A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 154 Secret Room

The world in the diary currently appears on the top of the Astronomy Tower at Hogwarts, with a velvet curtain-like night sky dotted with bright stars.

Tom Riddle likes to use a certain part of Hogwarts as the background, which fully reflects his deep obsession with Hogwarts.

Owen made a long series of weird "hissing" sounds, which sounded low and hoarse. After saying this, he coughed slightly and touched his uncomfortable throat. He learned Parseltongue all the time.

Without testing people's vocal cords, it would be difficult for ordinary people to make such a sound.

He looked up at the stars in the sky and gave a slight "tsk". Looking at the stars on the top of the astronomy tower was another romantic thing, but why did he go with Tom? He glanced at the man sitting quietly on the edge of the tower.

Tom looked up at the sky. Well, although he was very handsome, considering the identity of the other person, he still looked strange.

"The snake language you just said is a spell to summon the basilisk in the secret room. As long as you enter the secret room and say these words to the Slytherin statue there, you can make the basilisk obey you.

Order." Tom looked away from the starry sky and stared at Owen quietly with his black and white eyes. His expression was always sincere and gentle, making people feel valued and trusted.

Owen nodded with a bright smile, held his shoulders and raised his head lazily, and asked in a slightly hoarse voice: "Tom, do you like watching stars?"

"I quite like them. They always make me feel satisfied." Tom said slowly.

"Yes, the universe is too big. Our planet is like a grain of sand in the desert, pitifully small." Owen raised his right hand and spread his fingers as if to grasp the starry sky above his head, "But the wizard

But I have a future with infinite possibilities, and hope to explore the boundless universe... Whenever I see the starry sky, I feel no interest in the messy things in the wizarding world. "The universe is so big, why are you doing it?

Why do you want to dominate this one-third of an acre of earth? Isn’t it good for God?

Tom tilted his head and looked at him and said calmly: "But the road must be walked step by step. Isn't it very attractive to change a planet according to your own will first?"

"Oh, Tom, you are very ambitious." Owen clapped his hands, "I am more and more curious about why your name has not been spread in the wizarding world."

"Maybe I will die after making the Horcrux." Tom casually shook his toes and lowered his eyes as if he was a little disappointed, which made people feel distressed.

"There used to be." The basilisk began to crawl slowly in the room, causing Owen to shift his field of vision. "But they were all taken away or destroyed by the previous owner..."

Owen lowered his eyes, covering up the bottomless darkness in his eyes. He understood Tom's desire to get rid of him. After all, Owen told him that he was being targeted by Haierbo, and Tom would definitely not be willing to be tied to him. Life or death was at stake.

Being controlled by another person.

Even if Owen was unexpectedly cautious and did not take the diary to the secret room, Tom could have done the next best thing and left while he was away, hiding in a safe place and planning his conspiracy freely.

"Is your last master back?" Owen asked in Parseltongue.

A heavy landing shook the secret room, followed by a hoarse snake voice: "The new heir? No, you are not a human... No matter what you are, you are so hungry, let me hunt..."

The mouth of the stone statue opened silently, and a rustling sound slowly approached from the depths of the statue. It was the sound of a giant snake crawling. Owen looked away, he did not want to try to see through the black devil guard

What happens to the basilisk's eyes may be fine, or it may be petrified or killed.

Owen gritted his teeth in distress, unable to maintain his elegant gentlemanly demeanor, and scolded Tom several times in his mind before taking a deep breath and calming down.

"Ah?" Harry was stunned, then grinned, "It doesn't mean anything. It's just a mess of snake syllables put together. Are you talking nonsense?"

Owen took out his wand and tapped it on the worn parchment, and said: "I solemnly swear that I will not do bad things."

Harry taught him with great interest, and even taught Owen how to say his name in Parseltongue.

He stared at the copper faucet engraved with a small snake with eyes full of black mist, and said to it: "Hiss..." Open it.

Irving will definitely bring a diary with him when he wants to enter the secret room. Tom, who is probably able to move freely by then, can manifest a body and speak the spell to summon and control the basilisk. By then, with the basilisk as a helper,

Tom now has the initiative and can order the basilisk to protect him and leave, or even threaten Owen's life.

