[HP] Noble

Scorpius thought for a while, wiped off his sweat, grabbed a quill pen and hurriedly wrote a line of words on the diary spread out in front of him——

"The one who opened the Chamber of Secrets 24 years ago was Hegruber?"

After the line written by Scorpius faded away, as if Tom Riddle in the diary was ready to answer this question, his handwriting immediately appeared in Scorpius almost without a moment's pause. The following line of writing appeared: [I'm not sure, but after I handed him over to Professor Dumbledore, there was no more attack. 】Scorpius: "..."

The black-haired Slytherin sitting on the sofa bit the end of the quill, he frowned, staring at the line displayed in the diary as if in a daze, until a long time passed, the diary The young dark lord in the book once again tentatively asked if he was still there in a polite tone, and then Scorpius put down the quill, closed the diary heavily, and pushed it far into the corner of the table.

Scorpius knew Riddle was lying.

Draco had shown him the letter Mr. Lucius Malfoy sent him, and the content of the letter also mentioned what happened 24 years ago, and in the envelope, Mr. Malfoy clearly mentioned However, during the whole incident, a girl died unexpectedly. Although the school announced that it was just a coincidental suicide, most people believed that the girl's death must be related to the secret room, and it turned out that after the girl died, For quite a long time, people in the school were in panic. No matter what grade students were in or out of class, a professor would be arranged to escort them at any time. The school did not return to normal order until the incident in the secret room came to an end.

In the diary, Riddle said that after he captured Hagrid and handed it to Dumbledore, there was no more attack-obviously, he was trying to convince Scorpius that he was not He didn't catch the wrong person—but what he obviously didn't expect was that it happened to be his words that made him show his feet—

This huge loophole is Earthbound Weeping Myrtle in the girls' bathroom on the second floor.

In the memory shown by Riddle and Scorpius, the students' actions are obviously still in a state of freedom-Sirius and Potter's father can bully Professor Snape unscrupulously without anyone noticing ——This shows that the school at that time had not yet entered a high-security atmosphere, and the ghost who was killed in the girls' bathroom on the second floor was still alive.

She died after this.

And Riddle said that after he captured Hagrid, the attack never happened again.

And in fact, Hagrid was indeed expelled from the school because of this incident, and finally he was reluctantly left in Hogwarts to become a hunting ground manager because of the pity of Professor Dumbledore-this shows that even Di Principal Pate also believed Riddle's rhetoric, and based on this, not only did Riddle find a perfect scapegoat, he also sent the scapegoat to the principal to make such a set of rhetoric, and at the same time killed killed an innocent schoolgirl.

To accomplish such a series of seemingly incredible things, the only possibility is that these two things are carried out at the same time.

In other words, the basilisk killed Moaning Myrtle at the same time that Riddle captured Hagrid - obviously because the goofy female ghost didn't look like much of a Riddler. A character who must be killed, so it is not difficult to guess that her death may be purely accidental—maybe when Riddle asked the basilisk to return to the secret room, it happened to be at the lost entrance—that is, the girl on the second floor The bathroom was hit right on the head by the hapless schoolgirl, and she became the first and only student to actually die.

Assuming that the time difference between when the girl was killed and when she was found was included, judging by Hogwarts' sensitivity to surrounding things, even if the two events did not happen at the same time, the time difference should not exceed half a day.

Pushing forward, Riddle only had the idea of ​​​​stopping after hearing Principal Dippett's announcement in the office that "if the murderer is not found, the school must be closed", then he could not have produced the Basilisk The idea of ​​sending the basilisk back to the Chamber of Secrets—that is, the most logical time for Riddle to safely return the Basilisk to the Chamber of Secrets, and for Moaning Myrtle to die unexpectedly—is after Riddle leaves the Headmaster's office and captures Hagrid as his own. During this period of time before the scapegoat.

According to the normal thrust logic, the sequence of the whole thing should be——Riddle opened the chamber to release the basilisk——the basilisk began to attack people——Riddle heard Principal Dippet say in the principal’s office that if the attack happened in Halt Hogwarts is closing - Riddle decides to send the Basilisk back to the Chamber of Secrets and hatches the idea of ​​finding a scapegoat to give this an ostensibly official ending - on Riddle's way to send the Basilisk back to the Chamber of Secrets Accidentally killed a female student - Riddle left the secret room, caught Hagrid who kept eight-eyed spiders in private, and pushed everything including the girl who died for no reason to Hagrid.

"..."

Yes, that's how it should have been.

Thinking of this, Scorpius was completely flustered.

He realized that he really couldn't be Sherlock Holmes in the wizarding world.

Because of his embarrassing discovery, the young Dark Lord just generously showed him the most questionable memory fragment between "leaving from the principal's office and exposing Hagrid"—a long period that seemed to be The nonsense and conflicts of the school's bloody youth idol drama, the process of watching Potter, Sirius and Professor Snape's childish and ridiculous primary school-style love methods have become Riddle's best alibi and whitewashing evidence.

From leaving Principal Dippet's office to catching Hagrid, Scorpius witnessed Riddle's "innocence" with his own eyes.

Now, even Scorpius, who knew the truth of the whole incident very well, had no reason to doubt him at all.

Not to mention others who don't know anything about it - if anyone - like Potter - who believes in Hagrid so deeply begins to doubt the memory, they will be quickly overwhelmed by what they have seen These things convinced again, so "Hagrid is the murderer" became the only possible answer at this time.

At this moment, Scorpius must admit that his brain is not enough.

So the next morning, he appeared in front of the mocking Prince Slytherin with serious dark circles under his eyes.

