Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 642 Four victims (big chapter)

  As soon as Tom Riddle left with his front feet, Professor McGonagall hurried over after hearing the sound.

  She stared in shock at the classroom door that had been smashed by the basilisk, her eyes moved forward along the two torn knight armors by the door, and landed on the severely damaged desks and chairs.

  There seems to be something inside?

  Professor McGonagall held his wand in his hand, ready to fight at any time.

  When she stepped on the door and walked into the classroom, her pupils dilated slightly, looking at the roosters running around in the classroom, she murmured incredulously, "What happened here!"

   "A raid?"

  Professor McGonagall looked at the group of roosters in the classroom again, and said to himself: "No matter how you look at it, this thing seems weird."

  She raised her wand and whispered a spell, and three silver cats sprang out from the tip of the wand. The three patron saints ran forward nimbly, and disappeared at the end of the corridor in the blink of an eye.

  If Albert was here, he would probably be happy to discuss the advanced use of the Patronus Charm with Professor McGonagall.

A few minutes later, Professor Snape arrived first, his face was slightly pale, he hurriedly glanced at the messy classroom, then looked back at Professor McGonagall, "Did you notice that the heir of Slytherin, Another line was left."

"what have you found?"

  Professor McGonagall had a bad premonition when he heard what Snape said.

   "Just below the text from last time, it says: Her bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever." Snape said hoarsely.

  Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly, trying to look as strong as possible.

"Another attack. When I came, I saw that the fat monk was petrified." Professor Sprout came in a hurry. After seeing the messy classroom, she couldn't help being stunned. She looked up at her two colleagues and asked: "What the **** is going on here and what's up with those cocks."

   "A student was kidnapped by a monster and brought directly into the Chamber of Secrets." Snape explained.

"who is it."

  Professor Flitwick heard the bad news as soon as he arrived, and asked sharply.

  Snape noticed that the other professors were staring at him, so he had to say it again, "Below the text from last time, it was written: Her bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever."

   "Which student is it?" Professor Sprout covered his mouth to keep himself from crying.

   "I don't know." Professor Snape shook his head.

   "What's going on here?" Professor Flitwick asked looking at the classroom.

   "I heard a loud noise in the office just now, and it was already like this when I rushed over." Professor McGonagall is still at a loss.

   "The **** here are all real, not magic!" screamed Professor Flitwick, who had just made the roosters disappear from the classroom, only to find that the spell had failed.

   "Hagrid's cock?"

   "Probably not."

   "There's something weird about this whole thing." Snape looked at the group of roosters in the classroom, and felt that there must be some special reason for the group of roosters to be here.

"No matter what, we must first find out who was taken away by the monster, and then...send all the remaining students home tomorrow." Professor McGonagall immediately made follow-up arrangements, "Severus, Filiu Sis, please go to the library and send all the students staying there to their common rooms."

"It's best to inform Lockhart. He swore to me a few days ago that he knew the entrance to the secret room and what the monster in the secret room is. If some students are really taken away by monsters, I think we need his help now." Sneh Pu did not forget to remind Professor McGonagall of this.

"Okay, Severus, please go and inform Lockhart, tell him what happened here, and let Lockhart let go to deal with that monster." Professor McGonagall turned his head and said, "Pomona, you go Inform the other professors, I will make the ghosts move, and make sure no students are left outside the dormitory. We must first find out if any students were really taken away by monsters."

  While the professors at Hogwarts were busy with the attack, Albert, who was one of the culprits in the whole incident, had just come out of the Room of Requirement, and he seemed in a good mood.

  Just a few minutes ago, Albert witnessed the ink dot marked with Ginny Weasley completely disappear in the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor of the castle.

  After Tom Riddle was forced to take Ginny Weasley into the Chamber of Secrets, most of Albert's previous preparations had been completed.

   Kill the basilisk, destroy the diary, save Ginny Weasley?

   No, no, that is the mission of the savior Harry Potter, and has nothing to do with him, Albert Anderson.

  Albert prepared for more than half a year, nothing more than to complete a large number of secret room-related tasks accumulated in the task panel while ensuring his own safety.

  Finding out the real culprit behind the attack was more for his own safety.

  As for cleaning up Hagrid's grievances and restoring his reputation, he was just helping him by the way.

   After all, we are all good friends, so we can help if we can.

   Afterwards, you can also get a lot of invisible benefits.

  For example, the right to speak, no one will despise Albert because he is underage, if he wants to fool you in the future... ahem, he will be able to persuade other people better in the future, and use his ability as a magician...a prophet.

  However, if you want to complete the panel tasks and get the pile of benefits, you must first find out the real culprit and put the cruel facts on the surface.

   Albert never expected to be able to convince any professor to believe his words.

