A ruined Hogwarts

The next morning, Owen was awakened by the noise outside the campus hospital.

After what happened yesterday spread, and after a night of discussion and fermentation, a large group of students who had no classes on the weekend crowded in the corridor of the school hospital in fear and curiosity, wanting to see the person who was attacked.

Madam Pomfrey became so angry that she drove the crowded little wizards out angrily, and then slammed the door of the school hospital with a bang, blocking out many prying eyes.

But several people in the ward did not find peace. Mr. and Mrs. Shafik and Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy came over early in the morning. The aura of the four of them standing in the room was comparable to that of a gangster party. Colin Creevey shivered in the corner and did not dare to stand out.

"Dad, Mom, why are you here?" Owen smiled coquettishly, and allowed Ms. Adeline to pinch his cheeks with her fingers with an innocent look on his face. His white and tender face was kneaded like dough in her hands. into various shapes.

"Such a big thing happened, do you think we can pretend that it didn't happen?" Mr. Albert ruffled Owen's meticulously styled hair and said through gritted teeth, "Or do you think that as long as you don't give me anything? If we write a letter, we will be kept in the dark?”

"Ahem, aren't I not injured at all? I don't think you need to worry about such a small thing." Owen said sincerely, resisting his parents rubbing their paws on his head, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Harry covering his head. He was holding back a smile and his face was turning red.

"It's a small thing...I heard that you almost lost your life. It's such a small thing." Albert grinned and gritted his teeth, "It was just being chased by a basilisk. , oh, you fought a werewolf a few days ago, your life was really exciting. But we made too much fuss, right? "

"Are you going to God? Have you forgotten that you are only in the second grade?" He paced back and forth angrily, looking around with his eyes. If there hadn't been someone else here, he'd have spread Owen's ass so high and low.

Owen blinked aggrievedly and whispered: "I didn't ask for it. It was all an accident. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing..." He was also very aggrieved.

"Really?" Adeline finally let go of Owen's cheek and said softly with a half-smile. She stared deeply into Owen's eyes, her dark green eyes filled with tenderness and concern, and seemed to be able to see into people's hearts.

Ms. Adeline does not know Legilimency, but her mind is delicate and transparent. She has always had keen insight and precise judgment, and she can always get to the essence of problems when looking at them. She had watched Owen grow up and knew his temperament well. Naturally, she could be keenly aware that Owen was not as innocent and aggrieved as he showed, otherwise she would never be so calm and pretending to be pitiful now.

I'm afraid this child has already grasped some clues, and may even be planning some evil ideas... Adeline sighed softly with a faint look in her eyes. It really became more and more worrying as she grew older. Although she knew that Owen had always been a child with ideas since childhood and would not do anything he was unsure of, but he was becoming more and more fearless, and it was easy for things to happen.

Well, although this look is indeed extremely cute... Looking at Owen's shameless cuteness, Adeline couldn't help but reached out and pinched his soft and delicate cheeks, but it was impossible to pass the test of being cute.

She and Albert exchanged a tacit look. This kid... needs to be taught a lesson. But how to do it specifically needs to be considered in the long term, and it must be unforgettable for him and unforgettable for a lifetime.

The two nodded slightly and glanced at Owen silently, which made Owen feel cold in his heart for no reason.

"Ahem!" Albert changed the topic and his face darkened, "I want to hear you explain in detail the situation you encountered yesterday, Owen."

Owen organized his words and told about the encounter with the basilisk and being blocked by Ron.

"Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets..." Albert and Adeline looked at each other, their expressions were very solemn, "As far as I know, the Chamber of Secrets was opened once fifty years ago, and there were several people there. People born in Gua were attacked, and one of them died... The person who was caught as the heir was Rubeus Hagrid. Although smart people know that he was probably the scapegoat, the attacks did stop after that..."

Harry, who vaguely heard these words, turned his head suddenly, as fast as if he wanted to break his neck. His mouth opened wide in shock, and he couldn't help but tilt his ears to listen carefully. Hagrid had never told him such a thing!

Harry's actions could not be concealed from the Shafiqs. They glanced in Harry's direction imperceptibly. Mr. Albert continued: "I investigated what happened back then before I came here. Hagrid was fired because of this. It was Dumbledore's guarantee that he was not sent to Azkaban, and the monster in the secret room was not found."

Ms. Adeline said slowly: "The real heir has never surfaced. But we found something interesting. The person who caught Hagrid at that time was another student named..." She paused, and this Then he continued, "Tom Marvolo Riddle."

"Few people know this name because the person with this name was never heard from again after graduation." Albert continued, glancing at Harry who was lamely eavesdropping, "But people don't know What's wrong is that the man just stopped using that name. He brought fear into the wizarding world by another name - he became the Dark Lord."

