#820 - Anti-routine
“That’s right!”
Harry nodded, and then told Percy in detail about his ability to speak Parseltongue. Compared to the rest of Gryffindor, they obviously trusted the Weasley brothers more.
Percy was so shocked by this news that his eyes widened, and after a long while, he suddenly realized, “So that’s it. So, this Chamber of Secrets, although real, was arranged by the professor from the beginning?”
Percy wasn't stupid. From Harry's description and the recent attention to detail, he quickly associated it with Anduin.
“That’s what we think too.” Hermione nodded slightly, “This shows that the basilisk may already be under Professor Wilson’s control, and the danger has been greatly reduced. Otherwise, there’s no reason why the professor would be so confident in us digging deep into the secrets of the Chamber of Secrets.”
“That makes sense.” Percy agreed with Hermione’s judgment, “And besides Professor Wilson, I’m afraid Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape are also involved. It seems they’re treating everyone like fools.”
In fact, when the Chamber of Secrets incident started, everyone was very skeptical about it. After all, after experiencing the various incidents caused by Anduin in the past two years, the students' immunity to such crises had become much higher.
Later, it was because the attacks continued to escalate, and with the encouragement of Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape, the students became very nervous.
As a result, it now seems that they were still fooled. First, they didn't believe it, then they believed it, and now they finally learned the truth. Afterwards, several people were very speechless about the layers of schemes that Anduin had come up with.
“I didn’t expect Professor Wilson to mobilize other professors this time in order to deceive us.” Percy sighed with a wry smile, “So what should we do next? Should we cooperate with the professor and continue to act in this play?”
“Act! Why not?” Hermione smiled indifferently, “After all, the points promised by the professor are genuine! This should also be a test for us by the professor. In that case, we have to complete this challenge even more. Now we have key information!”
“You mean Parseltongue, it should undoubtedly be the key to opening the Chamber of Secrets.” Percy nodded, then changed the subject, “But according to the professor’s script, the difficulties we face may not be small.”
“Huh?” The quartet was taken aback, and Hermione couldn’t help but ask, “What do you mean?”
“Think about it, how can these 250 points be so easy to earn?” Percy grinned and joked, “Besides the basilisk, there may be many difficulties waiting for us in that Chamber of Secrets, and at the entrance of the Chamber of Secrets, other houses are also watching. By then, in addition to the basilisk, I am afraid that we will also encounter the siege of the other three houses.”
“Then we’ll choose to act late at night, and then make a quick decision. I don’t believe that the entire school of hundreds of people can’t deal with a basilisk.” Ron said disapprovingly.
“You don’t know anything!” Percy rolled his eyes at Ron, “You don’t know, the information in each house is basically transparent now. As soon as we start gathering people, the other houses will immediately receive the news, so there is no such thing as a quick action.”
“Is the problem already so serious?” Harry opened his mouth dumbfounded, and then came up with a bad idea, “Then what should we do? Should we temporarily confiscate the communicators in the hands of others, so that everyone can’t pass on the news.”
“That’s completely unrealistic!” Before Percy could deny it, Hermione shook her head, “And when Percy issues this order, the news will definitely spread, which in itself will arouse the vigilance of other houses.”
“That’s right, the situation is more complicated than imagined.” Percy nodded in agreement.
“Then do you have any good ideas? If you do, tell us quickly!” Ron urged, seeing Percy’s confident look.
“Hehe, my idea is… to join forces with another house!” Percy pointed to another tower through the window of the common room, “For example, Ravenclaw.”
“Cooperate with them?” Harry was a little puzzled, “Why would Ravenclaw be willing to join forces with us? And how should the house points be calculated after the cooperation? It seems that the points can’t be shared, right?”
“Ravenclaw doesn’t really crave house points. They actually want to explore the knowledge left by Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets, but in the current situation, there probably isn’t much left in the Chamber of Secrets. Even if there is, it should have been taken away by the professor.”
“As for whether they are willing to cooperate with us…” Percy shrugged with a smile, “Actually, I have a good relationship with Penelope. If I discuss it with her, there shouldn’t be any major problems.”
“Good relationship?” Ron’s expression suddenly became wretched when he heard this, “I heard George and Fred say before that you seem to be in love recently. Could the target be…”
“Hehe… don’t spread it around, especially don’t tell Mom!” Percy scratched his head a little shyly.
“Okay!” Hermione put her hands on her hips angrily, glaring at Percy with a reproachful look, “So the deepest hidden spy in the school is you! I was wondering how they knew everything!”
“I am sacrificing my charm for the benefit of the school.” Perhaps because he had been with everyone for a long time, Percy was not as rigid as before, and he was also very good at arguing.
“That sounds nice. You are clearly using the information collected by the school to please your lover, you traitor!” Ron scolded with a smile and pounced on Percy, messing up the other’s hair in a while.
Perhaps because he was guilty, Percy was embarrassed and didn’t dare to fight back. He could only keep begging for mercy. The three people next to him couldn’t help but cover their mouths and snicker. At the same time, they secretly cheered in their hearts. Who would have thought that Percy, this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would betray the revolution.
After the two brothers had a good exchange of feelings, the group started talking about serious business again.
“My idea is that after we enter the Chamber of Secrets, we will ask the people from Ravenclaw to help guard the entrance and block the people from other houses. In fact, Hufflepuff’s desire for points is not strong. The main thing is to guard against those Slytherins.”
Percy explained his plan to the group while tidying up his hair and clothes.
“Afterwards, we can share a batch of equipment produced in Despair Town as a reward. What do you think?”
“Sounds like a good idea.” Hermione and the others calculated for a while and found that Percy’s method seemed quite suitable.
“Okay, everyone, get ready. I’ll contact Penelope now!” Percy immediately decided.
