A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 53 Lies and Truth

The next day, weekend morning.

Harry and Ron staggered out of the dormitory to see Hermione already sitting in a chair in the lounge.

As soon as the two sat next to her, they saw Hermione slap a newspaper on the table with a "snap".

"I knew it!" said the little witch angrily.

Harry and Ron woke up suddenly, they looked at each other, and Harry asked, "What happened, Hermione?"

"Remember the book the professor showed us? The one about President Dippet. At that time, there was a copy of the "Daily Prophet" on Professor Haip's desk. I felt something was wrong. I found it this morning. The newspapers of the last few days... that woman, Rita Skeeter! How dare she slander Headmaster Dumbledore..." Hermione was shaking with rage.

Harry picked up the paper quickly, and Ron sat down next to him and poked his head over.

That was yesterday's Daily Prophet. The most eye-catching photo was the photo of Dumbledore looking up with his head full of white hair. From the shooting effect alone, he looked old and shady, and the headline on the front page was "Dumbledore Lido's big mistake."

Harry had a bad feeling, and he read quickly—

"The eccentric Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, has always been a highly controversial wizard," our special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports.

"As recognized as the greatest wizard of our time, Dumbledore has been hiding in the Hogwarts castle since he defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in [-], rarely appearing in public view."

"Everyone is full of praise for this, thinking that he is guarding the hope of the British magic world, and continuously sending all kinds of magic talents to the magic world, but is the truth really like this?"

"The author recently received letters from some parents of students, saying that there was a horrific attack in the school, and the murderer has not been found so far. Mrs. Ferrian from Mount Top wrote: My child is trembling at school every day, for fear of being attacked. Life threatening and the professors can't do anything about it! I had to send my kids home for Christmas."

"The author found the parent who cared about her child with great anger and interviewed her. The matter was far more serious than expected-this is not the first time that the attack has occurred as early as more than a month ago. Happened. Except that the victim was a cat, but the news was tightly sealed!"

"In order to reduce the impact and avoid being discovered and criticized by the outside world, this headmaster did not hesitate to fabricate a sensational lie-he pushed all this to the millennium legend of Hogwarts, Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

"Funny thing is that he did something like that 50 years ago, when the headmaster was a Transfiguration professor, during which time a poor Ravenclaw witch died. Hogwarts caught The suspect was identified, but Dumbledore had a huge influence on the headmaster at the time, Armando Dippet, and under his mediation, the matter was finally settled, and the suspect was only expelled from the school."

"Three days before the author wrote this article, two weeks had passed since the second student attack, but the outside world knew nothing about it, and the murderer is still at large. We have to worry about this matter. The omnipotent Deng Bullido, are you really old?"

"The author will follow up and report on this matter, and tell everyone the truth. In the next issue, we will start with the principal's work and reveal a more realistic image of Dumbledore for everyone."

This is the end of the text, but at the bottom of the page, there is a small line of text, which is the preview content of the next report. It says:
Dumbledore has always dared to hire controversial teachers, such as Gilderoy Lockhart and Felix Hemp this year, but are these two really suitable?Let's wait and see (insiders are welcome to break the news, contact: Rita Skeeter, editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet" gold medal, author of twelve best-selling books, best-selling book record holder).

"How could she say that about Dumbledore!" Harry said angrily. "There is also the matter of the secret room, what we saw with our own eyes, how could it be a lie!"

"You can't believe a word of this woman, Rita Skeeter. She often fabricates rumors about celebrity scandals." Ron said wisely. Big, mother hates her rather."

"It seems we already know what this woman is." Hermione said sarcastically.

Ron picked up the newspaper. "Have you noticed that this woman actually wants to do a series, and the next issue will be about Professor Lockhart and Professor Hemp. How will she arrange them?"

Hermione said helplessly: "Principal Dumbledore has been portrayed by her as a conspirator, and it is estimated that the two professors will not be spared either."

"I don't care about Lockhart, he's just putting on airs. Do you think Professor Hap will storm into the Daily Prophet building and put a bat-spirit jinx on that woman?"

"Ron! That's illegal, how could the professor do that!"

The three discussed the matter, and the final results were all pessimistic.

Harry pointed to a sentence in the newspaper, "She said the suspect was caught 50 years ago, who is she referring to?"

"Come on, Harry, do you still believe that woman's nonsense?"

"Of course I don't believe it, but—" Harry's eyes were fixed on Hermione.

Her face paled quickly, "Fifty years ago, I was expelled... the suspect was Hagrid?"

Ron licked his lips nervously.

Harry said quickly, "I'm sure Dumbledore, Hagrid wouldn't be the murderer! But since he's listed as a suspect, he must know something!"

The three of them were about to go to the hut in the Forbidden Forest through the wind and snow. Just as they walked out of the castle, they bumped into a burly figure. It was Hagrid. A dead chicken.

"Hagrid, oh—" Harry bumped right into him.

"Be careful! Little ones." Hagrid said gruffly, still waving the fluffy chicken in his hand, and a few chicken feathers were flying in the air with his movements...

that evening.

Harry, Ron and Hermione had just returned from the abandoned classroom in the basement, and things were going well with Polyjuice Potion.

Harry carried the magic scroll given by Professor Haip with him, and translated the language of Parseltongue word by word.In the empty and abandoned classroom, hoarse, gloomy and terrifying voices would echo from time to time.

This kept the dozing Ron from sleeping well - half dreaming and half awake, he could always see a witch brewing a potion like mud, and a wizard making a "hissing" sound like a snake.

And in the earlier afternoon, they finally heard the first-hand information about the secret room from Hagrid.

At the moment, they are hiding in the corner of the lounge.

"Almost all right!" said Hermione suddenly.

"what?"

"The monster in the Chamber of Secrets! Wait for me—" Hermione obviously had a perfect thought, she hurried back to the dormitory, and took back a piece of parchment after a while.

The three of them got together and looked at the text on it. It was about a terrifying magical creature called "Basilisk".

After Harry and Ron finished reading the information, Hermione told the clues collected these days one by one, "The basilisk can sleep for a long time, the eyes of the basilisk are lethal, the basilisk is the natural enemy of spiders, and the basilisk is afraid of chickens... ...what did you think of?"

"So, the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is the basilisk?" Ron asked excitedly.

"No mistake!" Harry slammed his fist on the table.

They got two main pieces of news from Hagrid: one was that the chickens he raised always died inexplicably; the other was that he had raised acromantia 50 years ago, and the acromantia was very afraid of the monsters in the secret room, Not even a single word would be revealed.

All can match!
"But there is still the biggest problem, that is, the basilisk cannot petrify people. I ignored it at first because of this, but now, the side evidence is very sufficient." Hermione said very rigorously, "Maybe we It's time to find time to ask Professor Haipu, is there any way to reduce the damage caused by the basilisk's gaze..."

She hammered her head resentfully, "It's really strange, I feel that something is in front of me, but I still can't find it..."

Harry swallowed sharply, "Hermione, I think I get it."

(End of this chapter)