Chapter 218: Disappearing Myrtle, Mrs. Norris's provocation, and the Screaming Chicken is all t

As soon as Professor Ollivier announced the disbandment.

Lin Xia quickly pulled Hermione and Draco out, and told them to use the "Invisibility Spell" as they walked out.

Not long after they finished the spell, they saw Professor Lockhart following closely behind.

Everyone held their breath.

After waiting quietly for a few minutes, Lin Xia nodded to them, indicating that they could relax.

But she herself had not yet lifted the Invisibility Spell, but walked in another direction.

Seeing this, Draco and Hermione did not lift the Invisibility Spell and continued to follow Lin Xia.

The patrol routes of their group of excellent second-year students were all the same.

At the same time, the excellent sixth-year students were also on this patrol route, which was a kind of care for the newcomers.

If something really happened, the senior students could come to rescue immediately.

After walking for a while, Hermione couldn't help asking, "Why do we have to hide from Professor Lockhart?"

Draco answered without Lin Xia's answer: "Didn't you notice that no one is willing to team up with Professor Lockhart, even the professor."

Hermione said loudly: "The professor is capable of patrolling alone!"

Draco spread his hands: "That's the problem. The professor is capable of patrolling alone, why does he want to team up with students?"

Hermione frowned: "He loves students and wants to protect us, so he wants to team up with us."

Draco shook his head: "Hermione, it's meaningless for you to say that. The dean loves us no less than Professor Lockhart, but why didn't the dean team up with us?"

He paused, "The last weekend night patrol, I was with Professor Lockhart.

When strange anomalies appeared, he would only call me to take over and hide behind me. What's the use of such a partner?

At that time, I didn't know whether he was here to protect me or I was here to protect him."

After this battle, Draco kept as far away from Professor Lockhart as possible.

Still want to team up?

No way!

Hermione frowned even more.

She always felt that Draco and Ron had too deep a prejudice against Professor Lockhart.

She couldn't help but look at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia noticed her gaze and said in a deep voice: "Hermione, I agree with Draco's point of view, otherwise I wouldn't drag you to use the invisibility spell.

Professor Lockhart is not on the same line as us. If you want to go back to find him, you can find him at any time, all in the way you like."

Hermione thought about it.

She felt that it would be better to follow Lin Xia and Draco. After all, they had patrolled several times at night and had more experience.

Their first patrol point was the Gryffindor common room.

In order to prevent the previous "invisibility charm" incident, this time they all used the counter-spell of the invisibility spell to detect.

Nothing was found.

Then, they came to the Slytherin common room.

They did not enter the common room, but only checked the periphery, and also found nothing.

Because everyone is free to decide which patrol point to go to first, even if some people have the same patrol route, they will not meet each other if they go to different places first.

For example, Lin Xia and her friends did not meet any outstanding sixth-grade students this time, let alone professors.

When they left the basement, suddenly, Hermione's wand tip waved a "fluorescent flash".

She asked in doubt, "Who is there?"

Lin Xia and Draco looked up, and in the next second, they also waved "fluorescent flash".

Soon, a shadow slowly emerged from the corner of the wall, and then Filch appeared in front of them.

Hermione was slightly relieved, but still did not let down her guard.

Filch is not friendly to Gryffindor students on weekdays.

Filch did not look at Hermione, but stared at Lin Xia, his body slightly hunched.

Beside him, there was no Mrs. Norris who was often seen.

Lin Xia couldn't help asking, "Where's Mrs. Norris?"

Filch's voice came in a low voice: "It ran to the bathroom again. It always runs to the bathroom recently. It seems that there is something there. I am very worried about it."

Lin Xia quickly made a decision: "Take me to see it."

Hermione looked at Lin Xia and was about to say that they were patrolling, but she found that Draco followed without saying a word.

Hermione glanced around and immediately followed.

She didn't want to be alone.

Filch led the way in front, holding a dim oil lamp in his hand.

The oil lamp creaked in front, and the thin light made his body look extremely thin, more like a skeleton.

Compared to the oil lamp in his hand, he was more like a human oil lamp in his twilight years.

