Head of Teaching at Hogwarts

A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick followed Russell into the principal's office at Hogwarts, followed by the first witnesses of this incident - Harry, Hermione and Ron. Well three people.

Several other professors were responsible for staying in place to comfort the frightened little wizards.

The petrified Lockhart's body was brought all the way to the office by Russell using a flying spell.

"Hmm." "What happened?" "What's wrong?"

The portraits in the principal's office all made surprised sounds when they saw the petrified Lockhart, and Russell ordered them to cooperate with the portraits everywhere to monitor the entire school.

Russell and several professors gathered around the principal's desk, carefully observing Lockhart's current situation.

Flitwick flew into the air, almost his whole body pressed against Lockhart's body, observing carefully with his big elf eyes, and occasionally poking here and touching there with his fingers.

In the end, he came to the same conclusion as Professor McGonagall - Lockhart was not dead, but was petrified, and the symptoms were consistent with the two previous attacks.

In other words, it is very likely that this was done by the same wizard or other creatures.

Russell observed equally carefully. The petrification suffered by Lockhart behaved exactly the same as the ordinary petrification spell. It was more like a curse.

Professor McGonagall introduced Russell to the two attacks before he joined the company. In addition to people being petrified, more importantly, the words on the wall at that time.

"The secret chamber has been opened. Those who are enemies of the successor, this is a warning!"

Russell nodded and then said seriously: "Then the problem we have to solve is very clear. Where is the secret room? Whose secret room is this? Who is the heir? How did they launch the attack?"

Russell quickly brought the topic to the point.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and said: "There has been a legend of Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets circulating in the school, but it seems to be just a legend. There were such rumors when I was in school."

Russell nodded. Just as there were often some strange stories on campus in his previous life, there were also some rumors about Hogwarts.

Russell then symbolically interrogated Harry and others. They appeared a little flustered, especially Harry who hesitated in his answers.

This made Russell sigh. This child is not good at lying. It seems that in future training, we should pay attention to the comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and physical skills, and cultivate the comprehensive qualities of these little wizards.

But Russell let them go back without much entanglement.

"The boy is not telling the truth," said Flitwick.

No one refuted this point, after all, it was too obvious.

Russell added: "According to Professor McGonagall's previous introduction, Harry and the others were also the first witnesses in the previous two attacks."

Professor McGonagall subconsciously said good things to his students: "I think this is just a coincidence. They do not have such magical abilities."

Professor Flitwick agreed with this point, "It would be difficult even for me to use such a petrification spell."

Russell concluded his speech by saying: "I don't think these little wizards can come up with such a powerful spell, and I believe them.

And I think the most likely person to be associated with the Chamber of Secrets is Slytherin. The successor of Slytherin cannot be three Gryffindors.

The focus of our current work should be to search the castle to find the secret room and then solve this problem. This is best done during the Christmas vacation. I don't want the little wizards to still face the risk of being killed after school starts. "

Russell made the final decision and began to arrange inspections and searches.

After Professor McGonagall left, Russell blocked all the portraits in the office, snapped his fingers, and his house elf Illidan appeared out of thin air.

"How's the investigation going?" Russell asked.

Illidan, the house elf, said with a somewhat horrified look on his face: "The attacker was a basilisk that came out of the water pipe in a girl's bathroom, and the one who controlled the basilisk was a Gryffindor. Junior witch, Ginny Weasley.

The basilisk just wanted to hurt the three students. I used Lockhart's body to attract the basilisk's attention. The basilisk's sight has a very powerful petrification curse. Lockhart has been in a coma, but he still suffered Arrived at petrification. "

Russell nodded and said, "Okay, continue to monitor that little witch."

Illidan bowed and disappeared again.

From a certain perspective, Russell should be the mastermind of this attack.

And Ginny Weasley and the Riddle Diary behind her are just tools to cooperate with Russell's performance.

During this period, Illidan had been secretly monitoring Ginny Weasley according to Russell's orders. Based on Ginny Weasley's various actions, Russell also determined that Voldemort's Horcrux-- Del's diary may well have been aware of the surveillance.

So just now after Russell noticed that Ginny Weasley was not at the dinner, he ordered Illidan to find an excuse to leave alone, and then the attack occurred.

Theoretically speaking, this is actually a fishing law enforcement or snake fishing law enforcement that is more appropriate.

In Russell's opinion, choosing Christmas when most of the little wizards go home is undoubtedly the best opportunity to take the professors in the school to solve the problem of the basilisk.

Even if something unexpected happens, it won't have too negative an impact.

Then the next thing is to act. With the results known, pretend that you have discovered the basilisk and the Horcrux through step-by-step judgment and investigation, and then solve the problem.

The basilisk is actually not difficult to solve, as long as you avoid facing its gaze head-on. The key lies in Voldemort's Horcrux. In this aspect, there are actually many coincidences in Harry's solution to the basilisk and the Horcrux in the original work.

One wrong move and Harry would have been killed on the spot.

Russell felt that Dumbledore was definitely secretly protecting Harry before he dared to do this, which meant that Dumbledore thought he could deal with Horcruxes.

Russell was considering whether to write to Dumbledore and ask him to come and check on him.

But he soon gave up this idea, because he knew that Dumbledore would definitely receive the notification, whether it was McGonagall or Snape.

Although he left Hogwarts, as he said to himself when he left, whenever there is someone in Hogwarts who needs help, Dumbledore will definitely be there.