Chapter 52: The Parseltongue

Lockhart, who walked off the stage, said to Harry and Malfoy on stage, "One, two......"

Before he could count to three, Malfoy quickly raised his wand and shouted, "Oolong out of the hole!"

A huge poisonous snake suddenly appeared on the stage. It looked around with its tongue sticking out, and Lockhart's face was not very good. He had seen the snake, which was highly venomous and difficult to treat.

"Harry, don't move." Snape looked at the snake on the stage and said to Harry, who was attacked.

Harry didn't listen to Snape, and a strange sound came out of his mouth. He seemed to be trying to talk to the viper.

Yang Su understood what was coming out of Harry's mouth, and he tried to persuade the snake to be quiet, then turned to wrap itself around Malfoy. But Yang Su didn't understand the snake's response.

But the snake didn't listen to Harry, after all, it was a magic cast by Malfoy. And not to go back and attack Malfoy. But it was still very affectionate to climb up to Harry.

The performance of one man and one snake stunned everyone, and a lot of news broke through the hall that would give Harry a headache: "Harry is a parseltongue, he may be a descendant of Slytherin!" ”

Watching Harry's actions, Snape stepped onto the stage. With a wave of his wand, a dark green light shot at the viper. And made it turn into fly ashes.

Harry was unhappy with Snape's behavior, but he saw the corners of Snape's mouth curled up, and the smile that didn't make Harry feel creepy.

At this point, Ron dragged Harry off the stage. Together with Hermione, he and Harry ran quickly to the dormitory.

When they were sure there was no one nearby, Ron asked, "Harry! You're a parseltongue! Why didn't you tell us about this! ”

"Parseltongue?" Listening to Ron's words, Harry looked puzzled, he had never heard a friend say the word. "Ron, I don't understand what you're talking about?"

"Parseltongue, just talking to snakes," Hermione thought Harry explained.

"Oh, this one." Listening to Hermione's explanation, Harry smiled and said, "This is the second time I've spoken to a snake, the last time was at the zoo, I was chatting with a python and it told me he had never been to Brazil. Shouldn't this be a common thing among wizards? ”

"No, Harry." Looking at Harry's expression, Ron said solemnly, "It's not an ordinary skill. And Harry, it's a terrible thing. ”

"How is this possible, I think it's good." Harry didn't believe Ron's words, he didn't think there was anything wrong with knowing a language. And snakes are not as scary as ordinary people say.

"I was the one who stopped the snake from running around."

"Oh, that's what you said to him?"

"What do you mean by that? Oh, and you were there. You heard me. "I hear you speak in a parseltongue," said Ron, "the language of snakes." We didn't understand what you were saying. ”

"It's nothing, the worst part is that being able to talk to snakes is Salazar Slytherin's famous skill. So, the symbol of the Slytherin school is a snake. That's when Hermione interjected.

Harry's mouth opened wide.

"Exactly," Ron said, "now, the whole school thinks you're his great-great-great-great-great-grandchild or something......

"You may be considered the heir of Slytherin, transferred to Slytherin or expelled from ......"

"No, I belong to Gryffindor. Not even a Slytherin heir! The Headmaster wouldn't go to Slytherin with me just because I'm a parseltongue. ”

"Alright, let's go back and rest first. We'll know what happens. Our polyjuice potion is almost finished, so if you catch the true Slytherin heir, at least you won't have to worry about being expelled for assaulting your classmates. ”

The next morning, the snow that had been falling since the night turned into a violent blizzard. This semester is also coming to an end with the arrival of this heavy snowfall. Christmas is coming.

Yang Su's courses this semester were also finished, and on this day, he came to the forbidden book area to read books in his spare time.

I heard a few Hufflepuff students in the library whispering there, as if discussing something.

"Harry Potter is definitely a descendant of Slytherin, he's a parseltongue. Everyone knows that this is the sign of a dark wizard. Have you ever heard of a decent wizard who can talk to a serpent? They call Slytherin himself a serpent. ”

"Remember what was written on the wall?" Those who are enemies of the heirs, be wary. Potter and Filch got into a fight, and soon we learn that Filch's cat had been killed. Creevey, a first-year student, annoyed Potter during a Quidditch match and photographed him while he was lying in the mud. We then learned that Creevey had also been killed. Every victim had a conflict with Harry. ”

"He always seemed so friendly, though." A girl responds by saying that Harry is a Slytherin heir. She said: "And, by the way, he was the one who made the mysterious man disappear. He can't be that bad, right?"

"No one knows how he escaped death when he was attacked by a mysterious person. Everyone knows that he was just a baby. He should have been blown to pieces. Only the most powerful Dark Wizard could escape such a spell. The man's voice came out again, and he said, "Probably because of this, the mysterious person wants to kill him first, and he doesn't want another 'demon' to compete with him." I don't know what other spells Potter is hiding from you. ”

"Ahem~" The other party's words became more and more unpleasant, and even Yang Su, who was a bystander, couldn't stand it anymore. He walked out of the bookshelf in the forbidden area and said, "Guys, I remember the headmaster explaining it to everyone as to how Harry Potter escaped. It is recorded in the last few verses of the history of modern magic in the nightmare of the wizarding world. I hope that no one should maliciously speculate about others. I don't think your dean would want that from you. ”

Listening to Yang Su's words, the man in front of him lowered his head, but he still couldn't listen to Yang Su's words. After Yang Su left, he continued to spread the news about Harry.

Yang Su, who left the library, did not go back to reprimand the student because he ran into Hagrid. He walked down the hallway of the castle with a dead rooster. His face was obscured by a woollen helmet hat stained with snowflakes, but it could have been none other than him, for the mole-skin tunic almost completely filled the corridor.

