Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 263 Prelude
"Don't disturb the sleeping dragon!"

——The words coming out of MacGuffin's mouth are not Parseltongue!

"Are you kidding me!" Lockhart was furious, "I know you can speak Parseltongue..."

"... Read it out quickly, or I'm sure your end will be much worse than Harry's!"

he threatened.But it made McGuffin know a piece of information.

How did this guy Lockhart know that MacGuffin could speak Parseltongue... He just heard it, and he came to this conclusion from other sources.

Could it be that [Horcrux] fell into this guy's hands?

"I know you want to stall for time..."

"Unfortunately, I'm afraid those professors won't have the time and energy to take care of you now..."

Gilderoy Lockhart said pointedly, he was very proud.

After speaking, he picked up his wand and pointed it at the McGuffin.

The tip of the wand glowed faintly.

"Quick, don't make me say it again!"

It looked like Lockhart was running out of patience.

"Don't disturb the sleeping dragon! (hiss)"

Following the utterance of the snake language, a viscous black oily fluid immediately began to flow out of the thick tube.

Boiling, changing, wriggling.

That went on for about ten seconds.

When everything stopped, it seemed that nothing had changed, and there was still a dark pipe standing in place.

"All right!"

"That's it, that's right."

"Now, you... go, get down for me!"

Lockhart threatened.

He forced the McGuffin to the edge of the pipe, sliding down like Harry.

When McGuffin was about to cast a [Slowing Curse] on himself with his wand, Lockhart pushed him from behind, and he slid down.

Then, after waiting a few seconds, Lockhart jumped in too.

The sink in the bathroom then gradually began to close and return to its original shape, as if nothing had happened.

Only, the few roosters left by Hagrid were still here crowing and witnessing what happened.

……

In the staff lounge.

The professors who were able to come to Hogwarts, as well as the Aurors who stayed behind, are here.

They looked a little confused, some looked panicked and didn't understand what happened again, and some looked a little relieved. They had expected that this would happen sooner or later...

Then, Professor McGonagall arrived.

Behind her was a timid pony man.

"Something happened again!"

"I have notified the Ministry of Magic and Professor Dumbledore... This time it is not [Basilisk], and no students have been petrified."

The professors were silent, waiting for her next bad news.

"But in the Forbidden Forest... just like the news I got before, that kind of giant plant appeared again."

"What's worse is that this plant, as expected, is extremely aggressive and magically defensive...it has become a full-fledged magic weapon...a weapon used to deal with Muggles!"

"And three first-year students were kidnapped! They were also taken directly to the Forbidden Forest..."

"who is it?"

"Which students are they?" the professors asked quickly with pale faces.

"Ginny Weasley, Colin Creevey, and Luna Lovegood!" said Professor McGonagall.

Someone in the professor screamed and covered his mouth tightly with his hands.

"So... is the dark wizard behind the scenes finally showing up?"

"Who the hell?" Snape asked. "And why did they take the little wizard away for no reason..."

"That's not clear, but what we know so far is..."

Professor McGonagall looked at the pony man and said.

"This little guy brought us news of the Centaurs...they are leading some magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest to resist!"

"Many animals have been attacked... According to this little guy, there is a wizard in a red robe and a few little wizards..."

"Wait! Red robes!" Snape said, frowning. "I remember... only one wizard in this school with such taste..."

"Where's Lockhart? Where's Gilderoy Lockhart?"

Only at this time did everyone in the staff lounge realize that there was no longer that nagging, noisy, self-boasting voice in their ears.

"Lockhart... Has anyone seen Professor Lockhart!" Professor McGonagall asked seriously. Although she thought it was impossible, she still wanted to make sure.

Everyone shook their heads in silence, indicating that they hadn't seen him today.

"Then let's not talk about this for now...we will know it later."

Professor McGonagall ordered the next itinerary for everyone,

"The most important thing now is to send some people to act together with the centaur to see if we can save the little wizard first...Leave a wizard to wait for Dumbledore and the others to arrive, they should be there soon..."

