The years of welding at Hogwarts

He and Snape stood at one side of a long, dimly lit room.

Many stone pillars carved with coiled snakes stood tall to support the ceiling which melted into the darkness above, casting long and eerie black shadows on the entire room which was filled with green and mysterious mist.

Without time to look further, Noah suddenly pushed Snape beside him towards the stone pillar closest to them.

At the same time, while he was dodging the killing curse with his serpentine movements, he also used an extremely coquettish sliding gesture to grab the helpless Fox on the ground.

Thanks to the wet floor that greatly reduced friction, Noah's slide was extremely smooth and he slid behind the stone pillar before the third killing curse came.

The stun grenade flew out of his hand, hit the dark wall and bounced off, then exploded right in front of the mysterious attacker.

The not-so-spacious enclosed space further increased the power of the stun grenade.

After hearing a hoarse roar of frustration, Noah and Snape dodged from behind the stone pillar without hesitation.

After being hit by flash grenades so many times, the arrogant Voldemort still only cares about the food and not the consequences when faced with this kind of Muggle technology.

The eight-point light wheel with a diameter of one meter and the invisible divine sword shot out at the same time, crossed each other in the air, and then slashed straight at the enemy hiding deep in the secret room.

Angry roars rang out in the Chamber of Secrets, but to Noah's surprise, the counterattack from Voldemort that he had imagined did not come.

On the contrary, Voldemort's dull footsteps became smaller and smaller, showing a trend of gradually fading away.

That’s it, that’s it?

Snape cast a few more spells in the direction where the sound came from, and after confirming that the enemy was indeed escaping, he hurriedly chased to the deepest part of the chamber of secrets.

Snape walked around the stone pillar where the giant snake was coiled, looked at the dark wall reflecting the light of water, and reluctantly gave up the idea of ​​continuing the pursuit.

The large hole in the wall was connected to the underground drainage network of Hogwarts Castle, and it was unknown where these pipes would lead to.

Not only is it difficult to track, but once Voldemort, who has the advantage of home terrain, finds the right opportunity to turn around and attack, they might all die here today.

At this time, Noah walked over slowly.

He finally had time to carefully look at everything in this spacious hall.

Chapter 99 I Don’t Want to Be a Human Anymore! Dumbledore!

When Noah reached the point parallel to the last pair of stone pillars, a statue as tall as the room itself suddenly appeared before his eyes, clinging to the dark wall behind it.

The huge face on the statue was ugly beyond words. It was an old and frail face, just like the Sandaime carved on the Hokage Rock.

A long, sparse beard reached almost to the hem of the wizard's robes carved from stone.

Two large gray feet stood on the smooth floor of the room.

Noah couldn't understand why Slytherin would put up a statue with this look. He was so ugly, yet so confident.

Right in front of the Slytherin statue, a dry area suddenly appeared on the wet stone floor. The reason for all this was a pile of burning magic fire and a crucible on it.

Snape raised his foot and kicked the crucible over like a street fighter.

Then, he squatted beside the overturned crucible and looked carefully at the suspicious liquid that had flowed all over the ground, even though the sizzling hot liquid was still bubbling and emitting an unpleasant odor.

But Snape didn't mind at all

Throw away the smell of rotten eggs and rotten vegetable leaves.

His big hooked nose twitched slightly as he carefully distinguished the ingredients of each potion ingredient in the liquid.

The holy blood of unicorns tastes fresh and unique. As an extremely rare potion material, unicorn blood, which contains strong vitality, can prolong the life of the person who takes it.

However, killing this sacred creature favored by nature will inevitably result in terrible retribution. If a unicorn does not donate its blood voluntarily, then its blood will contain a terrible curse power.

When it touches the lips of the drinker, the curse will stay with the drinker for the rest of his life.

If they were not really at the point of desperation, few people in the magic world would choose to prolong their lives in a way that would put them in an extremely painful state for the rest of their lives.

