HP: Let professors walk towards the light

Hearing this, everyone frowned.

"Yes, you have guessed it, right? It is definitely a dark magic prop. Reina said that the diary is Tom Riddle's diary."

"Who are you talking about, Tom Riddle?" Harry and Ron's eyes widened.

"Do you two know each other?" Draco asked.

"No, I don't know him, but this is the same Riddle who reported Hagrid for opening the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago, causing Hagrid to be expelled from school." said Harry.

"That means this talking diary is at least fifty years old," Blaise said.

"Yes, yes, that's what Reina said too. She said she saw the name in her grandfather's diary," said Lockhart.

At this time, Ron looked at Harry and nodded.

Lockhart continued, "Then I asked Reina to get more information out of the diary. I said that if other people knew that she had a black magic item in her hand, it would definitely be bad for her, so she needed to destroy it. As long as she knew the diary well enough, she would have more information to destroy it. She believed it, but she seemed to think it was a very dangerous thing. In order not to hurt her classmates, she would come to me every once in a while."

"I asked her to talk to the diary. I could even feel the diary's black magic radiating outward and absorbing energy—"

"So it's you who forced Reina to keep in touch with the black magic diary. That's why Reina is like that and is getting weaker and weaker." Theodore said angrily.

"Why are you okay?" Blaise asked.

"I found a Defence Against the Dark Arts ring, and it wasn't me who was talking directly to the diary," said Lockhart.

Draco swung his fist and hit Lockhart hard in the face, and Blaise and Theodore quickly pulled him back.

"Wait a minute, Draco, let him finish speaking first." Blaise reminded him, and Draco slowly calmed down.

Harry and Ron also felt a surge of anger when they heard this. Their evaluation of Lockhart had already fallen into the mud. If it weren't for Draco, Harry would have wanted to punch Lockhart.

"Go on!" Draco said, trying hard to suppress his anger.

"I... I learned about what happened fifty years ago, about the secret room. I thought it was enough to add color to my new book, but when I found out, Reina seemed to be controlled by the diary. She opened the secret room, released the basilisk inside, petrified the cat, and left that message on the wall."

"Is it the secret room that Reina opened?"

Several people were obviously surprised by the news, and Draco asked in disbelief.

"It was that diary that controlled Reina to open it. The heir is most likely Tom Riddle." Theodore said.

"So, he opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago and framed Hagrid," Ron said to Harry.

"After that, Reina came to see me, but I didn't expect her to release the basilisk, but no students were hurt. I thought the so-called basilisk was just like that. Maybe there was no basilisk inside, but... but now... I can't do anything. Reina said she didn't remember anything, and I don't even know where the secret room is. I admit that I am incompetent and I can't solve it." Lockhart said timidly.

"I think we know where it is, so please come with us, Professor." Draco used his wand to signal Lockhart to stand up by himself. Several people threatened Lockhart, walked down the stairs to the third floor, walked through the dark corridor, and came to Myrtle's women's bathroom.

"The Chamber of Secrets is here?" Ron asked.

"It's quite possible," said Harry. "That's where Myrtle died."

"Oh - so many people, are you all here to see me? Hello, Harry, oh, what's your name? You are so handsome." Myrtle greeted Harry and floated in front of Draco again.

"Hello Myrtle," Harry responded.

"I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Draco introduced himself briefly.

"So many handsome guys, my God, I haven't seen them for a long, long time. I died too early. Let me look at you more. I like your hair." She looked at Draco with greedy eyes, and then shyly floated to Harry.

"Draco, found it." Theodore shouted from the sink.

"Found the Chamber of Secrets?" Ron asked in surprise.

They walked over to Theodore, who pointed to a brass faucet with a particularly small snake logo on it.

"It's amazing that Daphne found it, such a small one," Blaise said.

"Come on, Potter, didn't you say you could open it?" Draco walked aside to make room for Harry.

Harry and Ron walked to the faucet. Harry tried to turn it on, but no water came out. Myrtle said that the faucet never worked.

"You don't know how to open the Chamber of Secrets, do you?" Draco asked doubtfully.

"Harry, say something," Ron reminded him quietly. "Use Parseltongue."

Harry suddenly remembered that he had only been able to speak Parseltongue successfully when encountering real snakes, and he looked at the miniature snake sculpture with great concentration.

"Open."

"Hey, you're speaking English." Ron leaned close to Harry's ear.

"Hey——" Just as Draco was about to ask for accusation,

"Open (Serpent Language)." A strange hissing sound came out of Harry's mouth.

Suddenly, the sink began to move outward and sank in the middle, revealing a dark pipe. The sink with the snake carving also sank with the ground, revealing a hole facing the pipe.

They looked down, but could see nothing, and Blaise's attempts to illuminate it with the Lumos were useless.

"We have to go down," Draco said.

"What, go down in here?" Ron hesitated.

"I don't think you'll need... me..." Lockhart smiled.

Draco pointed his wand at him, led Lockhart to the entrance, and kicked him directly in. Only Lockhart's screams were heard gradually disappearing into the darkness.

"I don't care whether you can go down or not. Since you are so timid, just go back to your dormitory and hide away. But as for what happened tonight, I advise you to pretend that you know nothing about it." Draco looked at Ron and said. Blaise and Theodore had already jumped down at this time. After Draco finished speaking, he took a deep breath and jumped down.

"We're already here, do you really want to go back?" Harry asked. Reina was also his friend, and they had already found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. "I want to go down."

"But... okay, I'll go too! Then let Draco see... We can't let Draco and those guys take all the credit... Yes, we have to avenge Hermione!" Ron muttered, seeming to be fully prepared mentally.

Harry jumped down. Ron stood by and looked at the seemingly endless pipe. He shouted "Merlin bless you" and followed him.

The pipe was dark and damp, and filled with unknown filth. I could even feel that there were many other pipes extending sideways, but none of them were as large and steep as this one.

It always felt like this pipeline never ended, and it was definitely beyond the distance of the school or even the Slytherin common room in the basement.