Study Days at Hogwarts

Lee Jordan failed to fulfill his wish to beat Lockhart until the end of the Dueling Club.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seemed to have seen through Lee Jordan's sinister intentions. Every time he asked for guidance, Lockhart pretended not to hear and ignored him.

Lee Jordan complained about it all the way back to the Gryffindor common room, but no one wanted to listen to him. Everyone was discussing the fact that Harry Potter was a Parseltongue. Even when they returned to the lounge, they would first look around to find Harry Potter.

"Harry Potter is really not the heir of Slytherin?"

Lee Jordan, who had just sat down, started talking about what happened at the Duel Club.

No way, Parseltongue is one of the symbols of Slytherin, so it's not surprising that everyone would have this idea.

"Shut up!"

Fred shoved a cookie into Lee Jordan's mouth, trying to silence him.

"Everyone is curious."

Lee Jordan took a bite of the cookie and muttered indistinctly.

The next moment, the guy turned into a canary.

"It's the damn canary biscuits again." Lee Jordan couldn't help complaining: "Don't give me that thing again."

"What do you think?" George threw the question directly to Albert.

"The heir of Slytherin should be a Parselmouth." Albert drank the hot cocoa in his cup and calmly analyzed: "Harry Potter gave me an inspiration."

"What inspiration?" the three asked in unison.

"The symbol of Slytherin is a snake. Things related to the heir of Slytherin are very likely to be related to snakes, and Parseltongue is one of them. Maybe, opening the Chamber of Secrets requires the use of Parseltongue. In the Chamber of Secrets The monster is probably also related to snakes, and monsters related to snakes are rare."

"What you said makes sense." Fred nodded and said, as expected of Albert, he has a good brain.

"I feel like I'm one step closer to the truth." Lee Jordan gave a thumbs up to Albert.

"Are you suspicious of the target?" George suddenly asked.

"Well, there is indeed a target of suspicion." Albert nodded and admitted, "However, if the secret room cannot be found, it is useless even if there is a target of suspicion."

"What is it?"

All three were curious about this.

"A terrifying monster called the Basilisk." Albert raised his finger and pointed at a book on the bedside table. "The Basilisk is dangerous, but the heir of Slytherin should be able to control the Basilisk using Parseltongue."

"Oh my God!"

The three of them turned to the bookmarked page and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"I know what you want to say, but..." Albert made a shushing gesture, "Remember, don't talk nonsense about this matter. The principal and professors should already be investigating this matter. At present, Harry Potter The suspicion is indeed high, but I still think it was not him."

"Besides, as long as the petrified student returns to normal, he will be able to identify the culprit." After drinking the hot cocoa, Albert soaked his feet in hot water, reapplied the ointment, wrapped a bandage and went to bed.

However, several of his roommates are destined to have insomnia tonight.

Of course they believed Albert's judgment, but after knowing that there was a basilisk hidden in the castle, they felt inexplicably uneasy.

Several people gathered together and whispered for a long time. Finally, they couldn't help but sigh in relief when they remembered that the heir of Slytherin seemed to only attack Muggle wizards.

The three of them are all pure-blood wizards. Albert, who was born into a Muggle family, is obviously in a more dangerous situation than them. He can be so calm now, so what should he be afraid of?

Then, unable to sleep, they began to discuss whether to raise a rooster or something in the dormitory for Albert's safety.

What they didn't know was that Albert had actually asked the house elves to raise several roosters.

…

Ever since Harry Potter was revealed to be a Parseltongue at the Dueling Club, his reputation has become very bad.

There was no way, the Parseltongues in history were so notorious that almost everyone instinctively avoided him, as if Harry carried some kind of terrible deadly bacteria, or would open his fangs and spit out venom when he spoke.

"What's wrong with your feet?" Hermione noticed that Albert's walking posture was a little strange.

"I was stepped on." Albert said casually, then changed the subject: "Is Harry Potter really a Parseltongue?"

Hermione didn't want to talk about this topic here, and they all noticed that other people around them were listening in on the conversation.

"I'm not doubting that Harry is the heir of Slytherin." Albert said to Hermione, "I just suspect that only Parseltongue can open Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

Ron, who was playing wizard chess next to him, couldn't help but secretly cursed: Aren't you suspecting that Harry is the heir of Slytherin?

"You probably didn't understand what I meant." Albert looked at the astonished Hermione and reminded, "Why has no one found Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets before?"

Before Hermione could answer, Albert continued, "Because they are not Parseltongues, they can't find the Chamber of Secrets, but Harry Potter is different. He might be able to find Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets and use Parseltongue." The cavity opens the secret chamber.”

Hermione and Ron both looked at Albert blankly, unable to recover from the meaning of Albert's words for a while.

"However, if you find the secret room, don't enter without authorization. You must ask the professors for help." Before turning and leaving, Albert added, "I know you don't plan to go back during the Christmas vacation."

"What does he mean?"

Ron asked as he knighted Hermione's king to death.

"He should mean that Parseltongue is the key to opening the Chamber of Secrets." Hermione thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we should take action."

In fact, Hermione had already guessed it, but she didn't expect that Harry would actually be a Parseltongue.

"What's the meaning?"

"Try to find the location of the secret room." Hermione lowered her voice and said, "This is probably the hint that Albert just gave us!"

"But, do you know the location of the secret room?" Ron asked angrily.

Hogwarts Castle is not small. I don’t know that I have to find Monkey Year, Horse and Moon, and there is a terrifying monster hidden in the secret room.

To be honest, Ron didn't want to provoke the monster in the secret room at all. It was not a terrifying existence that they could fight against.

Not long after, Harry came back, looking very grumpy.

He had just had a big fight with Justin Finch-Fletchley, who thought he had ordered the snake to attack him at the Dueling Club.

"It's pointless for you to argue with him." Hermione said after listening to Harry's complaint: "Justin Finch-Fletchley has decided that you are the heir of Slytherin. No matter how you explain, you can't change him. views will only make both parties more unhappy.”

"But……"

"No need to waste your breath." Hermione comforted, "When the truth comes out, you can ask Justin Finch-Fletchley to apologize to you. If he has the courage to apologize to you."

"That's not what you would say!" Ron was a little surprised by Hermione's words.

"I learned this from Albert. He would never argue with me about Professor Lockhart." Hermione's expression was very strange. "Every time I talk to Albert about Lockhart, he always Everyone just smiled and never expressed their opinions.

Hermione actually knew that Albert believed that the contents in Lockhart's book were fabricated and not Lockhart's personal experience.

He himself is not as great as in the book.

Although she was reluctant to admit it, Hermione's intuition told her that Albert's guess was most likely right, especially after seeing Lockhart's poor performance at the Duel Club.

"I think Albert is quite sensible." Ron said dryly. Both he and Harry knew that Hermione admired Lockhart, and there were several times when both parties were unhappy because of that guy's relationship.

"We'd better see if we can get any useful information from Malfoy first. If we don't try to find Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets again." Harry didn't like the method of using Parseltongue to find the Chamber of Secrets. He suspected that if someone looked at it, By the time he was searching for the secret room, things might have gotten worse.