In addition to unicorn blood, Snape also smelled the scent of several other materials.

Heather.

The strange smell of this flower is extremely similar to the seeds that represent the birth of life.

Although it is not well received in the Muggle world, it is closely associated with the word "rebirth" in the wizarding world because of its unique taste, and most potions that restore vitality require it.

In addition, there are leek leaves that symbolize vigorous growth and will grow again after being cut.

There are basically few ingredients in a pot of potion that have nothing to do with life and growth.

It seems that Voldemort is indeed working hard to accumulate enough vitality for his resurrection.

Just as Snape was carefully searching the ingredients of the strange potion on the ground, Noah's attention was attracted by a strange tail not far from the crucible.

Looking at the tail in front of him, which was similar to a snake's tail and covered with rough scales, a thoughtful look appeared on Noah's face.

Voldemort is...

Not a human being anymore?

Through magical perception, Noah was able to determine that besides him and Snape, Voldemort was the only life force in the Chamber of Secrets at that time.

Although this tail is very similar to the basilisk, it is definitely not cut off from the second basilisk, so there is only one answer -

Voldemort: Dumbledore! Humans really have their limits. If there is anything I have learned in my short life, it is that the more a person schemes, the more he will feel that humans have their limits, unless he surpasses humans!

Dumbledore: What do you mean?

Voldemort: I am no longer a human being! Dumbledore!

Since this thick snake tail could not have come from a basilisk, it could only have been cut off from Voldemort.

It seems that during the time that Voldemort was dormant, he did a lot of things.

Perhaps it was Noah's previous actions that pushed him into a corner, and also caused him to lose Quirrell, an excellent tool who could keep him alive and do things for him, so that Voldemort became somewhat unscrupulous.

First, they went to all the trouble on the Quidditch field, and even sacrificed the life of a basilisk just to get some of Harry's blood...

No, something's wrong.

If Voldemort just wanted to get some of Harry's blood, there would be no need for him to go through so much trouble. He could use Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as Ron, and he could get Harry's blood without anyone knowing, and he wouldn't have to risk the life of the Basilisk.

A faint flash of inspiration came to my mind, but it was so illusory that I couldn't grasp it.

Noah frowned slightly, and put the tail on the ground, whose nerves were still alive and twitching from time to time, into the storage space, preparing to take it back for further study.

"Let's go, there's nothing good to stay here." Snape finished his research on the potion.

But Noah did not leave. He carefully observed the ugly stone statue of Slytherin not far away.

If he remembered correctly, all he had to do was face the ugly stone statue of a giant salmon and say the correct command in Parseltongue to open the statue.

"Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

As expected of Slytherin, who is extremely narcissistic, even the passwords are so unique.

Although he didn't know exactly what was behind the statue, he only knew that Tom Riddle in the original book summoned the basilisk from here.

However, it would not take up much of Noah's time and energy to go in and find out what was going on, and now Voldemort had also used the "oil the road" method to escape.

There is no danger in the secret room anymore.

Noah did not know snake language, so he tried to cast a spell to break the statue, but his magical attainments were still not enough for the ceiling-level wizards of a thousand years ago.

Snape also realized from Noah's actions that there was still a huge secret hidden behind the statue, so he stepped forward and waved his wand at the statue.

"Show your secret."

As the magical light fell, the statue remained motionless, as if it was just an ordinary stone statue carved from an ordinary piece of stone.

But whose ordinary stone statue could be bombarded repeatedly by Noah and Snape with the Eight-Point Light Wheel and the Divine Sword Shadowless, but in the end not even a piece of stone slag fell off?

If Fox had not been hit by the killing curse, Noah and his friends could have easily used Fokker's

Si's space teleportation arrived at the real secret room behind the statue.

But now...

Noah lowered his head with a sad look on his face, lifted up the hem of his clothes and took out a wrinkled bird without any hair on it from his trouser pocket.

How was he going to explain this to Dumbledore later?

Just tell Lao Deng, are you crazy?

