Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 168 Parseltongue and Arrival
On the magic car to the Burrow during the holidays, Professor Highmore "taught" Harry some unspeakable lessons, including that house-elves are actually very deceiving, they are not perfect, and they are not perfect. So full of wisdom, especially when they take the initiative to approach themselves, this is simply the perfect channel to inquire about news.And even if the house-elf accidentally reveals the truth, he doesn't blame the person he cheated on, but punishes himself first.

This is the constant characteristic of house-elves-easy to be manipulated.

Harry still remembered the panic he showed at that time, only feeling that a door that had never appeared before was slowly opening in front of him, leading to the abyss of evil.

He also remembered Professor Highmore's last question to him.

"So, have you learned?"

Unfortunately, Harry finally learned it and used it on Dobby.

The ward was silent late at night, and Harry couldn't help but feel worried about Dobby's situation.After silently feeling guilty in his heart for a while, he began to try to sort out this pile of intricate information.

In the beginning, Dobby was talking about someone trying to kill him at school, and now Harry knew it had something to do with Voldemort.And it's not just Voldemort, now this matter is also linked to the Chamber of Secrets and Lucius Malfoy.

The reason why Harry was able to guess the existence of Lucius Malfoy was mainly because he had been taught a good lesson by Professor Highmore at the train station, which fit the characteristics of wanting to kill Professor Highmore but not daring to do it.

As for the relationship between the three, Harry can certainly guess that Lucius Malfoy and Voldemort are in the same group, and the Chamber of Secrets must also be related to them, but he does not know the exact time when the Chamber of Secrets was opened last time, so it is impossible to judge who opened it.

But there was another key point that Harry couldn't figure out—that is, if what Dobby said was true, why did the victim become Professor Highmore instead of Harry himself?

Harry fell into a drowsy sleep amid heavy thoughts, thanks to the pocket watch that Lockhart gave him, he was not disturbed by any further sleep, and slept until the next morning when he was awakened by the sunlight coming in through the window .

There were no other victims, no pain, and the night passed peacefully.

When Harry opened his eyes again, he found that his arm had grown new bone, but it was very stiff.Madam Pomfrey saw that Harry was awake, walked briskly over with the breakfast tray, and began to flex and stretch his arms and fingers.

"Nice looking," she said, while Harry was awkwardly eating his porridge from a spoon in his left hand. "You can go when you finish."

Harry dressed as quickly as he could and hurried to Gryffindor Tower.After the fat lady's portrait moved away in front of him, he happened to meet Ron and Hermione who were trying to get out of the tunnel.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed in surprise, "Are you cured? Oh, by the way, how is Professor Lockhart's pocket watch doing?"

"We'll talk about this later." Harry hurriedly grabbed the arms of the two of them, led them to an empty classroom, closed the door tightly, and then narrated about his last night with a serious face. discovery.

The Chamber of Secrets that was once opened, Voldemort who wanted to kill Harry, and Lucius Malfoy who was hiding in the dark—Hermione became more and more frightened when he heard it, and Ron said in disbelief: "So, Dobby's The owner is the Malfoy family? Dude, you are so capable that you can actually make Malfoy's elves rebel, why didn't I know you have such a great charm."

He took a few steps back and looked Harry back and forth several times in surprise, as if meeting him for the first time.

"It would be wrong if you knew."

Hermione said angrily: "Didn't you hear what Harry said, because of his appearance, the tragic fate of those neglected lives was finally ended. I dare say that there must be more than one person who is grateful to Harry for this." people."

Ron muttered in dissatisfaction: "It's not that I have no misery, all the things I use are old, and I still can't afford my own wand, which makes me want to go back to experiment with George and Fred again." .”

"Don't mention the multi-flavored juice." Harry said with a headache: "Also, don't you think these things are very strange? I mean the incident where Professor Highmore was attacked twice, even though he was a Muggle-born , but there is no reason to be hurt twice."

Ron and Hermione exchanged a look, and then Hermione said, "You remember Polyjuice Potion?"

"What do you mean?" Harry wondered.

"Now that can come in handy." Hermione said in a cautious tone: "Draco Malfoy. Since this matter has something to do with Lucius Malfoy, do you think there is more than Draco Malfoy?" A better source of information? As long as we become like the people around him, we can ask all the questions we want."