The light shone on his gray hair again, dry as weeds.

No one made a sound, only the black shadow followed silently.

Lin Xia thought that if a little wizard was out at night and saw this scene, he would probably think he had run into a ghost.

After a while, they came to the second floor.

When they arrived at the destination, Hermione immediately recognized it.

"Isn't this the bathroom where Moaning Myrtle is?"

Draco asked curiously: "Moaning Myrtle?"

Hermione said in a mysterious tone: "I also heard about ghost stories from others. There was a ghost in Hogwarts called Myrtle.

She was a student of Hogwarts, but no one knew how she died, and even she herself never told the cause of her death.

Everyone only knows that she likes to spy on male wizards going to the bathroom, and often confesses her love to her prefects. Peeves likes to bully her the most.

But one day, Myrtle suddenly disappeared! Even the professor cannot explain this phenomenon. "

Lin Xia asked: "Has the professor ever tried to find Myrtle?"

Hermione nodded hesitantly: "I should have looked for it. Every ghost in Hogwarts is known. If Myrtle disappears suddenly, everyone will be worried."

Lin Xia then asked: "But you didn't find it out in the end?"

Hermione shook her head: "It was like evaporating from the world, it suddenly disappeared.

I heard that a student once asked Professor Trauni about this question. The professor tried to divine but found nothing. The professor said..."

Hermione tried hard to recall what she had heard, "What did you say... Destiny fell into a fog, and there was a bronze thing... that exchanged Myrtle's soul... and it rested..."

Lin Xia lowered her head slightly, making her expression unclear.

Draco thought for a while: "Since the word [rest in peace] is used, then Myrtle should have no regrets after disappearing."

Hermione said in agreement: "The reason why ghosts become ghosts is that their obsession during their lifetime was too deep. When this obsession disappears, they can be freed."

Ghosts look just like normal people, but they are actually very different.

They cannot feel any emotions, they are only immersed in their own world and cannot feel the outside world.

Maybe they look like they have a personality and say hello to the wizard.

But for the ghost, these things have no emotion at all, and have been reduced to a mechanical level.

Go into the bathroom.

They heard Mrs. Norris's voice calling to the ceiling.

"Meow meow!"

This meow was extremely shrill and harsh, but Mrs. Norris was very persistent.

Lin Xia inexplicably heard a trace of provocation in these meows that never stopped.

After seeing the bathroom, she knew that Mrs. Norris might have discovered something.

This is the bathroom where Myrtle stayed during her lifetime, and it is also the entrance to the secret room!

When she followed Mrs. Norris' gaze, her eyes flashed slightly when she saw the ceiling.

Although the entrance to the pipe in the secret room is downwards, it does not mean that there is no pipe above. Otherwise, how would the basilisk crawl out along the pipe?

Filch had already picked up Mrs. Norris, who kept screaming. Only in his arms did Mrs. Norris look less angry.

Filch stroked the thin-haired Mrs. Norris as if she were a beloved one.

He said hoarsely: "It has been in this state for several days. Whenever it is free, it will bark at the ceiling here."

Lin Xia asked: "Have you found anyone else to come and see it?"

Filch: "Professor Snape took a look at it for me. He checked it with a certain spell and said there was nothing strange here."

Hermione would not doubt that Professor Snape was not doing his best. As a professor, he still had this basic rule.

What's more, Mrs. Norris may have discovered some kind of strange phenomenon.

At present, the cats at Hogwarts are quite sensitive to things on the evil side.

Hermione asked: "The problem is the ceiling. Could it be that he only tested the interior but not the ceiling, so he missed something?"

Lin Xia shook his head: "No, Snape is the Potions Professor, he would not do such an imprecise thing.

Even though he looks impatient on the surface, he will do the work that needs to be done, and he should inspect the ceiling together. "

She looked at Filch, thought for a moment, and said, "I have Potions class tomorrow, and I will ask Professor Snape again."

Lin Xiafu looked at Mrs. Loris in his arms and whispered: "The little guy is more sensitive. If he finds something, he wants to solve it.

