Chapter 87: Basilisk breastplate, one piece of hardware

At the beginning of the semester, there was a lot of big news at Hogwarts.

First, they encountered a Dementor on the train doing a security check, which scared a group of students.

Then came the opening banquet, the shock brought by the new professors.

After entering the formal class, the three new professors brought different feelings to the students.

On the first day of class, the new professor Hagrid's first class on protecting magical creatures had a serious teaching accident.

Draco Malfoy, a student at the Snake Academy, was injured by a Hippogriff in class and was in the school infirmary from Monday to Thursday.

Many students don't care about why Malfoy was injured, they are more concerned about whether they will get injured in class. This hurts the lion cubs, who have been going out of their way to advertise that Malfoy was the first to cause trouble.

When it comes to their own safety, especially when it is the human side that hurts between other species and humans, people are more likely to bring themselves into the same kind of side.

Coupled with the awkward applause at the opening banquet and Zhang Xu's "hehe", the students began to distrust Hagrid.

With the arrival of Lupin, Defence Against the Dark Arts became a favorite subject for many students.

Unlike Quirrell, who only knew how to study the year before last and ended up becoming the boss of the year, and Lockhart, who only performed on stage last year and was arrested by the Ministry of Magic for releasing a basilisk, Lupin's way of teaching was loved by the students.

The students are neither reading books in a dry way nor performing on a flashy stage, but are actually playing monsters.

Start with the Boggart. Then there are magical creatures such as red hats and kaba, and the lively and interesting teaching methods make Professor Lupin popular with the students.

And this year's 5th and 7th graders are also happy to have met a reliable Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, because they will be taking the O.W.Ls and N.E.W.TS exams this year. The exams in the first two years were hard enough on the exams of this course.

Due to Professor Lu Ping's excellent performance, Zhang Xu's remarks at the opening banquet that he had the strength to take over as the dean of the Lion Academy were also recognized by many students in the Lion Academy.

When the student who had a good thing met Dumbledore and asked him about it, the elder Deng smiled and said nothing, leaving a lot of room for the students' imagination.

Naturally, there was a murmur, "The previous year's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor was a dark wizard, and last year's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor was a liar, so what is this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts professor?" Maybe it's a werewolf? "Malfoy and his gang of Slytherin people speak ill of Professor Lupin.

Well, boy, you've got the truth.

In the Muggle studies class, the students were carefully prepared by Zhang Xu to "drink the head", which made many students from wizarding families begin to "open their eyes to Muggles".

In the following class, Zhang Xu led the students to learn how to use a variety of Muggle appliances that were considered "magical" in the eyes of wizards. Of course, it's all magical, and traditional appliances can't be used in Hogwarts, but they're all the same anyway.

In the second class, each student has a telephone set in front of their seat and a phone book next to it, so that students can call other students in the classroom by pressing the number on the phone book. In the third lesson, the students simulated a supermarket shopping.

The sixth and seventh graders were not so happy, and they were greeted by a brainstorming session that had never been seen before. As children of traditional wizard families, the knowledge of economics, scheming, and social interaction required to run a family has been studied under the guidance of the family elders for a while at their age. The knowledge of the economic, political and social aspects of the Muggle world that Zhang Xu brought with him opened a door to something they had never seen before.

What is more popular than Zhang Xu's course is the big screen in the classroom. Students clearly prefer short films of fighting basilisks, as well as documentaries that are shown during the first class.

In the face of the students' enthusiasm, Zhang Xu simply opened the Muggle Studies classroom after dinner as a small theater. In the first few days, short films of fighting basilisks and documentaries for classes were played on a loop, and later Zhang Xu simply transcribed a number of classic movies to play.

As a result, students often exclaimed, "The Lady of the Church in "The Nuns Are Crazy" when watching the movie, and Professor McGonagall, who later heard the news, also visited the Muggle Studies Theater one night.

And when Zhang Xu wanted to watch the Serie A game, except for a few Muggle-born fan wizards, the other students expressed little interest.

