A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 154
The world in the diary now presents the top of Hogwarts' astronomy tower, and the velvety night sky is dotted with bright stars.

Tom Riddle likes to use a place in Hogwarts as the background, which fully reflects his deep obsession with Hogwarts.

Owen made a long series of weird "hissing" sounds, which sounded low and hoarse.After saying this, he coughed lightly and touched his uncomfortable throat. Learning Parseltongue the day after tomorrow is always a test of vocal cords, and it is difficult for ordinary people to make such a sound.

He looked up at the sky full of stars, and gave a soft "tsk".Looking at the stars on the top of the Astronomy Tower is another romantic thing, but why are you still with Tom?He glanced at Tom who was sitting on the edge of the tower quietly looking up at the sky. Well, although he was very handsome, considering the identity of the other party, it was still strange.

"The Parseltongue you just said is the spell to summon the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. As long as you enter the Chamber of Secrets and say this sentence to the statue of Slytherin there, the Basilisk will obey you Order." Tom looked away from the starry sky, and stared at Owen quietly with black and white eyes.His expression is always sincere and gentle, making people feel valued and trusted.

Owen nodded with a bright smile, raised his head lazily with his arms around his shoulders, and asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "Tom, do you like watching the stars?"

"I like them, they always make me feel good," said Tom slowly.

"Yeah, the universe is too big, our planet is like a grain of sand in the desert, pitifully small." Owen raised his right hand and spread his five fingers, as if trying to grab the starry sky above his head, "But the wizard But there is a future with infinite possibilities, and there is hope to explore the boundless universe... Whenever I see the starry sky, I feel no interest in those messy things in the wizarding world." The universe is so big, why? Staring at this acre of the earth and dominating it?Is God bad?
Tom tilted his head and looked at him, and said calmly: "But the road has to be walked step by step, and you can change a planet according to your own will first, isn't it very attractive?"

"Oh, Tom, you are very ambitious." Owen clapped his hands, "I am more and more curious why your name has not spread in the wizarding world."

"Maybe I died after I finished making the horcrux." Tom shook his toes carelessly, and seemed to be a little disappointed and lowered his eyes, which made people feel distressed.

"Oh—that's so pitiful." Owen said sympathetic words, but hooked the corners of his lips gloatingly, "I should go back."

The world around him shattered in an instant, and the world was spinning in front of his eyes. Owen was roughly thrown out, and he sat on the armchair and opened his eyes.

"Ah, are you in a hurry?" He closed the diary in the transfiguration textbook, and sealed it into a special box that can isolate magic power.This was created by Owen after checking a lot of alchemy materials some time ago, and it was specially prepared for the diary, so that Tom would not spy on what happened around him.

"Harry, can I learn Parseltongue from you?" After putting away the diary, Owen turned his head with a smile and said to Harry who was doing his Potions homework.

"Huh?" Harry raised his head to look at him, blinked his eyes in confusion, "It's not impossible, but I can't say it very well..."

"This is a natural talent, you have to make good use of it." Owen raised his eyebrows, "Why don't you catch a snake as a pet?"

Mentioning this, he suddenly thought of Nagini who had been locked in the manor dungeon by him.The irascible snake has been imprisoned for so long and has no intention of giving in at all. It is fed by the house elves with big fish and meat, but it is thinking all day how to escape from prison and bite them to death.

Although Owen has learned Parseltongue now, at best he can only communicate with snakes. Perhaps only a natural Parseltongue can tame Nagini—since keeping it is a waste of food, why not give it to Harry?

However, there are also hidden dangers. When two Parselmouth wizards meet together, snakes will obey the orders of the wizard they are closer to and prefer according to their own wishes.Nagini has a good relationship with Voldemort, and there is a possibility of rebellion, unless he makes a pledge of loyalty...well, that is not difficult for a born Parselmouth wizard.

"Snake?" Harry showed a repulsive look. He didn't like that kind of slippery and long animals at all, so he shook his head without thinking, "No."

