Journey through the heavens from Hogwarts

After Harry and the others left, Dumbledore took Lin Xiao and Hermione to the principal's office on the eighth floor, followed closely by Professor Snape.

In the principal's room, Dumbledore said to Lin Xiao, "Child, has the basilisk come out yet?"

"Yes, Principal, I think Mrs. Norris happened to see the eating basilisk through the water stains when she was catching mice." Lin Xiao said with a slight embarrassment. He had almost forgotten the city of Hogwarts. There is also a cat in the castle.

"The basilisk?...Dumbledore, you already knew it was the basilisk, right?" Snape said angrily, feeling as if he had been tricked.

He knows that the basilisk is a very dangerous magical animal, and he is a potion master.

"Yes, Severus, we have known for a long time that all this is to eliminate something related to Voldemort, the Horcrux." Dumbledore looked at Snape and said thoughtfully.

"Only the basilisk's fangs can completely destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes. This is also the key to his resurrection."

Dumbledore told Snape this matter nonchalantly, knowing that Snape would not tell him otherwise, otherwise he would not seek his help in the first place.

Snape's face trembled when he heard that name, and he said coldly, expressionlessly, "I guess it was Mr. Lin Xiao and Miss Granger who discovered this...his Horcrux. Bar."

"Oh...Severus, you guessed it right. It was indeed these two children who discovered it." Dumbledore said with a smile, "Mr. Lin Xiao also tricked Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets from young Voldemort. There’s a basilisk hidden in it.”

"Then why don't you just go and destroy it to prevent..." Snape said doubtfully.

"You have to know that apparation is prohibited in Hogwarts. Even if Fox wants to apparate in the castle, he needs to know the environment there."

"And the secret room can only be opened by a Parselmouth. Lin Xiao found that Harry seemed to be able to understand what the Basilisk said. He a little suspected that Harry was a Parseltongue."

"Do you want to use Potter to open the Chamber of Secrets, or let him deal with the basilisk?" Snape said, and then he remembered Harry's eyes.

"I don't agree with you doing this. It will hurt... the students of Hogwarts. If anything happens, they will be traced by the Ministry of Magic, Dumbledore." Snape said angrily.

Lin Xiao thought from the side, you are just afraid that you can't see Harry's eyes, you are despicable!

Hermione beside him asked quietly, "Lin Xiao, why do I feel that Professor Snape seems to be worried about Harry."

"You're overthinking it. He's afraid something might happen to Harry. He usually doesn't have many opportunities to deduct Gryffindor house points."

"Oh... I think so." Hermione thought of how Snape would ask Harry some questions every time in Potions class. Harry was too embarrassed to answer them, and she finally gained points. Dunked everything.

At this time, the little witch looked at Snape with a slightly annoyed look, and Snape seemed to have noticed this unkind look. When he turned around, Hermione was already hiding behind Lin Xiao.

After Dumbledore and Snape talked for a while, the latter reluctantly agreed to Lin Xiao's plan, and reluctantly agreed that Dumbledore would help take care of the four children.

"Child, when will this matter be resolved? I don't want to delay your vacation." Dumbledore said with a smile.

Lin Xiao pondered for a while, "It should be soon. It should be solved around Halloween."

"After entering the secret room, we must first ask Fox to blind the basilisk's eyes so that we can fight it head-on." He looked at Fox who was resting aside.

"I will send Fawkes to assist you." Dumbledore said with a smile, "The next step is up to you, Mr. Lin Xiao, and of course, our Miss Granger."

......

For several days, the students talked about nothing else but the attack on Mrs. Norris.Filch's behavior made everyone never forget this incident: he often walked around the place where Mrs. Norris was killed, as if he thought the attacker would come again.

He also tried to scrub the words on the wall with Mrs. Skoll's all-purpose magic stain remover, but his efforts were obviously in vain; the words were still shining brightly on the stone wall, and Lin Xiao would not choose to leave any flaws.

If Filch was not patrolling the crime scene, he would secretly hide in the corridor with his red eyes, and then suddenly pounce on the unsuspecting students, as if he wanted to take his anger out on these students who were talking about each other, and tried every means to do so. Make excuses for confinement, such as saying they are "breathing too loudly" or are "cheerful".

Harry found that the attack did not seem to have any impact on Lin Xiao and Hermione. They continued to read in the library as usual every day.Harry felt as if he had forgotten something important.

On this day, the unlucky Harry was detained by Snape in Potions class and asked him to stay and clean the caterpillars on the table. However, Harry always felt that Snape wanted to take revenge on him because he did not get what he wanted that day. punishment to him.

Harry had a quick lunch and went upstairs to the library to find Ron.On the way, he saw Justin Finch-Fletchley, a Hufflepuff boy who was taking Herbology class with him, walking toward him.Harry was about to open his mouth to say hello, but as soon as Justin saw him, he suddenly turned around and ran away in the opposite direction.

Harry found Ron at the back of the library, using a ruler to measure his History of Magic homework.Professor Binns asked students to write a three-foot-long essay on "The Witches' Gathering of Medieval Europe."

"I can't believe it, there's still eight inches left..." Ron said angrily. As soon as he let go, the parchment rolled up again. "Hermione wrote four feet seven inches, and her handwriting was very small. Very small.”

"And that guy Lin Xiao, their homework is the same as ours, and it seems that Hermione helped him complete his homework. Why doesn't she come to help us?"

"Where are they two?" Harry asked, grabbing the tape measure and spreading out his own homework.

"Over there, Hermione said that Lin Xiao seemed to have given her a few books in the restricted area. You must know that that guy asked their dean for a long-term loan application for books in the restricted area when he was in the first grade." Ron pointed at the rows of bookshelves and said with envy. He originally wanted to see what the books in the restricted area looked like, but Hermione refused to let him see them, saying that they were temporarily lent to her by Lin Xiao.

Harry told Ron that Justin Finch-Fletchley had just run away when he saw him.

"You care what he does, I've always thought he was a bit dorky," said Ron, scribbling as big as he could, "just talking nonsense about how great Lockhart is - —”

Hermione walked out, trying hard to remember what Lin Xiao had said to her, asking her to ask Professor Binns a few questions in the history of magic.

"Hermione, where is Lin Xiao?" Harry asked.

"He left first."

Ron interjected from the side, "Why are there so many copies of Hogwarts: A School History missing from the bookshelves?"

"Oh... they have all been borrowed, and even the queue for people who want to borrow them has been delayed until two weeks later." Hermione sat down and said.

"Why?" Harry asked.

"Because they all want to check out the legend about the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione said nonchalantly.

"What is the Chamber of Secrets?" Harry asked immediately.

"Of course...Oh, I can't remember a little bit." Hermione patted her head and said in annoyance.