Wild child

The pages of an old pillow-thick book were flipping, page 387, then page 391... one page was missing in the middle.Fanny went back to look at the catalogue. That's right, the page introducing the "basilisk" was missing. The tear marks were very new, and it could be seen that the tearing was done in a hurry.

It is basically certain that Hermione tore it up. She also asked Fanny to borrow the book. Harry's words gave her a hint that day. Like Hermione's move, but just down the hallway on the next floor...

Fanny closed the book with a snap, thinking about what to do next.Although she had seen it too, it was obvious that she wouldn't take it seriously, and it was Hermione who had a photographic memory.If there is no information sheet to ask her to recall, she can't even be sure whether the basilisk is afraid of roosters or feeds on roosters. The only thing she can be sure of is that the basilisk must look like a snake.

Of course, there's no skill to be had in this sort of thing.Fanny dug out all the books that were most likely to introduce monsters that she could find, and transported them into the common room three times. After that, she swung her hands and cursed the safety rule that she was not allowed to leave the tower after six o'clock.Then she told Harry and Ron about her deduction and what she was looking for, leaving a sentence of "probably so", before the two asked another word, she went back to the dormitory in style.

Restoring energy, Fanny was the last one to wake up in the dormitory the next day as usual. When she went down to the common room, she saw Harry and Ron still struggling with the pile of books bigger than them. It seemed that it was almost the end .So she graciously walked over and said good morning, ignoring the faces of the two who were suffering from lack of sleep, like crops that owe water, and inquired about the search situation.

The two of them struggled until two o'clock in the morning last night, and got up early this morning to look for them again. As a result...not surprisingly, they didn't get anything.Fanny herself also felt that she didn't see the introduction of the basilisk repeatedly in two different books, so she sent the two boys—her face became even more bitter after hearing this—to return the book after reading it, and she herself went back to the book. Out of the portrait hole, taking a zigzag route around the crowd, her goal was the corridor where Hermione and a Ravenclaw prefect had been attacked.The corridor was blocked off after that, and Filch hung around like he had a feud with someone all day long.

But Filch was never a problem, and Fanny found Peeves who was stuffing chewing gum into the keyhole of Filch's office without too much trouble—where did the chewing gum come from?She remembered that there didn't seem to be such a snack in the wizarding world.

"Is there anything I can do for you, charming lady?" Peeves took off his funnel hat and made a funny salute.

"Remember the double attack that happened last month?" Fanny handed over several large bottles of ink and a blowpipe, and the two troublemakers exchanged a tacit look, "Keep people away from that corridor, two or ten minutes, Can it be done? I'll teach you to pour chalk over Meg's head."

... You always have to pay back when you come out to hang out.This idea flashed through Fanny's mind immediately when she saw Meg, whose chalk-dust hair was tied into a small bun and was about to stand up in anger.She forgot she had told Peeves when to use that "trick".

"I...I want to see...Hermione." Fanny hesitated, and there seemed to be water in the lowered eyelids, "I haven't seen her for a long time...I want to sneak to see her, tell her Her mandrake is almost grown, don't worry."

Many serious people have a burning heart, and Meg was one of them, and she was immediately moved to tears.Thanks to the good brains given by Christophe and Charles Sanchez, Fanny not only escaped punishment, but also got a legal exception to see Hermione and the free time for two full classes represented by this opportunity.

So she stopped by the scariest girls' bathroom in Hogwarts, which was full of sewage and stench, and it was a place that even Filch avoided - the territory of Myrtle.

Just in time for the ghost girl inside to lose her temper, Fanny really felt that she was so brave when she stepped into the ankle-high sewage.

The sensitive and willful ghost girl calmed down under Fanny's understanding guidance. Her "watery" eyes behind the big glasses looked at Fanny expectantly through her thick bangs, waiting to hear more good words.Fannice didn't have that much time, so she took the risk of euphemistically wrapping up the question "How did you die" and brought it up directly.

As a result, Myrtle, who always took the fact that she was dead as a thunder point, immediately glowed.

"Oh, it's terrible," she said with relish. "It happened here. I died in this toilet. I remember it very clearly. At that time, Olive Hornbe laughed at me for wearing glasses like a four-eyed dog. I hid here..."

...Could it be that the heir of Slytherin became angry from embarrassment when he broke into the women's bathroom?

