Chapter Forty-Three: Ginny Weasley

"Miss Weasley?" Professor McGonagall exclaimed.

Ginny Weasley stood there a little confused, her wand in the hand of a house-elf beside her.

"What's going on?" Professor Sprout frowned and asked, "Why would a Gryffindor first-year student try to break into the Hufflepuff common room?"

"I think you should give an explanation, Miss Weasley!" Professor McGonagall said sternly.

Ginny Weasley stammered a little, "Professor McGonagall...... I think...... Chamber...... Probably the ...... I opened"

"What?" This time, the eyes of the six teachers were focused on her.

"Professor McGonagall......" Ginny cried at once, "I feel as if I have lost some of my memory, many times my robe is full of chicken feathers, I don't know how I got them......"

“...... I don't remember what I did on Halloween Eve, but a cat was killed and my chest was covered in paint...... On the day of the Quidditch match, Colin told me he was going to visit Harry in the hospital at night and was assaulted, and I don't remember what I did...... The day before yesterday, Percy told me that I had a bad face and a somewhat unusual appearance, and I thought he might be suspicious of me...... And then he was attacked that night, and I can't remember where I was......"

"I feel like I'm the one who attacked all of them, Professor McGonagall!"

The expressions on the faces of all the teachers became extremely serious, even Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Tell us what's going on, Ginny...... I believe you!" Professor Lockhart walked over, his voice was not loud, but unusually reassuring.

"Diary...... I found it in a book my mom gave me...... I thought someone was sandwiched it there and forgot...... I wrote on it, and it could communicate with me, and he said his name was "'Tom Riddle,'......" and Ginny said with a weeping voice:

When she heard the name "Tom Riddle", Professor McGonagall's body trembled slightly.

"I would have thrown it all away and thrown it down the toilet...... Zacharis said he had picked it up, and I was afraid that my secret would be discovered, so I wanted to sneak into the Hufflepuff common room and steal it...... I heard Fred and George talk about how to get into the Hufflepuff common room, so I ......"

......

"What's going on, Minerva?" Ten minutes later, Professor Albus Dumbledore, the former Headmaster of Hogwarts, returned to his former office at Hogwarts. He had a letter in his hand.

A crimson bird the size of a crane stood on Dumbledore's shoulder, making him look a little funny.

Albus ...... Miss Weasley has given us some useful information about the Chamber of Secrets, and we have discussed it and decided that we should ask you to come back and deal with it!" Professor McGonagall said with a serious face.

"I see!" Professor Dumbledore smiled and nodded, then greeted Ginny Weasley, who was standing behind Professor McGonagall with a panicked face, "Good afternoon, Miss Weasley!"

Dumbledore looked directly into her eyes, his pale blue, soft eyes, which seemed to give a sense of relaxation.

This staring at each other lasted for several minutes.

Finally, Professor Dumbledore turned around.

"Miss Weasley should go to the school hospital at once!" he said involuntarily, "I guess the past experience was a painful ordeal for her...... There was no punishment for her from school, and many wizards who were older and more resourceful than her had been blinded by Voldemort......"

Professor McGonagall nodded, waving outside.

Madam Pomfrey had been waiting outside the Headmaster's office, and now she had run in.

"Come with me to the school hospital, girl...... Soon it will be fine!" she said gently.

"As for us, it's time to get to the Chamber of Secrets!" Dumbledore said with a smile, pulling out his somewhat strange elderberry wand from his bosom and carefully beginning to wipe it with his handkerchief.

"Miss Weasley's memory has been altered!" Professor McGonagall said quickly, "she barely remembers everything she has done......

"Tom's little trick......" Dumbledore said unhurriedly, "without completely destroying Miss Weasley's brain, it is indeed a bit of a hassle to find the deleted memories...... However, he must have left a few clues. ”

"What is ......?"

But Dumbledore changed the subject: "What about the journal that Miss Weasley was talking about, she said it was in the Hufflepuff common room?"

"Not really. Professor McGonagall shook her head, "Pomona found Mr. Smith and got the journal, and Professor Snape double-examined it, insisting that it was a normal Muggle item with no dark magic on it. ”

"Over there!" Professor McGonagall said, gesturing to a glass-enclosed journal on the Principal's desk, "Would you like to check it again?"

"No need, I trust Severus!" Professor Dumbledore said with a wink, smiling, "Besides, it doesn't look like the one Miss Weasley remembers...... Perhaps, it's just an interesting coincidence?"

Professor McGonagall nodded.

"Let's go, call Severus, Pomona, and Philius, and let's take a look at the abandoned bathroom between the first floor and the basement of the castle!" Dumbledore suggested.

"Is there a problem over there?"

"Miss Weasley's memories pass over there many times...... This is something that shouldn't be the case for a Gryffindor first-year, and it shouldn't be a good time for her to be there except for Potions class!"

......

"Professor Dumbledore, look here!" As soon as he entered the bathroom, he heard Professor Flitwick's shrill voice.

"Did you find anything, Firius?"

Following Flitwick's direction, Dumbledore bent down, and under a pool of water, he saw a line of text:

"I'm Ginny Weasley,

I feel like I've opened the secret room,

And there's something controlling my mind,

The entrance to the chamber seems to be on the side of the brass faucet under the pool on the right.

You have to have a parseltongue to open,

Help me......"

"Sure enough!" Professor McGonagall's eyes widened.

Dumbledore was stunned, then suddenly smiled.

"What's wrong?" asked Professor Sprout, puzzled.

"Interesting, very interesting...... Dumbledore stood up, smiled and shook his head, "From Pomona and Sivanos discovering the spider's mutation, to Miss Weasley's accidental capture, to this line of text...... It's as if someone is guiding us what to do!"

"Albus, you're saying it's a trap?" Professor Snape's grim voice rang out from one side.

"It can't be...... Tom wouldn't have come up with such a stupid trap, and he wouldn't have the guts to make up for it on me!" Professor Dumbledore said confidently, "Now, in order to open the Chamber of Secrets, we may need a Parseltongue!"

"Potter ......," Snape muttered.

"That's right!" Dumbledore ordered, "Minerva, maybe you should bring Mr. Potter here!"

"Okay, Headmaster!"

Professor McGonagall turned to leave, and Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout continued to examine the line of writing on the pool.

"Don't you think it's all too much of a coincidence, Albus?" asked Snape in a low voice.

"Really?" Dumbledore nodded, "Maybe it's all such a coincidence, maybe it's okay?"