Chapter 146: Intentional Guidance
Unsurprisingly, at the Blotted bookstore, Twilight and Hermione meet the Weasleys and Harry, as Mrs. Weasley is also a fan of Lockhart, and takes Hermione to line up to find Lockhart's autograph.
"It's hopeless..."Twilight rolled her eyes and put the book she had bought into the pocket of her robe.
At the same time, Lucius Malfoy also took the opportunity of arguing with Arthur Weasley to quietly sandwich Tom Riddle's journal between Ginny's books and put it in her cauldron.
There was a gleam in his eyes, and it completely fell into Mu Dui's eyes, but he didn't get the diary in his hands right away.
If the plot goes well, Harry will get the Sorting Hat and Gryffindor's Sword when he goes head-to-head with the Basilisk at the end, and this is the perfect opportunity for Twilight to get both.
Rejecting Hermione's invitation to stay at her house next, Twilight returns to the hotel alone and continues to use the Vanishing Locker to practice magic at the Room of Requirement.
Although I can't be sure, with the number of times Mu Dusk is crazy and not afraid of death, I'm afraid that even Grindelwald, the only master who has mastered the Fierce Fire Spell in a hundred years, can't compare.
Even if Mu Du doesn't have much talent, seven or eight times a day, hundreds of times a month casting spells has also allowed him to master the fire to a very high level, which is not inferior to the level shown by Grindelwald in the movie.
The only difference between the two at the moment is probably only in terms of magic.
"The mana value has finally broken 100..."
The daily boring practice finally paid off with a happy result, and he was confident that no single professor in the entire school could be his opponent except for Dumbledore.
When he officially returned to school on September 1st, Twilight did not take the Vanishing Cabinet with him, but left him in his newly purchased house to facilitate his access to Hogwarts.
Everything was going very well, the only thing that frustrated him was that Hermione was always holding a copy of Lockhart's book and telling him how good Lockhart was.
"Hermione, do you know the difference between reality and reality?"
"What do you mean?" Hermione blinked, looking puzzled.
"There are some so-called biographies, you can just take a look at them...", Twilight said meaningfully, glancing at the book "Me Walking with Vampires" in her hand.
Then, before Hermione could open her mouth to argue, she excused herself from going to the library and leaving the break room.
It's just that he still underestimated Hermione's persistence, and even followed him to the library and told him all the way on the way.
"Hehe... Tomorrow is Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson...", Muwilight muttered with black lines on her head.
On the first Defence Against the Dark Arts class, Lockhart still gave everyone a test of his personal preferences as soon as he came up, just like in the movies.
Not surprisingly, Hermione was the only one in the two classes who answered all 35 questions correctly, including the question 'What color does Lockhart like?' answer them all correctly, and the corners of Mu Dui's mouth twitched.
And Mu Du himself simply handed over the blank scroll.
"I don't think I should skip the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the future..."Mu Du secretly thought about the consequences of skipping class for a long time, but reluctantly gave up this plan.
"Forget it, sit in the corner later, and then cast a confusion spell..."
After the boring test, Lockhart took out the Cornwall goblins again, because everyone was unprepared, and Lockhart swore that he could handle it, and the whole classroom was in chaos.
"How? See how awesome this Lockhart is, right? Twilight gloated at Hermione.
"Lockhart taught him... He's just snatched the wand..."Looking at Lockhart who was running away, Hermione retorted stubbornly, although she had a faint feeling of being out of sight.
"I mean, can't you two talk about Lockhart later, and help get these goblins done first?" Ron on the side couldn't help but complain.
No way, his wand broke on the way to school, and the spell often bounced back to him.
Of course, even if his wand was intact, he couldn't deal with so many goblins flying all over the sky, and the two classes combined, only Hermione and Twilight had this ability.
"Come on, I just recently learned a new spell—"
Hearing Twilight say this, Hermione put away the wand she had just taken out.
"10,000 bullets!"
