HP meets at Hogwarts

Ann ran to the school hospital as quickly as possible to find Madam Pomfrey, and took Madam Pomfrey to Lockhart's office. His office was very recognizable, and there was a poster of Lockhart's smiling face pasted on the door.

When Ann arrived at Lockhart's office with Madam Pomfrey, Dumbledore was bending over to observe the cat, Mrs. Norris, lying quietly on a clean table.

The protagonist trio sat on three chairs in the corner stiffly, staring at Ann almost as soon as Ann came in.Snape stood in the shadows where the lights couldn't reach, his face grim.Professor McGonagall stood by the fireplace to comfort Filch, who was crying sadly on the desk, and Ann also noticed that there were posters of Lockhart moving around the room.

"Oh, Madam Pomfrey, come and see this poor cat..." Dumbledore stepped back from the table.An thought that she could leave after completing her task, so she took a step back.Dumbledore's eyes under the half-moon glasses moved to Ann, "Miss Stoke, I think you can stay, I may have some questions for you later..."

An's heart skipped a beat, several thoughts swirled in her head, what did Dumbledore know?How much do you know?What did he see?What have I done lately that have aroused any suspicion?

She thought quickly in her mind, but her expression didn't change, she just looked at Dumbledore with doubts in her eyes.After Dumbledore finished speaking, he turned his attention to the cat on the table. Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape just blinked their eyes, but they didn't question Dumbledore's decision.

Lockhart asked in a slightly exaggerated tone, "Why did you keep a second-year student? I think she should be terrified too, and she should go back to rest...I think Mrs. Norris just... ."

Madam Pomfrey straightened up and breathed a sigh of relief, "Madame Norris is not dead, she was just petrified!" (Lockhart hurriedly added: Yes, petrified, I think so too... )

Filch's crying at the side was obviously much quieter, only sobs remained.

Hearing the word petrification, Ann remembered that she used a petrification technique in Lockhart's class. Could it be this problem?No, no, although I haven't learned petrification yet, my magic power is too low, and I can only petrify elves for a few seconds. Besides, there are many senior students who can use petrification. The current situation should be the big snake in the secret room. of.But why did Dumbledore leave me behind?

Dumbledore immediately resolved Ann's doubts, "Miss Stoke, when will the mandrake raised by Professor Sprout mature?"

An Xuan's heart was relieved. It turned out to be this question. After thinking for a while, she replied, "Probably until the end of the next semester, around May. Principal Dumbledore."

"Well..." Dumbledore turned to the cat on the table with a puzzled tone, "But who did this? This is not a simple prank."

"Ask him!" screamed Filch, turning his mottled, tear-stained face towards Harry.

"It's impossible for a second-year student to do that," said Dumbledore. "It would require advanced Dark Arts..."

Looking at this scene, An didn't know whether she should leave at this time. After asking the principal, you should give me a hint. I don't want to participate in your discussion, and I don't want to have anything to do with that big snake.Ann turned her questioning gaze to Snape, but Snape paid no attention to her at all, he just looked at the cat on the table with cold eyes.Ann looked at Professor McGonagall again, but Professor McGonagall was looking at the three of Harry.

"He did it, he did it!" Filch said loudly, spitting, his fat, saggy face turning purple. "You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found it! In my office! He knows I'm a... I'm a..." Filch's face twitched horribly. "He knows I'm a Squib!"

"I didn't touch Mrs. Norris at all!" Harry argued aloud, uncomfortably aware that everyone was watching him. "I don't even know what a Squib means."

"Nonsense!" growled Filch. "He saw my correspondence letter for a quick spell!"

"Allow me to say, Headmaster," said Snape in the shadows, "Perhaps Potter and his friends were just not supposed to be in that place at that time, but we did encounter a series of doubts. Why the upper corridor? Why didn't they come to the Halloween party?"

Harry, Ron, and Hermione scrambled to explain that they were going to the Deathday Party. "..hundreds of ghosts come, they can prove we're there—"

"But after this, why not come to the banquet?" said Snape, his dark eyes gleaming in the candlelight. "Why go up the corridor?"

Ann, Hermione, and Ron all looked at Harry.

"Because...because..." said Harry, "because we were tired and wanted to go to bed early."

"No supper?" said Snape. "I think the food served by the ghost at the party is probably not suitable for living people."

"We're not hungry," Ron said loudly, but at the same time his stomach was rumbling.

Snape's ugly smile became more apparent. "My opinion, Headmaster, is that Potter hasn't been quite telling the truth," he said. "We should perhaps revoke some of his privileges until he tells us the whole story. Personally, I think it's best to keep him out of Gryffindor." More Quidditch teams, wait until the attitude is honest."

