The Admiral of Hogwarts

“Rest assured, Miss Abbott, the school won't expel you because of something like this, especially since you weren't the one doing these bad things.” Headmaster Dumbledore walked in from the hospital wing entrance amidst Hannah's sobs.

“Albus, you're back?” Madam Pomfrey exclaimed in a surprised whisper upon seeing Dumbledore enter.

“Yes, I'm back.” Dumbledore directed his traveling cloak to fly onto the coat rack, and then said,

“After seeing the threatening messages in the corridors, everyone thought the Abbott girl was going to be killed, so the vast majority of the school board members joined together to write to me, urging me to return quickly.”

“But it seems now that I arrived slightly late. Fortunately, the outcome is good. With the help of Miss Halsey, Miss Veneto, and Mr. Granger, we have successfully resolved the problem and saved Miss Abbott's life.”

“I think we also saved Colin Creevey's life.” After reviewing all the events that had occurred in his mind, Hugo finally understood what Voldemort had intended to do today.

“The basilisk upstairs was just used to create chaos and attract everyone's attention, while the real purpose of the mastermind was to kill Colin Creevey, the only one who saw his face.”

“Based on my observations, the main body of that thing should be this black leather book that I destroyed. So the other party was likely to use Miss Abbott to launch an attack in this place and disguise it as some kind of accident.”

“In that case, the result of the attack would be Colin Creevey's unfortunate death, and Miss Abbott would be seriously injured. In that situation, Miss Abbott would be able to leave Hogwarts Castle as a seriously injured person and go to St. Mungo's.”

“Then the monster hiding in the diary would be able to leave this castle and then hide.” Dumbledore said at this time.

“Although we can't know Voldemort's specific plan yet, given his personality, it does indeed fit his usual style.”

“Are you saying—this matter is related to the Dark Lord?” Madam Pomfrey's eyes widened suddenly. “That's right.” Dumbledore turned to a page in the notebook in his hand and pointed to the name on the title page, saying:

“Few people know that Voldemort used to be called Tom Riddle. Fifty years ago, at Hogwarts, I taught him personally. He disappeared after leaving school…”

“Traveling around, his footprints all over the world… Sinking deeper and deeper into the quagmire of dark magic, mixing with the most evil guys in the wizarding world, after many dangerous magical transformations, he reappeared as Voldemort.”

“People find it hard to recognize him. Almost no one associates Voldemort with the smart, handsome head boy who used to study here.”

“And Miss Abbott should have come into contact with this dark magic item left by Voldemort in a completely unprepared state, and then was unfortunately tempted by the dark magic left inside, and did these things.”

“I remember now, I got this book at the Leaky Cauldron when I was shopping for school supplies before school started.” As soon as Professor Dumbledore finished speaking, Hannah exclaimed in a low voice.

“There were many people in the bar at that time. As a result, I accidentally bumped into a person wearing a hooded cloak, and the things in my hand fell on the ground. After picking up the things, this book appeared in my pile of books.”

“Silly girl! You come from a pure-blood magical family. Your parents should have told you not to pick up things that don't belong to you outside—” Hearing Hannah say this, Madam Pomfrey showed a puzzled expression.

For wizards, many things that look very simple may carry fatal threats. Therefore, in the home education of wizards, not randomly picking up things that do not belong to oneself is a basic safety principle.

“I didn't know what was going on at the time.” Speaking of this, Hannah frowned. “After seeing this book, I felt a special familiarity with this black book, and felt that it should be my book.”

“Ah, child, that's normal,” Dumbledore smiled.

“After all, that is a magical item belonging to Voldemort, carrying a part of his thoughts. Many wizards older and more resourceful than you have been deceived by him, so you have not made many unforgivable mistakes in this regard.”

In the following time, Professor Dumbledore roughly asked Hugo and Vittorio about the details of the battle just now, and then checked the wands of the three of them, Hugo, Vittorio and Hannah, as corroboration, and then let everyone rest.

He himself took Hugo to the headmaster's office to deal with the next work. After all, today's incident is considered to be the truth, and such a large basilisk corpse is lying at the entrance of the second-floor bathroom, and Hagrid is also temporarily detained in Azkaban. Therefore, there are naturally many things to do.

As soon as he entered the common room, a figure pounced over. It took Hugo several seconds to see the anxious expression on his sister's face.

“What were you doing just now?” Hermione asked anxiously after carefully looking Hugo up, down, left, and right. “When Professor Flitwick was counting the number of people just now, you and Vittorio weren't there. I was almost worried to death—”

“We ran into the mastermind of this attack on the road just now, and then a conflict broke out.” Hugo shrugged, “The attacker wasn't actually strong, so Vittorio and I solved the problem.”

“That's good, that's good.” Hermione breathed a long sigh of relief. Obviously, without understanding the specific situation, she didn't think it was too dangerous a thing.

“But next time, you'd better tell the professor in advance and let them solve the problem.”

In the afternoon, Hugo and Vittorio went to class and finished class as usual. It's just because of the dead basilisk, so news about the previous events slowly spread.

Just at the end of the first class in the afternoon, Hugo, who had just finished class, found that there were obviously many more people in the corridor than usual, and almost everyone was talking about something.

“Big news—” One of the Weasley twins rushed over and shouted to the second-year students who were walking out of the Charms classroom.

“The monster in the Chamber of Secrets has been solved. Our Professor Halsey killed the basilisk that was hiding in the Chamber of Secrets before. At the same time, Hugo and Vittorio of Ravenclaw also found the real culprit who opened the Chamber of Secrets—”

“So Professor Dumbledore has decided that after this year's mandrakes come down and rescue the petrified victims, he will prepare a grand celebration banquet.”

“Great!” “Really?” “The matter is finally over.”

After hearing this news, everyone immediately started discussing it in a lively manner, and smiles appeared on their faces.

After all, the successive attacks before made almost everyone in the school feel insecure, so after learning that it was safe now, the tension and anxiety that had been suppressed for several months were released all at once.

So in the following time on this day, groups of students surrounded Hugo and Vittorio, hoping to know some details from them.

Considering a series of situations, Hugo and Vittorio uniformly told everyone that a relic of the Dark Lord had accidentally fallen into the school, resulting in the current situation.