Ravenclaw's Sapphire

When they walked halfway and halfway for 10 minutes, they walked not fast, and they were always vigilant about their surroundings.But after all, nothing happened, and the journey went very smoothly, and there was not even a single suspicious situation.Harry felt it was normal to relax in such a situation.He didn't expect that someone was waiting for this moment.

For the sake of safety, Professor McGonagall did not take away Lockhart's wand. In her opinion, although Lockhart is a waste, he is still considered half of the manpower. Seeing that her colleague has been around for almost a year, she did not completely deny it. Lockhart's character, willing to give him a chance.

If Snape stood in front of her, he would definitely sneer at Professor McGonagall's childishness, thinking that she was too kind-hearted to see through the selfish nature of people like Lockhart.A person like Lockhart only cares about his own reputation, even if he steps on someone else's corpse, he will definitely take advantage of it.

No one saw the sudden hideous look on Lockhart's face. He raised his wand and yelled at Professor McGonagall's back: "Forget everything!" This is the only spell he is good at, allowing him to publish those The basics of the legend.

Intense white light shot from his wand, and Lockhart drove with all his might, one chance at a time.Professor McGonagall was hit by the Oblivion Curse, and suddenly knelt down on one knee, with a painful expression on his face.Fortunately, she habitually put on armor spells on herself while walking and replaced them every now and then, so she didn't cause more damage.But she still felt dizzy, and a strong sleepiness hit her.Lockhart's Oblivion Curse is indeed very powerful. Seeing that Lockhart knocked Harry and Ron away, she wanted to escape without even thinking about it. "There are many obstacles!"

Lockhart slammed into an invisible wall and screamed.Professor McGonagall uttered another Knockout Curse, and the boys jumped on him, frantically pinning Lockhart down. Just as they were about to snatch Lockhart's wand away, they found that he didn't struggle at all, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Empty smile.

"Come on, Ron!" Harry yelled.

They had just jumped away from Lockhart, and a red light shot from Lockhart's wand hit the top of the stone wall, causing an explosion.Huge chunks of broken stone fell from the walls like a deadly downpour.The boys were running around with their heads in their arms. Harry dodged a huge boulder that could break his arm. He watched in despair as Ron's figure was cut off on the other side. He ran to Professor McGonagall and tried his best to help her up. , Professor McGonagall is still holding on, but her eyes are already a little dull.

"Siegel! Siegel!" His roar was almost drowned in the rumbling tunnel, he failed to find Zoe, the girl disappeared, Harry couldn't spare any extra energy, he took Professor McGonagall to hide Go to corners and avoid falling stones.The tunnel was stronger than expected. It collapsed a layer, sealing both sides of the tunnel, but apart from the collapsed place, everything was fine.

"Po, Potter," said Professor McGonagall with difficulty. She raised her wand tremblingly, and the milky white light shone on it, and the light flooded into Professor McGonagall's body, "Go to Siegel...she just went deep ran away."

"What about the others? You..."

"I will take emergency measures. Most of Lockhart's spells have been removed by the Armor Curse...I will soften these stones and rescue Weasley and the others. You go first, but don't be brave." Professor McGonagall warned He said, "Call for help when you are in danger, and I will help you right away."

*****

Harry ran through the tunnel, his footsteps and panting echoing in the empty tunnel.He soon saw a wall at the end, two coiled snakes were lifelike, with huge emeralds in their eyes, and their heads were slightly raised, as if they were looking at Harry.

Harry licked his lips, imagining that he was facing two real snakes in his head, "Open." He let out a low hissing sound, and the two snakes separated, and a crack opened in the middle wall. Entrance.

Come on, Harry.Harry cheered himself up.

He entered a dark room, with many tall stone pillars standing on both sides, each with a stone snake wrapped around it, "fluorescence flickering." He swallowed and chanted, and the emerald green light illuminated the room. The road ahead also casts a deeper shadow.Harry always felt that the basilisk was hiding in some corner, and would jump out of the shadows to attack him at any time, he carefully explored the surroundings, and remembered that Zoe should have arrived here, so he tremblingly said, "Siegel? "

There was no response, and Harry's hair was on edge.When he came to the last pair of stone pillars, flames slammed from both sides, and then one after another from behind, startling him, and he finally saw everything in the secret room—including the tall building. A large stone statue of Salazar Slytherin loomed over him.

