Homecoming from Hogwarts

Chapter 78
In the Gryffindor common room, Percy covered his face with his hands and sat on the sofa without saying a word. Fred and George sat opposite Percy, facing the comfort of their mutual friend Lee Jordan. Nothing happened.

Ron stayed by the fireplace with a gray face, his lips were constantly murmuring, it seemed that he had just suffered a serious illness.

Beside him, Harry shook his legs anxiously, and looked towards the door of the common room from time to time, as if waiting for something.

"I found it!"

Finally, the portrait of the Fat Lady opened, and Hermione crawled out of the doorway panting, waving a note in her hand.

Glancing at Ron who didn't respond, Harry quickly stood up from his chair to greet Hermione's answer.

"-Professor Blaine's guess is correct,"

Hermione's orange eyes were shining with a hard light, she could not help but stuff the note into Harry's hand, and she recited the contents of the note in a low voice,
"In our country, there are many terrible beasts and monsters roaming about. Among them, the strangest and most lethal is the basilisk, also known as the king of snakes. This kind of snake can become very large in size and usually can live for several years. century.

It was hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad. The way the basilisk kills people is amazing. Besides its deadly fangs, its stare can also kill people. Anyone who is stared at by it If you live, you will die immediately.

The spider will run for his life when he sees the basilisk, because the basilisk is the spider's deadly enemy, and the basilisk will run for his life if he hears the crow of the rooster, because the crow of the cock is also very deadly to him--"

"But--"

Ron finally came back to his senses, he moved his dry and pale lips, and muttered,

"So far, no one has died, if that basilisk's gaze could kill, Colin and Justin"

"That's because no one has met the Basilisk's eyes—"

Harry felt his stomach soaked in ice water, his cheeks twitched and he whispered,

"Hagrid's cock got strangled Colin saw it through the camera, the basilisk burned the camera's film so Colin was just petrified, Justin is Nick, he must have seen it through the near miss Nick in the head saw the basilisk, but Nick was stared at by the basilisk. But he can't die a second time, right?"

"And Lady Norris"

Hermione said seriously,
"I'm guessing it saw the basilisk in the reflection of the water flowing from Myrtle's bathroom. I'm glad you figured it out, Harry. Riddle lied to you. The monster in the Chamber of Secrets was a basilisk, and Not some furry monster, Hagrid might be innocent!"

Hermione's conclusion made Harry turn pale, and he faltered as he didn't know how to explain why Riddle's memory could deceive him.

"Let's go find Hagrid!"

After a while, Harry finally came back to his senses, and he said firmly,

"Hagrid must know something. I don't know why Riddle told us a false memory, maybe. It is the real murderer, but no matter what, Hagrid must know some key information!"

Professor McGonagall ordered all the little wizards to stay in the lounge and not to go out. Although Percy was unable to carry out Professor McGonagall's order, the three of them didn't know what was going on outside. Harry rushed to the dormitory to get himself Invisibility Cloak, leaving Hermione and Ron speechless.

After they sneaked out of the common room, they found that there was no young wizard wandering around in the castle, and there was no sound in the corridor, only the accompanying professors were patrolling the castle. The expression also made them feel desperate.

Is Ginny still alive, and why does the heir of Slytherin end up targeting Ginny?
Even Hermione couldn't answer this question. In fact, what flashed in Harry's mind was a terrible picture, that is, when Ginny was found, she had turned into a cold corpse, and Mrs. Weasley was lying on the ground. Weeping loudly on Ginny's corpse, while Mr. Weasley squatted aside and pulled out his few hairs one by one!
Regret was tearing at Harry's heart like a poisonous snake. Until this moment, he regretted not giving Riddle's diary to Professor Brian sooner.
Professor Blaine could deduce from just the sound he heard that the attack was a snake moving through a pipe, and if it had been him communicating with Riddle's diary, Harry would bet that Professor Blaine would have been able to dig out What secrets are hidden in Riddle's mind!
It was a starry night, they hurried towards the lighted window of Hagrid's residence, no one spoke, until outside Hagrid's door, after Harry looked around vigilantly, he took off his body invisibility cloak.

Seconds after they had knocked on the door, Hagrid flung it open, and they saw Hagrid pointing a crossbow at them, with Fang the Hound barking loudly behind him.

Hagrid seemed quite shocked that they were here, and he looked unsettled as he spilled water from the kettle, nearly dousing the fire, and then with a jerk of his thick hand, knocked over the teapot too.

"You've heard about Ginny, haven't you?"

Ron stared at Hagrid sullenly, Hermione didn't speak, and Harry could only start the conversation himself.

"Oh, yes, I've heard that."

Hagrid didn't seem to realize that they came here to question him, his voice was choked up, and he kept looking towards the window nervously. Just as he was about to cut a thick piece of fruitcake, there was another loud knock outside. door noise.

Harry could only swallow all the words he wanted to ask, and together with Hermione pulled Ron, who was in a daze, to huddle in a corner. After seeing them hiding, Hagrid grabbed the crossbow again and pulled it away abruptly. Door.

"Good evening, Hagrid."

It was Dumbledore, he walked in with a very serious expression, followed by a very strange looking man.

The stranger was short and stocky, with the same gray hair on top of his head as Professor Brian's, but it was much messier, and his chubby face was full of anxiety.

The style of his clothes is very strange, a pinstriped suit, a bright red leader, a black cape, purple pointed boots, and a dark green top hat under his arm.

"That's my dad's boss!"

Ron finally came to his senses, and he whispered to Harry and Hermione, "Cornel Fudge, Minister of Magic!"

Hermione nudged Ron hard enough to shut him up.

For Hagrid, the worst thing finally happened, and he sat down on the bed, defending himself with a pale face.

"I can't help it, Hagrid—"

Fudge said in a crisp, quick tone, "Very bad, Dumbledore kept me calm, I can't tell you how much pressure I was under to force the Daily Prophet to close after those two little wizards were petrified." Mouth, but now that this matter is completely hidden, many people in the Ministry who are paying attention to this matter already know that Weasley's daughter may have suffered misfortune."

"I hope you understand, Connelly, that I trust Hagrid completely."

Dumbledore frowned and spoke solemnly, but his blue eyes were also shining helplessly.

Sometimes rights are such unreasonable things, even Dumbledore must abide by the rights structure under the framework of a stable society, unless he wants to push everything back.

But Fudge seemed to have made up his mind, he played with his top hat, did not look into Dumbledore's eyes, but said casually,
"From my point of view, Dumbledore, a little precaution is warranted, and if we eventually find out that another person has opened the Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid will be let out, and the Ministry will fully apologise."







(End of this chapter)