[HP] Night Haze

"Oh, Merlin!"

"Could this portrait be..."

"Angelo, you are too powerful!"

When the blond boy appeared at the door of the bathroom carrying the portrait of Queen Medusa, all the wizards inside exploded. The beauty in the portrait raised her eyebrows in dissatisfaction after entering this wet and unclean place. disappeared into the frame.

"Please come out, we need your help!" With Harry's help, Angelo put the portrait on the pool table. Angelo's kind words did not get Medusa's forgiveness, and she hid behind them. Out of sight.

"My sister is in danger now, please help me!" Ron pleaded, regardless of his previous spurning of everything around Snape.

"I can't help you." Medusa's indifferent voice came from the frame, echoing, as if she was in a very distant place.She is just a moment left on the canvas by the painter, and the entity has already been dispersed in the long years.

"You can, we just ask you to speak a few words of Parseltongue!" Harry said, if they could think of other ways to enter the secret room, they wouldn't cling to this life-saving straw that they didn't know whether it would work or not.

"This is not within the scope of my obligations." Queen Medusa's indifferent voice chilled the blood of several young wizards, and the red-haired boy's anger suddenly surged up.

"If something happens to Ginny, I won't let go of your desperate portrait, no, I'll smash you right now!" Ron yelled, pointing his wand at the portrait.To everyone's surprise, Queen Medusa leisurely walked out from a corner of the picture frame and appeared in front of them.

Is she afraid?This ridiculous idea came to the red-haired boy's mind, but the reality is always far from the ideal.

"Boy of Gryffindor, are you threatening me?" Queen Medusa's indifferent face showed a look of sullenness, the little snakes on her head danced wildly, and her closed eyes trembled a few times.

"No, we heard that Professor McGonagall was planning to close the school before we came here!" Angelo quickly stood up.Medusas are endangered magical creatures in the wizarding world whose sight can turn people to stone.Although what was in front of him was just a portrait, but at the moment when Queen Medusa's eyes were about to open, Angelo suddenly felt a sense of danger for no reason.

"If something happens to Ginny, there will be no Hogwarts. Please help us, your help is very important to us, not only for us - but also for Hogwarts." Angelo's words let the portrait The beauty inside was slightly moved.Baron Lockhart looked at Queen Medusa with interest, flipping the wand in different patterns.

"What do you want me to say?" After a while, Queen Medusa spoke.

"Say it open!" Ron urged, who had already been impatient. Queen Medusa frowned again, but this time she didn't make things difficult for them.

【Open! 】She kissed her lips, and uttered a cold hissing snake language.With the rise of this cold and creepy voice, the dragon head engraved with a small snake suddenly emitted a dazzling white light and spun rapidly.The pool in front of them slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a thick water pipe.Angelo probed inside, and the black pipe could not see the bottom, and a cold and wet wind was blowing out of the pipe, like a monster's big mouth waiting to devour people.

"Is it alright?" Queen Medusa's words awakened the drowning people.

"What should I do with her?" Angelo asked.Long before the vision began, he had lifted the portrait on the sink stand to keep her from falling to the floor.It would be impossible to send the portrait back to the basement, and Ginny was still waiting for their rescue.But the environment here was wet, and Myrtle's gaze resting on the portrait made him uneasy.

"I have always wanted to ask you a question, honorable Queen Medusa." After looking at the portrait for a while, the charming blond man put away his wand, "Why are your beautiful eyes always closed? Could it still be Petrifying?"

"It's just my habit to disappoint you," Queen Medusa calmly replied under the expectant eyes of everyone. Just out in the dry porch, good luck."

Angelo looked at his father and waited for instructions. Compared with Baron Lockhart, who has been adventuring all year round, his experience is still too shallow.

"Forgive me for being rude, maybe there is still a time when you need to speak." The charming blond man took the portrait in Angelo's hand and stuffed it into his pocket that had cast the traceless stretching spell.

"If there really is a basilisk down there, it can be used to block the eyes, and it can be used as a weapon if necessary." Baron Lockhart whispered in a voice that only his son could hear.Although Angelo once again showed black lines all over his face in embarrassment, it is undeniable that his father's thoughts are indeed very thoughtful.

"Which one of you will go down first?" Baron Lockhart asked loudly after dealing with the portrait. All eyes were on him except Angelo.

"No, it's so dirty!" The blond man jumped.

"You're a teacher, and you're older than all of us!" Ron exclaimed. "Are you going to back down? You told Professor McGonagall to save Ginny!" After the office incident, he told Lockhart The professor's favorability was zero, and the other young wizards also had no favors for Lockhart.

"I'll go down first." Angelo escorted his father. Baron Lockhart didn't have a cleansing habit when he ventured out alone, but as an internationally renowned person who has been dealing with reporters for a long time, he is always willing to show his brilliance in the crowd The eye-catching side, over time, this kind of "cleanliness" is formed.

"Angelo!" The platinum boy shook his head in disapproval. Angelo felt that his father's image was a disadvantage, and even Draco didn't think highly of him...

"I never said I wasn't going to save that lovely girl." Baron Lockhart blinked the forget-me-not's blue eyes and ended the dispute among the children.

"Let's go, I'll come first, and you guys will follow." He gave his son a bright smile, held on to the wall of the tube, stepped in with both feet, and slipped down out of sight as soon as he let go.

"He doesn't seem that bad..." Harry whispered, the red-haired boy looked at the black tube and shrugged, his disgusted expression loosened.

