[HP] Born Noble

Slytherin Code of Conduct 31: If you have to face the enemy, you must first weaken the enemy as much as possible. Going straight to the eighth floor, Professor Snape said the password to a stone monster statue, "Cold lemonade." The monster jumped to the side , a spiral staircase is revealed.

Behind the desk full of silver trinkets, Principal Dumbledore flashed the light of his half-moon glasses, full of admiration and pride for the Marauder's Map in his hand, obviously admiring the genius idea and research results of the 'Robber', But after Professor Snape continued to shake out the facts that his little snakes had explored in private with a gloomy face, Dumbledore finally looked serious, "Are you sure it's a basilisk?"

"Yes Professor."

"Evidence?" Professor Snape looked at the two of them with a death ray.

Harry grabbed Draco's robe nervously, if he confessed, he would die!

This is not as simple as a Marauder's map that can make the dean explode!

"It's Harry, he hears the noise every time." Draco took Harry's hand and quickly threw out the revised version of the blueprint, "The first time I was in confinement with Professor Lockhart , he heard something like a grinding wheel on the ground. Then the second time was after the Halloween dinner, when we were going up the stairs, and the third time was when he was outside the trophy display, before he met the house elf... He said he Heard hissing from the walls."

When Draco met Harry's eyes, he quickly and silently conveyed his meaning, and Harry understood, "Well, Draco said it's not good to hear voices that others can't hear, especially, every time I hear There was an attack after that sound, so I just told him by accident the first time, and then I only dared to tell him one person later, we analyzed that it seemed to be the sound of snakes crawling and spitting out letters, it might be loud, and then , let's go to the library."

"There are not many monsters with such a powerful damage ability, not to mention that it may be a snake, so we finally found the record of the basilisk. We also fully deduced what happened. When Mrs. Norris had an accident, there was a puddle of water on the ground, and That Hufflepuff fourth year fell facing a suit of armor, so they were lucky to just petrify." Regarding the petrification speculation, what Draco said was completely in line with their thought process at the time.

"Very keen observation, very bold reasoning and conjecture, I think... I should be able to give Slytherin [-] points." The headmaster clapped his hands, obviously approving this statement, at least superficially.

"Then should we go find Ginny Weasley on the second floor?" Harry had been worried about this all the time.

"Let's leave this matter to the professors. You have done a very good job. Now I think we'd better inform Professor McGonagall..."

"Miss Weasley appeared!" Professor Snape said suddenly, his attention never leaving the Marauder's Map, "Just now, out of thin air!"

After seeing the map, Professor Dumbledore stood up from behind the table, his expression became serious, "Severus!"

Professor Snape immediately stood up, and before the black robe rolled over, he glared at the two of them, "Stay here!"

"Oh, yes!" Before leaving, Principal Dumbledore tapped the plate with his wand and ordered two steaming apple pies and hot milk for the two of them, "I heard that you have been locked up, you must be hungry now .”

But before Headmaster Dumbledore and Headmaster Snape stepped out of the door, a silver patterned cat suddenly entered through the wall, and Professor McGonagall's voice came from the mouth, "Albus, the double attack incident, Corridor on the west side of the fourth floor." After speaking, the silver cat disappeared.

Then Draco and Harry could only see the hem of the Professor's robes disappearing by the door.

Harry panicked, "Draco, it happened again, we..."

Shhh - Draco gave Harry a silent gesture, pointing to the large portraits of former headmasters on the wall, "There are many ears and eyes here."

"Oh, this little devil is quite clever!" A female voice began to speak in the principal's office, and immediately the portraits spoke one after another and became noisy.

"Of course, he is the excellent heir of my Malfoy family." In the portrait, an old man with the same platinum hair as Draco raised his chin proudly. His domineering look also resembled Malfoy, the only one who entered Ravenclaw. blessing.

"Malfoy!" Phineas Nigellus Black, Harry had also seen his portrait in Black's old house, despised Draco's ancestor on the opposite wall with disgust, "The one who flaunted his feathers everywhere Fancy Peacock."

"The house is full of traitors and villains Black!" Draco's great-great-great-great-grandfather began to fight back.

Another portrait spoke impatiently, "Oh, come on! Lesert, I hate that you are always bragging about your family's heir, of course, and you, Phineas, the ancient and rigid one who sucks the blood of the poor without giving birth Pure blood noble!"

"Half-breed fool!"

"A Muggle fool with no common sense!"

Draco and Harry: "…"

"Shut up, everyone!" An old witch with a stern appearance and imposing manner suddenly appeared in the portrait, and said seriously, "I just saw a second-year Ravenclaw boy and Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor. were petrified together."

