Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 173 The Basilisk and the Rooster
Under Lockhart's "troubleshooting", Harry did not reveal his Parseltongue, and the sudden confrontation between Lockhart and Snape made Harry's perception of Lockhart much better.

Even Ron turned into a skeptical attitude because of this incident, saying whether Lockhart was too involved in the drama, he really thought he was great.

Hermione had a fierce fight with Ron over this, and Harry, who was caught in the middle, didn't know what to do.

"I forgot to take my textbook, I'll be back later."

After saying this, Harry left the library in a hurry, leaving Ron and Hermione swollen to continue arguing.

Well, he knew it was a poor excuse, but Harry didn't bother to invent a better one.

He suddenly became confused.

For some reason, since he calmed down at the end of the dueling lesson, he suddenly became restless.And in recent days, the scar on his forehead is still aching, making him unable to sleep well.

If it was possible to use an excuse full of "justice" to make up for violating the school rules before, then after deliberately becoming "smart", Harry always felt that he seemed to be heading down a bad road.

He didn't know the difference between this and what Professor Haimer did, but the sudden change still made him somewhat resistant.

But at the same time, he silently seemed to be enjoying this feeling again.

Enjoy the feeling of being "evil".

Just treat it as psychological troubles.Anyway, it's nice to be able to let off steam. He and Malfoy have always been enemies, and it feels good to beat each other up. Sometimes Harry even wants to use the same method against Snape. I hate him so much.

Harry rubbed his forehead as he walked down the corridor. Today was Sunday, a thin layer of snow had piled up on the playground, and the icy wind was howling through the corridor. Few people wanted to leave the warm common room and let He was empty front and back.

Harry felt that Ron and Hermione would continue to quarrel for a while, and he was unwilling to go back immediately. He was walking around aimlessly, and came to the armor corridor on the fourth floor, staring at a motionless armor in a daze.

correct.

Harry suddenly remembered that Professor Highmore's armor collection was in the Office of Ancient Magic at first, and it was still black at that time, and later it appeared in the organ protecting the Sorcerer's Stone, and it turned silver.Finally, just a while ago, he saw the armor leaving the school carrying the pharaoh's coffin.

Is that armor also Professor Highmore's assistant?

Like Mr. Al?
He began to look for the longaxe armor, wanting to see if the other party had returned to school, and by the way, he could also know about Professor Haimer's condition—as long as the armor came back, Professor Haimer should be fine.

After about 5 minutes passed, Harry stopped abruptly, looked up at the ceiling——

"Killing. Hunger must not be tolerated."

Yes. It's the voice of the basilisk!

The basilisk has appeared again!

Harry quickly looked around, and after finding no one, he decided to try to communicate with the other party again, hissing out his mouth: "Stop! Stop!"

Although he didn't know where the basilisk was hiding, Harry felt that this method worked again, and even got the basilisk's answer——

"Tough. Hunger not."

Do not?
Is the basilisk going to start killing people?

Harry was quick to wit, and changed his words in a panic: "I order you to stop, just—just as the heir of Slytherin!"

There was a brief silence, and Harry walked around anxiously, worried that the basilisk would start attacking people again.

Finally, just as Harry was about to try his luck in the prize showroom, he heard that cold voice again.

"Still hungry."

Just hungry?
Basilisks attack people because they are hungry?

Then why didn't it eat Professor Highmore?Didn't eat him twice?
It was hard for Harry not to think this way, and he asked immediately, "Why didn't you eat Professor Highmore? The one you attacked before."

But the basilisk's answer startled Harry.

"No. Has not attacked anyone. Controlled. Need help from heir. Hungry"

Never attacked?
Don't you think it's a basilisk?
What about being controlled?

And the heir. The basilisk admits that he is the heir?

"How do I find you? When the time comes, can you close your eyes and talk to me?"

Harry thought it was worth the risk, and it might be more effective than fooling Malfoy, but he didn't forget the Basilisk's gaze, which could kill.

