So Nagini finally reappeared after missing most of the volume, although this appearance image was terrible, covering his face

But how to say it? I met Harry so quickly, Nagini actually has the aura of the protagonist too, hey!

In the face of Harry, Xiaolong and Brace's poisonous tongues are really restrained, that is, because of Opal's presence, otherwise I estimate that if these three people are alone, I am afraid that they will definitely fight halfway, or simply say that these three people will not be able to get together at all, huh......

Next, according to the plot, it can be regarded as a small climax, and Riddle's "past" should also be deciphered, Opar, you wait to take it!

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Knight (upright): Approaching the target.

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Hogwarts: Second floor bathroom

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The rendezvous with Opal's "companion" was far smoother than Harry had imagined, and of course, the so-called "companion" was not beyond Harry's guess - the proud and reserved Draco and a dark-skinned boy whose name he didn't know was often seen next to Opal, as if it was called "Brace", right?

Pansy, who used to walk with Opal often, is now in a secret room where her life and death are uncertain.

Of course, Harry was well aware that the reason why the round was so calm was partly because Opal seemed to have said something about it in advance, but also because Ron, who was hostile to Slytherin, was not present.

If Ron had been there at the moment...... Merlin is on top, and it's definitely not a good idea.

Harry couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it, and then he thought of Opal's sneak attack on Lockhart's office, and finally smoothed out the little knot in his heart.

Because he now knew exactly what Opal was doing - regardless of Ron's combat effectiveness, the negative effects of the outbreak of infighting he had brought about alone would be enough to make the operation fail.

Following Opal into the bathroom on the second floor, and following her guidance to the brass faucet carved with snakes, Harry pushed his glasses helplessly and smiled wryly when he noticed the disdainful glances of Draco and Brace on the side.

If it weren't for the fact that he was the only one who could crawl and speak now, I believe Opal wouldn't have let him join the group in the first place - before he even started, he could vaguely feel the rejection from Draco and Brace.

"Speaking of which, what about Myrtle?"

In the end, he had nothing to say.

"What's the use of that Ravenclaw ghost here?"

Draco only scoffed at Harry's question, "I was sent away long before you came. But Opal, why did you delay so long? It can't be embarrassed by those stupid lions, right? ”

"Can they embarrass Opal at their level?"

Although Brace's attitude was still friendly, the superiority and contempt for Gryffindor in his words could still be felt, "Surely our chief is soft-hearted again, right?" ”

Chief? What does that mean?

Hearing the incomprehensible words, Harry's gaze flashed behind the lenses.

[Am I not trying to avoid trouble?] It's just a pity that Lockhart is so uncooperative. ]

Opal just shrugged his shoulders at Brace's words, [I was going to ask the others for a treat, but I didn't expect Potter and Weasley to come to Lockhart's office, so I put down Weasley and brought Potter over.] ]

"Aha? You took down the Weasleys? ”

Blaise's eyes lit up, and he glanced up and down at Opal, "I can actually stimulate you to take the initiative, it seems that that Weasley is really capable." ”

"Hmph, the shame among that nobleman is only good at this, and it's normal that Opal won't be able to stand it."

Draco reacted with a contemptuous "I understand" that made Harry's teeth itch.

[Alright, you two don't say a word.] ]

Opal rolled his eyes, turned to look at Harry, smiled kindly, and pointed to the faucet, [Can you try saying "open" or "Slytherin" to it in crawling language?] If that doesn't work, "Sorcerer's Glory" or "Do Not Disturb the Sleeping Dragon" will do. ]

"I'll try my best, but I can't guarantee it."

Pushing his glasses down again, Harry looked at the brass faucet in front of him and began to remember when he had spoken crawling - it was a bit difficult, since he had always been able to speak this language when he was faced with a real snake.

"Open."

Harry spoke, but unfortunately, it wasn't just Opal who said what he said, but Draco and Blaise could understand.

Then Harry said a few more times, but unfortunately failed.

[Isn't it hard to say if it's not a living snake?] ]

Noticing Harry's condition, Opal thought for a moment before speaking. Harry nodded a little embarrassedly, then scratched his hair, "I'm sorry, but I'd be hard pressed to imagine it was a living snake with this faucet. ”

[I see.] ]

Opal narrowed his eyes slightly, then turned to look at Brace beside him, [Then please please!] ]

"You're really unceremoniously catching strong men!"