But if there really is something big, its small body is not enough to see. Let Mrs. Norris come out after the vision is eliminated. "

Mrs. Norris couldn't help but "meow".

Lin Xia did not forget the tips given by the Fate Compass. It was very simple to change Mrs. Loris' fate of being petrified.

Just close it up.

The reminder was obvious enough, what to do next was Filch's business.

Lin Xia, Draco and Hermione left the abandoned bathroom on the second floor and continued their night patrol.

This time on night patrol, they found three visions——

A ghost that never appeared, a ball that suddenly appeared, a burst of laughter that suddenly appeared.

After reporting the three visions, everyone returned to their respective dormitories.

Lin Xia came to the golden wooden house.

The White Fairy called her "meow" a few times, and then lay in her arms.

During this school year, Fairy Bai fell into a deep sleep most of the time.

However, when she was practicing, it would suddenly wake up and silently run to the practice room to sleep, never missing the opportunity to draw in a little bit of strength.

Lin Xia stroked its fur, which was gradually turning gray, and guessed that Fairy White must be undergoing some kind of bloodline awakening.

The bloodline deep in its soul is a black and white cat, but this bloodline is too weak.

I don’t know how many awakenings it will take before I can gradually get closer to the bloodline hidden deep in my soul.

Only when it evolves to a certain level can Lin Xia reversely deduce what power that bloodline contains.

Lust the queen cat.

Lin Xia went to the small laboratory that came with the wooden house, opened the diary, and talked to Tom.

Recently, she would talk to Tom every night, hoping to learn more about the secret room from him.

She knew how to open the secret room and how to enter it.

But the last time she went in as a spirit body, she only felt that it was deep and complicated, and she didn't explore too much.

This time, she had to prepare in advance and then find the opportunity to fully explore the secret room and maybe fight a basilisk.

Tom: [Frequent visions are a sign. Even Hogwarts is warning you, don’t take it lightly]

Lin Xia: [But everyone says that Hogwarts is the safest place in the UK]

Tom: [There is no such thing as the safest place]

Lin Xia: [But I still want to prevent the basilisk from emerging. Tom, my friend, can you give me some useful advice? ]

Tom: [Of course, I don’t want Slytherin’s Chamber of Secrets to be defiled by people with impure blood. Only the true heir can open the Chamber of Secrets! ]

Tom: […these are the methods I think of, and you can implement them one by one. It may not be useful, but once the basilisk hears it, it will definitely be very uncomfortable]

Wait until the next day.

Many young wizards who had the habit of running in the morning noticed that Lin Xia suddenly had a necklace of rooster tail feathers on her neck.

Not only that, Lin Xia seemed to be playing with a toy.

That kind of toy is a bit like a Q version of a chicken. Just pinch it gently and the chicken will let out a loud "cluck!"

The little wizard calls this toy "Screaming Chicken".

——You will scream when you pinch it!

At first, only Lin Xia wore it herself.

Later, Draco, Hermione, Ron and Harry all wore rooster tail feather necklaces and screamed chickens hanging around their waists.

They deliberately picked a place where there were many little wizards. From time to time, they walked a few steps and pinched the screaming chickens around their waists.

A clear and loud "clucking" chicken crow came, which made people feel refreshed.

After Lin Xia waited for the screaming chicken to finish crowing, she would also say a special sentence:

“I’ve been a little sleepy studying lately, and I need to listen to the crow of roosters to regain my energy.”

Not only did she do this herself, but she also asked Hermione and others to do the same.

There are three outstanding students who personally endorsed it, plus the celebrity effect of Harry, and the incidental influence of Ron.

After just one day, Screaming Chicken became popular throughout the second grade.

From the second grade to the first grade, the little wizards in the first and second grade will take the Screaming Chicken with them wherever they go.

As for the rooster tail feather necklace, there are two of them!

Wear one around your neck and one on your wrist.

One is never too little, two is never too many.

Some little wizards don't know that they really think "turning into a chicken" is very useful, so they even wear a rooster felt hat on their head and four or five screaming chickens hanging around their waists.

Screaming chickens make noise wherever they go.

Well, there's nothing wrong except that my head is a little hot.