This is the advanced transformation magic of the Movement Charm, which can control hundreds of objects at the same time, allowing them to follow a predetermined trajectory and even directly lock on to the enemy to attack.
A flash of white light hit the crystal chandelier on the ceiling.
The next moment, in the horrified eyes of everyone, hundreds of diamond-shaped crystals of several centimeters in size decorated on the chandelier were as accurate as bullets and locked on each of the little goblins who were making trouble, shooting them all.
The goblin's blood instantly spilled from the air, covering almost the entire classroom, causing everyone to scream.
"Oh... Oh, my God... This... This..."
Not to mention the teenage students in the class, even Professor Lockhart was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
Attacks like this use mental power to lock onto the enemy, but locking so many goblins at the same time like this, as far as he knows, most Aurors can't do it.
"Why are you trying to kill these little goblins, and just freeze them all?" Hermione was the first to come to her senses, because she was right next to Twilight, and her robe was lucky not to be splattered with goblin blood.
"Isn't this new magic not very proficient~" Mu Du smiled and glanced at Malfoy hiding in the corner, maybe after a long time, Malfoy's courage has become fat again, and he actually dares to say bad things about him and Hermione secretly.
Seeing Twilight's cold gaze, Malfoy shivered subconsciously and hurriedly hid himself behind Crabbe and Goyle.
"And if you keep these little goblins, you'll only make trouble, so it's okay to kill them, right? Professor Lockhart? Twilight looked at Lockhart again.
"It's... Oh, yes... These goblins are too troublemakers... Kill... Kill it..."Facing Mu Dui's gaze, Lockhart's heart also unconsciously tightened, I don't know why, Lockhart felt that Mu Twilight at this moment was even more terrifying than those adult dark wizards.
"Well, that's good, clean as new—"
With a wide-ranging cleaning spell, the soiled classroom was instantly restored to its original cleanliness and tidiness, and then Twilight used the Repair Charm to repair the chandelier that he had damaged.
As for the broken books and quills, they need to be repaired by others themselves with a repair charm.
Soon word spread about the Defence Against the Dark Arts class in the school, and sure enough, under the deterrence of Mu Dusk, no one dared to call any mud seeds any more.
Even in the Slytherin common room, Malfoy whispered a few words to Crabbe and Goyle, and he didn't dare to say it in front of Twilight and Hermione.
"Thank you, Twilight!"
Hermione, who finally figured out why, gave Twilight a big hug, because she knew that Twilight didn't care about these things at all, and the reason why she did it was all for her friend.
"It's just a trivial matter, you don't need to care what mudblood is or not, bloodlines don't mean anything at all, otherwise you look at Neville and Ron, these two so-called pure-blood wizards can't even use a simple spell until now!"
Twilight unceremoniously belittles Ron and Neville, who really doesn't like them.
"Don't say that... In fact... Actually, they're pretty good..."
Hermione didn't think it was good to say that Ron was behind his back, after all, they were friends, but she didn't know how to refute it, she really couldn't think of any good in Ron except that he was good for Harry.
Time passed, and because of the large number of courses, the growth rate of Mu Dui's magic power slowed down significantly.
And Ginny's side finally opened the secret room and released the basilisk under the bewitchment of the diary.
The first to be attacked was Keeper Filch's pet cat, which was only petrified and not dead because it only saw the basilisk's eyes through the mirror.
In addition, it was not the students who were attacked, so no one took it seriously.
Halloween celebrations were held as usual, and Christmas was also a holiday, until the winter break returned, when a second attack occurred, and it was Hufflepuff's Justin Finchrie who was only petrified because he didn't see the basilisk's eyes directly.
Next up is Gryffindor's freshman Colin Creevey, who loves photography and always holds up a camera to shoot around, but he survives by luck because he sees the basilisk eyes through the camera lens.
However, the successive attacks still caused panic among everyone, and Harry was always the first to appear on the scene, and he knew snake language, so he was rightfully regarded as the heir of Slytherin.