Or has your bird shrunk?

Well, I can't worry about that. Although old Dumbledore's bird is withered, isn't it still alive and well? There will always be a day when it will regain its glory.

For the phoenix, nirvana and rebirth are just a normal thing.

According to Fox's normal life cycle, it will be time for its next rebirth around this time next year.

and many more……

Now there is a very serious problem.

When they first came in, they relied on Fox's teleportation to bypass the thick stone wall at the door and enter the secret room.

But now that Fox is weak, how are they going to get out?

Waiting online, very anxious.

Chapter 100 Strange Scales

In the end, Noah and Snape managed to escape without relying on Fox.

Previously, they relied on Fox to flash through the wall to save time.

If Voldemort thought that it was impossible for anyone else to find the Chamber of Secrets and hide inside, they could use Flash to successfully block Voldemort in the small dark room and whip him mercilessly.

They eventually succeeded in touching Voldemort's snake tail, but it was a little slippery and allowed the other party to escape.

There is no need to save time now. They can spend a lot of time to wear down this solid stone door. Even if the durability bar above it is very long, it will be used up eventually.

Not to mention that shortly after the not-so-serious battle in the Chamber of Secrets ended, both Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall received messages from Snape's Patronus.

The four of them worked together inside and outside, repeatedly torturing the stone door with freezing spells and fierce fire spells. Under the dual torture of extreme heat and extreme cold, the stone wall soon collapsed into a strange shapeless tofu dregs on the ground.

The original Dumbledore still had a happy look on his face.

After receiving so much bad news in succession, Snape's discovery of the location of Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets was undoubtedly a timely help for Dumbledore.

But unexpectedly, when the entrance door of the secret room collapsed into debris, he saw someone he had never expected.

Noah Shafrin.

Even if Snape said in the Patronus that he "himself" discovered the location of the Chamber of Secrets, the fact that Noah could appear in this place was something that Dumbledore could figure out, even if he swapped brains with the troll, that Snape's "discovery" was definitely related to Noah.

Forget it, love is what it is.

Dumbledore was already lying flat.

The current savior classmate Harry Pott is really a hopeless case.

When Dumbledore saw that the Hufflepuff Swordmaster was a rough gem that could be polished in that bathroom, Harry's priority in his heart was suddenly weakened a lot.

It's just that Dumbledore has a crucial operation that needs to be entrusted to Harry to execute, and it must be him, so Harry can still maintain his priority in Dumbledore's mind over Neville.

Otherwise, Harry would have been kicked into some corner by Dumbledore this time.

Seeing that Noah was still holding a wrinkled, hairless turkey in his hand, Dumbledore suddenly felt that his overburdened old heart was even more tired.

First, he did not follow his orders and follow Noah on the Quidditch field. Now, he followed Noah into the Chamber of Secrets to fight the basilisk without his orders.

This phoenix is ​​dead.

Fortunately, judging from the various actions of the Third-generation Dark Lord before us, he has not shown any signs that could endanger Hogwarts.

On the contrary, he has been diligently contributing to the educational cause of Hogwarts, which is much better than Voldemort who only knows how to kill.

What is the Third-generation Dark Demon Lord?

As long as you don't leave Hogwarts, Dumbledore will chat and laugh with you.

It was obvious that Dumbledore didn't want to dwell too long on the question of why Noah was in this damn place.

After taking Fawkes carefully handed over by Noah, Dumbledore simply asked him a few questions and let him go.

As for Snape, he had only been out of Dumbledore's office for less than thirty minutes when he was invited back by Dumbledore for tea.

……

The attack on the Quidditch pitch was like a depth charge, creating huge waves in the calm water of Hogwarts.

The peaceful campus life was broken. When the once safe and peaceful castle was no longer safe, all the students fell into deep panic.

When Noah returned to the common room of Slytherin College, what he saw was a room full of students, some standing and some sitting, and the look on everyone's face showed a kind of panic about the unknown.