"Ahhh This way you don't have to do homework! Parvati sat next to Hermione with a sad stool, a quill in her hand, dangling from top of the parchment, half an hour had passed, and there was still only one line of headings on it.

"Don't be stupid, silly girl, you can't rely on multiple-choice questions and plagiarism to pass the exam every school year....... LS exam will be very strict!" Hermione said briskly, all the hair on her face was gone, and her pupils had returned to normal, only the cat ears on her head and the tail behind her showed no signs of disappearing for the time being, but it wasn't too much of a problem, on the contrary, it made her much cuter.

"By the way, you haven't found any clues these days?"

Hermione poked her head out and saw Madam Pomfrey leaving them with a medicine tray, so she lowered her voice and asked in a low voice. "I remember Brandy, did you say that the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets wanted to attack Neville? How did you have such an idea. ”

They gossiped and told her about Brandi's transformation into Dumbledore and going to Neville's clutter, and they could only say that it was really Hermione, and after listening to the information she got from Neville, she just frowned and thought about it, and quickly realized the key.

"In this case, not to mention Lady Loris, it is very likely that Dean Thomas and Justin Finreli were not attacked randomly, but because they may have accidentally discovered something that led to the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets. I said why Neville was reluctant to let people see him - it turned out that he wasn't just scared, and to a certain extent, he wanted to prevent others from being harmed by himself......"

"yes...... I'll just say Neville can't be that timid. Brandi sighed, "It's just that there's a little bit of this way of dealing with problems - self-sacrifice? He should have believed that his friends were, and if he had told us earlier, maybe nothing would have happened to Justin. ”

At the first moment when he learned that he would be in danger if he approached him, he very decisively chose to be alone, silently huddled in a corner, clumsily refusing the kindness and concern of his friends, and enduring the fear that he might be attacked at any time. They are also reluctant to transfer their pain and the possibility of injury to others...... Perhaps in the face of the horror of the unknown, Neville will indeed be timid, and he will be so scared that he will cry. But he was brave enough to choose to bear the horror alone.

This is undoubtedly the more precious spirit than the so-called reckless 'bravery', and it is what Gryffindor really admires. Thinking of this, they were full of complicated feelings and sighed.

At this moment, Hermione keenly noticed that Ron was quietly poking Brandy with his elbow, and winked at him. And the latter looked particularly reluctant......

"Brandi! Are you hiding something from me? Her eyes narrowed slightly, and she smiled maliciously at Brandi, revealing her little tiger teeth that had not been fully retracted.

Hiss~

Inexplicably, Brandi's hairs stood on end with that terrible smile, and the row of delicate tooth marks on his neck seemed to start aching again.

"Uh, Hermione...... Actually......"

Brandi glanced at Harry and Ron, then slowly pulled Riddle's journal out of his arms, and he had the audacity to tell Hermione about his frequent conversations with the diary two months ago. Sure enough, Hermione's face went from confusion to anger...... All of a sudden, it turned into a complex change of tension and worry.

"Are you an idiot...... You're comparing the Sorting Hat to this diary? She hurriedly took the diary from Brandy's hand and examined it with a solemn expression. The Sorting Hat has a complete mind and personality, and that's because it's the ultimate crystallization of ancient magic, and there's no way to replicate it...... But having a complete mind in a journal is definitely another matter, and Ron is right, in the books I've read, it's basically a very evil dark magic object. Let me think about ......"

She flipped through the notebook and pulled out a bright red eraser from her school bag next to her. Rub it vigorously a few times. "Hmm, the developer eraser doesn't work?"

"Don't think about it, Hermione, Riddle can't be forced out by a piece of rubber." Brandi said helplessly, "It used to communicate with me by absorbing ink, but I don't know if it was angry that I didn't tell him about the treasury, and now it's useless for me to write anything." ”

Listening to Brandy's words, she took the pen and ink from the bedside and made a few strokes on it, of course, there was no response.

"No, it's not normal." Hermione's brow furrowed even tighter. "Think about it, who would want to put up with someone scribbling on him? If Riddle just didn't want to pay attention to you, he could have sucked all the ink in and not responded to you, but in this case, it doesn't look like a magic item at all......"

She hesitated for a moment, then pulled out her wand.

"Hey! What are you doing here? Brandi was shocked.