Ron and Harry hurried through the corridor and entered Lin Xia's laboratory.

Ron rubbed his ears in horror and muttered: "It feels like there is noise pollution outside, and only the laboratory can be quieter."

Harry also said: "But the professor didn't stop us. After hearing the function of the Screaming Chicken, Professor Flitwick praised it very much and said that he also needs one."

Lin Xia, Hermione and Draco are still studying the guardian talisman.

Recently, their research time has been greatly increased, and everyone has a hunch that it is not far from the launch of a new enhanced version of the guardian talisman!

At this time, a week had passed since Screaming Chicken became popular.

Not only first- and second-year wizards are willing to wear them, but even some third- and fourth-year wizards are willing to wear them.

Suddenly, the entire Hogwarts became a sea of ​​"giggles".

For those who don't know better, when they walk into Hogwarts, they think they are walking into a large breeding farm.

Maybe she was stimulated by the "cluck", and Fairy Bai recently woke up from her deep sleep.

It could barely regain some energy during the day and ran outside to inquire about the enemy.

Lin Xia specially gave Fairy Bai a full body examination and thought that it should be the awakening of the bloodline from the visible layer to the dark layer.

Transition from outside to inside.

Although she had more waking hours, she was still very tired, so she asked Fairy Bai to do what she could.

Lin Xia warned it: "As soon as you feel any danger, close your eyes immediately. As long as you don't look into the basilisk's eyes, you won't be petrified immediately."

You can take a look at the bathroom in the next few days. I plan to go to the secret room before Halloween.

By the way, Mrs. Norris has been very restless recently. If you encounter her, you'd better stop her from provoking the basilisk in the bathroom on the second floor. "

After the White Fairy woke up, she came into contact with Mrs. Loris and learned about its abnormality.

After Fairy Bai's translation, Lin Xia finally figured out what Mrs. Loris was shouting at the ceiling.

What they call is——

"Come here! If you have the guts, come here! Come out and beat me!"

Lin Xia was slightly embarrassed.

It's really brave of a skilled man, but fortunately the basilisk didn't care.

After giving the instructions, Lin Xia continued to open the diary and communicated the solution with Tom.

When Tom learned that Lin Xia was going to enter the secret room, his reaction was very big.

Tom: [You cannot open the Chamber of Secrets. I advise you not to think about it. Only the heir of Slytherin can open it! ]

Its mood seemed a little excited, and even the words it wrote started to shake, sometimes getting bigger and sometimes smaller.

Lin Xia: [If you mean Parseltongue, I will]

Tom was immediately speechless.

After a moment of silence, a paragraph of text emerged.

[Why do you know Parseltongue? Only the descendants of Salazar have this talent]

Lin Xia: [Tom, you also said that this is a talent. Salazar had this talent back then, how come you didn't know that other people also have this talent?

Besides, the basilisk has been released, and many professors at Hogwarts have guessed that the tension caused secretly is most likely caused by the basilisk.

If there were no people who could speak Parseltongue, how could the basilisk be released?

Before things get worse, I want to prevent the tragedy from happening in advance. Don't worry, I won't take the risk alone, and there will be professors to accompany me]

Tom: [No! The secret room is the legacy of Slytherin, and other colleges cannot touch it! ! ]

Lin Xia: [If you don't want to be touched by others, then come out of the diary as a living person and do what you want to do, instead of just hiding in the diary as a weak spirit]

After writing this paragraph, Lin Xia closed the diary.

She put the diary into the box with forbidden magic words on the surface.

Considering Tom's excitement and the diary's increasing power, Lin Xia took out a larger box with forbidden magic words on it and put it in.

Another layer of protection!

At the same time, Lin Xia was also thinking about how to communicate with the professor that she could speak snake language.

It's easy to know where the secret room is.

Let's say that Mrs. Norris always goes to the bathroom to call, and after careful observation, she found something strange in the faucet.

The faucet hides the passage to open the secret room.

But the premise of opening the secret room is to speak snake language.

However, before Lin Xia could come up with a more reasonable explanation.

An accident happened in advance!