Professor, please pay the debt

So where is Harry?

In fact he was hiding behind the closet.He found that this is a secret room.

Harry only discovered it after being locked in the closet. From the beginning, he didn't think that Dumbledore would let him go easily.

So I originally planned to pry open the back panel of the closet, and then tried to find a way, but unexpectedly, I found the mark of the snake head on the wall.

When he said it in Parseltongue softly, the wall opened like the entrance to the girls' bathroom on the second floor.

"Praise be to you, ancestor!"

Harry, of course, attributed the Chamber of Secrets to Saraj Slytherin.

So, when Dumbledore blew up the wardrobe, he found nothing but pieces of clothes.

Harry walked slowly into the dark secret room, and the wall closed silently behind him.He wasn't panicking at all, and in Slytherin territory, he didn't think he'd be hurt.

【Fluorescence flashing】

The tip of Harry's wand lit up, illuminating a five-foot radius around him, and he realized that it was quite small, like a stairwell.

Under the fluorescent light, a section of smooth metallic steps reflected golden light. Harry squatted down to observe it carefully, and was surprised to find that the place was spotless.

——Isn’t it left by the founder?If so, how can there be no dust after accumulating for thousands of years!

A larger sphere of light was brought out to resolve Harry's doubts.It illuminated the entire chamber.

After seeing clearly, Harry was even more surprised.Because this place is not only very clean, but also very gorgeous, with dark green wallpaper on the walls, with silver lines outlining the branches of passionflower.At Harry's height were inlaid silver candlesticks--they were shining!

When Harry took a closer look, he saw that where the candle should have been, there was a small piece of black ash, which turned to powder when he touched it with his hand.

That's right!That's how everything that's been through the millennia should be.

The candle ages normally according to time, but the other things don't.The silver candlesticks shine like new, the beautiful wallpaper and ornate grounds are all spotless...it's like the work of a leprechaun!

Harry felt enlightened!

Yes, the things made by goblins can completely ignore time.But... goblins seem to only be good at metal and gems...

Oh, wait, Harry looked at the wallpaper again, groping for it with his hands. The wallpaper was not flat and felt hard to the touch, as if it was composed of particles of various sizes. When the ball of light shone on the wall, Suddenly, a dazzling light was emitted from it, and Harry was puzzled. He pried one off from it with his wand, held it in his hand and observed it carefully, and found that it was a green stone the size of a fingernail. It had six The surface is a square column crystal.Each surface can reflect fluorescent light.

Harry only knew one thing like this.He formed a bold hypothesis in his mind, and to confirm it, he sloughed off several more, and found that these green stones were all in the crystal shape of hexagonal columns, showing various shades of green.

Now there was no need to doubt, Harry's eyes frantically caressed the entire wall, these, beryllium-aluminosilicate minerals.People usually call it - Emerald!

This is really a big deal!

Every emerald is worth a fortune, and here, they are covered with four walls.

Those passionflower branches and leaves are like silverware, they are like frames in which emeralds are set.

Such a large number and extravagant use, Harry estimated that even the goblins of Gringotts would not be able to come up with a second one.

——My ancestors were so creative!

Harry fell in love with the Slytherin from thousands of years ago.

After making this astonishing discovery, Harry wasn't so surprised to see the gold-paved floors and stairs... that's worthy of wallpaper, isn't it?

Harry went up the stairs, wanting to see what surprises were waiting for him. The steps seemed to be endless, which was quite boring, but Harry became more and more happy as he walked, because every step was made of gold.

That is to say, with every step, his property will increase by a considerable amount.Merlin, there must be tons of gold here!Compared with this, his treasury is simply child's play.

Harry naturally regarded everything here as his own property.There is no doubt that he will leap from rich to rich.

I don't know how long it took, maybe an hour or more, the stairs are always going up, without any forks, Harry guessed that he was already on the top floor of a certain tower.

Finally, after turning a corner, he saw the end of the stairs, which was a closed stairwell similar to the entrance. Harry was excited again, and he immediately threw himself on the wall, wanting to see what his ancestors could do for him. What a surprise he was, but at this moment, he heard Severus' voice, "He killed Hepzibah?"

Harry was startled, and immediately left the wall. He looked around, but couldn't find the figure of his lover. Just when he was puzzled, another old voice sounded, as if answering Sneh Pu's question, "I guess so, but the Ministry of Magic and the Wizengamo don't think so. They think that Hepzibah's death was caused by the house-elf Hokey. Misplaced in evening cocoa tea.

It's Dumbledore!

Harry couldn't have misheard, this was a conversation between Snape and Dumbledore, so where were they?the other side of the wall?

While he stared blankly at the empty walls, the conversation continued, "The Ministry of Magic has always been stupid!"

"Yeah, but it's not all their fault...Hokey remembers putting something in the mistress's cocoa tea, which turned out not to be sugar, but a rare and deadly species. The verdict says she didn't mean to murder, It's old eyesight..."

Hepziba, Hao Qi?

The two names were so familiar that Harry fell into the memory of the past - the past of the Dark Lord.

"It's very similar," Snape said.

"It seems that we agree..." Dumbledore replied, "Of course, this death case has many similarities with the Riddle family's murder case. There are scapegoats in both cases, and the scapegoats have clear memories of the murder — Voldemort tampered with her memory, just like Morfin!"

Morfin!

The Dark Lord remembered that they were talking about some of the men he had killed in his early years, Mofingant, Merope's brother, whom the Dark Lord had made the scapegoat for killing the Riddles.

And Hepzibah, whom the Dark Lord killed and made her house-elf, Hokie, the scapegoat.

So, is Dumbledore accusing Snape of the Dark Lord's crimes?The question is, how did he know?

"How did you get these memories?"

Snape had similar doubts to the Dark Lord.

"It's hard, you've noticed, they're blurry..."

The old headmaster obviously didn't want to say more.But from their conversation, Harry can easily judge that Dumbledore got the memory of Morfin and Hao Qi and showed it to Snape.

Harry sat down in the middle of the stairwell floor.Now, neither the gold-paved floor nor the gorgeous walls attracted his attention. He was more interested in the conversation between Snape and Dumbledore, and what was beyond the wall?

"Why did he do that?" Snape asked. "When Hao Qi was convicted, Hepzibah's family discovered that two of her most valuable treasures had been lost. They were Hufflepuff's gold cup and the Lytrin's locket.

It took her family a while to figure it out, as she had many secret treasure locations and always kept her collections extremely strict.

And before they decided the mug and locket were gone, the clerk at Borgin-Bock, the young man who used to visit Hepzibah and would please her that way, had resigned and vanished.

His bosses didn't know where he was, and they were as surprised as anyone else.Tom Riddle disappeared for a long time. "

"Now..." said Dumbledore, "if you don't mind, Severus, I would like to draw your attention to certain details of the story. Voldemort has committed another murder.

Don't know if this is the first since the Riddles, but I think it is.

You must have seen that this time he is not out for revenge, but for profit.

He wanted those two odd treasures that the poor old lady had shown him.Just as he had robbed other children in the orphanage, and as he had stolen his uncle's ring, this time he had stolen Hepzibah's cup and locket. "