Chapter 296: The Great Snake and the Harassing Fly ?
William could hear it right away, it was Luna's voice.
In fact, in all of Hogwarts, except for the eagle-shaped knocker that couldn't move, only Luna had the most ethereal voice, and only she walked without a sound, like a cat.
He turned around, and sure enough, Luna was standing there looking curiously at William, her unkempt blonde hair and two eyes protruding slightly outward, making her look like she was always in such a trance.
There is a sense of madness in her bones.
William noticed that the girl also had a blue butterfly badge pinned to her chest, and it seemed that she liked the gift. Every time I see Luna, she has this badge pinned to her chest.
"What are you talking about? What legend? Finding that William and the others were watching her, the girl sat down without hesitation, she was attracted by the word legend.
"We were just talking about the Chamber of Secrets, do you know about the Chamber of Secrets, Luna?" William asked Luna that he should have the best relationship with Luna in the group, and after hearing William's words, Terry and the others didn't say anything more, acquiescing in Luna joining their discussion.
After this time together, everyone realized that this girl's out-of-the-box thinking was a way of thinking that even the most discriminatory Ravenclaw felt was alternative.
This left Luna with few friends to talk to, and even most of the Ravenclaws couldn't keep up with her thinking, or thought she was crazy.
The academy that really doesn't discriminate against is probably the indisputable Hufflepuff, and the little badger really knows how to be a low-key person.
If you know the history of magic in Europe, and especially in England, it is not difficult to see that the development of Hufflepuffs has not been greatly influenced by which faction was in power, and they are the cornerstone of the real wizarding world.
Keeping a low profile is in the heart of every Hufflepuff.
Compared to Gryffindor and Slytherin, who were arguing over Muggle issues, Helga Hufflepuff was perhaps the smartest.
William is barely the one who can keep up with Luna's thinking, and he is not so repulsive to Luna's imaginary creatures, which makes the relationship between the two men not bad
However, William had kept his distance from Luna since the first few strange dreams and conversations with the Courier had just started school, and he was a little afraid that his overcontact with her would bring something bad to Luna.
And Luna didn't say anything special about it, and the girl didn't seem to feel that William was wrong.
"The legend of the Chamber of Secrets? Of course, I know that Slytherin is said to have left a terrifying monster in the castle's chambers before leaving, to purify all students who are not worthy of studying magic. Luna's voice is perfect for telling such a horrific story.
Ever since Hermione and Terry asked questions about the Chamber of Secrets in Professor Binns' class, the legends that were not written down in the history of the school are no longer a secret.
Almost all the students in the four houses knew that there was probably a thousand-year-old monster in the castle, and everyone thought it was just an ethereal legend, but this morning, after hearing that a student from Gryffindor had been attacked mysteriously.
The students, especially the Muggle-born wizards, finally realized the seriousness of the problem.
Ike swallowed nervously, terrified to learn that a Gryffindor student had been attacked.
"Do you think that's true?" He asked the few people present, his eyes were indeed looking in the direction of William, obviously he wanted to hear the latter's answer, he was not stupid, he knew that William definitely knew more about these things than he did.
However, before William's words could be spoken, Luna continued to speak on her own.
"Dad told me when I was not in school that there was a great serpent living in the castle of Hogwarts, and when night fell, it would roam the castle, kill all the little wizards who saw it, and then drag their corpses to a dark corner where no one noticed and eat them."
Hearing Luna's words, Ike looked even more nervous, his face turned pale, and even Terry, who had always been quite bold, couldn't help but shrink his neck.
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Luna, what's wrong with you?
William looked at Luna Lovegood, who was talking, and he couldn't figure out if Luna had guessed something or was just expressing her imagination.
What she said was mostly true, but the question was how she, or rather, Mr. Lovegood, knew?
"So Dad told me not to go on a night tour when I got to school, because the Ravenclaw break room is the safest, it's protected by a swarm of harassing flies, and they're going to keep the big snake out of the lounge."
"How does Mr. Lovegood know?" William finally couldn't help but ask, although what Luna said was still some distance from the truth, she would actually guess that the monster in the castle was a big snake.
William really wanted to know now how Mr. Lovegood had come up with it.
"Dad had seen the serpent with his own eyes, and he told me that one night on his way back to the Ravenclaw Tower he had noticed deep marks on the floor in the hallway, as if something very heavy had just climbed over it.
He curiously followed the mark, and finally found a big snake that was constantly roaming in the castle, but fortunately, the big snake was facing away from my father, and there was no trace of him, which allowed my father to run back as soon as possible.
He ran up the tower, answered the Ravenclaw knocker question as fast as he could in his life, and then gasped and told everyone in the lounge what had just happened.
But no one believed what he said, they all thought my dad was crazy to say this nonsense. At this, there was a little resentment in Luna's voice, which made her look like she was finally not so ethereal, as if she was living in this world with William.
"I take the liberty of asking, what is a harassing fly?" Terry couldn't help but interject as well.
"It's a magical creature that can't be seen or touched, and these little ones appear when wizards are thinking or getting irritated by something, and they confuse wizards' minds, and Ravenclaw is the most harassing of the four colleges, especially outside the gates.
As a result, the serpent was slow to enter the Ravenclaw common room, and the harassing flies would also confuse its mind, making it forget its purpose for coming to the Ravenclaw Tower. ”