"This is the third case of injury, counting the faculty," Mr. Rozier said, with his hand on his forehead, "and the measures you set up before have not worked?" ”

Dumbledore sighed, "It's my carelessness for a long time, there have been no attacks for a long time, and many of the martial law measures at Hogwarts have been relaxed. ”

Dumbledore was not only the Headmaster of Hogwarts, he was also the President of the International Confederation of Wizards, the rotating councilor of the Order of Merlin, and the Chief Mage of the Wizengamot, England, the latter being an honorary title - in most cases, Dumbledore would not be involved in the affairs of the British Ministry of Magic, otherwise the Minister would be even more jealous of his existence.

Even so, Dumbledore was still like a trapeze, traveling around the world every day to attend a series of meetings, and he would not stop from time to time, even if he was the strongest wizard in the world today, he only had 24 hours a day, and there was not much energy left for Hogwarts.

Mr. Selwyn's face remained grim, "Albus, this is your dereliction of duty. ”

"Don't be so serious," Lucius Malfoy said, "None of the students are seriously injured......

"Fortunately," Mr. Selwyn snorted, "Albus, if any more students are injured, we'll have to get the Ministry of Magic involved, and your headmaster position will be up in the air." ”

Dumbledore was silent for a long time, "Can the issue of school closures be put on the table again?" ”

It's not that he doesn't have the confidence to deal with the Slytherin heir, but the stake is the safety of the students at Hogwarts, Dumbledore will not gamble and dare not bet, and the safest way now is to close the school and let the students return home.

"Come on, Albus," said Mr. Greengrass, the school director, who disagreed with the proposal, "and not to mention that there are only three months left before the end of the school year, and if you close the school and wait until the school starts in September, will the person behind it act again?" ”

"The priority now is to find the murderer," agrees Mr. Rozier, who has not seen him for months, and his dark circles are getting worse and will soon evolve into a panda. ”

Several school directors demanded that the murderer be found as soon as possible while ensuring the safety of the students, but Dumbledore did not raise any objections, and the sooner the negative impact had not spread to the outside world, the better it would be to learn about the matter.

Now that the restrictions on the Hogwarts campus have returned to their previous intensity, professors must escort students to the door of the common room after class, two or more people must go out, and prefects and student council presidents have taken action to look after the younger students.

"The two injured students are both from Gryffindor," Eddie said in the common room, pulling his fingers, "who has the worst relationship with Gryffindor?" ”

"Slytherin!" Alan gave full play to the role of praise.

"That's right!" Eddie snapped his fingers, "The heir of Slytherin, of course, is a Slytherin!" ”

Many of the students around them agreed, and they then speculated about who the murderer of the classmate was.

Haylis is staying in the self-study area to learn business management knowledge, and she successfully passed the assessment of the Selwyns during the Christmas holiday, which strengthened the Selwyns' intention to make Hayries the next head of the Selwyn family, and she must work harder at this time to live up to her parents' expectations.

"The Exotic Reclamation of Vegetable Skeletons"

Joel sat on the couch with a frown, worried about Riddle's diary, and now all the evidence pointed to Lockhart, who was on the Hogwarts campus at the time of each attack, and no one could give Lockhart's alibi.

Joel was thinking about it when a milky white ghost suddenly appeared in her field of vision, she was very tall, and she was 1.75 meters tall - the ghost's normal body was about the same height as before her death, and her face was noble and elegant, she was the ghost of Ravenclaw College, Lady Gray.

Joel also knows her other, more famous name – Helena Ravenclaw.

Ms. Gray circled around the common room, watching the students discuss enthusiastically, bored, sitting on a couch by herself, staring straight at Ravenclaw in the center of the common room, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Ms. Gray?" Joel stepped forward.

Lady Gray gave him a blank look.

"I'm a third-grader......" Joel introduced himself.

"I know you." Miss Gray glanced at his face again, and spoke, her voice clear, "Joel Taylor, Philius and I have mentioned you, and I know your parents. ”

After three years in Ravenclaw, Joel knew how cold Ms. Gray usually was, and she hardly interacted with her classmates, except when she came across a topic of great interest.

Joel had never spoken to Ms. Gray before, and this was the first time she had ever spoken to her.

Now that Ms. Gray has handed over the topic, Joel naturally won't miss it, "Can you talk to me about them, I've never met them before......"

Lady Gray's eyes often wandered on Joel's face, and she had a good conversation today, and she talked a lot, "Your father was a true genius in the theory of charms, and he was very advanced in some of his thoughts, I remember that he had developed new spells when he was in school, and he almost blew up the Ravenclaw common room. ”

"Your mother ......," said Lady Gray, pausing slightly, "I can't judge her. ”

"What do you mean? I don't understand, is she special? Joel's timely expression of doubts and curiosity was a step-by-step exchange that would give Ms. Gray as much satisfaction as possible and help the conversation continue.

Miss Gray nodded, "Very special, or more appropriately quirky." ”

"I don't have much contact with her, but she always has strange words coming out of her mouth, what a hook ......," muttered Ms. Gray, "but that doesn't affect her popularity at school, and a lot of boys like her......"

"Miss Gray, I take the liberty of interrupting you," Joel breathed a little shorter as she heard the word hook from Miss Gray's mouth, "do you know that she is close to a gentleman named Lovegood?" He also graduated from Ravenclaw. ”

"Lovegood?" Ms. Gray nodded, "Seems to be on good terms." ”

"I don't know the specifics, after all, I don't communicate much with the students." Lady Gray tilted her head slightly, looking haughty and self-assured.

"But you're willing to talk to me about these ......" Ms. Gray peeked at his face more than once during the previous conversation, and Joel didn't recommend sacrificing his beauty at this time, he lowered his posture as much as he could, and said in a sincere tone.

