Chapter 40: What happened
Halloween day, Sunday (the author checked the calendar, Halloween in 1992 was Sunday). The students at Hogwarts today were talking about two things, the attack on Lady Loris last night, and the yelling letter Draco Malfoy received this morning.
Last night's conflict between Draco Malfoy and Zhang Xu, the students from the magical family in the school wrote a letter to report home as soon as they returned to the dormitory.
Even Percy wrote a letter to Mr. Weasley overnight. Don't look at the other families who regard the Weasleys as traitors, that's just for the Arthur Weasleys of nine. And the entire Weasley family is a force to be reckoned with in the wizarding world, and after the Death Eaters take control of Hogwarts, Ginny is alive and kicking around the school.
Although Draco Malfoy repeatedly claimed that it was a misunderstanding and that he was talking about Hermione Granger after returning to the common room, no one around believed him. You said something like that while staring at Zhang Xu next to the cat, you said that you didn't say it to him, who would believe it?
Saying that a wizard of a magic family is a mudblood is equivalent to denying the entire family of the other party, which is an insult and provocation to the entire family of the other party. If there is no deep hatred between the two families, they will not make such a move. What's more, it is the young patriarch of a family who says such a thing, and in the thinking of ordinary people, the words of this weight said by a person of this weight must be said with the consent of the family. Just like what the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said is the meaning of his own government, not the meaning of the spokesman himself.
That night, Lucius Malfoy received letters from various families overnight, asking if the Malfoy family was really going to work with Zhang Xu and the forces behind him, and then said that they were not involved in this matter.
I can't help but be so nervous about the families, the younger generation doesn't know, but the older generation knows, the current patriarch of the Malfoy family, Lucius Malfoy, planted sugar cane in Zhang Xu's hometown for a few years, and Draco Malfoy would run away when he put it back. Who knows if your old horse wants to take revenge back then.
The old horse, who figured out the cause and effect of the incident, was Spartan at that time, and he wanted to strangle his son to death and have another one.
As a daddy of his own son's urine, he knows that it must be his son who habitually pretends to be forced, and as a result, he pretends to be a fool.
After Lao Ma wrote to the families overnight to explain that this was the fault of the bear child's own initiative, he wrote a letter of apology to Zhang Xu in Chinese, which shows that Lao Ma did not let go of cultural learning in addition to planting sugar cane.
Finally, Lao Ma sent a roaring letter to his son, with the subject line "Cub, Abba is disappointed in you".
Early in the morning, after Zhang Xu read the letter of apology sent by Lao Ma, he looked at the Snake Courtyard in the hourglass of the academy, and suddenly lost fifty points, so he replied with a letter saying that since it was the bear child who died by himself, then he couldn't care about this matter like the bear child, as long as you discipline your bear child well in the future.
After breakfast, Zhang Xu went for a walk outside the castle, and he had to think carefully about how to bring the next rhythm.
It is to guide everyone to discover the secret of the secret room in a short time, and after the secret of Harry's parseltongue is discovered, they will form a group to go down to farm the basilisk, and finally everyone will have a happy and happy hot pot together.
Or do limited guidance to everyone, wait until a few victims appear, and then form a group to farm the basilisk when Ginny is caught, and finally everyone eats hot pot happily together.
It is not difficult to guide everyone to discover the secret room in a short period of time.
The first is to determine the existence of the Chamber of Secrets, which is simply answered by the professor in the history of magic class.
Secondly, determine the location of the secret room, as long as you dig deep into the history of the secret room, it is easy to know that the victim of the secret room opened fifty years ago was the crying myrtle, and then take the location of the previous incident as a suspicious area to conduct a thorough search, it is easy to find the faucet.
At this time, Harry probably revealed that he was a parseltongue, and then let him open the door, and he could form a team to farm the basilisk.
The problem with this plan is how to ensure the safety of students when farming basilisks, after all, basilisk eyes are too lethal.
In fact, there is an easier way to clean up the basilisk, that is, first let everyone make sure that the monster in the secret room is a basilisk, and then find a way to use the Hogwarts public address system to broadcast the rooster's crow to the whole school when the basilisk comes out, so that a few more basilisks will not be enough to eat.
As for the Horcrux notebook, as long as you get it in your hands afterwards, there are many ways to destroy it, in fact, Zhang Xu really wants to try whether equipment such as thermal power plant boilers, tens of thousands of tons of hydraulic presses and laser cutting machines can destroy Horcruxes.
If you want to follow the "plot", usually fish, occasionally burst some information, and then form a team to farm the basilisk at the last moment, it's not impossible.
But Zhang Xu never believed in the "plot", because the "plot" had already been changed by him, although the first attack was the same as the "plot", but no one can guarantee what the next development will be, maybe it is not strange that the basilisk will eat in the cafeteria when he eats one day.
It depends on whether Zhang Xu dares to bet on the "plot". Although he had no problem saving his own life, in last year's plan to farm the basilisk, the worst-case scenario was that the basilisk ran out and killed it, and finally Hogwarts was completely destroyed.
But there is also a benefit to this, that is, the basis of the current tacit understanding between Zhang Xu and Dumbledore - "Harry Potter Warrior Development Plan".
The reason why Dumbledore was able to agree with some of Zhang Xu's actions was mainly because what Zhang Xu did could help the "Harry Potter Warrior Development Plan", as long as it could play a role in cultivating Harry Potter, it was easy to say anything.
At the end of last semester, Zhang Xu teamed up to brush Quirrell, which was a test of Zhang Xu's exposure to Dumbledore, and as a result, he stepped on Dumbledore's red line, and the black face when Dumbledore came out of the magic mirror was comparable to Hermione. Fortunately, it was remedied afterwards that Harry Potter took advantage of this incident to gain a lot of prestige, which settled Dumbledore.
After that incident, Zhang Xu and Dumbledore confessed to each other, and then the two had a more tacit understanding.
Zhang Xu said to Dumbledore yesterday that he wanted to investigate, implying that he would play with Harry Potter, so Dumbledore would agree.
Zhang Xu needs to use this matter to cultivate Harry Potter, otherwise he would have gone to find Ginny's notebook a long time ago, so it would be a hundred.
Zhang Xu, who was undecided, took out a coin and decided to toss the coin.
Just as the coin was flying, Zhang Xu saw someone pulling his robe.
Zhang Xu turned his head and found that it was Jinny standing behind Zhang Xu with a blushing face.
Zhang Xu suddenly remembered something, his hand shook, and he didn't catch the falling coin, but the coin fell into an inconspicuous mouse hole in the ground.
At this time, Zhang Xu heard Ginny ask in a mosquito-like voice, "I heard Madam Pomfrey say that you helped me check my body when I was unconscious that day." ”