"His original name has become a taboo. Basically, only the first group of Death Eaters who followed him when he was still at Hogwarts knew it..." Adeline placed her fingertips in front of her lower abdomen. He looked calm and dignified, "But in our circle, this is not a secret."

Owen smiled and glanced at Harry, who was getting closer, and asked, pretending not to know: "You mean, it was the Dark Lord who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and then he blamed Hagrid?"

"This is just a reasonable speculation based on the established facts." Albert spread his hands and said, "It has been so many years, and it is difficult to restore the truth. As for who is the person who opened the secret room now, we still don't know. Got it, but he is obviously more cautious and lawless, and even dares to control the Weasley children to openly attack you during the day..."

As he spoke, his expression twisted: "Hogwarts actually hides so many hidden dangers. I thought what happened last semester was dangerous enough... Owen, are you really not planning to transfer? I think Dem Strong is much more peaceful than here, or Beauxbatons if you want."

"There are all kinds of accidents in every school, Dad. Hogwarts is always safer with Dumbledore in charge. I don't think I need to escape to a new place, and the new environment is me It’s hard to get used to it,” Owen said, blinking. No other place can be as exciting and exciting as Hogwarts, with its cute little Tom and interesting Voldemort...

Mr. Albert glared at him when he heard this. Are you going to be uncomfortable adapting to the new environment? If you were thrown into a pile of dark wizards, you would be able to thrive, right?

He narrowed his eyes and geared up his hands maliciously: "Then tell us, what big news are you planning to make? Let your mother and I be mentally prepared in advance to avoid being frightened into having a myocardial infarction."

Does planning to harm the Dark Lord count? Owen blinked and shook his head sincerely.

Albert gave him a "Do you believe me?" look, and then twisted his hair into a chicken coop with a dark face.

"Oh, you are Harry, right?" Ms. Adeline looked at Harry, who was eavesdropping openly, and said with a soft smile. Harry, who was in the middle of a brainstorm after hearing so much information, was caught off guard when his name was called, and he almost fell to the floor with his head.

"Um, yes... yes, ma'am." Harry stammered, slightly relaxing his palms that were turning white.

"Thank you for your tolerance and help to Owen these days, Harry." Adeline smiled and patted his shoulder, saying kindly, "Owen must have caused you a lot of trouble, right?"

"No, actually Owen has been helping me. He has saved me several times." Harry waved his hand quickly and said. Although Owen didn't tease him less.

Adeline held her chin lightly with one hand and smiled, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, and she whispered in his ear: "If he bullies you, let me tell you a secret. Owen is very ticklish..."

Harry's cheeks flushed. This was the first time he came into contact with such an elegant and noble woman. It was as if the queen in the fairy tale had stepped out of the book. She was beautiful, dignified, and gentle, which made him blush.

Owen smiled as he watched his mother talking to Harry with such an affectionate look on his face that it made the other person's ears turn red. He knew that his mother definitely did it on purpose, teasing the innocent and cute little boy on a whim.

On the other side by the window, Draco was also talking to his parents, saying with a somewhat exaggerated expression: "...The heir of Slytherin dared to release a basilisk in broad daylight, with a tail so thick!" He opened his arms. He gestured with his arms, "That monster petrified a person at a glance, and then chased us all the way! Me, Owen, and Harry! If we hadn't run so fast, I would have been eaten by that big snake!"

Narcissa Malfoy held her son with a pale face and wiped her tears. Lucius Malfoy's face was extremely ugly, and his hand holding the snake-shaped cane loosened and tightened, then tightened and loosened again.

"That heir still controls Weasley and blocks our way. He wants me to die on purpose!" Draco said anxiously, with a very aggrieved tone. "That's just a lunatic. What he promised Cleaning up the mud in the school...Muggleborns, but they don't care about the life and death of us purebloods!"

"Has he been caught? The heir?" Narcissa asked tremblingly. She looked her son up and down, as if he was afraid that he was missing a hair.

"No! That guy just controlled Weasley and asked him to attack us." Draco said angrily, his face turning pale. "Do you know which curse he wanted to use at that time? The killing curse! If not Dobby showed up in time to interrupt him, and I'm afraid you won't be able to see me now..."

Narcissa groaned lowly and pinched her husband's arm with her right hand, somewhat resentfully. Lucius's face turned pale, and his face seemed to be covered with a mask.

"If Dumbledore doesn't act, he might have done it intentionally!" Narcissa sobbed and held Draco in her arms, with a look of distress and fear on her face, "Oh, Draco, let's transfer and leave Hogwarts. Okay? We don’t want to stay here anymore..."

