The days after the start of the New Year were relatively peaceful, and Hermione's cat ears were also cured by Madam Pomfrey, which is quite a pity~

At first, the friends were still tracking the secret room, but the children were inevitably enthusiastic for three minutes, and they gradually forgot about it after half a month of no progress.

Except for Hermione, who visits her roommate Clara at the school hospital every once in a while, Neville will talk about the growth of mandrakes in the greenhouse.

Ted and the others have changed the mandrake three times this semester, and each time it is a chicken and a dog jumping.

With the help of the horned boy Gufu, Neville cultivated the first seeds of magic. But just after planting, I don't know if the final growth effect can match the effect described in the manual.

Cultivating new magical plants is also a long process, and even because the changes in plants are not so drastic, it often takes several generations to improve them, and it takes years.

This is also the reason why Ted didn't think about making magical plants by himself at all, and if he didn't have the energy, he might as well study how to strengthen magical beasts. This thing was immediate!

Anyway, Ansu's "evolution" was very successful......

On January 22nd, when the students were going back to their dormitories after dinner, the shocking news came that someone had been killed again!

And this time it's not one, it's two!

Hufflepuff's resident ghost Fat Friar, and Hufflepuff student Justin Finch, were petrified in the basement near the kitchen.

Justin and Ted are in the same class, and although they are not very good, they are more sincere.

Ted still remembers that he duel with himself in the dueling club, and although he lost in a few hits, he was not angry at all, but said that he admired Ted very much.

Now he was stiff like a stone statue and collapsed in the hallway.

And with him fell was the ghost fat monk.

Supposedly, if you are already a ghost, you can't be killed a second time.

But his current state is really weird, still has no substance, but he is stiff and does not move, and his body exudes a faint black gas, which makes him feel very ominous when he looks at it.

If the last time Clara was tricked, it only scared the little wizards, then this time it really scared them.

Because this shows that the last time Clara was recruited was not an accident, the Chamber of Secrets was real, and the heir's purge of Hogwarts was also most likely true - Justin Muggle origin.

Moreover, what means can "petrify" the ghosts together?!

At this point, people remembered Neville's Parseltongue again.

Eating in the auditorium now, there are only a few Ted and them within three meters of Neville.

They all looked at Neville as if they had seen a ghost, dodging, pointing and whispering behind their backs.

Luckily, Neville's mentality is much more stable than Harry's in the books, and he has more friends.

Ted and the five of them, as well as the Weasley twins, Ginny and Luna don't care about other people's eyes and often talk to Neville.

Although it is said that Neville has been under tremendous pressure since he was a child, Neville's spirit is tenacious, but he is still depressed when he can't really stop talking about things behind his back.

On this day, he went to the bathroom, washed his hands and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard a whisper.

"Come here! Come here ~ come here to me ~ " It seems that someone is calling him.

Neville curiously walked to the innermost part of the bathroom and saw an old journal on the windowsill.

The leather cover is badly worn, and it looks a little old.

Neville didn't know why, but he felt that the diary was very kind, and he couldn't help but pick it up and look at it carefully.

"Tom Riddle......" He saw the signature of the diary, but when he opened it, there was not a word in it. Flipping to the end, I saw the address of a Muggle bookstore.

"Is it a young wizard from a Muggle family?"

Neville thought for a moment, "No, no, no, looking at the way this diary looks, it must have been a long time ago. The owner of the diary may be very old now. How did it end up here? Who left it here? ”

With affection and trust in the little wizard of the Muggle family, Neville took the journal and brought it back to his bedroom.

Back in the dormitory, there was no one. Ron and Jerry go to the kitchen to get their hands on (eat and drink).

The other two, Dean and Seamus, are afraid of Neville like a snake and scorpion, and they won't come back until they go to bed every night.

Neville even felt that the two of them might have to apply for a new dorm next semester.

"Alas~" He sighed at the thought of this.

Frustrated, Neville opened his journal and took out a quill pen to write his homework.

As a result, the paper was written for less than a page, and it disappeared! The ink on that book was like it had seeped into the book!

Neville: I'm homework!

Just as Neville was surprised, a new handwriting appeared in the journal: the paper had just begun to be written, and it was already full of holes......

Then it shows Neville's error in hundreds of words.

"Who are you?" Neville asked. But the diary remained motionless.

"Oh oh oh!" Neville picked up the pen and wrote: Who are you?

Diary: I'm a memory of Tom Riddle.

Tom Riddle?

yes, if I'm not mistaken, it's been almost fifty years since I was in school.

Neville was stunned, fifty years!

Although he guessed that the original owner of the diary might be very old, he didn't expect it to be a diary from fifty years ago.

Next, the two pen pals began to chat.

Old Tom is eloquent and empathetic, and while instructing Neville not to be burdened by the false name of the Immortal Boy, he also tells him that he will always be misunderstood in life, and not to care too much about other people's opinions.

He also tutored Neville to complete his Potions homework, and when it was his turn to do his Defence Against the Dark Arts homework, Senior Tom was silent for a moment: "What are you current Defence Against the Dark Arts professors, what are you left behind?!

Soon, Senior Tom gained the trust of Neville, who hadn't experienced much deceit.

He began to guide Neville to talk about his troubles, about his suffering, and by the way, about the current state of the school......

Neville had a great time, and it felt like he was talking to Ted.

Recently, because of the cultivation of magical plants and the second secret room victim, he has been very busy, and he has not communicated much with Ted.

The bitterness in my heart has been holding back for a long time.

Suddenly, Neville remembered the Chamber of Secrets.

According to Malfoy, the Chamber of Secrets had been opened once fifty years earlier, killing someone.

So has Senior Tom experienced this history?

He hurriedly asked in his diary, "Senior, do you know about the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets?"

It took several seconds for the handwriting to appear: Chamber of Secrets? Why did you suddenly ask about this?

You know?

Oh yes, a very bad memory. At that time, some people even died because of it! Now you're asking me, is it possible that someone has opened the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets again?

Neville became excited when he saw this: Senior Tom really knows!

Do you know who the heir of Slytherin is?

This...... I do know.

Tell me, senior, we have to stop him!

Well, if you insist on that. Don't resist, I'll show you my memory......

In a trance, Neville felt like the world was spinning, and his whole person seemed to be planted in a diary.

Then, in a ghost-like state with no entity and no one can touch, see, or hear, he follows the young and handsome senior Tom to crack a Hogwarts campus illegal pet breeding incident!

He also learned who the student who died fifty years ago was, the ghost of the one known as the Weeping Myrtle!

I don't know how long it took, but his spirit had returned, and he sat at the table in a trance.

He gasped for breath and fell into a very difficult inner struggle.

Hagrid turned out to be the heir of Slytherin!

He raised monsters and killed students, so he was expelled!

How so? How could it be Hagrid?!

Impossible, impossible!

But, but this is what I saw with my own eyes.

What to do? What am I going to do?

He immediately thought of contacting Ted.

But the note had already been written, and he was about to cast a spell to turn into a paper crane when he suddenly stopped.

What if Hagrid is really the heir?

Do you want to denounce him yourself?

What would Ted have done if he had found out? Will you denounce Hagrid?!

Neville's pupils trembled for a moment, sweat on his head, and he was in a dilemma.

At this moment, suddenly Jerry and Ron's laughter came from outside the door.

Neville panicked and hurriedly put away his diary......

(End of chapter)