Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

"Now that we know the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, Potter, you can go back and leave the rest to us." McGonagall patted Harry on the shoulder.

"I want to go down too!" Harry muttered, as if he was unwilling to go back just like that, "Maybe I can help in some way!"

"If you follow, the only difference will probably be that after you kill the monster, there will be an extra person lying down." Snape taunted, "You will also need someone to carry you to the campus hospital and lie there like Miss Granger. Waiting for the mandrake to mature.”

Harry was extremely angry. This was the third time that Snape had made trouble tonight.

"You will be the greatest help to us if you go back to sleep, Potter." McGonagall was a little unhappy when she heard Snape's words.

"This kid can speak snake language, maybe it will be helpful to... uh, deal with the basilisk. Why don't you take him with you?" Gray said hurriedly.

There are still two doors in the secret room that have not been opened.

Harry heard what Gray said and moved a few steps to stand next to Gray.

"For your courage, Harry, you can come with us." Dumbledore looked down at the dark entrance.

"But..." Sprout, who had not spoken until now, spoke up.

"Don't worry, with the protection of several professors, Harry will be fine. It's not a bad thing for him to face challenges. Students need experience. Okay, we are going down, Minerva, could you please stay in the bathroom? Guard the door to prevent anyone from breaking in. As for Gray, I think everyone still needs your smart reasoning, so I suggest you go down too."

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"Okay." Mag pursed her lips with some reluctance. Apparently she also wanted to take a moment to see the basilisk that made the school a mess.

From the bottom of the pipe, the cry of Phoenix Fox was heard.

"It seems that there is no danger down there for the time being."

As soon as Dumbledore finished speaking, Flitwick took the lead and jumped in. He was really old and strong.

After a while, everyone saw a flash of white light coming from the dark pipe, which was a signal from Flitwick.

"Okay, let's go too," Dumbledore said.

Then Snape, Dumbledore, Sprout, Gray, Hagrid, and Harry jumped into the water pipe and slid down.

It felt like hurtling down a dark, slimy, endless slide.Gray was about to vomit. His robe was now like a rag, wiping the smelly and sticky sewer pipes. Fortunately, the previous professors had wiped them clean first.

Gray pinched his nose and slid all the way down. Suddenly he fell to the ground. The water pipe became horizontal. He emerged from the mouth of the pipe and fell to the wet ground with a pop. He stood up and, like everyone else, used "Clean up" New” to remove the slime from the robe.

With a thud, Gray felt that his body was about to break, and something huge pushed him to the ground.

The chicken cage was overturned, and the rooster inside was frightened and clucked.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Gray!"

Hagrid hurriedly got up from Gray, and then Harry emerged from the tube and bumped into Hagrid's stomach.

"Everyone is here," said Dumbledore.

"I just made an observation. We must be several miles deep below the school, or even at the bottom of the lake." Flitwick raised his glowing wand, and his high-pitched voice echoed in the dark tunnel.

Gray looked at the dark, sticky walls around him. His nose had already adapted to the fishy smell just now.

"As soon as there is movement, close your eyes quickly. Of course, if you are lucky, you may be petrified." Gray reminded, "Especially you, Harry, if there is movement, stay away, hide in a corner, and close your eyes."

"I will, Professor."

"I don't believe he can hide on his own." Snape interjected in the corner.

"Then you can protect him, Professor Snape."

Snape snorted and ignored it.

Their feet pattered loudly on the wet ground.The ground was very damp, and there were bones of small animals everywhere, illuminated by the white light emitted by the wand, which was creepy.

Fox flew in the front and took the lead. It kept making sweet chirps along the way to signal that there was no danger ahead.

"What is that?" Flitwick first saw the outline of a coiled behemoth lying in front of him, motionless, on the other side of the tunnel.

Gray didn't panic at all. He knew it was snake skin. So far, everything seemed to him like a group tour at a film and television base.

Fox was hovering above, showing no intention of fighting.

"Don't worry, Fawkes told us there is no danger." Dumbledore asked everyone to calm down.

As everyone approached, the light shone on a huge snake skin, which was green and very bright. At first glance, it looked like the skin of a venomous snake, lying coiled on the ground of the tunnel, and it was empty inside.Apparently the animal that had just shed this skin was at least twenty feet long.

Several people took a breath.

Everyone gathered around to observe. Flitwick raised his head, stood on tiptoes and used the light from his wand to shine on the snake skin carefully.

"The basilisk..." Dumbledore said quietly, "Let's go, everyone."

They bypassed the huge snakeskin and turned one turn after another in the tunnel accompanied by Fox's cry.

Finally, after turning an unknown number of corners, I finally found a solid wall standing in front of me, with two intertwined snakes carved on it, and their eyes were set with large, shining emeralds. .

Dumbledore looked at Harry, and Harry understood what he meant. He stepped forward, stared into the emerald eyes, and made a low, hoarse hissing sound.

The two snakes separated, the stone wall cracked in the middle, and slowly slid to both sides of the wall and disappeared.

Before them lay a long, dimly lit, damp stone hall.Many stone pillars carved with entangled snakes towered up to support the ceiling that melted into the darkness above, casting long and strange black shadows on the entire room that was filled with green and mysterious mist.

The hall was empty and every step they took echoed.Fox's bright red figure hovered in the sky, contrasting with the green hall.

Gray raised his head and saw a statue as tall as the room itself on the other side of the hall, clinging to the dark wall behind.

It looked like we were at the end of the road and there was no road behind the statue.

"Where did the snake go?" Harry asked.

Several professors all understood that the key now should be on the statue. There might be some mechanism, just like the two snake doors just now, which would open when touched.Dumbledore used many magic tests, but the huge statue still stood there motionless.

Harry also looked left and right with the professors. He hissed several times at the statue, but to no avail.

"There's no way." Harry lost his patience and said many sentences to no avail.

Gray recalled what Riddle said to the statue.

"Try to praise Salazar Slytherin, Potter." Gray said, "No one likes to hear compliments about themselves, right? Or you let him talk to you, and since you talk and he ignores you, let him explain."

"Let me try."

Harry mumbled something, as if trying to form words, and then hissed again, but this time it was different, they felt the ground shake.

Slytherin's huge stone face moved.

Fox flew close to the statue and let out a shrill scream.

"Harry! Hide behind!" Hagrid pulled Harry back, who was standing at the front. "Go squat in the corner over there and close your eyes."

"No! Maybe I can control it, or talk to it—"

"Don't think about negotiating terms with the basilisk, but you can read a few words to it in the corner with your eyes closed. After all, I've never seen a snake control... Uh... No! Hide Harry!" Hagrid took Harry away. Tucked into a very hidden corner.

The statue's mouth opened, opening wider and wider, eventually forming a huge black hole.

Something was moving in the statue's mouth.Something rustled and slid upwards from the depths of the statue.

"Everyone is ready."

Gray moved his eyes to the side. He was about to face a basilisk classified as dangerous level five by the British Ministry of Magic. It was exciting to think about it.