Afterwards, everyone in the corridor was arguing, Filch arbitrarily accused Harry of being the murderer, Professor McGonagall analyzed the situation in detail, Snape interrogated Harry in a strange manner, and Lockhart began to show off again. With his great achievements, he also wanted to take away the task of configuring potions that was originally assigned to Snape. In the end, it was Dumbledore who resisted all opinions and insisted on the principle of "no doubt" and let the three of Harry leave this place.
"Where have you been!" Pansy, who was sitting at the dining table, asked in a low voice after seeing Malfoy, his tone full of anxiety and worry. "I heard that Filch's cat has been petrified, so don't be afraid..." Pansy said to himself, then looked at him carefully as if thinking of something. "Where did you go just now?"
"Are you suspecting that I'm the murderer?" Malfoy felt a little amused, and changed the subject, of course he could see that the girl was worried about him.
In the end, Pansy's questioning was nothing. Because Pansy's attention shifted after Malfoy cracked a few jokes.
However, the atmosphere in the auditorium was not very good. The original festive atmosphere was diluted by the petrification. The students stopped talking about Halloween pumpkin ghosts. They kept discussing the attack on Mrs. Norris. , although most of the students didn't like Filch, but when they saw Filch's distraught look, they couldn't help feeling a little bit of sympathy and a sense of insecurity.
"Beware of enemies of the heir." What did that mean, a Ravenclaw student asked across their table again.
"That's not the point. What we should be most concerned about now is what petrified it." Another thin boy said.
"Medusa?" Luna raised her hand high.
"Oh, little Luna, that thing, like the horned snorkel you were looking for, doesn't exist." Another student said.
"One day I will find it." After finishing speaking, Luna lowered her head again, as if she began to think about where to find her horned snoring beast again, and did not care about the current affairs anymore.
"Medusa?" Hearing this word, a girl who had been buried in her head seemed to tremble, as if thinking of something, then raised her head and said, "In Professor Sprout's class, she told us... .”
"Are you saying there might be a basilisk in our school?" It was a gentle female voice, but everyone could feel the trill in her tone. If Malfoy was here, he would know the girl with black hair Who is it - Qiu Zhang from the East.
Ever since, rumors spread throughout the school almost overnight.
All the students know that there may be a basilisk in the school.
"Draco!" A few days later, when Malfoy was enjoying his breakfast at the Slytherin table, he suddenly saw two black figures appearing in front of him, and they shouted at the same time, Malfoy felt their restlessness.
"Huh?" Malfoy raised his head and raised his eyebrows, looking at the serious Weasley brothers.
"What are you doing here?" Pansy asked. If it turns out that she hardly had any interaction with Gryffindor students, she obviously had to take care of her opponents as a Quidditch player. The Weasley brothers That's two of them.
"It's not convenient to say it here." Both Fred and George changed their usual playful smiles, and adopted a serious tone.
"I know what you want to ask." Malfoy waved his hand and said. "That's just a coincidence. If I can really predict the future, in your eyes, I shouldn't just make a little money, right?"
The faces of the Weasley brothers were uncertain. After a while of silence, George asked first, "Do you still want those things?"
"As you wish." Malfoy picked up a cup of honey tea and drank it, as if he didn't want to talk to them again.
"We won't take advantage of you." Fred left these words, and returned to the Gryffindor table with George.
"You actually do business with the Weasleys, Uncle Lucius will scold you to death." When George and Fred walked away, Pansy looked at him in surprise.
"You won't tell the truth, will you?" Malfoy looked at her quietly.
"Uh..." Without any hesitation, Pansy immediately denied the question, but she was curious about what deal they had.
"You should know as soon as this afternoon," Malfoy said.
"That's why I hate your appetizing behavior the most." Pan Xi looked at him angrily.
In the afternoon, the answer to the mystery was revealed.
Lockhart was the first victim, of course, not being glared at by the basilisk.
Since the elf disaster, Professor Lockhart has never brought living creatures into class, instead he has chosen to read long passages from his books to his students, sometimes with Some dramatic episodes are acted out.
So in Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, Lockhart and Harry were performing "Spent Weekend with Werewolves", Lockhart played himself, Harry played the werewolf, just as Harry's character was about to pounce on Lockhart throat, and when Lockhart was about to fight back, a discordant voice suddenly appeared in the classroom.
"Cackling." The voice seemed to be the first domino to be dropped, or a bomb thrown into deep water, and the crowing of chickens in the classroom followed one after another, endlessly.
"Keep quiet, everyone!" Lockhart was stunned by what he saw. It was such a grand occasion to open dozens of rooster-roaring letters. It seems that even if he heard it, no student would pay attention to him.
Looking at the mess in the classroom, Neville buried his head secretly. He had accidentally activated the initial shouting letter just now. He didn't expect that he would cause such a huge chain reaction.
When the news came from Ravenclaw that there might be a basilisk in Hogwarts, it was a panic, and then they all knew that the crowing of the rooster would kill the basilisk, so some students fought the school rooster. Note that even the trio went to look for Hagrid, only to be told that all the roosters died unexpectedly. This made them smell even more of a conspiracy.
Then some students heard the promotion: "The Rooster Roaring Letter, your best choice to deal with the basilisk, two siacs for one, buy more and get more, and there are even bigger discounts for buying more than 100 copies at one time."
Needless to say, this was George and Fred's publicity, and while he was still skeptical, it wasn't in the Weasley brothers' character to put money away.
So almost in the blink of an eye, all the students had a few Rooster Roaring letters on them, and Neville became the first fuse, which detonated Lockhart's classroom. Of course, this should also be related to the dissatisfaction of some male students After all, for students who study hard, Lockhart really has no real talents, which is why they dare to follow suit. If it was Professor McGonagall's class, as long as she had a stern face, Neville's careless behavior might be like a spark in a strong wind, and it would not be able to start a prairie fire at all.
In short, Lockhart couldn't make it in class today, he seemed a little angry, and went to Dumbledore's office to complain, saying that the students collectively despised classroom discipline, but Dumbledore stopped them lightly, because : It is not a bad thing for students affected by rumors to relax in this way.
But the first thing Lockhart did in the next class was to check everyone's pockets and bags. He confiscated all the rooster-roaring letters, which caused a burst of protest from the students, but he kept his elegant smile and said: " You don't have a chance to open those letters when you're facing the basilisk, you need it." Then he walked up to all the students and handed them what looked like an amulet. Then he returned to the podium and said loudly: "This is the anti-petrification talisman I carefully crafted for you. You just need to put it on your chest, and it will be unscathed even if you look directly at the basilisk!" Blinking at all the students, most of the female students stared at him with adoring eyes. Compared with the noisy roaring letter, this exquisite amulet in front of them is more in line with their aesthetic concept.
"Cut." Ron curled his lips under the podium and turned his head away in disdain.
Harry stared blankly at the amulet in front of him, and instinctively told him that the Howling letter from the Weasley brothers would be more useful.
As for Hermione, she carefully put away the amulet and put it in her bag.