The little wizards got into the pipe one by one, Angelo felt the whistling wind in his ears, and felt that he had been brought deep underground by the endless winding pipes.After going around countless bends, the slope of the pipe went all the way down. When Angelo saw a bright light in front of his eyes, he had already flown out of the pipe and his feet were on the ground.

"Clean it up!" He heard his father chanting. Before he could laugh at Baron Lockhart's "cleanliness", Angelo felt refreshed all over. It turned out that the spell fell on him.

"Luminescence!" The surroundings lit up, and this light came from the tip of Draco's wand.Compared to the embarrassment of other people, Lockhart and his son looked much better.

"Glow!" Angelo heard an untimely incantation. Not only was Baron Lockhart's clothes as shiny as new at the moment, but he was also so radiant that he could accept an exclusive interview with a reporter from the "Daily Prophet" at any time.

The corner of Angelo's mouth twitched, and the little touch that had been brewing in his heart immediately dissipated.His friend Ron yelled directly: "Don't use the magic power to save my sister on unimportant things!"

Perhaps because he knew he was wrong, Baron Lockhart volunteered to lead the way this time.The ground was littered with the bones of small animals, and they walked along the damp tunnel without speaking, until Lord Lockhart stopped suddenly.

"There's something there." He whispered, and he took out the portrait of Medusa from his pocket, and put it on top like a shield.

Angelo saw a huge silhouette hovering in the distance, but as they approached, the thing didn't move.

"Maybe it's asleep, that would be the best." Baron Lockhart said happily.

"It's just a shed snake skin," Queen Medusa snorted coldly, "You can put me down now."

The charming blond man laughed dryly and put the portrait on the ground. Only then did they dare to look ahead carefully.The snake's skin was green and conspicuous, and it was at least twenty feet long.Seeing this scene, Baron Lockhart's expression became serious.

"You never said that the basilisk is so huge!"

"We didn't know beforehand." The red-haired boy's face turned pale, and he said what everyone was thinking.Even Angelo, seeing the snake skin shed by the basilisk, had doubts about whether he was too rash.

"Go get Ginny, anyway!" Ron yelled.

"No, we have to go back!" Baron Lockhart refused.Such a big basilisk cannot be solved by him alone and a group of children who are dragging their feet.

"You coward!" cried Ron.

"This is not something we can handle!" Baron Lockhart said slowly to the boy, "We need help, real help..."

"We can't back down! How long it will take to climb that pipe! Ginny is waiting for us!" said Harry.

"Then let her wait. Children, your adventure is over!"

"I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!" Ron tremblingly pointed his wand at the blond man again.

"If you don't want to go back, I can make you unconscious for a while." Baron Lockhart used a spell to break Ron's spell.

"This is better than losing your life, you will be grateful to me in the future!" He habitually showed a perfect and bright smile.

Even Draco couldn't take it anymore.While Harry cast the Disarming Charm to knock the blond man's wand away, the platinum boy's wand pointed at Lord Lockhart.The atmosphere in the tunnel suddenly became tense.

"You created a miracle last year, but miracles don't happen every year." Lockhart's wand was not knocked off, but slipped in his hand.Now he aimed his wand at the Savior, but Draco's wand was aimed at him.

Two to one.Angelo was picking up Ron's wand.A murderous air condensed in the air.

"Angelo, help me." Baron Lockhart shouted after examining the situation. Hearing his father's call, Angelo did not return the wand to Ron immediately, but took a step back to avoid the red-haired boy stretching out hands.

"Angelo?" Ron called out puzzled.

"I'm sorry." Angelo pointed his wand at Ron.Lord Lockhart was right, they needed help, real help.

His desire to find Riddle has not changed until now, but it is not worth the lives of his friends for this.

"Why?" The blue-eyed little wizard shook his head in disbelief.

"Because he is Gildero." Angelo bit his lip and said, "He is right, don't lose your life because of impulse..."

"Ginny's my sister!" Ron growled. "You are still obsessed with this idol! For him, you actually..."

"Enough, calm down Ron!" Angelo shouted angrily, "You know that's not the case."

"He can't listen anymore, Angelo." Baron Lockhart smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. "Angelo is my son, do you think he should listen to you or mine?"

"How is this possible!" The three little wizards exclaimed together and looked at the blond boy.

"That's the truth. He was born to me." Baron Lockhart took advantage of the chaos of the little wizards and stunned Ron. Without this instigator, he believed that the group of children would calm down.

Harry and Draco saw that Ron was stunned, but they didn't fight back immediately. They pointed their wands at Lockhart and shook their eyes, obviously suppressed by the new identity of the blond man.

Great, that's a good start.Lord Lockhart thought, persuade them to go back the same way, but before leaving here he will give each of them a "Forget it all".

However, there are nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in the world, and the plan in Baron Lockhart's heart has failed.When Harry and Draco turned to their buddy Angelo for confirmation, reassuring that Lockhart was his dad's answer.The wary blond heard a soft crunch on broken bones from the tunnel behind them.

"Who's there, come out!" His words made the little wizard vigilant.

Under everyone's surprised eyes, the Potions Professor with a gloomy face came out from the darkness and looked at them uncertainly.

Things were going back to the bathroom, Queen Medusa in front of Professor Snape's office was actually not as indifferent as she appeared.In the fraction of a second she left the frame, she had crossed the borders of countless portraits, conveying the condition of the mob to another part of the castle.And with her indifferent appearance, she won the most precious time for this rescuer selected by all the professors.

Severus Snape was the rescuer, and he had the misfortune to follow them all the way until now.Baron Lockhart twitched the moment Snape appeared, and the corners of the potions professor's perennially tense mouth also twisted at this moment...