In this Hogwarts without a savior

Chapter 397. 395. The Abandoned Slytherin Lounge
"The lounge of Slytherin House is in the Black Lake?"

Jon pondered, he really hadn't thought of it.

"Yes." Draco became more and more fluent, "My father told me that the Slytherin lounge was underground, but after Mr. Headmaster ruled the UK, he canceled the previous sorting criteria. Mud The standards for the three colleges of scumbag, mixed blood and pure blood have already been determined before admission. So when it is confirmed that the basement is the territory of scumbags, of course there will be no students from other colleges there Living here, the Slytherin lounge is naturally deserted, and no one has been in it for more than ten years."

Jon looked at Draco again, wanting him to tell some more secrets.

"So? The common room was abandoned in the Black Lake, and because of this it became a rumor in the castle?"

Sure enough, Draco could reveal more information.

"The rumor is not this, but someone said that in the place where the Slytherin lounge used to be, some strange movements could be vaguely heard in the middle of the night, as if something was beating the foundation."

Jon frowned at this.

"I remember that the curfew policy in the castle is extremely strict. Who can hear this late at night?"

"No matter how strict the policy is, it is no big deal for pure blood to violate it. If the hemp breed violates the curfew, it will only lead to death. If the mixed blood violates the curfew, they will be expelled from Hogwarts Castle. Asked to submit a review, or spend a day in a brig."

Even in front of Jon, Draco couldn't help but feel complacent when talking about the privileges of pure blood.

"Pure-blood students cannot be expelled. This is the rule set by Mr. Principal. Even if there was a suicide incident about a mixed-race student some time ago, the main participant was a pure-blood student, but her graduation was delayed for one year and she was sent home. It’s just a year of reflection.”

Draco is indeed right about this point, the privileges of pure bloods not only in Hogwarts Castle, but also in the British wizarding world are obvious.No matter how serious the magic laws violated by the pure-bloods, it is impossible to be imprisoned in Azkaban with dementors acting as jailers, but a special "prison" for wizards located in the British mainland.

Jon didn't express anything about Draco's current complacency. He still has the mentality of a young master. He never thought about how many privileges the pure-bloods have now. When Voldemort is really defeated in the future, they will double and double. Spit it out.

"You're getting too far off topic, since that's the case, do you know exactly where the Slytherin's former public room is located in the Black Lake?"

Hearing Jon's question, Draco pointed to the northeast.

"The lounge extends from Hogwarts Castle, so it must be in the direction of Hogwarts Castle. If you walk northeast from here, you should be able to find something."

Jon did what he said, and after getting useful news from Draco, he returned a pearl back to him as a reward.

"What do you want to know about these?" Although it is clear that it is better not to ask, Draco couldn't help asking after getting the pearl.

"I said I'm going to dig out the roots of your principal, do you believe it?" Jon said without turning his head.

His answer made Draco shiver uncontrollably, with a terrified expression on his face, watching Jon gradually go away.

After his figure completely disappeared, Draco dared to swim out of the aquatic plants carefully.

But at this time, he realized that he was actually entangled in aquatic plants, and he didn't even have the ability to reach out for his wand!

"Come back! Green! Mr. Green! Come back quickly! I will pay you a pearl! Help me!"

However, there is no way for the underwater sound to travel very far, and Jon has long gone, so no matter how much he calls, he will get any response.

Jon soon came to the northeast corner of the entire black lake.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this trip, he just wanted to try his luck.

Seeing the tragic situation of those mermaids, there is a great possibility that something unexpected happened to the giant squid, which has more profound significance to the entire Hogwarts castle.

He continued to follow the clues given by Draco to look here, Jon just wanted to give Dumbledore some relief when he went back.

Along the edge of the northeast corner, Jon quickly inspected, and when he swam to a deep recessed rock wall, he actually found something!
It was a huge gap, and it could be clearly seen that there should be a wall before the gap, but now the wall has been opened, and the lake water has poured into the lounge, turning the originally sealed lounge into a part of the Black Lake.

Jon swam along the gap into the space that was obviously the Slytherin lounge.

There are also some furniture inhabited by aquatic plants and underwater creatures. There are green and silver cloth strips on the walls that are still fluttering with the flow of the lake. Some broken portraits can be vaguely seen on the surrounding walls. Distinguished House Representatives that used to hang in the Slytherin Common Room.

Looking at the messy and dilapidated scene around him, Jon felt an inexplicable ridicule.

He didn't forget that this was the place where Voldemort himself lived for seven years, but now it has become like this. Obviously, it is impossible for him not to know, and there is a high probability that he did it on purpose.

Carefully inspecting the surrounding area, Jon could clearly find some marks that seemed to have been whipped by some huge whip, leaving deep ravines on the ground and walls.

From these signs, it can be seen that, among other things, the giant squid must have been here before!

Jon's heart was cheered up, and he went deeper. This common room was not the end, and a gap was opened in the wall facing the lounge, but this gap was obviously facing upwards, and he expected to go further. If you walk up a little bit, you will be able to get away from the water level of the Black Lake. Originally, the area by the lake is not that deep.

Sure enough, as Jon expected, he continued upstream for about three or four meters, and the top of his head was blocked by an equally thick layer of ice.

Without hesitation, he immediately raised the magic wand in his hand, and used the blasting spell underwater to explode the ice layer.

