Hogwarts: Harry's Path to Witches

Chapter 134 The deepest part of the secret room

Slytherin's huge stone face moved, and his mouth opened wider and wider, forming a huge black hole.

According to Lockhart's memory, when Voldemort summoned the basilisk, the basilisk always came out from here.

Although this was probably connected to the sewer, Harley suspected that there might be another secret room inside.

After all, it is unreasonable to think that Slytherin did not leave a written inheritance to his heirs, but only a thousand-year-old basilisk.

Looking at the hole, Harley did not hesitate and her legs exerted a little strength.

She moved quickly using the serpentine relief on the stone pillar next to the statue and the protrusions of the Slytherin statue itself, and finally jumped to the entrance of the cave.

As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the cave, an inexplicable smell hit us, and the floor of the passage was full of inexplicable things, which was disgusting.

At this moment, Harry had doubts about his guess.

After all, it is hard for anyone to imagine that the noble Slytherin would build another secret room in such a disgusting place.

But having come this far, Harley was ready to continue going down. She lit up the passage with her wand, and at the same time she was surrounded by black flames and walked forward quickly.

The further we walked, the stronger the inexplicable smell became, and there was a faint sound of water coming from the end of the passage.

"Damn it, it seems I guessed wrong and I have been tortured for so long in vain."

Harley complained, and just as she was about to turn around, her eyes swept to the diagonal wall.

Harley's movement stopped momentarily, and she saw a small snake-shaped mark at that location.

Is there really a secret room with written messages?

Harry was pleasantly surprised at first, and then became more vigilant. He still held the wand in his right hand, and had already pulled out the dagger taken from the family vault in his left hand.

According to Lockhart's memory, Senior Riddle never mentioned this place. Harry also didn't believe that the self-important Voldemort would explore this foul-smelling passage.

What's more, he wouldn't believe that Slytherin would build another secret room here.

So if Harry guessed correctly, no one has explored this place before, and there are no clues about what traps there are.

"Open!"

The little snake bloomed with green light, and then a small opening opened in the wall.

Maintaining the principle of caution, Harley first threw a small mirror inside, checked through her spiritual vision that there was no danger, and then entered with her real body.

This is a small room with nothing in it except for some words carved on the wall.

Judging from the thick layer of dust on the ground, no one has been here for nearly a thousand years.

"Sure enough, Voldemort has never been here." Harry thought, picked up the mirror, and shook off the dust on it.

The cold air surged out of Harley's body and quickly froze the dust on the ground, creating a foothold for herself.

Without thinking much, Harley came directly to the wall with the words engraved on it.

There are dense words written on the wall, messages left by Slytherin in Parselang:

“My descendant, I’m glad you can see this.

By the time you read this, I will probably be dead, or not far away from death.

I didn't want these words to stay, for fear that you would follow the same path as me based on ancient books.

But I didn’t want to leave nothing behind, so I built this secret room within a secret room.

The reason why I will die is because the road ahead that I could have continued on is broken.

And the road I once walked is also disappearing, and even the place where I stand is collapsing.

This also happened to Godric, Rowena and Helga.

So we can only choose to embark on another path, a path of almost certain death.

But we have no choice.

I left some precious but not particularly harmful magical knowledge in the Basilisk's mind. I hope you can make good use of it. "

Seeing this, Harry finally understood why no one came here.

The basilisk held the knowledge of Slytherin in its mind, and Voldemort knew this when he discovered the Chamber of Secrets.

He probably thought that was the entire inheritance, and would not have thought that there was a secret room hiding a small amount of information deep in the passage behind the statue.

In addition, no one would believe that Slytherin, who had always maintained his nobility, would build the Chamber of Secrets here, so he never set foot here.

As for Gunter, according to the records in the book, he only optimized the pipeline system based on the original pipelines of the castle, and also modified the entrance to Slytherin's outermost secret room so that the basilisk could pass through the wall. Move inside.

The pipe outside this room already existed at that time, and the basilisk could go to the outside world through this pipe to hunt.

"So, this basilisk has obviously lived for thousands of years, but it has no brain. This can be explained."

Harley stroked the words on the wall, "Probably Senior Riddle chose to destroy the basilisk's brain in order to prevent the magic from leaking.

But thanks to Senior Riddle, if it weren't for his selfish behavior, I wouldn't have been able to discover this secret room. "

There is a lot of information hidden in Slytherin's words, which can also be connected with what Nico told Harry last summer and the information about the ancient ghost at the death anniversary party.

Harley silently wrote down the information and then left the room.

……

The Chamber of Secrets was sealed again by Harley. In order not to destroy the ceremony, Harley took nothing except Lockhart's two pockets.

In the Room of Requirement, Harley poured everything out of the bag.

One of the bags contained a small half-bag of gold galleons, probably as many as a thousand gold galleons, as well as some pearls and a large number of gems.

In addition to the notes, the other bag also contained some potion materials.

Most of these potion materials were related to healing and flesh-and-blood potions. Harry guessed that they were additional materials collected by Lockhart when he helped Voldemort collect materials.

But what surprised Harry the most was that there was a roll of basilisk skin deep in the pocket.

Although the snakeskin had been carefully rolled up, it still occupied most of the pocket.

The color of the snake skin is very bright, and it has obviously only faded recently.

"That's really good." Harry said with joy. After all, the skin of the basilisk had been torn to pieces by his own ice spear.

But now this complete skin is obviously more valuable to Harley.

After sorting the harvest into categories, Harley took a shower and chose to sleep here instead of going back to the dormitory.

……

The semester is over, the results have come out, and Hallie undoubtedly got the first place.

The auditorium was still bright red. After all, in the next two Quidditch matches, Harry crushed Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, and Nimbus 2000 easily tore through their defenses.

Although Katie missed the Golden Snitch against Ravenclaw's Qiu Zhang, it did not prevent Harry from scoring seventeen goals in a single game.

With the extra points from Quidditch and the points from Harry's Special Contribution Award, Gryffindor ranked first without any doubt.

"Eight consecutive championships! We should have won eight consecutive championships!"

The Slytherins were indignant, but they had to admit that Harry had achieved these points for real, and the professors were not biased.

However, Professor Snape was not too unhappy, after all, he knew that he was partly responsible.

Anyway, it’s only these seven years. Once the seven years are over, with Professor Snape’s bonus, the Academy Cup championship will still be theirs!

Besides, after Lockhart's death, Professor Snape once again took on the role of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor of his dreams, and he had no reason to be dissatisfied.

Before boarding the train to leave Hogwarts, Professor Snape asked Harry again:

"After you stay at the Dursley's for about a week, come to the Leaky Cauldron. Then I will take you to the Potions Championship."

"Professor, how are we planning our route?" Harley asked.

"Dumbledore and old Professor Horace will be with us, and then the Ministry of Magic will specially approve a portkey to go to France.

I have to ask Dumbledore for the next route. "

Professor Snape said softly, "When you go back, you can review the original potions I gave you in the last few weeks.

Don't stress, at your level, no problem. "

After saying goodbye to Professor Snape, Harry got on the train home.

On the way, the girls instantly mourned when they heard that Harley would probably not be able to provide answers this holiday.

Hermione looked happy though.

"They rely on you too much." Hermione whispered to Harry when she got off the train, "Goodbye, I'll contact you when I have the opportunity during the summer vacation."

"Goodbye." Harry said goodbye to Hermione with a chuckle, and then walked towards Uncle Vernon, who was facing an enemy.

……

……

(Thanks to Jiuwei Yanhu, c14159267, and Chuiwu Glasses for the tip!)