"Hey, Robin. Can you help me see how it died? I'm going to find out the cause of its death. This is already the second time. I think I should ask the headmaster to help cast a spell to keep the chicken shed, otherwise all the chickens will die and there will be no fresh eggs. ”

But when the two turned a corner, they saw a shocking scene.

Justin Finielly lay on the floor, cold and stiff, a look of horror fixed on his face, his eyes glazed on the ceiling.

And that's not all, there was another figure next to him, it was the almost headless Nick, who was no longer milky and transparent, but black, smoky, and motionless, suspended six inches above the ground. Half of his head was off, and he had the same horrified expression on his face as Justin.

"Hagrid, it looks like you're going to get your chicken shed a little late. It's really a lot of trouble these days. Another victim, not two, if the ghost is also human. ”

"I'll go to the Headmaster, you're watching here, Hagrid. lest the murderer come again. ”

With that, Yang Su teleported himself to Dumbledore's office.

Peeves approached from around the corner, and he looked at the massive Hagrid occupying almost the entire hallway and smiled and said, "Oh, Hagrid. How did you get to the castle? You look bad, what's behind you? ”

As he spoke, he passed through Hagrid's body and saw a scene that frightened him, and he screamed in terror, "Again! The heir has done it! Neither humans nor ghosts are immune! Run for your life! Let's do it!"

It wasn't over yet, he looked at Hagrid and remembered something a long time ago. Again in a panic, he shouted: "It's you, it's you!" Hagrid is you killing them, isn't it! Spare me! I promise I won't say anything! ”

"Peeves!" This will be when Yang Su came with Dumbledore. At the same time, Peeves' screams ushered in a lot of students and several other professors.

Yang Su looked at the panicked and incoherent Peeves and said loudly, "The murderer is not Hagrid, he was with me just now. ”

And just then, the Hufflepuff student who had just said that Harry was the heir came out, and he pointed at Harry and said, "It's you, Harry!" I remember Fenrery telling you that he was Muggle-born. ”

"Ernie, you can't slander your classmates without evidence." Professor McGonagall, who listened to the man's words, was also summoned by Peeves' screams.

"Harry is a parseltongue, that's what the whole school knows! He hid until yesterday and didn't show it! Who knows why he's hiding this all the time! ”

"It's none of my business!" Listening to the other party's words, Harry felt that he was wronged, he had just gone out with Ron to go to the library, and he was slandered as a murderer.

"Parseltongue alone doesn't mean anything." That's when Dumbledore exited. "Let's all go back. Harry, Hagrid, you two come to my office. Robin, I'm sorry you could drop off Nick and Finreli in my office after a trip. ”

"No problem." As he spoke, Yang Su activated the magic and connected the spatial nodes under his feet. In an instant, he appeared in the hospital with Finreiry and Nick.

When he appeared in the Headmaster's office, Dumbledore was chatting with Harry and Hagrid.

"Headmaster, you know, neither Harry nor I ......"

"Hagrid, I know. I believe in Harry, just as I believed in you then and still do. I just want to tell you that I will always believe that you will not be descendants of Slytherin. ”

"What about me, Headmaster." Listening to Dumbledore's words, Yang Su walked out of the crack and asked with a smile.

Looking at Yang Su who walked out, Dumbledore smiled and said to Hagrid and Harry, "You guys go back first, I have something to talk about with Professor Robin." ”

With Hagrid and Harry leaving, Yang Su found a place to sit down, looked at Dumbledore and asked, "Is there a clue?" The Horcrux that entered the school can't let him appear again. Unless we can kill that monster, monster, I think the student said that Salazar Slytherin was a parseltongue. Is this true? ”

"That's right, Robin, what's wrong with that?"

"If you think about Salazar Slytherin as a parseltongue, shouldn't the monster he arranged to guard the Chamber of Secrets be a snake?"

"Wake up Robin, no snake can live for a thousand years, and even if it expands its scope to magical creatures, there are only a few."

"Of course you can't be a normal magical creature, but Salazar Slytherin is a dark wizard. Do you think he hasn't done any experiments to modify magical creatures? I'm going to have to look it up,"

With that, Yang Su opened the passage and left the principal's office.

"What are you doing in such a hurry, I still have something to say." As he spoke, Dumbledore took out a dusty file that had been sealed for a long time, and it contained some things about Tom Riddle's school. "I'll give it to him later, I don't expect him to find anything from here anyway."

At this time, Yang Su, who was in the library, found the information he was looking for.

Basilisk, a snake-like magical creature with an emerald green body, is actually fundamentally different from a poisonous snake. For a long time, there have been only a few records of basilisks. Legend has it that it comes from a magic egg laid by a seven-year-old rooster when Sirius was in the sky and hatched by a toad. Its gaze is the most dangerous weapon of attack: any creature that interacts directly with its gaze will be killed instantly, and creatures that intersect indirectly (such as seen in a mirror) will be petrified. As long as the food is sufficient, the basilisk can usually live for a long time

The first recorded basilisk was bred by "Hellbo the Mean", a Greek dark wizard with a parseltongue. After many experiments, this person discovered that if a small hen egg was incubated under the body of a toad, a dangerous snake with extraordinary abilities would hatch...... Although it is not explicitly stated, it is recorded that the basilisk's skin has the same armor properties as the dragonskin, reflecting spells that hit it, and only its eyes and mouth are the only weak points of defense.

"That's right, this is it, I finally found the identity of that monster, as long as I kill it, at least I can return Hagrid's innocence."

Looking at the information about the basilisk recorded in the book, Yang Su felt very happy. There is a high probability that this powerful black magic snake creature that can live for a long time is the monster in the secret room.

After taking the book and saying hello to Madame Pacing, Yang Su teleported himself back to Dumbledore's room.

(End of chapter)