When Joel opened his eyes again, he was already stepping on the luxurious carpet of his office, the setting sun outside the window was casting its last rays on the ground, and the cubicle they were in was silent.

"It's ......" Joel had never been to this cubicle, and his first reaction when he came to an unfamiliar environment was to protect Helis in his arms.

Fawkes tossed them aside, paws on the bookshelf and looked up 45° up at the sky, his obsidian eyes striking the eye.

"This is Professor Dumbledore's dormitory, you can rest for a while," Professor McGonagall got up from the floor, straightening her messy bun, "the Headmaster is in a meeting with the Board of Trustees. ”

Professor Flitwick patted the dust on his body and conjured up several wooden chairs for the group.

Joel sat in his chair and observed Professor Dumbledore's bedroom, a single bed with purple sheets and purple duvet covers...... It was the first time Joel had noticed that Dumbledore was so fond of purple, with a large wardrobe tightly closed, a few pairs of boots of different styles under the bed, and a few plants growing well on the windowsill.

At this time, the argument outside the compartment became louder and louder.

"Dumbledore!" It was the voice of Mr. Selwyn, Hayris's father, "I warn you, don't go too far! ”

"My son and daughter are in the dark and their lives are uncertain, how did you, the Headmaster of Hogwarts, be!"

"Don't be too nervous," said Mr. Rozier's voice, "Bernie and Haylis will surely be safe." ”

Dumbledore's voice was low and magnetic, "Selwyn, I have to admit that the whole thing was my dereliction, but it wasn't what I wanted, and I have two professors who have gone underground, and they will probably take care of this." ”

"I don't quite understand what Mr. Malfoy did," Dumbledore continued, his tone as calm as if he were discussing whether to have stewed or fried fish tonight, "If you hadn't dragged me to have a board meeting, I would have been underground to help the students out of trouble." ”

"Dumbledore," Lucius Malfoy finally revealed his true colors, a triumphant smile curling the corners of his lips slightly, "Ten of our school directors have been here for your position as Headmaster. ”

"As of today, a total of one staff member and two students have been petrified, one staff member has recovered from injuries, and five students and a professor are missing," Lucius pulled out a document from his pocket, "This is beyond our patience, this is a vote to remove you from your position as president, please take a look." ”

Four of the school directors signed their names on the document without looking at it, and the rest looked at each other, and everyone couldn't make up their minds.

"This is a very vicious incident!" Malfoy knew that several of the school trustees were neutral, and they did not take sides with either Dumbledore or Malfoy, and all Malfoy had to do was put pressure on him, "Didn't we warn Dumbledore before, but did he do it?" Regardless of this, the prevention and control measures on campus did not ensure the safety of students at all! ”

"Even at such a critical juncture, he has to go to the United States on the other side of the ocean to speak at international conferences!" Lucius Malfoy was triumphant, he was sure that he would be able to pull Dumbledore off the horse this time, "Isn't it a dereliction of duty that he didn't rush back to Hogwarts to deal with the missing students and injured staff in the first place?" ”

Several neutral school directors also wavered, and they thought for a moment and signed their names on the voting form, "Albus, you have too many responsibilities, I don't doubt your ability to work, but you don't seem to be able to handle such a busy business at the same time, it may not be a good choice to take a break for a while." ”

The head of the Selwyn family also did not hesitate to sign his name on it, "If anything happens to Helis and Bernie underground, I will definitely not be done with you, Dumbledore!" ”

"This is the only remaining bloodline of the Selwyn family! Don't you want our Selwyns to die? Mr. Selwyn was furious at the thought of this.

The head of the Greengrass family was still playing a round game, "Should everyone be calm, isn't there no fatal accident yet?" The staff and students have been petrified, and it will take two months for the mandrakes to be fully ripe before we can make potions, and then we will not only be able to save the students, but also find out the information about the murderer. ”

Dumbledore took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose, he was responsible for this, the long journey back to Hogwarts from New York had already consumed most of his magic, even if he followed a few professors underground, it would not help, he simply let his pet Fawkes go underground, trying to bring the students and professors to the surface safe and sound.

