After hearing Draco's thoughts, everyone couldn't sit still.

Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ended successfully. For Harry, leaving this newly familiar magical world and returning to the Dursleys' home on Privet Drive was simply the most painful thing.

He had to endure the incessant verbal bullying and emotional violence of the mean and overbearing Dursley family throughout the summer vacation.

This opening... feels more like the story is told from Harry's perspective than before. Hermione pushed her glasses up. Why? Harry is like... the protagonist of the movie...

Combining what she had heard before, she had a vague suspicion that Draco and Harry must know something.

Perhaps out of fear of Harry's magic, the entire summer vacation was almost over, and the Dursleys did not make things difficult for Harry except for not allowing him to do his magic homework.

But Harry still felt very distressed because his two best friends at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, seemed to have forgotten him. The three good friends agreed to keep in touch by writing letters during the summer vacation. Harry kept writing to his two friends, but until now, he had not received a single reply.

It must have been intercepted, but I don't know who did it. Anyway, I will definitely reply to every message from my friends, Ron thought.

[Just as the holiday was about to end, a house-elf named Dobby suddenly appeared in Harry's bedroom and warned Harry that terrible things would happen if he returned to Hogwarts and that Harry's life would be in danger.

In order to save Harry's life, Dobby intercepted all the letters that Hermione and Ron wrote to Harry - it thought that Harry would not return to Hogwarts to study out of disappointment in his friends.

Dobby? Everyone was a little surprised. They had seen Dobby before and knew that he was the Malfoy family's house-elf.

Despite the goblin's interference, Harry insisted on returning to Hogwarts. To stop Harry, Dobby even violated the Muggle law by using magic to cause chaos in the Dursley family, causing Harry to be imprisoned by his furious uncle. Fortunately, Ron and the twins came to rescue Harry.

Harry spent the end of the holiday at the Weasleys' house.

Dobby set up many obstacles for Harry to return to Hogwarts. He closed the entrance to Nine and Three Quarters Station, and Harry missed the return Hogwarts Express.

Just when he was extremely worried, Ron stole his father's flying magic car and drove Harry to school in a hurry so as not to miss the opening ceremony of the new semester. However, he crashed the precious Whomping Willow, which made Professor Snape furious and almost kicked them out of the school.

Wow, that's pretty cool, isn't it? The twins winked at Ron and gave him a thumbs-up.

Ron didn't feel embarrassed at all, he raised his head slightly with a hint of pride. Yes, he was very brave.

Neville was a little worried. He had always been the one taking care of the Whomping Willow.

At this time, Harry's heroic deeds in repelling Voldemort last semester had spread widely in Hogwarts and the entire wizarding world. He suddenly became the focus of attention and the topic of discussion among all the teachers and students in the school.

And the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, is no pushover either. He's won Witch Weekly's "Most Charming Smile Award" for five consecutive weeks. Not only does he steal Harry's thunder, he also enjoys making things difficult for Harry, both overtly and covertly, while branding himself as the true hero of Hogwarts.

Gilderoy Lockhart! Hermione and Pansy's eyes lit up, but thinking of Professor Green... Professor Green's strength, there was no way he would stumble over a curse in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. So, Mr. Lockhart wouldn't be invited back this semester, right?

Just as Dobby the Elf predicted, not long after the new semester began, horrific and mysterious events began to occur frequently in Hogwarts - several lone students and the gatekeeper's cat were attacked by some terrible force and turned to stone. No one knew what was going on.

And in Harry's ears, there was often a ghostly voice ringing, a voice that seemed to come from inside the wall, telling him: The door to the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts has been opened, and the descendants of evil will take revenge on the mudbloods in the school...

Hmm? The people who had participated in the basilisk incident frowned. This description...sounds so familiar...

It was said that only Slytherin could open this Chamber of Secrets. It held a secret of ancient evil: the secret of Voldemort's youth. For a time, the entire school was in a state of panic.

As a student of Gryffindor College, Harry accidentally discovered that he could understand the language of snakes and possessed the Parseltongue ability of the founder of Slytherin College.

As a result, many people suspected that Harry was the descendant of the legendary evil power. Only Hermione and Ron always had 100% trust in Harry.

One day, Hermione was also attacked by a mysterious force. Professor Lockhart, who always loved to brag, showed his cowardly nature and retreated at the critical moment. Only Ron stood firmly with Harry to fight against the evil force.

Harry knew that he had to take action in order to protect the Hogwarts school he loved, to save his good friends who had shared life and death with him, and to clear the doubts that were placed on him.

Ah...isn't this a basilisk? Several people exchanged glances secretly.

"The basilisk should have been dealt with by the professor and the others, right?" Pansy winked at everyone.

"Of course, Blaise and I have been down there, and it's so clean there's not even a speck of dust." Ron joined the communication.

"What should we do? Aren't there no mini-bosses anymore?" Neville was still a little disappointed. He knew how hard the Hufflepuffs worked last semester, and now there are no extra points.

"That's a problem." George nodded seriously.

"What a problem! Isn't it better to be safe? Do you want to be hung up and beaten by Professor Snape?" Pansy wondered if the Sorting Hat had sorted them all by mistake. They were all looking for a chance to take risks.

Since their special training, they've gradually mastered eye contact. They can't say they completely understand each other, but they can probably understand about 80% of what they're saying. There's nothing they can do about it; Fushiguro Jinji is too perceptive. He can hear even the quietest words. They've learned this slowly, through repeated attacks.

"Well, the petrified murderer is a basilisk, right? But how did the basilisk get released?" Draco observed his friends' expressions with interest. Harry shook his head and smiled helplessly.

How did the basilisk get out? Everyone pricked up their ears, not wanting to miss a single detail. Eating melons is human nature.

Although the basilisk has been dealt with by the professor, if there really is a mastermind behind it, they should be more vigilant, right?

During the First Wizarding War, Voldemort gave the diary to the Death Eater Lucius Malfoy for safekeeping. Voldemort had planned to instruct Lucius to bring the diary back to Hogwarts at an appropriate time to reopen the Chamber of Secrets, but before he could carry out this plan, Voldemort accidentally lost his magic power while trying to kill Harry Potter.

Voldemort never told Lucius where a piece of his soul lay hidden, but only told him that the diary was subtly enchanted. Lucius did not realize the diary's importance to Voldemort, and therefore did not treat it with much respect.

Despite this, Lucius kept the diary until 1992. Afterwards, in order to discredit Arthur Weasley, expel Dumbledore from Hogwarts, and get rid of a very troublesome dark magic artifact, Lucius secretly gave the diary to Arthur's daughter Ginny Weasley at Flourish and Blotts during the summer vacation of 1992.

Everyone's eyes turned to Ron. Ginny wasn't in the box. I heard she'd made some new friends and was chatting animatedly.

As for the fact that Uncle Lucius is a Death Eater... who wouldn't know that? But they just didn't expect that Uncle Lucius, who was so gentle and polite in front of them, could actually be a little villain?

Wouldn't Draco...

Ron shrugged helplessly. It seemed that his father and Uncle Lucius had a good relationship now, but he remembered that his father had often been sulking at home because he hadn't found any Dark magic items in Malfoy Manor.

If he and Draco had not met earlier, perhaps things would have turned out like that.

Hermione and Theodore were very familiar with the description of the days when souls were hidden. Where had they seen it before? It didn't sound like a good thing... What was it, exactly? Soul... Soul...