Chapter 176: Riddle's Death!
On the first day, Lucius Malfoy arrives, bringing with him a joint suspension order from the school trustees, suspending Dumbledore from his position as Headmaster, who they believe has failed to protect the students and the school.
I don't know how many words Lucius wasted to convince the school trustees for this purpose, after all, they still trusted Dumbledore very much.
Harry went on a trip to the United States.
Jobs' office.
Harry was holding something like a cell phone, and he understood how to use it without Jobs talking.
It was enough that it had a shooting function, and Harry was satisfied.
Harry casually said to Jobs, "Yes, I'm satisfied, so I'll tell you something as a reward." ”
Jobs looked at Harry nervously.
Harry thought for a moment and said, "You're going to die of cancer." ”
And then it was gone.
Jobs wanted to ask what kind of cancer it was, but Harry was gone.
Since then, he has lived for a long time by strictly following the recipe for eating, exercising according to the arrangements of professional coaches......
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In the evening, everyone ate in the auditorium, and panic welled up in everyone's hearts.
Professor McGonagall stood up and said heavily, "The school has decided that in two days, all students will be sent out and the school will be closed. ”
The people below are talking.
"Will schools never open again? ”
"At least if we don't solve the matter of the secret room, I'm afraid the Ministry of Magic won't allow the school to open. ”
"How long will that take? ”
"So what are we going to do, how are we going to go to class. ”
"What kind of classes do you take, you play every day. ”
Professor McGonagall continued, "We have contacted other schools of witchcraft and wizardry, and they have agreed to accept students who are temporarily unable to attend classes due to the closure of Hogwarts. ”
"When the time comes, the school will use an owl to tell you which school to go to report. ”
With that, Professor McGonagall sat down a little uncomfortably.
Hermione said nervously, "Harry, what if we weren't sorted into a school?"
Harry reassured, "Don't worry, the school will be fine." ”
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After eating, under the leadership of the prefect, the students returned to their respective dormitories with mixed feelings.
However, as soon as they walked to the place where Filch's cat was petrified, everyone was stunned.
Because there are a few more lines on the wall: a person's bones will be left in the Chamber of Secrets forever.
Professor McGonagall rushed to hear the news, her face pale, and she said loudly, "Now, the prefect counts who is missing." ”
Finally, the Gryffindor man shuddered and said, "Professor, Ron is gone. ”
Professor McGonagall took a deep breath and said, "Now everyone is back in the dormitory, lie in bed, don't run around, don't go alone. ”
When she left, she almost fell.
She thought sadly that the school was really going to close.
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Harry turned on his phone's camera switch, and shifted back to the Chamber of Secrets.
In this gloomy chamber, a red-haired body lies at the foot of a Slytherin statue, eyes closed, pale, motionless, as if dead.
A transparent and blurry figure stood nearby.
He is facing the stone statue, speaking snake language, and is summoning a basilisk.
Hearing footsteps behind him, he jerked around.
"Harry. He looked at Harry in surprise, then smiled and said, "I've always wanted to see you." ”
Harry was "surprised" and said, "Who are you? I don't know you." ”
Riddle looked at Harry and said, "That's stupid, let me tell you a story from a long time ago." ”
Harry listened quietly as Riddle began to pretend.
"More than fifty years ago, a kid named Riddle came to the school of witchcraft and wizardry at Hogwarts. ”
It took him five years to find the Chamber of Secrets that the great Slytherin had left at school, so he opened the Chamber of Secrets, freed the horrific monsters within, and caused the death of a Muggle. ”
"No one doubted that he would be the one to open the Chamber of Secrets, and he managed to dump the cauldron on a student named Hagrid, and everyone believed it, but a professor named Dumbledore doubted him, Dumbledore was very smart, he was the only teacher who didn't like him, and kept watching on him, so that he never had a chance to open the Chamber of Secrets again. ”
"What? You're Riddle. You're the Riddle I communicated with in my diary, and you opened the Chamber of Secrets!" Harry said "shocked."
Riddle was pleased with Harry's expression, and he smirked, "Haha, that's right, I later made this journal containing my memories of being sixteen years old, hoping to guide others to release the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets again and purify the school. ”
"Of course, that was my original thought, and when I woke up with this memory, I had only one goal, and that was you. ”
"What did you say? Harry pointed at himself in confusion, fully playing the role of a clueless person.
