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Chapter 286: Gris's true identity, possessed by Voldemort! (5K)

But Harry's proposal was not recognized by all his friends.

It's not like they don't have anyone.

On the contrary, their ranks are growing.

I wanted to rely on Professor Lockhart before, but now the professor is unconscious, so I can only explore on my own.

Lin Xia said, "With the twin seniors here, Harry, why don't we go exploring together? I can speak snake language, too. Although I'm not as good as you, I can still help you."

Ron said quickly, "Yes, Harry, it's too dangerous for you to go alone. If anything happens, we won't be able to rescue you in time."

Hermione and Draco both looked at Harry with determination, and it was obvious that they were going to follow him as well.

Harry was still hesitating.

The Weasley twins took the lead, bypassing Harry and moving forward.

They didn't care at all whether to explore alone or together, they were determined to go to this legendary secret room!

The Weasley twins led the way, and Harry and the others followed quickly.

Harry felt that they were going further and further away. The tunnel was extremely long and there were many openings. They turned one corner after another.

The dark atmosphere in the cave made every nerve of everyone tremble uncomfortably.

Including the Weasley twins.

They are not as calm as they appear, that's a basilisk!
They were willing to step forward and lead the way, all because of Gryffindor's courage!
The basilisk has not appeared yet, but the invisible psychological pressure has overwhelmed people.

Only Lin Xia acted as if nothing had happened.

She was really okay because she was not afraid of the basilisk.

When she noticed the pale faces of other little wizards, she looked thoughtful and suddenly waved her wand -

"Lumos!"

A faint light gathered at the tip of the wand and rose up in the darkness.

Lin Xia silently chanted the spell: "Double the fluorescence!"

After a while, the light gathered at the tip of the wand became brighter and brighter, far more powerful than ordinary fluorescent light, like a shining little sun!
In the darkness, the sudden light made all the little wizards feel reassured and no longer so nervous.

Even they themselves did not realize that their breathing was now much smoother than before.

The darkness is not scary, the unknown is scary.

Under the illumination of the light, they were no longer groping in the dark and continued to move forward.

After turning countless corners, Harry finally found the end.

At the end was a solid wall with a carving of two snakes entwined with each other, their eyes set with large, sparkling emeralds.

The group stopped there.

The others looked up and down and left and right at the wall.

The twin seniors reached out their hands fearlessly, touching and knocking on the wall, apparently trying to find out if there were any secret compartments or mechanisms here.

after awhile.

"Did you find anything?" Hermione asked.

"No, all other roads are blocked. There must be a passage behind this wall. We have to find a way to open it." Draco judged.

The Weasley twins stepped back and studied the wall, their eyes gleaming with excitement as they spoke their thoughts.

George: "Maybe we could use dynamite."

Fred: "We just bought it yesterday. Don't you think it's a bit wasteful?"

George: "But this is the legendary Chamber of Secrets. It is said that whoever opens the Chamber of Secrets will obtain the wealth of Slytherin. In comparison, a few small bombs are nothing."

Fred: "Well, George, you've got me."

Only Ron and Lin Xia stood at the back and did not move forward to observe.

Ron felt that he knew only a few spells and they would be of little use, so he stood behind.

He couldn't help but glance at Lin Xia, but Lin Xia was different. Lin Xia was an excellent student.

Ron found that Lin Xia looked very calm.

Ron couldn't help but ask: "Lin Xia, have you thought of a solution?"

Everyone else looked at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia said slowly: "I saw two snakes entwined on the wall. Do you think these two snakes are very similar to the one on the faucet, but they are bigger.

Perhaps this wall also needs to be opened using snake language."

The pressure was now on Harry.

Harry stepped closer, feeling his throat go dry.

Now there is no need to imagine these two as real snakes, because their eyes look just like real ones.

Harry took a deep breath and cleared his throat, the emerald eyes seeming to watch him.

"Open it," Harry said in a low, hoarse hiss.

The two snakes began to rotate until they separated, and the stone wall also split in the middle, slowly sliding to both sides and then disappearing.

They didn't need to go in right away.

After the wall opened, Lin Xia gently pushed forward the super-strong fluorescent light on the tip of the wand.

The fluorescent light flickered and turned into a moving light spot, slowly floating inside.

This is the inspiration Lin Xia got from combining the witchcraft "Bubble Bomb".

Since she can manipulate bubbles flexibly, she should also be able to manipulate bubble-like light spots flexibly.

I don’t know if others can relate to this, but Lin Xia just imagined the light spots as bubbles, and she easily picked up the fluorescent light spots and pushed them away.

This is a good change.

It can be flexibly applied in various dark environments.

With the light shining, everyone discovered that there was a long, dim room inside, with many stone pillars carved with giant snakes and a towering ceiling.

The light outside them cast a long, eerie shadow in the green, mysterious room.

Our hearts were pounding before we even walked in.

There was an eerie silence here.

The giant snakes coiled on the stone pillars seemed like they would come alive at any moment!
Harry wondered wildly whether the basilisk might be wrapped around one of the pillars and being ignored by them as if it were a piece of stone.

Or maybe the basilisk was hiding behind the stone pillars, popping out when they weren't paying attention and turning them to stone with its eyes.

Lin Xia suddenly said, "Everyone, put on your magic glasses. I feel like this room is the habitat of the basilisk!"

This reminder broke the silence around.

Everyone acted quickly, put on strange glasses and hung screaming chickens around their waists.

These two things seemed to give them great courage, and everyone was not so nervous anymore!
Everyone entered the room together.

Lin Xia decisively turned on the screaming mode of the screaming chicken, and the "cluck, cluck" screams of the rooster echoed in the empty and silent room.

Others reacted and turned on the sound of screaming chickens!

In an instant, the dark, quiet and frightening room became as lively as a vegetable market.

The fear in everyone's hearts dissipated a little.

They began to approach the stone pillars.

Ron walked a few steps faster and bumped into Hermione in front of him, who glared at him in warning.

"Be careful!"

Ron nodded immediately.

Isn't he nervous?
He looked around, but because of the vision of the magical glasses, he had to keep looking up to see what he wanted to see.

After a while, they came to the back of the last pair of stone pillars, and suddenly a statue as tall as the room appeared in front of them, close to the dark wall.

They had to crane their necks to see that huge face.

It was an old, monkey-like face, with a long, sparse beard that almost reached the hem of the wizard's robes carved from stone.

Two large gray feet stood on the smooth floor of the room, and between the two feet stood a figure wearing a wizard's robe.

The man also raised his head high and stared at the statue.

Lin Xia suddenly felt that the profile of this little wizard looked somewhat familiar.

She moved her mind slightly, controlling the fluorescent light to float towards the little wizard, but the light disappeared immediately when it hit his face.

Lin Xia's heart sank slightly.

Unexpectedly, the fluorescent light lost contact with her.

Without this light source, the surroundings became dark again, and the suffocating and suffocating feeling of silence hit them. If it weren't for the rooster's crowing, they would probably be panicked at this moment.

Lin Xia looked deeply at the little wizard whose face she could not see clearly again. This man was very strong, stronger than any professor she had met!

She perked up her nerves and immediately summoned Lumos.

This time, she controlled the light spot not to float towards the little wizard, because at this stage, her control over magic power could not match that of the little wizard.

But Lin Xia controlled the light spots to disperse in all directions, and one fluorescent light flashed after another, gradually illuminating the entire space.

Ron's surprised voice came, "Gris, why are you here?!"

After being reminded by him, the other little wizards reacted one after another.

When the fluorescent light flashed close to the little wizard, although it went out quickly, they could still see the face clearly.

Now that I think about it, yes, isn’t that face Gilles?
Why is he here? !
Harry couldn't help but get excited when he thought that Gleith could speak Parseltongue. Could it be that Gleith was the legendary heir of Slytherin?

Harry felt relieved, but also a little complicated.

The blame that was placed on him can finally be removed.

Although he could speak snake language, he could not get the treasure left by Slytherin.

At this time, Lin Xia had arranged enough fluorescent flashing spots around, and the rising light around dispelled the darkness on the statue's side.

Gress's face appeared clearly in front of them.

Gries heard the noise, lowered his head slightly, and glanced at them as if giving alms.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time, Harry, why did you come just now?" said Grace.

Harry suddenly felt a dull pain in the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead.

After a while, the pain became more and more severe and he began to sweat all over.

Harry covered his forehead tightly and looked at him in confusion: "Gris, what are you talking about? You came to the Chamber of Secrets, you are the heir of Slytherin, what does this have to do with me?"

Grace said calmly: "No, I have been waiting for you. Only when you come, the secret room will be truly opened."

Ron and the others couldn't help but look at Harry.

What this means...

Is Harry the true heir?

A smile flashed across Grace's eyes, "Harry, whether you believe it or not, you can hear snake language and open the Chamber of Secrets, which means you are related to Slytherin.

Even if you don't want to, you can't belong to Gryffindor forever. Slytherin is your final destination.

You might as well accept this power. You will become stronger than others, and you will reach a realm that no one dares to imagine more quickly."

Harry put his head in his hands.

He suddenly felt so painful, as if there was a fire burning inside!

Extreme pain came over him, making him unsteady on his feet.

Ron quickly held him up and said anxiously, "Harry, what's wrong with you, Harry?!"

Hermione frowned and shouted at Grace: "What did you do to Harry?"

Gress shrugged. "As you can see, I wasn't even close to you. What could I do to him?"

Draco stared at him: "You can recite the spell silently, did you use a spell on Harry!"

Grace smiled lightly: "Are you talking about the Ecstasy Curse or the Imperius Curse?

No, no, no, my relationship with him does not need to rely on these simple and vulgar spells. Whether you are willing or not, whether you accept it or not, fate will pull me and him closer and closer..."

