Chapter 47: A String of Clues (I)
The evening party was very simple, and Daphany only spoke a few words. The core is that everyone can start to observe the students around them and prepare to recruit new members!
After Harry's report was published, I believe that many people will believe that Voldemort has returned. As the vanguard of the resistance to Voldemort among the student body, there should be some attraction for the students!
"If there's a goal that feels like a good fit, don't reveal our organization!" "Observe first, then report back to the organization," says Daphne. At least five members of the organization will observe and think it is feasible, and we will be included in the organization! I think the observation period is at least a month! ”
"What should we observe?" Angelina already had some energy at this time and asked.
"The main thing is the attitude towards Voldemort, and the attitude towards ordinary people and wizards who come out of ordinary people's homes!" Daphne said solemnly, then glancing at Draco and Pansy emphatically, "We're definitely not going to take in those extremely tyrannical dark wizards. Draco, you need to pay special attention. ”
"Oh!" Draco replied with a low brow. If you want to talk about Draco today, he is already a flying man on weekdays! Good nutrition and adequate exercise make him tall and strong. The level of magic is also among the best among his peers. However, in the face of Daphany, it is always a second to change.
When the others saw this, they couldn't help but laugh. Pansy was smiling especially happily. Ignoring the face of his little boyfriend.
Everyone else agrees with Daphany's proposed criteria. After all, it is because of Voldemort's extreme tyranny that everyone will oppose him!
Although Daphany only said a few words, it was almost half an hour after the other members said a word, and by the time they really dispersed, it was close to the lights out.
Harry and Cho walked away hand in hand, and Hermione complained about the inhumanity of them spilling dog food. Cho blushed in embarrassment, and Harry still smirked.
However, Daphany was a little surprised that Ginny was also holding hands with someone!
That's Dean Thomas of Gryffindor! He's Harry and Ron's roommate! Daphany vaguely remembered that Ginny did seem to have had a brief relationship with a boy before she and Harry got married. But she remembered that it was like sixth grade.
Daphany didn't know if it was a good change or a bad change, and she didn't have to worry about more lice.
At this o'clock, Filch and Umlich's two henchmen had begun to wander around the castle. Although Filch doesn't care about Daphany, he is still full of malice towards the other students! As for Umlich's two henchmen, Devany could feel that the two of them had been looking for opportunities and doing it themselves! Probably because Umlich had talked about something about Daphany.
Thankfully, everyone today, including Neville and only Mafalda, who was only in his second year, had mastered the Transfiguration Charm. Except for Mafalda, they all have basically mastered the Confusion Charm. So walking in front of Filch or the prefects in a big way doesn't have any effect. Of course, there's a reason why Hogwarts prefects aren't in charge of things at all these days!
Everyone else left, but Hermione stayed. Daphany saw that she obviously had something to say, and she wanted to call Harry, but Harry and Cho ran as fast as they could, hand in hand.
"What's the matter?" Daphany asked, curious.
"Daphine, do you remember the Ravenclaw altar that Cho and Harry described they found!" Hermione said solemnly.
"Remember!" Daphany nodded, it's only been more than half a month, and Daphany's memory is not so bad!
"I've seen one like this!"
"Oh?" Daphany was slightly stunned, and asked with some curiosity, "Where is it?" ”
"Deep in the Black Lake, the territory of the fishmen!" Hermione said.
"Fishman's territory?" Daphany frowned, a little dazed.
"Wasn't the third event of last year's tournament underwater? The whole process was broadcast live! A lot of people have seen that altar. However, because it is in the water, it is very eroded by algae, and there is some damage. But it's still pretty much the same as Harry's description! Inside is a male mermaid and a female human, and the female is holding a book. Now that I think about it, the statue of that woman looks a lot like Helga Hufflepuff! ”
"Is there such a thing?" Daphne's face changed slightly, and if that was the case, it would be interesting. Because of hearing Hermione mention it at this time, Daphany remembered that the centaur altar she found in the Forbidden Forest a few days ago was also very similar to what Harry and the others described!
In the last year's tournament, Daphany didn't make it to the altar in the third event. She and Horton got into a fight. By the time she went to the altar, Harry had already brought a shell out for her. So Daphany never saw the altar.
After Harry and they found out that the altar was just described, and Daphany was not particularly impressed. But I still left a little bit left. That's why she felt familiar when she looked at the centaur altar in the Forbidden Forest.
And if the man on the altar under the water is really like Hergar Hufflepuff as Hermione said, and if you think about it along this line, the man with the sword in the altar in the Forbidden Forest is basically in line with Godric Gryffindor's characteristics. Especially when he wields a sword, a wizard who wields a sword is very rare. Except for Godric Gryffindor, there is probably only Gandalf, the gray-robed wizard in The Lord of the Rings!