Hermione glared at him impatiently. "If conventional methods don't work, of course I'm going to try it with spells. There's probably some protective spell on it, I'm going to break it and try - to show it up! ”

"Useless Hermione, Riddle is not that kind of person, he has won the school's special contribution award~ So this is not black at all-huh?!"

Brandi's halfway words were eaten by himself...... Under the nervous gaze of the five people, the notebook actually began to change under the effect of the manifestation charm—it began to gradually increase in size, and the paper was much larger. The gilded gold rim emerged from the spine of the book—it became something else, one that everyone knew.

"Indeed, a textbook on the history of magic is not a dark magic item...... "Harry picked up the history of magic in confusion and flipped through it to find the place where Brandi had written. But...... This is Dean's textbook, how did it end up in your box? And was it transformed into that diary? ”

"It's broken! The diary has been dropped! Brandy's face changed, and he got up from his chair and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Harry shouted from behind.

"Dumbledore!" Brandi walked out without looking back, "I need to ask some questions...... What did Riddle do with that special contribution award more than forty years ago? ”

Watching Brandi disappear into the door of the hospital room, Harry and Ron looked at each other.

"Why is he so excited all of a sudden, what does Riddle's Special Contribution Award have to do with his diary."

After all, he and Riddle had spoken face to face, and he certainly knew more than we knew in a few words...... But......" Hermione spoke suddenly, her tone full of solemnity. "Fifty years ago... Treasury... Suddenly went berserk when he learned Wright's name... Neville... And the diary that disappeared...... If I'm expecting it to be true, the question Brandi is about to ask should be the key to connecting all the threads. It's just that this truth may not be so easy to accept......"

………………

When Brandi came to the door of the principal's office and was about to reach out and knock on the door, he faintly heard the voices inside.

It looked like Dumbledore was meeting someone.

Do you want to come back in a while?

He turned to leave, but a few words that floated through the crack in the door stopped him.

"Dumbledore...... It should be ...... right away Secret Room ......"

Chamber?

He hurriedly pressed his ear to the edge of the door, carefully listening to the movement inside—

"We can't go on like this, Dumbledore! You know, he was suspicious of that before! ”

A fast and crisp male voice, as if he had been specially trained, and even in such excitement and anxiety, his voice still sounded as crisp and crisp as a radio announcer. "It's been two now, don't you think he didn't do it?"

"Rest easy, Connelly......," Dumbledore was as calm and indifferent as ever, "I hope you can understand that I trust him completely, and besides, he shouldn't have that motive - he has been serving in the school for decades, and if he were the Slytherin heir, we wouldn't have a Muggle left a long time ago, would we." ”

"But look, Albus," the man said uneasily, "his criminal record is very bad for him, and even if you choose to trust him unconditionally, you should at least keep some level of surveillance on him—perhaps I can provide Hogwarts with a few experienced Aurors to ensure that his normal life is not disturbed." ”

"No need."

Dumbledore replied resolutely, and Brandy heard their footsteps seemingly approaching the door. He wasn't sure if he needed to avoid it, but there was only one door in this corridor, and he really had nowhere to hide.

"Alright then, Albus......" The man walked to the door, and Brandi heard the sound of Sissy Soso putting on his coat. Of course, I still believe in his danger, and if something like this happens in the future, Albus—I may have to take some necessary countermeasures. You know, the Ministry of Magic has been flooding my office with complaints in recent weeks! There are some pure-blood families who are concerned about the attack at Hogwarts, and honestly, you should think about your headmistress, Lucius, he-"

He opened the door and made eye contact with the nervous boy in the doorway. He looked stunned.

"Excuse me, sir!" Brandi took a few steps back in panic and waved his hand. "I didn't mean to eavesdrop on what you said, I just wanted to find Professor Dumbledore......"

"Uh...... You'd better forget what you just heard. The man named Connelly played with his dark green politeness uneasily, and said quickly. These are things that shouldn't be known to students... Cough... I mean, Albus is in there, but alas, he's going out soon. ”

He coughed dryly and walked past Brandy with a panicked expression, then he turned around and beckoned to Dumbledore in the Headmaster's office. "Albus, I think you'd better go with me to the Ministry of Magic...... I need your commitment, the kind of written material. ”