"I can't do it." Owen said seriously, "I bought a very smart and powerful snake before. It's as smart as a human. It had been living in the forest before being caught by a hunter, and it probably didn't do anything evil.

But I couldn't tame it, and it even hated me. That snake is very vindictive. If you don't accept it, I will have no choice but to kill it to avoid future troubles..."

He had become suspicious when he was studying in the diary just now, and now it seems that he was right, Tom wanted to trick him!

When people are looking forward to something, time always passes very slowly.

"Hello, will you obey my orders?" Owen asked in snake language.

He closed his notebook with a smile on his face and planned to take a walk in the secret room tonight.

"Snake?" Harry showed a repulsive look. He didn't like those long, slippery animals at all, so he shook his head without thinking, "No."

Does a trick that could be exposed so easily do Tom any good? Of course it does!

Although Owen has now learned Parseltongue, he can only communicate with snakes at best. Perhaps only a natural Parseltongue can tame Nagini - since keeping it is a waste of food, why not give it to Harry?

When he mentioned this, he suddenly thought of Nagini, who had been locked up in the dungeon of the manor. The bad-tempered snake showed no sign of surrender even after being locked up for so long. It was fed by the house elf with lots of fish and meat, but

All day long I was thinking about how to escape from prison and kill them.

"Let's wait until the summer vacation. Hogwarts is not peaceful this year." There are too many Voldemorts in the school, and it would be easy to cause trouble if Nagini is involved.

"You've taken advantage of it, Harry." Owen's eyes raised the corners of his mouth playfully. Nagini was once a beautiful young lady, and she was Voldemort's favorite little snake...

But you make me feel like an idiot... Harry swallowed his sadness and sighed: "This means 'hello'."

In an instant, thin black lines spread like a spider web from where the tip of the wand touched, connecting and interlacing with each other, extending to every corner of the parchment. Green squiggles appeared on the top: MOON.

Face, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, the gentlemen who help magical mischief-makers, present: The Marauder's Map.

The stone wall cracked in the middle, and inside was a long, dimly lit room, with a huge statue of Slytherin standing at the end. Owen controlled the Dark Guard to float among the towering stone pillars coiled with serpents.

, hissed the spell.

"Ah, are you so anxious?" He closed the diary sandwiched in the Transfiguration textbook and sealed it in a special box that could isolate magic power. This was after Owen checked a lot of alchemy information some time ago.

Made specifically for use as a diary to prevent Tom from spying on what is going on around him.

The last owner... was Tom Riddle. Owen, who was outside the secret room, couldn't help but twitched his mouth. Tom did such a great job, leaving nothing for his successor. If it weren't for the Ravenclaw secret room

The items will be restored automatically, and now there should be nothing left.

What does that have to do with me... Harry opened his mouth, but softened when he heard that the snake was as smart as a human: "Okay, I can try to persuade it not to cause trouble for you..."

Owen said "open" in Parseltongue again, and the stone wall cracked in front of his eyes. Inside was a wide and towering rectangular room. The walls and ceiling were carved with giant snakes, and at the end was a tower.

A smaller statue of Slytherin.

Normally, Tom's little trick would not be seen through. After all, it is just a man-made spell, which is equivalent to the password to open the door to summon the Basilisk. It is meaningless and normal, even if Owen speaks Parseltongue very well.

He would be suspicious. But Owen has read the original work, and he clearly remembers the words that Tom used to summon the basilisk in the original work: "Talk to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the four giants of Hogwarts."

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However, there are also hidden dangers. When two Parseltongue wizards meet together, the snake will follow the orders of the wizard it is closer to and likes based on its own wishes. Nagini has a good relationship with Voldemort, and there is a possibility of rebellion.

Sex, unless it makes it swear a loyalty oath... Well, that's not difficult for a born Parseltongue wizard.

"Didn't you say you wanted to learn Parseltongue from me?" Harry's back felt cold and he changed the topic with a dull face. He closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, imagining a snake in front of him, and then tried to open his mouth.

It made a weird "hissing" sound.

"It really can stop ghosts." Owen was not surprised. Without this ability, this secret room would have been discovered by ghosts who like to sneak around. In fact, there are many things in Hogwarts Castle that can block the penetration of ghosts.

area.