"...I heard a boy's voice talking, so I opened the door and yelled at him to go off and go to my boys' bathroom. And then—" Myrtle puffed out her chest in self-importance, "and I died. "

"...Uh, so what? How did you die?" Fanny asked.

"I don't know." Myrtle lowered her voice mysteriously, and Fanny choked.

"I just remember seeing... well, it should be near the pool, a pair of scary yellow eyes. My whole body seemed to be grabbed, and then I floated away..." She looked at Fan in a trance. Annie, "I came back later. You know, I was all about getting revenge on Olive Hornby. Oh, she regretted making fun of me for wearing glasses."

"Near the pool?" Fanny walked over, endured the chills down her spine, and checked the normal-looking pool up and down.

There was a brass dragon head with a tiny snake carved into its side, and it was the only one with that.

Now that this has been discovered and there is no dead body lying on the spot, it seems that it is time to go to the teacher.But Fanny remembered what she was going to do, and after thinking about it, she decided to go to the school hospital first. Anyway, there has been no attack for so long. It's not too late.

On the way to the school hospital, Fanny accidentally ran into Ginny Weasley, who was in the first grade. She was crying for some reason, and when she saw Fanny, she showed an expression of both horror and hope.Ke Fanny had something more important than comforting a wronged little girl, so she patted her on the shoulder and passed by.

"I'm in a hurry, I'll grab some good things from your brother later for you to play with!"

The river next to the town has no security at all, and every year one or two people are killed by seemingly harmless currents.Some drowned because they stepped on a depression at the bottom of the river or choked on the water in the vortex, and some drowned because they hit the bottom of the boat when they held their breath and came out of the water.

When this kind of thing is discovered, the body will be picked up and placed on the shore according to the usual practice, waiting for someone to claim it.Once, a homeless child was left on the river beach for three full days before being sent to the nearest mortuary without being recognized.The next evening Fanny made a bet with little Orozco that she would tear a button off the boy's sleeve, and for the first time she lost the bet.After seeing the child's stiff, straight, pale hands and feet, she fled.

After that, she never said anything like "I'm going to kill you" or "Go to die". That was the first time Fanny felt the horror of death.

Sure enough, the missing page in the corridor was in Hermione's stiff hand.It was smoother than expected. Fanny did not leave in a hurry after getting it. She silently looked at Hermione lying on the hospital bed, and somehow remembered this matter.

Hermione's limbs were stiff, her face was frozen in astonishment, her dull eyes stared expressionlessly at the ceiling.

For safety reasons, the students were banned from the petrochemical students' ward after the double attack, and this was the first time Fanny had seen Hermione in over a month.Eye contact with the basilisk would kill you immediately, and if it wasn't for some coincidence that Hermione couldn't see those eyes directly, maybe she would have turned into Myrtle in the hallway, or disappeared from the world altogether, The body was also brought back by the heartbroken parents.

Fanny hates top students who are superior and thinks she has no intention of making friends with Hermione, but that doesn't mean she doesn't feel anything.Hermione, who looks arrogant on the outside, is actually quite enthusiastic and careful, and is the smartest person Fanny has ever met, which means that she not only has a good mind, but also knows how to use her mind to make rational judgments instead of following the so-called "most people's opinion". "——This is also what Fanny admires most about her.

"...Asshole." The hands hanging by his sides were tightly clenched.

Fanny thought that whoever the heir to Slytherin was, the bastard had really pissed her off.

After a long delay, when Fanny walked out of the school hospital, she was wondering why she hadn't rang the bell, when Meg's voice suddenly echoed throughout the campus.

"All students return to their dormitories immediately. All teachers return to the staff lounge. Please act immediately."

Could it be...?Fanny immediately rushed to the faculty lounge, and found the most secret and quickest path without thinking about her legs.She passed a corridor on the third floor, which was the scene of the first attack. On the wall flashed the words "The chamber of secrets has been opened. Those who are enemies of the heir, be alert." There was nothing worthy of Fanny's attention at this moment. Yes, but she slammed on the brakes and almost made herself fall to the ground.

There is an extra line of words below.

"...Her bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever." A terrified little face flashed in Fanny's mind, and she remembered that she was coming out of the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets when she met Ginny head-on.

"What are you... what are you doing here?" came a familiar voice, panting, not drawn out like usual, and before turning her head, Fanny barely recognized who the words came from.

