The Admiral of Hogwarts

Hugo didn't find it strange that Harry and Ron had specifically come to them today to ask about the matter.

After all, even if Harry was brave, he was still just a 12-year-old student. Therefore, he would naturally feel uneasy when encountering such a thing, so he wanted to ask someone about the current situation.

And in Harry's own opinion, after counting all the people he knew, Hugo and the others from Ravenclaw were naturally the best people to ask.

"It's not very clear what exactly happened yet," Hermione said quickly, stepping forward before Hugo could figure out how to say it.

"But what is certain is that this is definitely not a prank, because if it were a prank, it wouldn't be something that so many professors, led by Headmaster Dumbledore, couldn't solve."

"That's right, especially since this time the victim is no longer a pet, but a person," Hugo said, also stepping forward, taking the opportunity to organize his thoughts.

"Although our pets can be seen as our family, under normal circumstances, petrifying a pet and petrifying a person have completely different consequences."

"In other words, there really might be a dangerous monster wandering around the castle," Veneto concluded.

"As for whether it's the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, I can't be sure. After all, the mastermind behind the scenes may use the legend of the Chamber of Secrets to attract our attention and mislead us."

"I... I think I might have some new evidence," Harry said, gritting his teeth, finally revealing a piece of news, considering his friendship with Hugo and their non-wizarding family background.

"Last night, that house-elf who warned me at my aunt's house came to me again—"

Next, Harry babbled on for ten minutes, and what he said was Dobby's warning to him yesterday.

Besides warning him that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets had been released and that history was about to repeat itself, he also told him that someone in the castle was preventing him from sending these important warnings.

"I think the person stopping him is probably a professor, to prevent me from being killed by the fall," Harry shrugged at the end.

"Because I think if the person stopping him really had malicious intent, they could have killed him directly, instead of interrupting his spellcasting by causing pain."

"That's right," Ron, who had already heard Harry say this kind of thing last night, suddenly perked up at this moment.

"As far as I know, house-elves have a pretty high level of magic. Therefore, someone who can continuously inflict a series of recoverable injuries on him while he's defending could completely kill him."

"So I think that house-elf named Dobby might be trying to hide something by saying this, after all, he refused to reveal the name of the mastermind behind the scenes until the very end."

It was very normal for Ron to make this judgment, after all, the Weasley family hadn't had a house-elf for several generations, so they didn't know much about the specific situation of house-elves.

So, without understanding the existence of certain contract magic, he would naturally think that it was too suspicious for a house-elf who claimed to be willing to betray his master to refuse to say who the master was.

"I don't think we can discuss these issues to a conclusion for the time being, because we can't find any other evidence besides Dobby's words," Hugo said with a helpless expression, spreading his hands after Ron finished speaking, then turning to look at Harry.

"But what we can be sure of is that someone does want to do something to this school."

"Although there's no evidence, I still firmly believe that Malfoy is behind this," As a sworn enemy, it was a traditional skill for Ron to put the blame on the Malfoy family whenever something happened.

"Lucius Malfoy must have opened the Chamber of Secrets when he was studying here, and now he's teaching his dear little Draco to do the same. It's obvious."

"But, I really wish Dobby had told you what kind of monster was locked inside. I really don't understand, how can no one notice it sneaking around in the school?"

"If I remember correctly, there are a lot of spells that can do this. Whether it's invisibility magic or transformation magic," Hermione said immediately after hearing Ron's words, then looked at Harry with concern.

"But compared to that possible monster, Dobby's rescue is the most fatal to you. Harry, if he keeps saving you, it will kill you."

This conversation ended in a rather tense atmosphere. In the following period, although everyone was still studying according to the classroom plan, they secretly began to do some things behind the teacher's backs. For example, exchanging amulets, exorcism items, and other gadgets to protect themselves.

This practice quickly swept the school, so that even pure-bloods like Neville Longbottom bought a stinking big onion, a sharp amethyst, and a rotting salamander tail in such a tense and anxious atmosphere, making his whole body smell even worse than Quirrell's last year.

Many Gryffindor students, seeing Neville trembling with fear, all told him that there was no need to be so nervous, because he was a pure-blood.

But the insecure Neville insisted that he was only a little stronger than a Squib, so he was very likely to be attacked by that Slytherin monster.

The students from the four houses in the school naturally had different attitudes towards the monster that might be from the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

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For example, the Slytherins were naturally very happy about these things, and sometimes they would use this matter to scare students from other houses.

While Ravenclaw and Gryffindor had a high proportion of pure-bloods and their students were good at thinking, the other was brave and fearless. Therefore, although some students felt a little scared about this matter, they quickly returned to normal with the comfort of their classmates.

The only problem was Hufflepuff, because they had too many people, and the proportion of non-pure-blood wizards was very high. Therefore, there were several times when the entire dormitory suddenly ran around in panic or screamed at night because of fear.

Fortunately, the black market selling fake amulets in the school only existed for three days before it was shut down by the Enterprise, because she believed that since she had taken over such a job, she definitely could not tolerate those fake and shoddy products circulating in the market.

Soon, she confiscated most of the fake goods in the school and punished some students, and thoroughly stopped a series of counterfeiting and selling behaviors that occurred in the school through this approach.

But what Hugo and the others didn't expect was that the Enterprise's actions instead opened up the market for the Golden Hogsmeade General Store in the school.

After all, now everyone has a rigid demand for such items. And after the various fakes with only psychological comfort effects were cleared out, those new products would naturally occupy the market.

Although these magical items that have a defensive effect against various minor curses and some dark magic are not cheap, and not many people can afford them, the Golden Hogsmeade General Store still made its name remembered by the students with this opportunity.

"So, should we consider this a blessing in disguise?" Hugo said helplessly after reading Beatrix's report that day. "This shouldn't count as profiting from disaster, right!"