Chapter 80: The Location of the Secret Room
A large cloud floated over to obscure the bright moon in the sky, mixed with a strong wind whistling in the spacious lawn of the Hogwarts campus, and the Hogwarts Castle on the cliff bank was brightly lit, but the flickering candle flames were inexplicably terrifying.
Amosta personally escorted the three lost young wizards back to the Gryffindor common room, and Harry seemed to see what he was going to do next, standing in front of the portrait of the fat lady, he begged Professor Bryan to let him do something,
"It's all because of me--"
Harry didn't dare to look into Ron's eyes, lowered his head and said sadly,
"If I could have been more vigilant and less easily trusted with that notebook, perhaps Ginny wouldn't have been taken into that secret room, Hagrid wouldn't have been taken away by the Ministry of Magic, and Lucius Malfoy wouldn't have had a chance to get rid of Headmaster Dumbledore!"
"It's not your fault, Harry--"
Hermione patted Harry on the back and whispered,
"Many wizards more experienced than you can't resist the temptations of the mysterious man..., and we didn't realize that the diary contained evil intentions."
"Hogwarts can't afford to lose another little wizard, Potter--"
Amosta's memories hidden in the dormitory told him some key information, but he didn't mention the specific location of the secret room, he looked at Harry in a depressed mood, and his smile was slightly meaningful,
"That basilisk in the secret room is not something that a young wizard who has not graduated can easily deal with, if you accidentally run into it, remember not to make eye contact with it--"
On the way back, Amosta met Professor McGonagall outside the hospital on the fourth floor, she was angry and was reprimanding several Hufflepuff senior girls, and when she saw Amosta coming from a distance, Professor McGonagall stopped her anger and asked Filch to escort them back to the dormitory.
"These students!"
Professor McGonagall's face turned pale, and she pursed her lips and spat out word by word.
"They actually sneaked out to Gildero, hoping that he would help deal with the heir... It's so funny, even Albus can't do anything about it--"
"I can only say that Professor Lockhart's previous books are indeed quite demagogic."
Amosta shrugged, and then he saw Professor McGonagall pull out a lace handkerchief and gently wipe her eyes behind the square-framed lenses, and said in a deep nasal voice
"--When Fudge came here, he told me that tomorrow Rufus Scrimgeur, the head of the Auror office, will be stationed at the castle with someone to thoroughly investigate the students and staff at Hogwarts and the school...
I wish that the people who did all this in secret would be ashamed of their actions and take the initiative to stand up and take responsibility... I don't know how to explain to Arthur and Molly that Hogwarts didn't keep their daughter! ”
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By the time Amosta calmed Professor McGonagall's emotions and collected the panoramic telescope he had placed in the school hallway and returned to his office, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.
Only half of the footage on the office's surveillance wall was still in effect, and everything from the Gryffindor dormitory to the third floor of the school was plunged into darkness.
"The third floor..."
With this alone, Amosta confirmed this crucial information, and he sat cross-legged on the ground, spread out the panoramic telescopes damaged by the Freezing Spell in front of him, and began to repair the magic corridors one by one, which took him a while to complete due to the severe damage.
Call--
When the time came to eleven o'clock, Amosta stood up and took out his wand and pointed it at the panoramic telescope on the ground, and under the pull of the magic power, hundreds of rays of light like golden sand gradually converged in mid-air into a freeze-frame picture, and the only remaining information in the picture made Amosta's eyes narrow slightly.
Sure enough, there was no one else in the picture except Ginny Weasley!
Amosta watched as Ginny, holding a black diary in her hand, stepped out from behind the portrait of the fat lady, smiled darkly, into the position where the panoramic telescopes were arranged on the ceiling of the hallway, and then, with a sudden wave of her wand, the otherwise flat picture suddenly fell into shaking, and then went completely black.
Ginny was last seen on the third floor, where she stood at the corner of the stairs on the third floor, and she did the same trick as she could to break Amosta's panoramic telescopes, and her final destination was a mystery.
Amosta examined the history of the second and first floors, and found that Ginny did not continue to descend the stairs, and that the last ground she stayed on was indeed the third floor.
It's interesting, what's on the third floor?
Could it be that Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets is located there?
Tuk tuk!
In the moment when Amosta's mind fell into a brief trance, the office door suddenly slammed, and judging from the frequency and urgency, the mood of the visitor should be quite urgent.
Although the door had not yet opened, Amosta had already sensed who was coming from the magical perspective, and he couldn't help but look a little strange.
"Miss Granger?"
Amosta moved his fingers, and the door card of the office opened by itself, and Hermione, who was almost all over the door, rushed in by accident.
"Can you explain why you came to my office late at night, disobeying the school rules and Professor McGonagall's orders, at this time of great luck?"
"Professor Blaine!"
In an ordinary case, Hermione might have trembled and admitted her mistake if a professor spoke to her rather unpleasantly, but now, she completely ignored Professor Blaine's raised eyebrows, and ran directly in front of Amosta in three steps and two steps, and restrained herself from pulling Amosta's sleeve directly with the only remaining reason, but her tone was still extremely urgent,
"Professor, we've found the location of the Chamber of Secrets!"
Amosta frowned, he looked at the little witch seriously, and in just a split second, he could tell that Hermione wasn't lying.
This is really a strange thing, he has already sent them back to the common room of Gryffindor House, could it be that these little ones with iron heads have run out to search the castle by themselves?
"Tell me more about what you've found, Miss Granger!"
Now is not the time to dwell on inconsequential matters, Amosta calmed his mind and asked directly.
"Whew..., that's right, Professor Bryan!"
Hermione gasped heavily, but now, she didn't have time to ask Professor Bryan for a cup of tea, pursed her dry lips, and said in a hoarse but quick tone,
"It's Harry..., the three of us didn't go back to the dorm room to sleep after returning to the common room, but discussed Reed in the common room... The mystery man's diary, at first, was all about things that didn't make sense, but then, Harry suddenly thought of something very important! ”
"What's the matter?"
Looking at Hermione, whose eyes suddenly widened like amber, Amosta hurriedly asked.
"--Earlier, when Harry was communicating with that journal, he overheard it say that the student who died in a basilisk attack fifty years ago was in a bathroom!"
"Go on, Miss Granger!"
Amosta's eyebrows moved slightly, and his tone was obviously excited, the so-called 'protagonist' is really a magical species, and all kinds of opportunities are really rushed into his hands!
"Washroom on the third floor!"
Hermione said conclusively,
"There has always been a ghost in that bathroom, we all call her 'Myrtle', it is the student who died fifty years ago, we got a clue from it, Harry opened the entrance to the secret room, he and Ron went to save Ginny first... Phew, Harry arranged for me to come over and inform you about this! ”
Amosta's shrugged shoulders jumped back again, and he let out a long sigh of relief, and finally smiled,
"Let's go, Miss Granger, let's go and bring back that poor little girl!"