"Honestly, Severus," snapped Professor McGonagall, "I see no reason why the boy should not be allowed to play ball. The cat didn't get hit in the head with a broom. And there's no evidence that Potter did anything wrong." thing."

Dumbledore gave Harry a probing look, and he said firmly, "Innocent until proven guilty, Severus." Snape looked very annoyed.

Same goes for Filch, "My cat is petrified!" he screams, eyeballs bulging outward. "I'd love to see someone get some punishment!"

"We can cure it, Filch," said Dumbledore patiently. "Mrs. Sprout's mandrakes will be harvested next term, so there will be a medicine that can bring Mrs. Norris back to life." gone."

"Okay," Dumbledore glanced at the three protagonists and Ann, "Go back to the dormitory quickly."

Ann couldn't wait to walk out of Lockhart's office quickly, but she slowed down when she went down the stairs. She had a stomachache, which was a little bit in the office, but it became more obvious when the speed increased.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have eaten so much..." Ann muttered.

Then the trio who went out saw Ann walking slowly on the stairs. They thought that Ann was waiting for them, so they quickly followed Ann.

"Ann, that's great, you're such a friend..." Ron followed Ann first, feeling a little happy, "Let's find an empty classroom to talk about!" Harry and Hermione also followed.

"say what?"

"Mrs. Norris, Harry found something strange, and we just need your help! You can definitely help us analyze it!" Ron said naturally.

"Aren't you tired and want to sleep? And why didn't you tell Dumbledore about the strange things just now?" Ann couldn't understand Ron's logic because of his stomach pain.

Harry explained quickly, "Professor Snape was there just now, he certainly wouldn't believe me..."

"This is the one!" Hermione secretly opened the door of an empty classroom next to the stairs, pulled Ann and walked in, Ron and Harry immediately stepped in and closed the door quietly.

"Actually, Harry heard a voice, that's why we got there!" said Hermione once inside.

Harry added, "We were planning to go back to the restaurant after attending the Deathday party, but I heard a voice, and I couldn't hear what it said. I followed the voice and saw Mrs. Norris on the wall."

Ron immediately went on to say, "There was a puddle of water on the ground. I almost slipped and fell. It was written on the wall: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Those who are enemies of the heir, be careful."

"I..." Ann wanted to speak.

But Harry quickly picked up on Ron's words, "I admit it's weird, Ann, but it's true, I didn't touch Filch's cat at all, and I didn't know he was a Squib... ．What the hell is a squib?"

Hermione answered the question quickly, "Squibs refer to a person who was born into a wizarding family but has no magical abilities. Squibs are just the opposite of Muggle-born wizards, but Squibs are rare. I read in "Wizards" "Introduction."

An quickly seized the gap, "Can I talk?" (Ann is now mentally prepared for the three of them who often consciously regard her as a military adviser, so her way of coping now is to say what they want, such as Trust or something, but no real action.)

All three of them shut their mouths and looked at Ann, and the dark classroom suddenly fell silent.

"I believe you, Harry," Ann said, and Harry breathed a sigh of relief, "but I don't know why this happened. I don't know what the Chamber of Secrets is, and I can't analyze it. Now I think The most important thing for you is to go back to the dormitory to sleep, so as not to be caught by Professor Snape later, then your situation may be much worse than it is now."

"Okay..." Harry was a little disappointed that Ann didn't even know why he heard the voice.Ron muttered, "What could that be?"

After listening to Ann's answer, Hermione didn't worry about this question anymore.She just murmured in a low voice after going out, "The secret room? I seem to have seen it somewhere..."

When Ann returned to the Slytherin common room, Fanny and Pansy and many others were waiting for her. Even Malfoy and his valet were not asleep, but they were standing in the corner of the common room.

"Ann, what happened?" Fanny asked Ann hastily. "Why have you been away for so long?"

Pansy, who was in the same dormitory, also added after Fanny, "Is Filch's cat really dead?"

Ann briefly explained the matter, lest everyone guess and spread the matter too absurdly. By the way, she weakened her own sense of existence when she was speaking, and only briefly mentioned herself, focusing on Filch and Sneaker. Pu's dialogue.

For several days, the students talked about nothing but the attack on Mrs. Norris.Fanny was also very curious, so she ran to the library when she had nothing to do. When Ann asked her, she replied that she wanted to find out what was going on in the secret room.

After this incident, Ann went to the greenhouse more frequently. Mrs. Sprout took care of the mandrakes more carefully after learning about the incident, but she had less time to take care of other plants.