  It is necessary for Tom Riddle to jump out himself and prove that he is the real culprit of the attack.

   Therefore, Albert spent a lot of time and energy gradually "guiding" Tom Riddle to carry out this thrilling attack and expose himself.

  Of course, after spending so much energy, in addition to completing the previously accumulated tasks, Albert added two more reward-rich tasks to the task panel.

   They are "The Basilisk Must Die", which requires killing the basilisk, and "Tom's Wrath", which arouses Tom's emotions. It is worth mentioning that "Tom's Wrath" has been completed.

  Albert was rewarded with a free choice of a skill from Tom Riddle again, and he was really happy.

The rewards of "Tom's Wrath" are richer than most mission rewards. Voldemort is a treasure boy, and he has a lot of good things on him. Albert has benefited a lot from the spell casting techniques he got last time, and he is looking forward to it. For this harvest, it is best to have some proficient skills.

  As for Tom Riddle, who became the final loser, the most fundamental reason was because of underestimating the enemy and misjudgment, otherwise Albert would not be able to easily achieve his goal.

  Especially when the basilisk made noises in the classroom, and after Albert slipped away from under his nose, Tom lost all his pants, and he lost without knowing it.

  When Tom Riddle recovers from his anger, he will find that he has no better choice.

  As the party involved in the attack, he did not kill or petrify Albert, which meant that it was no longer safe to stay in the castle.

   After all, he could be identified at any time, even without evidence.

  What the victim said is the best evidence.

   What's more, Albert really has no evidence?

   Of course he has, and there's a whole lot of evidence.

  So, for Tom, taking Ginny into the secret room and buying enough time for himself is already his last choice.

  He needs time to inject all of Ginny's vitality into the diary, so that he can completely get out of the diary and "resurrect" himself.

  Tom's original arrangements were completely disrupted by this attack.

   What made Tom even worse was that all of this was a conspiracy by that Muggle wizard named Albert Anderson, but he let the other party slip away from his nose, which was an unprecedented shame for Voldemort.

  If Tom Riddle knew that he had achieved Albert's most desired result, he wondered if he would be so angry that he would run out of the secret room to fight with Albert.

From the beginning, Albert had no intention of catching the heir of Slytherin. As long as the professors knew the cruel fact that "Ginny was taken into the secret room by a monster", they had to accept what Albert would bring them. The "good news" to go, rather than unwillingness to believe Albert's words, or not to take his words seriously.

   This is a kind of prejudice among wizards, and young wizards and wizards will not be respected until they reach adulthood.

   Instead of thinking they're... mischievous, or talking gibberish.

   Albert is too clear about this.

Of those old friends who are willing to communicate with him on an equal footing and invite him to academic gatherings, which one was not forced to ignore Albert's age and agree with Albert after being beaten up by Albert with the knowledge on the panel? Te has already stood at the same height as them.

  After leaving the Room of Requirement, Albert was going back to the common room. He had no intention of going to Professor McGonagall right now and telling him what he knew.

  Before it is confirmed that there are students missing, any rhetoric will only attract unnecessary suspicion to myself.

   To use the words in the movie of the previous life: Let the bullets fly for a while.

  Albert is very calm, anyway, he is not the one who is anxious.

   Having said that, the wave of hatred he gave Lohatra was really solid. Before entering the Chamber of Secrets, Tom Riddle actually stopped by the Defense Against the Dark Arts office to trouble Lockhart.

  What surprised Albert the most was that after Tom Riddle left the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, the ink dot representing Lockhart on the Marauder's Map did not disappear immediately.

  Tom actually rewarded Lockhart with Avada Kedavra without pulling out his wand.

  Although he didn't know what Tom Riddle did during the ten seconds he entered Lockhart's office, Albert knew that Tom would never let Lockhart go easily.

well!

  The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's curse is so terrible, hope the Lockharts are okay.

  Albert didn't have the slightest burden for him to deceive Lockhart. Anyway, Lockhart didn't die.

   "Why are you hanging out alone!" The fat lady saw Albert walking slowly, and immediately raised her face and said: "You should know that it is dangerous to go out alone now."

   "Egg in egg."

  Albert didn't intend to continue listening to the fat lady's nagging, and immediately said the password.

   "Oh, well, get in here, stop running around alone!" The portrait of the Fat Lady swivels forward, revealing the opening in the wall.

  Gryffindor's common room was empty, only a few people talking and laughing in low voices.

  Albert walked to the place where the kettle was placed, pulled out his wand and tapped it lightly, and a stream of steam suddenly spewed out from the spout.

  Harry, who was playing wizard chess with Ron, cast a puzzled look at Albert.

   "What's wrong?" Ron followed Harry's gaze, eyes full of confusion.

   "How did he come back alone?" Harry frowned.

