[HP] Noble

Draco glanced at Scorpius, but walked out of their hiding place with his head held high and his chest held high.

—Probably because he deliberately amplified the sound of his footsteps, the Weasley brothers and sisters not far away were startled by the sound of footsteps, both of them closed their mouths and turned their heads in unison, When Ron Weasley turned his head to see the person coming, his face was so pale that it looked like a corpse that had just been thawed out of the morgue, and a few words popped out from between his teeth: "Malfoy!"

"Even if you call my name so enthusiastically, it doesn't mean that I will give you a Galleon from my pocket." Draco smiled mockingly, just when Scorpius thought he would give Ginny When Weasley and the diary made some attacks or probes, it was surprising that the Slytherin prince did nothing, but after routinely taunting Ron Weasley, he directly sent that Weasley The little sister of the Lai family passed them by as air.

Scorpius froze, then followed Draco's footsteps, and a few minutes later, when they sat down in the corner of the library and Draco began to calmly write his damn papers, Scorpius stared at He looked and looked at his face, hesitated to speak.

And when Draco copied a reference book about the medicinal effects of horseradish on the parchment in front of him in extremely small italics, he didn't raise his head and said: "Ask any questions you want to ask." , even if you look at my face bleeding, don't expect my face to automatically reveal the answer you want like that stupid diary."

"Oh," Scorpius didn't look embarrassed at all, in fact, he seemed to be waiting for Draco to ask him, and the black-haired Slytherin sat up straighter with some excitement , "What do you think about the conversation between the Weasleys - that Ginny Weasley?"

"There must be some misunderstanding." Draco thought for a while before putting down his pen, "I don't think she's the so-called heir of Slytherin (Draco wrinkled his nose) - Slytherin doesn't need Such an heir."

"How to say?"

"Killing chickens, obsessing, manipulating, the diary tried to instruct us to do the same thing, only we didn't do what he said - which means that the so-called heir of Slytherin is not one of us Anybody, we need to get a little bit of a clue and figure out who this thing started, so we can find out—"

Draco's words stopped abruptly.

The delicate little face that had no blood color in the first place turned extremely pale in an instant.

"Oh my God," he muttered, looking around in bewilderment, looking a little terrified.

"What's wrong?" Scorpius raised an eyebrow.

Draco was shocked: "The heir of Slytherin is the Mr. T in that diary, Riddle?!"

Scorpius thought for a while, and asked abruptly: "From your expression, it seems that you just came to this conclusion?"

Draco turned his head and waited for Scorpius angrily, as if to make a silent accusation against him: "Who would have thought of this? We have been looking for the person who opened the so-called secret room in the school, but never considered But that person does not refer to a specific person! If Riddle was smart, he could even have the mole rat kill all the turkeys, and then leave the mole rat and let silly baby Potter open the secret room. That way, taking it for granted that all the action was done by one person we'll never find the real murderer! Every suspect is innocent of the other thing, just because he really didn't do it!"

"Quiet! Or I'll throw you out!" The librarian's angry voice interrupted Draco.

Draco was taken aback for a moment, and then he seemed to wake up from the excitement. He messed up his forehead hair a little annoyed, and pushed away the thick dictionary about herbs in front of him, and Draco dragged one The book about magical animals that he took off the shelf before, in fact, he didn't hope to find any useful information from it, he just hoped to get some inspiration from it... Flipping through the book quickly, He turned a few pages, and while he was flipping through, he was still muttering absently: "Riddle is still alive? No, no, no, he's dead, he's just living in the diary—well, Gretel, that diary What? Now I think we really need to look at the 'memories' he mentioned in the diary."

"No need, I've already seen it."

Draco slammed the book on magical animals shut - causing a hippogriff in the illustration to scream angrily.

And at this moment, Scorpius thought, the way the Slytherin prince glared at him was comparable to that of the angry hippogriff - presumably a look ready to tear people apart and swallow their bones A brutal look that doesn't vomit.

"You went to see that memory! Without anyone else, you stuck your head into a place where you don't even know if you can come back!" Draco gasped, in fact he saw They wanted to yell at Scorpius, if they hadn't been warned once, they would have been kicked out of the library the next time.

