Chapter 40: Elimination of suspicion
Halloween was coming, but Harry was in a low mood, he felt that he had been too rash to agree to Nick's invitation, he and Ron, Hermione were going to the ghosts' death party, he saw the rest of the school happily attending the Halloween party, the auditorium was very ornately decorated, the fire bats decorated the hall, and the huge pumpkin planted by Hagrid was carved into a lantern large enough to accommodate three people to sit in. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 It was also rumored that Dumbledore had booked a skeleton dance troupe to cheer everyone up. All of this made him feel remorseful, and his instincts told him that it was more interesting than the death party, and it was.
"Once the word is spoken, the horse is difficult to chase. Hermione reminded Harry, "You said you were going to the death party. ”
With the exception of Slytherin, the other three houses all had honesty and trustworthiness as a virtue, so Harry kept his promise, albeit with some reluctance.
Then they saw hundreds of milky-white, translucent ghosts wafting through the classroom, waltzing to the screeching sound of thirty saws, and a chandelier lit with thousands of candles that glowed with a seeping blue light.
They decided to go somewhere else, and they almost ran into a crying myrtle, but luckily Hermione was in time, so they went to the other end of the basement classroom. Ron exclaimed excitedly, as he saw a long dining table covered with black velvet, but as they approached, they invariably covered their noses.
The ghosts' food can't be expected to be normal, as they can't eat at all, they seem to have to put their mouths through the food they need, and then treat it as if they have eaten. Harry and Ron were able to see a lot of rotten meat, black, charred cakes, and a lot of maggot-infested lamb tripe, which they guessed might have been sitting out for a long time and had been reused many times.
Peeves then made trouble again, and made Myrtle cry, and then they talked to Nick a few more times, and they couldn't stand the atmosphere anymore, because they felt it was too cold, Harry was hungry, and Ron's teeth were fighting.
"I felt a little wrong, I always felt like someone was watching me, I thought it was a ghost just now, but now it's definitely not, there is not a ghost here. Harry looked around a few times, trying to find something, but found nothing.
"Don't think about it, Harry. Ron said, "It's just a delusion that you're too hungry, so let's go back to the party." ”
"The pudding probably hasn't finished yet. Ron said hopefully, leading the way to the foyer.
That's when Harry heard.
“.. Tear you up.. Tear you up.. Kill you.."
It was the same voice again, the cold, murderous voice he had heard in Lockhart's office.
Lockhart always asked him to go to the office to reply to his admirers, and on a few occasions he had always heard such cold words, which made him feel very uncomfortable, and his intuition told him that the voice was not the same person as the person who had just looked at him.
He staggered to a halt, grabbed the stone wall, and listened intently, looking around, squinting up and down the dimly lit hallway.
"Harry, what are you doing-"
He followed the voice, and suddenly he heard it grow darker and darker, and even after hearing only a few words, Harry could feel the bloodthirsty desire of its owner.
"He's going to kill someone!" Harry felt a sudden feeling of fear and excitement in his heart, and he raced around the third floor, Ron and Hermione followed breathlessly, and the three of them kept going, finally turning a corner and coming to the last empty hallway.
On the wall in front of them, something was shining. They slowly approached, squinting to make out in the darkness. Between the two windows, on the wall, a foot above the ground, was smeared with handwriting, shining in the light of burning torches.
The Chamber of Secrets was opened.
Those who are enemies of the heirs, be wary.
"What's that - hanging underneath?" Ron said, his voice shaky.
They approached cautiously, and Harry almost slipped: there was a large pool of water on the ground. Ron and Hermione grabbed him, and little by little they approached the sign, their eyes fixed on a dark shadow below. The three of them saw what it was at the same time, and jumped backwards in fright, making a splash.
Then they saw the petrified Lady Loris, the janitor's cat, with its tail hanging from the torch holder, its body stiff as a plank, and its eyes wide open. The three of them stood motionless for a few seconds, and then Ron said, "Let's get out of here." "Should we try to salvage—" Harry said not very fluently. "Listen to me," Ron said, "we don't want to be found here. ”
However, it was too late. A low clamor of noise, like thunder in the distance, told them that the feast had just ended. From both ends of the corridor they were in, the sound of hundreds of feet climbing the stairs and the cheerful laughter of people after a full meal could be heard. Then, the students pushed and shoved into the aisle from both ends.
