A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 145 Attacked
The strange emotional riots in the school happened several times in just a few days. Although the duration of each time was not long, it still seriously disrupted the order of the campus, and made many professors burnt out. cause.

Owen was happy to have someone help him find the source, and watched the show with peace of mind.Although he accidentally got hit twice, he still cried the second time. After he walked out of the grief, he was so embarrassed that his toes were on the ground, and he wanted to throw away the ashes of Harry who was holding him and crying bitterly.But when it's not affected, it's kind of funny.

Except for Dumbledore who was paddling with great interest, and Lockhart who was full of confidence to help, the other professors played their own initiative and quickly found out the transmission mechanism of this emotional infection, and reported it to the students of the whole school.

A prominent notice was posted on the bulletin board in the Slytherin common room.Madam Pomfrey told everyone that this may be a new wizarding disease, which is harmless to the body. Recently, she is researching a cure for it with Professor Snape, so that everyone should not worry.The latter is to remind everyone how to prevent infection.

"...every emotional contagion has to have a source, which is usually a person who is in a state of violent mood swings. When someone is very happy, sad or angry, etc., he may become the source of the infection, and his own emotions The fluctuations will be significantly amplified and spread to those who are in close contact with him."

"Once you find that your emotions suddenly magnify, please keep the source of infection and the infected person away from the crowd as soon as possible to avoid large-scale transmission... People who are not infected can avoid infection by adjusting their expressions to be consistent with the infected person..."

"Adjust your expression to match that of an infected person?" Draco muttered with a stinky face, "Should we pretend to cry when everyone else is crying?" He remembered the last time in the auditorium, he and Crabbe and Gao Er hugged each other and wept bitterly. When he woke up, he realized that he was almost pinched to death by two big guys... Thinking of this, his expression became even more stinky.

Harry also coughed in embarrassment, and secretly glanced at Owen who looked aside as usual.That time he wiped handfuls of tears and snot on Owen's robe, he always felt that Owen seemed to want to kill him after he came to his senses... It really was an illusion.

Owen glanced at him angrily, then narrowed his eyes and said to himself, "Is emotion contagious? Interesting."

This incident is quite interesting, and it seems that there is no need for him to rush to find the source.Well, he thinks the students' mundane campus life needs a little interesting twist.

Owen sat back in his armchair, curled up lazily, the orange firelight cast a soft shimmer around him.

……

It was raining again and again, the sky was covered with low gray clouds, and the castle was as dark as night.

After the last class of the afternoon, Owen sat in a corner of the library, writing his Transfiguration homework.A group of little spiders crawled across the tabletop in a long line, climbed up the wall, and then hurried away along the corner.

Owen looked away, and saw Harry staring straight at the direction the little spider was crawling, with a dazed expression on his face.Immediately afterwards, Harry stood up suddenly, strode towards the bookshelf area, stopped in front of a bookshelf, and quickly flipped through one book after another.

"What's wrong with him? He's taken aback." Draco yawned, scribbling his Defense Against the Dark Arts paper.

"Who knows." Owen let his quill start to write automatically, resting his chin in one hand and looking at the gloomy drizzle outside the window.

About an hour later, Harry trotted back with a book, and said excitedly, "I think I know what that monster in the Chamber of Secrets is!"

Draco straightened up suddenly, looking at him with raised eyebrows.Owen also turned his head, his expression unchanged, his dark eyes as calm and deep as a black lake at night.

"We were attacked at that ghost party on Hallowe'en Eve, and only I could hear the scary voice..." Harry said breathlessly, "I didn't think about it at first...Only I could Can it be because it is a snake when you hear it?"

"Why can you hear a snake?" Draco looked bewildered.

"It's nothing, I'm a bit special..." Harry said vaguely, "Well, anyway, I just flipped through a lot of books about monsters, checked all the information about snake-shaped monsters in it, and then found this—a snake Strange!" He spread the book in his hand on the table.