Blaise shrugged his shoulders and took a half-step forward, his wand appearing in his hand, "But speaking of which, isn't Draco better at the Transfiguration Charm than I am?" ”

[But his illusion skills aren't as good as yours, so now it's good to make Potter think 'it' is a living snake.] ]

To Brace's words, Opal replied innocently, [You don't expect to save Pansy without a little effort, do you?] ]

"Tsk."

After a light snort, Brace waved his wand and unleashed a silent incantation at Harry, who only felt that his eyes were dazzled for a moment, and then he saw the little snake carved into the faucet through his glasses, and silently swam to the faucet twister, and looked up at him with a letter thrown out.

{Slytherin.} }

Then, Harry's mouth hissed strangely, but the little snake didn't respond.

After glancing at Opal and seeing her motioning to continue, Harry slowly uttered the words she had offered in a crawling voice, and finally when he said "turn on" again, the faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.

Then the pool moved. They watched as the pool slowly faded from view, revealing a very thick pipe that could fit a person in.

"It's dirty!"

Glancing at the water pipe, Draco immediately frowned, and took out his wand with some disgust, "Aren't there any house-elves here to clean it?" ”

"I guess it will be swallowed if it comes, right? I heard that the basilisk is not a picky eater. ”

Working with Draco to Scourge the exposed pipe, Brace looked a little helpless at the moment, "But the moss on this pipe seems to have been scratched off, it must have been opened here." At least we're looking in the right direction. ”

[Alright, don't waste your efforts.] Visually, this hose is very long, so instead of wasting mana to clean it up, you might as well apply a Protego (armor protection) to yourself! Then, when you are almost at the exit of the pipe, add another Wingardium.Leviosa (choose a charm) to yourself. ]

Looking at the movements of his two friends, Opal could only turn his head to look at Harry, in addition to scolding Slytherin's innate spiritual cleanliness in his heart. ]

"I ...... I'm going down with you! ”

Almost immediately, Harry spoke his mind, "Ginny is also captured, Ron can't go, I have to at least get her out." ”

"Just you?"

Blaise sneered almost through his nose, "What do you have to praise other than crawling talk?" At least you won't need Protego for now, right? ”

“……”

Harry blushed when he had nothing to say, but he couldn't help but listen to Hermione with this spell in his heart, but he couldn't get his hands on it until the third year!

"He probably thought that with the title of 'savior', he would be able to overcome all difficulties and obstacles."

Because of Ron's connection, and a little grudge against Harry for rejecting his friendship, Draco was a little bit of a fool towards him.

[Harry grew up in Muggles, don't you think it's unfair to ask him to be on the same level as you without an elite education?] ]

Presumably seeing Harry's embarrassment, Opal sighed, [Since it's a Slytherin chamber, I wonder if there's a trap down there that needs to be opened by crawling.] While Ginny has nothing to do with us, Pansy is down there too, don't forget the Slytherin code of conduct - use all the forces you can unite when you're in danger. ]

"Yes, you know, Opal, you're preaching again."

Draco spread his hand, glanced at Harry and waved his wand again, and after throwing a Protego to himself, he also used it on Harry once, while Blaise was in charge of himself and Opal. Finally, after Opal blessed everyone present with a high-level spell, Protego.Totalum, the four of them burrowed into the water pipe in the order of Brace, Harry, Opal, and Draco.

It's a dark, slimy, endless slide, and as you go down, you can see a lot of pipes branching out in all directions, but none of them are as thick as this one.

The pipe twists and turns, winding around and down, with a steep slope all the way down. Then, after about three or four minutes, the slope of the water pipe became horizontal, and Opal quickly blessed himself with a levitation charm, and then landed lightly on the wet ground outside the water pipe.

It is a dark stone tunnel about three meters high and wide enough to allow the dead to be side by side. Quite close to her, Harry was struggling to get up from the ground, Brace was looking at her with one hand around his chest, and Opal took a step to the side without looking back, just in time for Draco to land smoothly from the pipe with the help of the levitation charm.

Harry, who once again realized that he was different from the three Slytherins at the moment, gritted his teeth, quickly stood up, and then raised his wand and used Lumos.Maxima (fluorescent flash). A faint light flickered through the tunnel, but it was so dark that they could only see a small part of the tunnel.

The light of the wands reflected their shadows on the wet walls, and it looked like a group of demons were dancing.

After glancing at each other, Brace spread his hands and sighed after receiving Opal's signal, and took the lead, the tunnel as silent as a tomb, but after turning a corner, they stopped together—the outline of a coiled behemoth, lying motionless on the other side of the tunnel.

