HP Starlight

At the end of the vacation, Aunt Connie suggested that she take a few more days off or simply apply to study at home.Esther insisted on going back to Hogwarts.Aunt Connie had to send Esther to the station to take the back-to-school train with great anxiety.Esther comforted her aunt that she would take care of herself, and promised to write a letter to report her safety on time.

Just back at school, Esther heard rumors that Hermione of Gryffindor had also been attacked.She hurriedly asked about Harry's situation, and Harry vaguely told her that Hermione was just on a business trip and was not attacked.Esther didn't ask any more questions.

Since returning to Hogwarts Astor, he has paid special attention to Hagrid's movements.But the tall gamekeeper seemed to be very conscientious, and rarely approached the castle except for meal time.The attack did not happen again, and everything seemed to be uneventful.Esther had to refocus her energy on attending classes and preparing for the OWLs.After entering the next semester, the professors are more strict with their studies.The doubled workload is as thick as the snow outside the castle.And frequent tests also make them extra anxious.

At this time, I can see that Professor Lockhart is doing well. Apart from boasting that he is annoying, his class is the best opportunity to make up homework and review.

Hogwarts seemed to have returned to a normal atmosphere. The fifth grade students lived anxious days every day, and from time to time some people would review to the point of collapse.After the practice in the Room of Requirement, Esther gave Leona and Orion each three bottles of tranquilizers, at least they didn't have to go to the school hospital frequently.

"Can I bring my classmates here? To be honest, everyone is worried about the Defense Against the Dark Arts exam." Leona asked cautiously.

Orion frowned. This was their secret place, and he didn't want others to set foot there.Leona saw what Orion meant and felt a little frustrated.

"I think you can apply for a classroom practice with Professor McGonagall. You are a prefect, and she will consider your proposal." Esther suggested, "You can also teach them some of the spells we practiced, say Maybe Professor McGonagall will guide you personally."

Leona seemed to think that the solution was feasible, so she picked up her schoolbag and went out to find Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall very reasonablely lent Leona a large classroom and asked her to organize the fifth grade students to practice.Leona became very busy every day, and Esther and Orion could only look at her from a distance during meal time.This situation lasted for almost a month, and Orion seemed very unhappy.

At breakfast that day, Esther thought she hadn't woken up. Big pink flowers covered the walls, and heart-shaped confetti fell from the magical blue sky.Esther saw Lockhart in pink and grinning on the headmaster's desk, and knew who did it.

Lockhart seemed to wait for everyone to arrive before making his speech.When he says that 46 people have written him Valentine's Day cards, Esther is thankful that the crazy few are few.He also found twelve gloomy dwarfs, and asked them to play Venus with wings and harps on their backs to deliver Valentine's cards to them.In the end, Lockhart was not afraid of death and asked everyone to learn how to make a love potion from Professor Snape, and to learn the psychedelic spell from Professor Flitwick.Esther wondered how Professor Snape had endured until now without poisoning Lockhart.

This was really the most chaotic day since Esther entered school. The dwarfs frequently entered and left the classroom to interrupt the lectures of the professors.The professors simply abandoned the lecture content and replaced it with ad hoc tests.Due to the unpreparedness, the students were all in pain, and they hated Lockhart's stupid behavior even more.

In the afternoon, Esther was about to go into the basement to take potions class, when there were noisy noises from upstairs.She didn't want to care about it at first, but when she saw Harry in the crowd, she still walked towards him.

People are laughing, it seems that a very funny thing happened just now.Before she could figure it out, she heard Percy calling her, "Collins, you came just in time to take the Slytherin students away, they should go to class!"

Esther didn't like the tone of Percy's order.She frowned and glanced at Harry's torn schoolbag, and said "Back to the original".Then he looked at Malfoy and the others on the opposite side, motioning for them to leave quickly.

"Give it back!" Harry yelled at Malfoy.

