Chapter 226: The first student to be petrified, Hogwarts's ban is lifted, and the formula for t

Harry was speechless towards Dobby, the house elf.

“You want to kill me, even if you hurt yourself, you still want to kill me.

That Bludger almost shattered me to pieces, and even that time on the King's Stand, you almost caused me to be expelled from Hogwarts. You..."

"Ah, I wish Harry Potter knew!"

Dobby suddenly covered his head and groaned helplessly, tears rolling down his tattered clothes.

"I wish I knew what he meant to us humble, enslaved little people in the magical world!

I have not forgotten He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, when He-Must-Not-Be-Named was at his most powerful, sir, and we house-elves were treated like vermin, and of course they still treat Dobby that way, sir. "

Dobby wiped his tears.

“But in general, since you defeated that person who must not even be named, the lives of us people have greatly improved...

Harry Potter shines like a beacon of hope... Now, at Hogwarts, something more terrifying is about to happen... History is about to repeat itself, and the Chamber of Secrets is opened again. "

Harry interrupted Dobby.

"Wait, a secret room? So, there is indeed a secret room?

And you said he'd been turned on before, tell me, Dobby, how old was that? Who opened the secret room? "

Dobby was stunned, realizing that he had made a mistake, and was horrified.

It grabbed Harry's water jug ​​from the bedside table, knocked it on his head again and again, and then staggered away.

But not long after, it slowly climbed onto the bed again, facing each other with its eyes, and murmured in a low voice:

"Bad Dobby, good bad Dobby! Dobby shouldn't have told Harry Potter these things!"

The house elf stammered, his eyes as big as copper bells in the darkness.

"Someone is plotting a conspiracy here, and Harry Potter must not stay here when it happens!

Go home, Harry Potter, go home, you must not interfere with this, it is too dangerous..."

Seeing that Dobby was about to disappear, Harry grabbed Dobby's arm in time to prevent him from hitting his head with the water can again or letting him leave.

"Who is that, Dobby? Tell me, who opened the Chamber of Secrets?"

Dobby shook his head desperately, "Dobby can't say, sir, Dobby can't say, Dobby absolutely can't say!"

The elf screamed, still repeating the words: "Go home, Harry Potter go home."

Harry said a little irritably: "I'm not going anywhere. I have a friend who is a Muggle. If the Chamber of Secrets is really opened, she will bear the brunt-"

Suddenly, there was a sound of soft footsteps in the corridor outside.

Harry was just stunned, and the next second, the house elf disappeared from in front of him.

Harry fell back on the bed and stared at the dark door of the ward as the footsteps got closer and closer.

Then there was a flash of light, the door to the ward was opened, and the first person who appeared was Dumbledore.

He entered the ward, carrying something sculptural in his hands.

A few seconds later, several other professors appeared, carrying the other end of the thing.

Together they put the item on the bed.

Madam Pomfrey hurried over.

"What's going on?" she asked Dumbledore in a low voice, leaning over to examine the object.

A pale moonlight shone on the thing, and Harry finally saw the whole thing clearly——

It's Colin Creevey.

His eyes were wide open, his hands stretched out in front of his chest, holding a camera, and a bunch of grapes in the other hand.

Professor McGonagall said: "We guess he wants to sneak here to see Potter."

Harry felt his stomach twitch violently.

How could this happen, why could this happen...

Madam Pomfrey examined it carefully, "Is he petrified?"

"Yes," said Professor McGonagall, "I shudder just thinking about it..."

Someone asked: "Would he have taken a photo of the attacker?"

Dumbledore didn't answer and pried open the back cover of the camera.

"Oh my God!" Madam Pomfrey exclaimed.

A stream of hot air hissed out of the camera, and even Harry, three beds away, smelled the pungent smell of burning plastic.

"Melted," Madam Pomfrey said in surprise, "It actually melted..."

"What does this mean, Albus?" Professor McGonagall asked eagerly.

"This means," Dumbledore paused, "the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened."

…

News that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened quickly spread throughout Hogwarts.

It was also accompanied by the news that a student had been petrified, the unlucky guy - Colin Creevey.