The door to the staff lounge was slammed open.

The professors looked up, thinking that Dumbledore had arrived with the Ministry of Magic.

A tall figure hurried in, it was Hagrid!

"Professor, Professor McGonagall,...Harry, McGuffin and the others found the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]!"

He yelled like that when he came in.

Another explosive news.

"what!"

All the teachers stared at the big man with disbelief.

Snape took a step forward, eyes burning.

"Hagrid, where's Harry?" he asked sternly.

Professor McGonagall also realized that she knew too well the characters of the Gryffindor lion cubs in her college, not to mention that there was a name in Hagrid's description-McGuffin Albert.

Just the name meant a whole bunch of trouble.

"I... I met Professor Lockhart on the way, and he said he would send the MacGuffins back to Gryffindor!" Hagrid stammered a bit, startled by Snape's serious expression now.

"What is Gilderoy Lockhart doing there?"

"He-he said where to patrol!"

"Okay, Severus! Now that we know that Professor Lockhart is not suspected... Hagrid, what did you say about finding the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"By the way, [Chamber of Secrets]! The entrance is in the women's bathroom on the second floor!" Hagrid said hastily.

"Didn't it be inspected many times by the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic?" A professor stood up and questioned.

"But... that's true, I saw it with my own eyes!" Hagrid tried to explain, trying to convince others.

Boom boom boom!
There was a knock at the door, and Snape went to answer it.

From outside came Dumbledore, Cornelius Fudge... and some officials from the Ministry of Magic, a large group of Aurors.

When Hagrid saw Dumbledore, he first showed a hint of joy, and then his face turned pale again when he saw Fudge and the Aurors behind him.

"Just right!" Snape said to Dumbledore angrily for some reason, "Hagrid said that Harry found the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets] in the women's bathroom on the second floor, Professor Dumbledore, do you know about this?"

His tone was full of questioning.

"Wait! Professor McGonagall... Didn't you inform us that there was a giant plant in Hogwarts... three little wizards were taken away by the dark wizard?"

Cornelius Fudge's tone was full of incomprehension.

"Minister, the thing is like this..."

The professors rushed to explain, but they didn't know the details of what happened, and everyone was talking about the two things mixed together.

The scene was very chaotic at one time.

But it was enough for a group of people who had just arrived to have a rough understanding of the two things that happened.

"Wizards! Witches!" Dumbledore had to use his wand to amplify his voice and shouted. "Now is not the time to argue!"

"There are still a few children whose lives we need to race against time to save..."

Everyone fell silent, listening to Dumbledore speak.

"Okay." Fudge interjected, and he took the conversation and said, "In this situation...some professors must notify and protect the students of the four colleges...tell them to stay quietly in the dormitory, and make sure that no student is allowed to sneak out of the dormitory."

"Minister, Hagrid and I are going to see the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets..." Snape interrupted suddenly.

"Okay, that's it..." Cornelius Fudge looked at Snape strangely, and then added after a moment of stupefaction, "Then everyone else will go to the Forbidden Forest with Dumbledore and me to see what's going on? Save those little wizards."

After speaking, when he was about to leave, he suddenly took a few steps back, pointed out a few Aurors and told them to inform the family of the kidnapped little wizard.

Then the professor, the Aurors got up and left here one by one.

……

It has been a long time since I jumped from that hole.

Everything I saw was dark.

The McGuffin feels like he's hurtling down an endless slide.

As if he was sitting in a one-way rail car, he kept turning around along a certain track, turning... seven rounds and eight rounds, all the way down.

Some other tubes kept passing around, but his body seemed to have a clear purpose, and he continued to move rapidly towards a well-established track.

But one thing he was sure of was that he and Harry were not going in the same direction.

Harry and the others are almost certain to go to the [Chamber of Secrets], and they will probably face Tom Riddle and the Basilisk as in the plot.

McGuffin heard the constant rattle of clothing against pipes and the thumping of corners behind him.

