The professors upstairs seemed to have followed Professor Sinista to the hospital hospital, so Brandi and the others rushed to the library with little effort...... The dark library lit up with a glow of fluorescent spells, and they sped through the rows of bookshelves, finding what they were looking for in a matter of minutes. But—

None of them expected that the "Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures" that Padma was talking about turned out not to be a book......

It's clearly a series! On a whole row of bookshelves, all of them are classified by various compendiums in this book!

"Oh my God...... Crawling ......" Brandi scanned the table of contents on the shelves with ten lines of eyes, and then held a large palm-thick book in his arms with a bitter face, Harry and Ron holding their glowing wands in their hands. “…… Serpent, it's been found! Forehead...... There's a lot of it here! The magical creatures of the Serpent Order are more than seventy pages long! ”

Brandi screamed excitedly, but his face slowly shrank as the pages passed.

"We're not going to flip through the pages to find it! That's too slow. ”

"Of course not, Hermione and Parvati also left a clue that we didn't understand much...... Eyes？ Harry said slowly. Is there one of those snakes with very large eyes, or a lot of them? ”

"Well, there are a lot of eyes, just by the name...... Hundred-eyed python... Three-eyed snake... And so on and so forth. As for the big eyes, does it count as a big eyeball on the whole head? There is an eye of yellow sand, which counts as a sand snake...... The light emitted from the eyeballs can blind a person, which doesn't seem to be. ”

They looked up the information on the magical creatures, but it was clearly not the same as the actual situation...... At the very least, they don't live for hundreds or thousands of years.

"Maybe it's not in the right direction, Parvati may not be talking about the appearance of the eyes, otherwise it would be better to just draw that monster in a rough way." Ron said, "Perhaps she wasn't referring to the monster's features, but to the way they were attacked. ”

…… This time, they guessed right.

"The basilisk, a very bizarre and extremely lethal monster. Its body is a dazzling green color, and its body length can reach 50 feet, and it has an extremely long lifespan, with the first basilisk rumored to be born nearly 900 years old. It is powerful, and there are amazing toxins on its fangs...... But the most dangerous form of attack does use its yellow eyes to keep an eye on the target. Anyone who makes eye contact with them will die instantly...... However, there have also been reports of a very small number of victims being petrified in the vicinity of Nottingham and Coventry...... At present, the most effective way to resist the attack of the basilisk is to breed the rooster, and the rooster's cry is highly lethal to the basilisk...... Basilisks eat small animals such as birds and mice, but their favorite is the eight-eyed giant spider, which is also an extremely dangerous and magical creature, as detailed in the order of arachnids......"

Brandi almost couldn't control her scream.

"No wonder, Ron, no wonder!" Brandi gasped for breath with excitement, "It must be it, I said why all Hagrid's chickens were killed by the spell!" It must have been done by the heir of Slytherin, to prevent the basilisk from being killed by the crowing of the rooster! ”

"I'll tell you why I hear voices talking everywhere I go, I'm a parseltongue."

Harry clutched the book tightly.

"Whoever the basilisk looks at with his eyes, he will die. But none of the victims in the castle died—none of them looked directly at it. Dean was facing away from it, seeing it in the reflection of the window. Justin...... Justin must have seen the basilisk through Nick, who was almost headless! Nick had directly locked in the basilisk, but he couldn't die again! As for Hermione and Parvati...... Hmmm......"

His barrage of words came to an abrupt halt. He looked at Ron, who didn't understand either. yes, there's a problem here that he can't explain......

Hermione and Parvati were looking directly at the door, but why didn't they die?

Brandi frowned, as if he remembered something long ago. Then, as if someone had lit a light in his mind, he suddenly understood. But for some subtle reason, he didn't say it.

"Regardless of how Hermione and the others managed to survive, at least we have confirmed what the monster in the secret room is, although theoretically the basilisk will not live that long, but considering that it may have been sleeping in the secret room, maybe the life span will be longer."

Seeing Harry and Ron's eyes, he nodded.

"Then there are two more problems, although we know that the basilisk is responsible, but we do not know the location of the secret room; And, how do we go about defeating it - you know, we can't even look at it, or we'll die in an instant. ”

Hearing this, the three of them fell silent...... No one spoke for a long time.

"Can't we go to Professor McGonagall for help?" Harry said hopefully. "Professor McGonagall should have a solution."

"If you can find her now...... Brandi said, "according to you, she should have taken Professor Flitwick and them to the station at the foot of the mountain to restart the express by this time, knowing that Neville is still in the chamber, where can we go over and inform her!" ”

"Well, if only Hermione were still here...... No matter how bad Padma is, it's okay. Ron sat on the ground and sighed. Padma must have the same brain as Hermione, and I had to rely on her to complete all my homework for the first few months - if she did, she might have figured it out right away. ”

This was a reminder to Brandi. Padma always mentioned a plan when she was in the Forbidden Forest, and for this reason she had to bring a big guy back...... It's still curled up in Room 13! But what do you do with that?

The same old way, poisoning the spider's body? My own intestinal cleansing water is useless.

However, he almost immediately dismissed the idea, the basilisk was not a wizard, the thing itself was a body of venom, how could it react to a bottle of intestinal cleansing water used by wizards. Padma's initial plan may have been to use spiders as bait, but it could never have been such a childish trick......

How? Can't look at its eyes...... Blind yourself to ...... Or, to put it out of sight?

He frantically flipped through the pages of the book in his hand...... I stumbled across a section of snakes in the Serpent Order.