Only then did Esther see a black diary in Malfoy's hand.For a moment, Esther's keen perception seemed to capture some strange feelings brought by the diary, as if the diary was alive and made some whispering sounds.She couldn't help reaching out her hand to take it over and study it carefully, but Malfoy took a step back.

"Give it back to him, Malfoy," said Percy sternly.

"Wait till I take a look," said Malfoy, waving the diary at Harry mockingly.

Harry got impatient and drew out his wand and yelled, "Expelliarmus!" The diary flew out of Malfoy's hand and was caught by Ron.

Malfoy was mad, saying something viciously, but Esther couldn't catch it.Her gaze remained on the diary.She wanted to borrow the diary from Harry to have a look, but she couldn't speak easily.Watching Harry and his classmates run to class.She had to turn around and go to potions class first.

As expected, Potions class was also changed to a temporary test.Snape wasn't too happy about her being late, but didn't say anything, just told her to hurry up and start working.She saw clearly the topic on the blackboard, put the cauldron on the shelf and took out the ingredients and was about to start making when a dwarf broke into the Potions classroom.Professor Snape's face immediately became more gloomy than the dwarf's, and everyone thought that whoever received the letter would be in trouble.

The dwarf walked up to Esther and said loudly, "Esther Collins, there is a message for your soundtrack."

Esther blushed in embarrassment, before the dwarf could speak, she pulled out her wand without hesitation, pointed at the dwarf and said in a low voice: "Misunderstanding! You have already read it to me, now leave the classroom, immediately!"

The dwarf blinked in confusion.After a while, he put the letter in his hand on the table, turned and left.Esther curled her lips in annoyance, threw the letter under the cauldron and poked it with her wand without even reading it, and the parchment instantly melted into the flames.

There was no sound in the classroom, and everyone was surprised by Esther's actions.Professor Snape said sternly, "What are you looking at? Those who fail this test will each submit an additional fifteen-inch paper on Polyjuice Potion."

Everyone heard Professor Snape's words and quickly looked at their cauldron, praying that they would get at least an A.

After class, Leona and Orion accompany Esther to the restaurant.Leona couldn't help but said to Esther, "Even if it's not convenient for you to watch it at that time, you should save it when you have time to watch it. It's a pity to burn it directly!"

"I'm not interested, I don't want my brainless love to become a stumbling block in the OWLs exam." Esther said coldly.

"You're so careful that you won't find a boyfriend." Leona felt a little resentful.

Esther didn't take it seriously, she had too many things to consider: learning new courses, reviewing old content, prefect's work, doubts about Hagrid, and curiosity about Evans.She really didn't care about feelings.

The last holiday before the exam is Easter.Esther and the others seized the last time to review desperately, and they didn't feel like they were on vacation at all.Before the end of the Easter holidays, a large number of pamphlets, leaflets and notices about various wizarding professions appeared in the common room, and a notice was posted on the bulletin board, which read:

Career Guidance

During the first week of the summer term, all fifth graders must interview with their dean about future employment.The interview time for each student is shown in the table below.

Esther saw that her appointment time was ten o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, which was the time of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.She decided to ask for leave for the whole class, and it would be a waste of time to go anyway.Esther quickly flipped through the employment information in his hand, and was surprised to find that there were so many careers to choose from in the magic world.

Orion is serious about studying the profession he is interested in, "The healer is good, and my mother will agree. The NEWT grades of Potions, Herbalism, Transfiguration, Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts require E or above. Just work a little harder on Transfiguration."

"I think the Department of Mysteries is good. The brochure says to recruit people who are good at keeping secrets to do special research work. I think it suits me very well." Esther said holding a black-painted notice.

"I promise you won't like it. It is said that there are very dangerous experiments there. And the people in that department are called 'indescribable people'. It doesn't sound very good." Orion tried his best to show his disgust.

"Dangerous but valuable, isn't it? It's more interesting than an administrative position serving tea and water." Esther changed an orange leaflet.

