Chapter 18: Dumbledore
"The Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, there's such a thing."
After a brief reflection, Sellers decided that now was not the time. The matter of the secret room has not yet made a big fuss, and the victim is only a cat. If she had shown that memory to Ginny at this time, she would have easily exposed herself if she had confronted Hagrid.
But needing a little bit of art.
Again, the best way to do this is not to say it all.
"Really, Mr. Riddle, you know where the Chamber of Secrets is?" Ginny was overjoyed.
"It's not, in fact, something similar happened fifty years ago, you should be very puzzled why I won the Special Contribution Award, but the medal didn't say why I won the award, right?"
Hearing this, Ginny nodded subconsciously, but she remembered that Mr. Riddle couldn't see, so she wrote hard in her diary: "Hmm! ”
"It's because I confessed to the man who opened the chamber. At that time, a poor student had already died at the hands of the monsters in the secret room, and I found Mi Duan, determined not to protect him. reported the other party to the principal at the time. Because a student died, the principal wanted me to block the news. But the monsters in the chamber have been driven away, and as for the man who opened the chamber - fifty years have passed, maybe he is dead. ”
Cyrus said half-truths.
The last sentence seems to be a lie, but it is actually true.
"As for whether the Chamber of Secrets will be opened again? I don't think so, Slytherin's chamber is open again, unleashing a terrifying monster just to deal with a cat? I'll admit, that cat was nasty, but not enough to be treated like that. Maybe it's a prank? I walked around the castle in the evening with your body, and I seemed to see a figure, but I didn't see it very clearly. ”
"Is that so?" Ginny heard that the person who had opened the chamber might be dead, so she didn't ask about the person's identity. She could be said to be convinced of Cyrus now, but she was very interested in the secret room.
"Mr. Riddle, can you show me the Chamber of Secrets from fifty years ago?"
"Absolutely." Sellers followed his memory and marked the location of the secret room where Hagrid had kept Aragog.
Truth be told, keeping an eight-eyed giant spider in a castle is no different from raising a basilisk, and the two magical creatures are just as dangerous. If it weren't for the fact that Tom had already killed a man and led to Aragog's expulsion, Hagrid's problems would have been sooner or later.
After getting the answer, Ginny already had a plan in mind.
That night, around twelve o'clock, Ginny sneaked out of the room, intending to take a look at the secret room.
By this time there was no one else in the common room, and she walked cautiously and slipped out from under the portrait of the fat lady. As I walked through a classroom on the fifth floor, I suddenly heard several familiar voices. Ginny immediately crouched in the corner of the window.
"You say, should I tell them about the voice I heard?"
"Don't say it," Ron said without thinking, "it's not a good sign to hear voices that no one else can hear, even in the wizarding world. ”
He was worried that Harry might be taken as an attacker if he said it.
Harry heard something in Ron's voice and asked, "You believe me, don't you?" ”
"Of course I believe it," Ron said quickly, "but—you must admit it's bizarre......"
"I know it's bizarre," Harry said, "the whole thing is bizarre. What's going on with those words on the wall? The Chamber of Secrets has been opened...... What does this mean exactly? ”
"Oh, that reminds me of something," Ron said slowly, "as if someone once told me about the Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets...... Probably Bill......"
"What is a Squib?" Harry asked.
Ginny heard Harry's strange question, and Ron laughed. Actually, she wanted to laugh too.
Almost every young wizard who hasn't yet enrolled in school will worry about whether he is a squib or not.
"That's so—not ridiculous, actually—but on Filch...... "Squib is a man who lives in a wizarding family and doesn't have any magical abilities. Squibs are the opposite of Muggle-born wizards, though Squibs are rare. If Filch wanted to learn magic through a correspondence course in quick mantras, he would be a Squib. This can explain a lot of things, such as why he hates students so much - he is jealous. ”
Also, listening to them like this, it seems that they will not be fired?
Ginny breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard Harry say, "Let's go to bed, but don't wait for Snape to come to us again and frame us." ”
She immediately left under the window, hiding around the corner, and did not come out again until Harry and the others were gone.
There was something about the Chamber of Secrets, and she didn't want anyone to know about it yet, at least until she was sure that tonight's events had something to do with the Chamber of Secrets.
"Looks like it's over here—"
She walked briskly through the hallway, and after a few moments came to the secret room that Cyrus had marked her. It's really hidden, but there's nothing. As "Mr. Riddle" said, the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets have been driven away.
All that's left here is a thick layer of dust, and some old cobwebs.
Ginny was a little glad and a little disappointed.
But she quickly perked up, since it wasn't the monster in the secret room who did it, the most important thing now was to catch the prankster.
- Draco Malfoy!
This was Ginny's primary suspicion. After the summer holidays, Ginny had already thought of Draco as a Malfoy imp with an evil nature, not to mention that the timing of his appearance tonight was strange enough.
She wanted to go back to her bedroom and tell "Mr. Riddle" her guess, but as soon as she turned around, she saw an unexpected figure.
"D-Headmaster Dumbledore?" Ginny almost stayed where she was.
"Good evening, Miss Weasley." Dumbledore stood at the corner of the stairs, he had been tall and now looked taller. The blue eyes glow like jewels at night.
"Headmaster, why are you ...... here" Ginny became nervous, and the night tour was caught by the headmaster, which was no joke.
However, Dumbledore clearly misunderstood the reason for Ginny's nervousness, and at this moment, he looked directly into Ginny's eyes, as if to see her heart. But the expression on his face was still kind.
"That's a question I should have asked you, Miss Weasley." He said, "There's been such a horrific attack, and it's so late, you should stay in the Gryffindor dorm instead of wandering outside the castle, you say?" ”
Ginny quickly lowered her head, staggering Dumbledore's gaze.
That's not going to work.
Dumbledore immediately added, "Of course, I won't punish you for this. I'm here because someone wants to create a panic and claim that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened again! It just so happened that fifty years ago, there was a student who, here reported another student, kicked a monster out of school - I have to admit, it was a dangerous monster. ”
His words forced Ginny to look up in surprise once more.
As soon as she heard about Riddle's story, she immediately wanted to share it with Dumbledore, but soon she remembered that it was her and Mr. Riddle's secret, and swallowed it back.
Dumbledore saw that she wanted to stop talking, and naturally knew that Ginny might have some secret in her heart.
"Alright, it's time for you to go back to sleep."
"Yes, sir." Ginny nodded, staggering past Dumbledore, and as she reached the upper part of the stairs, she heard Dumbledore's voice coming from behind.
"Wait—"
"What's wrong?" Ginny turned her head, her gaze meeting Dumbledore's.
"Before you leave, I want to make sure, Miss Weasley, is there anything else you would like to tell me?" Those blue eyes seemed a bit aggressive.
A series of things flashed through Ginny's mind, and after a moment, she slowly spoke:
"No, sir."
Hearing this, Dumbledore nodded, as if in thought, and said softly, "Good night, then, Miss Weasley." On days like these, it's best not to wander around at night. ”