Chapter 62: Revisiting the Secret Room

Harry had recently started studying Voldemort.

Since sooner or later you will have to fight him to the death, you must know about his life.

Anyway, I've been researching genealogy lately, and Voldemort is a Slytherin descendant, so he can't just pop out of a crack in the stone. Even if he used a pseudonym, the scope of the search was greatly narrowed.

After a few days of rest, Carnot returned to the Chamber of Secrets with Dumbledore.

This time, the two walked through the exit of the secret room towards the inside of the school.

Enter the magically fortified cave and descend the somewhat broken stone steps. One old and one young, holding their wands to keep the light on, searching the sides with their eyes.

There were no creatures in the cave, and they were all eaten by the basilisk as a dessert.

Soon, the two of them came to the place where the stench emanated, which was a ball of bones and feathers that the basilisk could not digest, and spit out.

With a wave of his wand, the remnants of the corpses were absorbed by the growing plants, leaving white bones buried deep in the ground.

Moving on, a huge platform appeared underground, and the ground was full of traces of the basilisk lying down, and it seemed that the basilisk could be completely put down if it was twice as big.

Further down is the passage where the basilisk crawls to the secret room. The two of them walked down the stone steps until they reached the head of the Slytherin statue, the passage that had been opened a few days ago had not yet closed, and the chamber was filled with the smell of snake blood.

Kano glanced around a little strangely, and he could feel the faint magic flowing here.

"Headmaster, can you feel it?"

Dumbledore, who had been silent, smiled with satisfaction and tapped his wand at the nearby wall.

"Very good, Kano."

Seeing that the principal still had his own thoughts about the school examination in the secret room, Kano couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.

The walls opened to the sides with the input of Dumbledore's magic, revealing a stone slab.

"If the basilisk is mortally wounded, it will immediately transform into Maihan and continue to fight the enemy. If the basilisk gets out of control and endangers the wizard, use Godric. Kill it with Gryffindor's sword to prevent Maihan from appearing. The slate reads.

Kano raised an eyebrow.

Isn't it the wrong weapon I used?

Everything is revealed, but Dumbledore doesn't seem to have any intention of leaving. He flicked his wand, and the words on the tablet changed suddenly.

"If my Bloodline manipulates the Basilisk into killing Hogwarts students without the castle being breached, the Basilisk will be forced into a deep sleep until the Bloodline dies and cannot be awakened. This is a contract magic signed with Hogwarts Castle when the basilisk hatches, and it cannot be dissolved. ”

Kano stared at the hidden second part of the content in a dumbfounded manner, and couldn't come back to his senses for a moment.

"Salazar. Slytherin obscured the second part with magic, and his bloodline could not see it. Dumbledore analyzed the composition of the magic and touched his beard with interest.

"It seems that he won't even fully trust his own bloodline, and he still has a hand." Carnot laughed and said, "That doesn't seem right, he trusts Godric completely. Gryffindor and his descendants, convinced that they could stop the basilisk from doing evil? ”

"Perhaps, Salazar and Godric are lifelong rivals and lifelong friends. No one understands each other better than they do, and no one trusts each other more than they do. ”

Dumbledore waved his hand, withstanding the text.

"It seems that after Voldemort drove the basilisk to kill Myrtle, the basilisk lost its supernatural abilities and was forced to go back to sleep in the secret room."

"When Voldemort died, the basilisk's seal was lifted. But Salazar didn't expect that his descendants had created Horcruxes and were still half-dead in this world, bypassing his restrictions in disguise. Kano concluded.

"That's right, the Slytherin said that the heir died, and the basilisk was unsealed. Death here should refer to physical death. And today's Voldemort, because of his non-life and non-dead state of existence, can make the basilisk kill people unscrupulously. ”

Dumbledore couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the personable president of the male student council, who had now turned into a cloud of conscious smoke.

The two re-entered the chamber, the spear made from the basilisk's backbone still on the ground.

Kano picked up the spear and examined it closely, revealing that it was inscribed with dense Egyptian hieroglyphs.

"This is the Book of the Dead, which records the afterlife in Egyptian mythology in the form of poetry." Dumbledore took the bone spear and gently stroked the magical hieroglyphic notches on it with his hand.

"This paragraph tells the story of the guardian of the god Ra, the cobra god Mehan, who fought with the god of darkness Apib to protect the sun ship of the god Ra through the darkness and bring light to the world."

Suddenly, Dumbledore's expression became strange. He scrutinized a section of the middle and front of the bone spear, frowning.

"The hieroglyphs here are missing, and someone has erased them. This location... It should correspond to the part of the basilisk's heart. ”

"Heart?" Kano seemed to have in mind, "In the eyes of the Egyptians, the heart was the symbol of all wisdom. Because the hieroglyphs here are destroyed, the basilisk will become Maihan without intelligence? ”

The old and the young looked at each other, and there was no need to think about it at all, it must have been Voldemort who erased the runes in the heart of the basilisk.

"When he was in school, he didn't have that level of magic." Dumbledore affirmed, "It must have been after he came of age that he secretly entered the vault from outside the castle and transformed the basilisk." ”

Kano seemed to be able to see a man with a vague face, as if he had been burned by flames, dressed in a black robe, sneakily entering the secret room.

He raised his wand and cast his magic on the sleeping basilisk, wiping out the wisdom of the Slytherin guardian little by little.

"What a real offspring. But why did he do it? Could it be that he wants to lift the restrictions set by Salazar and reawaken the basilisk? ”

Unbeknownst to Dumbledore, Kano took the bone spear back from his hand, and Dumbledore summoned Phoenix Fawkes and took the two directly back to the Headmaster's office.

From the dark chamber to the warm and bright headmaster's room, Kano couldn't help but sigh.

Kano placed the bone spear on the table, and Dumbledore pulled out a silver sealed vessel.

"I've been using stupid methods to kill the neutral defense magic in my diary, a container that keeps soul shards indestructible. Now that the basilisk is dead too, I think we can open the box and see how it goes. ”

Kano watched intently as Dumbledore opened the lid, and a puff of blue smoke billowed out of it.

Kano didn't feel the power of dark magic in it, and it seemed that Voldemort's last protection was really pure protective charm.

The journal lay quietly under the box, and Kano carefully tapped it with his wand.

Under the gaze of the two of them, the diary slowly disintegrated into shards, and a colorless ball of light floated inside, and in the middle was a fragment of Voldemort's soul, the brain.

"Sure enough, Tom made more than one Horcrux." Dumbledore's eyes narrowed.

Kano raised his eyebrows as he looked at the last layer of unused magic runes on the colorless ball of light.

That's the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt.