Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 244: Conversation in the Principal's Office, Witnessing the Phoenix's Rebirth, Another Forbidden Magical Script

The corridor was empty.

The little wizards all rushed back to the classroom for class, and the only sound that could be heard at the scene was their footsteps.

It was a bit messy and everyone was walking unsteadily.

"Professor," Harry said nervously again, "I really didn't hurt Justin."

Professor McGonagall led them silently around a corner and stopped in front of a huge, ugly stone monster.

She said seriously: "Harry, we will not suspect any little wizard, if they haven't done it, they haven't done it.

But what has been done will inevitably leave traces, and no one can escape it."

She turned her head again and said to the stone monster, "Lemon ice cream."

Obviously, this is a command.

Although everyone was a little nervous, they couldn't help but marvel at this scene.

The wall was slowly opened, revealing a spiral staircase behind it.

After everyone stood on it, the stairs slowly moved upwards, like an escalator.

When they stepped on it, the original wall closed automatically with a rumbling sound.

They went higher and higher along the spiral staircase, and finally felt a little dizzy.

Everyone saw a shiny oak door with a brass door in the shape of a griffon.

The little wizards couldn't help but feel their hearts sinking. They knew where Professor McGonagall had taken them.

This must be Dumbledore's office.

After seeing the door, the stone stairs stopped rotating and they stepped out.

Professor McGonagall knocked on this door, and it opened silently, and everyone walked in.

Professor McGonagall told them to wait here and then she walked out the door.

The little wizards watched all this with curiosity, especially Mikel.

His eyes widened, wishing he could record everything in Dumbledore's office if only he had a camera in his hand.

He must be going on a photo-taking spree right now.

Ron also looked around curiously, and whispered to Harry, "If I wasn't called here under such circumstances, I'd feel more relaxed.

I've been to so many professors' offices, and this one is definitely the most interesting!"

Harry nodded, "I thought so too."

Lin Xia looked around.

The first thing that came into view was a large, beautiful circular room filled with all sorts of funny little noises.

On the spindly-legged table were many curious silver items.

The silver objects spun, emitting small puffs of smoke.

The walls here were also covered with portraits, but unlike Lockhart's, which were all self-portraits.

Hanging here are portraits of former principals, both male and female. They are all snoring softly in their respective frames.

The room also has a huge table that is shaped like a claw.

On a shelf behind the table sat a tattered, crumpled wizard's hat - the Sorting Hat.

Harry hesitated when he saw the Sorting Hat.

He took a step forward and walked towards the Sorting Hat.

Draco noticed and asked, "Harry, what are you doing?"

"I wanted to ask the Sorting Hat some questions," Harry explained.

He didn't know why he was so impulsive. It seemed as if there was an invisible driving force that urged him to pick up the hat and put it on.

The hat was too big and had slipped down over his eyes, just like it had done the first time he had worn it.

Harry waited quietly, and after a moment a small voice whispered in his ear, "Is there something you're confused about, Harry Potter?"

While Harry was communicating with the Sorting Hat, Hermione discovered an interesting little gadget.

She touched Lin Xia and pointed to a place in the room.

"Look, is that a bird? It looks holy and ugly."

When Lin Xia saw the bird, she immediately thought of the pet eggs placed in the golden wooden house.

For some reason, she felt that the scent emitted by this bird was somewhat similar to the scent that the pet egg had been emitting from time to time recently.

But there is an essential difference between the two.

This fiery red bird looks like a turkey with half of its feathers plucked out, and it looks very old.

But Lin Xia could feel a strong and vigorous vitality from it.

This vitality is far more powerful than her pet egg.

Lin Xia walked over and looked at the bird deeply. The bird also looked at it with sad eyes and made a suffocating sound.

It looked extremely weak, and Lin Xia found it very contradictory.

He looks very ill, but why does he seem to have so much energy?
Ron, Hermione and Draco also came over.

Draco asked, "Its eyes are lifeless. Is it going to die?"

Just as Lin Xia was staring at it for a while, a few more feathers fell off its tail.

Hermione said, "I thought its feathers were plucked, but I didn't expect that they were all lost."

After a while, Harry also came over.

I came up to the bird and observed it.

Lin Xia asked: "How is your communication with the Sorting Hat going?"

Harry took a deep breath, his expression extremely solemn.

"I communicated with it about the Sorting. I was wondering if it had put me in the wrong house. The Sorting Hat guessed my thoughts right away. I couldn't hide anything from it.

It told me that my place was particularly difficult to decide, and it insisted that I should go to Slytherin.

Hermione said, "But you ended up in Gryffindor."

Harry said loudly: "Yes, I think Gryffindor is the best place for me. Until now, I still think so!"

Lin Xia couldn't help but smile: "We are all proud of our respective colleges.

The Sorting Hat may be able to see a place that is more suitable for us, but in the end, it is up to us to decide whether it is suitable or not.

The strong inner power is enough to change everything. This is a magical power."

Draco also laughed: "Just like me, I never thought about it before I came to Hogwarts.

One day, I ended up in Hufflepuff instead of Slytherin."

Ron: "I'm different. My whole family is Gryffindor, and I'm a typical Gryffindor!"

While the four of them were talking and chatting, the atmosphere between Gress and Mikel was a bit tense.

Grace stared at Mikel fiercely, with a gloomy expression, wanting an explanation from Mikel.

We clearly made an agreement, why do you go back on your word when the time comes?

Mikel ignored his gaze and looked at the objects around him curiously.

In the principal's office, Liang Geles did not dare to do anything extreme.

As for leaving the office, he would either go to class or return to the common room, where he would have no chance of running into Grace.

Besides, he wasn't afraid of him.

Instead, Lin Xia was secretly observing Grace.

When Justin was petrified, Grace pointed at Harry, revealing his innermost shirt.

The shirt is common, that's nothing.

But the key point is that there is a metal clip hanging on the tie of this shirt.

There are many fine patterns on the clip, which cannot be seen at all if you don't look carefully.

Lin Xia happened to be using the super-sensory spell to observe everything at that time, so she noticed the pattern on the metal frame.

She felt that this pattern looked very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before.

Thinking back carefully, I clearly saw this in the manor of Malfoy's side branch family.

She also saw the same pattern on the metal faucet in the bathroom.

Lin Xia didn't think this was a coincidence.

Grace must have some relationship with Malfoy's collateral family!
Hermione suddenly exclaimed, "What happened to the bird? Why is it suddenly on fire?"

Everyone looked over.

Hermione was so anxious that she waved her wand, wanting to use a burst of clear water to put out the fire on the bird!

Just then, the door was opened.

Dumbledore walked in, looking very serious.

He reminded: "Ms. Granger, you don't have to summon the spring. It will be useless to it."

The bird in the cage let out one last scream and completely disappeared in the flames.

Beneath it, there was a pile of ashes that had not yet been completely extinguished.

Dumbledore looked at the pile of ashes and actually smiled.

"It has been in such a scary state for days. I have been telling it to hurry up, but I didn't expect it would choose today."

Dumbledore sat down and said gently to all the students: "Don't be nervous, Fawkes is a phoenix.

When a phoenix is ​​about to die, it will burn itself and then be reborn from the ashes. You watch him—"

The little wizards lowered their heads and saw a tiny, wrinkled baby bird poking its head out from the ashes.

It looks as ugly as an old bird and makes a "chirp" sound.

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief; so that's what was happening.

"What a shame you have to see it on Nirvana Day."

Dumbledore pulled out a piece of paper from a pile of documents, picked up a quill, and began writing something.

As he wrote, he said: “Most of the time it is very beautiful, with amazing red and gold feathers all over.

Phoenixes are very strange and fascinating creatures. They can carry extremely heavy objects, their tears have healing effects, and they are extremely loyal...

Well, enough small talk, ladies and gentlemen, let’s talk about something else.”

Fox's nirvana made all the little wizards almost forget the purpose of coming here.

It wasn't until Dumbledore fixed them with those piercing, light blue eyes that they all remembered.

However, before they could open their mouths, there was a loud bang in the office and the door was pushed open.

Hagrid rushed in, his eyes blazing with anger, the dead rooster still dangling from his hands.

"Principal Dumbledore, I heard that another little wizard was petrified, and Harry was slandered as the murderer.

No, that's not true, he definitely doesn't have the time, I saw him in the snow outside the castle before..."

Hagrid saw that many young wizards were there, and his voice gradually became quieter.

Dumbledore said, "Hagrid, stay calm. I don't think Harry is the murderer, but we need to talk."

Hagrid was relieved, "Okay."

He rolled his big eyes and was obviously relieved. "I'm going out now and will be waiting for your orders at any time, Principal."

Dumbledore looked back at the young wizard.

"I know that none of you are the murderer, and this kind of exquisite petrification will not happen to you, but I need to know where you were and what you saw."

After an hour of communication, all the clues were clarified.

The other little wizards left and only Harry was left behind.

When they came, they took the spiral stone staircase.

But after returning, we were not treated so well anymore. We left through the main gate and went down one floor at a time.

Ron asked, "Are we going back to Potions class? We only have twenty minutes until the end of get out of class."

Hermione: "I'm inclined not to go. Do you want to be kept out of class?"

Draco said in surprise, "I thought you would want to go."

Hermione shrugged, "If it was any other professor, I would want to go, but Professor Snape's class."

She sighed, "Forget it."

Lin Xia thought for a moment and said, "I have to go to Professor Babeling and ask some questions about the Guardian Rune."

After Lin Xia left, the others thought about it and felt that there was nothing to do, so they all went back to the laboratory to study their own topics.

Even Ron has topics to study.

He is very interested in magic runes.

He planned to study related things. Although they were all small gadgets, Ron enjoyed it.

First of all, you need to be interested, then you can take the next step of in-depth research.

The topics everyone is working on are independent of each other and are generally not announced unless important research results are achieved and help from others is needed, then they will be made public.

On the other side, Harry here.

His conversation with Dumbledore also came to an end.

Dumbledore wanted Harry to reveal more information, and if he had any questions, he could just speak up.

Harry really wanted to say that he always heard a strange sound, and no one could hear that sound.

But every time he tried to speak, images flashed through his mind.

Ron said seriously: "This is not normal. No one can hear it except you."

Ernie: "Those who can speak Parseltongue are the devil. You want to purge the unclean bloodline."

Lin Xia: "I think it's better not to tell the professor about this for now."

Harry came back to his senses and said, "No, Headmaster, I have nothing to say."

At the same time, Lin Xia also came to Babeling's office.

When she opened the door, she turned and looked out the window.

It was afternoon, when the sun was at its strongest.

Lin Xia pushed the door and walked in.

Professor Babel was writing a report. She looked very refined, unlike the previous times when she was dressed so sloppily.

Professor Babeling saw Lin Xia and said with interest, "I think you will give me a difficult problem this time.

I heard rumors in the school. You came to see me, are you here for the Slytherin heir and the rumored Chamber of Secrets?"

Lin Xia shook her head: "No, Professor, I don't think these are very important."

Professor Babel said with satisfaction: "I appreciate your attitude. This is really not a very important matter to me.

If you come to me for this kind of thing, I would start to doubt my judgment.

Lin Xia, not every wizard has the opportunity to meet me, you must seize every opportunity. "

Lin Xia always kept this slightly profound reminder in her mind.

Lin Xia asked calmly, "Professor, I came here this time to learn another more powerful forbidden magic rune from you. At the same time, I want to ask you a question."

Professor Babel raised her eyebrows with interest: "More powerful forbidden magic runes?
It seems that the strange object you encountered is very unusual. The last time I gave you the regular forbidden magic runes, which are enough to deal with most strange objects... Well, I'll look for it."

She pulled out a piece of paper from a pile of densely packed documents.

"I found it. This is it. Study well here before you go out. What question do you want to ask me?"

Lin Xia said: "Professor, can the soul be resurrected?"

Professor Babel's expression changed slightly and she looked at Lin Xia sharply.

(End of this chapter)