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Chapter 87 Harry's Discovery

Neither Harry nor Ron knew how they got through the night.

Sherlock didn't impose any punishment on them. Hogwarts will be closed soon. Whether it is deduction of points or confinement, it will not produce any punishment effect.

So Harry and the others were put back in the Gryffindor lounge, but the guilt in their hearts still kept them awake at night.

On the next morning, when they went to the auditorium with black circles on their heads for breakfast, Dumbledore also came to the auditorium.

He announced the closure of the school in front of all Hogwarts students.

This caused an uproar in the auditorium, some were rejoicing, some were in disbelief, and some were shouting that Hogwarts could not be closed.

But they did not have the right to call the shots. After Dumbledore announced that Hogwarts was completely closed and that Hogwarts Express would send them home tomorrow, he left the auditorium.

The back view of him leaving gives people a sense of despondency and loneliness.

After he left, the students continued to talk loudly, Gryffindors were blaming the Slytherin house for the Chamber of Secrets, and the two houses almost fought in the Great Hall.

In the end, under the coercive intervention of Professor McGonagall and Snape, the people from the two colleges obediently returned to their lounges to pack their things.

Naturally, there will be no more classes today. After breakfast, every student is ordered not to go out at random in the lounge.

In Harry's dormitory, Dean was chatting with Seamus about what he was going to do when he got home, Neville was sitting on the bedside in a daze, and Harry was discussing with Ron about leaving Hogwarts Before that, go see Hermione again.

"I heard from Percy that those petrified students will be sent to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magic and Magic, waiting for the mandrake to mature. I just don't know if the professor will notify Hermione's family."

Ron said sullenly.

Harry got out of bed.

"Let's go, let's go to Professor McGonagall and tell her that we want to see Hermione for the last time."

Ron glared at him.

"You're crazy! Professor McGonagall won't agree." Then he looked at Dean and the others, and said in a low voice, "If you really want to go, we can secretly use the invisibility cloak in the middle of the night."

Harry shook his head in denial.

"No, I don't want to trouble the professors like that anymore, Ron, if we had honestly reported everything to the school in the first place, then Hermione wouldn't have encountered these things. We'll go to Professor McGonagall , and begged her to allow us to go."

Ron finally sighed.

"Well, I hope Professor McGonagall will agree."

They left the dormitory together, and Professor McGonagall was in the common room of Gryffindor. The deans of each college guarded the students in the common room of their respective colleges to prevent anyone from sneaking away.

"We want to go see Hermione, Professor." Harry lowered his head, "After Hogwarts is closed, we probably won't see her for a long time, so we want to go before we leave school tomorrow." Let's see her for the last time, okay?"

Ron also begged honestly at this time.

"Please Professor, we just wanted to see Hermione."

Professor McGonagall stared at them, did not lose her temper, and did not drive them back. There was a strange tremor in her voice.

"Okay." She looked at Harry even with tears in her eyes, "I can understand your mood as a friend at the moment. If you want to go, I can let you go to the school infirmary, and you can tell Ponfour wherever you go. Mrs. Lei said that I let you go."

Harry and Ron showed surprise in their eyes, they didn't expect that Professor McGonagall would not be hindered.

They left the Gryffindor common room, trotted to the school infirmary, and told Madam Pomfrey that Professor McGonagall had given them permission to visit Hermione.

Madam Pomfrey let them in, but reluctantly.

"She can't move her whole body now, and she can't hear you talking. It's pointless to visit her."

She was right. Looking at Hermione's still face, Ron was very depressed.

"If we had listened to her sooner, she wouldn't be lying here now, and Hogwarts wouldn't be closed tomorrow."

Although Harry was also in a bad mood, he was attracted by Hermione's clenched right hand.

There was a little white corner showing, and Harry leaned over to find a ball of paper in her hand!
He patted Ron on the arm, signaling his own discovery.

"We're going to take it out," Ron whispered.

Then he moved the chair deliberately, blocking Madam Pomfrey's view, so that Harry could move more conveniently.

This process took him several minutes, and finally he took it out of Hermione's hand without tearing the note.

They spread out the note and saw the words on it.

It was a note with two words vaguely written on it.

"Basilisk", "Pipe".

Ron looked at these two words at a loss, but a bright light suddenly flashed in Harry's mind!
He grabbed Ron's arm suddenly.

"This is the clue Hermione left us!" Harry said excitedly, "That monster is the Basilisk! No wonder! No wonder I can hear that strange voice every time someone is attacked, because I am a Parsel I can understand Parseltongue. It moves through the pipes in the castle, and because of that, no one notices it when it strikes!"

Ron also became excited along with him, but when the two were discussing and were about to tell the professors everything they had discovered, they calmed down and found out.

Even knowing the true identity of the monster and the way it moves in the castle doesn't help the situation in the slightest.

Because through these, they have no way to find the entrance to the secret room.

Hogwarts Castle is so big that it can accommodate students of seven years old, but it still looks empty, with seven horizontal and eight vertical pipes connecting everywhere. It is undoubtedly a huge project to investigate each of these pipe openings clearly.

But even if it was a small discovery, Harry and Ron planned to report it.

Last night, Sherlock's words could be regarded as waking them up, their self-righteousness will only harm everyone.

So, Harry and Ron hurriedly left the school hospital and returned to the Gryffindor lounge to tell Professor McGonagall about their discovery.

However, it was discovered that Professor McGonagall had left the common room, and the person in charge of guarding the lounge became the prefect.

Percy would never let Harry and Ron go out again.

Professor McGonagall had told him before leaving that no one should be allowed to leave the lounge until he left school tomorrow morning to take the Hogwarts Express.

(End of this chapter)