On the second night of the Dueling Club, the long table in the Hogwarts kitchen was filled with oriental-style snacks and side dishes, and everyone in the room was given a bowl of snake soup.

After a long day of boiling, the snake soup in the pot is fragrant and delicious. The house-elves used magic to separate the snake and chicken bones in the soup, and then made the snake and chicken bones fly out of the pot, so that people would not worry about getting stuck in the neck of the snake and chicken bones.

On this snowy night, a bowl of fragrant snake soup will inevitably make people's whole body feel warm and comfortable from the inside out.

Although the symbol of Slytherin House is a snake, the Slytherin students here eat with great pleasure as well.

Although there were many students chatting while eating, the atmosphere in the whole kitchen was generally dull.

The reason is that this morning, Badger House student Justin Finchrie was attacked along with Nick the ghost.

The first to discover them was Peeves. Amid Peeves' screams, students and professors who were attending classes around the scene of the crime quickly arrived.

Justin Finchrie was seen lying on the floor, cold and stiff, with a frightened look fixed on his face, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. Nick, on the other hand, was no longer milky and transparent, but black, smoky, and motionless, suspended six inches above the ground. His head fell under the corner of the hallway, his face with the same horrified expression as Justin's.

After dinner, the "Tea Time After School" group revisited the crime scene, but they did not find anything new, only to confirm that it was the same murderer who attacked Colin before.

After surveying the scene, everyone went to the kitchen and continued to analyze the attack while drinking the snake soup that had been boiling since last night.

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, the house-elves put away the soup bowls and served everyone a cup of hot ginger brown sugar tea.

At this time, everyone began to discuss enthusiastically, and it didn't take long for the two students to organize everyone to focus on the discussion.

The first question is, what is the monster in the secret room.

Originally, it was preliminarily confirmed that it was a basilisk, but today this speculation has been finally confirmed.

The person who made this confirmation, much to Zhang Xu's surprise, was Percy Weasley.

Ever since Ginny's attack, Percy has been active in the investigation, for which he has written to many Weasley relatives asking for help.

Later, a member of the Weasley family wrote back to Percy and mentioned a note in his family collection that a dark wizard had attempted to assassinate a witch with a basilisk hundreds of years earlier, and the witch who was looking in the mirror had been petrified.

Summing up this morning's attack, Percy came to a conclusion.

"Whoever the basilisk's eyes look at, he will die. But none of them died—none of them looked directly at it. Lady Loris only saw the reflection in the water that came out of the weeping Myrtle's bathroom. Colin saw it through the camera, and the basilisk scorched all the film in the camera. Justin saw the basilisk through Nick, who was almost headless. So they were all petrified, but not killed. Nick was staring at the basilisk, but he couldn't die a second time. In the first place, Ginny was attacked, probably because she saw the Slytherin heir find out about the basilisk before releasing the basilisk, and then she was attacked. Percy concluded.

Everyone in the kitchen nodded their heads, all agreeing with Percy.

Even Zhang Xu had to admire Percy's cleverness, and he actually let him analyze it.

Then, the discussion began on who the Slytherin heir was.

"I think it's Draco Malfoy." Harry began by saying, "The Malfoys are undoubtedly pure-bloods by blood, and they are very hostile to Muggles. This summer, Draco Malfoy's father, Lucius Malfoy, was defeated by a Muggle, Hermione Granger's father, Mr. Granger, at the Blotted Bookstore in Diagon Alley. During Quidditch training this year, Draco Malfoy once caused a brawl between the two houses for insulting Hermione Granger's bloodline, during which Draco Malfoy's nose was bleeding from Hermione Granger's nose. The first time Lady Loris was attacked, it was Draco Malfoy who was the first to speak up. Since the Malfoys had been defeated by the Granger family since the summer vacation, the Malfoys were justified by their anger by unleashing the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets and slaughtering Muggle-blooded students at the school. Draco Malfoy's character, as everyone should know, is a man who can't hide his thoughts, and after the first attack, everyone should see the change in his attitude. ”

After Harry finished speaking, everyone was speechless for a moment, and they felt that he seemed to have a point.

Zhang Xu also has nothing to say about this, such two guys who love and kill each other are really true love. It's a pity that Pony-san doesn't come to the party here, otherwise it would be fun now.

However, after some discussion, Harry's claim was rejected. Because many students of the magic family can guarantee that the Malfoys do not have a trace of Slytherin blood. After all, the study of bloodlines is a very serious science in the wizarding world, and there must not be the slightest mistake.

In the end, even Ron, the bloodline leader of Harry's trio, nodded, and Harry fell silent.

Then, one of the Eagle Academy students proposed a candidate that he thought was possible, but everyone didn't expect: Professor Gilderoy Lockhart.

The student's reason is very simple, because since this semester, Lockhart's performance is too far from his performance in his autobiography, not only can he not even solve the Cornish elf, but he was also scared by Zhang Xu to the point that he was stupid. And he behaved unprofessionally in class, just doing empty stage performances according to the script, and the students always talked about him left and right when they asked questions, and every time he was avoiding questions. His performance is very reminiscent of the boss of the year in the previous school year, Quirrell.

As soon as this guy's argument was thrown, the students in the audience all fried the pot.

After some discussion, the more everyone discussed, the more they felt that there was something wrong with Lockhart, and even brainless fans like Hermione began to waver.

In the end, everyone agreed that there were several possibilities. Maybe the real Lockhart has been transferred, and the Lockhart who is now at Hogwarts is fake. Maybe Lockhart was controlled by someone during his travels. Perhaps Lockhart colluded with the true Slytherin heir and used the man's token to control the monsters in the vault.

So everyone began to arrange to start a secret investigation of Lockhart, according to the location of various events in Lockhart's autobiography, arranged for the families of students living nearby to investigate, and interviewed every person who appeared in the book. The investigation of the Tibetan snowman incident was taken care of by Zhang Xu.

The development of events left Zhang Xu speechless, and the wheels of history gradually rolled towards a ditch.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Xu gave up thinking and let's finish this Christmas holiday first.