"Whoever said that administrative positions have no future, if you can get close to figures like directors and ministers every day, you may think of promoting you at any time." Orion joked.

"Forget it, I don't like government work very much. Maybe it would be nice to be a pharmacist at St. Mungo's Hospital." Esther picked up another leaflet with the St. Mungo's Hospital's bone and wand logo printed on it.

"I don't know what Leona wants to do." Orion muttered in a low voice.Esther smiled, pretending not to hear.

Before accepting Professor Snape's employment guidance, Esther asked Aunt Connie's opinion.My aunt seems to be dissatisfied with all the positions, and she prefers Este to be a freelance scholar, or simply get married.Esther was somewhat disappointed that she didn't get valuable advice, which made her look forward to Professor Snape's advice even more.

On the second day of school, Esther had breakfast and reviewed in the library for a while before leaving for Professor Snape's office.When she walked to the door on time, she saw Larina, who was sleeping with her, come out of the office, looking relieved.Esther smiled at Larina and knocked on Professor Snape's door.

"Come in," said Professor Snape.

Esther walked into the office, and everything remained the same.She sat down on the small stool across from her desk and waited for Professor Snape to speak.

"Miss Collins, what we are going to talk about this time is your thoughts on future employment, and help you decide which subjects to study in sixth and seventh grades." Professor Snape said the opening remarks plainly, "What are your plans after graduation? "

"I thought maybe I could be a pharmacist at St. Mungo's," said Esther.

Professor Snape frowned, "I think you can aim higher, you are fully capable of being a healer, not just a pharmacist." He took out two green leaflets from a pile of leaflets and opened them , "A pharmacist only needs Potions and Herbalism NEWT grades to be E or above, and your grades in Charms, Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts are also good. I suggest you choose a more promising healer."

"But I don't think I'm very creative. It's okay to make potions according to the formula, but I don't seem to be very good at making my own diagnosis and treatment." Esther said hesitantly.

"I always thought that Miss Collins was always overconfident. I didn't expect that there would be times when she was underconfident." Professor Snape said softly.

"Thank you for your suggestion, I will work hard, professor." Este strengthened his confidence.

"I would like to explain again that my NEWT class only requires students with excellent OWL test scores, and several other courses also require good scores. If there are no other questions, Miss Collins, our employment consultation will come to an end here." Professor Nepe nodded to Esther, indicating that she could leave.

Professor Snape was very efficient, and all fifth-year Slytherin students had completed career guidance by Saturday.Since this week is a Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, Leona is going to cheer on her house.Orion and Esther don't need to go to the library.They were reviewing transfiguration in the common room, and they wanted to go to Leona after the game in the afternoon and hear about her employment direction.

But before they went out for lunch, the students returned to the common room to discuss something in a low voice one after another.Soon Professor Snape came in with a roll of parchment. Esther had never seen him so worried, and he became nervous.

“There has just been another attack, a sixth year Ravenclar and a second year Gryffindor. So some new rules and regulations have been put in place. All students have to be back in the school by six o’clock at night. own house common room. No student is allowed to leave the dormitory after this time. Each lesson is escorted by a teacher. No student is allowed to use the bathroom without a teacher. All Quidditch practice and matches are Postponed. No events to be held in the evening."

Professor Snape rolled up the parchment document he had just read, looked sharply at everyone and said, "The school is likely to be closed due to these attacks, so I hope that any of you who know anything will be closed in time. Report to me. Also, don't take chances and think that injuries to students without Slytherins at present will not affect you. If someone is caught by me leaving the common room outside the stipulated time, I think you know the consequences."

Professor Snape paused for a while, making sure that every student understood the seriousness of the matter, and then continued: "Lunch will be delivered to the lounge later, don't go out casually if you have nothing to do. Follow me, prefects." After speaking, he turned around Stride out of the common room.

Esther and Orion followed the other prefects to Professor Snape's office.

"You are the best students in Slytherin. I hope you can stand with Hogwarts at this time. Tonight, all teachers, prefects and ghosts will patrol the corridors in groups of two. You go back and get ready," said Professor Snape.