The Weasley twins seemed to have figured out something.

George: "How do you know about the Imperius Curse? It's a dark magic that can control people's minds. Even senior wizards don't know about it. How can you, a second-year wizard, know so much?"

Fred said righteously, "I have reasonable reasons to suspect that you are under the Imperius Curse. You are not the second-year Gris, right? Who are you?"

Hermione also reacted after being reminded by them.

Gries has been acting very abnormal these days. He used to be very arrogant, but never as arrogant as he has been in the past few days. He even doesn't respect the professor.

Before, Gries didn't dare to refute the professor.

But in the past few days in class, he has picked trouble with Professors McGonagall, Sprout and Flitwick more than once.

Hermione suddenly thought of that day.

On the day when they were using a large magic circle to detect if there were any hidden abnormalities among the students, Grace walked over abnormally and took the initiative to greet them. Could it be that his soul was taken away that day?

"Are you possessed by an alien? Who are you?!"

"Haha! This is a good question. I also want to know who I am." Grace laughed, looking a little crazy.

The features on his face suddenly became blurred. Sometimes it was Gries, sometimes it turned into a person with a distorted face, and sometimes it was a handsome blond man.

Ron recognized the handsome blond: "Tom Riddle!

You were the outstanding student representative of Hogwarts decades ago, and the leader of Slytherin at that time. When I was cleaning the display room, I saw the trophy you won, and there was your photo on it!"

The Weasley twins suddenly gasped.

George quickly asked: "Tom Riddle? Are you sure it's Tom Riddle!"

Fred: "That's the worst joke I've heard today, and it's from Tom Riddle!"

Everyone else couldn't help but look over, even Lin Xia was no exception.

Now, according to the normal trajectory, she indeed does not know Tom Riddle.

George waved his wand, and the words "Tom Riddle" flashed in the air.

Fred also waved his wand and rearranged the letters, and the name that appeared before them was -

Voldemort!
All the little wizards couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Harry said incoherently: "Why are you here? You shouldn't..."

Gress's face continued to blur and change as he moved closer step by step.

"Harry."

His voice was also constantly changing, from the clear voice of a boy, to the steady voice of a young man, and then to the withered voice of an old man.

"Why can't I be here? I said before I left last time that I would come back again and no one could stop me."

Grace stared at Harry with an almost fascinated look, "I came back this time to take something away, and I also want to know the truth of what happened back then."

Harry clenched his fists tightly and kept encouraging himself not to be afraid.

He once defeated Voldemort. He can do it, he will definitely do it. He is not afraid!
"What do you want to take? What truth do you want to know? You can open the Chamber of Secrets... You are Tom Riddle, I know you!
You were Hagrid's senior back then, so Myrtle was killed by the basilisk you released. You are the culprit, and you blamed everything on Hagrid, forcing him to drop out of school."

Grace shook his head: "No, no, no, I didn't order the basilisk to kill Myrtle. If she wants to blame someone, she can only blame her bad luck for hiding in that bathroom.

The basilisk came out, and I just wanted to talk to it, but she ran into the basilisk on the spot, and she died before I could do anything, but I couldn't save her. "

Gress said very calmly.

"Harry, you are the heir to the Chamber of Secrets this time. You hold many secrets that even I cannot understand."

Harry: "What secret?"

"A baby," he said with a strange smile on his face, his eyes flashing red like a hungry wolf.

"You were just a baby, without any special magical powers, how did you defeat the greatest wizard of all time?

How did you escape unharmed, with only a scar, and with Voldemort's powers destroyed?"

Harry said loudly: "You are not the greatest wizard, Dumbledore is!"

This statement obviously angered Gries.

The blurred faces changed faster and faster, and the voices kept changing as well.

"Him? He is just a hypocritical liar. He doesn't believe in me at all. If he hadn't been suppressing me all the time, I wouldn't have come to this point!
I don't want to be his enemy. He and I both have great ideals and common aspirations. I am walking on the path he once walked. Why must he stop me? I even welcome him to join me. After all..."

Gries's subsequent words were unclear, and no one could hear them amid the loud crowing of chickens.

Because of the change in his emotions, Gries seemed to have some physical problems and became irritable and angry.

Lin Xia recognized that this was actually the sequelae of a split soul.

She wanted Harry to continue talking to Voldemort and confuse him further.

But this time Voldemort came prepared, and he managed to stabilize his unstable state. He smiled at Gress's face and said:

“Harry, once I catch you, I will naturally know your secret. Now, let’s carry out a massacre of brave men.

Your annoying crowing of chickens is really useful. I have summoned the basilisk for so long, but it has never dared to appear because of this sound."

Voldemort snapped his fingers.

The screaming chickens hanging around everyone's waists seemed to be strangled by the neck, and broke down the next second, emitting wisps of smoke.

"Now, let's have a fight. You can only continue to talk to me if you kill the basilisk."

(End of this chapter)