Chapter 358 356 Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets (4,000)

Chapter 358 356. Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets (4,000)

On the blank wall, as Hermione's heart asked, an old wooden door slowly emerged.

Hermione saw the door, with an unconcealable excitement on her face, and then walked forward quickly and put her hand on the doorknob.

She pushed the door open from the outside to the inside easily.

It was a dark space inside. Only after the candlelight on the wall outside the door shone in, could you see that the room was very empty. At first glance, it seemed like there was nothing.

Hermione did not take off her invisibility cloak and walked in with Fox. After she entered, the surrounding walls were lit up, and then the whole room was illuminated.

Only now could she see what kind of room this was.

There were blank walls all around, and the space inside the whole room was not big, but there was nothing, only a round trap door placed in the middle of the ground!

When she came to the trapdoor, Hermione first tried to open it with her hands, but the door did not move at all until she started to recite the ugly snake language. The next moment, the door opened by itself!

Under the trapdoor was a deep secret passage, which seemed to meander downwards, with no end in sight.

Although she had not been in the castle for a long time and rarely had the opportunity to go to the upper floors, Hermione still remembered that there was a spells classroom directly below the Room of Requirement, but the appearance of this secret passage was as if the floor under her feet was connected to the solid ground on the first floor, and it did not seem to be on the eighth floor of the castle at all.

Hermione carefully closed the door of the Room of Requirement from the inside, then let Fox get off her shoulders and jumped into the secret passage first.

Then Fox was in front, with a faint golden light on his body illuminating the road ahead, and Hermione was behind, and they went deeper into the secret passage little by little.

This secret passage was rugged and winding, and sometimes narrow and sometimes wide. Sometimes Hermione could only pass through it by kneeling on the ground, and sometimes she could stand up and walk upright.

She had been walking in it for more than half an hour, and finally jumped down from an exit and came to a secret room that seemed to be underground!

The surroundings were very humid and as quiet as a tomb, as if Hermione had left the scope of Hogwarts Castle at this time, and the sounds of the fire dragons attacking the castle and the Hogwarts professors fighting to defend the school had all disappeared.

Fox stood back on Hermione's shoulder, and his light golden eyes seemed to have noticed something and turned seriously.

In the darkness, Hermione used the magic wand lighting spell, and then she saw the behemoth in front of her.

Under the emerald green reflection, she thought it was a snake lying on the ground to ambush her at first, but before she felt scared, she had already reacted that it was just a piece of snake skin.

The size of the snake skin was obviously unusually large. It looked roughly more than 20 feet long, and it was bright green, which could easily make people mistake it for a snake.

In the past year or so, Hermione spent her free time in the library on the carriage, and last year, she saw John kill a giant snake that was almost the same size as this snake skin.

She could easily tell that this was a basilisk's shed skin, which made her more vigilant. Since there was a snake skin here, there must have been a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets.

The portrait of Mr. Slytherin said that he had placed a basilisk that obeyed the Slytherin bloodline in the Chamber of Secrets a thousand years ago, but John had also killed one in the headmaster's office. According to Dumbledore's analysis, these two snakes are likely to be the same.

Voldemort released it from the Chamber of Secrets to guard his headmaster's office, so it is likely that there is no basilisk guarding the Chamber of Secrets now.

But probability is probability. As long as Hermione encounters it, it is 100%, so Hermione is cautious. She holds the wand in her hand and deliberately weakens the light of the illumination spell. Although this will make her vision blurry, it is also because of this that if she faces the basilisk directly, she can avoid looking directly into its eyes.

Continuing to walk deeper into the secret room, she turned many corners and continued to go deeper for about ten minutes, and finally came to a solid wall.

There were two snakes entwined with each other engraved on it, and their eyes were inlaid with large, shining emeralds.

Just seeing this wall, Hermione knew what to do. She rolled her throat and continued to speak in snake language, reciting an order.

After her voice fell, the two snakes separated, and the stone wall cracked from the middle, slowly sliding to both sides and disappearing.

Hermione took a long deep breath, then she grasped the glowing wand in her hands with both hands and walked into the door.

She came to one side of a long, dimly lit room.

There were many stone pillars with coiled snakes carved on them, towering up to support the ceiling that melted into the darkness above, casting long, eerie black shadows on the entire room filled with green and mysterious mist.

And the moment Hermione came in, countless silver-gray lights suddenly lit up on the ground!

Those lights connected gently on the ground, forming lines of words and symbols, covering the entire room!

Hermione looked at everything under her feet in shock. A huge picture scroll was formed on the ground, and the words that lit up were all the oldest runes!

These runes are densely packed, each character is only the size of a thumbnail, but it fills the entire space.

Similarly, under the illumination of these illuminated runes, Hermione also saw a statue of an old man deep in the room, on the wall facing her.

It was an old, monkey-like face. This face was familiar to Hermione. He was none other than Salazar Slytherin, whose portrait was hung in the principal's office.

Even this statue is densely engraved with magic inscriptions, so densely packed that it makes people feel inexplicably shuddering.

Hermione's gaze continued downward, and then she saw a small figure directly under the statue.

It looked like a dwarf. He had a wide face and a big mouth. He was wearing tattered bright clothes, but his eyes were tightly closed. His body was illusory and did not look like a normal person at all.

Five black chains stretched out from the ground. They were connected to the dwarf's limbs and neck, as if they were tightly binding him here, preventing him from moving.

