"What's going on here? What's going on?"

"My cat! My cat! What's wrong with Mrs. Norris?"

"You! You killed my cat! You killed it! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to—"

"Argus!"

The sound exploded in Annie's ears, and the picture slowly emerged in front of her eyes. She realized that she was standing in front of the team surrounding the wall.Between the two windows, on the wall a foot above the ground, some writing was scribbled, shimmering in the light of the burning torches.

The chamber of secrets has been opened,

Those who are enemies of the heir, be vigilant.

Beneath the sign hung a dark figure, Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, with its tail hanging from the torch holder, its body stiff as a plank, its eyes wide open and staring. stared.

Dumbledore arrived on the scene, followed by many other teachers.In the blink of an eye, he was past Harry, Ron, and Hermione and unhooked Mrs. Norris from the torch holder.

"Come with me, Argus," he said to Filch, "and you, Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley, Miss Granger."

Lockhart hurried forward, "My office is the closest to here, the principal's office is upstairs, you can—"

'Thank you, Gilderoy. said Dumbledore.

"Professor, I want to know what happened. After all, Harry is under suspicion." Anne looked at Harry worriedly, and Dumbledore said, "Of course, you can come with us too, Anne."

The silent crowd parted to let them pass.Lockhart was very excited, and hurriedly followed Dumbledore with a look of high spirits. Professor McGonagall and Snape also followed.Annie was about to keep up with the three of Harry, when someone grabbed her wrist, it was Draco, he frowned slightly, "Where did you go just now?" he whispered.

"I stayed with Professor Snape before, don't worry about me." Annie said softly, and Draco nodded, "Come back early." He looked at the writing on the wall, "Something is wrong." Pansy also Looking at her from the side, he said softly, "I know you're worried about Potter and the others, but someone will definitely spread some rumors tonight, so come back early, okay?"

When Anne entered Lockhart's office, Filch slumped in a chair by the table, covering his face with his hands, not daring to look at Mrs Norris.The three of Harry sat uncomfortably on chairs out of candlelight. Dumbledore muttered some strange spells in a low voice, and tapped Mrs. Norris with his wand, but there was no response: Mrs. Norris was still stiff Lying there like a freshly prepared specimen.

"I remember a very similar incident in Ouagadougou," Lockhart said. "A series of attacks, which are well documented in my autobiography. At that time, I provided various amulets to the common people. , solved the problem at once." Annie found Snape snorting contemptuously beside him as he spoke.

Dumbledore straightened up. "It's not dead, Filch," he said softly.

Lockhart was counting the number of murders he had prevented when he stopped suddenly.

"It's not dead," Filch choked out, looking at Mrs. Norris through his fingers, "then why is it stiff all over, as if it's frozen" "It's petrified," said Dumbledore (" Ah! I think so too!" said Lockhart), "but I don't know how..."

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

"It's impossible for a second year student to do that," said Dumbledore firmly, "it would require the highest Dark Arts—"

"He did it, he did it!" spattered Filch. "You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found it in my office—he knew I was—I was—" Urchie's face twitched horribly, "He knows I'm a Squib!"

"I didn't touch Mrs. Norris at all!" cried Harry, uncomfortably aware that everyone was looking at him, including all the Lockharts on the wall. "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 something, Headmaster," said Snape from the shadows, and Harry's feeling of foreboding grew stronger, and he believed that what Snape said would never do him any good.

"Perhaps Potter and his friends just weren't supposed to be in that place at that time," said Snape, with a slight sneer on his lips, as if he deeply doubted it, "but we did encounter a series of Why did they go to the corridor above? Why didn't they attend the Halloween party?"

Harry, Ron and Hermione scrambled to explain that they had gone to the Deathday Party: "...hundreds of ghosts, they could prove we were there-"

"Professor, I can testify that they did go to the Deathday Party, Harry told me." Annie said suddenly, and Snape glanced at her, seemingly dissatisfied. "But after this, why don't you come to the banquet," said Snape, his dark eyes gleaming in the candlelight, "why go up the corridor?"

