So the plot began to change slightly, and Harry finally began to evolve closer to the snake courtyard under the guidance of Opal intentionally or unintentionally (huh?). ）。

I really think that Siris and Lupin in the third grade will be very tragic, as for the professor...... He's always been a fighter in the coffee table, ahem, I definitely don't mean to gloat. (Crowd: Who believes!) ）

But for now, we still have to continue the plot, anyway, Lockhart's cup is already doomed, but no one should want to intercede for him, right?

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grail

King (reversed): Negative news.

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Hogwarts Library

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"Harry, what the hell have you been up to lately?"

Time flies by in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, nearly three weeks have passed since the accident-prone April.

Ron, on the other hand, managed to block his friend in the library, and he was indignant.

"I'm looking for information......"

In response to Ron's questioning, Harry just smiled bitterly and raised the "Guide to Dangerous Creatures" in his hand, the place where the book was being opened was obviously torn off, "In fact, I have been looking for relevant magical creature materials all this time, but I still can't find any clues. ”

Now he really misses the time when Hermione, the "jack-of-all-trades", was still around, and he knew that in the past, when he encountered this kind of thing that needed to check information, it was not his turn to go into battle. Basically, if there was any problem, just go and ask Hermione, and in two or three days at the latest, she would tell them the correct answer.

Only now...... As the unicorn said, everything is on their own.

"Harry, don't you think you're going a little too far?"

Ron just shrugged his shoulders and closed the book in Harry's hand with a loud voice, "Take it easy." You must know that the mandrake will mature in a few days, as long as the potion that de-petrification is configured, then those victims who have been petrified can directly tell us who the murderer is. It's a lot better than looking for a needle in a haystack here, isn't it? ”

After a pause, he added, "And I think it's more important to have the final exams on June 1 -- next Wednesday -- than to find the murderer?" ”

"Ron, you don't know ......"

Although he knew that Ron's words were good, Harry still frowned a little when he put the book back in his hand, "...... I'm always ...... How to put it, I always have a bad premonition. ”

"Bad premonition?"

Ron just rolled his eyes, "I don't think there's anything worse than the final exam, except for another person getting petrified." Do you think Hermione would go crazy if she woke up and found out that her final exams were coming up? ”

“……”

Looking at his optimistic friend, who had no sense of crisis at all, Harry opened his mouth and still didn't say anything, just sighed and followed Ron out of the library.

But......

"Ginny?"

As he was leaving the library, Harry caught a glimpse of a girl standing around the corner looking in his direction, and after recognizing his friend's younger sister at the time, he raised his hand to say hello to her, and then walked over to Ron, "Is there anything wrong with me?" ”

“…… That ......"

For some reason, Ginny looked very nervous, and her hands hanging down at her side tightened her grip on her robe, and she looked like Dobby, the house-elf who had been revealing her secrets to him in the past.

"Tell me quickly, Harry and I have something to do."

Ron looked at her and said, although his words were a little unkind, but compared to his usual voice, it was also soft.

"I have something to tell you."

Finally, after making sure that there was no one around, Ginny muttered, carefully avoiding Harry's gaze.

"What's the matter?"

“……”

Ginny didn't seem to find the right words, just opened her mouth but didn't make any sound.

Instead, Harry stepped forward thoughtfully, and lowered his voice so that only Ginny and Ron could hear, "Is it about the Chamber of Secrets?" What do you see? Or is it that someone is behaving abnormally? ”

Ginny took a deep breath, and was about to speak, when footsteps came from the hallway—Lockhart, dressed as always like a peacock—and Ginny fled in the other direction like a frightened rabbit.

"Oh! Damn it! ”

Ron cursed, and was about to catch up when Lockhart was already waving to them from afar down the hallway, "Good morning, dear children. The danger is gone, but it's time for us to go to class, isn't it? Of course, if you're pestering me to ask me for an autograph, I'd be happy to spare a little time to accommodate your request. ”

“……”

Covering the glasses on the bridge of his nose with one hand, Harry began to think seriously about what he should do to bring down his teacher without a trace—at least, like the Slytherin students, to keep a certain peacock away from the usual subconscious choice.

