Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 61
Inside the slippery pipe, it was pitch black.

The cold wind that kept pouring down, wrapped in a faint smell of blood, came head-on.

Snape raised his wand, and the blazing white light emanating from the tip of the wand blocked all the smells outside.

"The pipe leads to the depths of Hogwarts, at least fifty feet away." Hardy looked around vigilantly.

Dumbledore waved his wand lightly, and the three of them fell downward at a constant speed under the effect of the Levitating Charm.

The entire pipeline is almost completely vertical at first, and then it starts to slope in a certain direction.

After four or five minutes, the three of them came to the bottom of the pipe, where a large pile of white bones covered the shallow pit at the end of the pipe.

Snape waved his wand, a thumb-thick red glow hit the bone pit, causing the animal bones of various shapes to splash away, "There is no danger."

"Well done, Severus." Dumbledore smiled, "It seems that this place has really existed for a long time."

Hardy squatted down, and quickly scanned the bone pit, "The situation is not too bad. They are all the bones of rats and other creatures. No human beings have been seen so far."

"but--"

Snape turned and looked Hardy in the eye, "Professor Ollivander, don't you think there's something wrong?"

Hardy looked up, "It seems that Professor Snape thinks the same as me."

"Although I don't want to see human bones here, but there are really none here, which is really unusual."

Hardy questioned, "In the legend of the Chamber of Secrets circulating in Hogwarts, the Basilisk exists to eliminate Muggle students."

"But as far as I know, in the past few hundred years, there are only a handful of students who really died because of the basilisk."

Looking at Snape and Dumbledore, Hardy pondered: "If Slytherin's purpose is really to ensure the pure blood of Hogwarts wizards, then the current situation is quite different from his original plan. too far."

Snape took a deep look at Hardy, "Good analysis."

Rubbing his wand with his thumb, he thought to himself, Ollivander, so you thought of this.

All I wanted to know just now, though, was where did Ron Weasley go.

"Slytherin's true motivation for building the Chamber of Secrets is indeed worth discussing." Dumbledore said, "But now, we should first think about Harry and Ron."

Nodding, Snape looked around and suddenly raised his wand high over his shoulder, "Wingardim Leviosa!"

In the pitch-black space, the sound of "cracking" was continuous.

A large number of animal bones soared into the sky, causing the height of the bone pit to drop rapidly, revealing a dark hole.

"Now we know where to go next." Snape straightened his back and lifted his chin slightly.

The three of them walked along the entrance of the cave buried by a large number of animal bones for more than ten minutes.

Under the dim light of the exit, one could vaguely feel a fierce aura rushing in like a tide.

"Be alert!" Snape was the first to remind loudly.

He skillfully took a step forward, and then swung his wand vigorously. The rapid and piercing cracking sound spread in the cave and extended to the exit.

At the same time, Hardy opened his right hand, and the "British City Wall" erupted into a fiery white halo, and a silver-white illusory brick wall firmly protected the three of them behind.

Inside the cave, there was silence.

Hardy looked at the two ravines on the ground in front of him, and said unexpectedly, "A very powerful spell, surprisingly sharp, created by Professor Snape?"

Snape didn't answer Hardy's question, but turned to look at the silver-white brick wall in front of the three of them.

He raised his right hand and touched it with his fingertips, "Tough defense, almost no wizard can break through it with one blow, Professor Ollivander, a good alchemy product."

After the two praised each other, they continued to move forward in an offensive and defensive formation.

After walking out of the cave, Hardy turned the crystal wand and immediately cast a fluorescent spell, illuminating the entire space.

Under the illumination of sufficient light, a pair of huge snake skin appeared in front of the eyes of the three of them.

The whole body of the snake skin is green, with traces of black lines, very bright.

It is bulging on the surface and hollow inside, and it is coiling and winding in the not-so-wide space.

Estimated according to the length of the snake skin, the creature that has just shed this layer of skin is at least thirty feet long.

"Oh, it seems that we have more convincing evidence." Dumbledore looked at the huge snake skin in front of him, "About the monster in the chamber of secrets, what exactly is it?"

Hardy observed the huge snake skin that had been cut into three pieces in front of him, and marveled at the spell that Snape had just cast in his heart again.

"Professor Snape, if you don't mind, I would like to know the name of the spell just now." Hardy touched the flat cross-section of the snake skin.

Snape said coldly: "Yes, if you are really interested...Shen Feng Wu Ying, this is the name of the spell."

"Perhaps Severus, you can also be an excellent Charms teacher." Dumbledore smiled lightly.

Snape turned to look at the other party, "Principal Dumbledore, you know, the class I most want to participate in is—"

"Ah, Severus, we'll talk about that later, shall we?" Dumbledore interrupted Snape, "I'll give it a second thought."

Snape stopped talking, his mouth was pursed, no one knew what was going on in his mind.

"Professor, principal." Hardy, who walked behind the giant snakeskin, suddenly shouted, "I found Miss Granger."

Snape and Dumbledore walked around the huge snakeskin, just in time to see Hermione leaning against the wall.

The other party lowered his head, his eyes were terrified, and his eyes were wide open. In her hand, he was holding a round mirror tightly.

"The vital signs are normal, but like Colin Creevey, he was petrified." Hardy judged.

He even found a few lines of small words carved with a wand beside Hermione.

"Please take Hermione back for treatment, the Basilisk is right ahead!"

"Indirect staring leads to petrification!"

"It seems that the two Gryffindors have solved everything for us." Dumbledore squatted down and checked Hermione.

He waved his wand, and a phantom of a blue and white phoenix appeared above Hermione's head, "Let me think, how long has it been since I summoned the Patronus?"

Dumbledore smiled and blinked, "To be honest, it's really convenient to use it to send messages."

"Minerva, follow it and take Hermione Granger to the infirmary."

Waving his wand, Dumbledore's Patronus immediately flapped its wings and passed the information to Professor McGonagall along the path the three of them had come from.

"She'll be fine, Hermione is a smart child." Dumbledore smiled kindly, "Pomona's mandrake is ripe, and all petrified people will return to their original state."

Nodding his head, Hardy cast two defensive spells on the petrified Hermione, and then he and Snape came to a huge wall.

It was carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, shining emeralds in their eyes.

"The road has come to an end, the heir of Slytherin enters." Hardy saw a line of inscriptions left on the wall.

But it's not clear who left behind.

"Parseltongue." Snape judged immediately when Hardy had just finished uttering this sentence.

He stroked the two lifelike snakes on the wall, "Is there anything else that can prove the heir of Slytherin better than Parseltongue?"

Dumbledore stared at the wall. "If that's the case, then we'll have to tear down the wall, but that will take a while."

"But how did Weasley and Fox get in?" Snape frowned.

Hearing this, Hardy smiled, "Maybe it's like this."

Hardy said in a low, hoarse hiss, "Open!"

The voice just fell.

Inside the towering walls, there was a muffled sound of "rumbling".

Under the surprised gazes of Snape and Dumbledore, the two snakes separated from each other, and the entire wall split from the middle, slowly slid to the sides and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)