Snape led Calvin to the eight wounded, seven of whom were still in their pre-injury state, stiffly maintaining their movements:

Filch held the cat in his arms and looked down;

Colin Creevey has a camera in his hand and wants to take a picture of something;

Nick and Justin maintained normal postures, and there was nothing strange about them;

And both girls have one thing in common - they hold a mirror in their hands;

Minerva and Felius had their eyes and a look of surprise on their faces, as if they had seen something incredible.

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"It's weird, it's the first time I've seen this," Calvin poked the wounded man's body with his wand, "a magical ...... that even ghosts can petrify"

"Can you de-petrify them?" Snape asked, "Professor Sprout and I can do it, but it will take a long time." ”

"I can't say," Calvin pulled out his Thestrals to see what the condition of these people was, "and their state reminds me of some not-so-friendly memories from my travels in Greece. ”

From the perspective of Thestrals, Calvin could clearly see that the souls of all the wounded were frozen. The soul that should have flowed with memory and magic was dark, like a cookie that could be broken at any moment, shriveled and fragile.

"Medusa ......," Calvin muttered to himself, "or is it its kindred?" ”

"What?" Snape didn't hear Calvin's whispered self-talk, "Do you have a solution?" ”

"There's good news and bad news," Calvin said with a wry smile, "The good news is that I've probably figured out what the creatures that caused the attack are, and the bad news is that I can't de-petrify them for the time being." ”

Snape's chin lifted, "I thought you'd come up with some new magic to solve the crisis." ”

"Magic isn't everything, Snape," Calvin smiled slightly, "and the mind matters, too. ”

"Go and rest for a while, and leave it to me to keep vigil in the second half of the night." Calvin, under Snape's serpent-like gaze, left the cubicle where the wounded were housed.

Calvin first found Hagrid at the entrance to the auditorium, a half-giant who had come to the castle after the attack to help the professors maintain order and guard the gate.

Hagrid was napping with a large antler bow, but Calvin's arrival suddenly sobered him up.

"Calvin," Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought some naughty little wizard wanted to get out." ”

"Hagrid, take it easy, I have something I want to talk to you about." Calvin conjured a couch and sat down across from Hagrid.

However, Hagrid suddenly became nervous, and a pair of fan-like hands involuntarily clenched the big bow in his hand.

"Let's talk, okay...... Let's talk. Hagrid stammered, "If only there was a glass of wine." ”

Calvin took a barrel of butterbeer out of his sleeve and poured it for Hagrid, "Hagrid, you should know the words that today's attackers left on the wall. I've heard that the Chamber of Secrets was opened fifty years ago, do you know about that? ”

Hagrid, who was drinking, choked on him, his face turned pale, and a few drops of sweat appeared on his forehead.

"I don't know, I haven't heard of any secret rooms, I don't know any monsters, it was just an accident!" Hagrid was a little agitated, his hands waving in the air as if he was trying to erase something.

Calvin glanced at the sleeping children in the distance, but fortunately he had arranged the whispering spell in advance, so that Hagrid's loud voice did not get out.

Hagrid's mood quickly calmed down, he turned his head to the side, he didn't dare to look Calvin in the eye, and muttered, "It was really an accident, no one thought that something like that would happen, no one ......"

Calvin sighed inwardly, Hagrid must have known something, the traces of his lying were too obvious.

"Hagrid, your rhetoric might work for Harry, but I don't want my good friend to lie to me." Calvin couldn't help it, he couldn't reprimand Hagrid like a student.

Hagrid turned his head and glanced at Calvin with a wry, his lips twitching, but he didn't say anything.

Calvin could only continue to persuade, "Hagrid, think about Harry. If you don't tell the truth tonight, then tomorrow morning, Harry, who knows how to be a snake, will be considered by most people to be Salazar's heir and the murderer of the attack. ”

"That group of angry parents will demand that Dumbledore expel Harry."

"Expulsion!"

Hagrid repeated the word tremblingly.

Calvin's torch-like eyes stared straight at Hagrid, forcing him to turn his head away from Calvin's burning gaze.

"I don't know much about that incident fifty years ago, or rather, it's hard for me to understand what happened......" Hagrid said slowly, pouring himself a butterbeer.

"You know, I'm a big fan of Fantastic Beasts, just like you. Fifty years ago, when I was in third grade, I had a pet, an eight-eyed spider. ”

Calvin's expression suddenly became serious, "The eight-eyed giant spider is not suitable for pets. If you are found by your classmates, you will be locked up for at least one semester. ”

Hagrid nodded, "The most important thing is that once it is discovered, Aragog will definitely be killed...... Dispose of it. So I was always careful not to let him be discovered by other students. ”

"I think you've been spotted by the other students." Calvin narrowed his eyes and said.

"Yes, it was discovered by a fifth-grade prefect. He promised me not to say it, and it was. Until ......"

"Until the Chamber of Secrets was opened, one of the students died in the castle. He thought that Aragog had done it, so he reported me to the headmaster at the time, Armando Duppet, believing that I had opened the Chamber of Secrets and that Aragog was the monster inside. ”

"It's nonsense, the monster in the secret room is definitely not a spider, and it can even be said that it is the natural enemy of spiders." Calvin could immediately see that Hagrid had been wronged.

"Yes, that's what Aragog told me. But no one believed me at all, and some even sent me to Azkaban," Hagrid clenched his fists, and even today he feels humiliated by the humiliation he was subjected to at that time.

"But Albus Dumbledore believed me, and he persuaded Headmaster Duppet to simply expel me and make me a gamekeeper. I will never betray Headmaster Dumbledore's ...... for the rest of my life"

"But he doesn't completely free you from murder. As soon as today's events happen, the first thing the Ministry of Magic suspects must be you......" Calvin tried to restore the truth from Hagrid's fragmented narrative.

He soon discovers the key person who was left out of the entire affair: "Hagrid, who is the prefect of your fifth grade?" ”

Hagrid was silent for a moment, then finally mustered up the courage to say, "you-know-who." ”