Chapter 8: The Legend of the Chamber of Secrets

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For days on end, the students talked about the attack on Lady Loris, without talking about anything else. Filch's watch makes everyone forget this incident all the time. He often paced around the place where Lady Loris had been killed, as if thinking that the attackers would come back. He scrubbed the writing on the wall with the "Mrs. Skoll Brand All-purpose Miracle Stain Remover", but in vain: the words still shimmered so brightly on the stone wall. When Filch is not patrolling the crime scene, he glares at two red eyes, stealthily hides in the hallway, and then suddenly pounces on the unsuspecting students, trying to find excuses to keep them confined, such as their "gasping too loudly" or "grinning faces".

Harry and Ron were very grateful to Silver for helping them out. It made their relationship a lot better.

"I heard a voice, the same voice I heard last time in Lockhart's office, that voice saying he was going to kill someone. But both Lockhart and Ron said they didn't hear the voice. Harry said.

"Even in the wizarding world, it's not a good sign to hear someone who can't hear it. Muggles see it as a call from death, which we understand as the coming of doom. Silver said.

"Shall we sue SΓΉ Dumbledore and let him deal with it?" Ron said.

"I don't think that's necessary. Because it doesn't make sense. You have Harry say to Professor Dumbledore: Hey, Professor, I heard a voice that no one else could hear, and that voice said to kill someone. This attack must have been the work of that voice. Would Dumbledore believe that?" Silver shook his head.

"So what are we going to do?"

"Naturally, this kind of thing will be handled by professors. We're only second-graders, so we don't have to worry about that. ”

The incident also had a big impact on Hermione. Originally, she had to spend a lot of time reading books in the library every day, but she was always nowhere to be seen for the past two days. It wasn't until the following Wednesday that Silver figured out what she was doing.

Hermione stepped out of the bookshelf. She looked very annoyed.

"Several copies of Hogwarts, a school history have been borrowed," she said, taking a seat next to Silver, "and the queue for those who have been registered to borrow has been in line for two weeks." Alas, I wish I hadn't left my one at home, but there were so many of Lockhart's thick books in the box that I couldn't fit it anymore. ”

"Why do you want to read this book?" asked Silver.

"For the same reason that everyone else wants to see it," said Hermione, "look up the legends about the Chamber of Secrets." ”

"You can ask me about the Chamber of Secrets, and I dare say that there are few Hogwarts in Hogwarts who know better than I do. Silver said.

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Hermione was annoyed.

"But you didn't ask earlier. Silver looked innocent.

They didn't keep their voices down, and the students in the library heard the words "Secret Room". Silver suddenly felt a crowd around himβ€”almost all of them could have gathered around.

Mrs. Pince, the librarian, coughed loudly, "Silver, keep an eye on the order of the library, I'll only give you ten minutes." ”

Silver nodded, and said, "If you want to talk about the Chamber of Secrets, you have to start with the founding of Hogwarts, as you all must know, Hogwarts School was founded more than a thousand years ago - the exact date is uncertain - and the founders were the four greatest witches and wizards of the time. Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. Together, they built the castle away from the prying eyes of Muggles, because at that time, the common people were afraid of magic and witches and witches were persecuted. ”

The audience said that they had known this passage for a long time and strongly demanded that it be to the point. "In the first few years, the founders worked in harmony with each other, looking for young people who showed signs of magic and bringing them to the castle to be cultivated. Slowly, however, a disagreement began between them. The rift between Slytherin and the others grew. Slytherin wanted Hogwarts to be more selective when it came to recruiting students. He believed that magical education should be confined to purely magical families. He was reluctant to accept Muggle-born children, believing them to be unreliable. After a few days, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a heated argument over the issue, and Slytherin left the school. ”

Well, that's all there is to the orthodox historical sources. Silver said.

The audience expressed strong dissatisfaction. Silver said, "Quiet, I'll talk about the Chamber of Secrets below." The secret room is a legend, and no one can be sure whether it really exists, so there is no record in the historical materials. Legend has it that Slytherin built a secret room in the castle that the other founders knew nothing about. According to the legend, Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school. Only the heir can open the Chamber of Secrets, release the horrors inside, and let it purify the school and rid it of all those who don't deserve to learn magic. ”

The story is over. There was silence in the library.

