Chapter Ninety-Nine: Ginny and the Petrified Lady Loris
They appeared in the hallway a minute later, and Ron led the way down the steps to the foyer, looking more hungry for food than finding Peeves to find out what was going on. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But Harry paused, and he staggered onto the stone wall, listening intently, looking around, squinting up and down the dimly lit aisles, and holding a finger to his lips to tell them to be quiet.
"Harry, what's wrong with you?" asked Hermione, worried.
"Don't talk about that voice yet"
"Listen!" Harry said eagerly, but Ron and Hermione looked at him in a daze.
Vio knew that he heard the Basilisk Harry was a Parseltongue who could communicate with snakes effortlessly, which also meant that there was a huge basilisk moving around them, and Vio looked around, quietly looking for the angle and position where the basilisk might attack people.
Harry was staring at the ceiling as she was, he thought Vio could hear it, but he didn't have time to rejoice that the voice was moving, moving upwards.
"Get this way," Harry shouted, and the leader ran up the stairs and into the foyer.
The laughter of Halloween feasts echoed in the auditorium, and nothing else could be heard.
Harry ran up the marble staircase at full speed to the second floor, Vio had already prepared, so he didn't pull down too much distance, behind her, Ron and Hermione stumbled after him, gasping for breath and asking incomprehensibly, "Harry, what are we doing"
"Shh
Harry pricked up his ears and held his breath.
"It's going to kill!" he then shouted, desperately climbing up the stairs on either side of the stairs, still listening to the sound of his heavy footsteps.
As they galloped around the third floor, without stopping, they finally turned a corner and came into an empty hallway.
"Harry, what the hell is going on?" Ron said, wiping the sweat from his face. "I didn't hear anything"
Hermione suddenly gasped and pointed to the bottom of the hallway.
"Look!"
On the wall in front of them, something was shining.
They slowly approached, squinting to make out in the darkness, and Vio drew his wand and whispered, "Fluorescent flickering." ”
Harry was about to tell her not to do that, it might startle her, but he was attracted to the light.
Standing between the two windows, on the wall a foot above the ground, scribbled with handwriting, shimmering in the fluorescent glow of the flaming torches and the wand raised forward.
The Chamber of Secrets was opened.
Those who are enemies of the heirs, be wary.
There seems to be blood-red liquid dripping from the last letter, but it has actually dried up on the wall.
"What's that hanging underneath?" Ron asked, groaning and trembling.
Vio's heart was pounding, she didn't want to see any bloody scenes, it was supposed to be just petrified scenes, but the row of unknown red fonts made her afraid.
They cautiously approached, Harry walking in the lead, and almost slipped: there was a large pool of water on the ground.
Then Hermione grabbed him, and Vio grabbed Hermione's robe.
Little by little, they approached the slogan, their eyes fixed on a dark shadow below.
The three of them saw what it was at the same time, and Ron pounced on it, making a splash.
The group photo was made up of two things.
Mrs. Loris, Filch's cat the janitor, had its tail hanging from the torch holder, and its body was stiff like a board soaked in embalmed paint.
The round cat's eyes didn't turn, like two beautiful marbles, staring straight at them.
Underneath its head, a girl sits with her knees folded against a wall, with some dark shaded areas in her hair. Vio didn't know why there was a feeling that it was blood dripping from the slogan on the wall.
Her eyes were closed, her expression was serene, and she looked as if she was asleep. It's just that there is a strong smell of blood on his body, which is very nastic.
Ron hugged her and kept shouting, "Ginny, Ginny, wake up, is she dead, why doesn't she move?"
Hermione crouched down as well, anxiously reminding Ron not to hurt Ginny as he shook it.
Harry froze there, his mouth dry, but he seemed to have a lot to say, he had meant to tell Ron that he could have Vio go to see if Ginny was dead, after all, she had probed Hermione's heartbeat, and he had wanted to say if he wanted to take Lady Loris to rescue it;
A low clamor of noise, like thunder in the distance, told them that the feast had just ended.
From the ends of the corridor where they were, 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 poured into the aisle from both ends.
When the people in front saw the upside-down cat and Ginny Weasley sitting on the ground, the boisterous, chirping sound disappeared.
Harry and Vio stood alone in the middle of the hallway, and the students fell silent and crowded to watch the horrific scene.
In the silence, someone spoke loudly.
"Enemies of the heirs, be on the lookout! Next is you, Mudblood!" is Pansy Parkinson.
She huddled in front of the crowd, with a different composure and mockery than her usual frivolity, and looked straight at Vio with reddish eyes, as if she were a mudblood.
Everyone thought she was talking about Hermione, but it suddenly occurred to Vio that her own soul was the so-called Mudblood.
Draco was next to her, a wicked smile on his face, but the smile on his face froze when he saw the cat hanging there still.
"What's going on here, what's going on?"
Filch was undoubtedly drawn to Malfoy's shouts, and he squeezed his shoulders through the crowd.
Then he saw Lady Loris, who stumbled back a few steps and grabbed his face with his hand in horror.
"What's wrong with my cat, my cat, Lady Loris?" He screamed.
At that moment, his bulging eyes saw Harry.
"You!" He screamed, "You! you killed my cat! you killed it! I want to kill you! I want to."
"Filch!"
Dumbledore arrived on the scene, followed by many other teachers. Vio hurriedly avoided it.
In the blink of an eye, he walked past Harry, Ron, and Hermione and untied Lady Loris from the torch holder.
Ron and Harry had already lifted Ginny by themselves, and managed to stand some distance away from Lady Loris.
Even though Ginny didn't speak, didn't open her eyes, Vio knew she was awake, her hands unconsciously clutching at her robe, already crumpled.
Hermione noticed too, but her mouth opened and closed, and she glanced at Dumbledore and then at Ron, but didn't speak.
Come with me, Filch. He said to Filch, "And you, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger, Miss Santriel. ”
Lockhart stepped forward in a hurry.
"My office is closest to here, and the principal is upstairs, you can."
"Thank you, Gildero. Dumbledore said.
The silent crowd parted to both sides and let them pass.
Lockhart was very excited, and he hurried after Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall and Snape followed. (To be continued.) "Elegy for Glory" only represents the author's point of view, if its content is found to be in violation of national laws and conflicts, please delete it, the position is only committed to providing a healthy and green reading platform.
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