"I knew you couldn't help it." Looking at the haggard senior Slytherin who hadn't slept all night because of some problem, Draco taunted in that irritating tone as if he had everything under control, "If the conversation with Mr. Diary caused you to suffer from insomnia, before we solve this problem, please let me say this sincerely: you deserve it."

"..."

Scorpius rolled his eyes, wrapped the heavy scarf over most of his face, and walked out of the Slytherin common room side by side with Draco.

Today is the first day of the end of the Christmas holiday, and almost half of the students have returned to school. The corridors seem to be much more lively than the previous two days, but if you look carefully, it is not difficult to find that not all the students are actually there. All back at school - apparently some parents got wind of it and decided to wait and see Hogwarts for a while, including most of the parents of Slytherin House students...

Therefore, this meant that the long Slytherin table, which seemed sparsely populated, was now even more empty.

"Oh, it's not Daphne's fault, she almost cried, made trouble and hanged herself at home, but her mother insisted not to let her go back to school," said Pansy Parkinson elegantly at the very spacious long Slytherin table. pouted, "My mother didn't want me to come back at first, but my father said that if Draco is still in school, at least it means that the school can still be reassured—if there is any danger, Mrs. Malfoy and Mr. Malfoy will definitely rush to the school immediately instead of letting Draco be in danger."

In the cheerful and inexplicably proud explanation of the black-haired Slytherin girl, Scorpius could only laugh dryly when he heard the matter, and turned his head, just in time to see Draco holding his hand calmly. The scene where the letter from his mother's "kindly condolences" and "hope my son returns home" is stuffed back into the schoolbag.

"Draco, am I right?" Pansy craned her neck, her eyes sparkled, and she looked at Draco expectantly.

"You're right." Draco lied without changing his face.

From an angle that Pansy couldn't see, Scorpius mouthed "Liar" to Draco-the expression on the latter's face didn't change at all, and he didn't even shake his eyebrows, but Scorpius Pretty sure he must have seen his mouth and understood what he was trying to say - because under the table, Draco stomped on him hard.

After breakfast, Scorpius and Draco had no classes, the two were hanging out at Hogwarts, and at Draco's suggestion, they decided to go to the library to look for information to see if there was any book that could help Gotta be busy - Scorpius was a little hesitant about that, only because he knew he could never hope to find a book over the summer to solve his current problem.

What he needs is Holmes to bestow upon him magical powers (...).

Draco looked at his absent-minded look a little disapprovingly, and he never asked him what kind of pleasant "friction" he had with "Mr. Diary" last night-Scorpius knew that he was waiting for him if he didn't ask He opened the mouth himself, but he just refused to say it. The two seemed to have held their breaths since they met in the morning——

Just wait to see who gets suffocated first.

Scorpius rolled his eyes all the way and followed Draco's ass towards the library - but he didn't expect that on the way to the library, he and Draco unexpectedly watched a wonderful episode.

Just passing the corner of a corridor, they saw two fiery red-haired heads tugging not far away—oh, it was tugging in the real sense, at least from Scorpius' perspective , Ginny Weasley could be strangled to death in the corridors of Hogwarts by her dear little brother Ron Weasley at any moment.

Poor little Gryffindor girl in the first year, shaken by her brother, her old clothes messed up, their faces flushed with anger as festive as their hair , although at this moment, Ginny Weasley was out of breath from crying, she was shaking her head frantically, as if denying something.

Draco grabbed Scorpius who was about to approach, his face was full of enthusiasm, and he showed a rhythm of preparing to squat in the corner to watch the excitement.

Sure enough, under the expectant eyes of the two Slytherins squatting in the corner, the voices of the two Weasleys arguing became louder and louder. Will tell Mum about Professor McGonagall" and Ginny was just crying, shaking her head, looking like she almost passed out from crying—

Luckily, Ron Weasley was the least thoughtful girl in the world.

The level of strength even makes Scorpius sometimes secretly wonder if all his skill points are on the aspect of "immunity to girls' tears".

"I didn't expect you to do such a thing, Ginny!" Ron looked very excited, "You threw it away and ran into the boys' dormitory to steal it--Merlin, where did you come from?" What's the matter - what is it about that diary that fascinates you - are you crazy? Don't you feel the danger in it? Are you a novice wizard from the Muggle world? Do you read or read? Do you really have no idea how many people die each year from inexplicable magical items because they tried to use them or even become addicted to them without knowing what they were?!"

"I didn't..." Ginny said palely and tremblingly...

"It! Just! Here! G! Lan! Fern! Too much! Lost! It's gone!" Ron raised his voice, slamming every word, "Under our noses—I can't think of anyone other than you Someone broke into the boys' dormitory at night and stole a humble notebook from Harry's pillow!"

"Oh, Ron!" Ginny yelled, looking like she was about to break down from crying, "It's really not me! I didn't take it!"

"Look at the things you did before, isn't it scary enough? Ginny, I really regret hanging out in the corridor that day, you should see how horrible you look when you wring out a turkey with your bare hands!" Ron Probably relying on the fact that this corridor is remote enough, he yelled out the terrible truth, "I'll hide it from everyone for you—just because you're my sister—now look what you've done!——"

After Ron finished speaking, there was another rebuke similar to nonsense.

Ginny just cried, denied, and shook her head.

And these are no longer important.

Because not far away, the Slytherins with the cat squatting in the corner thought they had received information that subverted their three views.

Draco seemed visibly dyspeptic about the fact that Ginny Weasley was the Slytherin people were looking for.

And Scorpius felt that now he not only needed Sherlock Holmes, he might also need a psychiatrist—and at this time, he had to pretend to be calm and shrugged with Draco, and then mocked him with ease: "Look Well, I'll just say, there's something wrong with that Ginny Weasley."