The castle at night is gloomy and cool.Esther and Orion were assigned to a corridor on the fifth floor.After a round of inspection, Esther tried to avoid Professor Lockhart, leaning on the window and looking out at the field.Hagrid's cabin was brightly lit, and seemed unusually quiet.Does Professor Dumbledore still trust Hagrid?Maybe he trusted the wrong people?To tell people that Hagrid might be the murderer?Esther felt a mess in her head.

But the next day Esther didn't have to worry about it anymore.Hagrid was taken away, and Esther believed he must be in Azkaban again.Much to Esther's annoyance, Malfoy was cocky again.Now that Esther finally realized the strength of the Malfoy family, his father joined the school board to dismiss Dumbledore from the position of headmaster.And he flaunts it almost all the time.

The students in the fifth and seventh grades were most affected, and anxiety spread like a plague among the crowd.In private, various medicines and powders that refresh the mind and enhance memory are secretly traded among students.And all kinds of cheating artifacts are also on the stage: the automatic answer quill, memory ball, cheat sheet binder sleeve and automatic error correction ink are also sold at new prices.

Exam dates were posted on the Slytherin common room bulletin board three weeks later. The OWLs exam lasts for two weeks, with theoretical exams in the morning and practical exams in the afternoon, of which astronomy practice will be held at midnight.

"I hope you don't have any idea of ​​cheating. With your current level, it is impossible to deceive people from the Wizarding Council. Don't lose the honor of Slytherin." Professor Snape said sternly.

This year's fifth and seventh grades are destined to be the worst.

A few days later, when Esther finished his protection of magical creatures class and walked towards the castle, he heard Professor McGonagall's magically amplified voice echoing in the corridor: "All students return to the dormitories of their respective colleges immediately. All teachers return to the dormitory." Staff lounge. Act now."

Esther knew something was wrong again, Hagrid wasn't the murderer, and obviously he was wronged again.Esther couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to him.After waiting for a while, Professor Snape came to the common room to explain the situation to everyone.

"A student has been caught in the Chamber of Secrets. Hogwarts is no longer safe. You will take the express train back to London tomorrow morning. Now you can pack your things." Professor Snape said succinctly.

The students whispered.Someone boldly asked, "Who, Professor? A Mudblood?"

"Don't say that word!" Snape raised his face, and the students suddenly fell silent, "It's Ginny Weasley of Gryffindor. The heir of Slytherin wrote that her bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever." .”

"It's pure blood..." The students began to whisper again.

"But professor, what about our OWLs exam?"

"Yes, Professor, what about NEWTs?"

"Further notice!" said Professor Snape irritably.

Esther hurriedly packed her luggage, remembering that the potions and ingredients she practiced were still left in the Room of Requirement.She sneaked out of the common room and headed up the castle.As she walked, she prayed that she would not run into the Professor or Peeves, otherwise the Dean's face would be blacker than the cauldron.When she reached the second floor, she seemed to see a few figures flashing into the girls' bathroom.Seems like a student, Esther thought.She hesitated and followed.

"Harry? What are you doing here?" Esther went in and was surprised to find that the three people standing in the girls' bathroom were all boys.

"This is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, and we're trying to get in," Harry replied.

"You, Ron and——Professor Lockhart?" Esther couldn't believe that they chose this idiot as a companion.

"I don't have time to explain to you." Harry turned his head and said to the faucet, "Turn on!"

"No, Harry, you're talking human," said Ron.

"You want to speak Parseltongue?" Esther asked.

"Yes, I believe you have to have a Parseltongue to open it. But I can't tell without seeing a snake," said Harry anxiously.

"Oolong out of the hole!" Esther quickly chanted the spell.A snake appeared in the middle of the bathroom.

"That's great, Esther," said Harry excitedly.He stared at the snake closely, and finally let out a strange hissing sound.

