Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 102 Diary and Redress

With the sword back in the ring, John swung his wand and cast the Levitation Charm to transport Lockhart's body to a place free of blood.

Then John began to check the remaining magic fluctuations on the opponent. John was still very curious about this curse that could forcibly turn a person into a dark magic creature.

It seems that Voldemort has researched a lot of new things after his plot was thwarted in his first grade.

Just after John's preliminary inspection, Lockhart's corpse, which had turned into a monster, was put into the ring, ready for further research at that time.

John got up and stood in front of the statue in the room, and after a little mental preparation, he made a hissing sound like he did when he opened the Wall of Two Serpents before.

"Speak to me, Slytherin! The greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

As John finished speaking, the huge stone face of Slytherin moved, and the mouth of the statue slowly opened, opening wider and wider, and finally forming a huge black hole.

Looking at the dark entrance in front of him, John walked in without hesitation.

As soon as he entered it, the rancid smell that hit his face made John hold his breath subconsciously, and cast a sniffing spell on himself before John dared to breathe again.

This is obviously the lair of the basilisk. Apart from the skeletons of a large number of small animals on the ground, there are also some dark brown traces. John knows what it is without looking.

John inspected the void behind the statue a bit when John noticed an unusual wall.

Although it is full of filth, it can still be seen that there are densely packed small poisonous snakes carved on the wall, almost covering the entire wall.

Facing the wall, John spoke Parseltongue, accompanied by a familiar hissing sound.

All the eyes of the group of snakes lit up with green light, and then the small snakes entrenched on the wall moved in all directions and disappeared at the boundary, revealing the laboratory room behind.

John jumped over the filth and fell into the room.

And as John entered the room, he saw the torch on the wall igniting a dark green flame, illuminating the room.

After thousands of years, the room is still clean and tidy.

Except for some items that were different in style from the room and were obviously brought in later, there wasn't much in the room.

On the wall is obviously a cabinet for storing potions. Apart from the broken glass bottles, there are only some potions that have dried up.

Most of the books on the bookshelf were stacked on the desk in the room, and most of them were black magic, and there were many refining methods of black potions and black magic items.

However, John found that there were some books published 50 years ago among these books. Although the names were not written, according to the handwriting of the internal records, these were brought in by Senior Tom.

As for why John was so sure, it was because he found a notebook that was full and compared the writing in it.

But it's a notebook, but it's actually a diary, because when John flipped through it, apart from the normal research notes, a diary would appear every few pages.

And from the time written in the last diary, this note should have been left before senior Tom made the first Horcrux.

John guessed that senior Tom felt that this place was very safe at that time, and no one except him knew the entrance and how to enter, so he did not destroy this notebook, but chose to stay in this room.

Looking through these diaries, John clearly saw how an immature little wizard walked towards unpredictable darkness step by step.

And I don't know what kind of thinking came from it. There are a lot of Tom's views on his own life experience, as well as the planning process of framing Hagrid at the beginning, and his high joy after Hagrid was expelled from school.

For example, this paragraph: "... At that time, Mr. Armando Dippet stood in front of me, Tom Riddle, who was born in poverty but was very smart, his parents died but he was both wise and brave. Long, model student.

"On the other side, there's big stupid Hagrid, a clumsy troublemaker who gets into trouble every other week, keeps werewolf cubs under his bed, and sneaks off into the Forbidden Forest to wrestle trolls."

"Anyone will of course believe what I say! But I must admit that even I myself did not expect the plan to be carried out so smoothly."

"I thought someone would realize that Hagrid couldn't be the heir of Slytherin. It took me five years to figure out the situation of the Chamber of Secrets and discover the secret entrance... Could it be that Hagrid has Does such a mind have such ability?"

"So those Ministry of Magic people are stupid pigs, they just believe that Hagrid is the heir of Slytherin!"

"The expression on Hagrid's face when he was taken away was really funny, this big fool never thought that I planned all of this!"

"It seems that only Transfiguration teacher Dumbledore thinks Hagrid is innocent."

"He persuaded Dippet to keep Hagrid and train him to be a gamekeeper. Yes, I think Dumbledore probably noticed it. Dumbledore doesn't seem to like me like other teachers..."

And the diary also revealed why Voldemort knew the news about the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, it was naturally because of the identity of Voldemort's mother, a descendant of Slytherin, and a descendant of the great Gaunt family.