The air around her was cold and humid, causing Hermione's body to tremble slightly involuntarily.

She carefully stepped on the glowing runes and came to the dwarf's side.

"Hello."

After seeing the fire dragon attack on Hogwarts Castle, Snape left the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest without any hesitation.

His face was ugly, and he took away all the Aurors present. At the same time, he stared at Jon gloomily and ordered one of the Aurors to inform Voldemort of the matter immediately.

This approach is undoubtedly the most sensible, because judging from all the useful manpower currently available in Hogwarts Castle, they have little confidence that they can defend the castle against the attack of these fire dragons.

The reporters were extremely excited. Some of the brave ones even wanted to follow Snape and the others closer to Hogwarts Castle, but were kicked back mercilessly by the Aurors behind them.

And some smart newspaper reporters, after quickly taking pictures of the current situation of the castle being attacked, asked people to leave here first, and immediately took the existing photos out, in case the man came back after getting the news, and they tonight The results were all in vain.

Although Snape left with the Aurors, there was no room for change in the final outcome of the game.

Emil had not yet come out of the Forbidden Forest. He looked at the golden-red sky in the direction of the castle that was covered with dragon's breath, and seemed so lost.

Matthew came back to his senses from the shock of the situation. He straightened his expression and looked at Emil.

"Mr. Lestrange, do you want to finish the game now?"

Emil was brought back to his senses by his question, but his eyes did not look at Matthew, but looked at Jon with hatred.

"It must be him! He must have done it! Those fire dragons were originally chasing him! But now they are all attacking the castle! He must have done something!"

His words caused the entire scene to become silent. Bosted stared at Emil as if he wanted to put the words he just said back into his mouth again!

At this time, Emil, who was excited, also realized that he had said the wrong thing. He looked pale and hurriedly patched up what he had just said.

"We all saw it in the Forbidden Forest. It was Green who angered those fire dragons, and they attacked him like crazy!"

Jon had no intention of looking at him at all. He stood in front of Dumbledore and Rozier, took out a Golden Snitch from the bag and looked at Matthew at the same time, asking calmly.

"Continuing with our previous topic, Mr. Graves, may I know who purchased and provided the Golden Snitch used in this project?"

Matthew did not ignore Jon's question. Whether it was the boy's reputation that had spread in the wizarding world before, or the fact that he was most likely responsible for what he did tonight, he could not be treated as a simple student. treat.

Similarly, Matthew has no intention of shielding anyone. He is here to be the referee to be impartial and to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation.

He turned to look at the Middle Eastern wizard named Abdul Rahman.

"Rahman, this is your responsibility, right?"

The Middle Eastern wizard, who was lean, had a short beard, and wore a white turban on his head, remained calm in the face of Matthew's question.

"The various supplies provided by Palmo Sports Magical Items Supply Company are of excellent quality. They have been responsible for the ball supplies for the Quidditch World Cup for three consecutive years, and there will be no problems with the quality."

Jon also looked at him, and he said calmly.

"Of course I also believe in the standards of this company and there won't be any problems in terms of quality, but some people want to add some unknown means to this game. What is needed is that it has enough quality assurance. I think , Mr. Rahman, are all these golden snitches in the Forbidden Forest handled by you?"

Rahman's face was arrogant. He didn't even meet Jon's eyes, as if he didn't even bother to answer questions from a student like him.

However, an old and gentle voice forced him to lower his head again.

"Can you tell us something Abdul? I think we need an answer."

No one here will ignore Dumbledore's words, and the same goes for Lachman. Even though Dumbledore no longer has the title and position of chairman of the International Federation of Magic, he still has great prestige.

Especially after Wu Pingxian used his strength to seize most of France from Voldemort.

"Of course these Golden Snitches are all handled by me." His expression remained unchanged, "If you suspect that I was involved, you can use Legilimency on me, Albus. I know you are a master at this, but I am completely incapable of Occlumency and cannot resist."

He looked at Dumbledore's blue eyes with no intention of avoiding them.

Dumbledore looked at him and just shook his head.

"Of course I have enough trust in you. The federation only lets you serve as a referee because it knows your character. Since you don't know about this matter, it means it was not done by you."

Bosted, who was still being supported by others, suddenly said angrily from the side.

"The matter hasn't been investigated yet, but someone has already begun to confirm that what this boy said is true? Our competition is really fair."

Rozier looked at him coldly, and it was this look that made Bursted's body tremble subconsciously, and there was fear in his eyes.

Jon didn't care at all about his doubts. He turned to look at the three federation referees, including Bursted and Matthew, and all the reporters.

"Since I dare to speak out, of course I will have tangible evidence."

As he spoke, he raised the wand and pointed the tip of the wand at his temple. Then he slowly turned the wand and pulled out a bright silver thread from his mind!

The silver that represents memory surrounds the tip of his staff, as if it is alive.

As long as you have a little dabbling in Legilimency, it is not difficult to extract part of your own memory. After all, you will definitely not resist your decision.

Looking at this memory, even if no one knew what the scene represented, everyone present basically believed what Jon said.

The dragons went crazy, someone was really deliberately trying to frame him!

I am obviously in good health, but today I still feel like I have a cold. Maybe I stayed up too late the past two days. I originally promised to write more in the early morning, so I might as well change my schedule and sleep first to make up for it tomorrow.

I hope you can live longer and I wish you all good health.