Chapter Fifty-Eight: In the Secret Room
The Halloween dinner was held as scheduled, and the students happily ate a variety of delicacies.
Hagrid planted huge pumpkins and made them into jack-o-lanterns that could fit three people.
The dug flesh was squeezed into pumpkin juice, and Kano tried it, and it tasted good.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione weren't here, they were on their way to the ghost's death party.
But there was nothing for humans to eat, and it was all stinky or already smelly food.
The ghosts thought it would make the food taste stronger, and maybe it would give them a sense of being alive, and the three Harry felt like they were going to die.
After the happy dinner was over, Dumbledore quietly appeared at the door of the women's bathroom on the third floor, and after a while, Carnot and the little unicorn arrived.
"Oh, he's the little guy you treated last time?"
Dumbledore tried to reach out and touch him, but the little unicorn dodged it without giving face.
"yes, I wanted to fight the basilisk on foot today. But the little fellow seemed to have guessed it, and kept sending me a letter from the Forbidden Forest at night, for fear that I would not take him with me. Kano said helplessly.
"I'll tell you again, it's dangerous, and it stinks..."
Before Kano could finish speaking, the little unicorn grunted and pushed him into the bathroom, and Dumbledore followed him with a smile.
No one would come in this bathroom, because there was a schoolgirl turned ghost who was called the weeping myrtle.
She hid in the toilet and cried because she was ridiculed. Here young Voldemort opens the Chamber of Secrets to call the basilisk, and when she wants to go out to remind her that this is the women's restroom, she sees the basilisk's eyes.
Poor myrtle died like this, and later became a ghost to stay here. She was always crying and crying, and she often made the place full of water, and no one wanted to come here to go to the toilet.
But at the moment, Myrtle is not here, and she is also going to the death party.
"Sometimes I think if I had cared more about poor Myrtle, she might not have died here."
Dumbledore sighed with some emotion: "Hogwarts has come out of all kinds of people, some of them have become Aurors, some have joined the Death Eaters, but many more have lived their lives peacefully. ”
"Myrtle was supposed to be one of them."
Kano didn't answer, just shook his head, and Dumbledore sighed and refocused.
"Parseltongue... It's really hard to learn. Dumbledore spoke, and a sizzling sound came out of his mouth.
Yes, Dumbledore had mastered many languages through self-study, and Parseltongue was one of them.
Kano watched as the washbasin in the washroom slowly lowered its limit, revealing the pitch-black void underneath.
Dumbledore raised his hand, and the large golden bird Fawkes landed on his shoulder.
"Let's go, Kano."
He pressed Kano on the shoulder, and the two of them turned into a flame and entered the passage.
Through the pitch-black pipes, the two of them regained their feet on the slimy floor.
Dumbledore lit his wand, illuminating the vast space. Kano threw down a handful of seeds, and the magic stored in them caused them to grow into vines quickly, absorbing the slime from the ground and walls, revealing ancient nicks.
"It's a Muggle banishment charm." Dumbledore's eyes narrowed, and he could discern by the light of his wand, "But it's no longer working." ”
"Looks like this is really an escape route that Slytherin prepared for Hogwarts students." Kano stepped forward, "Look at something else." ”
Ahead appeared a crouching snakeskin relic, about 20 feet long, glowing green in the glow of Dumbledore's wand.
But Kano has always had his vision of life open, and he will not be frightened at all. Dumbledore watched the snake molt with interest, and tapped it with his hand.
"Severus is going to love this thing."
"Speaking of which, this basilisk doesn't count as school property." Kano suddenly remembered this verse, and Dumbledore chuckled softly.
"As the current principal, I'm here to support you in getting him out."
The two continued on their way, and after a few turns, they came to a large door.
Carved on the door are two intertwined snakes, both with huge emeralds in their eyes.
Kano used his life vision to confirm that the basilisk was not behind the door and would not open the door to kill. Dumbledore used the Parseltongue again, opening the door.
The door opened, and behind it was a long square. Dozens of columns carved with giant serpents stand in the square, supporting this underground room.
At the other end of the room, there is a huge statue. The statue was a wizened old man with a sparse beard and sunken cheeks.
Kano and Dumbledore walked up, the old man's statue stepping on a large stone tablet engraved with words.
The same is written in the Ogan rune, the ancient script, the ancient Greek, the ancient Latin, and the ancient English.
"I'm Salazar. Slytherin. ”
"If you can read that, then it proves that Hogwarts has finally fallen. Neither the courage of Gryffindor, nor the wisdom of Ravenclaw, nor the loyalty of Hufflepuff have been able to protect the ideal city we have built. ”
It seems that Slytherin still holds a grudge, looking at the statues as they look old and dying, and still thinking about distinguishing who is right and who is wrong.
"Hogwarts is the result of the life's work of the four of us, and if he falls, the only possibility is to be breached from within."
"And the only enemy of wizards is Muggles. Crazy Muggles are not to be trusted, and Muggle-born wizards are not to be trusted. ”
"There is a basilisk behind the statue, and as long as my descendants recite a spell in the snake language, the basilisk will obey his orders."
"Don't look into the eyes of the basilisk, it can help you retake the castle."
"If the enemy is too strong, then let the basilisk break off. You go into the hole where the basilisk crawled out, leave the school, and blow up the way you came, sealing the chamber completely. ”
"The method of opening the secret room has been divided into two parts, my bloodline has mastered the snake language, and the headmasters of the past have the news of the so-called escape route."
"I hope I'm just worrying about it, and I hope that all this will sleep forever in history."
Dumbledore and Kano saluted the statue wordlessly, paying homage to the pessimist who was very active.
"It seems that he always thought Muggles and Muggle wizards could not be trusted, but he didn't say that he was going to purge the Muggle wizards in the school." Kano sighed, "That's right, the basilisk can kill a large number of people with a sweep of his eyes, how can he only kill Muggle wizards?" ”
"It seems that not only us, but even the descendants of Slytherin have misinterpreted what he meant." Dumbledore shook his head regretfully.
"Voldemort? I think he pretended not to understand. "He'll just interpret Slytherin's message as he thinks he wants." ”
"Are you ready, Kano?"
Dumbledore said no more, and asked Kano.
Kano nodded, and Dumbledore immediately recited the spell in Parseltongue.
"Speak to me, Slytherin, the greatest of the Big Four."
The Slytherin statue had a sad expression, its mouth wide open, and its chin fell to the ground, revealing a black hole.
A familiar smell of fishy smell came, and Kano opened his vision of life and rode the little unicorn to wait.
Dumbledore leaned against the pillar, and Fawkes eagerly guarded.
The sound of swishing sounded...