So sure enough, he still had to find the famous twin brother once, although he didn't want to teach others a lesson, but some people really didn't know what it meant to be "in moderation"!

Harry, who sighed and followed Lockhart to the classroom with a reluctant Ron, looked thoughtfully in the direction of the second floor as he passed the hallway stairs.

Schoolgirl who died fifty years ago, secret room, crying myrtle......

The bathroom on the second floor seemed to be hiding quite a few secrets, and it would be better to make an excuse with Ron later.

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Hogwarts House Corridor

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"Opal, do you see Pansy?"

At the end of the morning's lessons, Opal and Draco were stopped in the hallway by Blaise.

"Did something happen?"

Draco couldn't help frowning because he was a little upset about being intercepted halfway, but seeing Blaise's anxious look, he just asked like this in the end.

[Hasn't Pansy always been with you?] ]

Opal was a little stunned by Brace's culture, [Didn't she leave with you for class this morning?] Why didn't she come with you? ]

"It's because we walked together in the morning, but halfway she said she was going to leave for a while, and then the situation in the class was more chaotic and I didn't pay attention, but now I didn't find her when school ended, so I wanted to come and ask."

After saying this, Blaise also realized the seriousness of this, "Is she missing?" ”

"Don't jump to conclusions."

A frown stopped Blaise's conclusion, and Draco clearly wanted to start from the other side, "Do you remember when Pansy left?" ”

"Between the second period, we were in the history of magic at that time."

[History of Magic is on the corner of the third floor, the nearest bathroom......]

Opal looked at Blaise and Draco after saying this, and sighed in compromise, [Anyway, let's go over and take a look first.] But I really don't think Pansy's psychology would go to the women's bathroom in the hallway on the second floor. ]

Semi-abandoned aside, the fact that Myrtle lives there is enough to make Pansy, who doesn't see her brother very well, shy away. Brace is absolutely concerned at the moment.

Pansy had mentioned before that she had a bad feeling every time she saw the half-abandoned bathroom.

Brace, who was the first to stride towards the second floor, frowned and recalled, "But what to say...... I've been seeing Pansy up the stairs near the second floor lately, and she's been visibly distracted when she talks to me lately...... But every time I asked carefully, she was always unimpressed......"

After hearing Blaise's words, Opal and Draco looked at each other.

"What do you think?"

[It's a bit like "Imperious.Curse", but Pansy doesn't seem to have provoked any enemies who would use the three Unforgivable Curses on her, right?] ]

Unconsciously, Opal thought of the black journal that Pansy was supposed to have taken - although she didn't know why Pansy had the idea of touching the journal, but from what she knew about the consciousness that inhabited the journal, it was a 100% chance that such an act would be true.

Of course, Opal couldn't say that anyway, because it would lead to a series of troubles. So in the end, she just walked up the stairs to the end of the corridor on the second floor with Draco and Brace.

Then, the three of them were stunned together.

Although it was noon, the light in the corridor was not very good because it was a shady place.

But it is precisely because of this that the words written on the wall in the blood red that seem to be shining with light will seem so abrupt and terrifying.

"Their bones will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever."

As if to foreshadow something extremely bad, or to prove the truth of the horrific message, on the floor of the corridor beneath the lines of blood, two school crests were quietly placed—the Slytherin Silver Serpent and the Gryffindor Golden Lion.

It was the school crest that belonged to Pansy Parkinson and Ginny Weasley.

"No!"

Knowing too much about the meaning of this ominous message, Brace's face turned pale at the moment, as if he wanted to grasp something, and leaned against the wall of the corridor beside him, "Opal, Draco...... Tell me it's not true......"

[We can't jump to conclusions until things are clear.] ]

Glancing calmly at the wall, Opal, who had judged that the strange paint used for writing did not seem to be completely dry, turned to look at Draco, who was also pale, [Draco, could you please contact Professor Snape?] What we need most now is the help from our teachers. Blaise and I will stay here, sorry for you. ]

It should be said that they are indeed Slytherin students, at least they all kept their cool and did not lose their temper. It looks like if you want to go about normal things going forward, you should have no problem at all.