After entering Hogwarts and knowing the source of his blood, Voldemort found the book collection left by her mother, knew about the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, also knew the instructions for the entrance, and how to control the Basilisk.

Voldemort was able to control the basilisk because Slytherin left a powerful spell on the basilisk.

When the descendants of Slytherin appear in the future, this magic will actively test the descendants, confirm that they are descendants of Slytherin, and then establish a connection with the basilisk.

Once the connection is established, the basilisk will 100% surrender to the descendant of Slytherin, and be driven by it to complete its mission.

This is why in memory, the basilisk absolutely obeys every order of senior Tom.

Put the diary in your hand into the inner pocket of your robe, and hand it to Principal Dumbledore when you are ready to go out. This is important evidence for Hagrid to completely get rid of his criminal identity.

John originally planned to control the remnant soul in the Horcrux notebook after researching a breakthrough, and after learning from his mouth the whole story of framing Hagrid, he forged some evidence to help Hagrid get rid of the crime.

But now it seems that he does not need to do so.

After searching for the last time and confirming that there was nothing in the room, John put the books in the ring and left the room.

Because there was not enough room for the dragon wings to expand in the pipe, John took out the flying magic guide, activated it and returned along the route he came from.

When John came out of the entrance located in the bathroom, the sink that covered the plumbing entrance automatically slid back to its original place.

And when John walked out of the women's bathroom, he picked up Mrs. Norris who was petrified in front of the door.

"John" a surprise cheer sounded.

Harry brought Principal Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape and others to his place.

"Where have you been, John, we've been looking for you for a long time." Harry took a quick look at John, relieved to find that John seemed fine.

"What the hell happened? John" asked Headmaster Dumbledore

So next, John briefly recounted what happened just now, but John concealed the shadow of Lockhart in it, because some things are difficult to explain.

In order to prove that what he said was true, he also took out the teeth of the basilisk and the notebook of Tom.

"Well done John."

Dumbledore did not hesitate to praise, even though John broke almost a hundred school rules, it was to protect the safety of everyone in the castle.

It was only after Principal Dumbledore finished praising him that Professor McGonagall, who was worried and worried, finally couldn't bear it, and severely criticized and educated John.

But at the end of the criticism, Professor McGonagall showed a gratified smile and said to John: "Great job, John, you stopped a disaster!"

Then John went to the school hospital to be examined by Madam Pomfrey at the request of Dumbledore.

After John left, Harry followed Professor McGonagall, who was holding the petrified Mrs. Norris, and left here.

Headmaster Dumbledore took the notebook and left, he was going to clear Hagrid's grievances.

As for professors like Snape and Flitwick, they were going to check the secret room to see if there was any danger hidden in it.

Soon, the matter was spread the next day, and everyone knew that John, following the troll, once again showed his might and solved the monster left by Slytherin in the secret room.

All the little wizards from Muggle families felt relieved now, they had been living in fear ever since they learned about the Chamber of Secrets.

Even if the chamber of secrets has never been opened for thousands of years, no one can guarantee that it will not happen to them.

And now the monster left by Slytherin in the secret room was beheaded by John, and the rumors that had lasted for thousands of years were also cut off. They were all happy from the bottom of their hearts and worshiped John.

Finally when John left from the infirmary to the Great Hall, everyone except most of the Slytherins stood up and applauded John.

At this moment, John's intuition told him that his connection with the world has become stronger now, so John also smiled from the bottom of his heart.

What made John even happier was that a few days later, he received a party invitation from Hagrid.

When he got to Hagrid's cabin, Hagrid gave him an excited dada hug.

"Thank you, John, without you, I really don't know how long I would be a criminal!"

"Thanks to the evidence you found, I can clear my grievances and regain the qualification to cast magic!"

The kind giant shed tears of excitement as he spoke. John smiled and patted Hagrid's arm without saying anything.

Hagrid then entertained John, and he cooked a table made of magical animal meat to thank John.

After John reported his meal, he bid farewell to Hagrid, returned to the castle, and returned to his regular study and research life.

Soon, the time came to the Christmas holiday, and John chose to go home as usual, after all, he still had a lot of things to do.

After returning, John naturally suffered a good lecture from his mother Miranda, and he didn't know who told his mother that he single-handedly fought the basilisk.

(End of this chapter)