Under the backdrop of Lupin and Zhang Xu's excellent performance, Hagrid, who became more and more constrained in class after Malfoy's injury, became more and more incompetent in the eyes of the students.

This put Hagrid and Harry under a lot of pressure.

In addition, an incident that happened in Hogwarts Castle not long ago also made the young wizards talk about it.

It was the first Friday of September, and as the afternoon school day was ready, the students were walking towards the classroom, as usual.

The students passing by the faculty lounge suddenly heard a "boom", and the door of the faculty lounge was rushed open, and Professor Zhang, who had been in the limelight recently, ran out with a rolling belt.

Immediately afterwards, the students saw Professor Snape rush out of the faculty lounge, casting various spells on Professor Zhang who was running in front of him along the way, and Professor Zhang also fled while fighting back.

The students judged from the traces of the spells that had remained on the castle walls that Professor Snape had cast powerful spells.

The two professors went from the faculty lounge to the room of requirement, leaving the little wizards who saw them on the road confused. Fortunately, both of them had their hands and did not accidentally hurt the students.

For a while, there were different opinions about the reason for the two professors' rush.

One of the most widespread and popular legends is that two professors begged Professor Scarlett at the same time in the faculty lounge, and the two sides fought.

In the second week, Hogwarts students noticed that they had twice as many math assignments as before.

In the end, it was Dumbledore who took action and fined the two men a month's basic salary.

Soon, the truth of the matter came out, "Snape, women's clothing, video brooches".

With such a lively atmosphere on campus, coupled with the obstruction of outdoor activities, a group of energetic little wizards who have no place to vent have made a big news.

"Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets has been found?" Zhang Xu looked stunned when he heard the news.

It was the last Sunday of September, and while Zhang Xu was having breakfast, Cedric Diggory came to the table in the Eagle Courtyard and told him the news.

After the Basilisk incident last year, no one found the Slytherin Chamber where the Basilisk lived.

At the beginning of this semester, students who had participated in the actions of the previous semester were mobilized again.

After a series of developments, the two highly overlapping groups of "Tea Time" and "Hogwarts Defenders", the most influential among students, were regrouped at the end of last semester.

To put it simply, the two groups have a loose co-leadership, with the "Tea Time After School" being brain-moving, the "Hogwarts Defenders" hands-on, and the students who join both groups using their brains and hands.

In the co-leadership, Harry Potter is treated as a "double-flowered red stick", Zhang Xu is a "white paper fan", and Cedric Diggory leads several other students in charge of daily chores.

The Youth Magazine, which Percy and others set up, is currently relying on these two groups. Now the magazine is in intense preparations, striving for the launch of the inaugural issue of Halloween.

At the start of the semester, the "Tea Time After School" students began looking for work on the Slytherin Vault.

Their first target was to lock on to Myrtle's bathroom.

The basilisk murder fifty years ago, the attack on Lady Loris, and the place where the alarm first occurred at the end of last semester were all related to this place, so everyone saw this as a breakthrough.

After a carpet search, the faucet with the snake motif and the water that does not come out of the water finally came into the students' eyes.

The students don't know Parseltongue and can't open entrances, but they have ghosts to help.

Through the ghosts of Fat Friar, Nick, and other ghosts searching through the walls, they find a huge pipe under the faucet, and follow the pipe to the door of the secret room.

When Zhang Xu arrived at Myrtle's bathroom, Dumbledore, the deans of the four colleges, Lupin, and Scarlett had already arrived, Filch was at the door to stop the curious students, and Fat Friar and Nick were describing the situation of the secret room and secret passage to Dumbledore.

According to the ghosts, not far below the floor beneath the faucet were enlarged pipes.

After some research, the professors, who found that they couldn't open the entrance, still adopted Zhang Xu's advice and blew up on the floor.

Under Dumbledore's leadership, the professors got into the tubes one after another.

Two or three hours later, Dumbledore and Zhang Xu came out of the pipe.

Except for the very bright green snake skin, the group did not gain anything.