"The basilisk, also known as the king of snakes, is very large and can live for hundreds of years... It has deadly fangs and can kill people by staring at it. Anyone who looks at it will die immediately, even if they see it indirectly. Its eyes will also be petrified... the spider will run away when it sees the basilisk, and the crowing of the rooster is fatal to the basilisk..."

Harry's tone became more and more urgent: "It's all right! Slytherin is a Parseltongue. It's normal to leave a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. It can live for hundreds of years. The spider is running for his life, and Hagrid's cock is also running for his life." Inexplicably all died. Clearwater was petrified, and a window in the corridor she was in that night was broken, and she may have seen the basilisk's eye through the windowpane..."

"Those ghosts may have directly seen the Basilisk's eyes, but they couldn't die a second time, so they were just petrified..."

Draco stretched his neck and looked at the description in the book, and said slowly: "The basilisk was hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad... What I'm interested in is, how does the rooster lay eggs?"

"Some black magic can do this." Owen said casually.

"Oh——" Draco drawled his tone, his eyes rolling, "you think it's cool to have a basilisk?"

"Not cool at all, Draco!" said Harry sternly, looking very much like Professor McGonagall at the moment.

"Hatching a basilisk sounds easy, but it's actually very complicated and requires a certain amount of luck." Owen explained with a rigorous academic attitude, "And the basilisk is a high-risk creature that basically cannot be tamed. Controlled to a degree by Parselmouth wizards, it is very dangerous to other wizards, and its stare is an indiscriminate attack."

"You don't want to accidentally look at your pet one day and die suddenly, do you?" Harry nodded.

"I'm just talking." Draco spread his hands.

Harry looked at Owen and asked expectantly, "Owen, do you think I'm right?"

"I agree." Owen replied with a smile, "Great."

Harry couldn't help curling up the corners of his mouth smugly, but seeing Owen's calm expression as before, the smile on his face slowly disappeared again.This guy wasn't surprised at all just now, shouldn't he have guessed it a long time ago?
He stared at Owen suspiciously for a long time, then closed the book on the table and said: "I have to go and tell Hermione about this, she is being targeted by the heir, and she is in a very dangerous situation. By the way, you better be like me." Put on a pair of glasses, so as not to meet the basilisk one day... It's better to be petrified than dead."

"Owen and I are both pure blood, we will not be targeted by the heir, and neither will you." Draco raised his chin proudly, "I don't know why you are afraid of this and that, this matter has nothing to do with us It didn't matter much in the first place, Harry..."

"The stare of the basilisk is an indiscriminate attack." Harry repeated with a straight face, "Even if you are not its target, you may be affected. Well, I'll go find..." He turned his head to look at the library On the other side, "Hmm" said: "Where's Hermione? Wasn't she still there just now?"

"Ha, I must be going to the bathroom." Draco lazily started to pack his schoolbag, "Granger can't have left the library before you, otherwise why would he be called a nerd?"

"But her schoolbag is gone," said Harry. "Would any of you come with me to find..."

Before he finished speaking, Draco picked up his schoolbag and said slowly: "I'm going back to the lounge, Owen, are you together?"

"Okay." Owen packed up his things and smiled at the pitiful Harry.It's not that he doesn't want to be with Harry, it's just that it's too cold and he's too lazy to miss a warm fireplace and a soft armchair.

"You two...well, I'll go by myself, she should go back to the Gryffindor lounge..." Harry sighed at this point, his reputation in Gryffindor is not good at all recently , so everyone shouted and beat them.He twitched the corner of his mouth, suspecting that Owen and Draco were afraid of being beaten.

He also carried his schoolbag on his back, and followed the two out of the library.When he came out, he consciously squinted his eyes and glanced around, as if there was a basilisk in every nook and cranny.

Owen blinked and saw Draco cover his eyes with his right hand, peeking out cautiously between his fingers.Perhaps this is a normal reaction to knowing that there is a basilisk hiding in Hogwarts.

