if i am not me

Harry felt that this experience was very fresh. He looked at the familiar memory, but there were four more people around him, and these four people were still his good friends.

As before, they started a conversation with Riddle, and the information revealed between the lines made several people more and more excited. You know, maybe they are about to solve the mystery of the secret room.

After a conversation, something unexpected happened?——All five of them were pulled into the diary.Presumably this was something Riddle didn't expect. Five people discovered his secret, but no matter how shocked he was, he couldn't be more shocked than Neville and the others. What did they see?

A handsome boy named Riddle, the former headmaster and... the panic-stricken Hagrid who was captured.Listening to the gasps around him, Harry believed that they felt as incredible as he did back then.Who would have thought?Hagrid, the guard of the Hogwarts hunting grounds, is actually the "murderer" who opened the door of the Chamber of Secrets back then.

In a remote corner of the library, the five children who suddenly disappeared just now sat quietly in their respective positions as if they had never left.As if nothing had happened just now, they didn't alarm anyone, but their expressions were completely different from the previous excitement.

Often getting along with Hagrid, they naturally know that he has a soft spot for those large, ugly and terrifying monsters. Think about it, just last year, they have already experienced a fire-breathing dragon and a ferocious three-headed monster. Dog... But they never expected that it was Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago.Although they also believed that Hagrid didn't want to hurt anyone, including the dead girl, the fact was that the damage had already been done and could not be undone, and the dead could not be resurrected.

"Perhaps Riddle found the wrong person, or...the attacker was other monsters...?" Hermione said irritably after struggling for a while, her curly hair was disheveled by her at this time, after all, she couldn't help it anyway. Believe that the murderer was Hagrid back then, even if she saw it with her own eyes.

A few people didn't speak, and it took a long time for Ron to say sullenly, "How many monsters do you think our school can accommodate?" Although he didn't believe it, they did... saw it with their own eyes.

Neville was silent for a long while before he said in a slightly sad tone, "Hagrid has been expelled from the school, and there has been no attack since then, otherwise Riddle would not have been rewarded..."

Harry just looked at his knee quietly, tapping his fingers on it from time to time, who would be the first to discover Riddle's lie?In Riddle's conspiracy, the honest Hagrid is just a substitute, but these children who don't know the truth are afraid that they won't find any flaws for a while.

Draco also didn't speak, frowning tightly, he felt that something seemed to be ignored by them, but it felt like cotton wool floating in the air, and when he tried to grab it, he couldn't catch it.

Everyone felt distraught, as if they had been hit with a sap, they knew where the murderer was, but they were at a loss what to do.

In the end, several people discussed that before the next attack, they would pretend that nothing had happened.After all, none of them were willing to hurt Hagrid, their cute and honest big friend, for a "monster" who couldn't even find a trace now, even though he often did some things that were even more terrifying in the eyes of normal people.

Time flew by as the few people deliberately avoided and forgot. Now it has been almost four months since the last attack. During this period, there has been no attack. The secret room seems to have completely disappeared from people's sight.

But just when they thought the matter would end like this, an accident happened again—the diary was lost.

Since Hermione thought they already knew that the monster came from Hagrid, no one asked anything about the diary, which was still kept by Neville.

Neville hated the diary very much, and he even felt that if he hadn't found this diary, Hagrid's secret would not have been known, so that they would not have to endure the current inner torment.Because of this, when he kept the diary, he pressed it at the bottom of the box. Since no one deliberately mentioned it again, they all chose to forget it tacitly.But now, when everything was in good shape, it was lost, which made a few people think a little more.

When Harry learned that the diary was lost as he remembered it, he felt a little flustered in his heart, but he felt relieved.In any case, the current history does not seem to have changed much. If it really follows the history, then... everyone will be fine.Moreover, recalling the old book he found that day, Harry felt that the 50% chance was worth a try—if the records in that document were true.

In the afternoon, the large windows of the library allowed the sunlight to shine on them unobstructed. However, although they were warm all over their bodies, the warmth could not reach the bottom of their hearts.

"You mean, your dormitory has been turned upside down?" Hermione tapped on the tabletop, which was her habit when she was thinking, and it even infected several other people more or less, for example, Harry .

Ron nodded irritably, and pulled his messy red hair, "Didn't you see, the whole dormitory looks like it just went through a war!"

"That's not the point!" Draco said lightly, not forgetting to roll his eyes at Ron while speaking, "It must be from Gryffindor. I don't think anyone can swagger after getting passwords from other colleges Searched a dormitory." Except for him and Harry themselves, of course, but they wouldn't do something so stupid.

Neville remained silent, staring at the confetti on top of the glass with his chin stuck in a daze.Will it be "The Heir to the Chamber of Secrets"?After all, besides him, he couldn't think of anyone else who would steal this diary that was considered useless by ordinary people.

