In the Gryffindor common room, Percy sat on the couch with his hands over his face and said nothing, and Fred and George sat across from Percy, who did not react to the comfort of their mutual friend Lee Jordan.

Ron sat by the fireplace with a dejected face, his lips pursing, as if he had just had a serious illness.

Beside him, Harry shook his legs anxiously, and from time to time he looked at the door of the common room, as if waiting for something.

"I found it!"

Finally, the portrait of the fat lady opened, and Hermione crawled out of the doorway panting, waving a note in her hand.

Glancing at Ron, who didn't react, Harry quickly got up from his chair to meet Hermione's answer.

"--Professor Bryan was right in his guess,"

Hermione's orange eyes gleamed hard, and she slipped the note into Harry's hand without saying a word, while she whispered the contents of the note,

"In our country, there are many terrible beasts and monsters, the most bizarre and deadly of which is the basilisk, also known as the Serpent King. These snakes can become very large and usually live for hundreds of years.

It was hatched from a male egg from a toad, and the basilisk kills people in such a way that in addition to its deadly fangs, its stare can also kill people, and anyone who is caught in its gaze will die instantly.

The spider will run for his life when he sees the basilisk, because the basilisk is the spider's mortal enemy, and the basilisk will run for its life whenever it hears the rooster's crow, because the rooster's crow is also very deadly to it--"

"But--"

Ron finally came to his senses, and he moved his parched pale lips and muttered,

"Until now, not a single person has died... If that basilisk's gaze can kill, Colin and Justine..."

"That's because no one has ever met a basilisk's eyes--"

Harry felt his stomach soak in icy water, and he whispered with a twitch in his cheeks,

"Hagrid's was strangled to death... Colin saw it through the camera, and the basilisk had scorched all the film on the camera baggage, so Colin was just petrified, Justine... It's Nick, he must have seen the basilisk through Nick, who was almost headless, and Nick was stared at by the basilisk... But there's no way he's going to die a second time, right? ”

"And Lady Loris..."

Hermione said solemnly,

"I guess it's the reflection of the water coming out of Myrtle's bathroom and seeing the basilisk... Harry, I'm glad you understood, Riddle deceived you, the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk, not some furry monster, and Hagrid may be innocent! ”

Hermione's conclusion made Harry's face pale, and he didn't know how to explain why Riddle's memories were deceiving him.

"Let's go find Hagrid!"

After a while, Harry finally came back to his senses, and he said firmly,

"Hagrid must know something... I don't know why Riddle told us a false memory, maybe... It's the real murderer, but no matter what, Hagrid must know something! ”

Professor McGonagall ordered all the young wizards to stay in the common room and not go out, although Percy was no longer able to carry out Professor McGonagall's orders, but the three of them did not know what was going on outside, Harry rushed to the dormitory to get his invisibility cloak, leaving Hermione and Ron speechless.

When they crept out of the common room, they found that there were no young wizards wandering in the castle, and the corridors were silent, only the professors who were walking together were patrolling up and down the castle, and the expressions on the faces of those professors also made them feel desperate.

Is Ginny still alive, and why did the Slytherin heirs end up targeting Ginny?

It was a question that even Hermione couldn't answer, and in fact, Harry was now flickering with a horrible image of Ginny being found as a cold corpse, with Mrs. Weasley lying on top of Ginny's corpse and crying, while Mr. Weasley crouched to the side, pulling off his few hairs one by one!

Regret tore at Harry's mind like a poisonous snake, and until this moment, he regretted that he hadn't given Riddle's journal to Professor Bryan sooner...

Professor Bryan could deduce from the sound he heard that it was a snake moving through a tube, and if it had been him communicating with Riddle's diary, Harry would have bet Professor Brian would have been able to dig out some secrets in Riddle's head!

It was a starry night, and they hurried towards the lighted window of Hagrid's residence, and no one spoke, until outside Hagrid's door, Harry looked around vigilantly before taking off his invisibility cloak.

A few seconds after they knocked on the door, Hagrid slammed it open, and they met Hagrid with a crossbow pointed at them, the Great Hound Tooth barking loudly behind him.

Hagrid seemed shocked that they would be here, and he looked unsettled as the water in the kettle spilled and nearly extinguished the fire, and then his thick hand shook violently and knocked the teapot over.

"You've heard about Ginny, haven't you?"

Ron stared at Hagrid with a sullen face, Hermione didn't speak, and Harry had to start the conversation on his own.

"Oh yes, I've heard that."

Hagrid didn't seem to realize that they had come to ask him, his voice choked up, and he was always looking nervously at the window, and just as he was about to cut a thick piece of fruit cake, there was a loud knock on the door again.

Harry could only swallow all the questions he had to ask, and with Hermione pulled Ron into a corner, and when he saw them hidden, Hagrid grabbed the crossbow again and slammed the door open.

"Good evening, Hagrid."

It was Dumbledore, who walked in with a very serious expression, followed by a very strange-looking man.

The stranger was short and stocky, with the same gray hair as Professor Bryan on the top of his head, but much more disheveled, with an anxious face on his chubby face.

His clothes were matched in a very strange style, a pinstriped suit, a bright red leader, a black cloak, purple pointed-toe boots, and a dark green top hat under his arm.

"That's my dad's boss!"

Ron finally came to his senses and whispered to Harry and Hermione, "Cornelius Fudge, Minister for Magic!" ”

Hermione poked Ron hard with her elbow to shut him up.

The worst had finally happened for Hagrid, who sat down on the bed, pale in defense.

"I can't help it, Hagrid--"

Fudge said in a crisp and quick tone, "Very bad, Dumbledore kept me calm, after those two little wizards were petrified..., I can't tell you how much pressure I put on to shut up the Daily Prophet, but now it's completely out of the way, and many of the people in the ministry who are watching this already know that Weasley's daughter may have been miserable..."

"I hope you understand, Connelly, that I trust Hagrid completely."

Dumbledore frowned, his tone solemn, but there was also a flicker of helplessness in his blue eyes.

Sometimes rights are such unreasonable things, and even Dumbledore has to adhere to the power structure of a stable society, unless he wants to start all over again.

But Fudge seemed to have made up his mind, and he played with his top hat, and instead of looking into Dumbledore's eyes, he said nonchalantly,

"From my point of view, Dumbledore, a little precaution is necessary, if we end up finding out that another person has opened the Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid will be released, and the Ministry of Magic will apologize fully..."