Seeing how the two turned their heads three times at a time, Owen raised his hand and rubbed the space between his brows, and took out a transparent glass bottle from his schoolbag.He pulled out his wand and shattered it, grinding out several round shards of glass.Immediately afterwards, he flipped his palm, and two black iron rings appeared in the palm of his hand, which were elongated and deformed under the effect of the transfiguration technique, and connected with the glass piece, turning into a pair of glasses with a simple and pleasing style.

"Indestructible." Owen tapped the glasses with his wand, then threw it to Draco, "Put it on."

"Thanks, although it's a bit ugly." Draco took the glasses with reluctance and put them on.

"The gaze of the basilisk may destroy the lens. Adding an indestructible spell will be much safer." Owen pointed his wand at Harry's eyes and said "Unbreakable", then retracted his wand.

"Thank you, Owen, don't you want to prepare a pair for yourself?" Before Harry finished speaking, he saw Owen skillfully take out a pair of silver-white plain glasses from his pocket and put them on the bridge of his nose.

"Uh, you..." Harry opened his mouth.This guy must have already guessed that it was a basilisk, right?

"Be prepared." Owen pushed his glasses with a smile.His glasses had been given more protective spells by him, as well as spells he had discussed with Tom to prevent being killed or petrified by the basilisk.Of course, he hasn't experimented to see if it works, and it's impossible to experiment with himself.

Harry took several deep breaths before resisting the urge to kick hard.He ground his teeth and said, "Can you prepare two more pairs of glasses for me?"

"Okay." Owen followed suit as he walked, and handed the newly made glasses to Harry.

The three walked along the corridor outside the library for a while, and when they were about to reach the stairs, they happened to meet Hermione who was walking quickly.

"Hermione!" Harry waved his hand with a smile, it would be nice not to have to look for someone outside the Gryffindor lounge.

"Harry, Owen, it's very good of you to be here. I have something to tell you!" Hermione burst into flames as soon as she saw them, completely ignoring Draco, who was alive.

Draco snorted heavily, crossing his shoulders and squinting at her.

"Exactly, I have something to tell you." Harry said hurriedly, "We know what the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is! It's a basilisk! Anyone who sees its eyes directly will die, and anyone who sees it indirectly will be petrified." ...you put these on, Hermione." He handed Owen the glasses he had fixed.

"Oh...Okay, thank you. I didn't expect that there would be such a thing in Hogwarts..." Hermione froze for a moment, took the glasses and put them on, and then hurriedly said: "We guessed that Ron Threatened or controlled, he was begging us for help, but then it occurred to me, what if Ron wasn't the only one being controlled?"

She took a deep breath, raised her hand to stroke her long messy brown hair, and said with some hesitation and anxiety: "I have been hesitating whether to tell you, after all, this may just be my imagination, but just now I found out... "

Her voice suddenly stopped, and her eyes looked behind the three of them through the gap between them, and her expression suddenly became extremely frightened.Owen frowned, and drew out his wand vigilantly, Harry and Draco froze, and instinctively turned their heads to look behind them.

"No!" Hermione screamed, and jumped at the two of them, throwing them hard to the ground.

"Ouch!" Draco cried out in pain, "What are you doing, Granger!"

"What happened?" Harry raised his hand to support Hermione's arm, but was horrified to see that the other's body had become gray and stiff, maintaining the posture of opening his arms, freezing his frightened face, staring The big eyes have become dull.

"No! No! Hermione!" Harry cried.Draco opened his mouth in surprise and panic, and his face turned pale instantly.

Owen watched Hermione's situation calmly. At this moment, he also heard a rustling sound behind him, as if some huge object was passing by the ground quickly.

"The basilisk is behind, run!" he said succinctly, grabbing Draco up.

"We have to take Hermione!" Harry forced himself to calm down.Can't leave Hermione here, once she's broken she's really hopeless.

