harry potter book of crimes

"How does it feel to be about to officially take over the Warriors in the Final Three?"

"That goes without saying! It's simply awesome!"

"Today's second advertising campaign has been launched. You can treat the third event of tomorrow's Triwizard Tournament as a preview... If I can't come back in time in July, Professor Dumbledore will personally assist you."

"Let the greatest white wizard of our time assist me... only you can do it..."

"Me? No, Dumbledore didn't do that because of me. You have to understand this - this performance is to stop all ordinary wizards from feeling fearful and uneasy about Voldemort's coming again. Deng

Blido is for all the wizards in the British wizarding community, and you should also perform well for this..."

"Yes! I can understand that real popularity is based on people's trust..."

On June 23, when everyone was discussing the new full-page advertisement in the Daily Prophet, Maka and Lockhart were in Snape's office in the basement of Hogwarts Castle.

Talk in secret.

Tomorrow is the day when the third event of the Triwizard Tournament begins, but as one of the protagonists, Maka has given this opportunity to participate in the competition to Gilderoy Lockhart.

When Voldemort's forces focused their attention on the Triwizard Tournament and the grand event in July, they never expected that it was just an eye-catching cover created by Maka.

"When the polyjuice potion is almost used up, remember to come here in advance to replenish it so that nothing goes wrong."

After saying that, Maka stood up and left without hesitation.

He went to such great lengths to attract others' attention just to create an opportunity to go to the place where the Bewitched Monument is buried to find the real solution.

The method in "The Book of Sin" is too negative. Perhaps for "that" him, it is indeed excusable; but for Maka now, letting a thing that will explode who doesn't know when is left alone?

In the hands of others, it would be too insecure.

After repeated analysis, Maka put aside the two most direct clues "Royna's Bronze Eagle" and "North America's Ghost Swamp", but they were also the clues that were repeatedly reminded "not to touch" in the book, and instead chose...

Hogwarts Castle, second floor, girls' bathroom in disrepair.

"Oh——Mr. MacLean, long time no see——"

As soon as Maka opened the bathroom door, he immediately saw Crying Myrtle suddenly running in front of him, sobbing and saying hello to him.

"Um."

Maka nodded casually and walked straight towards the sink that was the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

Yes, the "Book of Sin" mentions the information that the Monument of Bewitchment was sealed by Salazar Slytherin, and it does not say that there is any danger in this clue. Obviously it is a relatively safe path for exploring the Monument of Bewitchment.

way.

And if anything is related to Salazar Slytherin, it is undoubtedly this Chamber of Secrets.

Although Maka had searched carefully last time, he did not gain much at that time, and later he even collapsed the secret room.

I have to say that that behavior is really an irony for him now...

Maka pulled out her wand and pointed at the faucet.

Suddenly, the faucet seemed to be alive. It stretched automatically and turned into a silver snake and attacked Maka. The speed was no less than the attack of any magic spell.

But Maka's hand holding the wand did not tremble at all. He stared closely at the oncoming silver snake and increased the output of magic power.

This is a transfiguration showdown that spans the ages. If there are others who can sense the magic, they will definitely find that the fluctuations in magic here have exceeded the normal strength of the spell.

Maka's expression was solemn - he could feel that even after a thousand years, Salazar Slytherin's power still frightened him.

Weeping Myrtle covered her mouth, she even forgot to sob.

Although she couldn't detect the real situation, even the Silver Snake's surprise attack made her feel a little overwhelmed. After experiencing the opening of the secret room last time and the Silver Snake's counterattack this time, she might not dare to stay here anymore.

Already.

As time passed, the Silver Snake expanded together with the sink below under Maka's suppression, and the secret room was finally forced open by him.

"It seems that the magic power is really not enough..."

While muttering softly, he jumped into the huge pipe that was revealed.

It had been a long time since he last came here, but the terrain here had not changed at all. It was not until he stood at the door of the real Slytherin Chamber that he sighed slightly.

The stone door had closed automatically when he left last time. To open it, one must rely on Parseltongue.

Originally, Maka planned to blast it open directly, but judging from the situation of opening the entrance before, he had to admit that he might not be able to crack the stone door with violence.