"Oh—" the portraits began to whisper.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was only petrified, and no one died. "Probably saw it through a ghost, and Nearly Headless Nick can't die again."

"This may be the last attack." Draco looked gloomy. Even if it can be confirmed that the little girl of the Weasley family did it now, this does not explain the matter of the heir of Slytherin, "The little girl of the Weasley family The girl may just be controlled or cursed, like Quirrell, her family is no match for Slytherin."

Harry looked at Draco, he knew Draco didn't want to startle the scene, but they just had no choice, didn't they?

Neither Draco nor Harry had much appetite for dessert or milk, and they had nothing to do but wait. There was no noise outside the window. Looking out from here, there was no Quidditch match at all, probably canceled.

They stayed in the headmaster's office for a long time. Ever since he discovered the headmaster's pet phoenix Fox, Harry's mind has been temporarily distracted, and he has been petting the beautiful big bird with fiery red and brilliant feathers.

Draco was thinking back and forth about all the possible connections to this matter, the Dark Lord died in front of him, and Dumbledore even confirmed it himself, so why did the little girl from the Weasley family...how did she Possibly open the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets?

There were so many events, memories, and assumptions that Draco had to rub his temples all the time, trying to ease his headache.

Time passed unconsciously, and finally they heard a noise outside the door, and both of them turned their heads, but only Professor Snape came back.

"You should go back to the cellar."

"professor……"

"Don't ask questions!" The Snake King sprayed the venom in an extremely bad mood.

Professor Snape escorted them all the way to the door of the Slytherin lounge. He looked at the little platinum viper with his head bowed silently, looking deep in thought, and at the little green-eyed monster who kept peeking but dared not speak but was definitely eager to try, his lips were silent. He moved as if to curse silently, and finally decided to speak, in order to avoid some stupid Gryffindor-style attempts by these two ignorant little bastards.

"Two petrification incidents, plus, Miss Weasley is in a deep coma." Snape saw two shocked eyes shot over, and didn't know whether he should continue to say the following words, "Her vitality is constantly The time has passed, and the reason has not been found out. Well, now, this matter has been handed over to the professor, and you all go back to the dormitory honestly. I don’t want to see the students in my college being evil because of their brainlessness and ignorance. The curse control was squeezed into a mummified corpse in the end!"

Draco stopped Harry, who still wanted to ask questions, and the farewell professor went into the lounge. The lounge was full of chaos, everyone was talking about this attack, and they really started to panic, because this time they turned petrified A ghost, what a curse it must be to petrify a ghost!

Draco and Harry made an excuse to change out of their potion-handling robes, and went back to the dormitory without stopping to discuss with everyone.

"Draco, what's going on?" Harry was really scared by the last sentence of the professor just now.

Draco sat in front of the fireplace, took out Salazar's notes, and opened the densely packed old pages, "Medium exchange, Harry. Salazar has conducted in-depth research on the connection between souls and magic, and he proposed He came up with a bold idea, if he can find a correct extraction method, then he believes that the soul can be extracted, and the soul is attached to energy."

Harry shook his head, not understanding a word at all.

"For example, we know that fire dragons are very powerful, their souls are very strong, and their defense ability is very high. Salazar proposed a hypothesis. If there is a way to extract the life force of magical creatures and be absorbed by wizards, for example , dragon! Then this wizard's ability may be able to combine some dragon's characteristics, such as becoming stronger or improving defense ability."

"It's unbelievable." Harry frowned. Harry, who no longer knew anything about the wizarding world, thought it was impossible!

"It's unbelievable," Draco admitted with a nod, "but Salazar wasn't just imagining it for nothing. It was once recorded that some kind of dark curse can use a medium to weaken a person's will to survive in order to achieve the ultimate goal of killing people. So looking at it from another angle, it’s not unbelievable to absorb life force.”

"It must be very, very, very evil black magic! And crazy!" As soon as Harry finished speaking, his and Draco's faces were a little gloomy. In their perception, there was a person who was powerful, knowledgeable but crazy and dark.

"He died...and then...Draco, do you think Voldemort's ghost would want to be resurrected in this way? A way of exchanging one life for another?" Harry proposed a very bold imagination.

"No one can come back from death, Harry, and neither can wizards." Draco immediately denied this statement, but in his heart, to be honest, he didn't have enough confidence.According to Salazar's notes to broaden his thinking, the black magic that absorbs life force-consequences, endless possibilities.