Owen waved his wand, causing Hermione's body to float lightly.Harry jumped to his feet and ran with Hermione under his left arm.

"Shocking!" Owen chanted the spell of fear directly to the voice that was getting closer behind him.The sound of crawling against the ground paused for a moment, followed by the sound of heavy wagging tails. The walls and floor were slapped heavily, making a loud rumbling noise. Even the ground was trembling slightly. The ornaments and hanging ornaments on both sides of the corridor It crackled and fell all over the ground.

Apparently, Owen's fear spell worked.The basilisk fell into panic and couldn't care less about chasing them for a while.

"I didn't hear the basilisk's voice just now!" Harry panted, his expression full of self-blame and guilt, "I should have heard..."

"But...it's daytime..." Draco's face turned pale.

"Is now the time to think wildly?" Owen raised his left eyebrow, pointed to the corridor behind him and said "the slide is flat", turning the ground behind into a smooth slope like a slide.The curtains on both sides of the corridor were lifted high after they passed by, and turned into solid stone walls under Owen's command, sealing the corridor tightly.

It is a good thing that few people hang out outside at this time, so that too many people will not be affected.But when they climbed the stairs, they ran straight into a little wizard.

"Harry Potter!" exclaimed Colin Creevey, flushed.

"Oh no! Colin..." Harry cast a hindrance spell hastily behind him, then grabbed Colin's arm with his wand hand and dragged him upstairs, "Listen ! If you don’t want to die, don’t look back, close your eyes if there is any movement, and hear clearly!”

"Listen...you hear me clearly..." Colin was confused by the situation in front of him, and the basilisk had already rushed through the walls set by Owen, and the rumbling sound was endless.

This time, Harry finally heard the voice of the basilisk: "Kill that girl... kill her... let me eat..."

"No! Stop! Don't kill her!" Harry couldn't help shouting.

Immediately afterwards, he found that Draco looked at him with a very strange and complicated gaze, and Colin also looked at a loss.Owen glanced at him hastily, and continued to rush upwards, casting a spell behind them from time to time, delaying the speed of the basilisk.

"I must kill her... respectable Parseltongue wizard, I must follow the master's order first..." Harry actually heard that hoarse and terrifying cold voice reply.Only then did he realize that he was unconsciously speaking in Parseltongue just now.

"Who is your master?" Harry asked.He heard himself say a strange hiss.

"I can't tell you, honorable wizard... if you move out of the way, I don't have to kill you..."

Harry didn't bother to reply, he was gasping for breath, feeling a bloody smell in his throat.He let go of his voice and shouted: "Help!" Where are the professors?

At this moment, a beam of white light "swish" cut through the air, hit from above the stairs, and rushed straight at Harry.He was caught off guard with both hands holding the person, he could only hastily turn sideways to avoid it, but it was already too late.

"Armor protection!" Owen's Iron Armor Curse stretched out in front of Harry, and bounced the white light rushing towards Harry's chest to one side.

Harry was slightly relieved to see a red-haired boy walking slowly down the stairs, his wand pointed at him with a dazed look on his extremely pale face.

"Ron Weasley, what are you doing?" Harry stopped and stared at him.

Owen also stopped, let go of Draco's arm, and heard the sound of crawling behind him getting closer.He twitched the corner of his mouth speechlessly, why does this kind of thing always happen to him?Sure enough, we can't let Harry stick too tightly in the future...

Although some of the black magic he is good at is enough to solve the current problem, but those means cannot be used at Hogwarts at all.He does have a disadvantage in general magic. To solve this problem, he can only find ways to improve the level of magic power and study magic advancement, which is a long-term process.

Ron Weasley seemed to wake up suddenly. He blinked blankly, glanced at the wand in his hand, and then at Harry, his expression instantly became ferocious and fearful.He hissed, "Run away!"

Immediately afterwards, his expression suddenly returned to calm, and a leisurely smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"What a coincidence, there are so many people present..." he said with a smile.

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