Suddenly there was a flash of white light, and the pool parted to reveal a big black hole that even an adult could drill into.

"I'm going down," said Harry.

"No, you should at least inform a professor!" Esther strongly objected.

"It's too late, and there's a professor here, isn't there?" Harry said to Professor Lockhart.

"Boys," he said pitifully, "boys, what's the use of it?"

Harry poked him in the back with his wand, Lockhart wanted to say something, but was pushed in by Ron.

"Harry! Don't!" Esther yelled, but to no avail, she could only watch Harry disappear down the pipe.She hurriedly grabbed Ron, "You can't go down. You don't know what's going on down here, so if you go in rashly, you're going to die!" Esther hoped to save the last one.

"Go away, Slytherin! There's my sister in there! Get out of here if you're afraid of death, coward!" Ron snarled, throwing Esther's hand away and jumping in too.

"Asshole!" Esther looked angrily at the disappearing figure in the pipe, gritted his teeth and cursed, then turned and left the bathroom.

She ran to the faculty office like flying, but there was no one in it.She stomped her feet angrily, and ran to the basement classroom again.The first thing she could think of was to ask Professor Snape for help, he was her dean and the person Esther trusted the most.But Snape's office was empty.Maybe Harry is already in danger, Esther thought horribly.She kept running in the corridor, hoping to find Professor Snape as soon as possible.

When returning to the stairs on the first floor, Esther bumped into Orion.

"I saw you came out, and thought something happened to you!" Orion said.

"Listen, go find Professor Snape and tell him that the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in the girls' bathroom on the second floor. Once inside you'll see the big pipe. He's not in the office or the common room. Probably upstairs. Find him and bring He's going, hurry up!" Esther said anxiously.

"What about you? Let's go find it together." Orion held her uneasily.

"I have to follow up to see, Harry and Ron have been down for a long time, and that idiot Lockhart is also inside, I am really worried." Esther said while running upstairs.

"But you can't solve anything if you go!" Orion caught up with Esther to stop her, trying to make a last effort. "Don't be stupid, let's find the professor to solve it together."

"Orien, the sooner you find Professor Snape, the safer I will be, so please, okay? Trust me." Esther took a serious look at Orien, then ran to the second room without looking back. Floor washroom.

"Why are you back again? Are you going to collect their bodies?" The ghostly Myrtle in the bathroom laughed bitterly.

Esther ignored her, took a deep breath while standing in front of the pipe, then jumped forward and slid into the huge pipe.

The pipes seemed extraordinarily long, sticky and endless.Just when Esther was about to lose patience, the pipe suddenly flattened, and she heard the sound of some stones colliding, and then she fell out of the pipe and lay on the ground.

How ugly, Esther stuck out her tongue secretly.She followed the sound of the stone and walked forward.She groped forward in the darkness by ear, trying to keep the sound of her footsteps as quiet as possible.She gripped her wand tightly but dared not light it, fearing that the first thing she would encounter would be the enemy.But Merlin didn't seem to be on her side. When she was about to approach the target, she stepped on some bone and made a crisp crackling sound.

"Who?" A trembling voice came from the opposite side.

Esther recognized Ron's voice.With a wave of her magic wand, she released a ball of light floating in the air. The flash of light made people a little blinded.

"It's me, what happened? Where's Harry?" Esther blinked before seeing the situation clearly.

"It was Lockhart who tried to oblivion us, but my wand broke and the spell bounced off him. He's lost his memory now, and he's broken this down. Harry's in there, can you help me move this Stone?" Ron finished in one breath, looking at Esther with some pleading.

Esther looked at the various bones on the ground, and a feeling of uneasiness enveloped her. "What's in there?" she asked, moving the boulder with a wave of her wand.

"The basilisk. Eyes can kill, but the people who were attacked didn't look directly at it, so they were just petrified." Ron said out of breath.

