Chapter 135: Hostages
"It's Hagrid, Maple, it was Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago!" Harry said as he sweated profusely and shivered.
When Harry told Maple what had happened, Maple was surprised that something like this would happen while he was dating.
It immediately occurred to Maple that someone had taken the opportunity to stuff Harry's book when Lockhart's dwarf had ripped Harry's bag to pieces.
It's just that there were so many people around Harry at that time, who put the diary in it? Unfortunately, Maple didn't pay any attention to Harry's surroundings at the time, and missed the best chance to get Kril Pandora out.
Although I regret this, now that Riddle's diary has appeared, there are some things that need to be feared.
The basilisk, for example, can already be considered for killing.
Harry wished he hadn't seen what had just happened, and he finally understood why Hagrid had disappeared, presumably by the Ministry of Magic.
"I still don't believe Hagrid is the murderer!" The next day, Harry recounted his story to Hermione again.
"I also think Hagrid is innocent, otherwise the attack would have stopped if he had been captured." Maple agrees with Hermione.
"But the attacks did stop!" Harry whispered that he and Hagrid were the closest of all those present, and Harry really didn't want to believe that Hagrid was the murderer.
"Harry, did you forget about the roosters that were attacked?" Maple asked rhetorically.
"But, Riddle—"
"Harry, Hagrid has been with you for so long, isn't Hagrid more trustworthy than an inexplicable stranger?"
"Maple, do you think there's something wrong with this Riddle?" Hermione understood what Maple meant, and spoke.
"You forgot, you need a Parseltongue to control the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, is Hagrid a Parseltongue?" Maple asked rhetorically.
"Hagrid will never be a parseltongue!" Hermione said with a look of certainty.
It immediately became clear to Maple that Hermione had read a lot of books, and that she seemed to have discovered Hagrid's giant bloodline.
The blood of giants is like the genes of black people, the descendants of black people are all black, and the blood of giants is very resistant to magic, even if Hagrid's father is a parseltongue, it is difficult for Hagrid to inherit this magical talent.
"Hagrid is wronged to say that!" Harry said excitedly, then suddenly lost again: "Hagrid has been captured, how can we save him?" ”
"It's very simple, just catch the real murderer." Maple said.
"There's definitely something wrong with Riddle," Maple said, conjuring up a box to encapsulate Riddle's journal inside, then imposing another lockdown on the outside of the box.
"Hermione, help me, Qiankun Tianlock!"
"Yes!" Hermione also drew her wand, and the two of them worked together to cast the Qiankun Heavenly Lock in the Maoshan Technique. In the zombie Taoist, Mao Xiaofang used this trick to lock the mana of a tantric great living Buddha.
"Ahh What did you do to me, damn it! Riddle in the diary seemed to be screaming hysterically at the moment, but after being locked down, he couldn't do anything.
"Any magical object with a mind is dangerous, and this journal should be given to Professor Dumbledore to look at."
Although they can't contact Dumbledore, they can contact Nicolamet, who is close to Dumbledore, at any time, and believe that Nicolamet must have a way to contact Dumbledore.
Although Maple knew that the diary was a Horcrux, it was best to leave it to Dumbledore without revealing his prophetic preconception, and Dumbledore only learned that Voldemort's immortality was a Horcrux after seeing the diary.
"Dobby said that the Chamber of Secrets was opened before, and now we can be sure that it was opened fifty years ago, and that there was a student who was killed at that time, so we can follow this clue." Maple concluded.
Immediately after the three-man meeting, Maple contacted Nicolamay on his messenger watch and told him about the diary.
After Maple contacted Nicolamay, he also planned to give the diary to Nicolamay. However, Maple didn't plan to use an owl, and he felt that it would be better to hand over something as important as a Horcrux directly to the other party.
"Apparition shifting!" Maple can finally telecaramic from Hogsmeade to London in one go, and from there he can catch the Knight Bus. Because the phantom shifter needs to be positioned, Maple needs to transfer once and the phantom shift twice to get to Devon.
So I had to take the knight's bus for a while.
"Apparition shifting!" I took half the distance in the knight's bus, and then directly apparition to Devon, and when I went back, I just apparitioned.
The place in Devon that Maple had come to was the same place where Dumbledore had last handed him the note and entered Nicolame's hermitage.