On Tuesday and Gryffindor's History of Magic class, Ann was dragged into the classroom by Fanny as usual, the class was still as boring as usual, and the whole class was drowsy.

After Professor Binns spoke for half an hour, something that had never happened before happened. Hermione, who was sitting in the first row, raised her hand.

Fanny immediately woke up Ann who was still asleep, "Ann, wake up~"

"Why~" Ann opened her eyes, and Hermione's hand was raised high, which was particularly conspicuous in the classroom.Ann woke up with a jolt, what would Hermione ask in History of Magic class?

Ann was not the only one who thought this way, the eyes of the whole class were on Hermione.

Professor Binns was also surprised, "You are!?"

"I'm Granger, Professor. I wonder if you can tell us what happened to the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione said clearly.

"My course is History of Magic, and I study facts, Miss Granger, not myths and legends." He cleared his throat, and continued: "In October of that year, a group of Sardinian magicians A special group of..."

He stammered to a halt.Because Hermione raised her hand again and waved it in mid-air.

"Miss Granger?"

"I would like to ask, sir, legends are based on facts, don't they?" Professor Binns looked at her in amazement.

"Well," said Professor Binns slowly, "yeah, I suppose, you could say that." He looked at Hermione hard, as if he'd never had a good look at a student before. "However, the legend you mentioned is a very sensational, even ridiculous story..."

The whole class began to listen intently to every word Professor Binns said.

"Oh, well then," he said slowly, "let me think about it.. Chamber of Secrets.. As you all must know, Hogwarts school was founded over 1000 years ago - the exact date is not certain - opened The four greatest wizards and wizards of the time. Four houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazars Lytling. They built this castle together, away from the prying eyes of the Muggles, for in those days the common people were afraid of magic and witches and wizards were persecuted a lot."

Professor Binns paused, looked around the classroom with blurred vision, and continued: "In the first few years, the founders worked harmoniously together, looking for young people who showed signs of magic, and bringing them to the castle. Nurture well. Slowly, however, there is a divide between them. The rift between Slytherin and the others is growing. Slytherin wants Hogwarts to be more selective in recruiting students. He believes that magical education Should be limited to purely magical families only. He was unwilling to accept Muggle-born children, thinking they were unreliable. Some days later, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a violent argument over this issue, and then Slater Lin left the school."

"That's all the solid historical sources tell us," he said, "but these pure facts are overshadowed by a queer legend about the Chamber of Secrets. The story says that Slytherins built a secret chamber in the castle, and that other who know nothing about it.

"According to the legend, Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school. Only that heir could open the Chamber of Secrets, release the horrors inside, and let it purify the school. , remove all those who are not worthy of learning magic."

When the story was over, the class fell silent, but not the usual sleepy silence of Professor Binns's class.Everyone continued to stare at him, hoping that he would continue, and the atmosphere was unsettling, and Professor Binns looked slightly annoyed.

"Of course, the whole thing is nonsense," he said. "Naturally the school has investigated whether such a chamber exists, many times, and only the most learned wizards and wizards have been hired. The chamber does not exist." .It's just a story designed to scare the simple minds."

Hermione's hand was up in the air again. "Sir, what did you mean by the 'horrible things in the Chamber of Secrets' just now?"

"People think it's some kind of monster that only the heir of Slytherin can control."

The students exchanged nervous glances. "Tell you, that Dongliang doesn't exist at all, there is no secret room, and there are no monsters."

"But, sir," said Seamus Finnigan (a student of Gryffindor), "since the chamber of secrets can only be opened by the true heir of Slytherin, it might not be discovered at all, would it?"

"Nonsense," said Professor Binns in an exasperated tone, "since so many previous Heads and Heads haven't found out about that . . . "

"But, Professor," said another Gryffindor student, "it would probably take Dark Magic to open it!"

"Dark magic is detectable!" snapped Professor Binns. "I repeat, since Dumbledore's man..."

"Maybe, someone who has a relationship with Slytherin can open it, so Dumbledore can't..." Before Dean Thomas (another Gryffindor student) finished speaking, Mr. Binns became impatient.

"Enough," he said sternly, "it's a myth! It doesn't exist! There's not a shred of evidence that Slytherins ever built such a secret broom shed or anything like that. I really regret telling you this ridiculous story ! Let's go back to history, if you will, to the real, credible, reliable facts!"

Within 5 minutes, the students fell into that drowsy sleepiness again.

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La la la, tomorrow Christmas, there will be a little surprise!