The morning of Christmas was very cold, and there was a white expanse everywhere, and at this time last year, Lawrence and the twins must have had a snowball fight at this time, but this year, the twins were studying carefully by the fire in the Gryffindor saloon, Lawrence looked at today's Daily Prophet, and through the cover of the newspaper, he looked at the newly made map,

"Any important news?" Fred asked casually, writing on a brand new piece of parchment,

"No," Lawrence replied with a quick glance over the headlines of the newspaper, "......No,"

"I'm looking forward to tonight's Christmas dinner." George said hopefully, "That's probably the one thing I'm looking forward to the most this year."

"It's okay, next year is coming." Lawrence said, "You'll soon have something new to look forward to."

"For example, the final exam?" Fred quipped, "Or maybe it's a school with only pure-blood students?"

"Who knows?" Lawrence said that he looked at the map in Ginny. Weasley's tink, "Maybe the professors will catch the killer before then?"

"I hope so." George said he pulled out "Traveling with the Zombies" and said, "I don't believe a fifth-grade O.W.L. would do anything like that." (Note 1)

"I don't believe it either," Lawrence shrugged, "but I believe in the final exam."

"Oh, that's enough." Fred complained, "Let's start the dinner soon."

The hall of the Christmas dinner looked very beautiful, and it had a strong Christmas atmosphere, except for the two large Christmas trees hung with frost, the ceiling hung with heavy friezes, the mistletoe decorated with criss-crosses, and the roof fell from time to time Snowflakes fell from time to time, and Deng Buliduo sang several songs, and the atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic.

"Hehe, it's time to test the results of my hard work." Fred took out his wand and cast a spell on Percy's prefect badge, successfully turning it into a pin, and everyone laughed except for Percy, who didn't know why.

"Oh, that's amazing." George was satisfied, "Would you like some more Christmas pudding?" Harry."

"Good...... Oh, no, Hermione." Harry was about to say yes, but he and Ron were pulled out by Hermione, and Lawrence and the twins looked at each other.

"Looks like they really have some little secrets, right?" George glanced at the three departing men,

"Do you think it has something to do with the Chamber of Secrets?" Fred asked,

"Perhaps?" Lawrence replied, and after they had eaten the rest of their meal, they returned to Gryffindor's saloon contentedly.

Lawrence took out the map to watch, but saw that he saw a thrilling situation, in the abandoned girls' toilet on the second floor, there were two small black dots, one was Ginny, the other was Hermione, Lawrence got up without saying a word, at this time, the small black dot representing Ginny was slowly leaving the girls' toilet, and she was walking towards another corridor, there was another small black dot in that corridor - Luna. Lovegood, Lawrence put away the map,

"Hey, what's wrong?" George asked,

"Find someone." Lawrence replied as he walked out of the saloon and took out the map, and he found that Luna. Lovegood's dot is walking in the direction of the Sita Owl House,

"Not attacked? I think it's just passing by." Lawrence breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't manage to meet Ginny, but reached the girls' restroom first,

There was still standing water everywhere, except for a hidden door, the rest of the room was empty, Lawrence knocked on the door, but there was no response inside, Lawrence took out the map, confirmed that Hermione's dot was indeed in front of him,

"Hermione?" Lawrence pushed the door open, and was surprised to find that the door was unlocked, but it was stuck by something, and only some gaps were exposed.

Lawrence looked up at the gap between the top of the door and the ceiling, although it was wide, but it was a little too high, so Lawrence struggled to squeeze his upper body into the gap between the door, and then he saw a strange scene,

Hermione. Granger...... Or a stuffed cat man, if there was no map, Lawrence would have thought he was mistaken, her feet stuck on the door, leaning on an empty cauldron, face down, clutching a mirror in her hand,

"Damn." Lawrence retracted his body and punched the wall with a hammer, he raised his wand and thought, the riot of the big spiders on the Hogwarts Express, roaming the castle in the middle of the night, and the explosion experiment again and again......

"Call the Divine Guard."

Lawrence put away his wand and waited quietly, after a while, Dunburydo arrived with him and Professor McGonagall, Dunburlido waved his wand, the door of the toilet jumped open, Hermione floated slowly, Dunburydo looked at the empty cauldron, he sniffed the residue,

"Polyjuice potion?" Deng Buliduo raised an eyebrow, "I didn't know that the second grade would teach such a difficult potion?"

"Ugh...... You might ask Snape?" Lawrence didn't understand, either, "But I think something might have gone wrong...... will become ...... Cats?"

"Well, to be honest, Lawrence, if there hadn't been an attack, I would probably have laughed." Dunbury looked at Hermione's fluffy cat face and said, "But I suppose you'll keep it a secret from Miss Granger, right?"

"Uh......" Lawrence was speechless as Harry and Ron rushed into the girls' bathroom, and they looked a little alarmed when they saw so many people standing in the toilet.

"Professor McGonagall, please take Miss Granger to the hospital room," Dunburydo said, and Professor McGonagall nodded solemnly, "Lawrence, Harry, and Ron, please come with me."

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Dunburido led them to his office, and Lawrence found that the originally beautiful phoenix Fawkes had turned into a fluffy young bird, which was trying to hold its wings.

"The last time I saw him, he was so small and bare?" Without thinking, Harry said that Lawrence understood that Harry had seen Fawkes just come back from the ashes (Note 2)

"Oh, yes. I've given him a little help," said Dunbulido, as he conjured up a few chairs, "and he'll soon be back to his original beauty, so sit down."