Ron and Hermione both looked at Harry, "Because... we're tired and we want to rest," said Harry, "no dinner," said Snape, a smug grin flashing across his face, " 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, as his stomach rumbled.

Snape's smile widened.

"My opinion, Headmaster, is that Potter isn't quite telling the truth," he said glibly. "We should perhaps revoke some of his privileges until he tells us the whole story. Personally, I think it would be best to relieve him of Quidditch." right to compete."

"Honestly, Severus," snapped Professor McGonagall, "I see no reason why the kid shouldn't be allowed to play, the cat hasn't been hit in the head with a broomstick, and there's no evidence that Potter has done anything wrong." thing."

Dumbledore gave Harry a probing look, "Innocent until proven guilty, Severus," he said firmly.

Snape looked exasperated, and so did Filch. "My cat's been petrified!" Filch screamed, eyeballs bulging outward. "I want to see someone get some punishment!"

"We can cure it, Filch," said Dumbledore patiently. "Professor Sprout has acquired some mandrakes recently, and once they've grown to maturity, I'll have a cure that will make Luo Lady Liz came back from the dead."

"I'll make it," interposed Lockhart, "I must have made it a hundred times, and I could be dreaming about making a mandrake resurrection potion—"

"Forgive me," said Snape coldly, "I thought I was the Potions teacher at this school."

There was silence in the room, and Annie couldn't get in the way the whole time. She looked at the petrified Mrs. Norris quietly, with a dark look in her eyes. "Annie, where were you before you found Mrs. Norris?" Dumbledore looked at her with piercing blue eyes.

Everyone looked at Anne, she calmly said politely, "I'm—" "—in the basement, I have something to see Anne Potter." A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Snape's mouth , "because of her hubris."

Annie looked up at Snape, who gave her a blank stare.

Filch stammered, "Principal, principal, don't you think it was Anne who did it? It's impossible." His cloudy eyes flashed with firmness, "She was so good to Mrs. Norris, I even bought dried fish for it—"

"Just to ask, Argus," Dumbledore said gently, "I said, as long as you are not proven guilty, you are innocent."

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"What the hell does Squib mean?"

Harry asked as Anne and the Audio-Technica left Lockhart's office.

To his surprise, Ron covered his mouth and giggled, and Anne frowned disapprovingly.

"Well—it's not really funny, but on Filch—" he said "a Squib is someone who's born into a wizarding family and doesn't have any magical abilities. Squibs and Muggle-borns just happen to On the contrary, but Squibs are rare. If Filch wants to learn magic through a quick spelling correspondence course, he must be a Squib. It will explain a lot of things, such as why he hates students so much," Ron said with a smile A satisfied smile, "He's jealous."

"Squibs are a minority group of wizarding families, just like Muggle-born wizards, they deserve to be respected, Ron." Anne said lightly, and Ron restrained his smile and muttered, "You're right."

From somewhere came the sound of a bell.

"It's twelve o'clock," said Harry, "let's go to bed before Snape comes to pick on us again and frame us—"

"Why haven't you gone back yet? Ten points deducted from Gryffindor." Snape lazily said, Harry rolled his eyes behind his back.

Snape stared at Anne, "You," he said slowly, "hurry back to the dormitory."

"Yes, Professor." Annie bowed slightly, "Go to bed early."

Snape looked at her noncommittally, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, "Don't let me find out... Potter." He walked towards the end of the corridor, and Ron sighed, "Point deducted again." Harry shrugged Shrugging, "Just get used to it. Fred and George were deducted [-] points a few hours ago. Our hourglass is about to bottom out."

"..." Annie coughed in embarrassment, and Harry hurriedly said, "It's definitely not your fault, Annie, don't take it to heart. By the way, why did Snape say that? What did you find?"

Annie said honestly, "I don't know either."

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When she got back to the Slytherin common room, there were about twenty or thirty people still up, and some of the seniors, the Heads and Prefects, Draco and Pansy were waiting for her below.

"Insane, how could Harry Potter be the heir? A Gryffindor - insane!"

"Didn't someone open the secret room 50 years ago and die?"