When the person in front saw the upside-down cat, the boisterous and chirping suddenly disappeared. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone in the middle of the hallway, and the students fell silent as they rushed forward to watch the horrific scene.
Harry's lips were dry, he looked at the still and stiff cat, he didn't know what to say to explain, there were only three of them on the scene, it seemed that any superfluous words were so pale and weak, and he also saw Filch walking briskly towards him.
"Three suspects were ruled out. Malfoy under the illusion curse could only comfort himself, he stood by and watched coldly everything in front of him, he had also experienced a ghost carnival with them, he had wanted to get to the scene before the three of them, but he overestimated his speed, he had to spend more energy to maintain the spell, and maybe avoid being detected by Peeves.
"It's time to go. With that in mind, he went back to the place where the ghosts gathered, he didn't have the confidence to be able to maintain this magic in front of so many people without being discovered, Dumbledore was no ordinary student.
"With so many students, the elimination method is really not a good choice. He couldn't help but have a headache, Voldemort's soul fragment was attached to the body of the object, this is the most powerful magic item ever made by a dark wizard, so that he must deal with it with 120,000 points of energy, from the original Ginny's performance, it can be seen that the diary has a strong demagogic power for those who have some problems in their hearts, Voldemort can be said to have insight into people's hearts when he was a student, and he can easily gain the trust of almost everyone, he only needs a few gentle guidance, it is enough to make people open their hearts and let him do whatever he wants.
The first victim was Lady Loris, as he remembered, so he chose to follow the trio on Halloween in the hope of finding some clues, but due to his own negligence and miscalculation of the difficulty of the spell, he missed the first chance to get clues.
"But it's good that they're all excluded. ”
Now that the butterfly effect has begun to play its own role, he will not let go of any suspicious person, if you really want to talk about the problem in your heart, in fact, the iron triangle is not small.
Harry, who was raised in the house of his uncle after his parents died when he was a child, can be said to have been abused since he was a child, and after being admitted to Hogwarts, he reversed and became what wizards called "savior", but he knew that he was just a very ordinary boy, and his talent for magic was decent, maybe a little bit higher?
Some children feel disgusted by the compliments of their parents and elders, which sound harsh to them because they feel that they do not deserve them, and they feel ashamed.
Harry, on the other hand, wanted to prove himself in this shame, not only Quidditch, but also in other ways that he could be worthy of the name of "savior".
Imagine if Riddle in the diary taught him a lot of tricks in magic that he summarized by himself, so that his schoolwork improved by leaps and bounds, maybe the bewitched one would become the protagonist, and of course, it was possible that the sense of justice in his heart could overwhelm these desires, who knows?
Ron, uh, as the youngest brother, he had to be compared to his older brothers, and the same problem as Ginny was that he also had to use the leftover second-hand goods, poverty is one of the elements that can easily destroy a person, and even Harry, who seemed poor at first, was actually a hidden rich man, he had a large inheritance, and he could buy all the snacks he needed in the carriage without care, maybe in a moment, Ron would be jealous of Harry. Like other boys his age, he wanted to be watched, and the Mirror of Eris showed it clearly, but he didn't have the ability to match it, and that was enough to make him feel painful.
Just think, the diary only needs to arouse some jealousy and fear in him to get his hands on it.
People are fragile at times, tenacious at other times, and most people know how to regulate their emotions, so Harry and Ron are still brave and strong most of the time.
As for Hermione, a wizard of Muggle origin, she should have been full of fear and wonder when she first entered the wizarding world, and in the first moments she should have been more than the latter, but when she found out that she was better than many of the children of those wizarding families, the former was not so much, but she was still distressed because she found that she could not handle her relationship with her friends, and that her friends and school rules were always full of conflicts, and her occasional unintentional actions always made people feel proud, which always hindered their friendship, intentionally or unintentionally。
Of course, now under someone's unintentional mistake, there may be more of the usual troubles of girls' adolescence.
Thinking of this, Malfoy let out a sigh of relief, sometimes he wondered if it would be better for him to be a pure-blood worshipper step by step, and then go against Harry and them according to the original trajectory, and then scold Hermione for two more mudbloods, so that the trajectory of history would not be deviated, and he might be in the sixth or seventh grade for two years, and then he would be able to live a pampered life after Voldemort's defeat.
Of course, this was just a thought, he laughed at himself, amused by the thought in his head just now, and his thoughts began to drift away again, and he began to think.