The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

The discussion among the little wizards was in vain. How could empty talk lead to a conclusion? However, the faces of Victorique's roommates gradually became serious. They looked around in the common room for a long time, but did not see Victoria's figure. Thinking about Victoria's recent performance, they all had a bad feeling in their hearts.

The lounge was noisy like an early morning vegetable market. Even the sound of questions and answers outside the common room door was covered up, causing the little wizard who was near the door to be startled when the door was pushed open.

Dumbledore led the four deans and Professor Lockhart into the lounge like a student council going to bed. The little wizard in Ravenclaw is as quiet and well-behaved as the students who are checked in bed. It was as if someone had pressed the mute button in the lounge, and there was no sound in the room.

Tom felt that such a high-profile search would cause further panic, but there was no better way to deal with it than this: Victorique's personal brand should indeed be checked as soon as possible to find Riddle's diary - at least it should be confirmed that it was the culprit. Looking at Dumbledore who was in the center of everyone's attention, Tom sighed in his heart.

Several people walked through the lounge and walked up the stairs leading to the student dormitories.

Peggy raised her eyebrows as she watched the professors disappear down the stairs.

It was the first time that Tom entered a girl's dormitory.

[Task: Wandering in the world. Goal: Explore the magical world

Five stages of progress: 3/16 Ravenclaw girls’ dormitory unlocked]

Tom:…

He never expected that the girls' dormitory could really be used as a check-in place! When he was collecting check-in progress, he noticed that the Ravenclaw boys' dormitory could increase the task progress by one. At that time, he had the idea of ​​sneaking into the women's dormitory to see if he could improve the progress, but he suppressed it by himself.

He thought he could ask Hermione in the future if she could...

As expected, I actually came in openly today. But the scene was just as embarrassing as being caught sneaking in. Because when they walked in, they were surprised to find Lockhart posters plastered all over the house! Those big white teeth dazzled the eyes of everyone present.

"It can be seen that our Professor Lockhart is very popular with the little witch." Snape teased.

"This is the smile that won the Wizarding Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times!" Tom pointed desperately at a giant poster that was three feet long. "Do you think I want to be hung on it?"

While Tom and Snape were bickering, Dumbledore patiently checked Victoria's items one by one and found nothing unusual. When he dug out a stack of posters and a pink envelope from Victoria's suitcase with "Dear Professor Lockhart" written on it, Tom really wanted to unravel the fact that the real murderer was a diary. told Dumbledore.

After seeing Dumbledore rummaging through Victoria's personal belongings and finding nothing, Professor McGonagall made a suggestion: Ask Victoria's roommates, maybe they can get some clues.

After just a brief inquiry, they really got an important piece of news: Victorique had been mentally depressed for a long time, and she kept holding a diary and writing in it every night.

There was no diary in what Dumbledore just checked!

The professors present were keenly aware of the problem: a diary with a black cover.

Several people immediately returned to the dormitory and searched the entire dormitory, but found nothing. The professors determined that what happened to Victoria was inseparable from the diary.

When several professors returned to the common room, the little wizard finally couldn't help it anymore.

Someone stood up and asked loudly: "Professor Dumbledore, can you tell us what is going on in the Chamber of Secrets?"

Everyone looked at the warrior and found that it was the old prefect Robert Hilliard. He mustered up great courage and directly asked Dumbledore about the truth about the Chamber of Secrets.

Prefect Robert asked what everyone was thinking.

Dumbledore paused and turned to look at Robert. Beads of sweat suddenly appeared on Robert's head. But Dumbledore's look reassured him: he saw approval and appreciation in it. Dumbledore did not show off, but smiled and pulled up an armchair by the fireplace, and while warming himself by the fire, he told an ancient story to the young wizards in the lounge.

About a thousand years ago, four of the greatest wizards of that era: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slater Lin, and jointly built Hogwarts Castle, giving Britain's young wizards a pure land away from Muggles to learn magic.

Initially, several founders worked harmoniously together, looking for talented young people and teaching them magic. But later their enrollment philosophies differed. After a heated argument, Slytherin left the school. It is said that he built a secret room in the castle that only his true heir could open, the Chamber of Secrets. On the day the Chamber of Secrets opens, Hogwarts will be purified and all those who are unworthy of learning magic will be eliminated.

After the story of the Chamber of Secrets was told, the whole lounge fell silent. Everyone continued to stare at Dumbledore, hoping that he would tell more, and there was an uneasy atmosphere in the air.

"Professor Dumbledore, since you don't even know about the other three founders, how did this legend spread?" After thinking about it carefully, someone discovered the flaw in this legend.

"The descendants of Slytherin and the Gaunt family have been secretly promoting this matter, but no one of them has ever dared to actually open it." Dumbledore answered his doubts.

Although Slytherin concealed the existence of the Secret Chamber from the other three founders, there is no need to hide it from his descendants and students who adhere to his own ideas - otherwise no one would know that there is a secret room. Who will inherit Slytherin's will and legacy?

Descendants of Slytherin who knew this would sometimes tell the news to those they decided to share it with. Obviously, members of the Gaunt family are not people who can keep secrets. These descendants are also aware of the basilisk's existence and can hear it and even communicate with it directly. But no one dared to release the monster until a mixed-race orphan came to Hogwarts.

The fundamental purpose of Slytherin leaving the Chamber of Secrets is definitely not to "purify the school" - something that Slytherin never did during his lifetime, isn't it too illusory to expect future generations to solve it for him? His secret room is more like a legacy. As for the basilisk inside, it is a meeting gift for the heir.

But for Slytherin, if someone really "purified" the school, he would be fine.

