Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 219: The Vanishing Myrtle, Mrs. Norris’s provocation, and the Screaming Chicken is all the rage!
Professor Oliver announced his disbandment.

Lin Xia quickly pulled Hermione and Draco out, telling them to use the "invisibility spell" as they walked out.

Not long after completing the spell, they saw Professor Lockhart following closely behind them.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath.

After waiting quietly for a few minutes, Lin Xia nodded to them, indicating that they could relax.

But she hadn't lifted the invisibility spell yet, and instead walked in another direction.

Seeing this, Draco and Hermione did not lift the invisibility spell and continued to follow Lin Xia.

These outstanding second-year students all follow the same patrol route.

At the same time, outstanding sixth-grade students are also on these patrol routes, which is a kind of care for the newcomers.

If anything happens, senior students can rush to the rescue immediately.

Filch did not look at Hermione, but stared at Lin Xia, his body hunched slightly.

She doesn't want to be alone.

Without Lin Xia's need to answer, Draco answered: "Didn't you notice that no one is willing to team up with Professor Lockhart, not even the professor?"

Filch's voice came in a low voice: "It ran to the bathroom again. Recently, it always runs to the bathroom, as if there is something there. I am very worried about it."

He paused, "The last weekend night patrol was with Professor Lockhart.

I think it would be better to follow Lin Xia and Draco. After all, they have done night patrols several times and are more experienced.

The oil lamp swayed in front of him, and the thin light made his body extremely thin, looking more and more like a skeleton.

Soon, a ray of shadow slowly came out from the corner of the wall, and then Filch appeared in front of them.

Found nothing.

Hermione felt slightly relieved, but still did not let down her guard.

Because everyone freely decides which patrol point to go to first, even if some people patrol the same route but go to different places first, they will not encounter each other.

Hermione looked at Lin Xia, and was about to say what about their patrol, but found Draco following her without saying a word.

Filch was usually not friendly to Gryffindor students.

When a strange vision occurs, he will only call me to come forward and hide behind me. What use do I need this kind of partner?
At that time, I didn’t know whether he was going to protect me or I was going to protect him. "

Lin Xia and Draco looked up, and in the next second, they waved "fluorescence flash".

After this battle, Draco realized how far away Professor Lockhart was and how far he could hide.

Professor Lockhart is not on the same line as us. If you want to go back and find him, you can do it at any time, in the way you like. "

Hermione thought about it.

They did not enter the lounge, but only tested on the periphery, and found nothing.

Then, they arrived at the Slytherin common room.

When they left the basement, suddenly, Hermione waved a ray of "fluorescent light" from the tip of her wand.

Rather than the oil lamp he held in his hand, he looked more like a human-shaped oil lamp in its final years.

Draco spread his hands: "That's the problem. If the professor can patrol alone, why would he seek to form a team with students?"

Lin Xia noticed her gaze and said in a deep voice: "Hermione, I agree with Draco's point of view, otherwise I wouldn't have asked you to use the invisibility spell.

Hermione's frown deepened.

After walking for a while, Hermione couldn't help but ask: "Why are we hiding from Professor Lockhart?"

By his side, there was no Mrs. Norris who was often seen.

Hermione said loudly: "The Professor is capable of patrolling alone!"

Lin Xia couldn't help but ask: "Where is Mrs. Loris?"

In order to prevent the previous "Invisibility Spell" incident from happening, this time they all used the counter-spell of the Invisibility Spell to detect it.

Lin Xia quickly made a decision: "Take me to have a look."

She couldn't help but look at Lin Xia.

She always felt that Draco and Ron had too deep prejudices against Professor Lockhart.

Lin Xia and the others, for example, have never met an outstanding sixth-grade student this time, let alone a professor.

Hermione glanced around and immediately followed.

Filch led the way, holding a dim oil lamp in his hand.

Hermione frowned: "He loves the students and wants to protect us, so he wants to team up with us."

Draco shook his head: "Hermione, it's meaningless for you to say that. The Dean's love for us is no less than that of Professor Lockhart, but why didn't the Dean form a team with us?"

Still want to form a team?
no way!

Their first patrol point was the Gryffindor common room.