"Okay, I know."

Nodding, Draco paused slightly as he turned to leave, "You and Blaise need to be careful. ”

[Rest assured.] ]

After waving at Draco, Opal turned his head to look at Blaise after confirming Draco's departure, "Are you going to take a break here for a while, or are you going to come with me to the bathroom?" ]

“…… Would love to stay here though......"

Weakly waving his hand, Blaise closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening them again, looking much better than at the beginning, "But some things can't be confirmed without confirmation." And Opal ...... Do you know something? ”

[It seems that our opinions are unified.] ]

Nodding his head, Opal led the way deeper into the hallway, [All I can say I know is that I'm not sure yet, but the clues are there.] ]

"Is there only one thing left to verify?"

Brace quickly followed, and then walked forward to Opal's side, intentionally or unintentionally.

[Well, that's all that's left to verify.] ]

Pushing open the door to the bathroom on the second floor, Opal found that the weeping myrtle was not inside—it seemed to be out, [after all, it had been so long, and Pansy's 'hunch' provided a lot of details.] ]

"So now......"

After following Opal to carefully inspect the furnishings of the bathroom on one side, Brace looked like he had recovered, and he was now showing a thoughtful look, "You think the secret room is here?" ”

[Not to think, but to affirm.] ]

Opal pointed to one of the sliding sinks where the bathroom leaned against the wall, [Although Hogwarts was originally a castle inhabited by nobles, I don't think the nobles would be bored enough to make such decorations.] ]

Opal was referring to a brass faucet facing the sanitary cubicle, on the side of which a snake was depicted in a very realistic relief.

"But can't it be a prank by some people?"

Brace made a different opinion.

[If there really is someone who has done his duty and deliberately consumed magic power to change ordinary items into magic items for the sake of mischief, then I will admit it.] ]

Opar just shrugged his shoulders at Brace's opinion, [Thinking about it in another way, since they have already claimed to be descendants of Slytherin, no one should be mistaken about Slytherin's iconic animals, right?] Isn't it strange that Slytherin's iconic animals can appear near the Ravenclaw quarters? Keep in mind that Ravenclaw and Slytherin dormitories and usually activity areas are not adjacent. ]

After pondering for a while, Brace agreed with Opal's idea, but then a new question came to mind: "Even if this is really a secret room mechanism, how can it be opened?" ”

[If I'm not mistaken, it's crawler.] ]

After carefully examining the brass faucet, Opal sighed, [It seems that there is no way for us to continue to deal with it now.] ]

Although she can understand the speech of any animal and can communicate, it is because of her title of "Son of Gaia", which can only be done directly through magic and mind sensing. She couldn't do it if she was to speak the language of an animal alone.

Fifty years ago, Riddle would have been the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and he wouldn't have been wrong - although I don't know why Riddle had long ago said that he had graduated from the Durmstrang School in Germany, but that kind of thing didn't matter.

"Crawling?"

Brace's brow continued to lock immediately, "Is it really that Harry Potter who made these things?" ”

[If it had been Potter, I don't think it would have been possible to involve all the Weasleys with the lion's emotional intelligence.] ]

With a wink, Opal vetoed Blaise's idea, [though I do know he seems to be looking into it.] If we brought the Weasleys kids in this time, it would save us a lot of effort. ]

"Stalking them?"

Almost immediately, Blaise reacted and nodded approvingly, "That's a good idea." But with the IQ of the stupid lions of Gryffindor...... It's better to give them a hint. Otherwise, I hate to wonder if they'll find it. ”

After all, they also found out here because of Pansy's previous prompts and this coincidence.

[Tell Draco what happened, I have no objection to him coming.]

Satisfied with Brace's moment, Opal left the bathroom first, [and I'll take care of things on the Gryffindor side.] Either way, Pansy had to be rescued. ]

"No problem."

Brace would never raise any objection to Opal's last remarks.