Chapter Seventy-Six: Exploring the Secret Room at Night

The final exams are finally here.

Considering that the secret room was opened during the school year, there was also a series of attacks.

And the students are very panicked, which will definitely seriously affect the learning efficiency.

Therefore, after discussion, the professors chose to lower the difficulty of the test paper by two notches.

After completing the test paper, Harley knew that she was definitely the first in the whole subject.

I got a full score in every subject, what did others take to surpass themselves?

But Hermione didn't think so. Obviously, she had two more rounds of revision than Harley, but after the exam, she still wanted to pull Harley to answer the answers.

"I think I got the fourth question of the Charms Theory exam wrong, I didn't spell the Freezing Spell right!"

Hermione said with a look of horror on her face, as if she had made an unforgivable mistake.

Harley reluctantly intervened again, suppressed Hermione, and signed an unequal treaty demanding that Hermione no longer answer the right one.

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Harley now has more important things to do, such as exploring the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

One night before the exam, Hallie finally gathered materials from Hagrid, Professor Snape, and the Forbidden Forest, and conducted a thorough psychic of Professor Lockhart.

Through this channeling, Hallie received a lot of important news.

For example, Harley is particularly concerned about the news - the location where Professor Lockhart is hiding his Golden Galleon.

It has to be said that Professor Lockhart is still very cautious.

He chose to hide most of his possessions in a Muggle village.

Professor Lockhart purchased a property there and applied illusion protection. And the property was buried in the ground of the house.

This Muggle village was far away in Northern Europe and had a small number of people, so it was almost impossible for wizards to go there, and it can be said that Lockhart's property was very safe.

Hallie sighed at Lockhart's caution as she pondered when to withdraw the money.

After all, the Golden Galleons are innocent, they will not be contaminated by Lockhart, and they should not be buried just like that.

These golden cuties should be in the right hands and bloom with their own brilliance.

And Hallie, the poor, unprofitable, lonely former wild extraordinary, is the right person.

She could only reluctantly play their role for Professor Lockhart.

In addition to the location of the money, Professor Lockhart also has a lot of stolen knowledge stored in his mind.

These are basically the skills of a master magician, such as the "Humanoid Recovery Charm" created by an old man, a spell that can force a werewolf to return to human form and sanity.

Lockhart was well aware of the preciousness of this magical knowledge, but he was reluctant to learn it, so he just kept it in his mind.

Thanks to Lockhart, as a Ravenclaw, his memory itself is very good, and with the aid of memory magic, he didn't let these magical knowledge be lost.

However, they were tossed aside by Hallie to study them during the summer vacation or when she had time for the next semester.

The most important thing now is to explore the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, which Hallie has been longing for for a long time.

As a Slytherin secret room, Slytherin himself should leave some magical knowledge anyway.

There's also Riddle, who can take on a physical body, presumably also in a ritual held in a secret room. And Hallie was very curious about the ritual.

Even if none of that were the case, part of Professor Lockhart's legacy would be worth Harry's trouble.

According to the psychic results, Lockhart went to the secret room several times after obtaining the diary, and used it as if it were a small stronghold.

He didn't leave anything good in his Hogwarts office, presumably just moved his belongings to the Chamber of Secrets.

After taking the final course in the history of magic, that night, Harley gathered all her gear and prepared to explore the Chamber of Secrets.

According to Lockhart's memory, she made her way to the weeping Myrtle's girls' bathroom on the second floor.

When she first learned that the Chamber of Secrets was here, Harley sighed a little, what did the Gaunt who rebuilt Hogwarts think?

And how did dear Senior Riddle find out the exact location of the secret room?

It's scary to think about!

The Dark Lord, who has been intimidating the wizarding world for so long, and the descendants of the great Slytherin, are actually a bunch of perverts!

In the pool, Harley found the copper faucet that never came out of the water, and a small snake was carved into the side of the faucet.

"Open." Harley said in a hissing voice.

The faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin wildly.

Then, the pool moved, slowly disappearing from view, revealing a thick pipe that could fit a man in.

"That's nice, thanks to Lockhart for cleaning it up." Harley looked at the walls of the water pipes and couldn't help but thank Professor Lockhart for two seconds.

Spider silk spread, leaving this bathroom densely covered with cobwebs.

After making sure the back road was clear, Harley let the spider silk wrap around her waist and led her to slide down.

"Fluorescent flicker!" After landing, Harley used magic for the first time. Although it has night vision, the light is more reassuring.

Thanks to Harley's high level of magic, the dark tunnel is lit up as if it were daytime.

Hallie made her way to a wall.

Two intertwined snakes are carved on the wall, and the eyes of the snakes are inlaid with large emeralds.

After cautiously putting a few layers of defense on her body, Harley spoke again: "Open." ”

The stone wall cracks through the middle, revealing a passage in the middle.

Harley was reluctant to glance at the eyes of the two snakes, such a large high-quality emerald, but a good material.

Shaking her head, Harley continued on her way.

Behind the wall is a long, dimly lit room. Many stone pillars carved with coiled and entangled serpents support the ceiling.

Although the mysterious green that permeated the room prevented the transmission of magical light, Harley, with her dark vision, could see the end of the room.

At the end of the room is a statue, a statue of Slytherin.

In front of the statue was a large cauldron containing dried potions.

There were still a lot of materials around the cauldron, including the dried corpses of the twelve vanished dwarfs.

The alchemical runes carved on the cauldron were dull, but they still showed the extraordinary nature of the ritual.

"It's a pity that a lot of materials can't be used." Hallie shook her head, a little heartache.

She pulled the materials out of her pocket and began to set up the ritual, preparing to preserve the scene in its entirety.

With Harley's current knowledge of magic, there are still many things in this ritual that Harley can't understand.

After preserving the ritual, Harley examines the chamber.

Professor Lockhart kept his important belongings behind a pillar, in two pockets with the Traceless Stretching Charm cast.

After briefly confirming that there was no magic on it, Harley slightly rummaged through the two pockets, which contained a lot of gold gallons, as well as some potion materials and notes.

The font of the notes was not Lockhart's, it seems that he got it by hand when he stole his memories, so they were all thrown into the bag.

Harley stuffed the notes back into her pocket without studying them closely, after all, there was no hurry.

"Only the last place not to explore," Harley looked at the Slytherin statue after confirming that there were no other goodies in the chamber,

"Speak to me, Slytherin, the greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

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(Thanks to the nine-tailed Yanhu for the tip!) )

(End of chapter)