside him."

Hearing his name, Harry, who was pretending to be asleep, secretly pricked up his ears.Through the curtain and the distance between the three beds, the adults all lowered their voices. Fortunately, the silence of the night allowed Harry to hear all the words clearly.

"Then why is Mr. Black here?" he heard Madam Pomfrey ask.

Mr. Black?Could it be Agares?thought Harry.

The next moment, a familiar voice sounded: "I think I have the same motive as Mr. Colin, ma'am."

Harry snapped his eyes open.Why is Agares here?

He heard Professor McGonagall say dryly, "That's open to verification, Mr. Black."

Dumbledore, who had been examining the petrified student, removed the camera.Professor McGonagall's attention was diverted, and she asked eagerly: "Did he take a picture of the attacker?"

Dumbledore didn't answer, he opened the back cover of the camera, and a gust of hot steam came out, accompanied by the pungent smell of burnt plastic. "It's all melted..." Madam Pomfrey murmured in disbelief.

"What does that mean? Albus." Professor McGonagall pressed.

"This means," said Dumbledore, his eyes were extremely cold, "the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again."

The two ladies present took a breath, astonished.

Dumbledore turned to Agares and said, "Mr. Black, I'm afraid we have to go to the principal's office." Agares nodded, "Of course, sir."

This is his second visit to the principal's office.

Compared with the full confidence last time, it is clear that the positions of the two parties in the dialogue have reversed 180 degrees this time.

Fortunately, Dumbledore didn't treat him as a murderer, but just asked him to tell the reason why he appeared in the corridor tonight.In fact, Agares had just said that he did go on a night trip to visit Harry, and the house elves in the kitchen could also testify to this.After he came out of the kitchen, he went straight to the medical wing without doing anything else on the way.So from this point of view, he has no time to commit crimes.

"Nocturnal travel is always bad behavior anyway, and I'm afraid I'll have to give Slytherin twenty points," said Dumbledore.

"Yes, I'm very sorry." He made no excuses.

The portraits of the principals on the wall who closed their eyes and pretended to sleep, opened their eyelids from time to time to look at the old and the young.One of them was eavesdropping openly. Judging from the signature on the lower right corner of the portrait, the owner of the portrait was Phineas Black.He was the great-great-great-grandfather of Agares.

Agares glanced at him and made sure he didn't misjudge the look he gave him.

"Sir, then I'll go back first."

Dumbledore saw it all, but he said nothing.

When Agares left the principal's office and walked downstairs, the person in the portrait ran out with him. "Agares, wait." He got into a landscape painting and trampled a lot of the flowers and plants in the painting.

Agares stood in front of the portrait and bowed respectfully: "Greetings, Mr. Black."

Phineas Black is a very feudal and stubborn old man. During his tenure as headmaster of Hogwarts, he promulgated a series of school orders that were beneficial to Slytherin and suppressed the other three colleges, which caused the students to complain. It was rated as the most unpopular headmaster of Hogwarts.

Phineas also hates self-righteous young people. Among the portraits of previous principals, he is also the least fond of helping students.

Of course, if the student is a Blake, then the opposite is true.

Shortly after Agares enrolled, Phineas was often in front of him and provided him with considerable guidance.According to him, Agares, as the last bloodline of the noble and pure Black family, is incomparably important.The glory of the Black family can all be maintained by Agares alone.

Phineas slipped out directly under Dumbledore's nose tonight, presumably to tell him something important.For example, the legendary Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

Sure enough, what Phineas wanted to talk about was about the Chamber of Secrets.

"Legends say that Slytherin built a secret room in the castle. There is a very scary thing in the secret room. When the real heir of Slytherin comes to the school, only the heir can open the secret room, release the contents, and clear it away. All those who are not worthy of learning magic—you know, Slytherin always advocates, pure blood. But since 1000 years, the school has invited famous wizards to check more than once, but no one has ever been able to find that secret room. That secret room It seems to be just a legend..."

Agares blinked.If the Chamber of Secrets was just a legend, Phineas probably wouldn't have come out under Dumbledore's nose to tell him these things.So he maintained a listening posture, and as expected, the former principal who lowered his voice revealed a big secret to him.

"What I have to tell you is that the Chamber of Secrets was opened 50 years ago! A witch of hemp seed died that year. Hogwarts couldn't find the murderer and was facing being closed. At this time, a student reported on Lu Burt Hagrid, the half-breed giant Gryffindor, secretly raised an acromantula in the cupboard. In the end, Hagrid and the acromantula were responsible for killing the students, but in fact, We all guessed that the witch was killed by the monster in the Chamber of Secrets."

"Did you know, that man, the man they are following, is a descendant of Slytherin, a snake whisperer." Phineas Black's voice was even lower, so low that Agares had to listen to it to hear clearly.

Snake whisperer, descendant of Slytherin, witch who died 50 years ago, Rupert Hagrid, monster in the chamber of secrets.