   "Fred once told me in secret that as long as you don't get caught, it's not a violation of school rules." Ron didn't take this seriously, he knew that Albert and the others didn't take those rules seriously at all.

   "Where are Fred and George?" Harry still felt something was wrong and asked.

   "Still in the library, they will be back soon." Albert went upstairs to get a cup and was about to make himself a cup of milk tea. He hadn't had time to take a sip of water since he was busy just now.

   Before Harry could speak again, the entrance to the common room was opened again, and Professor Flitwick sent back all the Gryffindor students left in the library.

  As soon as everyone entered the common room, they began to discuss who was kidnapped by the monster.

   "It's great that you're fine, we thought you were taken away by a monster."

  Fred, George, and Lee Jordan, who had just entered the common room, were relieved to see Albert sitting in an armchair drinking milk tea, and walked quickly to Albert to give him a big hug.

no way.

  As soon as Albert left, they were told that something had happened.

  The three of them were naturally worried about what happened to Albert.

   "What did the Slytherin monster kidnap me for?" Albert glanced at the overturned cup and couldn't help but sighed, he hadn't had time to take a second sip.

   "Someone was taken away by a Slytherin monster?" Harry asked warily.

   "Yes, just now, Professor Flitwick said that some students seemed to have been taken away." Lee Jordan quickly told Harry and the other students who stayed in the common room what he knew.

  "Everyone gather here, please go and call down all the girls staying in the dormitory, I need to count the number of people." Percy began to fulfill the responsibility of the prefect, making sure that all the students who stayed were here.

   Ten minutes later, Percy's face darkened, and he found out that his sister was missing.

   "Has any of you seen Ginny?" Percy immediately asked his brother.

  Seeing that the three of them were shaking their heads, Percy's expression became more gloomy. He asked two girls he knew to go to Ginny's room to find someone, but they found nothing.

   Ginny is missing.

  She is most likely the student who was taken away by the monster.

  Thinking of this, Percy's hand holding the parchment trembled.

   Both Fred and George looked at Albert uneasily, and just about to speak, the door of the common room was opened again, and Professor McGonagall hurried in.

   "Professor, my sister is missing." Percy's voice was hoarse, as if something was blocking his throat.

"Hogwarts is over." Professor McGonagall looked around at the students in the common room and said in a hoarse voice, "The Hogwarts Express will take you home tomorrow morning, stay in the public room until then." lounge."

   "Professor, I want to send a letter to my family." Percy's mind was in chaos, and he didn't even know how to face his family.

   "Be careful." Professor McGonagall agreed.

   After Professor McGonagall turned and left, Albert noticed that Fred and George had been staring at him.

   "Where is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets?"

  After Fredella took Albert back to the dormitory, he couldn't wait to ask.

   "You must know, tell us, please." George said loudly, "Ginny is our sister, we can't let her have an accident."

   "The entrance to the secret room is in the girls' bathroom on the second floor of the castle." Albert looked at the anxious twins, and explained in a low voice, "The entrance to the secret room needs Parseltongue to open."

   "Parseltongue?"

   "Parseltongue is the symbol of Slytherin."

   Albert glanced at Harry and Ron who were eavesdropping on them outside the door, and comforted him, "Don't worry, Ginny should still be alive, she's fine for now. Only Dumbledore can save Ginny now."

   "But Dumbledore is not at school now."

  "He'll be back, at the latest at night, there's no point in worrying now." Albert pulled out his wand, waved it lightly, and brought down Fred and George who were pulling Harry to leave.

"What are you doing?"

   Several people all looked at Albert in shock.

   "I can understand their feelings, but impulsiveness can't solve any problems." Albert's tone was extremely calm, "I can't just watch them die."

   "Well, I think you know what you're doing." Lee Jordan glanced at Albert, used magic to levitate Fred and George, and moved them to his bed.

   "I can open the chamber of secrets?" Harry stared at Albert, as if he wanted to confirm the authenticity of this sentence, "You must know what's going on, right!"

"Yes, I'm going to ask Professor McGonagall to make it clear that you guys just stay here and wait." Albert said seriously, "When Professor Dumbledore returns to school, I will definitely ask you to help open the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. "

   "Why not save Ginny now?" Ron couldn't help asking.

  It is related to the safety of his sister, and he doesn't want to wait for a moment now.

"Entering the Chamber of Secrets now is to die. Any professor who enters may die in the Chamber of Secrets. Only the headmaster can kill the Basilisk and the heir of Slytherin." Albert comforted softly, "Don't worry, Ginny temporarily It'll be fine."

   "Ginny is not your sister, so you are not in a hurry." Ron almost yelled this sentence.

"Sorry, but I think you might need to calm down." Albert waved his wand and knocked Ron down. "I know Ron is sad, but impulse can't solve the problem. Now it's best to let them sleep for a while and wait until they wake up." Everything has been sorted out since then.”