Hermione's idea was perfect, and Harry nodded in agreement and said, "Alright, I can also ask about Dobby's condition, I'm a little worried about him now—"

"Hey hey!" Ron interrupted as he watched the two suddenly make a decision: "I said, this matter has already involved an adult wizard, not to mention there is a mysterious person, why don't you ask the adults for help?" ?”

As soon as this incident was mentioned, Harry became aggrieved: "Of course I knew I should do this, but Dumbledore didn't write me back. And you also know that it is related to the mysterious man, so who else can you ask for help?" What? Snape?"

"It's not necessary." Ron immediately denied, "I don't want to add helpers to the mysterious man."

"Hey!" Hermione yelled angrily, "I know you don't like Snape, but there's no need to say that? Also, if I really need to ask an adult for help, I have a good candidate-" "

"Professor McGonagall?" Harry asked first.

"Or Professor Angela?" Ron continued, "She should be willing to avenge Professor Haimer. At first, I thought they were enemies, but it's obviously not the case."

"I mean Professor Lockhart!" said Hermione angrily. "You should really read those books of his—"

"Oh, come on." Ron said with disbelief on his face. "What are you looking for? Using your shiny teeth to blind the mysterious man's eyes? This method doesn't sound feasible."

Not to be outdone, the two looked at each other, and then they all turned their heads and put their eyes on the hesitant Harry, wanting to ask his opinion again.

"You seem to have forgotten one thing."

Harry said dryly, "What if, I mean what if I'm really the heir of Slytherin?"

"You haven't forgotten about it yet." Ron slapped his head and said, "How is this possible? Just do me a favor and forget about it, okay—"

At this moment, Harry suddenly heard a voice, cold and murderous——

"Tear. It's time to kill you"

"Stop!" Harry yelled suddenly, startling both Ron and Hermione: "Stop!"

"What are you shouting?" Hermione asked in surprise.

Harry didn't bother to answer her, he followed the direction of the voice to the middle of the classroom, and the voice became more grim: "Hungry. Needs to be filled."

"stop!"

Again, Harim yelled with all his might, "No, don't hurt anyone anymore!"

Miraculously it happened - unbelievable - and Harry felt he had a response, because he heard -

"Since. Only this time."

The voice slowly died away, and Harry vaguely felt that he had accomplished something. He still didn't understand what he had prevented, but there was no doubt that this was an amazing achievement.

He looked happily at Ron and Hermione, but there was only shock and horror on their faces.

"Didn't you hear?" Harry asked suspiciously, "Didn't you hear that I just—"

Ron stepped forward suddenly, and Harry saw that he was about to reach out to cover his mouth, and quickly shook his head to avoid it.

"What are you doing?" he asked angrily.

"Parseltongue," Ron murmured, as if afraid of being overheard, while Hermione was already checking that the door was securely closed.

"Why didn't you tell me that you speak Parseltongue?"

"I..." Harry frowned, "What?"

Hermione walked back, and she also lowered her voice and said, "Parseltongue, this is the ability to talk to snakes, and it's also... Salazar Slytherin's famous ability. Therefore, the symbol of the Slytherin school is A snake."

Harry's mouth fell open.

"I, I don't know." He said in disbelief: "I thought I was just talking normally, and is this an exaggeration? I've talked to a boa constrictor in the zoo who hasn't been to Brazil before—"

"This is already very abnormal." Ron said with a worried look on his face.

Hermione tried to make Harry feel better, saying, "But at least we can confirm that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk - you talked to it, didn't you?"

Harry's heart suddenly became heavy, he was not so opposed to Slytherin House, but he never said that he wanted to acquire the abilities of Slytherin himself.
After this experience, both Ron and Hermione kept silent about asking adults for help, and they made the decision to use Polyjuice Potion to get information about Draco Malfoy in front of Harry.

"We know you're not the murderer." Ron comforted, "But this method is the safest, Parseltongue. You must not expose it."

Harry nodded dazedly, he didn't know what he was promising, he only saw Ron and Hermione opening and closing their mouths, telling him some necessary things.

After Harry regained his senses, he found himself standing at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, and saw Professor Lockhart with an unnatural expression take back the pocket watch, and he didn't say a word of nonsense that was rare.

"Where are we going next?"

After leaving the office, Harry asked in a daze.