Lockhart followed right behind.

Gan!
Gerald Lockhart!

Why didn't he understand the urine nature of this world!

——Everything that happens at Hogwarts will be related to the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts in the end.

MD!

It was because he believed too much in the description in the original book that he ignored the suspiciousness of this guy.

Speaking of which, what purpose does this guy have.

Why did the school motto just now become another entrance to start.

Just when MacGuffin thought it was going to go forever.

A gust of cold wind suddenly rushed towards him.

It's not the kind of underground tunnel where cold, damp air flows.

It was a bone-piercing, cold wind like a knife scraping every trace of temperature preserved in the flesh and blood in the body.

Then, suddenly, he was thrown out and smashed into the air.

Boom!
Literally - hit the air.

He was floating in the air, as if attached to the [Levitation Curse]...or it can be said that he fell into a strange state.

Lying on a clear boundary, the arms can be stretched down, and half of the body can be tilted under the interface with a little force, just like floating in water, there is always a force to make the McGuffin float on this interface.

And the bottom is pitch black, bottomless.

But the bone-shattering cold wind kept blowing upwards from below.

McGuffin quickly stood up and looked around.

It was empty.

No matter the left and right sides, or the top and bottom.

The only difference is that there are some faint lights around

But I don't know the source.

Just as McGuffin took out his wand.

Boom!
Lockhart fell after him.

He seemed to know where it was.

In the dark, empty mid-air, there was a piercing laughter, the sound was full of excitement.

"I knew... it was right here!"

"Flying flocks of birds!"

He whispered something, and the wand sent out a fireball in mid-air, creating a flock of firebirds, rushing straight down.

Scattered in all directions, as if igniting something.

coax!
The spiral fire path spread and blazed, and then he saw four giant statues five or six stories tall gradually appearing under his feet.

Materials vary.

—is a sculpture of the Big Four.

McGuffin recognized it... here's the lady Gray who gave them a lesson that time...

Hogwarts's old classroom from hundreds of years ago... the sky!
……

"We must be at the bottom of the lake." Ron said, sniffing the air around him.

The air was full of that cold, damp smell.

Hermione lit up the tip of her wand with [Luminescence Charm].

Lighting up the dark surroundings, here is an unusually wide tunnel, and the moss-covered stone walls above are constantly seeping water.

The ground was sticky and muddy.

The ghostly green fluorescence of the wand made this place even more eerie.

The three of them waited in place for a long time, but they did not wait for McGuffin and Lockhart to come down.

After a long silence, Harry finally spoke.

"I can't believe that Gilderoy Lockhart guy, he could be such a person..."

"I thought he was just an idiot... all the books he wrote were deceiving people..."

"In a sense, he is indeed telling the truth...but on the contrary, he is the evil, cruel dark wizard villain in his book..." Ron complained loudly and eccentrically, "It seems that the monster protagonists in this guy's book may be his own old friends. He just wrote everything in reverse...In reality, everything ends with the victory of those dark monsters..."

His voice echoed in the dark tunnel.

"Stop talking!" Hermione said hastily, "What if you lure the basilisk here?"

Obviously Lockhart kicked Ron down first, which made him very angry.

"I haven't finished yet!...Maybe this guy's appearance was changed by some kind of potion...In fact, he is a Zoubaba bald old wizard with a mouth full of rotten teeth and hair falling out..."

However, Hermione's words still made Ron nervous, and he lowered his voice a lot.

"I knew there was a kind of potion that could do this. It's called [Compound Potion]..."

"It's [Compound Potion]..." Hermione corrected in a low voice, her eyes staring straight into the depths of the tunnel, for fear that a basilisk would emerge.

It was so dark in the tunnel that they could only see a small area in front of them.The flickering light from their wands distorted their shadows into something eerie.

What's more, the unknown future and the long absence of MacGuffin magnified the panic in several people's hearts.

The three of Harry could only chat softly to relieve the negative emotions in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)