There was a soft knock on the door to the cubicle.

Professor Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, and quickly used his magic power to sense his pet, and his heart was overjoyed.

He opened the door and saw that his students and professors were all sitting honestly in their chairs, Professor McGonagall's hair was still in the same bun, but the emerald green robe was covered with dust, and his usual serious face had softened a little, and Fawkes was still sitting on the bookshelf looking up at the sky and pretending to be melancholy.

"Sir," Dumbledore sighed, "the students and professors have already returned, safe and sound. ”

"What?" Mr. Selwyn reacted violently, and rushed forward to see his daughter being held in Joel's boy's arms, and his son Bernie lying unconscious on the ground, with a broken left arm.

But it's okay, at least not dead.

Mr. Selwyn regained his composure and snatched Haylis from Joel's arms.

"Dad......" Helis couldn't help but feel a little guilty when she saw her father's reddened eyes and haggard face, "I'm not hurt, Joel protects me well." ”

She didn't forget to ask her boyfriend for credit.

"What? How could it be ......" Lucius also rushed up when he heard the news, he couldn't believe it, how could someone have escaped from the secret room? Could it be ......

"The First Evolution"

"What do you mean, Mr. Malfoy?" Lockhart's face turned pale, and he stood up straight, "Do you want us to die underground?" ”

Lucius gritted his teeth in denial, and the corners of his mouth forcibly opened an arc, "Of course not, I'm very happy to see that you are all safe and sound." ”

He knew that the long-planned operation to force the palace had completely failed, and that several students were not seriously injured, and it was impossible to use them as evidence for Dumbledore's impeachment.

"Great," the head of the Greengrass family also showed a smile on his face, the Greengrass family shops are all over Europe, and they uphold the principle of harmony and wealth, as long as the problem is not big, it is the right to treat nothing as if nothing happened, "Everyone is harmonious, how good it is to sit down and talk." ”

Professor Flitwick removed the chair from the dormitory, and Haylis tried to find Joel, but was held back by Mr. Selwyn.

"Your wound hasn't been medicated yet," he said, "I'll help you stop the bleeding, and we'll go straight to St. Mungo's later." ”

Joel and Lockhart spoke as representatives, telling the truth about everything that was happening underground.

"You say it's Bernie's fault?" Mr. Selwyn was furious when he heard this, and he looked at Bernie, who was slumped unconscious in his chair beside him, and a clear water curse hit his son in the face.

The powerful current of water woke Bernie straight from his slumber, and he wiped his face, his eyes glazed over, and he glanced around the people around him, and only reacted when he saw his father's gloomy face.

"Rebel!" Mr. Selwyn went up and slapped Bernie with a gold star in his eyes.

"Selwyn!" Rozier hurriedly stepped forward and pulled down his friend, "You calm down, don't hit the child!" ”

"You guy who can't do enough to do more than he can lose!" Mr. Selwyn slapped his son in public and was also dizzy in anger, thinking about it carefully, it was indeed uneducated, he calmed down, sat in the chair, his chest rose and fell violently, obviously angry.

"Mr. Selwyn," Dumbledore said softly, with the black notebook in front of him with a large hole in the center, "can you tell me how you and this Riddle have been constructed...... Friendship? ”

Dumbledore thought for a moment, but chose to use the word friendship.

"I ......" Bernie hesitated for a moment, seeing the monstrous anger on his father's face, he still told everything, he thought that he had no real friends at Hogwarts, even Haylis didn't care about him, and in his loneliness he found a notebook of unknown origin, curious, he opened the notebook, wrote and drew on it, but he didn't expect to get a response from the notebook.

Feeling that he had discovered some kind of treasure, Bernie began to communicate frequently with Riddle in the diary, who was a master of playing with people's hearts, and it didn't take much effort to mobilize the negative emotions in Bernie's mind and make him obey his orders.

