Chapter 362 360 Killing Castle

Chapter 362 360. Kill the Castle

Hermione thought Jon was joking, and her face was still pale due to excessive tension.

"Blow up Hogwarts? Well, this is indeed something worth discussing, but fortunately I escaped from the castle. The Dark Lord set up a new anti-apparition magic in the secret room. It takes time for Fawkes to crack it. Fortunately, we didn't get caught by him at the last moment."

Hermione felt her whole body was cold, and her back was soaked with sweat. If Fawkes hadn't brought her back at the last second, she would really be caught by the Dark Lord.

She didn't forget the important things. After the palpitations subsided, she took the bag off her shoulder.

"I did it, Professor. I found the Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, but its entrance is not where Mr. Slytherin and you guessed it is."

Jon and Dumbledore have already sat back in their seats. They tacitly did not explain to Hermione that what they just said was not a joke, but listened carefully to her experience in the castle.

"Oh? Not on the first floor or the headmaster's office? Where is it?"

"It's the Room of Requirement, Professor!" Hermione's eyes lit up, and she looked at Jon. "Before at sea, Jon told me that when he played Randy in Hogwarts Castle, he started making Polyjuice Potion on the eighth floor of the castle, hidden in the magic room opposite a tapestry - the Room of Requirement. That room is magical, it can almost meet all people's needs, so after asking Fawkes to search in the headmaster's office without results, I thought of this room. I think if it is really so magical, it will definitely help me find the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets."

Jon also guessed what Hermione wanted to say later at this time.

"It turns out that even the Dark Lord himself actually used the Room of Requirement to enter the Chamber of Secrets!"

"Yes! Later, I observed from the Marauder's Map that he also used this method to enter. Just as Professor Dumbledore analyzed before, the Dark Lord knew that Mr. Slytherin was willing to help us, so he must move the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets from its original location, because the person who built it must know where it is better than anyone else, and his target of transfer is the Room of Requirement!"

Dumbledore also said thoughtfully.

"This is certainly a good choice. The Room of Requirement is very hidden. Although it cannot be guaranteed that no one knows about it, it is almost impossible for anyone to associate this room with Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

As for the Room of Requirement, even Dumbledore himself did not know about it until John returned from Hogwarts Castle in his second year. Even Dumbledore himself did not fully explore the wonders of this castle (according to the original Harry Potter book, Dumbledore should have known about the Room of Requirement because he went to the toilet during the Triwizard Tournament).

"I found a lot of magic runes in the Chamber of Secrets."

Hermione talked about her gains. She took out the parchment used for recording from her bag and handed it to Dumbledore.

"Time is urgent, I can only copy these down. In addition, there is a dwarf who looks like a ghost tied under Mr. Slytherin's statue, but it has no consciousness. No matter what, I can't wake him up. When the Dark Lord first came to the Chamber of Secrets, I hid in the secret passage that Mr. Slytherin told me. When he left and I came out again, the dwarf had disappeared."

Dumbledore looked at the contents recorded on the parchment and listened to Hermione's narration. His brows frowned at some point.

After Hermione finished telling her experiences in the castle, the headmaster's office fell into silence. It was not until a long time later that Dumbledore's sigh broke the silence.

"We guessed right, Salazar, he is planning to kill the castle, or rather, he is already doing it."

Dumbledore's words caused an uproar on the wall full of portraits of past principals!

"How dare he! Doing this is equivalent to erasing thousands of years of British magic history!"

"If he really does this, what else can he get?"

"Instead of trying every means to kill Hogwarts! Why doesn't he just build a new school? Why does he always occupy the position of principal like a clown?"

"Maybe he knows he can't get it, so he wants to destroy it directly? Let us completely lose the chance to regain the school?"

"That will only make us completely lose any thoughts and worries! The castle is dead, so what if we always use the carriage as a school in the future!"

The principals launched a fierce condemnation and discussion. They obviously didn't expect Voldemort to dare to do this, even though they had already had certain speculations before.

And Jon and Hermione looked at each other.

Jon had no idea what Dumbledore was up to when he asked Hermione to sneak into the castle at this time. Hermione herself only knew what she was going to do, but she didn't know what the point of doing so was.

Dumbledore clapped his hands gently to stop the headmasters' noise.

"Don't get excited. He is indeed doing this now, but this is also good news, isn't it? Now that he still can't stay in the castle for a long time, it means that his plan has not succeeded yet. The so-called killing of Hogwart Ci Castle is just a futile move."

However, Salazar, who had just been hung on the wall, said with a serious face.

"But we don't know whether he wanted to establish his own authority over the school while trying to kill the castle itself."

"He wants to kill Hogwarts and rebuild it!" a bitter old man screamed, and the other principals also looked angry.

"Killing it and rebuilding it will completely separate this castle from us and turn Hogwarts into something else!"

Dumbledore's fingers tapped lightly on the table. He seemed to be thinking about something and was hesitant about a certain issue.

By this time, Jon could almost hear what the principals were talking about.

He remembered what Firenze had said to him in the Forbidden Forest. After the decisive battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort, Hogwarts Castle was occupied all the time, but that man's The goal was never achieved. Directly above the Castle in the Sky, the star representing Hogwarts was always shining.

So he told about his encounter in the Forbidden Forest.