"Anyway, there have been no attacks recently, and Neville also said that he hasn't heard that 'voice' recently. I think it's all right?" Ron said pretending to be relaxed, trying to maintain his optimistic thoughts. After all, "peace" "It's been a long time, hasn't it?

"Voice?!" Both Draco and Hermione raised their voices suddenly, startling the other three.But Hermione couldn't care about their emotions anymore, bit her lips, her tone was unprecedentedly serious, "I think, maybe we thought about something wrong."

"No, it should be said that we were cheated!" Draco said fiercely, his eyebrows furrowed tightly, which was a sign of his anger.

Seeing this, Neville and Ron opened their mouths wide in surprise, while the corner of Harry's mouth twitched almost imperceptibly - finally found out.

"In the memory that Riddle showed us, if I'm not mistaken, Hagrid should have raised a spider." Thinking of Ron's scream, Draco said firmly, hating Riddle even more in his heart itch.Hermione immediately interjected when she heard the words, "As far as we know, Neville actually heard the voice of the 'murderer', Neville has a snake tongue, I don't think he can even master the language of spiders. point."

Ron stared at the two of them dumbfounded, and asked stammeringly, "You, what do you mean, that diary is deliberately misleading us...?"

"That's right, although I don't know what the purpose is..." Speaking of this, Draco was already gnashing his teeth. His good upbringing made him invisible on the outside, but his tone had already betrayed him. Mood.

"Fine!" Harry exhaled. "Now, Parseltongue, Snakes, Petrification, Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets opened 50 years ago, Hagrid the scapegoat and his spiders, water stains, the diary that tricked us, and, supposedly, Gryffindor's 'Slytherin The Heir of the Chamber of Secrets'... Will these clues lead us to the real murderer?"

Hermione's hands tapped on the table faster and faster, her eyes were tightly closed, and her lips were pressed down to a thin line.That made Harry and the others quiet down, thinking quietly, and also waiting.

Suddenly, Hermione stood up, "I'm going to find some books, wait a minute." After finishing speaking, she left the desk without looking back.

Not long after, she came back with strides, the difference was that she had more than a dozen thick books in her hand, which almost prevented them from seeing her head.

"Touch!" Putting down the book in her hand, Hermione started to flip through it as if no one else was there. Her speed was so fast that Harry and the others wondered if she could read the words clearly on the page.After an unknown amount of time, they seemed to have been staring at Hermione, watching her flip through books of different thicknesses one after another.Finally, her hand stopped, and her eyes focused on the pages of the book in her hand.Harry knew, she found it!

"BASILISK, also known as the King of Boa Constrictors. It is huge, often reaching fifty feet in length, and its fangs are highly poisonous, but nothing compares to his deadly weapon, the extremely dangerous gaze "Hermione clearly read every word she saw, "The big yellow eyes stare at the target of the attack, and anyone who meets their eyes will die instantly. It is the natural enemy of spiders, As long as it is there, spiders will run away. Of course, it is not without weaknesses, and the crowing of the rooster is fatal to BASILISK."

She put down the book slowly, and looked at Harry and the others one by one, "I think we know what we are facing."

Draco nodded approvingly. "The voices Neville heard, and the dead rooster, all suggest it was BASILISK."

"But no one died?" Ron still felt suspicious, because Hermione said that if he made eye contact with BASILISK, he would die immediately, but there were only a few more petrified victims in the school. "And how does it work in the school?"

"Death...that's the key to misleading us." Hermione flipped her hair, "I think it's because they didn't have a direct eye-to-eye relationship with the basilisk. Colin is through the camera, Justin should be The eye contact between Nearly Headless Nick and BASILISK, and Nearly Headless Nick is already a ghost, so he can only be petrified if he cannot die... As for Mrs. Norris, you still remember the puddle on the ground? water?"

Having said that, Neville nodded knowingly, indeed, almost all the doubts were clarified in this way. "And the spiders that scared Ron last time must have something to do with BASILISK. Do you remember the scale we saw that day? It should be that they are moving."

"As for how it works in the school..." Draco looked at the slightly mottled wall, and stretched out his slender white fingers, "Neville, I remember you said that when you heard the voice inside the wall ?"

Neville nodded, while Ron shook his head briskly beside him. Usually, he couldn't remember these details.While getting Neville's answer, Drake's hand twitched unconsciously, then consciously ignored Ron's reaction, and looked at the other three. "So... I guess it's going through the pipes."

Hearing this, Neville immediately became excited, "That's right! Ah, that's why I always thought that the sound came from the wall. That's right, it's because the pipes are buried in the wall!"

"Yes!" Hermione's tone was not so excited, unlike the boys who were excited, now she just felt scared.Such a monster can run through the school without any hindrance. It has to be said that the person who was petrified is actually very lucky. "I think what we have to do now is to tell Principal Dumbledore about the basilisk, and he should have a solution!"

As soon as the words were finished, a clear and sharp female voice sounded in the library suddenly, shocking everyone. "Another attack! It's a senior Ravenclaw girl."