"In other words, does Tom simply not like to put his safety in the hands of others, or does he want to get rid of someone who holds his own secrets, or has he already sensed the existence of the crown?" Owen speculated on Tom's psychology.

Unfortunately, it is difficult to speculate. After all, according to Tom's character, just seeing someone unhappy may be the reason for him to kill someone.

His guess was indeed correct, Tom was playing tricks! The snake language he spoke was the spell Tom had just taught him to summon the basilisk in the secret room, but it shouldn't be a meaningless nonsense. This spell was

Fake!

Without rushing to open the secret room, Owen touched the faucet, and a thick black mist suddenly surged out of his body, condensing into the shadow of a top hat and a black cloak around him. He controlled the black devil guard and tried to reach under the pool, but

Blocked out by invisible resistance.

The world around him shattered in an instant, and the world was spinning in front of his eyes. Owen was roughly thrown out, and he sat in an armchair and opened his eyes.

The faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to rotate rapidly. Then, the pool also started to move and slowly disappeared from the eyes, revealing a thick water pipe that could accommodate a person.

"What is this?" He controlled the corners of his cloak and rolled up the stone egg.

"It's not difficult." Owen said with a smile.

Owen didn't expect the basilisk to tell him whether Voldemort's Horcruxes were hidden here. He controlled the Dark Guard to float around the room, checking every part of the walls and statues, and the garbage in the corners.

I rummaged around and picked it up, and as expected,

He didn't find anything worth paying attention to. He floated out with some regret. When he passed the basilisk's lair, he flew in and groped around. He found no trace of the crown, but unexpectedly found a black devil guard's virtual void that could not penetrate.

Things from the past.

But if Tom wants to leave, he can leave secretly without Owen's knowledge after absorbing enough vitality to gain the right to act independently - it's not like Owen didn't give him such an opportunity.

Under Owen's increasingly playful gaze, Harry couldn't help but move a little further away. He always felt that this guy was trying to trick him again, and the malice in his eyes almost overflowed.

"Harry, can I learn Parseltongue from you?" After putting down the diary, Owen turned his head with a smile and said to Harry, who was doing his Potions homework.

Owen recited these daily vocabulary and recorded the brief pronunciation in his notes. Well, it was almost the same as Tom's teaching. It seemed that the other party did not mislead him in teaching Parseltongue.

After turning one corner after another, a stone wall carved with two intertwined snakes blocked the way. Owen hissed in Parseltongue through the black devil guard: "Open."

But this room was in a mess. There was a thick layer of ashes on the floor, and the walls were blackened. It was obvious that there had been a fire that burned everything here. There were some unburnable debris piled randomly in the corner.

They are all useless junk and stones falling from the walls...

Harry's eyes widened and he was stunned for a long time before he said calmly: "You have learned it now?"

Owen didn't think that Tom wasted so much effort just to escape. Wouldn't it be good to take the opportunity to kill a person who had mastered his biggest secret?

In the following time, one taught and the other studied, and both felt more and more interested.

"Oh - that's so pitiful." Owen said sympathetic words, but he curled his lips in gloating, "I should go back."

After arriving on the second floor, Owen took out the Marauder's Map borrowed from the Weasley twins and looked at it for a moment. According to George, Owen could keep it for them for a while to prevent them from being controlled and using it.

Maps are used to do bad things.

The basilisk swung its tail leisurely in the passage and did not answer.

There were only a few people on the second floor except Owen, and no one was walking in the corridor. Owen found the bathroom where Moaning Myrtle was on the map. The crying ghost did not stay there, but in the castle.

Wandering in the black lake outside.

"This is a natural talent, you have to make good use of it." Owen raised his eyebrows, "How about I catch you a snake as a pet?"

Owen recognized that it meant "hello". He cleared his throat and made the exact same sound.

Owen wrote and drew in his notebook, reorganizing words according to the grammar of Parseltongue, and figured out the spell.

There is no one in the principal's office in the upper left corner, which is normal. Dumbledore is still so busy that he seldom stays in Hogwarts; Harry is in confinement in Peter Pettigrew's office. His confinement will last for a week because of the recent news in the castle.

