Gawain's confusion didn't last long.

Although Dumbledore was silent about what had happened today, he only mentioned that the "Slytherin Chamber" had been opened and that a victim had unfortunately appeared.

"But rest assured, Professor Sprout has been in contact with St. Mungo, who will send a professional therapist and bring an adult mandrake to the school to help the petrified students.

We will also do our best to save the captives. ”

Dumbledore's voice sounded tired.

He also did not disclose the identity of the victims.

But before dinner, Fawkes brought a letter from Professor Dumbledore to Gawain, hoping that he would go to the Headmaster's office on the eighth floor in the evening.

"Jane, can you help me look up some information?"

Before going to the principal's office, Gawain asked Hermione, who was going to the library, to hand over a small roll of parchment.

He grabbed the Weasley brothers, who were sneaking around on the map, and whispered a few words.

"Rest assured, leave it to us. ”

"Fred and George will always please you!"

The twin brothers laughed and high-fived.

In this regard, they are always particularly energetic.

Up the stairs, past the tattered tapestry that the silly Barnabas wizard wanted to train the trolls to dance, Gawain walked to the headmaster's office.

"Cockroach pile. ”

He felt a little subtle in his command.

Whenever he talks about it, he thinks of the image of Dumbledore in the school hospital when he was holding a moving cockroach and biting off its head.

"Good evening, the headmaster is waiting for you. ”

The strange-looking stone lion said.

They moved out of the way, revealing oak doors.

"Professor, I'm Gawain White. ”

Gawain said after knocking lightly on the door.

"Please come in. ”

He pressed the handle and pushed the door open.

In Gawain's mind, the principal's office has hardly changed. Dumbledore sat behind a large desk with a number of delicate silverwares.

They tinkled and rose up as a white cloud.

Maybe it's a little different.

- Dumbledore looked even more tired.

"Gawain, come and sit down, we always need a hot cup of tea in such weather. ”

With a flick of the white wizard's finger, the teapot naturally lifted itself up and began to pour the tea.

One spoonful of sugar, two spoonfuls of milk.

"Gawain, I think you must have a lot of questions for me. At the same time, I have something to ask you, don't I?"

Dumbledore took out the small jar from last time, and he didn't know if it was intentional, so he stuffed it in front of Gawain.

"Tom Riddle was a student of mine, and he was so obsessed with the dark arts that he chose to pursue it after graduation. Of course, I'm sure you've heard about his later identity. ”

Gawain nodded. Riddle later hid the name so deeply that he nicknamed himself.

- "Rearview Mirror".

"Phew, it's Voldemort. ”

Shaking his head, Gawain stopped himself from thinking further. After learning the name, he did spend a lot of energy to inquire.

"Where the Slytherin chambers are, even I haven't been able to find out. But I'm sure it's a basilisk hidden there. As I made my way to the fourth floor, Fox reminded me that it wasn't too late. ”

Dumbledore habitually raised his wand and quickly lowered it, snapping his fingers instead.

From a silver jug on the table, white smoke rose in the form of a giant snake. It lunged at Gawain, only to dissipate abruptly.

This saved Gawain some effort, although it would make Hermin feel a little regretful and irritable.

"I trapped it in a separate pipe on the third floor, but before I arrived, it had turned a student into stone and taken one person away. ”

The White Wizard's head was lowered, and there was nothing more guilty for a headmaster than not being able to protect his students.

The white smoke took on the appearance of two students.

Gawain felt his heart be pounded suddenly, because the girl who was turned into a stone statue, he not only knew, but also knew very well.

- Penelope.

She was of ordinary origin, and it was true that she could have been targeted by the basilisk, but fortunately, I don't know why she was just turned into a stone statue.

The identity of the other person seemed a little strange.

Bress Zabini.

He was a Slytherin through and through, a champion of purebloods. Gawain suspects that he doesn't even care about many of his fellow pure-bloods.

"The reason he came to Hogwarts, as you might think, was for the Philosopher's Stone. He wanted a body so much, a body that could breathe, walk, and feel things.

Such a powerful obsession will always make people short-sighted and vulnerable, easy to defeat. ”

Dumbledore took a sip of tea and looked at Gawain.

"Professor, why you?"

Gawain sensed something strange.

"Why do you say so much all of a sudden? You're smart, Gawain, smarter than I could have expected.

Instead of using riddles or hints that sound complicated like those books say, I have you to investigate and discover the truth in the same complex way...

Why not just be honest?"

Dumbledore smiled slyly.

"You don't need to be nervous, except for our first meeting, I haven't used the Celestial Technique on you. Of course, I need to apologize for that time. ”

His expression was very sincere.

made Gawain unable to bear to accuse at all.

"And I have received letters from the school board that they would like me to give an explanation of the secret room tomorrow, accompanied by Mr. Malfoy.

I don't think the clever Lucius will miss this precious opportunity to remove me from the headmaster's seat. ”

Dumbledore said lightly, as if it wasn't him who was going to be stripped of the Headmaster, but some undisputed Tree Protector.

But everyone knows.

Hogwarts without Dumbledore...

Not even Hogwarts.

"What do you want me to do?"

Gawain felt a little messy.

He didn't know why Professor Dumbledore was talking to him about these things, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"On the contrary, I don't want you to do anything, Mr. White. It was just a normal tea party and we were just chatting.

But I believe that when it comes to the real critical moment, you will definitely not sit idly by. ”

Dumbledore blinked, as if he had seen through Gawain. But Gawain responded to Dumbledore with the same sly smile, he didn't have such a good arrangement.

Gawain could guess that Professor Dumbledore must have made a lot of arrangements to make sure that even if he wasn't at school, there would still be someone who could fix them.

But he didn't want to be a safety net.

"Professor, you'd better solve your problem. ”

Gawain thought with a smile.

Penelo's revenge must also be avenged, and it cannot be left overnight.

What kind of fool would hurt a O.W.Ls-year-old student!

"Since I was deprived of the principal, it was because of that basilisk and the secret room. So just get rid of them before he leaves Hogwarts?"

Gawain's thinking has always been direct.

It is true that the Chamber of Secrets may be protected and hidden by heavy spells, and the basilisk is a nuisance.

But that was 1991.

"The Repair Charm should solve the problem, right? Probably? Or... Put less?"

Thinking about the amount of saltpeter that the twins had helped buy, Gawain suddenly felt a little stressed.