"I can't." Owen said seriously, "I bought a very smart and powerful snake before. It's as smart as a human. It lived in the forest before it was caught by hunters. It shouldn't have done anything harmful. Things. But I can't tame it, and it hates me. That snake holds a lot of grudges, if you don't accept it, I can only kill it to avoid future troubles..."

What does that have to do with me... Harry opened his mouth, but his heart softened when he heard that the snake was as smart as a human: "Well, I can try to persuade it not to trouble you..."

"Let's wait until the summer vacation. This year's Hogwarts is not peaceful." There are too many Voldemorts in the school, and Nagini is easy to mess with.

"You have taken advantage of it, Harry." Owen raised the corners of his mouth playfully.Nagini used to be a beautiful young lady, and Voldemort's favorite little snake...

Under Owen's increasingly playful gaze, Harry couldn't help but move a little further away.He always felt that this guy was trying to trick him again, and the wickedness in his eyes was almost overflowing.

"Didn't you say that you want to learn Parseltongue from me?" Harry's back felt cold, and he changed the subject with a wooden face.He closed his eyes for a moment, imagining a snake in front of him, and then tried to open his mouth, making a weird "hissing" sound.

Owen recognized it, and it meant "hello".He cleared his throat, and the same sound came out of his mouth.

Harry's eyes widened, and he was stunned for a long time before he said, "You've learned it now?"

"It's not difficult." Owen said with a smile.

But you're making me feel like an idiot... Harry swallowed bitterly and said with a sigh, "It means 'hello'."

In the following time, the two of them taught one and learned, and both felt more and more interested.

Owen repeated these daily vocabulary and recorded the brief pronunciation in his notes.Well, it's almost the same as Tom's teaching. It seems that the other party didn't mislead him about the teaching of Parseltongue.

At the end of the lesson, Owen narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth to let out a hissing sound.After finishing speaking, he looked at Harry and asked, "What does this mean?"

"Ah?" Harry was stunned, and then grinned, "It doesn't mean anything, it's just a mess of syllables made up of snakespeak, are you talking nonsense?"

Owen smiled at him and sincerely thanked him, but his eyes became deeper.He glanced at the pocket containing the diary with a half-smile, Tom, you are not good.

He guessed right, Tom was playing tricks!The Parseltongue he was speaking was the spell Tom had just taught him to summon the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, but it wasn't supposed to be some meaningless gibberish.This spell is fake!

Normally speaking, Tom's tricks would not be seen through. After all, it was just a man-made spell, which was equivalent to the password to open the door to summon the Basilisk. It was meaningless and normal, even if Owen spoke Parseltongue thoroughly would doubt.But Owen has read the original book, and he clearly remembers the words Tom used to summon the basilisk in the original book: "Speak to me, Slytherin—the greatest of the Hogwarts Big Four."

He became suspicious when he was studying in the diary just now, and now it seems that he is right, Tom wants to cheat him!

Owen lowered his eyes, covering the bottomless darkness in his eyes.He understood Tom's desire to get rid of him. After all, Owen told him that he was being watched by Hai Erbo. Tom would definitely not be willing to be tied to him, and his life and death would be controlled by another person.

But if Tom wants to leave, he can sneak away without telling Owen after absorbing enough vitality to gain the right to act independently-it's not that Owen didn't give him such a chance.

It's clear that Tom doesn't want to choose this path, but is playing tricks on Owen's spell.According to this line of thinking, after Owen fed Tom more life, Tom would tell him the location of the entrance to the secret room.It wasn't until Owen entered the secret room as he wished that he found that the spell didn't work at all, and he couldn't control the basilisk.

Was it any good for Tom that such an easy-to-understand trick would do him any good?Of course there is!

Owen will definitely bring a diary when he wants to enter the secret room. Tom, who is likely to be able to move freely at that time, can completely manifest a body and say that spell to summon and control the basilisk.At that time, Tom, with the basilisk as his helper, will have the initiative and can order the basilisk to protect him and leave, even threatening Owen's life.

Owen doesn't think that Tom has given up so much thought just to escape, wouldn't it be good to take the opportunity to kill a person who has mastered his biggest secret?

