"What are you all doing here? Hurry back to your dorm! Professor McGonagall suddenly looked up and shouted,

"Prefects of the various colleges! Presidents of the Male and Female Student Councils! Please take your responsibility! ”

The prefects sprang into action, urging the young wizards to return to their dormitories.

However, Percy, the male prefect of Gryffindor, seems to have lost his soul and has not immediately fulfilled his duties.

It wasn't until the female prefect slapped him hard twice that Percy came back to her senses and acted quickly:

"Everyone follow me back to the dormitory! Don't make too many stopovers along the way! The first-year wizard keeps up with the senior classmates to avoid being left alone! ”

Hallie and Hermione followed behind the Gryffindor forces and quickly walked up the stairs.

Before moving away, she turned her head to look at the scene of the crime.

Professor McGonagall was talking to a silver phoenix, which Harley vaguely remembered as the messenger that seemed to belong to Professor Dumbledore alone.

Professor Flitwick had already waved his wand and lifted Penelope up to the stairs closest to the hospital on campus.

The large group of Gryffindor cubs didn't stop long and quickly returned to the common room.

Back in the lion's den, the common room quickly filled with an atmosphere of tension and fear.

This time it was the senior sister who had the accident, and it was Penelope, who had very good grades.

Even such an excellent wizard had an accident, and the middle and lower grade students would naturally feel fear, for fear that one day they would be turned into stone statues.

Hallie also learns from Fred and George.

According to the two, they had too much energy and didn't fully vent it in the dueling club.

So the innocent, cute, and innocent Weasley twins decide to infiltrate the Ravenclaw team and visit the Ravenclaw common room.

As a result, Ravenclaw's large army had not advanced much distance before they encountered Penelope, who was lying on the ground.

"The team just exploded!" Fred exaggerated,

"The little wizards in the first year were all running around, and the boy prefect in the fifth grade couldn't control them.

Luckily, Professors McGonagall and Flitwick weren't far away from us and arrived quickly.

I've never seen Professor Flitwick look like that, as if he was going to kill someone. ”

Speaking of which, Fred also exaggeratedly hugged George beside him, pretending to be very scared.

"Indeed, it's really super scary!" George also cooperated with Fred, and the whole person trembled wildly.

However, instead of appreciating the performance of the two, Harley made her way to her bedroom.

Instinctively, she felt she needed to comfort Hermione.

After all, two Muggle-born students had already had accidents, and Hermione probably had a lot of mental pressure.

However, to Harry's surprise, Hermione was not like many Muggle-born wizards at this time, with a frightened face and huddled together to keep warm.

She lay on the bed, frantically flipping through a gold-rimmed book.

After a while, Hermione suddenly shouted in surprise: "Found it!" ”

"What did you find?" Hermione suddenly felt someone press down on her, leaning into her ear and asking, blowing into her earlobe.

That familiar soft touch, Hermione immediately guessed that it was Harley.

"Don't make a fuss." Hermione tried to turn over, but was pressed to the bed, so she had to speak,

"You're done, witch! Look at me suppressing you! Hermione's cheeks flushed, and she pounced on her teeth and claws, but was overturned by Harley again.

"Is it wrong? Admit that you are wrong and call me a good sister! ”

"You're dreaming! I'm older than you! ”

There was no one else in the dormitory, and Lavender and Parvati were still discussing what had happened today with the other girls in the common room, so they were unusually presumptuous.

……

After a moment of fuss, Hallie was the first to throw in the towel. After all, counting on Hermione's strong character, it was a bit difficult to get her to take the initiative to admit defeat.

"So what were you trying to say earlier?" Hallie asked, slumped on the bed.

Hermione then remembered what had happened earlier, and complained, "You shouldn't have ...... just now Anyway, I was talking about something very important!

I think I discovered the true identity of the monster in the secret room. ”

"Basilisk?" Harley was a little surprised, "You also figured it out?" ”

"Of course, I'm second in my grade!" Hermione said triumphantly, but couldn't hide the weakness in her voice, even though she had won earlier.

Hermione then recounted her reasoning in detail.

Harley was surprised to find that Hermione's reasoning process was extremely similar to her own.

Both are inferred from "Slytherin monsters", "Slytherin is a parseltongue and loves snakes", and "that snake has survived for nearly a thousand years".

"Indeed." Hallie confirmed Hermione's speculation and added,

"You don't seem to have thought about how it moved around the castle, though. Of course, I took this into account, and the basilisk moved through the walls. ”

"...... in the wall" Hermione was startled at first, and then fell into deep thought again,

"It's true that a monster of this magnitude can only move in a place like the inside of the walls that is easily overlooked.

There are pipes in the walls that do allow snakes to move.

But it stands to reason that the pipes are not that thick, and the basilisk is very large, especially since this is a thousand-year-old basilisk......

Wait a minute! ”

Hermione looked up suddenly, rolled over and got out of bed, pulling out the book of Hogwarts, a school history that she had borrowed after waiting in line for a long time.

"Sure enough, I'm not mistaken!" Hermione found a passage in the book and said excitedly,

"In 1700, it was proposed to install a complex plumbing system in the castle.

The resolution was swiftly passed, and the person in charge was a wizard with the surname Gaunt. ”

Hermione closed the book hard and looked at Harley:

"Do you remember the book I borrowed last semester for fun, about the great wizards of the 20th century?

It mentions a message that the Gaunt family is descended from Slytherin.

That's right, everything is right!

In order to keep the basilisk from being exposed, the descendant of the Gaunt family took the initiative to take the job.

He deliberately built a large enough water pipe into the wall to ensure that the basilisk could move freely.

It was also because of his presence that the exact location of the chamber was concealed, rather than being discovered at the time. ”

Hallie rolled over and looked at Hermione in surprise.

This memory, this brain, and this powerful reasoning ability, the two ways of knowing and reading should be very fond of Hermione.

With so few details to reconstruct the whole incident, Harley asked herself if she couldn't do it.

Especially after Harley made sure that the basilisk was moving in the wall, she didn't think as much as Hermione.

"Hallie, let's go talk to the professors!" Hermione couldn't wait to change her clothes and go to the professor.

Harley nodded indifferently, anyway, all of this was deduced by Hermione, and there are traces to follow.

It doesn't hurt to tell the professors, after all, if the basilisk goes crazy one day and kills all sides, he will lose a lot of future anchors.

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(Thanks to the nine-tailed Yanhu and 9 Jiu 9 for their tips!) ）

(End of chapter)