She asked with a puzzled look on her face: "Who is there?"

The light shone on his gray hair again, making it dry like weeds.

No one made a sound, only the black shadow followed silently.

Lin Xia thought to herself that if there were any little wizards traveling at night and seeing this scene, they would probably think that they had bumped into a ghost.

After a while, they came to the second floor.

When they arrived at their destination, Hermione recognized him immediately.

"Isn't this the bathroom where Moaning Myrtle is?"

Draco asked curiously: "Moaning Myrtle?"

Hermione said in a mysterious tone: "I also heard ghost stories from others. There used to be a ghost in Hogwarts called Myrtle.

She was a student at Hogwarts, but no one knew how she died. Even she herself had never told the cause of her death.

Everyone only knows that she likes to spy on male wizards going to the bathroom, and often confesses her love to her prefects. Peeves likes to bully her the most.

But one day, Myrtle suddenly disappeared! Even the professor cannot explain this phenomenon. "

Lin Xia asked: "Has the professor ever tried to find Myrtle?"

Hermione nodded hesitantly: "I should have looked for it. Every ghost in Hogwarts is known. If Myrtle disappears suddenly, everyone will be worried."

Lin Xia then asked: "But you didn't find it out in the end?"

Hermione shook her head: "It was like evaporating from the world, it suddenly disappeared.

I heard that a student once asked Professor Trauni about this question. The professor tried to divine but found nothing. The professor said..."

Hermione tried hard to recall what she had heard, "What did you say... Destiny fell into a fog, and there was a bronze thing... that exchanged Myrtle's soul... and it rested..."

Lin Xia lowered her head slightly, making her expression unclear.

Draco thought for a while: "Since the word [rest in peace] is used, then Myrtle should have no regrets after disappearing."

Hermione said in agreement: "The reason why ghosts become ghosts is that their obsession during their lifetime was too deep. When this obsession disappears, they can be freed."

Ghosts look just like normal people, but they are actually very different.

They cannot feel any emotions, they are only immersed in their own world and cannot feel the outside world.

Maybe they look like they have a personality and say hello to the wizard.

But for the ghost, these things have no emotion at all, and have been reduced to a mechanical level.

Go into the bathroom.

They heard Mrs. Norris's voice calling to the ceiling.

"Meow meow!"

This meow was extremely shrill and harsh, but Mrs. Norris was very persistent.

Lin Xia inexplicably heard a hint of provocation in these meows that never stopped.

After seeing the bathroom, she knew that Mrs. Norris might have discovered something.

This is the bathroom where Myrtle stayed during her lifetime, and it is also the entrance to the secret room!

When she followed Mrs. Norris' gaze, her eyes flashed slightly when she saw the ceiling.

Although the entrance to the pipe in the secret room is downwards, it does not mean that there is no pipe above. Otherwise, how would the basilisk crawl out along the pipe?
Filch had already picked up Mrs. Norris, who kept screaming. Only in his arms did Mrs. Norris look less angry.

Filch stroked the sparsely haired Lady Norris as if he were stroking a loved one.

He said hoarsely: "It has been in this state for several days. Whenever it is free, it will bark at the ceiling here."

Lin Xia asked: "Have you found anyone else to come and see it?"

Filch: "Professor Snape took a look at it for me. He checked it with a certain spell and said there was nothing strange here."

Hermione would not doubt that Professor Snape was not trying his best. As a professor, he still had this basic rule.

What's more, Mrs. Norris may have discovered some kind of strange phenomenon. At present, the cats at Hogwarts are quite sensitive to things on the evil side.

Hermione asked: "The problem is the ceiling. Could it be that he only tested the interior but not the ceiling, so he missed something?"

Lin Xia shook his head: "No, Snape is the Potions Professor, he would not do such an imprecise thing.

Even though he looks impatient on the surface, he will do the work that needs to be done, and he should inspect the ceiling together. "

She looked at Filch, thought for a moment, and said, "I have a Potions class tomorrow, and I will ask Professor Snape again."

Lin Xiafu looked at Mrs. Loris in his arms and whispered: "The little guy is more sensitive. If he finds something, he wants to solve it.