"Maybe the heir can't help but want to get rid of pure-blood traitors and mudbloods. The current Hogwarts is really... tsk tsk."

When Annie entered the common room, the chattering stopped and they all turned their eyes to Anne.Anna walked towards her, "how?"

"The cat didn't die, it was just petrified." Annie said, Anna was slightly taken aback, and whispered, "Then what do you think about this incident?"

"Some people say that Harry Potter did it, he is the heir." Sean said seriously, Annie chuckled, she casually moved a large enough stone table and a few chairs to the center, "Sit down Come down and talk." Several chiefs sat on the chairs, and others stood at the table, Anna said with a serious face, "The Chamber of Secrets was left by Salazar Slytherin, how could it be a Gryffindor student? Turn it on, it's absolutely impossible."

Annie nodded, and she said calmly, "Don't guess that they are the instigators and the real heirs just because they were there, they won't be guessed easily."

"I think this may involve conflicts between bloodlines, which will be very detrimental to Slytherin." Sean said in a deep voice, and Draco said, "Why? What if the heir is from Slytherin? I think , Anne is more likely to be the heir than Harry Potter."

Annie shouted in a warning tone, "Draco, be careful with your words and deeds!"

A black-haired boy beside Sean said, "I think little Malfoy said it well. Of course, the heir should be a Slytherin student, and he must be an excellent and powerful Slytherin."

"Richard! Don't jump to conclusions until the matter is clear." Anna said sternly, her blue eyes were full of worry, "If the heir's purpose is to open the secret room, that's fine. What we need to pay attention to most now is His purpose of opening the secret room, I think you all know something about the secret room 50 years ago, when the secret room was opened and a student died."

"The purpose of the heirs of this generation to open the Chamber of Secrets is very intriguing." Natasha said, "Everyone knows that Salazar never accepts Muggle-born wizards, and it is easy to guess those who are enemies of the heirs."

"Maybe he wants to follow the example of the heir 50 years ago and open the Chamber of Secrets to accomplish the purpose of deporting certain people, then... only Muggle-born wizards will be identified as deportation targets." Anne said coldly, "That will cause people's hearts to be expelled." In a panic situation, Hogwarts is likely to be closed."

"Don't think that you can show off at Hogwarts arrogantly if you have an heir who has opened the Chamber of Secrets. We can't confirm who the target of this heir is. Everyone will be targeted. This time it's just a cat. Next time It could be human once."

There was silence in the lounge, and everyone had different expressions on their faces. Anna pondered, "You all go back first, and don't talk nonsense with your family. If the heir makes a move for the first time, there will be a second time. Wait and see." Think about countermeasures later, do you hear me?"

"Yes, Chief Bailey."

The people in the lounge gradually dispersed, Pansy looked back at Annie, Annie signaled her to go back to the dormitory, she nodded, and disappeared at the spiral staircase in the dormitory, when everyone was gone, Anna went to the fireplace and greeted Annie started.

"Close your ears and listen." Annie waved her wand, Anna stared blankly at the burning fire in the fireplace, she said softly, "The family is planning to get us engaged." Annie said sincerely, "This is a good thing, congratulations. "

"There is nothing to congratulate. There are two male heirs in this generation of the Elton family. Oss and I do not plan to get married and have children." Anna said, "According to your guess, and what happened this year, I am really I can't imagine how our family will choose a position if the mysterious person makes a comeback, I don't want my children to live in the pain of losing their parents."

"..." Annie was silent, and Anna seemed to come to her senses. She panicked, "Ah, I'm sorry, I forgot you..." "It's okay, Anna." Annie said calmly, "I understand your thoughts and I support you. your actions."

"So, do you have any idea? About the heir who opened the secret room." Anna said in a deep voice, "Could it be that there are really monsters in the secret room that can attack wizards?"

Annie huddled in the carved chair, she was silent for a while, then shook her head.

Anna sighed, "Then just wait and see."

Annie returned to the dormitory, and Pansy had already fallen into a deep sleep. She swung her wand and drew the curtains, creating a bright flame, opened the diary, and the quill quickly retreated on the pages.

【Tom, you are too eye-catching. 】

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