In fact, when Jon climbed out of the water, he had already seriously violated the competition rules of this event. As long as the participating warriors landed, they could not go into the water for the second time. Read it in front of everyone.

But Jon obviously doesn't care about this, not to mention that even if he goes ashore a hundred times in this crappy place, no one will know, even if he is discovered, he will only be settled on the spot. It must be the first to last and the second to last.

After coming out of the water, Jon could see that this should belong to the range of the former Slytherin bedroom.

The reason why I don't say it's a certain room is because the surrounding walls here have been broken through, and the ground is full of broken stones and fragments of broken beds, tables and chairs. The space is huge, and only the ceiling is above it.

However, the ceiling that originally belonged to the Slytherin student dormitory is not very low, it is four or five meters high, so even if the space is large, it will not make people feel oppressed.

Jon lifted the soaking spell on his body, breathed the cold and humid air here, turned over the pile of ruins in front of him, and then saw a shocking scene.

The huge squid was spread out on the hard and icy ground like this, and under it was a circle of light green runes that glowed with faint silver light.

But only when you walk into these runes and observe carefully, you will find that the light green color is not the runes themselves at all, but the blood slowly flowing from the squid!
Looking at the giant squid, Jon couldn't help holding his breath, and found that its tentacles still showed some signs of activity, which meant that even though it was dying, it was not completely dead.

Without stopping, he immediately took out a feather from his body and summoned Fox over.

Soon the golden light appeared beside him, Fox was always reliable, it didn't stop after it appeared, and left with the giant squid.

But Jon didn't leave immediately, he stared at the runes on the ground and studied them carefully for a while.

When he pretended that he was very interested in runes in front of Sir Stoke at sea before, he specially studied the basics of runes. Later this year, every time Hermione copied some runes from the castle, he also You can see and listen to Dumbledore explaining some of the principles to him.

Because even if he is still a half-baked man in terms of runes, he is also a half-baked man who has been in contact with high-end games. Seeing these things that look like ghostly symbols in the eyes of ordinary people, his eyes are not black.

After careful study, he can at least judge that these runes have not been engraved here for a long time, probably only within the last year, which means that the blood of the giant squid was almost drawn out. About half a year.

But it has never appeared in the Black Lake before, and it has been imprisoned here with a high probability for more than ten years.

Jon looked around again, and he saw some scattered and broken chains on the ground, and the ceiling directly above where the giant squid was before had obvious signs of being hit hard.

Just as Dumbledore expected, when he first took over Hogwarts Castle, Voldemort had already discovered the unusualness of this squid. Although he did not take any precautions against the Black Lake itself, he directly addressed the most fundamental problem. The giant squid was imprisoned and used when needed.

But now the various arrangements he made in the castle have been clearly placed in front of Dumbledore and the others.

The rune in the secret room was used to wear down the will of the castle itself, the rune in the principal's office was used to fill his own will, and the rune in this room was transfused with giant squid, the meaning of which was unknown for the time being.

The three places are all the key to Voldemort's arrangement. He seems to have a lot of preparations for gaining absolute control of the castle, but now it seems like he doesn't care about any of them.

While Jon was looking at these runes, he suddenly found that as the giant squid was taken away, the runes themselves not only did not dim, but gradually became brighter and brighter!

An extremely bad premonition surged in Jon's heart instantly, he turned around and rushed towards the direction of the Black Lake without hesitation, and used the body soaking spell on himself again while running.

Then he jumped off the blasted ice and dived back into the lake!
And less than a minute after he entered the water, the runes had already become dazzlingly bright.

The curved symbols swam and spread on the ground as if they were alive, and finally dark green lines bulged from the ground, turning into living creatures one by one and rushing into the water!
In less than 3 minutes, all the space in this area was filled with these rune snakes. They seemed to be able to produce endlessly from those runes, constantly appearing and jumping into the lake.

After Jon left the area of ​​the Slytherin lounge, he kept swimming forward. He had a premonition that something was wrong, and even suspected that the rune under the lake was actually just a trap.

However, even if his swimming speed is fast enough, there is still no way to compare with those snakes who are like lightning in the water.

Jon knew he couldn't escape, he had to verify how much trouble these snakes could cause him.

His forward action remained the same, but he turned around with his wand in both hands and aimed at the black snake group that at first glance looked like a wasp!

"Shen Feng has no shadow!"

The icy water flow was split by the invisible sharp blade in an instant, and the resistance of the lake water reduced the power of Shenfeng Wuying a lot, but it was still better than the blasting spell used underwater.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the poisonous snakes rushing to the front were silently split into two sections, but the sharp blade did not stop there, separating the whole group of snakes along the middle, just like the original black piece The chocolate is now neatly cut open!
But none of the venomous snakes that were cut in half showed any signs of death. Instead, they split into two, continuously spewing dark green liquid from the cut, and then grew back to their original size, making the whole group of snakes look like a monster. It got even bigger!

And at the moment when Jon turned around and cast a spell, poisonous snakes began to approach Jon. When they were about one meter away from Jon, they exploded suddenly, causing a violent impact underwater.

Fortunately, the Iron Armor Curse was maintained on Jon's body all the time, so he didn't suffer any damage because of it, but the Body Soaking Curse used to keep breathing was destroyed because of it.

This made Jon lose the ability to breathe underwater, and there was no way he could use it again.

(End of this chapter)