Scorpius shrugged - he dared to do this, of course, only because he was from the future, and he had never heard the old Gryffindor trio mention "who was eaten by the diary"? Old news, in the past when he did not appear theoretically, someone must have read the "memory" provided by Riddle in that diary.

So at this time, in order to divert Draco's anger, Scorpius recounted the episodes he saw in the diary one by one.

At the beginning, Prince Slytherin was quite interested because he mentioned what Draco's parents looked like when they were young, especially when Scorpius mentioned Mrs. Malfoy's hair color and temper that was not quite the same as now At that time, he showed a proud expression, and couldn't help interjecting: "Yeah, my mother had a very good relationship with Professor Snape when she was young, and they were always the first two in Potions class." Characters - as for the hair color, oh well, I gotta say my parents are rare soul mates in the wizarding world, if you knew what that meant, you probably wouldn't have seen these little changes after the soul contract had an effect Surprised, the communion of souls, from a certain point of view, can be understood as two wizards accepting each other, they are one, as if you can still find exactly the same place in them even if they don’t look like twins. .”

"Oh, yes." Scorpius replied absent-mindedly, sober in a somewhat complicated mood. He agreed to Draco's proposal about soul mates without much hesitation—fortunately, after the ceremony was completed, his hair There wasn't a patch of platinum-blond white hair growing on his forehead, or his black eyes turning silver-grey--that strange pairing would have been appropriate for Mrs. Malfoy, who was naturally noble, but for him... ...probably only reminiscent of a rural non-mainstream with colored contact lenses and hair highlights.

Just when Scorpius thought of his own appearance, Draco suddenly added: "However, my mother didn't change immediately after the soul contract was completed. It just took time to — oh, my mum said, probably when I was pregnant and woke up one morning and found my hair had changed color."

Scorpius: "..."

When Draco said those words, he said them with a beautiful smile on his face, but when he turned his head, he was surprised to find that the senior Slytherin sitting next to him had a serious expression.

Draco: "What's wrong?"

Scorpius: "Young man, judging from your appearance, I think you may experience a divorce in the future..."

Draco: "Nonsense."

Scorpius: "No, I'm serious."

After Draco rolled several not-so-noble eyes one after another, Scorpius continued to talk about that damned memory with a melancholy mood—those boring campus gossips got a good response from Draco, Obviously he didn't think gossip about Potter, his father, Professor Snape, and Sirius Black was a boring thing. In fact, from the expression on his face, he probably found something to laugh at Potter—

Like "Hey Potter you know what your dear old dad and your dear godfather used to rob your most hated professor when they were younger hahaha".

After Scorpius finished describing the dream, because of his instructive description, Draco lived up to expectations and came to a conclusion that was almost close to the truth——

"Riddle is tirelessly looking for a scapegoat. Twenty years ago, it was the stupid half-blood giant Hagruber, and 20 years later, it will be the dirty mole or Potter who is not as good as Hagruber—and as Always around the chamber of secrets, he seems to be inseparable from this matter anyway, but he hides himself, insidious and cunning, sacrificing others in exchange for the greatest self-interest, which is simply bringing Slytherin's academic style to the extreme. Exemplary, he is the true heir of Slytherin."

Scorpius silently gave Draco 32 likes in his heart.

If it wasn't for the praise in Draco's unabashed tone when he said "Slytherin's house style", he would have even praised directly without hesitation.

After being sure that Draco had come to the right conclusion, Scorpius said what he had considered before - including the death of Moaning Myrtle and the conflict of time periods in the entire memory , when it was determined that Riddle was the murderer who opened the secret room, this was something Scorpius couldn't figure out anyway.

The Dark Lord really has a knack for black and white.

Even those who have experienced it completely know the basics, almost have to be convinced by this loophole.

The "loophole" proposed by Scorpius made Draco fall into silence for a while, and just when he thought he would not get any more help, he heard the Slytherin prince sitting next to him suddenly mutter—this voice made Draco Scorpius' eyes almost lit up, because he knew very well that this was the sound Draco would make when he was about to come to some conclusion.

Sure enough, after a while, he heard Draco ask: "After confirming that Riddle is the heir to the Chamber of Secrets, we can see that this situation will not happen-you know, even in the Pensieve, occasionally It is found that the owner's memory has been tampered with... For example, sometimes in the middle of the memory, you will find that the picture becomes blurred and you seem to be shrouded in a thick white mist. At this time, it is easier to find Memory tampering method."