"Naturally, it's because you're special," Lady Gray snorted rather arrogantly, looking at Joel's handsome face again, "You're a lot like a boy I met earlier......"

Joel was creepy, "What do you mean by that?" facial features? ”

He had suspected more than once that the father of the original owner of the body was cuckolded by Voldemort, and that the man with a sloppy beard on his graduation photo would have such a handsome and handsome son as him?

Miss Gray shook her head slightly, "Something indescribable......

She kept her mouth shut, clearly not wanting to continue the conversation.

"Do you know about the backroom incident that has been going on lately?" Joel certainly wouldn't be left unnoticed, and he moved on to another topic, and the students in the middle of the common room ended their discussion of the suspect and switched to playing wizard chess.

“…… I don't know," replied Miss Grey crisply, "Salazar Slytherin had already left the castle when I was born, and the Chamber of Secrets, if it existed, was built before that. ”

"But I heard that the Chamber of Secrets was opened 50 years ago?" Joel was not satisfied with such a result, "And a student died for this? ”

"yes, yes......" Ms. Gray was not very interested in the subject, and she focused her attention on Joel's face.

It doesn't seem to be any worse than the kid from fifty years ago.

"The Ravenclaws believe that seeing is believing," explained Ms. Gray, "that the student was killed by a monster in the chamber, but after months of searching could not find any clues, he was hastily seized by a man and expelled him, and in the end no one saw what the monster in the chamber looked like." ”

"Maybe it's just a gimmick created by some people to cover up the fact of the killing." Ms. Gray was dismissive.

At this point in the conversation, Joel didn't think he could get any valuable news out of Ms. Gray's mouth, and he saw that Haylis was already packing her backpack, so he offered to take his leave.

"If you encounter something you don't understand in the future, spells, transfiguration...... You can come to me," said Ms. Gray, "and I know a lot. ”

In fact, she is an out-and-out face control, not to be greedy for other people's bodies, but to face a beautiful face before she can be interested in conversation, so sometimes she can talk to herself in the mirror all day.

Blessed by Touyankong, many students in history have been taught from her, including but not limited to Tom Riddle and Albus Dumbledore.

Joel had no doubts about Lady Gray's words, she had lived in Hogwarts for hundreds of years, and as a true Ravenclaw descendant, she didn't spend her days having fun or feeling sorry for herself like other ghosts, but was always tirelessly absorbing new knowledge, and who knows how much she knew.

"I'll be here often," Joel bowed slightly, "thank you for teaching me tonight." ”

Meanwhile, Harry and Ron were looking for news of the Slytherin heir, and the two of them decided to visit the petrified Hermione in the medical wing, so that Madam Pomfrey finally agreed to let them in for a while.

Hermione lay unresponsive on the bed facing the two best friends at the head of the bed, Ron wiped the corners of his eyes, and Ginny Weasley was still lying on the bed next door.

The injuries of his friend and sister changed Ron's mind, and he was naughty and mischievous, and took Harry to Hogwarts in Mr. Weasley's modified car, and cast a curse on his classmates on the Quidditch pitch, which almost caused a tragedy; Now Ron's mind is much calmer, he knows that recklessness will not solve any problems, it will only blind him.

"What is this?" Ron noticed Hermione's palms clenching unnaturally, and through the gap he sensed something was wrong, "Harry, you help me break Hermione's right hand." ”

Harry was confused, and Ron blocked the view to death, he couldn't see the strangeness in Hermione's hands.

It took a great deal of effort for the two of them to break apart Hermione's petrified fingers one by one, revealing a small, white palm.

In addition to the marks left by the nails, there was an ink mark on the palm of the hand, and a letter was written, and the handwriting was sloppy, and it was obvious at a glance that it had been written in a hurry.

Harry frowned, "This is an S?" ”

The ink had been left for quite some time, and the ink had dried up for Harry and Ron to tell the difference.

"Hermione must have done it on purpose," Ron was sure, based on his intimate knowledge of Hermione, "She never wasted her time doing anything stupid - other than adoring Lockhart, which I think should be the key message she left us, and it should have something to do with the identity of the murderer." ”

“S？” Ron bit his finger, "Slytherin? What does this mean? ”

Harry took a deep breath and an incredible thought crossed his mind, "Could it be Snape?" ”

Ron's eyes widened as well, and his young forehead lines were revealed, "Wouldn't it?" When he was fighting the dueling club, he specifically told Malfoy to attack you with a snake, did he specifically force you to use a parseltongue? Let you bear everyone's suspicion? ”

Harry was stunned for a moment, "No, how did he know I knew I could Parseltongue?" ”

"Snape is the Head of Slytherin!" Ron naturally began to theorize conspiracy theories, reasoning down the path of this possibility, "He may have some crooked methods to know that you can be a parseltongue!" ”

"I knew from the beginning that Snape's old bat wasn't a good guy!"

The two of them were terrified when they thought about it, and the more they thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

If Joel had to admire the two of them here, and fortunately Snape was standing outside the medical wing now and didn't come in, if he heard that he was being slandered like this, he would probably be angry and give Ron a slap in the face.

He naturally knew that Harry knew that Harry could use the Parseltongue, and he had been secretly observing Harry all these years, and before the start of school, Harry followed the Penny family to the London Zoo, and the matter of communicating with a python in the Parseltongue naturally couldn't escape Snape's eyes.

Ron and Harry's criminal reasoning seems to have reached a dead end, and the two of them learned that Snape and Flitwick were in Stockholm for the Merlin Awards ceremony on the night they learned that Ginny was injured, and there was no time to commit the crime at all.

Soon, though, they make new discoveries, and the participants include Ron's old acquaintance, Joel Taylor.