Chapter 514 Mark's courage for Ginny

Hermione was heard saying that Myrtle was the girl who died fifty years ago.

Harry was stunned.

He suddenly rang, and during the opening ceremony, Myrtle saw the horrified expression on Tom's appearance.

And Myrtle shouted something like "He's coming" when she was escaping.

Could it be?

He suspected Tom again.

But this is impossible!

Tom Padrick is Mark's brother and Mr. Padrick's son. He cannot be the murderer behind the secret room incident.

All the people with different thoughts fell into silence.

"Maybe we should ask Hagrid."

After a while, Mark said to everyone.

night.

Mark, Harry, Ron, and Hermione took advantage of the clear night to rush to the forest cabin where Hagrid was.

Asking Raven to tell her father on her behalf that if she didn't go back to the farm that night, Mark planned to share a bed with Harry for the night.

The four of them hurried towards Hagrid's lighted room.

It wasn't until they reached the other party's front door that they pulled off the cloak.

A few seconds after Harry knocked on the door, Hagrid yanked the door open.

The two stood facing each other, Hagrid, who was extremely alert, aiming his bow and arrow at Harry, and the male hound barking loudly in the room.

"Oh, it's you little guys, why are you here so late?"

Hagrid put down his bow with a sigh of relief and asked several people.

"We want to talk to you, Hagrid."

Harry and others entered the room and said to him.

"sure."

Hagrid asked several people to sit down. He poured hot water boiled on the fire into cups and handed them to several people one by one.

"Sorry, I forgot to add the tea bag."

Hagrid scratched his messy hair and was about to stand up to help several people add tea bags.

"No need, Hagrid, we want to ask you, do you know about the Chamber of Secrets? A similar thing happened in Hogwarts fifty years ago. Legend has it that the Chamber of Secrets was opened and the monsters inside would attack non-pure-blood wizards."

Hearing this, Hagrid crushed the tea cup in his hand with a bang.

He quickly stood up and apologized to everyone in a hurry.

"Sorry, I. I didn't control my strength well."

Hagrid, who was in a mess inside, collected the pieces of the teapot, sat down dejectedly, and said to Harry and the others: "I didn't do that. Aragog is a kind animal. He has never hurt anyone." ”

"Aragog?"

Mark asked doubtfully: "What is that?"

"It's an Acromantula, huge in size. Aragog was originally a blind Acromantula. I adopted and kept it in a cupboard in Hogwarts Castle. Later, during the Chamber of Secrets incident, He was framed as the culprit for killing the students, but I know it would never harm a human being. It was someone who put the blame on him."

Hagrid sighed, "I was expelled from Hogwarts because of this incident, and I have been living here since then."

"Who framed you? Hagrid."

Harry believed that Hagrid was definitely not the murderer. He frowned and asked the other party.

"No, you. You don't need to know his name."

Hagrid hesitated and glanced at Mark.

Finally, he said hesitantly: "Harry, you'd better pay attention to Tom Padrick. Sorry, Mark, I didn't mean to say anything about your brother, I just felt this way."

Mark was stunned when he heard Hagrid telling him to be careful about Tom.

After a while, he said to Hagrid: "Maybe you are wrong, Hagrid. Tom is not a bad person, he is just a little arrogant sometimes."

"Well, maybe I made a mistake."

Hagrid said a little uneasily.

Harry, who was holding a water glass next to him, was lost in thought.

A week later.

morning.

Gryffindor students gathered in the hospital wing.

Harry, Mark, and Ron, who received the news from Professor McGonagall, rushed to the scene.

After seeing the horror of the scene, Harry's stomach twitched.

Madam Pomfrey leaned over a curly-haired fifth-year girl. Next to her, lying next to her, was Hermione.

"Hermione!"

Seeing Hermione lying on the ground, Mark shouted in disbelief.

Hermione, who was stiff all over, fell to the ground with her eyes open, as if she saw something unbelievable.

"what happened?!"

Harry asked Professor McGonagall next to him.

"Tom Padrick discovered it first."

Professor McGonagall pointed her gaze at Tom, who looked calm next to him.

Harry froze on the spot when he heard it was Tom again.

He looked at Tom with shocked eyes.

"When I was about to go to the library to check, I saw them lying on the ground."

Tom glanced at Harry and said with a unique London accent: "There was no one or suspicious creature at the scene at the time."

McGonagall reached out and patted Tom on the shoulder to comfort him.

She took off her glasses and said in a choked voice, "There is no doubt that I. I have never been more sad than I am now. If the real culprits behind these attacks cannot be caught, then our school will most likely be closed." stop."

Harry felt confused as he listened to Professor McGonagall's words.

