Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 103 Details determine success or failure

"What are you all doing here? Go back to the dormitory quickly!" Professor McGonagall suddenly raised her head and shouted loudly,

"Prefects of each college! Presidents of the Male and Female Student Councils! Please assume your responsibilities!"

The prefects immediately took action and urged the young wizards to return to their dormitories.

However, Percy, the Gryffindor boy prefect, seemed lost and did not immediately perform his duties.

It wasn't until the female prefect slapped him hard twice that Percy came back to his senses and acted quickly:

"Everyone, follow me back to the dormitory! Don't stop too much on the way! The first-year wizards should follow the senior classmates closely to avoid being left alone!"

Harry and Hermione quickly climbed the stairs, following behind the Gryffindor troop.

Before leaving here, she turned to look at the crime scene.

Professor McGonagall was talking to a silver phoenix, and Harry vaguely remembered that it seemed to be Professor Dumbledore's messenger.

Professor Flitwick had already waved his magic wand, lifted Senior Penello up, and walked towards the stairs closest to the campus hospital.

The large group of Gryffindor lion cubs quickly returned to the common room without stopping for long.

Back in the lion's den, the common room quickly filled with a mixture of tension and fear.

This time, the accident happened to a senior classmate, Penelo, who had excellent grades.

If something happens to such an outstanding wizard, the middle and lower grade students will naturally feel scared, fearing that one day they will be turned into stone statues.

Harley also learned the whole story from Fred and George.

According to the two men, they had excess energy and did not fully vent it in the Duel Club.

So the Weasley twins, who are innocent and cute and don't do bad things, decided to sneak into the Ravenclaw team and visit the Ravenclaw common room.

As a result, the Ravenclaw army had not advanced very far when they encountered Senior Penello lying on the ground.

"The team just exploded!" Fred said exaggeratedly,

"All the little wizards in the first grade are running around, and the fifth-grade male prefect can't control them.

Fortunately, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were not far from us and rushed over quickly.

I have never seen Professor Flitwick look like that, as if he was about to kill someone. "

Having said this, Fred hugged George next to him exaggeratedly, pretending to be very scared.

"Indeed, it's really scary!" George also cooperated with Fred, his whole body shaking crazily.

However, Harley did not appreciate the performance of the two people, but walked to her dormitory.

Intuitively, she felt that she needed to comfort Hermione.

After all, something had happened to two Muggle-born students, and Hermione was probably under a lot of mental pressure.

However, to Harry's surprise, Hermione did not look frightened like many Muggle-born wizards and hugged each other for warmth.

She was lying on the bed, flipping through a book with a gold border frantically.

After a while, Hermione suddenly shouted in surprise: "Found it!"

"What did you find?" Hermione suddenly felt someone pressing down heavily on her, lying next to her ear and asking, blowing on her earlobe.

That familiar soft touch, Hermione immediately guessed it was Harry.

"Don't make trouble." Hermione tried hard to turn over, but was suppressed on the bed, so she had to say,

"You're done, witch! Watch me suppress you!" Hermione's cheeks turned red and she rushed forward with her teeth bared, but Harry turned over and suppressed her again.

"Are you wrong? If you admit you are wrong, call me good sister!"

"You're dreaming! I'm older than you!"

There was no one else in the dormitory. Lavender and Parvati were still discussing what happened today with other girls in the common room, so the two of them were extremely unruly.

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After a while of fussing, Harley was the first to admit defeat. After all, it would be difficult to expect Hermione to give up on her own initiative due to her strong character.

"So what did you want to say earlier?" Harley asked, lying on the bed.

Hermione then remembered what happened before and complained: "You shouldn't have just... In short, I was clearly talking about something very important earlier!

I think I discovered the true identity of the monster in the secret room. "

"Basilisk?" Harley was a little surprised, "Have you figured it out too?"

"Of course, I'm second in grade!" Hermione said proudly, but she couldn't hide the weakness in her voice, even though she had won before.

Afterwards, Hermione explained her detailed reasoning process.

Harry was surprised to find that Hermione's reasoning process was very similar to her own.

Both of them inferred it through "Slytherin's monster", "Slytherin is a Parseltongue and likes snakes" and "that snake has lived for nearly a thousand years".

"Indeed." Harry confirmed Hermione's guess and added,

"But you don't seem to have considered how it moved within the castle. Of course I did, because the basilisk moved within the walls."

"In the wall..." Hermione was startled at first, and then fell into deep thought again.

"It is true that such a huge monster can only move in a place where it is easy to be ignored, such as inside the wall.

There are pipes in the wall that do allow snakes to move.

But it stands to reason that the pipe is not that thick, and the basilisk is very large, especially since it is a thousand-year-old basilisk...

and many more! "

Hermione raised her head suddenly, rolled out of bed, and pulled out the "Hogwarts: A History of the School" that she had queued up for a long time to borrow from her schoolbag.

"Sure enough, I remembered it correctly!" Hermione found a passage in the book and said excitedly,

“In 1700, it was proposed to install a complex plumbing system in the castle.

At that time, the resolution was quickly passed, and the person in charge was a wizard named Gaunt. "

Hermione closed the book hard and looked at Harry:

"Do you remember that book about the great wizards of the 20th century that I borrowed last semester for fun?

There is information mentioned in it that the Gaunt family is a descendant of Slytherin.

Right, everything is right!

In order to prevent the basilisk from being exposed, the descendant of the Gaunt family took the initiative to take over the job.

And when he was building it, he deliberately built a large enough water pipe in the wall to ensure that the basilisk could move around at will.

It was also because of his presence that the specific location of the secret room was concealed instead of being discovered at the time. "

Harry turned over and looked at Hermione in surprise.

With this memory, this brain, and this powerful reasoning ability, both generalists and readers should like Hermione very much.

The entire incident could be reconstructed with so few details. Harley asked herself that she couldn't do it.

Especially after Harry confirmed that the basilisk was moving in the wall, he didn't think as much as Hermione did.

"Harry, let's go talk to the professors quickly!" Hermione couldn't wait to change clothes and go to the professors.

Harry nodded indifferently. Anyway, Hermione had deduced all this and there were traces to follow.

There is no harm in telling the professors. After all, if the basilisk goes crazy one day and kills everyone, he will lose a lot of future anchors.

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(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu and 9 for the reward!)