Hogwarts White Knight

The silver light appeared so suddenly that before Gawain even saw its shape, it had already disappeared from sight.

Snape waited for a few minutes before straightening up again, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Miss Know-It-All..., go and inform Professor McGonagall to come here as soon as possible, seal this place completely, and tell her that Fawkes is in Professor Dumbledore's office.

As for you, White... follow me. "

Professor Snape's expression was so complicated that Gawain wondered if he had said something wrong or something.

And he actually wants Gawain to follow him!

Gawain originally thought that he was just here to set off fireworks and blow up the bathroom, and he never thought about exploring Slytherin's secret room immediately.

"White, is it that you don't understand what I'm saying? Or is it that your head, which is not much bigger than a giant monster, can't even understand this?"

A trace of displeasure appeared on Snape's face. He raised his wand, and the fluorescent light flashed out, but it flew until it disappeared and he could not see the end of the passage.

"Follow me when you think about it."

Snape's expression became more solemn.

Without waiting for Gawain's answer, he took a step forward, stepped into the dark hole, and slid down.

"Gawain? Do you really want to go? I mean, that's Slytherin's secret room. Who knows if there might be something crazy locked in it?"

Hermione said worriedly that disobeying the professor's instructions and worrying about Gawain's safety were obviously at odds with each other.

Gawain was also hesitant.

But he made up his mind quickly.

"Jane, hurry up and find Professor McGonagall. It's important to Professor Snape and me."

As he spoke, he took out many long ropes from the dragon skin pocket and connected them to each other with hooks.

Since the "Fluffy Little Cutie" incident, he specifically entrusted Colin to help order many such ropes in the ordinary world, so much so that when he wrote back, he asked if Hogwarts was going to train Bond. .

He tied one end of the rope firmly to the marble pillar of the bathroom, and the other end to his waist.

"Geronimo?"

Gawain took a deep breath and jumped down from the passage.

This was a dark tunnel, like riding a slide. Gawain felt himself falling down quickly.

"This place must be guarded by some kind of spell."

Gawain made a quick judgment.

Because the passage was much shorter than he thought. It didn't take long for his feet to touch the ground.

But it is not a flat marble or brick floor, but a densely packed large number of finely broken bones. Under the light of Snape's wand, which had fallen, Gawain could see clearly.

"Mostly rats? Chickens? And..."

There was a bitter stench, mixed with the heavy sour and moldy smell that was unique to humid underground spaces, which made him feel nauseous.

Snape looked even more unhappy when he saw Gawain. He glared at Gawain fiercely for more than a minute before turning away.

"Follow me, White."

Snape said calmly, turned around and walked deeper into the passage, but his steps always paused suddenly before continuing forward.

Gawain can certainly understand.

After all, no one without a brain that extends to the back of their head would wear a grounding cloak like Snape's and explore the underground chambers.

There is a lot of space here.

It's about as big as one floor of the castle.

But structurally, it is not complex.

Gawain and the others continued to move forward and entered the corridor on one side. There are several huge snake sloughs here, at least two

Ten feet long.

Perhaps too much time has passed, and they have dried and turned gray-white, as stiff as stone.

Soon, they came to the end of the corridor.

It was a huge iron door. It was round, nearly two meters high, and nearly half a meter thick at its thickest point. On the outside of the door, there are seven snake-shaped mechanisms, which may function as door bolts.

For the sake of Merlin's crotch cloth, Gawain almost suspected that the original Hogwarts was not born as a school, but as a heavy factory.

For such a thick Whispering metal door, even if Gawain bought several hundred kilograms of saltpeter and set it on fire together, it might not cause any pain to it.

But it is open at the moment.

Wide open.

Through the doorway, they could faintly see a green light shining on that side.

This is never normal.

“Expecto patronum!

(Calling God for Protection)"

Snape waved his wand fiercely, and the silver light passed through the door and penetrated deep behind it.

This time Gawain could see its appearance clearly.

--"deer?"

They waited there for a moment.

"continue."

Snape said calmly.

They passed through the doorway and came to a small platform, but it was dark inside, and not even a torch was lit.

From one side of the platform, Gawain found a tall ladder, and they climbed all the way to the bottom.

"For the sake of Merlin's little white gloves!"

Gawain couldn't help but murmured.

But Snape didn't interrupt his ramblings.

When they got down there, they could see much more clearly with the help of the green light on the ground.

This is the end of a stone chamber.

Quite a large stone chamber.

It was more spacious than the castle's Great Hall.

The giant python entwined with stone sculptures on the towering stone pillars continues to rise and disappear into the dark ceiling.

The ground is paved with bricks and stones, uneven and covered with large and small puddles. At the end of the pillar is a sculpture as high as the stone chamber.

As if sensing their arrival, two rows of torches lit up one after another on both sides of the hall, burning brightly.

Forest green mist rose from the water, rose into the air, and disappeared from the ceiling.

"Salazar Slytherin."

Professor Snape looked up at the statue.

There was almost a hint of fanaticism in his tone.

Following his line of sight, Gawain looked. It was an old face, he looked a bit like a monkey, with a sparse beard hanging down to the bottom.

Anyone can recognize the prototype of this statue.

——Salazar really raised a bunch of prodigal Slytherins.

He was not handsome, and even looked a little rickety. Even though he is just a statue, his expression is still full of arrogance, and his complicated robes inherit the Byzantine style from thousands of years ago.

But Gawain did not dare to doubt the old man's cunning and viciousness at all, because it was he who used a devil's contract to suppress Ronan for thousands of years, but still let the centaur hold the thought of eternal life.

"His mouth was open."

Professor Snape suddenly said that he had calmed down from the excitement just now and returned to a face that was no more expressive than a dead person.

Gawain also noticed.

Salazar Slytherin's mouth was wide open, with a dark hole inside.