Principal Dumbledore decided not to seal off Hogwarts, leaving it to the young wizards to decide whether to leave or return home.

Hogwarts seems to have reached its darkest hour.

Even Lin Xia did not expect that the unblocking order would come so quickly.

When they went to visit Harry, they also saw the petrified Colin Creevey.

When Harry woke up from a patch of sunshine, he heard Hermione's passionate voice.

"So, we need to investigate even more and find out what is the inevitable connection between the opening of the secret room and the petrification!"

Ron didn't know why: "What else is there to do with it? The cleaner of the secret room decided to come out to clean it!"

Lin Xia shook his head: "No, Ron, you don't understand what Hermione means.

Hermione was asking what the relationship between the Sweeper and the Chamber of Secrets was. Since the Sweeper would only appear after the Chamber of Secrets was opened, how did the Sweeper move, and why did it perform the Petrification spell as soon as it was used? "

Harry moved his body and found that his arm had grown new bones, but they were very stiff.

He joined the discussion: "That Sweeper must have looked very scary. When Colin was petrified, his eyes were terrified."

Lin Xia threw out a question: "I saw a book about magical creatures before, and there was a magical creature called [Basilisk]. It was artificially created by wizards. Anyone who looked at the Basilisk would be petrified..."

She paused, "And the person who is currently known to be able to create the Basilisk is a great wizard named Slytherin Salazar."

Draco immediately understood what Lin Xia meant.

"Do you think they encountered a Basilisk?"

Lin Xia said solemnly: "I don't want to speculate in this direction, but the Petrification spell among them is too powerful. I heard from the professor that this requires a very profound attainment in the dark arts.

I think as a wizard, first of all, I can't live that long, only magical creatures can do it.

Secondly, the petrification of the basilisk is passively triggered, not actively triggered. It's normal that people and cats don't have time to react. "

Lin Xia's words gave a new direction.

At this time, Harry said: "Actually... just last night, I heard that voice again. It said it was hungry and wanted to kill people... As a result, Colin was petrified not long after.

I have heard that voice before. It will keep moving, as if it is moving from the ground to the ceiling.

I thought at the time that the voice was a ghost. But this is impossible. Ghosts don't have such powerful abilities.

After listening to Lin Xia's words, I realized that it is indeed very likely to be a basilisk!"

Ron's eyes kept flashing, and he was thinking quickly.

"Basilisk, basilisk..." His eyes lit up, "Pipeline! There are many pipelines in Hogwarts. Maybe it is moving through the pipeline! "

Lin Xia dispelled their eagerness to take risks.

"There are many pipes laid in Hogwarts. If you don't know the correct route, you will be searching aimlessly.

Don't forget that Hogwarts installed heating a few years ago and renovated the pipes.

Don't let the boiling steam burn you before you find the basilisk through the pipes. "

These words dispelled Ron and Harry's idea.

Draco and Hermione couldn't help but look at Lin Xia, who didn't say one thing.

It's not cold enough now, and the heating is not turned on at all!

If you go to climb the pipes now, you can search.

But there is one thing, Lin Xia is right, if you search without a purpose, it is a blind search.

Hogwarts is so big, and there are so many pipes, who knows which pipe to start from?

In addition, if you really start from the pipes, what if you accidentally encounter a basilisk during the search?

Once you look at a basilisk, you will be petrified!

When things didn't progress, Harry proposed a new direction.

"Dobby, do you remember Dobby? It came to me last night. Before Colin was petrified, it asked me to leave Hogwarts. "

Harry paused, "It also told me that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened, history is about to repeat itself, Hogwarts will no longer be safe, and I must go home.

So the Quaffle that lost control during the Quidditch match was controlled by it, and it wanted to force me to go home!"

"Dobby?" Ron and Hermione frowned.

They were not very familiar with the field of house elves.

And Lin Xia looked at Draco.

Draco said solemnly: "I am waiting for a reply from the family, and there should be news this week. "

Harry was not well yet, so the group had to bring him food.

They went to the Great Hall and found that some wizards were missing.

Some wizards felt that Hogwarts was not safe and had left.

