HP Approaches the Magic World

On the wall in front of them, something was shining.

The Harry trio came closer, squinting their eyes to try to identify the traces, but Jon and Seshatri didn't need to get closer. From this position, they could see the writing there very clearly.

"The secret chamber has been opened. Those who are enemies of the successor should be alert."

Seshatri's light girlish voice seemed a bit eerie in the darkness.

And on the wall in front of them, underneath the scrawled writings, something seemed to be hanging.

"It seems... the cat of Hogwarts City Manager Filch. You saw him the day you first arrived. The slightly taller one was Filch."

Seshatri nodded, of course she remembered the very old-fashioned looking Squib, but now his cat had turned into a real squib.

"It must have been petrified by the basilisk, but if the basilisk looked directly at it, it would probably die. It is just a cat. How did it see the basilisk?"

Obviously no one can answer Jon's question, and no one knows how Mrs. Norris encountered the basilisk, but at least it is not dead yet, which is something to be thankful for.

"I seriously doubt it will be easy to end here. How do you think they will handle it?"

"How else to deal with it? Of course not to deal with it."

Jon glanced sideways in the direction of the stairs, where a ghostly figure flashed past.

It seems that Peeves still hasn't neglected his work. He has still arranged for the ghost to follow Harry, and it should be recorded here now.

Then he doesn't need to worry about it.

He turned his head back again. It was obvious that there was a team of three people who wanted to leave now, but it was too late.

The noise was like thunder coming from the bottom of the stairs. On both sides of the corridor where they were, there were the sounds of hundreds of feet climbing up the stairs, chatting and laughing happily with the students.

Then the students came here in a crowd.

They soon discovered what was happening here, especially when they saw the cat hanging upside down. Silence spread like dominoes among the lively and chattering crowd.

"What happened here?"

Filch's figure appeared not far away. He was obviously attracted by the students' voices, and when he squeezed through the crowd, he saw Mrs. Norris hanging on the wall.

This surprised him very much.

The Hogwarts warden burst into a scream, directing his anger at the person closest to the cat.

Harry Potter.

"you!"

He screamed in a shrill voice: "You! You killed my cat! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to—"

"Filch!"

Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Dumbledore's voice came from not far away.

As a rescuer, he came very timely and brought many teachers with him.

He glanced in the direction where Jon and Seshatri were hiding, and then shifted his gaze to the center of the situation in front of him.

"It seems we are no longer needed here, Celie."

Jon clearly saw what Dumbledore wanted to express in his eyes, so he communicated with Seshatri and planned to leave.

Seshatri naturally knew what Dumbledore's look meant. She nodded towards Jon, and the two of them walked out against the wall.

Behind them, Lockhart's voice came clearly.

"My office is closest to here, the principal - it's upstairs - you can -"

Jon didn't hear what he said after that. He and Seshatri left here and walked towards the stargazing tower.

At this time, I think Professor Trelawney should also start her prophecy.

"Jon, is it a good time for us to go?"

Seshatri glanced far away in the direction of the tower, which was still shrouded in darkness.

"I guess they should have discovered by now that the cat was petrified, and Lockhart himself knows about the existence of the basilisk. Dumbledore has been back for so long, so he should know it too, right?"

"Who knows?"

Seshatri shrugged her shoulders and twirled the gem she carried on her finger.

"But I still haven't noticed any different fluctuations coming from the star observation tower. Maybe... it should be that the prophecy hasn't started yet. Will we disturb them if we go there now?"

Jon must admit that Seshatri's concerns are not unreasonable, and are very likely.

"If that's the case, how about we wait until the results come out and look at the results directly." The bracelet on his wrist suddenly shook, "Let's go, Lockhart has something to ask us for."

In the end, the two of them just walked around the outside of the castle without going to the stargazing tower, and finally returned to Lockhart's office.

It's a little dark inside the office.

Photos of Lockhart are hung on the wall. The Lockharts are in different poses, and some even wear curlers on their heads.

When Jon and Seshatri came in, they didn't hide, they were still showing off their postures openly.

The real Lockhart is sitting behind his desk.

"Your face looks very bad. Did something happen?"

"Oh, it's nothing serious. The acting failed. Snape didn't allow me to prepare the Mandrake Resurrection Potion. To be honest, I'm a little sad.

And you didn’t tell me that the basilisk would appear in such a short period of time, and I wasn’t even prepared.”

"I told you when you came here, nothing is prepared at Hogwarts, everything is performed on the spot."

Jon didn't want to take up what Lockhart said. He felt that it was meaningless to talk about this. Instead of arguing about this here, it would be better to go to Snape's place now and see how the potion was configured.

"I thought your relationship with Professor Snape was already well established. What's wrong? Aren't you two good partners?"

Lockhart looked very aggrieved.

"No matter how good my partner is, he can't stand up to such trouble. You don't know how he ridiculed me in front of Harry."

"No matter how Snape mocks you, you should bear it."

Jon's eyes gradually became sharper, as if looking straight into Lockhart's heart.

"When you first chose to come here, I already told you that here you have to learn to face all possible events, and you should not care about your own image in the first place."

His voice was cold and ruthless, but very conducive to keeping people awake.

"Isn't your ultimate purpose in coming to Hogwarts to destroy your past image? Based on this, you can pave the way for your new life, so if I were you, I wouldn't complain about the basilisk or the

Something else, but to find Snape and prepare the potion with him.

He will be a good partner."