"Not yet. Need to avoid."

Avoid?

Dodge the man who controls the basilisk?

That is, the murderer?
After that, no matter how hard Harry asked, he never got any answer.

The basilisk disappeared.

Harry needed time to sort things out, and he ran down the hallway, rushing back to the library to share the news with Ron and Hermione.

At the same time, previous speculations surfaced in my mind again.

Professor Haimer went to the chicken farm after being attacked for the first time. He should have known about the existence of the Basilisk, or at least guessed something.

The three of them also suspected why Professor Haimer refused to disclose these things, and they gradually dispelled their doubts until after the second attack.

Is it true that the previous self-directed and self-acted?

Professor Haimer is the one who controls the basilisk?
The most frightening thing is that the basilisk left behind words of evasion.

Doesn't this mean that Professor Highmore is still at Hogwarts? !
Really acted out the same scene a second time? ! ——
After Harry ran away without a trace, two little heads popped out from the door of the prize showroom.

"Did I hear you wrong?"

Ginny said frightenedly, "Is Harry a Parseltongue? Who was he talking to just now?"

The other person is Luna.Ginny came to her today because she wanted to continue discussing how to deal with Tom's notebook. Of course, Luna didn't care about it, and she relied on Pandora for advice, but the matter was over before halfway through the discussion—it was all because of Ha Leigh's appearance scared Ginny into hiding and took Luna with her.

At this moment, Ginny's mind became a mess. Tom said that Professor Toby Highmore was the heir, but Harry obviously concealed something.

What will we do then?
Are you going to fight?Competing for the title of heir?

But how could Harry be the opponent of Professor Highmore?
"Want to go out for a while?" Luna looked at Ginny and said suddenly.

"What?" Ginny was stunned: "What are you playing? I'm not in the mood right now—"

"Let's go." Luna interrupted, she pulled Ginny's arm out of the prize showroom, and Ginny was pulled away by her like a paper doll.

"I know a good place that will do you a lot of good, calm you down."

Ginny couldn't say no, peace was what she needed most now.

The two walked out of the gate of the castle and came to the snow on the playground.

Ginny clutched her collar tightly. She looked back at the castle that was getting farther and farther away, and then at the Forbidden Forest that was getting closer and closer. She felt something was wrong.

Luna's calm. Does it mean the same thing as what she thinks?
"Where are we going?" Ginny asked anxiously.

She saw Luna take a look at Hagrid's cabin from a distance, and then led Ginny to run quickly with great experience. It took less than 30 seconds to get away from the cabin, avoiding being caught by Hagrid in the room. Find.

"Of course I went to the Forbidden Forest." Luna said as a matter of course: "Don't scream, don't scream, it will be bad if you are discovered."

Ginny opened her mouth wide, but she really didn't make any sound.

She has been frightened silly.

"I won't go." She wanted to shake off Luna's hand: "This is against the school rules, and it will cause trouble for my parents."

"It's okay." Luna said, "As long as you don't tell them, they won't know about it."

Ok?
Ginny immediately looked at Luna's calm face, and she said with weird eyes: "I thought you were an obedient and good student, and you couldn't even tell that you were being bullied. I didn't expect you."

She didn't expect Luna to be so bold, nor did she expect Luna to be so strong.

Ginny didn't dare to fight with Luna in this kind of place, it would be too noticeable.She wanted to ask Pandora for help, but Pandora's answer completely made her give up——

[Forbidden Forest?Don't worry, honey, Luna and I have already been there once, and nothing will happen. 】

Thankfully it was daytime, otherwise Ginny would have screamed.

After entering the Forbidden Forest, Luna kept telling her why she came here secretly.

"Professor Haimer visited my home once, and it was at that time that I saw thestrals. Then, on the day Professor Haimer was sent away in the coffin, I saw thestrals appearing with a carriage On the playground, and then secretly found an opportunity to find thestrals. The whole thing is so simple, you don't have to worry about it."