"Before I entered the Forbidden Forest to participate in the competition, Hagrid asked me to help look after his former gamekeeper friends there. Among them, I met several Bowtruckles, a group of unicorns and a man named The Pegasus of Hoth, it was with their help that I was able to survive the difficulties in the Forbidden Forest and solve the problems caused by the madness of the fire dragon. Similarly, I also encountered a Hogwarts castle there. s student."

Dumbledore repeated Jon's last words softly.

"Students in Hogwarts Castle?"

"Yes, his name is Cedric Diggory, and he is a student at the Half-blood Academy in the castle."

When Jon said the name, Hermione and Dumbledore looked at each other, surprise evident in their eyes.

Jon also noticed their reaction and asked with some confusion.

"Have you heard this name before?"

Hermione explained to him.

"When I sneaked into Hogwarts Castle in the middle of the night, I saw on the Marauder's Map that this person climbed into the secret passage on the fourth floor of Hogwarts and left the school. I reported this to Professor Dumbledore, he thinks this student may be able to win over to our side."

Jon nodded seriously.

"He is indeed unable to accept the oppression of the Dark Lord's policies in Britain, but he has never been able to resist. A year ago, he accidentally met the current leader of the centaurs tribe who was still lingering in the Forbidden Forest - Faerun Ze, learned of their difficult situation and the danger of being driven out, so he was willing to risk his life to help them and wanted to rescue them from the Forbidden Forest, but they had never found a suitable opportunity until this day. During the Triwizard Tournament, the remaining centaurs were trapped in the valley by three fire dragons and almost starved to death. It was Cedric who took the risk and ran out of the castle again, trying to help them out of trouble, but in the end he had no choice. Found me."

"Hagrid told me that he had friends among the centaurs, so I agreed to Cedric's request and helped him rescue the centaurs from the valley. Firenze took the remaining ten Several centaurs asked me for help. He hoped that I could persuade Professor You to help them leave the Forbidden Forest and leave England. He also told me something about astrology."

Then Jon told everything about the star that represented Hogwarts Castle, causing Dumbledore and the others in the portrait to fall into silence for a while.

"The centaurs are indeed unique in their astrological divination." The principal named Delise, who used to be a therapist at St. Mungo's, said, "If they had really seen this more than ten years ago."

Sirius' great-great-grandfather said with disdain.

"At the beginning, they themselves said that they wanted not to get involved in the bad blood between wizards. Albus had personally gone to the Forbidden Forest to persuade them that even if they did not want to provide help to any party, it was best to leave there. But how did those centaurs themselves do it? They said, 'If wizards really come to invade our home, we will look good on them! You can't understand our courage, Dumbledore.' Are they? These are what they said themselves, why have they changed their words now? Let’s help them. Didn’t Firenze feel ashamed when he said this?”

Dumbledore waved his hand.

"The centaurs are an ethnic group Phineas, not a community of consciousness. Just like we and Riddle are both wizards, we also have different ideas. The centaurs who decided to stay in the Forbidden Forest were the same people. Firenze, who is asking us for help now, is different from other centaurs. His attitude towards wizards has always been very friendly. Before Riddle attacked the castle, he came to find us specifically because of divination when danger was coming. We were told about his divination in advance, so he is our friend.”

"Are you going to help them?" Phoenix asked.

Dumbledore nodded.

"Of course we have to help them. In order to enforce bloodline rule, Riddle has almost abolished the human rights of all half-human creatures. These can also become our friends, and even without these, don't forget I said we are friends."

He specially emphasized the last sentence and finally concluded the matter.

Jon was not surprised by this. He knew from the beginning that Dumbledore would never give up on these centaurs no matter what he considered.

Since Jon brought the topic to the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore naturally asked about his status during the game.

Jon told his story.

"Thanks to Hoth's presence, if Hagrid hadn't asked me to go look for it in the Forbidden Forest at the beginning, then something might have happened to me at the beginning of the dragon group's turmoil."

Dumbledore laughed at the mention of Hoth's name.

"I know that Glaling horse. I was the one who gave it to Hagrid in the first place. At that time, it was just a little pony. It was captured by a dark wizard who wanted to study the speed magic from it. The secret of it was later saved by me. The different parts of its body that you see are the sequelae of its torture. Hagrid educated it very well, but at that time it was separated from Hogwarts Castle. When we escaped, Hagrid searched all over the Forbidden Forest but couldn't find it, so I couldn't bring it out of the Forbidden Forest. I'm glad he brought you this help."

Jon also talked about his arrangements for Hoth.

"After I asked him to put the things in the castle, I asked him to go to the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade to find Percival. Hagrid will be very happy to see him later."

Dumbledore crossed his hands in front of him, and the look in his eyes became a little incomprehensible.

"So, we can actually confirm that in this first project, the riot about the fire dragon was done by Riddle and the others?"

Jon became a little hesitant at this time.

"When we were in the Forbidden Forest, I had no other doubts at all. I was already sure that it was him who did it. But after the game ended when he came over and said what he said, I was a little unsure again. He looked really There was no disappointment at all, as if he didn’t care whether I lived or died, which is very abnormal.”

Dumbledore said softly.

"His thoughts are indeed unpredictable, but don't forget the several purposes we listed for him at the beginning. What is the most critical among them?"

Jon didn't hesitate, he always remembered.

"His soul state is still unstable and he needs some special means to fully restore his strength!"