Esther took a breath, and Leona's guess was still a little bit off.Legend has it that the basilisk, a snake-like magical creature, was a magic egg laid by a seven-year-old rooster when Sirius was in the sky, and was hatched by a tortoise.But it was really unexpected for Esther to live for a thousand years.What is it afraid of?Esther desperately recalls what she's seen before.The rooster, it is afraid of the rooster's crowing.Est speeded up the speed of moving the stone.

With the help of magic, Esther quickly cleaned out a slightly larger hole.Inside, Esther saw a huge, green snakeskin coiled on the other side of the hole.Faintly, she heard sweet and ethereal music coming from the end of the dark tunnel.The music seemed to give Esther a strange power, soothe her restless emotions, and make her feel that everything still has hope.She picked up the pace and cleared several large rocks, making the hole big enough for a person to pass through.

"Wait here. If a professor comes over later, tell him what's going on here." Esther explained to Ron.

"I'll go in with you too!" Ron also mustered up the courage to go together.

"Spreading the news is as important as going in to save people! Don't be willful, the Weasley family can't lose a son after losing a daughter." After comforting Ron, Esther got into the hole.

Esther turned a stone into a rooster, and ran along the tunnel holding it until her chest hurt so badly, and the cold air made her internal organs twist together.Not daring to stop to rest, she ran into a long, dark room.She didn't have time to appreciate the exquisite carvings in the room, and the sight in front of her made her heart stop beating.On the tall boulder statue, a huge basilisk rushed down to Harry, who was holding a sharp sword, and was about to swallow him in one gulp.

At this time, the rooster in his arms seemed to have sensed Esther's thoughts, and croaked.The movement of the basilisk obviously froze for a moment, Harry took the opportunity to turn sideways, inserted the sword in his hand into the mouth of the basilisk, and then fell from a height.

"Stop the shock!" Esther said a spell to Harry, and then quickly ran to Harry's side.

"There's another guy in the way, and he's actually a Slytherin prefect." A white figure more solid than a ghost suddenly said.

Esther gave him a wary look and pulled the basilisk fang out of Harry's arm.Phoenix Fawkes stuck his head to the spot where Harry had been stabbed, and wept profusely.

"You're dead, Harry Potter," said the bastard ghost. "Your savior is dead! Dumbledore's phoenix is ​​weeping! Your Muggle mother gave her life to keep you alive12 Years... but Voldemort finally killed you."

When Esther heard the word Voldemort, she suddenly clenched her wand and pointed it at the ghost. She finally understood who they were facing.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Point your wand at the heir of Slytherin, the great Lord Voldemort? A Slytherin who knows how to protect himself should kneel down and ask for my forgiveness at this time, and become my loyal follower." Voldemort's eyes There was a fierce red light.Esther trembled slightly, but still held her wand as smoothly as possible, ready to deal with Voldemort's attack at any time.

"You're not! You're just Tom Riddle, a half-blood wizard. You're nothing!" Harry yelled.The Phoenix's tears not only healed Harry's wounds, but seemed to revive him as well.

"The tears of the phoenix... of course... have healing properties... I forgot..." whispered Voldemort, "but it doesn't matter, a single spell will correct this little mistake." He laughed cruelly.

He raised Harry's wand, "Avada Kedavra!" A green light shot at Harry.

Esther was at a loss, but the wand reacted by itself, and a faintly visible transparent ice wall formed between the green light and Harry in an instant.

"Guardian of the ice shield!" Esther reacted and strengthened the spell.She poured all her will into the wand, almost at the same time the green light hit, shattered and dissolved in the air together with the ice wall.Esther felt drained and fell into the water.At this moment, Phoenix Fawkes circled above Harry and Esther and dropped something - a black diary.

Esther remembered that this was the diary that made her feel strange.But before she could say anything, Harry grabbed the basilisk's fang and thrust it into the center of the diary.

A terrible, sustained, eardrum-piercing scream startled Esther.Streams of ink sprayed from the diary like black blood.Voldemort twisted, struggled, and kept screaming.Finally, he disappeared.