days at Hogwarts

Chapter 174 The Strange Snake Picture

"I should have found out that the toilet was broken earlier, and Myrtle wouldn't have lived in such a humid place for so long." A gentle and old voice sounded beside her.

Loren glanced at Dumbledore: "Principal, when did you come?"

"While you're fixing the toilet." Dumbledore smiled gently, both to Myrtle and Loren.

Dumbledore stroked Loren's hair, as if hoping to get rid of the little resentment he didn't realize in this way: "Hogwarts will set aside a place for her to live forever, until a little wizard like you Help her accept death."

"Leave a toilet and a toilet, right?" Loren rolled his eyes and patted his big hand off his head. "Also, don't send me any strange tasks, I can't do it."

Dumbledore smiled and said, "It's not a mission, it's a beautiful vision."

"Let's get down to business. The two of us don't speak Parseltongue, so we might not even be able to get into the secret room."

Loren didn't bother to argue with him on this matter. If he said too much, he might be caught. He turned around and began to observe the row of copper faucets on the sink.

"Relax, a kind person showed me the way last week." Dumbledore waved his wand, and a small flower snake gradually formed in the stagnant water, attracting the attention of the two.

The meaning of this is that Voldemort personally took Dumbledore into the secret room for a night tour, the password was set, and his underwear was gone.Loren silently mourned for Voldemort for three seconds.

The small flower snake twisted its slender body, climbed up from the edge of the pool, and wrapped itself around a copper faucet. On the side of the copper pipe, there was a serpentine pattern carved on it.

Most of its tail was hung on the dragon head, and the little flower snake's head was in the air, making a "hiss~ hiss!" sound at the snake pattern.

The faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly. The little flower snake wrapped around it turned into flowing water and fell into the pool, melting into the water.The entire sink slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe below, the diameter of which can probably accommodate a person to get in.

"It seems that I haven't reached the stage of dementia yet. Although I don't know the meaning of Parseltongue, I can still reproduce the same voice..." Dumbledore looked proud.

Loren stretched out his neck to look at the pipes. The smell of sewer came from the pipes. It was dirty, dark and bottomless.Taking advantage of the light in the bathroom, you can see the wet slime near the entrance.

He took a few steps back, stretched out his hand and said, "Principal, you have experience, please go first."

Dumbledore shook his head with a smile, and tapped Loren's clothes lightly with his wand.Loren felt a gentle force lift himself up gently through the clothes, and his whole body became light and buoyant. This feeling was similar to Professor Flitwick's improved Levitation Charm.

"Let's start the adventure!" Dumbledore said childishly, pulling Loren into the pipe.

The two slid in the underground pipe, turning left and right sometimes like a roller coaster, with ups and downs and falls. They couldn't tell the distance and had no time reference, sliding all the way forward along the thick pipe.

Loren can see many thinner pipe forks extending in all directions, but only the main pipe they are on can accommodate a person's body size, so there is no need to worry about slipping the wrong way.

After twists and turns, an endless slide.

The two slid out of the pipe with a whoosh, floated in mid-air and landed slowly.Loren estimated the direction and distance, and roughly guessed that they were under the Black Lake now.

"Pay attention to your feet." Dumbledore flicked the extinguisher, and three or four balls of light flew out from the top of the extinguisher. The balls of light could not find torches and candlesticks in the tunnel, and could only float in mid-air.

This is a circular stone tunnel, and the ground is covered with the bones of small animals. Some of the bones have been weathered for too long, turning into piles of ashes and bone pieces of indeterminate shape.

The water flowing out of the pipe seeped into the ashes, forming a mound of bones on the ground, some of which were even taller than a person.

The tunnel was as dead as a cemetery, and the bones were graves.

Loren didn't speak, Dumbledore looked around with a serious expression, and took the initiative to hold Loren's hand and lead him forward.Two people, one old and one young, trampled down piles of bones, large and small.

Turning a corner, I saw a huge monster lying in the mouth from a distance - a [-]-foot-long snake slough.

I don’t know how long this snake skin has been shed. It has not shrunk and dried up due to the erosion of the years. It still has a gorgeous, green shimmer on it, and the traces of diamond-shaped scales are clearly visible. You can feel the snake skin just by looking at it. Smooth and firm texture on leather.

"Principal, how do you think it should be divided? How about half for one person?" Loren pressed his hand, which was thick and hard. It was not so much a snake skin nursing room as a snake shell, and its defense must be full.

Dumbledore was examining the snake's slough carefully, trying to figure out the year and the size of the basilisk, and he smiled happily. He felt that Loren could always say something unexpected, and he was confident.

"Loren—"

"Huh? Could it be that you want to account for [-]% of the principal, it's not impossible, after all, you are the principal."

"Have you ever thought that this is the great legacy left to Hogwarts by the founder Slytherin?"

Loren frowned and thought for a while: "What you said makes sense, so you, as the headmaster of Hogwarts, get [-]% and I, as a student of Hogwarts, get [-]%."

His expression struggled, obviously it was very difficult to make this decision: "It can't be less, it really can't be less."

Dumbledore couldn't help ruffling his hair, and pulled him forward: "Let's talk about the matter of the snake slough later, at least until the end of this school year."

Turning one turn after another in the tunnel, the two walked for an unknown amount of time, and finally came to the end of the tunnel.

The end of the circular tunnel was sealed by a solid stone wall, and there was a straight crack in the middle, which appeared to be a door that opened left and right.

On the wall, two snake-shaped stone sculptures with clear scales are lifelike, their lower bodies are intertwined with each other, and the spirals are interlocked together.The necks of the two snakes arched in an arc, the two pairs of snake eyes stared at each other, and four large emeralds shone with a faint light.

The emeralds in the snake's eyes on the wall flickered and reflected in Loren's blue eyes. In his vision, the two snakes coiled around the door suddenly twisted, and the texture and color of the stone carvings faded from their bodies. Becomes matte flakes.

The tails of the two snakes swam to untangle themselves, and they swung back behind them. Their necks were slightly arched back, and they still maintained their attacking posture.

"hiss!"

One of the snakes twisted forward and opened its mouth to bite the head of the other snake, about to devour it.

Intense light burst out from the emerald, and two snakes along the crack of the door formed a very familiar image to Loren - the illustration on the first seven pages of "The Book of Abraham".

The same snake is devouring another snake, the door gap corresponds to the cane, and the scene in front of you is exactly the same as the illustration!
(End of this chapter)