It is not safe here, and the professors impose severe penalties on students traveling at night; most of the professors stay in their offices, and Peeves is sneaking Filch around on the fifth floor of the castle...

"Please take me to see it." Owen said.

"Follow me." The basilisk didn't ask why, and just slid along the ground meekly. Owen followed behind its thick snake, got into the open mouth of the huge statue, passed through the long dark passage, and passed by

The basilisk's sleeping lair continued forward, twisting and turning to the end of the passage. There was a stone door as high as a person, carved with exquisite snake-shaped patterns and inlaid with gorgeous gems.

So, Tom's move was brilliant, but it's a pity that he didn't know that Owen was the one who had seen the plot.

Many small black dots moved on the map, each with a name written in tiny fonts. Most of them were concentrated in the common rooms of the four colleges, crowded together and blended into a dense mass of ink.

At the end of the teaching, Owen narrowed his eyes, opened his mouth and made a hissing sound. After speaking, he looked at Harry and asked, "What does this mean?"

His vision followed the Black Demon Guard as he quickly dived down the twists and turns of the pipe, and finally got out of the end of the pipe and entered the dark stone tunnel. The Black Demon Guard flew along the tunnel and passed by a huge

Snake skin, but the distorted black and white vision cannot distinguish its color.

Owen smiled at him and thanked him sincerely, but his eyes became dark. He glanced at the pocket containing the diary with a half-smile, "Tom, you are not good."

Owen took the time to finish his Transfiguration and Potions homework, and waited until about 8:30 in the evening before stuffing the books into his bag, getting up and leaving the common room, and slowly left the cold and damp dungeon along the stairs. Muller

Tui followed him leisurely with cat steps, helping him avoid the cats and cats patrolling around the castle.

"Of course, although you are not a born Parseltongue wizard, according to the old master's arrangement, I will obey the person who calls me here..." The voice of the Basilisk rumbled and echoed in the huge room. As a living creature

A magical animal that has lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Although it spends most of its time sleeping, its wisdom is definitely not low.

It is obvious that Tom does not want to choose this path, but is playing tricks in the spell given to Owen. According to this idea, it can be speculated that after Owen feeds Tom more lives, Tom will tell him the location of the entrance to the secret room.

.When Owen entered the secret room as he wished, he discovered that this spell didn't work at all and he couldn't control the basilisk.

"Ah?" Harry raised his head and looked at him, blinking in confusion, "It's not impossible, but I can't even say that I'm not very agile..."

Owen glanced into the deep water pipe, then silently stepped aside, controlling the Dark Guard to fly down the pipe. The crown was causing trouble everywhere in Hogwarts, and there might be unknown dangers in the secret room, such as the Basilisk.

There is no guarantee that they won't attack him, plus Tom's diary is still on him... Owen doesn't plan to go down by himself.

"So is there any legacy left by Slytherin here?" Owen asked with interest.

Owen looked carefully at the oval-shaped object through the dark guard's distorted vision. It was a palm-sized egg that seemed to be made of stone and looked like a sculpture that had fallen off the wall.

"Alas, this seemingly distant plastic friendship will eventually fall apart." Owen sighed sadly, but his eyes sparkled with eagerness to try.

He turned to look at Harry and asked: "Harry, how do you say 'Hogwarts' in Parseltongue? What are the names of the four colleges?"

Owen put Melete on his shoulders, recited the Illusion Charm and other three-piece night travel packages to himself in a familiar manner, and quickly came to Myrtle's bathroom. He bent down and inspected every copper faucet.

, and soon found the copper faucet with a small snake engraved on the side.

"This..." The basilisk thought hard for a long time, and then said, "This is a dead egg brought back by the old master... The old master studied it for a while and then threw it there. I was very hungry once

, I swallowed it and couldn’t digest it... After pulling it out, it turned into a stone, and then I put it in my lair..."

The expression on Owen's face collapsed for a moment... He swallowed it and pulled it out...

He closed his eyes, resisted the urge to throw away the stone egg, and controlled the Black Demon Guard to fly back with it. He wanted to study it.

At this time, while staying outside the pipe, he discovered something incredible on the Marauder's Map.

(End of chapter)