Riddle was still smiling, and he shook his head, "You see how stupid you are, you can't even see a little trick, and of course most wizards are just as stupid as you." ”
"You still don't understand, I'm Voldemort! Riddle is just a name I've abandoned, how can I use that Muggle-blooded name. He held Ron's wand in his hand, and his name floated in the air, and then the order was shuffled, and it became Voldemort's name.
"Well, now that I've told you that, it's time for you to answer my question, how did you defeat the greatest magician of all time when you were a baby?" he stared at Harry with burning eyes, waiting for an answer like a hungry wolf.
Harry looked at him for a long time, and Voldemort grew impatient.
"Don't you have anything else to say?" asked Harry, confused.
"I thought you could say more. ”
Riddle felt a little strange, because Harry suddenly became fearless, this is not right, it is not right, he should not tremble when he hears his name.
Harry pulled the camera out of his chest and turned it off, "Still, that's enough." ”
Harry said calmly, "You know, I was actually going to play with you, but I suddenly thought, you're just a dead man, I'm still struggling with this, if you're at your peak, I'm still a little interested." ”
"Really, I was going to give this video to the Ministry of Magic, and then wait for you to come over and play with you year after year, but I suddenly got bored because I had to find something more fun. ”
Riddle felt a little wrong, Harry was so calm that he was even more confused by what he said.
He took a step back and pointed Ron's wand at Harry: Arvada Suo.
The green beam rushed towards Harry, but when it touched Harry, it was like hitting a light mask, and it was directly bounced off.
"Actually, I don't think the Curse is that powerful. Harry said lightly.
"How could it be. Riddle looked at Harry in disbelief as he panicked and called out to the basilisk in snake language.
The basilisk crawled out of Slytherin's mouth, and he became calm again.
He said in the language of the serpent, "Kill him." ”
The basilisk hissed and crawled towards Harry.
Just when he was full of hope, Harry took a black diary on the ground in his hand and said in a peculiar tone: "If I make a Horcrux, I will definitely not look for anything of special significance, I will take an ordinary stone brick as a Horcrux, and then spread it on the road for people to step on for hundreds of years, or throw it into the sea, sink into the depths where no one can find it, and it is better to forget about it." ”
"You ......" Riddle is smart, but he is not the scheming and vicious Voldemort decades later, and he is not mature enough. Horcruxes were his biggest secret, and no one knew about it, but Harry said it in one mouth, how could he not be surprised.
Riddle was just a soul, glowing faintly, and if he were a real person, his face would have been bloodless, so pale that even his beauty could not be retouched.
He just kept commanding the basilisk: "Kill him, quick, kill him." ”
The basilisk is dozens of meters long, and when it crawls, it is more than ten meters high, almost like a tall building falling towards Harry, and the oppressive force is huge.
Harry was small compared to the serpent. Riddle couldn't see Harry anymore, he finally relaxed, I don't know how you know about my Horcruxes, but you're still going to die.
But the voice that made him frightened sounded: "I forgot to tell you that the basilisk is my pet." ”
Instead of killing Harry as he thought, the basilisk hovered behind Harry, his head down and close to Harry with a look of obedience.
Riddle was completely confused, what the hell was going on, wasn't it the secret room I opened?
Harry didn't bother to explain it to him, but said, "Go in peace, I'll destroy the rest of your Horcruxes soon and keep you company." ”
The rest of the Horcruxes, he, knew everything. There was only one thought left in Riddle's mind.
"Ate it. Harry tossed the journal at the basilisk.
The basilisk opened its mouth and swallowed the ant-like diary, secreting venom.
Riddle roared in despair: "No ......" With a terrible, long-lasting, eardrum-piercing scream, streams of ink spurted out of the journal and ran down Harry's hands to the ground. Riddle twisted and struggled, his arms waving incessantly, screaming out of his mouth, and ......
That day, he became a light.
He didn't get the answer that had plagued him for ten years until he died, and at the last moment, seeing Harry's calm face through the light, he suddenly had a bold guess: could it be that Harry Potter turned out to be the Slytherin in history......
With this thought, his whole body shattered into light.
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