I Have a Big Problem with My Hogwarts

"Also, did you cast a curse on the students of my academy just now?"

Snape looked at Lynn coldly, he was the most protective of the calf, and he protected the Slytherin students in every possible way.

"He swears at Mudblood." Lynn said blankly, "I didn't deduct points from Slytherin because I was merciful."

Snape had nothing to say now, Lynn was right, just because of Malfoy's swearing, it would be no exaggeration for him to cast a jinx on him after deducting points.

But Snape still wanted to catch Lynn who didn't go to the Halloween dinner tonight, but couldn't explain where he went, and asked Lynn to explain.

It wasn't that Snape and Lockhart had any enmity, but that he just didn't like all the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors.

"Okay, Severus." Dumbledore stopped Snape's questioning, "You all go back first, and Gilderoy and I will have a chat alone."

Snape was not reconciled, but Dumbledore's authority was here after all, he could only walk out of Lynn's office with Professor McGonagall, Harry and the others also took a sneak look at Lynn and Dumbledore, and then together out of here.

Only Lynn and Dumbledore were left in the office, and Lynn didn't need to continue pretending. He pulled up a chair and sat opposite Dumbledore.

"Did the basilisk do it?"

Dumbledore nodded: "This degree of petrification can only be achieved by the eyes of the basilisk, but Fenriely did not die because of this, obviously because he did not directly look into the eyes of the basilisk, but Through what refraction."

Dumbledore easily analyzed how Fenrey was petrified.

"Why didn't you go to the Halloween party tonight?"

There was nothing to hide from Dumbledore Lynn.

"I changed back to my original identity and went to Nick's death anniversary dinner with Hermione and the others. I didn't expect something to happen tonight."

Lynn really didn't expect this.

In the original book, the first attack of the basilisk did happen tonight, and the victim was Filch's cat, Mrs. Loris.

However, because the current situation has changed a lot compared with the original book, he let his guard down, thinking that there will be no more accidents tonight.

Unexpectedly, the cat was not petrified, but a Hufflepuff student was.

Dumbledore crossed his fingers on the table, rubbing his two thumbs gently.

"What is the purpose of attacking this student this time? What is the purpose of blatantly declaring that the secret room was opened?"

Dumbledore's question is very important, Lynn also thought about it, and he spoke after a while.

"There are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the person who manipulated the basilisk really wanted to fulfill Slytherin's last wish and use the basilisk to cleanse Hogwarts. The second is his action this time. You still want to target me purely, and want to put the blame on me."

After listening to Lynn, Dumbledore added another guess.

"It's also possible that it was just an accident. If you guessed these two possibilities, then he has no reason to keep Finlayley alive. Maybe when the basilisk was active in the castle, Finlayley discovered it through some refraction. it."

Dumbledore's guess is also reasonable, but it is useless for them to guess the reason for the basilisk attack. It must be found out to end all this.

"Professor, do you have any way to find signs of basilisk activity in the castle?"

Dumbledore nodded and said, "We're going to my office now, those portraits might have some clues."

They got up and left Lynn's office, heading towards Dumbledore's headmaster's office.

"Who do you think is more like the murderer?"

On the way to the lounge, Harry and the three of them were discussing what had just happened.

Hearing Harry's question, Ron said without hesitation: "I think Malfoy is more like it. It is said that only the heirs of Slytherin can open the Chamber of Secrets, and there is no pure-blood heir in this world worse than Malfoy. Kind of like a descendant of Slytherin."

Harry nodded approvingly. He and Ron had the same opinion on this point. After all, Malfoy was usually the person they had the most trouble with, and it was right to suspect him at the first moment.

Hermione shook her head gravely.

"Malfoy is not like that at all. Think about his performance today. If the heir of Slytherin is like him, then Salazar Slytherin will probably jump out of the coffin angrily."

Both Harry and Ron looked at her: "Then who do you think?"

"In comparison, Professor Lockhart is more suspicious."

Harry and Ron's eyes widened at Hermione's words.

"He just taught Malfoy a lesson for us!" Ron yelled.

Harry also denied it: "Professor Lockhart is of mixed blood, he cannot be a descendant of Slytherin."

Hermione calmly pointed out that their argument was not valid.

"Professor Lockhart just helped us teach Malfoy a lesson, but that doesn't mean anything. His anger may be disguised, because only in this way can he appear to hate and discriminate against people of non-pure blood, and make his suspicion even stronger." Small.

As for what Harry said, no one has ever said that the descendants of Slytherin must be pure blood. There used to be so many pure blood families, but most of them chose to combine with Muggles in order to continue their descendants. The Slytherin family may not be One of them, so this cannot be evidence that Professor Lockhart has cleared his suspicion.

And the most important thing is that when we arrived, according to Professor Lockhart himself, he was only half a minute ahead of us, but he was so calm that he seemed to have predicted that this would happen a long time ago. Same.

And in the office he couldn't answer Snape's question about where he had been tonight. "

Her analysis was well-founded, but Lynn's behavior of admonishing Malfoy just now had enough goodwill in the hearts of Harry and the two of them, so they were unwilling to believe that the murderer was Professor Lockhart.

"We can verify it." Hermione said after pondering for a moment.

"Verify what?"

"Since you think Malfoy is the murderer, let's ask if it is him."

Harry and Ron looked at Hermione worriedly, as if wondering if she was out of her mind.

"How could Malfoy tell us such a thing?"

"Maybe there's a way," said Hermione slowly, taking a quick look around and lowering her voice. "Of course, it's not easy to do, and it's dangerous, very dangerous. We're about fifty school rules."

Suddenly, Harry and the others seemed to be meeting Hermione for the first time.