The duel club continued for a while. Hermione deliberately put water in the duel with Pansy, in order to get a chance to fight her up close, and successfully pulled a few of Pansy's hairs, so that all the ingredients for their Polyjuice Potion finished.
Then the three of them went back to the girls' bathroom.
But Hermione was not as happy as imagined, she seemed a little afraid to know the truth, but Harry and Ron were very excited, feeling that the mystery was finally revealed.
"But have you ever thought about it?" Hermione stared at the polyjuice potion that was almost brewed, "What if he wasn't the one who opened the secret room?"
"In any case, he will know some clues." Ron's excited expression froze after hearing this sentence, but he still comforted himself like this.
"Okay." Hermione sighed helplessly. "So have you thought about how to get Pansy away? I don't want to come back suddenly when I'm talking."
"Don't worry about this, we have a solution, right, Harry?" Ron patted his chest, looking confident.
"Yes." Harry nodded.
"What are you going to do?" Hermione was afraid that they would do something against the school rules again.
"Uh, it's just a small accident. Harry and I just need to "unintentionally" stain her robe, and then she will go to Snape to complain, enough to deal with us for a long time."
"And during the holiday, Snape shouldn't be able to deduct our points." Harry also laughed at this thought.
"Well, then you are really pitiful, and you will be lectured by Snape on Christmas." Hermione looked at them with some sympathy.
"It's not as big as your sacrifice." Ron said carelessly. "When you think about it, it's kind of disgusting to be someone else."
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After the Duel Club, Malfoy got what he needed—some pronunciations of Parseltongue, and they should roughly mean opening, unraveling, etc., which gave him a little more confidence in opening the Chamber of Secrets.
Then there was the extremely abnormal duel incident, which could no longer be explained by abnormality. Malfoy didn't believe that an idiot who could only forget the curse could really defeat Snape by himself, so the answer was almost ready.
The prisoner was Lockhart, and the diary was in his hand.
Malfoy recalled the scene when he was in the bookstore. When Lockhart went to persuade the fight and returned without success, he passed through the two of them, father and son, and passed the bookshelf. "Extraordinary" performance, he should be the most suspected.
"Not only that." Malfoy continued to recall some details about him. "The rooster roaring letter is also what he hates the most!" He shuddered. He had to say that the young Riddle was stronger than Voldemort in some ways. When Voldemort lost his nose, he could only believe in his own strength. , somewhat extreme. And the young Riddle would take advantage of other people's goodwill toward him.
Replacing some rude shouting letters with exquisite amulets, in the eyes of others, it is perfect for his personality, and it will not raise a trace of suspicion, a perfect cover.
Thinking of this, Malfoy patted himself on the head with some self-blame. He felt that his thinking was broad enough, and even the protagonist didn't let go of his doubts. He never thought that the little black book would actually seduce a teacher.
"Lockhart, can you hold your breath?" He couldn't help cursing, and then began to think mischievously: "If you can come back alive this time, you can really write a book with your own memory— "Those Years I Was Bewitched—The Days With The Diary"."
But even if he knew it, it would be useless at the moment. Malfoy's intuition told him that Lockhart might not have done as well as that little girl like Ginny. In the original book, Ginny felt something was wrong and she really threw the diary away. Malfoy If he suspected Lockhart, he didn't doubt the diary at all, and he just pretended that a golden thigh fell from the sky for him to hug.
"Then it seems like we should have prepared earlier." Thinking of this, Malfoy withdrew his thoughts and started to make his own plan. He took out a piece of paper and began to write and draw on it.
The next day, a shocking news came from the Gryffindor common room.
Someone was petrified again, this time it wasn't a Muggle wizard or an animal, this time it was a pure-blood wizard and a ghost.
Ron is petrified, and Nick is Nearly Headless.
Panic spread in all the colleges almost instantly, and Slytherin was the most serious. Most of them were pure blood, so after Professor Binns told the rumor before, they were even a little proud. "Look, only our college is the safest, and those mudbloods deserve to die." But now this illusion has been ruthlessly corrected.
Basilisks don't just want to kill Mudbloods! It also wants to kill pure blood!
So the Weasley brothers' Cock Roaring letter is out of stock again, and the Slytherins who used to almost dismiss it because they thought they were safe, are now outnumbered and forced to buy from their rivals .
Even though they made a lot of money, there was no smile on the faces of George and Fred. Their younger brother was petrified. Although they would occasionally play pranks on Ron, the family affection It's very deep, these are just some means to increase feelings, harmless, and the problem of the basilisk directly endangers their lives, which makes them have to worry about it.
In the ward, Ginny, Harry and Hermione also ran over to visit Ron whenever they had time, even though he couldn't say anything, his mouth grew big, as if he had seen something terrible.
"I should go back with you." Harry blamed himself to the sick Ron.
At that time, Harry was about to go to Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class with Ron, but Ron didn't bring his book with him. Harry was going to go back with Ron to get the book, but Ron stopped him: " It's not easy to be late for Professor McGonagall's class, it's better to deduct one point than two." Then Ron dropped Harry and ran back to get the book in a hurry.
That was the last thing Ron said to him that day.
"Harry, it's not your fault." Hermione reassured him, "Maybe you were petrified as a result of being with him? You can't take everything on yourself."
"How long will it take for the compound potion to be completely finished?" Harry suddenly raised his head and asked Hermione, his eyes were surprisingly hot, it was the flame of anger, he was going to say polyjuice potion, but saw Even though Ginny was still by her side, she forcibly changed her mouth.
"Christmas." Hermione also glanced at Ginny, and then said after thinking about it, her mood was more complicated, and one of her closest friends was also petrified, which made her very depressed, and she hoped to get The truth, but hoping that the truth didn't really come from that mouth, this kind of complicated mood made her look anxious, she suspected that she would be too nervous to speak in front of Malfoy, and screw everything up .
"That's good." Harry waved his fist, "If you let me know who did it, I will make him pay the price!"
At this time, the Slytherin lounge can be described as turmoil and chaos, and a large number of students looked worried. Although Ron insulted the name of pure-blood in their eyes, no matter how he It should be different from those Mudbloods. I didn't expect that even he was petrified. This made the Slytherin students who had been sleeping peacefully until now panicked. Mind, they felt they had to talk about it non-stop, as if it would ease the fear.
Malfoy felt like he had already guessed the truth, for the simple reason that Riddle was killing Ron because his brother was selling letters, for the simple reason. As for why they didn't try to attack them themselves, it was easy to guess. Dealing with one person is easier than two people, not to mention Ron's grade is still very low, so it is easier to deal with and more deterrent.
It's imminent, Malfoy sighed silently, he wanted to kick Dumbledore out of the school, and only the old man who was keen on fighting for power and profit would do it, if Dumbledore was gone, Hogwarts would not talk about Europe The safest place in the wizarding world? Put the cart before the horse!
If Dumbledore really resigned completely, and Hogwarts is a listed company, it is estimated that the stock price will drop to the limit in an instant, and Lucius will lose money first.
Malfoy felt his head hurting again. He hadn't found a perfect plan yet, and all known methods would always have the potential to startle the enemy.