Even if Owen was unexpectedly cautious and didn't take the diary to the secret room, Tom could have retreated and left while he was away, hiding in a safe place, and plotting his plots freely.

So, Tom's trick is wonderful, but it's a pity that he doesn't know that Owen is someone who has seen the plot.

"So, does Tom simply not like to entrust his safety in other people's hands, or does he want to get rid of a person who holds his own secrets, or does he already perceive the existence of the crown?" Owen pondered Tom's psychology.It's a pity that it's hard to speculate, after all, according to Tom's personality, maybe just seeing someone upset can be a reason for him to kill someone.

"Hey, this plastic friendship that seems so close to reality will eventually be torn apart." Owen sighed sadly, but his eyes were full of eagerness to try.

He turned to look at Harry and asked, "Harry, how do you say 'Hogwarts' in Parseltongue? What are the names of the four houses?"

Harry taught him enthusiastically, and even taught Owen how to say his name in Parseltongue.

Owen was writing and drawing in his notebook, reorganizing the vocabulary according to the grammar of Parseltongue, and figured out the spell.

He closed the notebook with a smile on his face, and planned to take a stroll in the secret room tonight.

When people are looking forward to something, time always passes very slowly.Owen took the time to finish his Transfiguration and Potions homework, and then got up to leave the common room.

Harry stood up too, he had to continue his confinement.There has been danger in the school recently, the professors have severely punished students for night walks, and his confinement will last for a week.

The two walked out of the cold and damp dungeon together, and separated on the first floor.Facing the stare of Filch's protruding eyes, Owen nodded politely to him, and waved to Mrs. Norris who was squinting at him, and then walked down the stairs unhurriedly. Came to the second floor.

He took out the Marauder's Map borrowed from the Weasley twins from his pocket and looked at it for a moment. According to George, Owen could keep it for them for a while, lest they be controlled to use this map to do bad things.

Owen took out his wand and tapped it on the worn parchment, and said, "I solemnly swear that I will do no good."

In an instant, thin black lines spread like spider webs from the place where the wand tip touched, connecting and interlacing with each other, extending to every corner of the parchment.On top appeared green squiggles: Moonface, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, Introducing, gentlemen for magical mischief makers: The Marauder's Map.

Many small black dots moved across the map, each marked with a name in extremely small letters.Most of them are concentrated in the common room of the four colleges, crowded together into a dense black color.

There is no one in the headmaster's office in the upper left corner, which is normal. Dumbledore is still so busy that he rarely stays at Hogwarts; Filch and Harry are standing at the door of Peter Pettigrew's office, and Mrs. Norris is at their door. Beside him; most of the professors stayed in their offices, and Peeves was flying around on the fifth floor of the castle...

Except for Owen, there were only a few people on the second floor, and no one was walking in the corridor.Owen found the bathroom where the crying Myrtle was on the map. The crying ghost did not stay there, but wandered in the black lake outside the castle.

Owen recited the three-piece set of night tours such as the Illusion Curse for himself with ease, and walked quickly to Myrtle's bathroom. He bent down and inspected every copper faucet, and soon found the one with the little snake engraved on its side. copper faucet.

Not in a hurry to open the secret room, Owen glanced at the Marauder's Map, and a thick black mist suddenly gushed out of his body, condensing into a shadow of a top hat and a black cloak beside him.He manipulated the black magic guard to try to penetrate under the pool, but was blocked by invisible resistance.

"Sure enough, it can block ghosts." Owen was not surprised. Without this ability, this secret room would have been discovered by ghosts who like to drill around.There are actually many areas in Hogwarts Castle that can prevent ghosts from penetrating.

He stared at the copper dragon head engraved with a small snake with eyes filled with black mist, and said to it: "Hiss..." Open it.

The faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.Then, the pool also moved, and slowly disappeared from the sight, revealing a thick water pipe that could allow a person to get into it.

Owen glanced into the deep and deep water pipe, then stepped aside silently, and controlled the Black Demon Guard to fly down the pipe.The crown is causing troubles at Hogwarts, there may be unknown dangers in the secret room, and the basilisk may not attack him, and Tom's diary is still on him... Owen doesn't plan to go down by himself.