Someone continued to ask, "Professor Dumbledore, is the Chamber of Secrets really reopened?"

Dumbledore nodded, "But don't worry, Professor Lockhart found the secret room and rescued Victorique from inside. Miss Brown is fine now."

Everyone turned their attention to Tom.

"you……"

Tom answered his question directly.

"There are some manuscripts from previous generations in the library. I found clues in them and finally found the secret room."

Many young wizards in Ravenclaw are very excited: the answer is really hidden in the book!

"Miss Brown is fine. She will return to class after regaining her energy in a few days. But I want to remind you that the evil existence that intends to eliminate 'people who are not worthy of learning magic' is still lurking in the school. You must be careful. All wizards are in danger, and attacks are indiscriminate. Remember, never trust anything that can think for itself, unless you see where it hides its mind!"

Tom paused, "What confuses classmate Victorique is a diary with a black cover. It can communicate with people."

"If anyone has clues, be sure to contact the professors." Tom had no hope. Riddle was not someone who was easily exposed. His ability to confuse people could always charm those little wizards. Thinking about it carefully, didn't I also covet his knowledge and didn't deal with him immediately?

It is his mission to bury Riddle.

After telling most of the truth to the little wizard. Tom followed Dumbledore and the others out of the lounge, leaving the little wizards looking at each other. Everyone's emotions have been ignited by this series of breaking news.

"It turns out that the secret room really exists!" Lisa Dupin poked her good friend Padma Petil. She had always thought that the so-called "secret room" was just a cover-up and excuse for the murderer, but she didn't expect that it really existed. Its matter. Padma nodded in agreement with her friend and decided to tell her sister about it tomorrow. Next to them, a senior named Penello was already lying on the table writing a letter.

"So where is Hermione? She doesn't seem to be in the lounge..." Su Li was more concerned about Hermione's whereabouts. She had just observed that Hermione was not in the lounge. This made her think that something bad had happened to Hermione too.

Where was Hermione at this moment? She was having dinner in Tom's office. Tom deliberately asked her to return to the lounge later so as not to come in with the professors and become the center of attention, affecting the peaceful life of the next few days.

"Professor Lockhart is amazing!"

"I didn't expect Professor Lockhart to be able to find the legendary secret room."

The secret room and the victim had answers to these two major questions, so the little wizards focused more on Professor Lockhart, who turned the tide.

They enthusiastically discussed this senior who came out of Ravenclaw Academy, his adventures and the various magics he was proficient in.

But now, this "Professor Lockhart" is blocked by a "person".

"Ms. Grey, what can I do for you?" Tom met the ghost of Ravenclaw: Helena Ravenclaw on his way back to his office after separation from Dumbledore and the others.

"Can I take a look at the ring on your hand? I mean what it really looks like." Her voice was cold, but Tom could hear the excitement behind it.

Tom thought for a moment, removed the disguise on the ring, and stretched out his hand in front of Helena so that she could see it clearly.

"Sure enough..." Helena showed a reminiscing look, as if she had recalled some past events, "I'm afraid you are not the real Lockhart, are you? Can I know your real name?"

"You can call me Tom."

Hearing this name, the cold and distant look on Helena's face disappeared. "It's another Tom..." She looked a little sad.

Tom thought she wanted to talk to him more, but unexpectedly she turned around and left. She floated out for a few steps, then stopped and glanced at Tom with a complicated expression, "I hid Ravenclaw's diadem in a hollow tree in a forest in Albania. If you want, you can go Look for it, and if it's still there, it's yours."

After leaving such a sentence, she got into the wall next to her and disappeared, leaving the confused Tom standing alone. He didn't understand why Helena was suddenly willing to tell him the whereabouts of the Ravenclaw Diadem.

But it’s useless to know this news, because the crown has been taken away by Riddle and made into a Horcrux! This behavior is as disgusting as using the Holy Grail as a urinal. Riddle's quirk is indeed disgusting: he went to great lengths to collect the relics of the four founders, and then made them into Horcruxes...

Pooh!

Except for Gryffindor's sword, all the relics of the other three people were brutally murdered, and the Resurrection Stone, one of the Three Holy Artifacts of Death, also became a Horcrux.

This is blasphemy, as disgusting as smearing a layer of shit on an antique or writing a short composition on a calligraphy and painting.

"Wait, the crown..." Tom suddenly thought of something. If the diary has been lost, the crown has been hidden in the Room of Requirement. You can find the crown first and nip it in the bud.

But three hours later, looking at the endless hills of debris, Tom gave up on this idea: there were tens of thousands of contraband hidden in the Room of Requirement, and trying to find the crown inside was like looking for a needle in a haystack. It can only be said that it was fate that Harry found the diadem in such a pile of debris.

Of course, the fragment of Voldemort's soul that possessed his soul also played a crucial role. Perhaps it was through the mutual attraction of the soul fragments that Harry was able to meet the diadem.

"Perhaps I should ask Harry to come over, or I should study divination by myself..." Tom muttered these words and left the Room of Requirement.

The second secret room attack was like a stone thrown into a pond, causing splashes and ripples, but it quickly returned to calm. The initial panic was eliminated by Dumbledore's explanation. Everyone knew that the Chamber of Secrets had indeed been opened, but all the problems had been solved.

Fear comes from the unknown. When the mystery of the secret room is taken away, the little wizards are no longer so afraid of it.

The so-called heir to the Chamber of Secrets is not a real person, but a diary of dark magic. This made the little wizards breathe a sigh of relief. They instinctively felt that they would never be deceived by the diary. This kind of mysterious confidence is just like how most people feel that they will not be deceived.