Dumbledore had already given Maple a note, so this time Maple imagined the address text on Nicolame's note in his mind, and then the door to Nicolamay's residence appeared in front of Maple.
"Don't make a fuss, Mary, let me give this to Mr. Nicolame first!" Maple said with his diary.
"Alright, here's a gift for you!" Seeing Mary's pouting and unhappy appearance, Maple hurriedly gave Mary the candy she had bought from Duke Honey before she came.
Mary immediately jumped for joy, although these candies were not nutritious for Mary, her sense of taste had recovered somewhat, and it was not bad to just taste the food.
Seeing Mary, Maple suddenly thought about it, and after handing the diary to Nicolamay, Maple borrowed something from Mary.
Finally one time, Maple had to play with Mary for a day, and only returned to school in the evening.
"I found it!" Hermione's speed is really amazing, I don't know how many books she's flipped through these days, and she doesn't even care about dating Maple.
"Guess who was the student who was killed fifty years ago? You can't think of it! Hermione asked Maple and Harry with a mysterious smile on her face.
"Don't buy it, Hermione, tell us who it is?" Maple said that although he knew the truth, he couldn't disturb his girlfriend's Yaxing.
"Weeping Myrtle!" Hermione gave the answer, a smug expression on her face.
"It's her!" Harry hadn't expected it at all, and Maple knew it but cooperated in time with a surprised expression.
"Let's go find her, she might know where the entrance to the chamber is!" Maple said.
"I think I already know where the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is." Hermione said.
"Where?" Harry immediately asked.
"The weeping myrtle's bathroom, she stayed in the bathroom all the time, and it is likely that the place where she was killed was in her bathroom!" Hermione said.
"Great, let's get the news out to the professors, and ask them to enter the secret room and get rid of the basilisk! If you kill the basilisk, you can cut off one of the arms of the man behind the scenes! It's hard for her to make waves again! Maple said.
But they encountered obstacles on the way—
"Irene!"
While they were still some distance from the professors' offices, Maple's owl suddenly flew over and brought a letter to Maple.
After Hermione's experience, Maple was doubly careful with the unsigned letters, not opening them directly, and using her wand to control the envelope and keep her distance from them, and then using magic to pull out the letter and open it.
There was nothing wrong with the letter, but after reading the contents of the letter, the three of them were immediately shocked -
Your good friend Ron Weasley's sister Ginny Weasley and her friend Recy Cland have been taken to the Chamber by me, and don't tell the Professor if something happens to them. I'm waiting for you in the back room!
Not long after they finished reading the letter, the letter burned itself and quickly turned to ashes.
"Ginny!" Hermione cried out in concern.
"Damn, they took Ginny hostage!" Maple never expected such a change to happen at this time, and that Kril Pandora was even more difficult than he had imagined.
"What should I do?" Harry has some of the six gods.
"We'll have to go on our own, or Ginny and the others will be in danger." "But we'll have to do as much preparation as we can before we go into the chamber. ”
The next day, with what they had prepared, Harry took out his invisibility cloak again.
Then Erin flew in again, and brought a new letter—
Don't play tricks, I'm only going to give you a quarter of an hour, and if you don't all show up at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets when the time comes, wait and collect the bodies of Ginny Weasley and her friends!
It seems that it is impossible to quietly report to the professors in the cloak of invisibility!
Under the other party's capture of hostages and rat traps, they can only do as the other party instructs.
"She's awake!" On the way to Myrtle's bathroom, the Maple men saw Celia Dorakus.
Celia's face and skin were even paler than before, and it seemed that the curse on her body had not only not healed, but deepened.
Maple and the others were surprised to find that Celia was going in the same direction as them.
"Why are you here too?" Once in the bathroom, Harry took off his cloak of invisibility, and Maple lifted the illusion spell and spoke to Celia.
"She called me!" Celia said succinctly.
"What about you"
"You see me like this now, it's time to make a decision!" Celia said.
"No matter what the final result is, I'm very happy to meet you!" Celia said to Maple, saying that she would give her a kiss in a situation that everyone did not expect.
Hermione's face darkened suddenly, but Celia didn't seem to notice Hermione's face, and continued to say to Maple: "I thought I could hold on until I met the unicorn, but now it seems that I don't have this opportunity!" ”
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