The vision followed the dark magic guard to dive quickly along the tortuous pipeline, and finally got out of the end of the pipeline and entered the dark stone tunnel.The Dark Guardian flew down the tunnel, passing a huge snakeskin, but the distorted black and white vision could not distinguish its color.

Turning corner after corner, a stone wall carved with two intertwined snakes blocked the way.Owen hissed through the Dark Guard in Parseltongue, "Open."

The stone wall split down the middle, revealing a long, dimly lit room terminating in a huge statue of Slytherin himself.Owen manipulated the black demon guard to float among the towering stone pillars coiled around the serpent, and hissed that spell.

The mouth of the stone statue cracked open soundlessly, and the rustling sound slowly approached from the depths of the statue. It was the sound of a giant snake crawling.Owen looked away. He didn't want to try what would happen if he saw the basilisk's eyes through the black magic guard. It might be fine, or it might be petrified or killed.

A heavy landing shook the secret room, followed by a hoarse snake voice: "The new heir? No, you are not human...no matter what you are, you are so hungry, let me hunt..."

"Hello, will you obey my orders?" Owen asked in Parseltongue.

"Of course, although you are not born a Parselmouth wizard, but according to the arrangement of the old master, I will obey the person who calls me here..." The voice of the basilisk echoed rumblingly in the huge room.As a magical animal that has survived for hundreds of thousands of years, although he sleeps most of the time, his intelligence is definitely not low.

"Then is there any inheritance left by Slytherin here?" Owen asked with interest.

"There used to be." The basilisk began to crawl slowly in the room, causing Owen to shift his vision, "But they were all taken away or destroyed by the previous owner..."

The last owner...was Tom Riddle.Owen, who was staying outside the secret room, couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth. This guy Tom did a great job, leaving nothing for his successors.If it weren't for the things in the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets to be restored automatically, there should be nothing left now.

"Please take me to have a look." Owen said.

"Follow me." The basilisk didn't ask why, but just slid past the ground docilely.Owen followed behind the thick snake, got into the big mouth of the huge statue, walked through the long dark passage, passed the basilisk's sleeping lair and continued on, turning around and coming to the end of the passage.There is a stone gate as high as a person, carved with exquisite serpentine patterns and inlaid with gorgeous gems.

Owen said "Open" again in Parseltongue, and the stone wall split before his eyes. Inside was a wide and towering rectangular room, with giant winding snakes carved on the walls and ceiling, and at the end was a A smaller Slytherin statue.

But the room was in a mess, the floor was covered with a thick layer of ashes, and the walls were blackened with smoke. It was obvious that a fire had burned everything here.In the corner of the wall, there are piles of sundries that cannot be burnt, all of which are useless, and there are also stones that have fallen from the wall...

Owen gritted his teeth in distress, unable to maintain his elegant and gentlemanly demeanor, and scolded Tom several times in his heart, before calming down with a deep breath.

He controlled the Black Demon Guard to wander around the room, inspecting every part of the walls and statues, rummaging through the garbage in the corner, but as expected, he didn't find anything useful.He could only float out regretfully, and when he passed the basilisk's lair, he reluctantly went in and groped for it, but unexpectedly found something that the black magic guard's aura couldn't penetrate.

Owen carefully looked at the oval thing through the distorted vision of the black magic guard.It was a palm-sized egg, which seemed to be made of stone, and looked like a carving that had fallen from the wall.

"What is this?" He controlled the corner of the cloak and rolled up the stone egg.

"This..." The basilisk pondered for a long time, and then said, "This is brought back by the old master, a dead egg... The old master studied it for a while, and then left it there. I was very hungry once. , swallowed it, couldn't digest it... pulled it out and turned it into a stone, and then put it in my lair..."

The expression on Owen's face cracked for a moment...it was pulled out after swallowing it...

He closed his eyes, resisted the urge to shake off the stone egg, and controlled the Black Demon Guard to fly back with it.He wants to study it.

At this time, while staying outside the pipeline, he discovered something terrible on the Marauder's Map.

(End of this chapter)