"The vast majority of snake-like magical creatures still inherit the body structure of snakes, and their eyes do not have movable eyelids, but only a transparent membrane. So snakes don't close their eyes – even when they sleep. ”

Pregnant!

Under the quizzeling eyes of Harry and Ron, he excitedly inserted the book back into the shelf, then leaned into their ears and muttered quietly.

"Listen guys, I have an idea......"

…………

"Wow, Brandi, you're crazy about that!" Ron exclaimed, "But it's hard to get what you need...... George and Fred are in the break room, how are you going to get them? ”

"It's not necessarily just George." Brandi said confidently, "Filch has been a caretaker in the castle for so many years, and there must have been a lot of confiscation - maybe there will be in his office." I'm not worried about that, it's just the location of the secret room...... That's the big problem. ”

Who knows, Brandi's question didn't make Harry and Ron frown. Instead, it made them look more confident-

"Don't worry, Brandy, we know a guy who knows where the Chamber of Secrets is. He said it himself! ”

………… After deciding to assemble in his office, Brandi grabbed the cloak and cautiously slipped out.

They decided to split up. Brandi is tasked with infiltrating Filch's office and finding the right materials there...... Because of the high demand for numbers, he needed an invisibility cloak to keep himself undetected on his way back.

Compared to Brandi's mission, Harry and Ron's goal is much simpler—they need to go to Lockhart, the coward who knows the truth but doesn't dare to stand up and face it. Lockhart assures the professors that he knows the location of the Chamber of Secrets and who the so-called heir is...... Although his previous performance had made Harry unhopeful, he probably wouldn't shamelessly make up such an important thing......

As they hunched over and arrived at the Defence Against the Dark Arts office, they were still expecting Lockhart. However, there seems to be a lot of movement in the office.

"Knock knock~" Harry knocked on the door, and there was a sudden silence inside. Immediately after, the door opened a small slit, and Lockhart's eyes looked out warily. Seeing that it was Harry and Ron, he reluctantly opened the door and let them in.

His office has been almost emptied...... Everything was thrown into the big suitcase, and the door didn't close yet. Sure enough, as Professor McGonagall had expected, Lockhart was already planning to escape.

"Hmm...... Don't worry, school is going to close tomorrow," he said, plucking his large and small picture frames from the wall. "I'm making some preparations, you see, I've got a lot of stuff. By the way, didn't Minerva let you stay in the break room honestly? Now is not the time for you to make a name for yourself, Harry, even if you want to be famous, you have to save your life~"

"I didn't want to be famous!" Harry yelled angrily, "I just came to ask you where that secret room is!" ”

Lockhart's hand froze suddenly.

"The Chamber of Secrets? Harry," his lips quivered, "I don't understand what you mean...... What does a secret room, you ask? It's dangerous there, and the monsters will kill you! As a professor, I have a responsibility to prevent—"

"Don't pretend to be confused!" Harry interrupted him impatiently, "Don't talk about me like a professor, there is such an evil thing at work in the castle right now, your first instinct is to run away...... You don't qualify to be called a professor at all. ”

Lockhart looked surprised, and he muttered in a panic.

"Escape? You can't be so innocent......"

"What innocence! We're going to see you pack your bags and get ready to run away! ”

Lockhart's face was red, and he couldn't speak. "Evacuation, evacuation cannot be considered escape...... It's just a desperate move! As a celebrity, can it be called running away to protect yourself in a crisis situation? I believe that my role in living is certainly much greater than that of a martyr...... You see, there are so many small towns and villages waiting for me to save. ”

"Tell as if everything in your book is true!" Ron looked at him coldly.

"Of course those are true!"

Immediately afterward, Harry and Ron heard the most brazen speech in the world...... It's a shame that Hermione still adores this good-for-nothing guy so much! Everything that co-authored him was plagiarized from someone else! They stared blankly at Lockhart, explaining what a truly meaningful 'struggle' was, as ants moved to stuff the box with debris that would never fill up like Parvati's pocket.

He ping-pong locked the box, then drew his wand and turned to look at them.

"I'm sorry boys, it's nice to tell me what I'm really talking about, but I also need to keep my secret, or who wants to read a book written by a thief who is stealing everywhere? So—"

Almost as soon as he tried to move, two red rays of light flew out. One of them knocked Lockhart back two steps, and the wand was thrown away, only to be caught by Ron. The other slammed crookedly on the table, sending letters from his fans flying all over the sky.

"Oh my God, I've done my best to keep it under control, this is ...... the damn wand" Ron looked at his sparkling wand, which had just almost hit Harry.

They looked at Lockhart with sharp eyes, and he seemed to look even more haggard.

"Yes, you won." He said, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"We don't need you to go on an adventure with us, in fact you're just going to die for nothing. Just tell us where the secret room is! We'll do the rest ourselves! ”

"But I don't know where the secret room is......"

Lockhart leaned weakly against the box, curled up. "It's true, what I told Pomona was just bragging. I could swear! ”

…………

The office door slowly pushed open, revealing Brandy's bloated figure from the void, holding a large pile of colorful boxes in his arms and three buckets in his other hand.

"Is it all done? We've got to get some of it! He looked at Lockhart, who was huddled to the side, and said quickly.

He was answered by Harry and Ron's embarrassed eyes.

"Probably have to wait a minute, Brandy...... Harry said awkwardly, "something is wrong, Lockhart doesn't seem to have a word of truth out of his mouth - he doesn't know where the Chamber of Secrets is." ”