"Of course, the Headmasters of Hogwarts have tried to find them in the school, but nothing has been found. - That's why many people think that the legend of the Chamber of Secrets is nonsense. But there are also many people who believe that the secret room is indeed a zΓ i. Salazar Slytherin was not only a powerful wizard, he was also very good at domesticating monsters and building hidden places. If the Slytherin heirs don't show up, the Chamber of Secrets will never be opened. Silver said.

"Then there is no trace of any wizards?" Someone asked.

"Absolutely not, no headmaster would let a monster in the back room threaten a student. Even if there were even a few traces of it, the corpse of the monster would have been in the medal room at Hogwarts long ago. Silver affirmed.

"Maybe you'll have to use vicious black magic to turn it on. ”

"I've heard that some mechanisms have to be opened at a specific time and by special means. ”

"Also, I heard that the Bincy family once had a secret room, and if you want to open it, you have to smear the blood of most of the heirs of the lineage on the mechanism. ”

……

Mrs. Pince angrily began to shout, "You little bastards, it's been ten minutes! Get me out, get out!"

So the students, who knew they were wrong, ran out of the library in a gloomy way, and continued to discuss along the way.

"What do you think the monster in this chamber looks like? Could it be that there are three heads, each with three eyes. ”

", this monster has five heads"

…… (Do wizards comment on the strength of monsters based on the number of heads?)

"Hermione, come with me to the scene where the cat was attacked, I think I kind of guess I need to go there to confirm it. Silver ran to Hermione as soon as class got out.

They turned a corner and were now at the top of the corridor where the attack had occurred. The scene was the same as it had been that night, except that the petrified cat was no longer hanging from the torch stand, and leaning against an empty chair on the wall with the words "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened".

Silver noticed the glass at the top of the wall, where about twenty spiders were crawling in a panic, as if in a hurry to get out of a small crack in the glass. A long silver thread hung down like a rope, and it seemed that they had climbed up in a hurry and fled out the window.

"The spider is on the run. Silver muttered.

"Remember the water on the ground? Where did it come from? Someone mopped the floor. Silver said.

"Probably right here," Hermione said, walking a few steps past Filch's chair and pointing to Silver, "parallel to this door." She reached for the brass spherical handle, but suddenly retracted her hand as if it had been burned by fire.

"What's wrong?" Silver asked.

"This is the territory of the weeping myrtle, she is very troublesome, you will know when you come in. Hermione said, ignoring the big sign that read "Fault" and pushed the door open.

This is the very dark, dreary place. Beneath a large, stained, cracked mirror is a row of stone pools with peeling surfaces. The floor was wet, and a few candle heads burned low on the holders, and the dim light lit the floor gloomily. The wooden doors of the single rooms were peeling and scratched, and one door had its hinges off and hung waddly there.

Hermione covered her mouth with her hands and walked towards the innermost private room. When she got to the door, she said, "Hey, myrtle." How are you?"

A crying myrtle is floating in the tank of the flush toilet, tugging at a spot on her chin.

"This is the girls' bathroom," she said, looking at Silver with suspicion, "he's not a girl." ”

"Yes," agreed Hermione, "I want to show him how beautiful it is hereβ€”here. ”

She waved vaguely at the dirty old mirror and damp floor.

"Did you see anything before the attack that day?" Silver asked.

Myrtle said exaggeratedly, "At the festival party, Peeves tortured me so badly that I came here to want to kill myself. And then, of course, I remembered that I was- I wasβ€”I wasβ€”...... dead. Silver helped her finish her sentence. The myrtle sobbed in grief, rose into the air, turned around, planted her head down in the toilet, splashed the water on them, and then disappeared. From her muffled sobs, she was hiding somewhere in the toilet seat.

"Sure enough, it's a crying myrtle, as the name suggests. Silver said.

Hermione shrugged her shoulders lazily and said, "Honestly, that's kind of a pleasure for Myrtle...... Come, let's go. ”

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These two days are going to participate in school admissions, so today's update is a little late. Before August 2nd, it may not be able to be updated, so I hope you understand.