   "How do I open the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry quickly supported the fainted Ron, preventing him from falling directly to the ground.

"The sign of the snake, facing the sign related to snakes in the girls' bathroom, say "open" in Parseltongue, and you can probably open the secret room." Albert stretched out his hand and patted Harry on the shoulder and said, " Don't act on your own, wait for my good news, okay?"

   "Okay!" Harry knew that he had no other choice, he could only trust Albert now.

Albert knew that Harry would not obediently wait for the result here, but he didn't care about the other party's unauthorized actions. Under the reminder of Felicity Elixir (intuition), bringing down Fred, George and Ron was to leave Harry alone. Take a chance on Tom Riddle.

   As for whether the savior will die in the secret room, that's not what Albert should care about.

  When Albert found Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal had just come out of the principal's office. She had just asked the portraits of successive principals in the principal's office to inform the school board of directors about what happened in the school.

   "Professor." Albert called to stop Professor McGonagall.

   "Mr. Anderson, what are you doing here?" Professor McGonagall stared at Albert with stern eyes.

"I know where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is, what the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is, who the heir of Slytherin is, and what happened in the classroom on the third floor." finish talking.

   "What did you say!" Professor McGonagall stared at Albert dumbfounded, unable to believe his ears.

  Seeing the wonderful expression on Professor McGonagall's face, Albert was in a happy mood, knowing that the other party would definitely be willing to listen to his words patiently.

"The heir of Slytherin, well, it should be Ginny. She was probably controlled by something, and attacked me not long ago, but failed." Albert said lightly: "So, you should have seen three The classroom on the first floor was made when he let the basilisk attack me."

   "Are you really attacked?" Professor McGonagall stammered.

   "Don't look at me with that suspicious look, I made the group of roosters, because the basilisk is afraid of the crowing of roosters."

   "The Basilisk," repeated Professor McGonagall uneasily.

   "The monster in the chamber is the basilisk."

   "You knew it from the beginning." Professor McGonagall asked in disbelief.

   "Well, I've been investigating this matter for a while, and I know most of the things." Albert said calmly.

   "Why didn't you tell us?"

"Now that this kind of thing happened, you don't even want to believe me, let alone before it happened, even if I told you, you would probably think..." Albert didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was already It's obvious.

   Albert's words directly made Professor McGonagall speechless.

   "I think Ginny should still be alive, and she should be rescued from the secret room now." Albert reminded.

   "Yes, where is the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets?" Professor McGonagall suddenly woke up and asked quickly.

"The entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is in the abandoned bathroom on the second floor, but you need Parseltongue to open the Chamber of Secrets, well, Parseltongue is one of the signs of the heir of Slytherin, don't look at me like that, there is no Parseltongue at all Can't control the basilisk."

   "The secret room is in the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor?" Professor McGonagall repeated in disbelief.

"Yes, but this matter is best left to Professor Dumbledore. To be honest, I don't recommend that other professors rush into the secret room. They may die directly in the secret room. The basilisk is very dangerous, especially its Eyes, once they meet their eyes, they will die directly." Albert looked at Professor McGonagall and reminded softly, "Of course, I don't suggest you bring my roosters into the Chamber of Secrets, the heir of Slytherin has already After suffering a loss once, it is impossible for such a good thing to happen a second time, so you'd better not take any chances, because the heir of Slytherin is also very dangerous, and it would not be worthwhile if he dies."

   "Heir of Slytherin?" Professor McGonagall asked suspiciously, "Isn't it Ginny Weasley?"

   "If my guess is correct, it should be the one who killed Professor Quirrell last year." Albert said softly.

  Professor McGonagall couldn't help shivering, and asked curiously: "How did you escape the attack?"

"It's very simple." Albert took out the time converter from his pocket, looked at Professor McGonagall's shocked gaze, and smiled triumphantly, "He let the basilisk chase me down two corridors, and in the end I had to go back to the past Get rid of the basilisk's pursuit."

   "Why didn't you ask for help at that time?"

  Professor McGonagall asked his last question.

"If you encounter a basilisk without any precautions, even Professor Dumbledore will be killed by the eyes of the basilisk immediately." Albert reminded, "It's not that I don't trust the abilities of the professors, but I They cannot be put at risk."

  Professor McGonagall could not help but shiver.

   It's not hard to imagine what would happen if it happened.

   All this is really thanks to Albert, otherwise the whole school really doesn't know what it will be like.

   "Come with me, Mr. Anderson, I think Professor Dumbledore will return to school soon, and then you will tell him what you know."

  Professor McGonagall's tone became very gentle. She knew that Albert might be hiding other things, but these were not important anymore.

  Now, the most important thing is to solve the problem first.

  (end of this chapter)