Chapter 136: The Rat-Throwing Trap
Louis opened his mouth, not knowing if he should be honest with Dumbledore.
He glanced at Yin Bu, who was still looking at Luna with grief uncontrollably, and Dumbledore understood, made an excuse, and left the medical wing with Louis.
"Say it." Dumbledore asked softly as he stepped out the door, knowing that Louis must know something.
Louis organized his language and said hesitantly, "Professor, do you remember when the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago?"
"Of course I do." Dumbledore's eyes flickered for a moment, as if he was reminiscing about the past, "Oh, the headmaster was still Mr. Deppert, and I was just a professor in Transfiguration."
Louis groaned for a moment and continued, "I heard that fifty years ago, the Chamber of Secrets was opened and a Muggle-born girl died?"
"Yes, the deceased was a Ravenclaw student, and I remember her name—Miss Warren." Dumbledore shook his head and sighed, "The Ministry of Magic still hasn't decided who opened the secret room and killed that girl......
"And they broke Hagrid's wand?" Louis said with a look of disgust.
"Who told you that?" Dumbledore asked, somewhat surprised, "It stands to reason that Professor McGonagall and I were the only ones who knew the secrets back then were still in Hogwarts, how did you know?"
"Is it possible...... Did the real culprit who opened the chamber tell me?" Louis smiled wistfully, quite a villain.
Catherine wrinkled her nose behind him, as if expressing her displeasure at Louis's strange appearance.
Dumbledore scratched the back of his head with a question mark on his face, and his whitebeard shook with his movements.
"The Riddler, get out of Hogwarts." Catherine said coldly.
Louis shrugged his shoulders and grinned, "Okay Professor, that's right, I picked up a journal - guess who owns it?"
Who knew that Dumbledore was relieved when he heard the diary, and took out the candy from his sleeve and stuffed it into his mouth, and the old god asked comfortably, "Is it Tom?"
"Yes...... Huh? How do you know?" Louis was shocked.
Dumbledore smacked the honey candy mysteriously, and didn't speak, and after a while, as if he had had enough enjoyment, he said leisurely, "Fifty years ago, Tom reported to the school that Hagrid had a dangerous pet and caused death, but we all know that the way the Eight-Eyed Spider kills people is generally more brutal - like Miss Warren's death, which also has a whole corpse, it is obviously not the work of the Eight-Eyed Spider."
"Since it wasn't the Eight-Eyed Spider, it's clear that I'm looking at Tom with suspicion - of course, it has something to do with my preference for Hagrid, he's not the kind of person who dares to do it."
"So...... The scheming frog keeps touching your belly?" Louis gestured as if he was holding his glasses in his hand, pointing in front of him with one hand, like some Grim Reaper schoolboy.
Dumbledore looked interested, "I didn't think you could speak Japanese?"
"I speak eight foreign languages, Professor." Louis smiled and said, "After all, people always have to improve their posture, and they can't look too good at their clothes." ….
"You're right, Louis." Dumbledore laughed heartily and said to Louis as he walked along, "Yes, there is only one truth, and that is that Tom is framing Hagrid - as for his motives, I think it is likely that he was the one who opened the secret room, and that monster was the one he raised."
"But I have no proof, and the Ministry of Magic eventually released Hagrid because there was no evidence...... But, you know the peculiar circumstances of that era, Hagrid's broken wand never had ...... Hey......"
"That's yours, Professor." Louis began to advocate for Hagrid: "You said you knew Hagrid was innocent, and the Ministry of Magic didn't have enough evidence, why didn't you vouch for him? With your strength and status, I'm afraid no one will question it, right?"
Dumbledore looked at Louis with a foolish gaze, and then said leisurely, "Louis, I really can't imagine that you can say such a thing...... Well, all I can say is that my identity is sensitive,
After I defeated Grindelwald, I was greeted not with imaginary praise or anything else, but with suspicion from the Ministry of Magic, and my words and deeds could probably become a means for them to attack me."
"It should be said that being too strong is also a distressing thing, and they are afraid that there will be another person like Grindelwald in this world, so they ......
"Then I'm not what you think." Louis sighed twice and said with a smile, "I think they don't want to have an extra emperor on their heads."
"It's good to know some things, but it's not interesting to say them." Dumbledore looked at it very openly, and he raised his shoulders indifferently: "I don't have any ambitions, and I don't want to be the emperor, the last hobby of my life, which is to run Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry well, and watch you grow up happily, that's enough."
Louis's words pierced Old Deng's old heart.
"Looks like someone has been letting Defence Against the Dark Arts class go bad...... I think my classmates are very happy in school, but how happy they are in school, how sad they cry when they meet the dark wizard." Louis pursed his lips vigorously, expressing his displeasure at Dumbledore's childlike behavior.
"Oh, that's a dereliction of duty, but isn't it you?" Dumbledore smiled kindly and asked about the journal again.
Luis briefly recounted the control of Tom's distraction, and Dumbledore did not support or oppose it, but said that it would be good to do it.
"What are you going to do with the basilisk in the secret room?" Dumbledore asked.
"There's no good way to do it for the time being, after all, you can't kill him directly." Louis said with some concern: "If we go directly to solve the problem, we may be caught by surprise, and if the real mastermind is dormant, we will lose a single clue that we can use."
"But if this snake is allowed to wreak havoc in the school, if some of my classmates die like Miss Warren, this will be the consequence...... Can you afford it?" Dumbledore asked, his eyes burning.
"Ah, this ......," Louis laughed at the paws, "Isn't there still you, Headmaster, don't say that the first two students are just petrified without your handiwork." ….