It's like one thread after another. When you grasp the most important one, you can peel it off and come at your fingertips.But until you catch that line, it's like being in a fog with no direction.

"So, 50 years ago, that guy also went to Hogwarts? He opened the Chamber of Secrets, released monsters to kill the students, and then put the blame on Rupert Hagrid?"

"Shh, then I don't know. After all, I'm just a portrait, so I can't know more."

After bringing these top-secret news to Agares, Phineas quickly left the same way, pretending that he had never been there.Agares couldn't help but feel as if he was standing in front of a half-open door, and he could push the door open as long as he stretched out his hand to learn the truth.But I just don't know how to reach out.

He rubbed the space between his brows, and decided to go back to sleep first, and then check what happened 50 years ago when he woke up.

The next day, when Agares hadn't come out of the dormitory, the news that Colin Creevey was attacked last night and that he was there was already spreading.Everyone in Hogwarts was talking about this matter. They swore that the murderer was Agares, as if they were present at the scene.

And when Agares didn't show up, rumors had grown to the point that he was expelled from Hogwarts.

And more than one person believed it.

So much so that when Agares appeared in the Slytherin common room, people sitting on the sofa in twos and threes stood up at the same time, showing a humble and submissive gesture to him.

Agares frowned, feeling ominous.

Before he could ask, Draco had already entered through the doorway and ran towards him in surprise: "Agares, everyone outside is saying that you are the heir. You opened the secret room last night and let monsters attack a Gran. Fendor's slime...Muggleborn!" That word was swallowed by him because of the lesson from last time.

Noticing the inexplicable changes in the expressions of other people when they heard this sentence, Agares felt a little headache.

"No, Draco." He could only explain, "I did see Colin Creevey who was attacked last night, but with our Headmaster and Professor McGonagall. If I was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, I must have been expelled by now."

The expression of obvious disbelief appeared on more than one person's face. Although they didn't say anything, it was obvious that the idea that he was the heir was deeply ingrained.Unless the real heir stood up to reveal his identity at this moment and opened the secret room, they would still not believe that Agares was innocent.

Of course, from the standpoint of Slytherin, most of them would not reject the heir of Slytherin and his Chamber of Secrets.On the contrary, perhaps they also consider it an honor.Go to school with the heir or something.

Agares had to show up in the Hogwarts Great Hall and dine with the students, as long as he didn't want everyone to think he had been expelled.

When I met a few Hufflepuff students walking in the corridor, the other party ran away in a panic, as if they had encountered a ten-foot-tall monster head-on.

The students talked a lot, and the timid ones avoided him like snakes and scorpions.

Under such circumstances, the number of Agares' party participants dropped sharply, and those who remained either believed in him deeply or worshiped him fanatically, and more importantly, they attracted some wizards who advocated the theory of blood A Slytherin from a pure-blood family, in grades four to seven.

His party also changed in the eyes of others, and some even thought it was an evil party.

After a period of time in such a tense atmosphere, something related to the savior Harry Potter happened, overshadowing all the rumors related to Agares in one fell swoop.

At a dueling club hosted by Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry accidentally reveals his talent - he's a Parseltongue!

This incident had a huge impact on the students of Hogwarts.

Parseltongue is not something that anyone can learn, it is a kind of blood talent. Since ancient times, the most famous wizard who can talk to snakes is Slytherin, so the symbol of Slytherin is a snake.As long as you are a child who grew up in the wizarding world, or know something about the four founders, you will know it.

A wizard who can talk to snakes—a descendant of Slytherin—the heir of Slytherin—opens the chamber of secrets to attack the murderer behind the witch.

Harry became the object of suspicion. As the predecessor of the object of suspicion, although Agares was lucky enough to get rid of the suspicion and was no longer closely watched by all kinds of eyes, his troubles continued unabated.

50 years ago, the dead student of Hogwarts, Belinda Moult, Ravenclaw College, died unexpectedly in the fifth grade, and later became a ghost and stayed at the scene of her death—the abandoned building on the second floor Girls' Bathroom - Moaning Myrtle.

If you want to find out who the murderer is, first check the students who are at the same school as Myrtle.

The two grades that entered before her had a total of 198 students, the same grade had 87 students, and the four grades that entered after her had a total of 413 students.In other words, there were a total of 698 students in the school at that time.

Suppose Myrtle was killed by the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, and the person who opened the Chamber of Secrets was most likely from Slytherin.At that time, there were 7 students in the 119th grade of Slytherin.

Merlin, this is a big project.

The author has something to say:

In the original book, when Hermione asked Professor Binns about the rumors of the Chamber of Secrets, Professor Binns said: "The school has naturally investigated whether there is such a chamber of secrets, and has investigated many times, and the most knowledgeable wizards and wizards are invited. The Chamber of Secrets does not exist.” Therefore, without Parseltongue, there is no way to open the Chamber of Secrets, which is absolutely inevitable.

Agares: With all due respect, I am the protagonist, am I not?