In this way, three similar altars appeared! Some things can't help but think, and when you think about it, it's hard not to wonder if there's a special connection in it!
"Yes, Harry, I felt as if I had seen it when they said it. I thought about it for days before I finally remembered! Hermione affirmed. fate
Daphine thought for a moment and told Hermione about her discovery in the Forbidden Forest.
"There's one in the Forbidden Forest, too, Godric Gryffindor's altar?" Hermione was also very surprised by Daphany's discovery: "So there are already three altars?" ”
"One more, Slytherin's Altar!" Daphany frowned slightly. Then her eyes lit up, and she had a guess.
"Daphine, I remember you said that when you were in your second year, you went to a Slytherin chamber? And slew the basilisk in there? Hermione said in thought.
"Let's go together!" Daphany smiled and said, "You go to bed quickly, find a time tomorrow, and we'll go and investigate!" ”
Hermione glanced at Daphine disdainfully, "Come less, it's strange if you don't go to that secret room tonight!" ”
Daphne is embarrassed, the people who know Daphany best in the academy now are probably not Pansy and Daphne, who grew up playing together. Because although the contact time seems to be long, but in fact, Daphne is very lonely, and she is not very good at talking to the little girl - after all, she is an old man in her bones, and the little Loli are too small at the beginning, if you have any ideas, it will start in three years!
However, Hermione broke the situation. When they were in Ilvermorny, the two lived in the same dormitory for a year, and Hermione was an observant and sensitive girl, so she quickly became familiar with Daphne's character.
Indeed, if Daphany hadn't gone around the Chamber of Secrets tonight, she wouldn't have been able to sleep at all!
"Take me with you! You've all been to the Chamber of Secrets, but I haven't! "It took five years for Hermione's Gryffindor factor to fully awaken. I also began to be enthusiastic about all kinds of new things and adventures.
Daphany hesitated for only a second, and was defeated by Hermione, who was pulling her hand and shaking it. Nodding in agreement, the two of them added a magic spell and a confusion charm, and walked towards Myrtle's bathroom!
Myrtle isn't there, I don't know where I'm wandering again. This ghost has a peculiar penchant for getting into the water. Such as the prefect's bathroom, such as the Black Lake.
Daphany and Hermione didn't care, and went straight to the special pool.
Still unaware of her snake whisperer, Daphne pulled out a lure conch, which contained a snake whisper...... In fact, this snake language was still spoken by Daphany, but with the use of voice-changing magic.
Hermione's first time in the secret room, she was surprised to see the pool parting and revealing the passage underneath: "Did the basilisk come out of here that year?" Oh, my God! ”
"Be prepared, it's dirty inside!" Daphany smiled and jumped into the hole.
Hermione pouted, and said to herself when I didn't see it? The moment Daphany jumped, she blessed herself with a bubble charm. Bubble Week is an enlarged version of the Head Bubble Mantra that wraps around the whole body.
This magic made Hermione silent and instantaneous, she couldn't do it, but just using it was no problem at all!
After blessing herself with her magic, Hermione jumped into the entrance as well.
It felt like they had been sliding for half an hour, and the two of them finally stopped sliding, and this was the real entry into the secret passage.
"Let's hurry up, we have class tomorrow!" Daphne grabbed Hermione's small hand and said, as a long cyan light flashed around their bodies, and they rushed out like arrows off the string.
With the help of acceleration magic, the original long corridor, the two of them passed through in a few minutes, and came to the main hall where they had fought with the basilisk before.
The massive basilisk bones were still there, unchanged from the last time Daphany had come down to retrieve the venom.
It was the first time Hermione had seen the scene here, and she was shocked: "Under the castle, there is such a big hall!" ”
"Actually, I think this might be underneath the Black Lake!" Daphany voiced her guess.
Hermione thought about it and thought it was possible. The two didn't dwell on this matter, but began to separate and need the altar. However, after several rounds of the main hall, I did not find anything resembling an altar.
"Are we wrong?" Daphany frowned, "Maybe the altar wasn't in this chamber, or maybe there wasn't an altar left at all because Slytherin left Hogwarts early?" ”
Hermione shook her head, indicating that she didn't have an idea.
Daphany blessed herself with a flying spell and took to the air. After a few more rounds in the air, he still didn't find the altar, but found some bottles and cans behind the huge Slytherin statue. Daphany and Hermione speculated that it was the result of some magical experiments Voldemort had done here as a student.
"Daphany, ...... you say" Hermione suddenly thought, "Could it be that Voldemort found the altar before and then the altar disappeared?" Like Cho and Harry, the two of them discovered the altar of Ravenclaw. But when they came out and tried to go in, they couldn't reopen the room anyway! ”