harry potter book of crimes

Maka indeed failed to discover this secret room back then. But after him, there was a lucky boy who found this place by relying on the power of the Spiritual Elixir.

That's right, that lucky child's name is "Enstavon"... Oh no, now, I'm afraid we should call him "Ensgunter".

Even though, even he himself may not know his real surname yet.

However, since this secret room has been almost shattered to pieces, even if Maka is capable, it will be difficult to find out that someone has actually been here in this state... Yes, I remember that Enns was secretly coming down.

At that time, I also took away a lot of things!

Maka stood at the door, glanced inside, and immediately saw that the dome with many animal murals was embedded with many naturally luminous stones. The light he just saw came from there.

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It is a pity that the large number of cracks have made the animals no longer aesthetic, and many unknown luminous stones have fallen off, making people feel regretful when looking at them.

And when Maka moved down a little beforehand, she saw that the curved walls around the secret room also had cracks and misalignments, the bookshelf fell to the ground, and the parchment rolls were scattered all over the floor.

It is worth mentioning that opposite the door where Maka was sitting, the large Hufflepuff emblem on the wall was broken into several pieces along with the wall.

However, the most eye-catching thing in this secret room is probably the huge wooden round table. The fine carving and excellent craftsmanship made it still almost intact despite the shock of the meteorite attack. It was only because of the cracks in the floor.

It has become somewhat skewed.

There is no doubt that it is a dining table, and it is probably the most personal characteristic of Helga Hufflepuff in the Chamber of Secrets.

However, after Maka stared at the table twice, she quickly moved her gaze downwards again, finally landing on the floor of the secret room.

"Um?"

The floor is cracked and slightly tilted. Considering that the entire secret room is full of cracks, this doesn't seem to be anything special.

However, when Maka saw that there was a piece missing in the middle of the floor, he knew that something was wrong with this secret room.

"Is it empty below? Is there another level?"

To be honest, this Hufflepuff secret room is actually very small, even smaller than Rowena's. Logically speaking, there is obviously no need to build a secret room like this underground with no fixed space.

It has to be so cramped and cramped, right?

When Maka saw this, he immediately raised his hand and made the exquisite wooden dining table float gently. Then, he just shortened his body slightly and slipped down from the triangular hole caused by the intersection of cracks.

…

The floor was very thick. If it hadn't been for a missing piece, Maka might not have been able to realize that the underground room was actually empty. But the floor was just a floor after all. In just a blink of an eye, Maka felt that the surrounding area was empty, causing him to cast a spell immediately.

Let yourself float in the darkness.

The next moment, a ball of bright light appeared from Maka's fingertips, emitting soft white light toward the surroundings.

"This...should be a natural underground cave, right?"

To be honest, although the cave hidden under the Hufflepuff Chamber of Secrets is a bit deep, it is actually not that big. The almost circular cave goes vertically downwards and is surrounded by gray-white limestone.

Perhaps a long time ago, some groundwater flowed silently here, leaving delicate and irregular natural lines on the rock wall.

Maka held the magic light source and descended leisurely. After a while, she landed on a flat rock shell with a slight slope.

"what?"

Under this vertical limestone cave, there is almost nothing except the fragments that fell down due to the cracking of the floor of the secret room above.

The bare rock walls, the bare rock shell ground, and the uniform texture formed by the water... everything is so monotonous and boring.

Only in the center of the cave bottom, there is a rough stone platform that seems to be carved on the spot from the rocks here, and there is an unusually shabby stone box placed on it.

No, saying it is a stone box may not be accurate. Because Maka discovered that the large rectangular stone did not even have an opening on it. If it were not for a line of text engraved on it, take it out and tell others that this is a stone box.

Some people probably believe in the bricks left over from building the castle!

But...yes, it still has a line of words on the surface.

"'The chosen child... must not open this box unless he is ready...'?"

This is an Old English sentence, or to be more precise, it is a Futok script originating from the "Anglo-Saxon" era of Great Britain, and is also a branch of ancient runes.

What's more important is that the handwriting of this text is actually very familiar to Maka. They are exactly the same as the writing habits of the notes in Rowena's secret room.

"Did Rowena leave this stone box here?" Maka frowned and thought, and whispered to herself, "Well, or maybe Rowena entrusted it to Helga to hide it here?"

Needless to say, just from the opening sentence "the chosen child", we know that this thing must be something Rowena left to the so-called "candidate".

Although Rowena's test was due to various reasons, Maka did not continue to carry it out, and after the Bronze Eagle "heroically died in the line of duty" not long ago, he never had the chance to continue.

But Maka knew that there must be a shocking secret hidden in it.

"Speaking of which," thinking of this, Maka couldn't help but raise her head and glanced at the top of the cave, "is this... the 'trouble left over from the past' that Bronze Little Eagle said back then?"

Even the ground part of Hogwarts Castle has been destroyed at least half, the entire school has almost turned into ruins, and there are probably still fires on it that are still not extinguished.

If this can't be called "trouble", then what else can be called trouble?

only……

"To open or not to open?"

Halbo will eventually make a comeback, and when that happens, it seems unlikely that Maka will be able to beat him into a mess and escape like she did just now.

"So... Rowena has stored something here that can be used to deal with Haierbo? In other words, this is the last resort left by Rowena?"

After thinking about it, Maka shook his head. The warning message above was too strong. His intuition told him that it would be better to do as mentioned above!

However, what exactly does the “be prepared” in that sentence refer to?

"Roynamira... what the hell were you thinking when you left these tests and items?"

After Maka muttered this, she couldn't help but sigh heavily.

"Is this a kind of arrogance brought about by superior intelligence? Roynamilla, have you never thought about the gap between plans and reality?"