But if there really is something big, its small body is not enough to see. Let Mrs. Norris come out after the vision is eliminated. "

Mrs. Norris couldn't help but "meow".

Lin Xia did not forget the tips given by the Fate Compass. It was very simple to change Mrs. Loris' fate of being petrified.

Just close it up.

The reminder was obvious enough, what to do next was Filch's business.

Lin Xia, Draco and Hermione left the abandoned bathroom on the second floor and continued their night patrol.

This time on night patrol, they found three visions——

A ghost that never appeared, a ball that suddenly appeared, a burst of laughter that suddenly appeared.

After reporting the three visions, everyone returned to their respective dormitories.

Lin Xia came to the golden wooden house.

Fairy Bai called "meow" to her a few times, and then lay in her arms.

During this school year, Fairy Bai fell into a deep sleep most of the time.

However, when she was practicing, it would suddenly wake up and silently run to the practice room to sleep, never missing the opportunity to draw in a little bit of strength.

Lin Xia stroked its fur, which was gradually turning gray, and guessed that Fairy White must be undergoing some kind of bloodline awakening.

The bloodline deep in its soul is a black and white cat, but this bloodline is too weak.

I don’t know how many awakenings it will take before I can gradually get closer to the bloodline hidden deep in my soul.

Only when it evolves to a certain level can Lin Xia reversely deduce what power that bloodline contains.

Lust the queen cat.

Lin Xia went to the small laboratory that came with the wooden house, opened the diary, and talked to Tom.

Recently, she would talk to Tom every night, hoping to learn more about the secret room from him.

She knew how to open the secret room and how to enter it.

But the last time she went in as a spirit body, she only felt that it was deep and complicated, and she didn't explore it too much.

This time, she had to prepare in advance and then find the opportunity to fully explore the secret room and maybe fight a basilisk.

Tom: [Frequent visions are a sign. Even Hogwarts is warning you, don’t take it lightly]
Lin Xia: [But everyone says that Hogwarts is the safest place in the UK]
Tom: [There is no such thing as the safest place]
Lin Xia: [But I still want to prevent the basilisk from emerging. Tom, my friend, can you give me some useful advice? ]
Tom: [Of course, I don’t want Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets to be defiled by people with impure blood. Only the true heir can open the Chamber of Secrets! ]
Tom: […these are the methods I think of, and you can implement them one by one. It may not be useful, but once the basilisk hears it, it will definitely be very uncomfortable]
Wait until the next day.

Many young wizards who had the habit of running in the morning noticed that Lin Xia suddenly had a necklace of rooster tail feathers on her neck.

Not only that, Lin Xia seemed to be playing with a toy.

That kind of toy is a bit like a Q version of a chicken. Just pinch it gently and the chicken will let out a loud "cluck!"
The little wizard calls this toy "Screaming Chicken".

——You will scream when you pinch it!
At first, only Lin Xia wore it herself.

Later, Draco, Hermione, Ron and Harry all wore rooster tail feather necklaces and screamed chickens hanging around their waists.

They deliberately picked a place where there were many little wizards. From time to time, they walked a few steps and pinched the screaming chickens around their waists.

A clear and loud "cluck-clack" chicken crow came, which made people feel refreshed.

After Lin Xia waited for the screaming chicken to finish crowing, she would also say a special sentence:
"I've been a little sleepy studying lately and I need to listen to the crow of roosters to regain my energy."

Not only did she do this herself, but she also asked Hermione and others to do the same.

There are three outstanding students who personally endorsed it, plus the celebrity effect of Harry, and the incidental influence of Ron.

After just one day, Screaming Chicken became popular throughout the second grade.

From the second grade to the first grade, the little wizards in the first and second grade will take the Screaming Chicken with them wherever they go.

As for the rooster tail feather necklace, there are two of them!

Wear one around your neck and one on your wrist.

One is never too little, two is never too many.

Some little wizards don't know that they really think "turning into a chicken" is useful, so they even wear a rooster felt hat on their head and four or five screaming chickens hanging around their waists.

The screaming chickens make noise wherever they go.

Well, there's nothing wrong except that my head is a little hot.

