Chapter 58: The Basilisk Appears

October 31st, Halloween Eve.

As soon as George walked into the castle hall in the morning, he smelled a sweet and tempting roasted pumpkin.

Today's breakfast is basically all pumpkin-related, probably because he got a lot of ingredients from Hagrid.

But to be honest, the cooking skills of house elves are really good. No wonder Tonks always said that she missed the food of Hogwarts.

He, who doesn't like Western food very much, occasionally feels a bright feeling.

If there is a chance, he plans to see if he can get one in the future and use it as a butler for himself.

After the last class in the afternoon, the little wizards walked to the Great Hall in groups. George, as the star of Slytherin, was naturally surrounded by his classmates.

"Have you heard? Dumbledore also specially invited the Skeleton Dance Troupe for this Halloween dinner!"

"Wow, is it the dance troupe composed of all skeletons?"

Amid the excited discussion of the little wizards, George stepped into the Great Hall.

The Great Hall was decorated with colorful lights. A thousand live bats were flying on the walls and ceiling, and another thousand were like low dark clouds, hovering above the dining table.

There were huge pumpkin lanterns floating in the sky above the Great Hall, each of which was big enough to hold two or three little wizards.

It was a pumpkin specially made by Hagrid using the Expansion Spell, and George was there at the time.

But he was not interested in pumpkins, he was interested in the Expansion Spell.

The Expansion Spell, a spell that can make a person expand rapidly and float like a balloon, has the same effect on objects, but it is important to control the effect, otherwise it is easy to over-expand and explode.

George was interested in this spell because he thought that if he knew this spell when he escaped from the base before, he could expand the grenades by more than ten times when he controlled them to fly out.

It would not be a simple blow up of a few houses, maybe the whole base could be blown up.

But this spell is not easy, even if he asked Hagrid for advice, he has not yet fully mastered it.

Of course, the main thing is that he wants to learn too many magic theories and spells. The expansion spell is not the most important one, so he can only put it in the back row, which naturally takes less time.

Otherwise, if he studies this spell every day, he would have learned it long ago with two bodies.

The Halloween party at Hogwarts did not disappoint George. The house elves carefully cooked a variety of delicious food piled up, the professor showed gorgeous and interesting magic, and the skeleton dance troupe performed funny performances.

These are not things he can see in the normal world, and they also opened his eyes.

Compared with watching movies, the immersive experience is much more wonderful. Many things cannot be experienced by words and images without personal experience.

You will not feel anything no matter how high Mount Everest is on TV, but when you really stand there, you will understand why it is the highest peak in the world.

After the dinner, everyone dispersed, and the Slytherin students also chattered and walked towards the dormitory in the basement, including George, but at a corner, they suddenly stopped.

Because they saw Filch's Mrs. Norris hanging upside down on the torch stand, her body stiff and her eyes dull, and there were a few big words written on the wall next to the torch:

"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened,

Those who are enemies of the heir, beware!"

Standing on the other side of the wall were Harry and the other two who were also scared.

"Those who are enemies of the heir, beware! You are next, mud."

Malfoy immediately walked out of the crowd and excitedly started to mock Harry and the other two, but he was only halfway through his words when George behind him pressed his shoulders.

"Malfoy, now is not the time to do this kind of thing, go and notify the headmaster and professors to deal with it."

Malfoy looked back and saw that it was George, hesitated for a moment, or shut up and turned to trot towards the Great Hall.

Soon, Dumbledore, Snape, Lockhart, McGonagall and other professors rushed over, including Filch.

Filch was so angry that he roared when he saw his beloved Mrs. Norris petrified.

He believed that Harry must have done this to avenge him. In the end, Dumbledore personally explained that this was not a spell that a junior student could use, and that Mrs. Norris could still be saved.

George did not speak out about the "basilisk" in public at this time. Although he might get extra points, he did not want to get involved now.

After Harry and the other two were taken away by Dumbledore, he returned to the common room with the other little wizards of Slytherin.

The other little wizards were basically talking about the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, but he still found a corner to study the magic book. This scene also made those little wizards secretly admire him.

After Halloween, the castle fell into peace again, but the topic of the Chamber of Secrets had not decreased, and many little wizards believed that Harry was the heir of Slytherin.

That day, George, who was reading in the library, was found by Harry and the other two.

"You suspect Malfoy is the heir of Slytherin and he wants to kill all the Muggle-born children in the school?"

"Their whole family is in Slytherin and he often brags about it to others.

I suspect they are probably descendants of Slytherin. His father is evil enough, he must be the heir."

Harry said with certainty.

Ron followed up with a guess:

"Maybe they have the key to the Chamber of Secrets for centuries, and it has been passed down from generation to generation, from father to son, and from son to grandson, so it came to Malfoy's hands."

"I think no one except him hates wizards born in Muggle families so much. Last time he called me a mudblood."

Hermione also agreed with the two's guess.

"Even if your guess makes sense, how can you prove it? You can't convict him just by guessing. His father has great power in the Ministry of Magic."

George said with a smile.

Malfoy is not a descendant of Streeling, but Voldemort is, but he won't tell the trio.

"So, George, we need your help."

The three of them moved closer to George.

"We need you to help us get the hair of Goyle, Crabbe and Millicent, and tell us the password to enter your Slytherin common room."

"This is not a difficult task, but what do you want to do?"

George asked knowingly.

Harry trusted George very much and did not hide anything:

"We plan to make Polyjuice Potion, disguise ourselves as these three people, and go directly to the Strelling Common Room to get Malfoy to talk."

"That's a good idea, but you have to know that doing so violates at least fifty school rules. Who of you three came up with it?"

George nodded and asked casually.

Harry and Ron pointed at Hermione at the same time. They couldn't come up with such a good plan because they didn't know what Polyjuice Potion was at all.