"You're quick to notice." Headmaster Dumbledore chuckled, "Yes, I can only create all kinds of coincidences to try to protect Lovegood and Clevey, so as not to make the people behind the scenes wary." He thought for a moment, and then continued, "I think your time may be running out, the school board is already ready to move, and when any more students are petrified, they will definitely work with the Ministry of Magic to pressure me to forcibly remove me from the position of principal, and before that, I hope you can find out who is secretly doing the trouble."
"I see, Professor." Louis said in a deep voice.
"Alright, without further ado, I hope your investigation goes well, my dear Louis." After Dumbledore finished speaking, he shook his palms slightly, hummed a little tune and walked away.
Looking at his back, he really looks like an old bee, especially when his mouth is still humming a song, and the sense of immediacy is too strong.
Louis shrugged, there was nothing to say, he looked at Catherine behind him, and suddenly asked, "Little Moon, do you have any ideas?"
"What can I think?" Catherine snorted softly, "If you hadn't stopped me, I would have gone to the secret room and burned that snake to ashes......
"I'm sorry, little moon, but I had to do it as a last resort." Louis sighed, and now a sense of powerlessness came over him.
Gotta get that snake soup!
A horned snake sneezed.
"I know you have a last resort." Catherine opened her arms, took Louis in her arms, and whispered in his ear, "Whatever you do, I support you......
"Little Moon ......" Louis hugged his girlfriend's soft and delicate body tightly with his backhand, sniffing Catherine's fragrant hair, and feeling this rare tranquility.
It should be said that it was much easier for Louis to move into the new office, at least the representatives of the three colleges did not have to feel awkward when they came to him again.
After all, they were not Slytherin's students, and even if Slytherin's classmates didn't dare to say anything under Louis's majesty, they were still a little cold in their attitude.
Prejudice is hard to eradicate, especially the centuries-old academy that cannot be eliminated overnight.
Louis did not expect to dispel such stereotypes.
His purpose is also to cultivate some usable people for himself, and it is not a good thing for his subordinates to be too united.
No leader likes that the people under his command are monolithic, of course, this kind of words can't be said on the surface, if you really believe in some "harmony" nonsense, then there are ghosts.
As long as there are people, there must be disputes.
Sitting in his office, Louis liked the feeling, and he had Amerys buy a lot of philosophy books from the Muggle world, one to fill his shelves, to replenish his knowledge from time to time, and to show the Sorting Hat.
Old Hat was dusty on the bookshelf in the principal's office, and it was time to have some fun with him.
If people don't think, their brains will be ossified, and hats don't think, and it's the same thing - who is talking about this? Have you ever seen a hat that can think? ….
Louis, who had no clue about the attack, was holding a book and was about to go to the Headmaster's office to check out the Sorting Hat, but as soon as he went out, he bumped into Draco.
"Draco? What's wrong?" Louis dodged the reckless Draco, who stumbled to the ground and cracked.
Ignoring the pain, he handed Louis last week's "Singing Against the Tune."
"Look, Louis, what ...... I found," Draco said to Louis with grinning teeth but excited.
Luis took the magazine and found it to be as anti-tune as ever—the protagonists of this issue were clearly Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart, our professor of the Defence Against the Dark Arts, and our Louis, who was in the limelight.
The article uncharacteristically did not contradict the Daily Prophet, but focused on criticizing Lockhart, saying that he was not worthy of his name, embroidered pillows, and golden, and almost pointed at his nose and scolded you for being a cutie.
As for Louis, he did not hesitate to praise him, and Louis couldn't stand it - I didn't give Mr. Lovegood any money......
"So what?" Louis shook the magazine, frowned, and asked, "You take this magazine...... Wait, when is this magazine?"
His tone was a little hurried.
"It was last week, just a few days before Luna's accident." Draco pointed to the date on the back of the magazine, and Louis flipped it over, and sure enough, it was exactly as Draco had said.
Louis tapped his palms, paced back and forth for two steps, and said to Draco, "You go...... Well, go get Potter and the three of them for me."
"Okay!" Draco turned and ran.
After a while, he took the Potter trio to Louis's office.
When the door was closed, Louis lowered his voice and said, "Listen, there is a glorious and difficult task for you."
The interest of the three was clearly raised—glorious and arduous, and it must have been exciting, as Louis said.
Young people, especially the trio, are all fun-loving and noisy years, for exciting tasks, where can you control yourself, you look at that Harry, the light in his eyes is almost in time for Conan to see the scene of the eucalyptus.
"Say Louis! We're definitely not here for the task! Hurry up and announce the mission goal!" Ron obviously didn't think it was a big deal, and he didn't realize that he was one of them.
But Ron is actually a fool and bold, and he hasn't seen him a few times other than about "following the spider".
"Alright, alright." Louis soothed the trio and whispered about the plan for the mission.
"Listen, I have some clue about the Slytherin heir." Louis whispered to the trio, "However, it's inconvenient for me to come forward in this matter, so ...... I'm going to need your help.
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When she heard the 'heir of Slytherin, even Hermione couldn't sit still, she looked around with some excitement, and then stared at Louis tightly: "Louis, just say, who is your suspicion?"
"I ask you, have you ever heard of a polyjuice potion?" Louis began by asking a seemingly inconsistency question.
Hermione, who was a top student, didn't even think about it, and blurted out, "Polyjuice potion is a potion that can make the drinker look like someone else. Making this complex and challenging potion is also a challenge for adult wizards...... It's a very high-level potion, and in general, it's made in two stages, and the whole process takes about a month."
"That's right, Gryffindor plus one point." Louis blinked, and secretly added a point to Gryffindor.
"Still, Professor, you mentioned the Polyjuice Potion...... You want us to use the Polyjuice Potion to spy on the information?" The clever Hermione reacted immediately, understanding Louis's true intentions.
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