"No, maybe you can try."

Maka stretched out her wand and pointed forward, the magic power turned into threads, and a regular rune was quietly outlined on the tip of the wand. For a moment, the surrounding area was filled with cold air, and Maka was immediately coated with a layer of magic within dozens of feet.

A layer of silver frost.

The next moment, he waved his wand backhand, and the cooling power concentrated on the rule runes went straight towards the stone door. The stone door, along with the surrounding stone walls, turned into a strange pure white in an instant.

"Crack" "Crack--"

As a series of tiny explosions came from the stone door, the entire stone door cracked into white fragments of different sizes under the extremely low temperature.

Maka waved her hand to disperse the rule runes, and then took a deep breath to relieve the feeling of exhaustion caused by the rapid consumption of magic power.

After taking a short rest, he looked up and saw that the scene in the secret room was what he had expected - it was a ruins piled with a large number of stones.

However, the situation inside was not as serious as he had imagined earlier.

Using the floating spell to push aside the rocks blocking the way, Maka walked into the secret room and looked up, nodding secretly.

At first, he moved some hands and feet on the support pillars inside, blowing up some of the pillars that the basilisk had not knocked down, causing them to gradually collapse under their own weight.

But obviously, those pillars are only used to support the stone ceiling above, and the structure of the secret room itself does not rely on pillars for stability at all.

At that time, he only shed a layer of shell on the inside of this secret room.

"So, the decision made back then was absolutely right..." Maka said, raising her wand again and projecting a beam of light.

As the light illuminated the secret room little by little, a dark hole, no more than two people high, quietly appeared in the distance.

Judging from the location, it should be behind the huge statue of Salazar Slytherin.

No matter what the original purpose of Slytherin was for leaving this hidden entrance, it was obviously not set up for violent vandals like Maka.

But nowadays, the correct way to enter is no longer known.

Maka held the wand, stepped on a piece of gravel and crossed the stones on the ground, flying directly towards that direction.

But when he came near the entrance, he found that there was a strange magic power around him, as if it would surge up at any time, activating some kind of residual mysterious magic.

Maka immediately stopped and floated in mid-air.

"Soul magic?"

When he sensed the sudden surge of magic power and gathered in front of the entrance, a green human-shaped shadow quietly emerged there.

Needless to say, just by looking at the sharp beak and monkey cheeks, Salazar Slytherin must have not escaped!

"Ssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

Hearing the familiar "hissing" sound again, Maka couldn't help but slap her forehead.

"This secret room was completely designed for Voldemort!"

Parseltongue is not something that cannot be learned. Even because its syllable patterns are closely related to some ancient spells, many wizards knew it in ancient times.

But now, there is nowhere to learn if you want to?

Except for people like Voldemort who are born with Parseltongue, or Harry who takes advantage of Voldemort, it is really not an easy thing to learn it.

"...Hiss...Ha hiss, ho, hiss..."

Seeing the phantom "hissing", Maka sighed silently.

"Can you speak human language?" he shouted.

"Hiss..."

"Speak humanly!" Maka shouted, pointing at Slytherin's shadow.

"Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

After several trials, Maka finally determined that the shadow left by Salazar had no independent consciousness at all. Since it was impossible to communicate, then...

He was about to try using soul magic, but unexpectedly, after the phantom "hissed" on its own, it suddenly disappeared!

Although she didn't know if she missed any important information, after repeatedly confirming that there was no other magic left, Maka had no choice but to put aside her doubts and fall into the entrance passage.

From Maka's point of view, there is nothing unusual about this passage. It is just like an ordinary stone tunnel. It keeps extending forward, and the deeper you go, the darker it becomes.

On the stone walls of the passage, apart from the gaps between the stones, there are no other tricks.

In a daze, Maka seemed to have arrived in an underground tomb in the Muggle world. Except for the residual magic power that would remind him, any sign showed that this place was almost the same as an ancient Muggle tomb.

After a long tunnel journey, Maka came to a small stone room.

There are not many furnishings here, just two bookcases made of black wood and an ordinary black desk.

There is no magic to protect them from being eroded by time. The moisture in the ground has caused them to deteriorate severely, and the chair in front of the desk has even fallen apart.