"Really, how could Harry be the heir of Slytherin!" In the Transfiguration classroom, Hermione was reading a book and fighting for Harry.
"Don't worry, the truth will always come out..."Mu Du smiled faintly, very calm about this.
"By the way, don't go to the library by yourself during this time!" Because Hermione was also attacked by a basilisk in the original book, Twilight made a special instruction.
Although Hermione only saw the basilisk's eyes through reflection in the original book, it is really hard to say what the result will be now because of his presence.
"Got it!" Hermione smiled sweetly at him and obediently agreed.
Hermione's arrogance is also divided into whom, she is really quite well-behaved in front of Mu Dui, who is much stronger than herself.
In the days that followed, Harry and Ron quietly roamed the school every night like Filch, the administrator, trying to find traces of monsters and the Slytherin heir, while Hermione was in charge of searching the library.
It's just because she agreed to Mu Dui, so Hermione takes the book back to the classroom to read it every time, and the speed is invisibly slowed down a lot.
However, this way, the basilisk has no chance to attack Hermione, who is lonely.
Perhaps because of Twilight's existence, the basilisk or Voldemort directly gave up on Hermione and attacked Dean Thomas instead, this man's mother is a Muggle and his father is a wizard, but when Voldemort first rose, his father was killed to protect his family, and this time he was even more unlucky to see the basilisk in the eye directly, becoming the first victim of the Chamber of Secrets.
At this moment, the whole situation is suddenly different, petrification and dead people are completely different things.
Hagrid, who had been wronged once fifty years ago, was sent directly to Azkaban by the Ministry of Magic, and Dumbledore, who had always sheltered Hagrid and believed that he was okay, was also impeached and suspended by Lucius at the instigation of all the school directors, and was also brought back to the Ministry of Magic by the Minister of Magic, Fudge.
Since then, the entire Hogwarts has been under martial law, and students must return to the common room after 6pm.
"Damn! Hagrid could never be a murderer! ”
"And Dumbledore, why did he have to be suspended as well?!"
Harry and Ron, who had escaped from the giant spider in the Forbidden Forest, grumbled angrily.
"I found the spider that Hagrid raised, and it said that the murderer was not it, but what their spiders feared the most-"
"What do spiders fear the most?" Hermione was stunned when she heard this, and the movement of flipping through the book also stopped, obviously thinking of something.
However, Mu Dusk's eyes flashed with a mysterious color, and she took the first step to say the answer.
"I know what it is!"
"What is it?!"
All three of Hermione looked at him.
"Basilisk!"
"The thing that spiders fear the most is a basilisk! Looking directly into the basilisk will kill instantly, and indirectly will be petrified - Justin Finchly Fenreli sees it through the reflection of the glass in the hallway, and Colin Creevey sees it through the camera lens, so they are not dead but petrified. And the snake has always been a symbol of Slytherin! ”
"I see—"
The three of them suddenly realized.
"Great, let's go tell you-"
"Who to tell?" Mu Du asked rhetorically, "These are just our speculations, there is no evidence at all!" The only thing that believes in you is that Dumbledore and Hagrid, one was sent to Azkaban and the other was imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic, do you think it would be useful to tell the Professor? If it really works, then it won't be in fifty years, and the murderer can't be caught twice in the secret room! ”
"That's... So what to do?! Harry scratched his head anxiously.
"I heard the news that the student who died fifty years ago was Myrtle, maybe she knows something!"
Hermione was a little curious about when Twilight had heard the news, but the matter was urgent, so she didn't have time to ask.
Soon, the group came to the virgin bathroom where Myrtle was, and under Mu Dui's questioning, Myrtle finally told the scene when she died.
"I was crying, I didn't have glasses... I heard a click, and then there were two big yellow light bulbs in this direction..."Myrtle said, pointing to the octagonal sink in the center of the bathroom.
Sure enough, the four of them found a snake mark on one of the faucets in the sink, and Harbour opened the passage to the secret room with snake language.