The flames and light eased the fear in Harry's heart. He looked up and found a blond figure in a black robe lying on the open space in front of him. "Siegel!" He rushed over to help Zoe's body, and found that Zoe's eyes were empty and her body was cold. Harry was trembling. Looking at such eyes, you will feel that the person in your hand is not a person, but It's a corpse.

"You are welcome, Harry. I always believed that you would find out the truth, though it might be a little later."

A boy's voice sounded from the other side. It was a distinct but illusory figure. He had black hair similar to Harry's, but looked a few years older than him. He was looking at Harry with interest. , as if watching some interesting program.Under his feet was a thick book with a black cover.

"Who are you?" Harry tried to compose himself. "Why are you here? Are you responsible for this girl's condition?"

"Questions one by one, Harry." The boy was friendly, "to answer your first question, you can call me Tom, Tom Marvolo Riddle, 50 years ago, I was Hogwarts student." He pointed to the prefect badge on his body.

"Oh, five, fifty years ago? Did you die? You looked like a ghost."

"I am deeper than death, Harry. This is a higher state. I am a part of me. You won't understand. I have always been interested in you." Riddle moved closer to Harry.

"As for why I'm here, this is the Chamber of Secrets. As the heir of Slytherin, is it strange that I'm here?"

"You are the heir?" Harry was furious, "You are the coward who caused everything, framed Hagrid, hurt the students, and hid in the dark!"

"I did kill a mudblood girl 50 years ago, but this time it's none of my business." Riddle chuckled, "You must know the girl who opened the Chamber of Secrets, I remember she studied in Ravenclaw, her name is It's... Padma Patil."

"This is impossible!" Harry exclaimed, "Padma is the first victim besides Mrs. Norris! How could she open the Chamber of Secrets!"

"Of course she can't open the Chamber of Secrets. Only Slytherin's blood can drive the basilisk, and she doesn't even have a Parseltongue." Riddle was obviously in a good mood, and he was even willing to chat with Harry a few more times for his sake. Confused.

"That girl is smart, and she resisted my intrusion, because she knew she shouldn't trust a magic item with a brain that doesn't know where, even if it's just a book. But you know, for you kids who haven't really gotten started , just a hint... She will obediently use her soul to support me and let me grow." Riddle laughed in a gloomy tone, Harry only felt his hairs start to rise, "But for some reason , The effect of the suggestion has become worse, the girl obviously wants to ask the professors for help, what a pity, the memory in her mind is very interesting, let me know a lot of things that happened in these years."

"Then, a student joined the investigation. Is her name Luna Lovegood? A keen child who almost found the truth, but she was too careless to ignore the danger around her. I absorbed her part of my life, which made me stronger." Riddle even touched Harry's forehead with his hand, and he showed interest in the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, "Look, I can even touch the real thing."

"The last mudblood girl was an accident. She appeared outside the washroom by chance, but she was very careful. I think she understood that the basilisk was walking through the pipes, but because the pure blood named Luna fell in front of her, she lost In the end, it was petrified. It's funny, when the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets was opened, it was supposed to be the time to clean the dirty blood, but this time, except for the mudblood and the cat raised by the Squib, it didn't count as achieving the goal."

Harry clenched his fists: "You're wrong. You haven't achieved a single goal at all. The petrification on them will soon be removed, and everyone will live on. And this time we are accompanied by Professor McGonagall, What do you think she will do to you? You are just a ghost from 50 years ago!"

"I'm not just a ghost, Harry." Riddle's voice softened, and he opened his arms, announcing, "Tom Marvolo Riddle, just change the order of a few letters—'I am Voldemort'—I'm never far away, I'm the greatest wizard in the world, and no one dares to call me by my first name!"