"You say we don't care about you?" After listening to her brother's statement, Haylis was furious, "Bernie Selwyn! I think I'm not qualified to be a sister at all, right? ”

Bernie bowed his head and said nothing.

Haylis sneered, "Just because of the conflict at the beginning of the school year, I asked you to apologize to your Muggle classmates in public, and just because I didn't agree to your excessive request on Valentine's Day, and wrote you love letters pretending to be your admirer, you think I'm an incompetent sister?" ”

"You can't be too many, can you, Bernie?"

"It's true that you're my brother, but I can't favor you in the face of right and wrong! That is the indulgence of you and the fact that you go further and further down the wrong path! ”

The words were loud, and Bernie, who was smashed, had no power to refute.

"Bernie, I never expected you to do such a thing," Mr. Selwyn shook his head, "how many more surprises are you going to give me after insulting my classmates?" ”

The look of disappointment was palpable, he felt that it was a wise move to deprive Bernie of the inheritance of the Selwyn family, if Bernie Selwyn now had the identity of the heir of the Selwyn family on his head, the cause of trouble would definitely be much bigger than now.

"Thanks to Mr. Taylor and Professor Lockhart this time," Mr. Rozier digressed, "but for the heroic performance of both of you, the children would have perished in the Chamber of Secrets." ”

"That's right," Mr. Selwyn nodded in agreement, "you two deserve a prize." ”

The smug look on Lockhart's face can't be hidden, although he didn't kill the basilisk alone to play a superhero, but he also likes this result, and a group of children killed the basilisk in the secret room, and the people who don't know the truth will definitely count the credit on his Lockhart.

"This diary ......," Joel digressed, wanting to disgust Lucius, "I think it was Mr. Lucius Malfoy, right?" ”

"This ......" Lucius saw that everyone present turned their eyes away, and his heart became more and more flustered, but decades of experience made him feel overjoyed and angry, and he said indifferently, "I forgot, maybe I accidentally put it somewhere, and Mr. Selwyn took it?" ”

"By the way," he said, as if he had come to his senses, "Mr. Selwyn was at home last September when I threw a party and invited the Selwyns, do you remember?" It is estimated that Mr. Selwyn took the diary from Malfoy Manor at that time. ”

He said it was to take it, but in fact Lucius meant stealing, and he didn't seem to know it.

This was not the case, it was all in Lucius's plan, and since he had bribed the members of the Wizengamot to acquit him, he had been plotting how to make the most of the diary in his possession.

When he heard that Bernie Selwyn had been punished for introspection at home for making a mistake at Hogwarts, he had a plan to send the journal into Hogwarts through the Selwyn kid, open the secret room, make a mess of the school, and then impeach Dumbledore and remove him from his position as Headmaster of Hogwarts.

If something happens, it will eventually affect the reputation of Malfoy's rivals, the Selwyns, killing three birds with one stone.

"Mr. Malfoy, it seems," Joel stabbed, "You kept this journal in it the last time you returned your inheritance at the Ministry of Magic, and it seems like you are particularly fond of giving away your stuff to others?" ”

The head of the Selwyn family glared at Lucius Malfoy with a sharp gaze, the school directors present were all old foxes, and there were no fools, so they could naturally judge the truth of the matter.

"Okay," the head of the Greengrass family continued to deal with the mud, he didn't want Selwin and Malfoy's family to have any business conflicts, malicious bidding would affect his business, "I see that Mr. Selwyn is still young, and his ability to distinguish between right and wrong needs to be improved, take him home and discipline him well, I see that he is still injured, let's go and treat him quickly." ”

Mr. Selwyn glared at Bernie, looked at his severed left arm, snorted coldly, and left the principal's office with his two children, not forgetting to let out cruel words before leaving, "Lucius, the Selwyn family will remember this incident." ”

"Now that the real culprit has been identified, is there nothing wrong with us?" Mr. Rozier stretched, "I need to go back and get some good sleep, Albus, and you continue to do your duties as Headmaster." ”

"No problem." Dumbledore readily agreed, and watched as several school trustees tore up the impeachment vote.