Ron didn't know what to do, so he could only look at Hermione with Harry.

"We need to find a place suitable for preparing potions first." Hermione thought about it and said, "And it can't be discovered by others--yes! Let's go to the abandoned bathroom. We didn't have time to go in last time, but There are very few people there.”

"Really?" Harry thought of the little girl he met before, named Luna Lovegood.

Hermione obviously knew what Harry was worried about: "Don't worry, it was just an accident and nothing will happen."

The three of them came to the door of the abandoned bathroom together. Hermione reached out and grabbed the brass handle, but before she could do anything, the handle twisted open by herself. Someone pushed the door and almost hit Hermione's nose.

"why is it you again?"

Ron looked at Luna Lovegood walking out of the bathroom in surprise, and he couldn't help calling out: "You—is the person behind you Ginny? Why are you here? No—you are How did you meet?"

Standing behind Luna was Ginny who pulled up her collar. She seemed to be using this method to conceal her identity again, but that dazzling red hair couldn't fool Ron.

Ginny was already stunned. She stared blankly at the three people who suddenly appeared outside the door, and subconsciously covered her pocket with her palm.

Luna said in a trance: "I seem to have told you that this is the girls' bathroom."

"I, I know." Ron didn't know how to explain it. He wanted to pull Ginny over to ask what was going on, but Ginny walked around Luna's body and Ron silently. , moving in small steps, with his head still down, not daring to raise his head and look at Ron.

"It's me, Ginny." Ron said in surprise, "Don't you know me?"

Just as he was speaking, he suddenly took a step in the opposite direction, and his palm narrowly brushed over Ginny's collar.Ginny screamed and almost fell backwards until she was held firmly by two hands.

"Huh, Ginny?" Harry asked with some uncertainty, "You really don't know us anymore?"

Ginny turned her neck stiffly, and after seeing Harry's face clearly, she let out a louder scream than before, and then ran away without looking back, making Harry who stood there extremely embarrassed , those who didn't know thought that Ginny saw something like a demon.

Just when the atmosphere gradually became a little weird, Luna finally said to them: "This is the girls' bathroom."

Then she also chased Ginny away.

When Luna found Ginny, she had already run all the way outside the castle and was hiding behind a pillar.

"Here." Ginny waved her hand quietly, calling Luna over: "Did they follow?"

"No." Luna walked over and said, "Your physical strength is really good."

"Oh, don't talk about it." Ginny said with lingering fear: "It seems that we can't go there again in the future, and it will be bad if we meet them again."

Luna didn't seem to understand this sentence: "Why? Is that the girls' bathroom?"

Ginny muttered, "I don't know what they think. Forget it, follow me."

She took Luna to find a secluded place, and each of them took out a black notebook.

Ever since Professor Highmore was killed, Tom Riddle's notebook had been with Ginny, but she never dared to open it again.Until today, there was no chance to get together with Luna again.

"What did Pandora say?" Ginny asked.

Luna opened the notebook in her hand and showed it to Ginny.

[Since he has already guessed that there will be an attack on Professor Haimer, why not ask Bad Tom what he knows before deciding whether to hand him over to the professors? What do you think of this method? 】

Ginny took a deep breath, she nodded, opened the notebook in her hand with a serious face, picked out a clean page and wrote: "Listen to me, Tom, I am willing to give you another chance, But you have to tell me who the killer was and how you knew there was going to be another victim."

The handwriting disappeared quickly, and then Tom's answer was even faster, as if he couldn't wait to say the answer.

【It's very simple, Ginny, because only I know who the murderer is, and the other party will soon become the real heir of Slytherin—】

【Toby Highmore, he got me, and he cheated everyone. 】

At the same time, tens of thousands of miles away from Hogwarts, a Thestral carriage slowly descended from the cloudy sky.

Al jumped off the front of the carriage first, and the carriage door behind it opened. The armor helped the pharaoh's coffin out of the carriage, carried it on his shoulders, and then stood with Al, looking at the dark castle standing on the cliff in the distance.

A flash of lightning flashed, but it couldn't break through the thick fog surrounding the castle. Only a few dim lights could be seen, as if welcoming the guests.

"Yeah." Al said seriously.

The armor nodded silently, and gripped the long ax in the other hand.

They are back.

(End of this chapter)