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Ginny Weasley had no serious external injuries, no obvious internal injuries, and no obvious signs of being injured by curses. Even when Professor McGonagall finished dealing with the petrification incident and went to find her in the Gryffindor lounge, she It's all good, but when Professor McGonagall just asked her to go to the principal's office with him, before the intense anxiety on Ginny's face faded, she fell into a coma, as if she had fallen asleep. Then the vital signs continued to lose, and became weaker and weaker, and the speed of this weakness continued to accelerate as time went on, and even a knowledgeable and powerful wizard like Dumbledore couldn't find a way to stop it.

Ginny had a small cut in her hand. After asking her classmates, she found out that she was accidentally scratched by a saber-toothed leaf in herbal medicine class yesterday. There were many students who were scratched in that class, so it must not be the leaf's problem. , but it is precisely because of this inconspicuous small hole that once bleed that all the adult wizards present felt fear in their hearts. There are endless possibilities for the magical connection in the wizard's blood, especially black magic objects. Ni's things, plus all the items in the dormitory, were checked, but nothing was found.

The bathroom on the second floor also went through a thorough search, and Professor McGonagall finally discovered that there was a small snake carving under one of the faucets that did not flow all the year round. Then, regarding the exact location of the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets and the possible method of opening it, Jin The stupid things that Ni Weasley had done, and where the dark artifact that was taking her life was hidden, seemed to have answers all at once.

Ginny Weasley's family had gathered in the hospital wing for most of the night.

Arthur Weasley looked at his little daughter who was getting paler and paler, his lips could hardly stop trembling, "Is...that person left behind... a black magic artifact?"

"We've got to guess the worst, Arthur," Dumbledore said to Arthur Weasley and a weeping Molly. "That thing was stained with her blood, and it could die without being around her." If we can control her and hurt her, if we haven't found and destroyed it within a day, then..." The old wizard with the white beard looked a little old at the moment.

Mrs. Weasley had already started to cry, the headmaster's words just now were nothing more than consolation, the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets can only be opened by the heir of Slytherin, Ginny's death is actually only a matter of time, "My silly child, how can you... ...I taught you to be careful of things of unknown origin...that harms others and yourself..."

Draco and Harry were called to the medical wing early the next morning. Although they were warned by Professor Snape not to interfere in this matter, as the first discoverers, they could not really stay out of it. They had to talk to the professor and family members Describe in detail all the anomalies they have found, their own thoughts and doubts.Harry felt sorry for the little red-haired girl on the hospital bed, and he and the twins had become very close friends, so he felt very sorry for their little sister.

"George, Fred...don't worry, Madam Pomfrey is very powerful and will wake her up."

"No, Harry, this is not an ordinary spell damage." George looked at his sister sadly, "That dark magic artifact must have been locked in the secret room, it will drain every drop of her..." George When he couldn't finish speaking, Fred stroked Ginny's hair, "Dad said that the dark magic artifact belonged to that man. He is the last descendant of Slytherin, and no one will be able to open the Chamber of Secrets anymore."

Harry's face froze. If anyone else could open the Chamber of Secrets, he was the only one.

After leaving the medical wing, Harry dragged Draco to the nearest secret passage, "Draco, we can't hide it anymore." No matter how big a secret is, it has become insignificant in front of a human life.

Draco nodded, it wasn't that he was willing to meddle in other people's business, or that he was so passionate about the life and death of a stupid Weasley girl, he was really worried about what would happen once Weasley's life force was drained terrible thing.Taking a cue from Salazar, Draco knew there were many possible consequences, none of which would be pleasant.

"Then let's do it right away," suggested Harry, "I'll go get some cocks from Hagrid's."

"Hagrid may not have many roosters. If it were me, I would definitely strangle the rooster before releasing the basilisk." No matter how evil the basilisk is, it is a rare magical creature, and it is not easy to breed. How could its owner not prevent it from being destroyed? To a cheap rooster?Draco made a plan, "I'll go to Hogsmeade from the secret passage to buy a few more, and then we'll meet at the door of the professor's office."

"Okay, hurry up and get back!"

But they forgot that the Marauder's Map was still in the hands of Professor Snape, and, with their flawed presentation of details, how could their evasive tricks fool the professionally careful, cautious, and best-ever The eye of Professor Snape, a double agent?When the professor was sleeping, he had one eye open and stared at these two little snakes of his own.

Therefore,

Just when Harry returned to Hogwarts Castle with the only two newly bought half-giant roosters that he bought from Hagrid, Professor Snape held the Marauder's Map, Just in time to wait for him at the door.

Of course, the professor would catch another one, but Hogsmeade obviously had a long way to go.