"...Malfoy?" Fanny seemed to have seen an extraterrestrial visitor—this guy didn't hide among the Slytherins and praise another feat of their spiritual leader?

"Are you scared stupid?" Malfoy gasped and regained that arrogant expression, "I told you a long time ago..."

The rest of the words were stuck in her throat, and it wasn't like the last time because of the fists that rained down like raindrops. In fact, Fanny didn't move.She stood silently in the inconstant light of the torch on the wall, staring at Malfoy, her brown-blue eyes seemed to have a wild beast waiting for an opportunity to explode.

For the first time, Malfoy understood the meaning of the phrase "True power is often hidden in silence"

"Let me tell you. I'm going to find out the heir of Slytherin. If I find out about you and this," Fanny pointed to a new line of writing that appeared on the wall, "it doesn't matter, I'll fuck it up." your skin."

"...That has nothing to do with me!"

Fanny, who was turning around coolly, was so shaken by the shout that she almost froze.

"I said I had no idea who the Heir of Slytherin was," Malfoy said.

"Uh... yes, you did." Fanny slowly turned her body back and looked at him with folded arms, "but what are you in a hurry for? I can't really do anything to you, I mean, it's for you Isn't that something more glorious?"

"I...I warn you, don't meddle in your own business." Malfoy pointed at the line, "Otherwise you will be next."

"That really touched me. But whether I care about it, Malfoy." Fanny turned again, "As long as it's going on, it will be my turn soon. I'm not as safe as you." Blow the air, remember? I'm a 'mud, bum, bum'."

Never had an afternoon passed so slowly, and never had Gryffindor Tower been so crowded and silent.

It was quickly confirmed that the girl who was taken into the secret room was Ginny.The Weasley children sat in different corners of the common room all afternoon, and when the sun was about to set, the twins couldn't sit still anymore and went back to the dormitory.

Fanny told Harry and Ron what she had discovered, and after they took the old page in silence, they also found a place to sit.The idea that she was the last to see Ginny and chose to ignore Ginny's cries for help was too much for her to bear.

If she had any human friends at Hogwarts, it was George and Fred.Fanny remembered that they always referred to Ginny as "the Weasley little sister" and tried to amuse her by doing poor tricks with pustules or feathers when Ginny was in a bad mood.

Fanny couldn't sit still when the twins left.

Something had to be done—what could be done?

There was no one in the staff room, the school was about to close, all students would be sent home by midnight, and Ginny... had no hope of surviving.

But there is a person who can definitely solve these things, and he will definitely have a way.

Fanny couldn't believe she was thinking this, and she ran back to her dormitory and wrote the longest letter ever written, even though she spent a lot of time revising it to make it short and to the point.Then she took out a small whistle and blew a long blow, feeling the vibrations of the air, but there was no sound.

Miriam flew in through the window almost immediately. The special silent whistle can emit vibrations that can be heard by certain owls within a five-mile radius. Dumbledore bought it by the way because Fanny said "Send Wouldn't it be troublesome to have to go to the place where the owls keep every letter?" Although he

Most people know that Muggles have to run at least a few hundred meters to find a mailbox or post office to send a letter.

"Send this letter to Albus Dumbledore, can you find him?" Fanny put the letter into the leather pouch on Miriam's lap.

Miriam shook his head, spread his wings and stroked the top of Fanny's head, and flew away.

Fanny looked out the window, it was already dark, and writing this letter took much longer than she expected.

Ok, what to do now?We have to find the teachers who have disappeared since they sent the students back to the common room because of an accident, and explain the situation in the secret room clearly. Of course, we have to bring those two stunned young people as witnesses.

Harry and Ron were not found in the common room, and Fanny climbed up the steps leading to the boys' dormitory without much thought.I thought that Hermione had been there so many times before, and there would definitely be no big storms, but soon more than one half-fruited or full-fruited male was frightened and let out a female scream——Okay , Hermione didn't break into this area during the bathing and changing hours...

After finally being evoked by a series of exclaimed little "I am a woman" consciousness, Fanny finally got from a second-year dormitory that "Harry and Ron have never been back to the dormitory, and have not shown since sunset." Over the face" exact message.

Theoretically, they may also be reporting to the teachers, but Fanny has always believed in intuition more than logic. She followed a winding route and rushed to the last toilet she had been to.