"In comparison?" Scorpius thought he had caught the point.

"Oh, yes, by comparison - the other one is not common, I only heard it from my father, that time he had just participated in a vote to decide whether to put a murderer in AZ After the Kaban meeting, it was mentioned that if the owner of the memory for some reason does not want people to know that he has modified his memory, and at the same time they have a superb means of modifying memory, then they can modify their memory It’s not that easy to detect.”

Draco frowned, paused, and continued in a tone that seemed to be stunned: "Yes, that's right—just like what the prisoner did, you entered a memory, and you felt that you He closely followed the owner of the memory, without letting his eyes move away for a second. In that memory, his words and deeds were very normal, showing that he had nothing to do with the brutal murder case, but in fact , you've missed a lot."

"What do you mean?"

"The memory has been modified, and a piece is missing - for example, a piece of memory is composed of three points A, B, and C. The person who has the memory takes the entire piece of 'B', and then puts 'A' and 'C' 'Direct connection, at the same time, he will use some means to blur your judgment, let you subconsciously ignore the time or the connection point in the scene, so as not to find out what is missing in these two memories, Makes you feel like they just happened right after..."

Scorpius was a little confused.

Draco frowned and turned to look at him: "Let's put it this way, when you were watching that memory, did you ever feel as if you were lost, or stayed in a certain place for so long that you forgot the time , or completely lost other references besides you and the memory owner itself?"

Scorpius: "..."

In his memory, Riddle led him through the winding corridors. The sounds of the students in class were gradually forgotten in the back of his mind. The corridors went from sparsely populated to finally empty, until Scorpius didn't even know what they had arrived at. In place, he stopped, and...

Then they waited a long time in complete darkness.

During that process, Scorpius clearly felt that he lost the sense of time.

Seeing the black-haired Slytherin beside him fall into silence, Draco frowned: "What do you mean by not talking, I'm asking you—is there any?"

Scorpius came back to his senses, a pair of black pupils stared blankly at the platinum nobleman beside him, and after a few seconds, he said firmly: "Yes."

"..."

Draco stared at Scorpius for a moment.

Immediately, he took a long breath and said lightly: "Give the diary to Dumbledore. He was a professor at Hogwarts 24 years ago. He must know something about this student, Riddle. It's half over."

"...But... what is half the end?" Scorpius blinked, a little confused as to why Draco seemed to understand it better than him, "We still don't know what came out of the secret room, and I don't know the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets—"

The black-haired Slytherin hadn't finished speaking when an old book covered in dust fell from the sky and hit him in front of him ("Take care of books!" which aroused the librarian's second anger roar), he blinked, and looked in the direction Draco pointed, and saw such a passage clearly written on the yellowed page——

[In our country, there are many terrible beasts and monsters roaming around, among which the most bizarre and lethal is the Basilisk, also known as the Snake King.The snake, which can become very large and often live for hundreds of years, is hatched from a rooster's egg by a toad.The way it kills is astonishing. In addition to its deadly fangs, the stare of the basilisk can also cause death. Anyone who is stared at by it will die instantly.The spider will run away when it sees the basilisk, because the basilisk is the deadly enemy of the spider, and the basilisk will only flee for its life when it hears the crowing of the rooster, because the crowing of the rooster is also fatal to it. ] "See?" Draco's voice came from Scorpius' ear, "The rooster's crowing scares him - which explains the death of those turkeys; the eyes are deadly, the only species in the world with deadly eyes is the Goddess Medusa, this is also in line with Riddle's memory, the thing that ran out of the secret room mentioned by the half-blood giant is the descendant of Medusa, Potter's ghosts and ghosts always let themselves hear voices and his Parseltongue, and I can always hear some voices that I seem to understand but don't understand... Oh, don't look at me like that, of course there are other reasons for this, the Malfoy family has never been half-baked Parseltongue-"

It's just that the dragon's language and the snake's language are very similar in certain vocabulary.

Draco swallowed the second half of the sentence back in his stomach.

He sighed and said randomly, "What we are looking for is a basilisk."