“Wait.” Just as the group was about to act, Neville suddenly interrupted, “Have you ever thought about starting from other breakthroughs?”
“Other breakthroughs? What do you mean?” Percy frowned in confusion.
“Think about it. Although it is inferred that this Chamber of Secrets incident should have been caused by Professor Wilson, it proves that this basilisk is being controlled. But Professor Wilson is such a busy person, he definitely won’t personally operate it!”
Although Neville is usually taciturn and looks a bit dull, he sees problems more deeply and thoroughly than many people.
“So who do you think is responsible for controlling the basilisk and always scaring and attacking us?”
After Neville reminded the other four, their eyes lit up, and then they said in unison.
“Hogg?”
“Yes!” Neville nodded, “He will definitely not miss this kind of thing that can deal with students. In that case, why don’t we think of a way to start from him?”
“I think I understand what you mean.” Percy grinned knowingly, “Indeed, if we can deal with Hogg, we will definitely be more relaxed when dealing with the basilisk.”
“But the problem now is that we don’t know Hogg’s location?” Hermione said worriedly, “If we can’t find him, we can’t stop him from controlling the basilisk, right?”
The group frowned upon hearing this. Indeed, without finding Hogg, there was no way to lift his control over the basilisk. In the end, there was still only one way to go deep into the Chamber of Secrets head-on.
“Leave this to us!”
Just when the group was frowning, a familiar voice suddenly came from beside them. When the five people turned their heads, they realized that George and Fred, the twins, had appeared next to them at some point.
“Why are you two here? Did you hear our conversation just now?” Percy looked at the two in surprise.
George held up an ear connected to a string and joked, “Have you forgotten what we are best at? With this extendable ear, we can hear your conspiracy clearly from a long distance.”
“Hehe, especially the part about your affair with Penelope, we heard it clearly.” George rubbed his hands with a smile.
“You…” Percy couldn’t help but roll his eyes, and then surrendered, “Okay, okay, I admit that I am convinced by you two. We are busy with serious business now, and it’s not the time to joke.”
“We know!” Thinking that Percy thought they were here to joke, George immediately squeezed into the middle of the group, “We are here to talk about serious business. Weren’t you just struggling with how to find Hogg? We have a way!”
“Oh?”
The group was stunned when they heard this, and Percy couldn’t wait to ask, “What way?”
“Use it!” Fred took out a tattered parchment from his body.
“What is this? What’s the use of an old parchment?” Harry leaned close to the parchment and found that there was nothing on it. He asked in confusion.
“It’s the Marauder’s Map!” Fred said, “It can mark the location of everyone in the school!”
“To use it, you have to do it like this!” George drew out his wand and pointed it at the parchment, “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
As the spell was chanted, the ink lines that appeared on the parchment began to extend, and then formed a sentence - Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, are proud to present The Marauder's Map.
Immediately afterwards, a map of Hogwarts, including secret passages, appeared on the parchment. At the same time, the map showed the location of everyone in Hogwarts and indicated how to open the secret passages.
“Wow! This is really Hogwarts!”
Looking at the footprints made up of ink dots constantly moving on the map, Harry and the others exclaimed.
George and Fred looked at each other with a smug smile, “How is it? With it, we can grasp the movements of everyone, let alone Hogg.”
“There really is Hogg! He’s staying in the Tactical Training Office now!” Harry pointed to the map excitedly, then raised his head curiously, “But why isn’t there a Chamber of Secrets on it, and I can’t see Professor Wilson either? Is he not in school right now?”
“This map can’t show everywhere, otherwise we would have found the Chamber of Secrets long ago.” George shrugged helplessly.
“And not everyone’s things can be seen, especially Professor Wilson.” Fred added. “We discovered a long time ago that he is like an invisible person on the map. No matter whether he is in school or not, we can’t find his trace.”
“Even if he is standing in front of us!” George added.
“Okay, that’s not important.” Percy also leaned in front of the map at this time, “Now that we have this weapon, we will be more confident in our next actions.”
“Listen to me! Our main force will still follow the planned plan and enter the Chamber of Secrets from the front with Harry, but it will definitely alarm Hogg at that time.”
After saying that, Percy pointed to Hogg’s location on the map.
“So, we have to arrange another small team to quietly follow Hogg and interrupt him when he is about to act!”
“Hogg should also enter the Chamber of Secrets then, should we wait for him to enter the Chamber of Secrets before taking action?” Ron suggested.
“No!” Hermione shook her head repeatedly when she heard this, “Hogg is the professor’s direct subordinate. You should also know their methods. At that time, Hogg will definitely use the Room of Requirement to act, and may directly move from the office to the Chamber of Secrets, so we must not wait for him to enter the Chamber of Secrets.”
“That’s right, and the Marauder’s Map can’t show the location of the Chamber of Secrets. We might lose track of him after he enters.” The twins also added at this time.
“But Hogg is in Professor Wilson’s office now. Who dares to break in?” Harry looked at the map worriedly.
“It’s naturally impossible to break in, but we can trick him out!” George had a flash of inspiration, “Like this, Hogg will be dealt with by Fred and me. Don’t rush to act at that time. Wait for the signal from Fred and me.”
“Yes!” Fred also said excitedly, “After we trick Hogg out, you will open the Chamber of Secrets. This will definitely catch him off guard.”
“Good idea!” Harry felt that the two’s suggestion was very feasible when he heard this, and then tentatively looked at Percy.
“Okay!” Percy pondered for a moment and nodded, while a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, “Hogg, this bastard, always tricks us. This time we will also play a trick on him and let this guy know how powerful we are!”
“That’s right, I have wanted to get revenge for a long time!” Fred gritted his teeth and grinned, “They used to trick us, and now it’s time to get revenge!”
