It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 89 Tom Riddle's Conspiracy
In the teachers' lounge, Professor McGonagall is arranging the next task of organizing students to leave school.

Dumbledore had already left the school at this time, and no one knew where he had gone.

So now the work in the castle can only be coordinated by Professor McGonagall.

"Although the students have left, the inspection work in the castle will continue. Sprout, you and Filch will come to lead the students to the station. Felius, Snape, me, and Sherlock will be there later. Check in the castle."

Just when she said this, the door of the teacher's lounge was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

All the professors looked at Harry, who was panting outside the door, and Snape frowned.

"You should be packing up your things and getting ready to leave school, what are you doing here! Pot!"

Harry didn't pay attention to Snape's reprimand, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said quickly.

"Neville is missing, Professor!"

Suddenly, the whole lounge fell into dead silence!
Before they could speak, Harry went on panting again.

"I also know where the entrance to the secret room is!"

In an instant, all the professors present stood up!

They stared at Harry with wide eyes. Professor McGonagall's excited body was trembling slightly.

"You knew already!"

"Myrtle's bathroom on the first floor! The monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk! It travels in the castle through pipes in Hogwarts!"

The shock in Sherlock's heart was also very intense at this time, and Dumbledore actually made the right bet!
He was also the one who reacted the fastest, speaking quickly.

"Now organize the students to leave the school immediately and let them get on the train first. After the students have left the castle, we will go find the secret room!"

Professor McGonagall also came back to her senses at this time, she heard Sherlock's words, and immediately made arrangements.

"Pomona and Filch, the two of you immediately find the prefect, organize the students and other faculty members to go to the station, remember to stop the train and wait for our news. Felius, Severus also With Sherlock, let's go to that bathroom first!"

After her words fell, the professors immediately took action.

Harry and Ron also followed Sherlock and the four most powerful professors at Hogwarts to the bathroom.

At first, Professor McGonagall was not going to take them, but Harry explained that he had a talent for Parseltongue, and it was very likely to help, and finally she decided to take them.

After arriving at Myrtle's bathroom, Sherlock and the others searched the entire bathroom.

Soon, they had a discovery!

Flitwick pointed to the side of a brass faucet on the sink and called the professors over.

There was a little snake carved on it.

"This faucet never comes out of water." Myrtle, who was floating beside her, said sadly, further verifying the problem with this faucet.

Sherlock stared at the little snake engraved on the faucet and called Harry over.

"Use your Parseltongue, say whatever you want into this faucet."

Harry stared intently at the carved little snake, trying to imagine it as a real snake, imagining the flickering candles animating the little snake.

"Open."

An unpleasant hissing sound came out of his mouth, and the next moment, the dragon hair emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.

Then, the pool also moved, and they watched the pool slowly disappear from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe, which could allow a person to get in.

The entrance to the chamber of secrets was thus opened!
Every professor present was very excited, and Harry and Ron also cheered excitedly.

But Sherlock and the others know very well that opening the secret chamber is just the beginning, and they still have a tough battle to fight next!
"We need to bring the rooster first, to deal with the basilisk, the rooster's crowing is the best weapon!" Professor McGonagall said calmly.

Later, Flitwick and Sherlock went to catch roosters in the Hogwarts greenhouse.

After Sherlock revealed that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets was likely to be a basilisk, even though Hagrid's roosters were all strangled to death, Dumbledore specially ordered him to buy a lot from outside and raise them separately.

In an abandoned greenhouse managed by Professor Sprout, there are several roosters.

Soon, Sherlock and the two brought the cock over, and they waited for all the students in Hogwarts to be evacuated by the organization before entering the secret room.

Harry and Ron were ordered to wait outside, and Professor McGonagall was in charge of guarding them outside.

Professor Flitwick, as a former dueling champion, coupled with his short stature, was the first to climb into the secret room holding the rooster in front.

Sherlock and Snape followed him into the secret room in turn.

They climbed down for a long time, seemingly miles deep, and finally climbed out of the tunnel into a wide underground space.

"This should be under the Black Lake." Professor Flitwick said, looking at the dark and sticky walls around him.

"Fluorescent flashes."

The sound of three incantations sounded, and the three professors used the illumination spell at the same time, illuminating the underground secret room as if it were daytime.

Only then did they realize that they were now in a wider tunnel and had to move on.

The three of them stomped on the wet ground, making loud noises.

The rooster clucked in Professor Flitwick's arms until they turned a corner and found a giant snakeskin!