"It's no use, Owen didn't leave, Harry didn't leave either, and I can't escape." Although Draco's face was pale, his chin was raised stubbornly, "And I'm not afraid of that sneaky guy either. The shady heir. Yesterday, I threw all the magic items on me at him to prevent him from succeeding, and I almost killed him on the spot. He was so angry that he jumped up and screamed!"

The snake-shaped cane in Lucius's hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and there was no blood on his face. Draco looked at him doubtfully, watching him pick up his cane and leave the school hospital in a hurry, even staggering a little.

"Dad, what's wrong?" Draco asked suspiciously.

"Leave him alone. Let him deal with whatever he causes." Narcissa still had a hint of complaint on her face.

The morning passed by in a hurry, and Mr. and Mrs. Shafiq had already left the school. After a while, Lucius Malfoy, who had been away for a long time, came back. He took Narcissa away with a gloomy face and full of thoughts. Before leaving, he carefully told Draco to be careful and not to stay in the castle. Wandering around.

Owen and his party were finally allowed to leave the hospital by Madam Pomfrey. They returned to the castle and went to have lunch in the auditorium, but they received more attention and horrified comments. The students who were eating all stopped, and some even left the table in a hurry with panic on their faces.

Now it was Harry's turn to fret.

Despite his instructions to Colin Creevey and Draco to keep the secret secret, the news that Harry Potter was a Parseltongue spread like wildfire in the school. Well, it comes from several portraits of big mouths hanging on the walls of the stairs. They hid in the distant frames and watched yesterday's thrilling situation, and then shared the incident with other portraits lively. and curious little wizards.

The news that Harry could talk to snakes spread throughout Hogwarts last night, and everyone was talking about it. In people's common impression, Parseltongue is the symbol of dark wizards, which is evil and terrifying.

The rumor that Harry was a dark wizard with unlimited power spread widely, and more people began to believe that the reason why the mysterious man wanted to kill him was because he did not want to see another demon competing with him. On the other hand, the news that Harry was the heir of Slytherin also spread among the students, and even most people felt that this was the truth.

Beside the Hufflepuff long table, Ernie Macmillan peeked in the direction of Harry and said to his friend beside him: "Justin, you can hide in my dormitory. Before Potter can commit suicide, You'd better hide yourself..."

Justin shrank with a pale face, his shoulders shaking slightly.

"Ernie, are you sure it's Potter?" Hannah Abbott asked eagerly, "He was attacked twice by the monster in the secret room!"

"But he was not hurt both times." Ernie said slowly. "Think about it, Hannah, if you had a close encounter with the monster in the secret room, do you think you could escape unscathed? And twice?"

After hearing this, everyone started talking in low voices.

Ernie continued: "The monster appeared twice in total. The first time it attacked Potter and failed, and then petrified Crevat. The second attack still failed to hurt Potter, but instead petrified Hermione G. Ranger also left Ron Weasley seriously injured and unconscious. Do you see something wrong? Why is it that every time Potter happens to be there, he is always safe? Unless the monster is originally controlled by him... "

"Think about what happened yesterday!" He lowered his voice and said in a sinister tone. "The monster attacked Potter and the others, but in the end only Granger was petrified, while Potter, Shafik and Malfoy Everything is fine!"

"Shafiq and Malfoy are both supporters of the pure-blood theory...you mean, the three of them are in a group?" Hannah covered her mouth in horror, "They lured Granger out. , want to kill her?"

"That must be the case, otherwise how could things be such a coincidence." Ernie nodded firmly, "I think Shafiq and Malfoy have already been subdued by Potter."

"But Weasley is also a pure-blood, how could he be attacked?" Justin whispered.

"Don't forget, Weasley is a pure-blood traitor in the eyes of those people, and Malfoy wants the Weasley family to disappear directly." Ernie said, "And Weasley and Granger are friends, maybe He accidentally saw something and knew something he shouldn't know, so Potter decided -" He made a throat-cutting gesture, causing the young wizards around him to gasp.

"But Creevey is fine..." Hannah said hesitantly.

"Creevey is an admirer of Potter. When faced with idols, people are always easily deceived and even protect their idols." Ernie said confidently, "Of course, I think Potter must hate having such a person." An admirer of his origin, but he needs someone who has witnessed the whole process to testify for him and help him clear his suspicions! If something happens to Creevey, the suspicion on him will be too obvious! "

"Oh——" A group of audience members suddenly realized and involuntarily cast horrified looks in Harry's direction.

Feeling the substantial gaze focused on him, Harry turned the fork in his hand with a dark face and an expressionless expression.

"Did you see that? He didn't even let go of the fork!" The little wizards who witnessed this scene looked back in horror.