He knelt down and found a broken lens next to Hermione.

Putting away the lenses, he looked at the amulet in the stiff Hermione's neck.

I found that the beautiful diamond-shaped amulet had disappeared.

Mark also cast his heavy gaze on Hermione on the ground.

Soon he noticed that Hermione seemed to have a note in her hand.

After taking a look at the students gathered around him, Mark said nothing, preparing to wait until the people dispersed before going to see what the note was.

Half an hour later, the infirmary.

Harry, Mark, and Ron came to Hermione.

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When no one was around, Mark took out the note from Hermione's hand.

The note is a piece of paper torn from an old book.

Mark smoothed it out and Ron and Harry leaned over to look.

"Among the fearsome beasts and monsters that roam the world, none are more bizarre or more deadly than the Basilisk, the 'King of Anacondas'. The Basilisk is huge and can live for countless centuries. It emerges from the belly of a toad. It hatches from the eggs it lays, and the most incredible thing is the way it kills. It not only has deadly fangs, but also has an extremely dangerous gaze. Anyone who comes into contact with its eyes will be killed immediately. "

"Basilisk is the natural enemy of spiders, so wherever Basilisk appears, spiders will flee. The rooster's crowing is fatal to it, so it will flee when it hears the rooster's crow."

Behind the last line, there was a scrawled word "GUAN" written in Hermione's hand.

Harry took a deep breath after seeing the writing on the note.

He excitedly said to the two of them: "I understand, the monster in the secret room is this snake. I understand why I can hear that sound, because I understand snake language, and Mark, what you hear is just a strange sound." Ron, you and Hermione can't hear it at all."

Mark held his chin and guessed the truth behind the deaths of several people.

"If this is the case, it can also explain why everyone was petrified. Basilisk killed people by staring, but no one died because no one looked at it directly with their eyes. Colin looked at it through the camera. , when they found Hermione and that fifth-year Carlo, there was a mirror next to them. Maybe they saw it through the mirror, and the amulet"

At this point, Mark immediately figured out why Hermione's amulet disappeared.

Hermione's amulet was a gift from her father.

The basilisk must have tried to hurt Hermione after petrifying it, but was blocked by the amulet.

other side.

"Tube"

Looking at the words on the note, Harry started to make associations.

"Maybe it was the water pipes, that big snake, it might have used the sewer to get here, I heard that sound inside the wall once."

Harry speculated that what Hermione wanted to tell everyone was "water pipes".

After deducing the clues left by Hermione, Harry quickly frowned again.

Those who can understand snake language include not only myself, but also the descendants of Slytherin House.

Soon he thought of Tom again.

That day at the fighting club, he met Tom who also spoke Parseltongue.

Why all the clues

All related to Tom Padrick?

Is he really the real murderer behind the scenes? !

If he was, what was Mark going to do?

Do you want to force him to kill his relatives out of justice?

Harry scratched his head, feeling distressed.

When he played Quidditch, he asked Mark to play against Raven. If he was forced to play against Tom this time, he would have to go against his brother and sister every time. It seemed too cruel to Mark.

afternoon.

Mark received even worse news.

Ginny is missing!

And it is very likely that he has been taken into the secret room.

After hearing the news, Ron slid directly from the chair to the ground and collapsed into a ball.

Mark, on the other hand, held the wand tightly and turned pale.

"Hey guys, did I miss something?"

Lockhart opened the door and came in, happily talking to everyone.

Everyone looked at him with hatred.

Snape had been putting up with this guy for a long time. He stepped forward and grabbed the other person's collar, "Very well, Professor Lockhart, now we have encountered a critical matter. A girl has been captured. Now it is your turn to show off your power." "

Upon hearing Snape's words, Lockhart's face instantly turned pale.

"Well. I. I've been feeling a little unwell recently, which may affect my spell casting."

The shady Professor McGonagall next to him pretended to be confused and asked him: "Didn't you say you knew what was in the secret room? And you said you could do it with one hand."

"Did I say that? I don't seem to remember."

Looking at the serious faces of Snape and Professor McGonagall, Lockhart grimaced, "I really didn't say that. You may have misunderstood."

"This is not a misunderstanding, hurry up and get ready!"

Naturally, Snape would not let this guy go, and planned to keep him in school to deal with the monster.

"alright."

Professor McGonagall clapped her hands and said to the students of Gryffindor House: "Tomorrow morning, all students will be sent home by express train. From now on, Hogwarts will be suspended indefinitely."

Mark took a deep breath, clenched his fists, and raised his hands to muster the courage to stand up.

"Professor McGonagall, I want to stay!"

For Ginny, he decided to do something he didn't regret.