"Asleep?"

Brace's voice trembled slightly, but it was Opal who answered him: [No, I don't feel the consciousness of the creatures here.] Maybe it's just the skin of the basilisk that has faded. ]

It can be said that Opal's conclusion made the other three people in the room relax a little, but they cautiously narrowed their eyes and leaned over - and then collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

The glow of Harry's wand shone on a huge snakeskin, which was green and bright as it was, and it was clear at first glance that it was the skin of a poisonous snake, coiled on the floor of the tunnel, and it was empty.

Apparently, judging by the appearance of the snakeskin, the animal that had just shed this layer of skin was at least twenty feet long.

[Huh?] ]

After searching around subconsciously, Opal snorted softly after turning in another direction, [That's ......]

"What?"

Draco subconsciously walked in front of Opal and half-blocked her, looking a little nervous, "What do you see?" ”

"This is...... Nagini? ”

But this time it was Harry who spoke, and he half-crouched down and picked up a small sculpture-like snake on the ground that was curled up and only the size of a palm, and had been petrified, "Why is it here?" ”

[Do you know Nagini?] ]

Almost as soon as Harry picked up the little snake, he recognized the petrified guy as his magical pet who had skipped most of the semester, and the corner of Opal's eyes twitched subtly.

"Well, I saw it in my dorm when I first started, and it looked like I was lost. Also asked me where to get to my accommodation in Slytherin. ”

As if remembering something, Harry's black line on his head, "If I hadn't discovered it in time, maybe it would have become a test subject for the twin seniors." Because of its appearance, the Gryffindor junior girls choked out enough - but it seemed to be frightened too, and kept cowering on the fireplace. Opal do you know it? ”

[In fact, I've been looking for it for most of the semester, and I thought it was hibernating.] I didn't expect it to be petrified here. ]

With a sigh, Opal took his pet from Harry, [I'm sure I'm going to ban its feet when I go back and heal it.] Well? Why do you all look so strange? ]

"No, you're wrong."

Draco swallowed a little hard, and looked at Opal with a nonchalant expression as he put the little snake into the built-in pocket of his robe, "It's just that you actually have snakes as pets, your preferences are really ......"

Isn't it normal for girls to be afraid of this thing? Why does she seem like she doesn't care at all?

[Well, because someone else gave it to me.] ]

Because of the thought of the person who gave Nagini to her, Opal brows brows, and the expression on his face was very soft, [Nagini is a friend who grew up with me. ]

"Cut!"

Draco pursed his lips a little unpleasantly, but when he turned his head, he happened to meet Harry's somewhat stunned gaze, so he immediately turned his face as if nothing happened, "So let's move on?" ”

Delusion? Draco's ears seemed to be red just now......

After blinking, Harry tossed the strange image he had seen through the magic fluorescence into his mind and continued to follow Brace's footsteps deeper into the tunnel.

The tunnel took one turn and the next.

Even though there were people around, every nerve in Harry was trembling uncomfortably - he could hear the sound of other people's breathing, whether flat or rapid, and his own growing heartbeat.

He wanted to get to the end of the tunnel as soon as possible, but at the same time he was afraid that the tunnel would really come to an end.

Finally, after carefully turning another corner, they finally found a solid wall standing in front of them.

It was of the exact same material as the surrounding tunnel, but in the middle there was a circular metal lid that almost covered the entire wall, which seemed to be of brass as well, but it was covered with moss, so it was not very clear, and only the surrounding circle could be seen with shiny brass grooves.

On the lid, two intertwined snakes are also carved in relief, the same texture as the lid, except that the bright brass can be seen in the belly of the snakes, and the same sparkle is the large, glittering emeralds set in their eyes.

[Sure enough......]

Opal whispered, not sure what he was targeting.

And Harry knew it was time for him to do his job again, and though he felt his throat dry now, he was getting closer to the lid - now he didn't feel the need for Brace to spell on himself, because their eyes looked exactly like they were alive.

{Open.} }

A low, hoarse hiss rang out.

Brace and Draco on the side shivered subconsciously.

The two snakes swam to the sides of the lid, and after a circle in the brass ravine, they retracted into the grooves at the upper and lower ends, and then the lid cracked to the left and right, slowly sliding to both sides and disappearing into the edge of the tunnel.

Opal stared thoughtfully at the wall, revealing something as the lid slid open, and finally couldn't help but frown.

Behind the lid was a long, stone corridor leading to an unknown place - it was obvious that that this should be the place they were looking for.

Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.