"You've all seen it, your friend, Hermione. Miss Granger has been attacked," said Dunburydo mildly, "but fortunately, she was only 'petrified'......"

Harry opened his mouth to speak, but closed his mouth again, and Ron's face turned pale, and he was relieved to hear this,

"I probably know what's going on, Professor." Lawrence said, and both Harry and Ron looked at Lawrence in surprise, "It's a basilisk."

"But the basilisk's eye is lethal," Dunbulidore said, "and no one was killed in several attacks."

"But there was that time fifty years ago." Ron shouted, and he noticed that both Dunburydo and Lawrence were looking at him, blushing, and said, "It's Malfoy......

"Oh, I think we know what you've done with Polyjuice Potion," Dunburydo said with a smile, "Go on, Lawrence, I think you'll say that, there must be some justification."

"I was very confused at first, because neither the cat nor Colin died, so I thought it was some unknown dark magic, and it wouldn't be strange if the professor couldn't break the spell," Lawrence said, and everyone listened to him quietly.

"Until Justin. Finreli and Nick, who was almost headless, were attacked, and I realized that this might not be something that wizards can do, so I went to look it up." Lawrence explains, "Eye contact with the basilisk is a lethal condition."

"Eye contact." Deng Bulido thought about it, and he understood,

"So Justin came into contact with the basilisk through Nick, who was almost headless?" Ron asked, and Lawrence nodded,

"Lady Loris is the water of the earth," Harry said loudly,

"Colin is the camera," Lawrence added, "I think Hermione took the form of a cat and was reluctant to open the door, so the basilisk looked in through the gap between the door and the ceiling, and Hermione happened to make eye contact with the basilisk from the mirror in her hand."

"Very good, then I want to ......" Dunbury smiled, and before he could finish speaking, the office door was violently pushed open, Lucius. Malfoy walked into the office haughtily, followed by an anxious, unkempt short, stocky wizard with a round top hat, a pinstriped suit and a bright red tie, and Hagrid following them with a look of horror, his huge body cowering, Professor McGonagall patting his arm to comfort him—his shoulders were too high to snap.

"Cornelius. Fudge? Demon...... Minister of Magic?" Ron stammered at the stocky wizard, but no one responded to his words,

"Bad situation, Dunburydo, sorry to bother on Christmas Day," Connelly. Fudge said in a hurried voice, "The Ministry of Magic has just received word that the school has been attacked again, this is the fourth time that a non-pure-blood wizard has been attacked, and we must do something about it."

"Yes, Fudge," Dunburidor said firmly, looking at the Minister of Magic with blue eyes, "but I don't think it will be helpful to take Hagrid away."

"You have to understand that Hagrid's record is not in his favor, in fact, the previous incident ......" Connelly. Fudge only then noticed that a student was present, and he closed his mouth and did not continue.

"I didn't, Professor," Hagrid pleaded to Dunbury, "really, I swear."

"I trust Hagrid, Fudge, I absolutely trust him," Dunburidor said, "Actually, we already have some clues......

"Actually, it's us, not you, Dunbulido," Lucius. Malfoy lazily interrupted Dunbury's words,

"Oh?" Dunburydo looked at Malfoy, his blue eyes like flames were dancing,

"I have a suspension order here, and you can find the signatures of our twelve trustees on it," Malfoy said cheerfully, smiling smirkedly, "We don't think you can stop the situation anymore, and the headmaster may have to be replaced before we continue to lose the 'precious' non-pure-blooded little wizard."

"Oh, no, Mr. Malfoy," Fudge said in a panic, "if even Dunbulido is gone, then who can stop it?"

"That remains to be seen," Malfoy smiled, "but our school board agreed......

"How much did you give them?" Hagrid roared gruffly, "Bribe or intimidation?"

"The jailers of Azkaban won't like your attitude." Malfoy smiled maliciously and said,

"Hagrid, calm down," said Dunbullie, "since the school board thinks I should leave, I think I should do this......

"No! Professor." Hagrid shouted,

「…… But," Dunburydo's eyes lit up and he exuded an astonishing spirit, and he said clearly word by word, "I only really leave when no one at Hogwarts needs me, and when someone needs help, he can still get help, as long as he- remembers."

"That's admirable," Malfoy bowed, "we'll miss the way you managed, and hopefully your successor will be effective in stopping this ...... Uh...... 'murder', isn't it, McGonagall?"

Professor McGonagall didn't answer, and Lawrence could sense Professor McGonagall's anger, but she didn't speak.

"Okay, I guess it's time for us to go?" Malfoy said he was the first to leave the principal's office, and so did Dunbury. Fudge fiddled with the top hat in his hand as he waited for Hagrid to go first, and Hagrid suddenly stood there before leaving, and said loudly,

"If anyone wants to know anything, follow the spider, well, I'm done." Hagrid said this without a clue, and strode away, Connelly. Apparently confused, Fudge looked at the three students suspiciously, then shifted his gaze to Professor McGonagall, and then shook his head away.

"I think you three must go back to bed," Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said solemnly, "It's been over twelve for a long time, and I'll take you back."

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Author's Note: Hermione must have carried a mirror with her, otherwise how would she know that she had become a cat just by looking at her hands? In the past few days, I can only write little by little for the midterm exam. No surprise, in a few chapters, I'm going to fight the basilisk...... Probably, right?

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Note 1: o.w.L: Common Witchcraft Level Test

Note 2: In the original book, Harry first met Fawkes after Justin was attacked, when Fawkes was reborn in front of Harry.

Note 3: In the book, which was also the fourth attack, both Dunbulido and Hagrid were kicked out of school, and I was four months ahead of schedule.