Ron and Harry hurried through the corridor and entered Lin Xia's laboratory.

Ron rubbed his ears in horror and muttered: "It feels like there is noise pollution outside, and only the laboratory can be quieter."

Harry also said: "But the professor didn't stop us. After hearing the function of the Screaming Chicken, Professor Flitwick praised it very much and said that he also needs one."

Lin Xia, Hermione and Draco are still studying the guardian talisman.

Recently, their research time has been greatly increased, and everyone has a hunch that it is not far away from the launch of a new enhanced version of the guardian talisman!

At this time, a week had passed since Screaming Chicken became popular.

Not only first- and second-year wizards are willing to wear them, but even some third- and fourth-year wizards are willing to wear them.

Suddenly, the entire Hogwarts became a sea of ​​"giggles".

For those who don't know better, when they walk into Hogwarts, they think they are walking into a large breeding farm.

Maybe she was stimulated by the "cluck", and Fairy Bai recently woke up from her deep sleep.

It could barely regain some energy during the day and ran outside to inquire about the enemy's situation.

Lin Xia specially gave Fairy Bai a full body examination and thought that it should be the awakening of the bloodline from the visible layer to the dark layer.

Transition from outside to inside.

Although she had more waking hours, she was still very tired, so she asked Fairy Bai to do what she could.

Lin Xia warned it: "As soon as you feel any danger, close your eyes immediately. As long as you don't look into the basilisk's eyes, you won't be petrified immediately.

You can take a look at the bathroom in the next few days. I plan to go to the secret room before Halloween.

By the way, Mrs. Norris has been very restless recently. If you encounter her, you'd better stop her from provoking the basilisk in the bathroom on the second floor. "

After the White Fairy woke up, she came into contact with Mrs. Loris and learned about its abnormality.

After Fairy Bai's translation, Lin Xia finally figured out what Mrs. Loris was shouting at the ceiling.

What they call is——

"Come here! If you have the guts, come here! Come out and beat me!"

Lin Xia was slightly embarrassed.

It's really brave of a skilled man, but fortunately the basilisk didn't care.

After giving the instructions, Lin Xia continued to open the diary and communicated the solution with Tom.

When Tom learned that Lin Xia was going to enter the secret room, his reaction was very big.

Tom: [You cannot open the Chamber of Secrets. I advise you not to think about it. Only the heir of Slytherin can open it! ]
Its mood seemed a little excited, and even the words it wrote started to shake, sometimes getting bigger and sometimes smaller.

Lin Xia: [If you mean Parseltongue, I will]
Tom was immediately speechless.

After a moment of silence, a paragraph of text emerged.

[Why do you speak Parseltongue? Obviously only descendants of Salazar have this talent]
Lin Xia: [Tom, you also said that this is a talent. Salazar had this talent back then. Why didn't you know that other people also had this talent?

Besides, the basilisk has been released, and many professors at Hogwarts have guessed that it is most likely the basilisk that is secretly causing tension.

How could the Basilisk be released if there were no Parseltongues?
I want to prevent tragedy from happening before it becomes more serious. Don’t worry, I won’t take the risk alone, a professor will accompany me]
Tom: [No! That secret room is Slytherin's legacy and cannot be touched by other houses! ! ]
Lin Xia: [If you don’t want to be touched by others, then come out of the diary, appear as a living person, and do what you want to do, instead of just shrinking in the diary as a weak spirit body]
After writing this paragraph, Lin Xia closed the diary.

She put the diary into a box with forbidden magic words on it.

Taking into account Tom's excitement and the fact that the diary was becoming increasingly powerful, Lin Xia took out a larger box with the same forbidden magic text and put this box in.

Another layer of protection!
At the same time, Lin Xia was also thinking about how to communicate with the professor and that he could speak snake language.

Knowing where the secret room is is easy.

Let’s just say that Mrs. Norris always went to that bathroom to call out. After a closer look, she discovered something strange in the faucet.

The faucet hides the passage that opens the secret chamber.

But the prerequisite for opening the secret room is to be able to speak snake language.

However, before Lin Xia could come up with a more reasonable explanation.

An accident happened ahead of time!
(End of this chapter)