But most wizards stayed, they believed in Hogwarts!

After this battle, the guardian charms and guardian buttons became popular again.

There were also all kinds of strange things, such as amethyst, cross, garlic, water in silver cups...

The school's grocery store finally couldn't stand the pressure.

Anything related to "guardianship" was sold out and was completely out of stock.

And the guardian button, the orders have been piled up.

Lin Xia had asked them to stop the pre-order.

It was also at this time.

The school finally discussed the "guardian button" project. The price of the formula of intellectual property.

The issue of price.

In theory, Lin Xia's team has absolute autonomy in pricing.

Even if the Guardian Button was born in the laboratory of Hogwarts.

Lin Xia still has absolute processing power.

Everyone knows that although the laboratory conditions are good, whether something can be created depends on the person.

The school does not only give Lin Xia a laboratory, other senior students also have laboratories.

But only Lin Xia's team has produced significant results, and what about others?

They haven't even produced a prototype!

The reason why Lin Xia let the school set the price is because she wants to spread the formula of the "Guardian Button" through the school's channels.

So, she is equivalent to cooperating with Hogwarts.

She can make concessions on pricing power.

As for Lin Xia's proposal to share the profits from the items sold, after discussion, it is regrettable that this cannot be realized.

After all, this is not a book, so there is no so-called royalties.

In addition, once the formula of the Guardian Button is sold, it will definitely be produced in large quantities.

The profit generated here is really too large, and it is very difficult to intervene and share it.

Lin Xia had expected this and was not surprised.

In Professor McGonagall's office.

McGonagall told Lin Xia the final result of the school's negotiation: "The right to sell the formula is one gold Galleon, and the school will extract 20% of the promotion fee, but at the same time, the school will fully help you promote the Guardian Button."

Lin Xia keenly noticed a word, "Fully?"

Professor McGonagall nodded slightly and said seriously: "Yes, fully, and we will help you promote it without any reservation."

Lin Xia asked: "What kind of promotion strength is this?"

McGonagall: "In addition to the excellent student channels that Hogwarts has, there are other channels that will help you promote it.

For example, the Alchemist Association channel, the famous alumni channel, the jeweler channel, the Wonderful Items Chamber of Commerce channel that you know...

Any channel with a secret key, Hogwarts can help you.

At the same time, the Guardian Button will be brought to the world, not only the British wizarding world, but also the American wizarding world, the French wizarding world, the Egyptian wizarding world..."

After listening to this, Lin Xia couldn't help but be shocked by Hogwarts's generosity.

She couldn't help but ask: "Professor McGonagall, is the Guardian Button worth it?"

According to such a promotional effort, only 20% of the promotion fee is charged?

That's a great conscience!

Professor McGonagall smiled and said meaningfully: "Lin Xia, any item related to [Guardian] is worth doing this.

And the Guardian Button fills the gap of the Guardian Talisman to the next level.

Maybe from now on, more and more strange items related to guardian will appear in the wizarding world, which will be very useful in another place."

Lin Xia's eyes flickered slightly.

She thought for a while and said solemnly: "I accept this condition!"

Immediately, Lin Xia signed the contract with Hogwarts.

Professor McGonagall reminded her: "When you go back, you can open the excellent student secret key and check it in the mall of the Alchemist Association secret key."

Lin Xia left the office.

She turned her head and looked out the window.

The weather has been bad recently, with dark clouds, and there is always a feeling of dark clouds pressing down on the city and a storm is coming.

There are no classes in the afternoon.

Lin Xia did not go to visit Harry, but opened the secret key to check.

As expected, the mall sections of the excellent student secret key and the Alchemist Association secret key have already put a product on the shelves -

[Guardian Button Recipe], author: Lin Xia

Price: 1 gold galleon

The excellent student secret key has shown that 10 people have bought it.

But the Alchemist Association secret key has shown that 100 people have bought it!

At the same time, some wizards also gave purchase ratings.

[A very simple and easy-to-understand guardian item. It is hard to imagine that in addition to the guardian amulet, the wizarding world has not seen any related guardian products for so many years, and it takes a genius little wizard to create it! ]