Hogwarts: Capturing Nagini at the Beginning

Chapter 175 What did Percy do that night?
  "That matter has nothing to do with the secret room."

"It's like this. Ginny met me that day. I was doing something."

"I told her to keep it a secret. It's obviously hard for her to keep it. Well, that's it. Okay, I'm leaving."

Percy grabbed a chicken leg and five slices of toast, ignored Ron's shouts, and quickly left the auditorium.

"I dare say that Percy didn't do anything good that day!"

Ron said with a smirk.

Luo Bin: (￢д￢.), it’s a good thing, a huge good thing!

After breakfast, the group returned to the eighth floor. Hermione returned to the crowd before lining up to go to the classroom.

She looked excited, her eyes were bright, and her lips were trembling frequently.

He looked like he really wanted to say something, but because there were too many people around him, he couldn't say it out loud.

It was not until the Defense Against the Dark Arts class was over that Lockhart thought the danger had passed and was too lazy to escort the students back. Only then did the four people standing at the end of the queue find an opportunity to sneak into the girls' bathroom.

In the extremely cold bathroom, except for the dripping sound of the broken faucet, the surroundings were silent.

"Myrtle, are you there? Myrtle"

Hermione asked in a low voice, leaning against the door panel of the compartment.

Unfortunately, there was no sound in the cubicle to respond to her.

"We finally came here, but she's not here. Well, what a bad luck."

Ron complained.

"Ignore her for now, come quickly and see what I found."

Hermione took out a book that was so old that it was almost falling apart from her magic cloth bag. When the three of them walked up to it, she quickly turned the book to page 44.

"Well, the monster in the secret room is it - the basilisk."

Luo Bin turned sideways and looked down at the open pages, which were written in dark ink:

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Among the many terrifying monsters that live on land, the basilisk is the most bizarre and deadly.

It was hatched from a male egg by a toad. There is a bright red feather on the male basilisk's head. Its long fangs are extremely poisonous, and the tears of the phoenix are its only antidote.

The lifespan of the basilisk is as long as thousands of years, and anyone who looks at it will die immediately.

When a spider sees it, it will run away; when it sees a rooster, it will also run for its life in a hurry.

Because the rooster's crow is also the most deadly to it.

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Under this text, someone wrote the word "Guanzi" in red ink.

"It has a lifespan of a thousand years. When the spider sees it, it runs away. The rooster is its natural enemy. I remember Hagrid complained that the roosters in the chicken shed at the hunting ground were attacked and killed one after another, and they were all numbered."

"The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is the Basilisk. It seems that in addition to being a Parselmouth, I also have better hearing than ordinary people. You have never heard a hissing sound in the wall, have you?" Harry said in shock.

"If looking at it would kill you, why didn't those people die?" Ron asked confused.

Hermione frowned in confusion. Suddenly, she saw the mirror on the pool opposite, reflecting the virtual images of several people. An idea flashed in her mind, and she said excitedly: "Because... no one has looked directly at it."

"Colin Creevey saw it through a Muggle camera, and Justin Finch-Fletchley saw it through Nearly Headless Nick."

"Nick should have looked directly at it, but he is a ghost, and he cannot die again. Penelope Crevat saw it through the virtual image of the mirror. She must have been fixing her makeup and hair." What about Mrs. Norris and Filch? When they were found, there were no ghosts, no cameras, and no mirrors around them!"

Ron's words made Harry and Hermione fall into deep thought.

Luo Bin turned on a faucet and the water flowed out. He looked at his reflection in the water and said, "It's water. When Filch and his cat had an accident, there was water on the ground. Through the water, they saw Reflection of the basilisk.”

Hermione walked to the pool and looked down at her reflection, "Yes, it's water. I remember when I went to Hagrid's place to play at the beginning of school, there was a dead rooster with half of its feathers plucked out on the table. Well, the heir was like Clearing the way for the basilisk."

Harry stepped forward, looked at the word 'pipe' on the paper, and then carefully observed the entire bathroom, "Pipe, Hermione is right, it has been moving in the pipe. In the castle, there are several bathroom pipes." At most, the only person who lost her life in the attack was Myrtle, she died in Wait, maybe, the entrance to the secret room is here."

"What a brilliant reasoning."

Ron backed away from the door in fear, trying to get away from the pipes in the house.

"Hermione, did you write these two characters?"

Luo Bin asked, pointing to the red letter in the lower right corner of the page.

Hermione shook her head, "When I found it, there were red letters on it saying..."

"It means that someone discovered the secret of the basilisk one step ahead of us." Luo Bin took over the conversation.

"Perhaps it was written by the heir," Harry said.

"No! If the heir discovers this book, he will probably destroy it. He doesn't want anyone to know about the basilisk's weakness, right?"

As soon as Hermione finished speaking, an alarm suddenly sounded in the corridor outside, and then the voice of Professor Minerva McGonagall, magnified ten times by magic, resounded throughout the castle.

[All students should return to their dormitories immediately, and all teachers should assemble in the corridor on the third floor immediately. 】

Hermione turned sharply and glared at the bathroom door.

"Something happened again?" Hermione asked in shock.

"What should we do? Should we go back to the dormitory?" Ron asked with a shiver.

"No reply! Let's eavesdrop by the door and ask the teachers why they are gathering on the third floor."

After saying that, Luo Bin strode to the door. He used a small piece of one-way glass to block the light-transmitting keyhole, and bent down through the hole to observe the corridor outside.

Harry and Hermione also walked to the door and, like Ron, put their ears against the crack of the door to eavesdrop on what was going on outside. "

Soon, the sound of hundreds of feet stepping on the stairs was heard from both ends of the corridor, as well as the noise of people's panic and uneasiness.

They did not turn into the corridor, but climbed up the stairs.

After three minutes of silence, footsteps came from both ends of the corridor again. This time, the footsteps turned into the corridor and disappeared a few meters away from the bathroom door.

Through the keyhole, Robin saw McGonagall, Snape, Pomfrey, Hooch and other teachers, all turning their faces to stare at the stone wall in line with the bathroom door.

That is to say, 'The secret room has been opened, and those who are enemies of the heir, beware! ’ That wall.

Professor McGonagall pointed to the wall, her face very pale, "Everyone has seen that the heir of Salazar Slytherin left another message on the wall."

"What we were most worried about happened. A student was captured by a monster and taken into the secret room."

"We must send students home immediately. This time, Hogwarts may really be closed."

Flitwick screamed, and Sprout covered his mouth, tears welling up in his eyes.

Huo Qi's knees were weak and his elbows were firmly pressed against the wall. Pomfrey lowered his head and cried.

Snape still had a cold expression on his face, and his big hand holding the wand had bulging veins.

(End of this chapter)