Chapter 70 Parseltongue

Any magic he knows? Does the Levitation Charm count?

After hearing what Professor Snape said, Harry felt his eyes go dark, but Professor Snape didn't care about that. He took them to the dueling arena and waved his cloak to the side:

"You can bow to each other."

Draco bowed to Harry with a malicious smile on his face, raised his hand and cast a curse:

"Dragon out of the hole!"

A black snake fell to the ground in the smoke and slowly crawled towards Harry. Harry froze in place, staring at the snake.

"This seems to be some kind of summoning spell... but what's the use of summoning a snake?"

Uther touched his chin and tilted his head. He could see that it was a real snake.

But even if it was a trained snake... it was just a snake. Ice freezing, fast imprisonment, petrification... any simple spell could solve it.

This spell can only bully young wizards who have not learned many spells, but it takes a lot of effort to train snakes not to attack the caster, and it is impossible to train them to lock on to the target and attack, so the actual combat effect is really worrying.

Facts have proved that even if the dragon is out of the hole, it is not very useful, but it has indeed frightened Harry now.

"Don't move, let me deal with it..."

Professor Snape was obviously pleased with Harry's reaction, but he didn't really want Harry to be bitten, so he walked forward while talking slowly.

"No problem, let me deal with it!"

Lockhart finally found a chance to show off, how could he let Professor Snape - even if he couldn't even beat the students, it's impossible that he couldn't even beat a snake, right?

Lockhart rushed forward in a flash, waved his wand and made a set of extremely complicated movements, and recited a difficult-to-distinguish spell.

It's a pity that Lockhart successfully cast a spell, but the attack power of this spell is a bit low. The snake that was hit rolled a few times on the duel stage, stood up and crawled towards Lockhart angrily.

Lockhart swallowed his saliva in embarrassment and stepped back quickly.

"Okay, I was wrong. This spell can actually be used to deal with some unlearned adult wizards."

Uther covered his face and sighed.

Professor Snape silently retreated to his original place and put the half-pulled wand back.

Being stared at by a snake that looked very poisonous, Lockhart was a little panicked and stopped pretending to be cool. He waved his wand and recited the spell:

"Expelliarmus!"

The poisonous snake that was hit by the red light and fell to the ground fluttered on the ground a few times and soon climbed up again.

"What kind of monster is this?!"

Lockhart exclaimed at the sight, and Draco spoke silently at this time:

"It's just an ordinary snake. Professor, are you trying to take away its fangs by using Expelliarmus?"

Facing Draco's somewhat contemptuous look, Lockhart was extremely angry. He got angry for a while, and then hurriedly said:

"My wand doesn't seem to have recovered yet, so let's return the stage to Mr. Potter!"

After that, he hurriedly left the duel stage.

"Pah--"

When he was going down the stairs, Lockhart seemed to be tripped by something and fell headfirst to the ground.

Adam retracted his hand and looked at the duel stage with concern.

"So... Mr. Potter, what are you going to do?"

Professor Snape narrowed his eyes and looked at Harry who was stared at by the snake again.

Harry didn't know if it was his illusion, he always felt that Professor Snape's mood seemed to have become much worse.

No one can save him now...

Harry watched the snake getting closer and closer to him, and suddenly opened his mouth as if he had an idea:

"Hiss, hiss, hiss--"

The smile on Professor Snape's lips disappeared all of a sudden, and his eyes stared at Harry intently. The next moment, he pulled out his wand and turned the snake into a puff of smoke.

"I'm going to take Professor Lockhart to the hospital wing again. The duel club ends here, and you can go back."

Professor Snape waved his wand to float Lockhart up, and said to the young wizards who were still in shock.

Lockhart was originally lying on the steps between the duel stage and the floor of the auditorium, groaning, and heard this, as if trying to prove that he didn't need to go to the hospital wing.

At this moment, Professor Snape's wand happened to move accidentally, and Lockhart followed it with a 1080-degree roll in the air, and suddenly there was no sound.

After dealing with Lockhart, the students were still discussing Harry's behavior and were unwilling to leave. Professor Snape narrowed his eyes:

"I say...you can go back."

"..."

The little wizards immediately scattered and returned to their respective common rooms.

"Did you all see it?"

Cologne exclaimed in a low voice on the way back:

"Harry was talking to the snake just now!"

"What's wrong with talking to the snake? Adam talks to his cat every day."

Bernard pointed at Adam.

Adam: "Meow meow meow?"

"That's different!"

Cologne was about to say that Adam was just teasing the cats and the cats didn't understand, but then he thought that the two cats seemed to understand...

"The ability to talk to snakes is very special and rare in the wizarding world...it's an ability called Parseltongue."

Eugene took over the conversation to explain to Bernard,

"Not only can you talk to snakes, Parseltongue can even command snakes to a certain extent, but that's not the point...The point is that Slytherin is a Parseltongue, and Parseltongue can be inherited."

"So... the heir of Slytherin must also be a Parseltongue?"

"That's right."

Bernard looked stunned, and then some thoughts flashed in his eyes.

Will the Boy Who Lived, the legendary savior, be the heir to open the Chamber of Secrets?

For Bernard, who has been secretly reading the case materials handled by his parents since he was a child, it is not impossible for a good person in everyone's eyes to be secretly dirty, no matter how dirty he is.

"Hey, I'm a little hungry after being active for a long time. What can I have for midnight snack?"

After hearing Adam's words, Bernard threw all his thoughts out of his mind for a moment:

"Why don't you eat the tiger skin and chicken feet that you made last time?"

Not to mention the discussion about late-night snacks in Adam's Dormitory, the news that Harry was a Parselmouth quickly spread throughout the campus, even overshadowing Lockhart's repeated embarrassment last night.

However, at noon the next day, things suddenly changed.

Adam was having lunch in the auditorium, and Ernie came up behind him with a curious look on his face:

"Adam, who is the heir to the Chamber of Secrets?"

"Um?"

Adam raised his head in confusion:

"The heir to the Chamber of Secrets? How do I know?"

"Oh, stop pretending. Harry said that you have dealt with all the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets! You must also know who the heir to the Chamber of Secrets is, right?"

Ernie lowered his voice and said:

"You tell me secretly, I will never tell anyone else!"

Harry? How did he know... Damn! Dobby!

Adam immediately understood the cause and effect, glanced at the little wizards around him with their ears pricked up, and his eyelids twitched——

I believe you!

"Why do you just believe what Harry says?"

Adam tried to reason with everyone.

"Well, I think he was quite sincere..."

Ernie scratched the back of his head:

"What he said was false?"

"..."

That can't be said.

If Harry showed Parseltongue himself and was mistaken for the heir, it would have nothing to do with Adam, but now that Adam is saying that Harry is lying, it becomes Adam's slander.

In desperation, Adam spoke:

"Okay, the heir to the Chamber of Secrets is..."

"Mr. Reed, I hope you don't mind joining me for lunch?"

Professor Dumbledore emerged from nowhere, looked at Adam with a smile and said.