A large cloud floated over to block the bright moon in the sky, and a strong wind blew howling on the spacious lawn of the Hogwarts campus. The Hogwarts Castle on the cliff bank was brightly lit, but Those flickering candlelights conveyed an inexplicable sense of fear and uneasiness.
Amosta personally escorted the three lost little wizards back to the Gryffindor common room. Harry seemed to see what he would do next. Standing in front of the portrait of the Fat Lady, he asked Professor Blaine to Let yourself do something,
"It's all because of me--"
Harry didn't dare to look into Ron's eyes, lowered his head and said sadly,
"If I can be more vigilant and not trust that notebook so easily, maybe Ginny will not be kidnapped into the Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid will not be taken away by the Ministry of Magic, and Lucius Malfoy will not be able to find a chance to drive away Principal Dumbledore!"
"It's not your fault, Harry--"
Hermione patted Harry's back softly,
"Many wizards who are more experienced than you are unable to resist the mysterious man's temptation... We didn't realize that the diary contained evil intentions."
"Hogwarts can no longer afford to lose another young wizard, Potter--"
Amosta's memory hidden in the dormitory told him some key information, but it did not mention the specific location of the secret room. He looked at Harry, who was in a depressed mood, with a slightly meaningful smile.
"The basilisk in the secret room is not something that a young wizard who has not graduated can easily deal with. If you encounter it accidentally, be sure not to look at it--"
On the way back, Amosta met Professor McGonagall outside the campus hospital on the fourth floor. She had a furious look on her face and was scolding several senior female Hufflepuff students. She saw Amosta coming from a distance. , Professor McGonagall stopped yelling and asked Filch beside him to escort them back to the dormitory.
"These students!"
Professor McGonagall's face turned pale, she pursed her lips and spat out each word.
"They actually sneaked out to find Gilderoy, hoping that he could help deal with the heir... It's really funny, even Albus can't do anything about it-"
"It can only be said that Professor Lockhart's previous books indeed have considerable bewitching power."
Amosta shrugged and said, and then he saw Professor McGonagall taking out a lace handkerchief and gently wiping his eyes behind his square lenses, and said in a thick nasal voice.
"--Fudge told me when he came here before that tomorrow Rufus Scrimgeour, the director of the Auror Office, will lead people to the castle to conduct a thorough investigation of Hogwarts and the students and staff in the school... .
I really hope that the person who did all this secretly can feel ashamed of his actions and take the responsibility...I still don't know how to explain to Arthur and Molly that Hogwarts failed to save their lives. daughter! "
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By the time Amosta calmed down Professor McGonagall and returned to the office after collecting the panoramic telescopes he had arranged in the school corridor, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.
Only half of the pictures on the office's surveillance wall were still functioning. The pictures from the Gryffindor dormitory to the third floor of the school were all plunged into darkness.
"The third floor..."
Based on this alone, Amosta confirmed this key information. He sat cross-legged on the ground, spread out the panoramic telescopes damaged by the freezing spell in front of him, and began to repair the magic corridors one by one, because Because of the severity of the damage, it took Amosta a while to complete the job.
call--
When the time came to eleven o'clock, Amosta stood up and took out his wand and pointed it at the panoramic telescope on the ground. Under the pull of magic power, hundreds of rays of light like golden sand gradually converged in mid-air to form a frame. The picture, the only information left in the picture made Amosta narrow his eyes slightly.
Sure enough, there was no one else in the picture except Ginny Weasley!
Amosta watched Ginny walk out from behind the Fat Lady's portrait with a black diary in her hand. She gave a deep, sinister smile to the panoramic telescope on the ceiling of the corridor, and then waved her wand suddenly. , the originally calm screen suddenly trembled, and then turned completely black.
The last place Ginny appeared was on the third floor. She stood at the corner of the stairs on the third floor, destroying Amosta's panoramic telescopes in the same way, and her final whereabouts remain a mystery.
Amosta checked the historical pictures on the second and first floors again and found that Ginny did not continue going downstairs, and the third floor was indeed the ground where she last stayed.
This is an interesting thing. What is there on the third floor?
Could it be said that Slytherin's secret room is located there?
Tuk-tuk-tuk!
Just when Amosta's thoughts fell into a brief trance, the office door suddenly rang heavily. Judging from the frequency and urgency, the visitor must be in a very urgent mood.
Although the door has not yet been opened, Amosta has already sensed who is coming from the magical perspective, and can't help but look a little strange.
"Miss Granger?"
Amosta moved his fingers, and the door of the office opened with a click. Hermione, who almost threw herself against the door, stumbled in accidentally.
"Can you explain why, at this moment of silence, you violated school rules and Professor McGonagall's orders and came to my office late at night?"
"Professor Blaine!"
Normally, if a professor spoke to her in a displeased manner, Hermione might have tremblingly admitted her mistake, but now, she completely ignored Professor Blaine's raised eyebrows and ran straight to the professor in three steps at a time. In front of Amosta, she used her remaining sense to restrain herself from tugging Amosta's sleeve directly, but her tone was still extremely urgent,
"Professor, we found the location of the secret room!"
Amosta suddenly frowned. He looked at the little witch seriously. In just a moment, he judged that Hermione was not lying.
This is really strange. I have obviously sent them back to the common room of Gryffindor College. Could it be that these stubborn little guys came out to search the castle on their own?
"Details of your findings, Miss Granger!"
Now was not the time to dwell on unimportant matters. Amosta stabilized his mind and asked directly.
"Huh..., that's it, Professor Blaine!"
Hermione breathed heavily, but now, she had no time to ask Professor Blaine for a cup of tea. She licked her dry lips and said in a hoarse but fast tone,
"It's Harry..., after returning to the common room, the three of us did not go back to the dormitory to sleep. Instead, we discussed Reed... the mysterious man's diary in the common room. At the beginning, They were talking about meaningless things, but then, Harry suddenly thought of something very important!"
"whats the matter?"
Looking at Hermione, whose amber eyes suddenly widened, Amosta asked quickly.
"--When Harry was communicating with the diary before, he accidentally heard the diary say that the student who died due to a basilisk attack fifty years ago had her last place of death in a bathroom. In the room!"
"Go on, Miss Granger!"
Amosta's eyebrows moved slightly, and there was obvious excitement in his tone. The so-called 'protagonist' is really a magical species, and all kinds of opportunities are really snatched and stuffed into his hands!
"The bathroom on the third floor!"
Hermione said decisively,
"There has always been a ghost in that bathroom. We all call her 'Myrtle'. It is the student who died fifty years ago. We got clues from it. Harry opened the entrance to the secret room. He and Ron went to save Ginny first...Phew, Harry arranged for me to come over and inform you about this!"
Amosta's hunched shoulders returned again. He breathed a long sigh of relief and finally smiled.
"Come on, Miss Granger, let us go and bring that poor little girl back!"