"This is from that snake." Snape muttered to himself, "Snake skin nearly a thousand years old, this is an extremely precious potion material."

"When you kill that snake, you can get a better one, don't think about this one, just keep going," Sherlock said.

They went on until they came to the end of the tunnel, where stood a solid wall, carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, shining emeralds in their eyes.

Sherlock looked at the two snakes on the wall, frowning.

"We still need to find Harry."

Snape shook his head indifferently.

"No, I remember the pronunciation of Pot."

Then, facing the wall, his throat squirmed, making the same "hissing" sound as Harry had just made at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

The two snakes parted, the stone wall split in the middle and slowly slid to the sides and disappeared.

Professor Flitwick praised excitedly.

"Nice job, Severus!"

Sherlock also looked at Snape by accident, not expecting his talent in foreign languages ​​to be so high.

After the door was opened, the actions of the three became more cautious.

This time they really entered the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

In this secret room, which is almost half the size of the auditorium, there are many stone pillars engraved with coiled and entangled snakes, towering and supporting the ceiling that melted into the darkness above, casting long and long lines on the entire room filled with green and mysterious atmosphere. The treacherous shadow.

Sherlock, Flitwick, and Snape stood in front of the huge statue.

It was an old, monkey-like face, with a long, sparse beard that fell almost to the hem of the wizard's robes carved in stone, and two large gray feet standing on the smooth floor of the room.

"Salazar Slytherin."

Snape whispered the statue's name.

But there is nothing in the secret room except those stone pillars and statues.

Sherlock and the others searched the secret room carefully for a long time before they found a line of writing on the foot of the Slytherin statue.

【The glory of Slytherin will last forever with this castle!Even his secret room is no longer a secret. 】

Flitwick's face darkened.

"He ran away, taking Longbottom with him!"

Snape's face was also very ugly. Although Sherlock's face was also very bad, he was thinking about something thoughtfully.

The three of them searched here for a while, and after confirming that they found nothing, they returned to the bathroom.

Professor McGonagall has been waiting here with Harry and Ron.

After finding that neither the heirs of Slytherin nor the basilisk were in the Chamber of Secrets, and disappeared with Neville, she was in a daze and almost fell to the ground.

"How should I explain to the Longbottom family? How to explain to his parents."

Sherlock and the others were also silent, and Harry and Ron were even more unacceptable.

They thought that finding the Chamber of Secrets would solve the matter completely, Hogwarts would not be closed again, and Neville could be rescued.

But I didn't expect the result to be like this.

Professor McGonagall quickly recovered from the pain, she took a deep breath and said.

"Sherlock, take Harry and the others to the lounge to collect their luggage and send them to the train first."

After Sherlock came out of the secret room, he kept frowning.

From the current point of view, Dumbledore's plan has failed. Tom is more cunning than he imagined, but he always feels that something is wrong.

But no matter what, the safest thing to do now is to send all the students away, and then conduct a comprehensive search of the castle.

Harry and Ron followed Sherlock towards the Gryffindor common room.

They were all very depressed, and no one wanted to speak.

Until Harry looked at Sherlock, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind!
He suddenly grabbed Sherlock's arm and asked in a trembling voice.

"Professor! Do you think we'll find Neville and the diary before we leave on the train?"

Both Sherlock and Ron were taken aback at the same time, but Ron quickly realized what Harry was going to do.

There was light in his eyes, and he also looked at Sherlock nervously, waiting for his answer.

Sherlock sighed and shook his head.

"There is very little hope. But leave the matter in the castle to the professor. You all go home by car and wait for the news. The matter is settled, and Dumbledore will notify you to return to school."

Both Harry and Ron looked surprised!

They almost jumped up on the spot, Sherlock looked at their actions strangely, not understanding why such words excited them.

Harry and Ron looked at each other, and they both saw hope in each other's eyes!

They followed Sherlock to the tower where the Gryffindor lounge was located.

At this time, there was no Fat Lady guarding the common room, because all the students had boarded the train, only Harry and Ron hadn't passed.

The three of them climbed into the portrait passage, and when they first entered the Gryffindor common room, they found a pale boy lying on the sofa in the lounge!

"Neville!" Harry and Ron exclaimed.

At the same time, Sherlock frowned, pursed his lips, and slowly drew out his wand.

Because he saw, on a chair by the fireplace in the living room, sitting a tall boy with dark hair, whose body was indistinct, like a ghost.

The portrait channel in the Gryffindor common room was suddenly closed!
A boy named Tom Riddle looked at them with a smug smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)