"No, it's not simple at all." Ginny clutched Pandora's notebook tightly, and quickly wrote on it: "How could you do this, the Forbidden Forest is terrifying."

【Listen to me, honey, it’s good to just relax.You're so tense and mentally weak, that's not okay. 】

"Weak? Why do you say that about me? I'm not weak at all."

[This has nothing to do with you, but magic. 】

Ginny couldn't figure it out.

She followed Luna and walked in the Forbidden Forest for a long time, planning to take Luna and escape as soon as she was in danger.

Then, something she didn't understand happened.

Standing in a withered forest, she watched Luna being lifted up by something transparent, sitting in the air, with nothing under her body.

"Can't you see them?" Luna asked.

Ginny shook her head in horror.

Luna grabbed Ginny's palm and touched something.

Ginny endured her fear and touched something that looked like skin, but she obviously didn't see anything.

"This is a Thestral." Luna said, "It's very cute, don't worry too much, it likes you very much."

Although Ginny was still very scared, this novel experience was unique, and Luna looked calm.

Should be fine, right?
Ginny didn't dare to let thestrals take her to fly, she was not so bold yet, but when she walked around in the transparent air, she still forgot the passage of time, and let her take her with her when she left. With a trace of reluctance.

"Can't we play a little longer?" she begged.

But Luna shook her head: "No, not today, let's talk about it when the time is right."

They hurried to leave the Forbidden Forest, and when they walked back to the playground, they found that the sky had become faintly dark.

The excitement of the adventure made Ginny forget how dangerous it was, and she asked casually, "Then why should we come again?"

"It probably won't work recently." Luna's tone was still so calm.

"Professor Highmore is back—I saw the Thestral that took him away."

Ginny stared at her blankly, unable to believe what she heard.

"What? But how? Why didn't he tell everyone? Why."

A distant shout suddenly interrupted Ginny's questioning, she turned her head suddenly, and saw a white figure standing in front of Hagrid's cabin, judging from the gestures, it was still calling them to go over.

It's Professor Angela.

Ginny completely panicked, letting Luna walk by her arm.

After walking in front of Professor Angela, Ginny's cheeks were flushed, and her eyes became extremely disturbed. There was something wrong at first sight.

But after Angela glanced at her, she stopped caring about her. Instead, she looked at Luna and asked her, "Are you Luna Lovegood?"

"It's me, Professor," Luna said, so calmly that Ginny couldn't believe it.

"Have you ever sneaked into the ancient magic office?" Angela continued to ask, her voice seemed a little cold.

Luna said surprisingly, "Only once, Professor."

Ginny's legs were weak, and if Luna was still supporting her, she would have been sitting on the ground.

Angela looked back and forth at Luna for a while: "Then have you ever seen a wizard potted plant?"

"No, Professor." Luna said frankly, "When I went, the wizard potted plant was gone."

Ginny couldn't believe how she escaped from Professor Angela's claws. After all, she didn't look easy to get along with, especially after Professor Highmore was attacked for the second time, she became cold.

After asking, Luna comforted her and said: "Because we are not thieves, it seems that the wizard's potted plant was stolen by someone, and Professor Angela has been looking for him."

Was the wizard's potted plant stolen?

who can that be?

Ginny didn't understand again.

After letting them go, Angela stood there frowning and thinking for a while, until Hagrid pushed the door open before interrupting the thinking process.

"Professor Angela, you haven't left yet?" Hagrid asked in surprise.

Although Angela hadn't been so approachable recently, she was still far stronger than Lockhart.

"I have something to ask you." Angela turned around and asked, "Are there any other questions besides the missing cock?"

As soon as this incident was mentioned, Hagrid became very angry. The roosters he had worked so hard to raise were stolen, and several of them were lost in a row.

"I'm going to catch that thief sooner or later!" he cried at last.

But other than that, there's nothing else.

Angela nodded, then left, walking towards the castle amidst the drifting snowflakes.

Toby, what the hell are you going to do?
(End of this chapter)