[HP] Being a problem student at Hogwarts

"Hagrid...is innocent?" Ron asked hesitantly.

Harry reacted fiercely: "Ron!"

"Well, I mean, is there any reason why they came to Hagrid directly like this?" Ron said listlessly, "After all, we all know that Hagrid was expelled. That year..." He said helplessly Looking at Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall said with a straight face: "I don't think you need to know this. Let's go," she urged.

It's quite obvious, Tom thought. The reason for being able to approach Hagrid so directly is because he has a very unfavorable criminal record, and it is known that Hagrid was expelled for raising dangerous creatures that endangered the lives of his classmates, so there must have been something similar in the year Hagrid was expelled. Something happened, and Hagrid was named as the murderer. Professor McGonagall probably didn't want them to think that Hagrid was a pure bad guy, and he couldn't produce evidence that Hagrid was innocent. Moreover, he didn't want to speak ill of the Ministry of Magic to a group of children, so he had no choice but to do nothing. explain.

In fact, children really understand everything. Tom sighed.

But Professor McGonagall looked very unhappy, so none of them looked at her and continued to question her. They followed Professor McGonagall to the Gryffindor common room obediently, following each step like a group of people following their mother duck. Little duck.

"You heard it last time," Harry whispered to them, "Hagrid said he was innocent. It must have been someone else. Maybe Dobby's master sneaked into the school and petrified Loris. Madam, you petrified the almost headless Nick, and today I heard that Hermione seemed to have a clue, so she attacked Hermione again..."

"One thing is for sure, this was definitely not done directly by 'someone'." Tom reread "directly", "Every 'person' in the school knows that after the mandrake matures, all the victims If he can recover, then he will never be able to escape the accusation.”

"So there is still a monster in the secret room?" Ron asked, "Then who is commanding that monster behind the scenes?"

"There are several questions." After returning to the lounge and watching Professor McGonagall leave, Tom continued, "Who is commanding this monster? Why? What kind of monster is it?"

Ron and Harry both looked at him eagerly.

"These questions have troubled us for a long time. We could only be vaguely certain before. The monster in the secret room must be related to snakes." Tom nodded at Harry, "Because only Harry, who is a Parseltongue, can hear and understand That voice." 7K妏婩

"Medusa." Ron remembered.

"Yes, but we didn't continue speculating on that, partly because Hermione said -"

"She said that Medusa's petrification effect cannot be removed by Mandrake solvent!" Ron answered quickly.

"Yes." Tom glanced at Ron with a little surprise, and then said: "The other reason is that although Medusa is also said to be a witch, she has never been heard of being invisible. Harry can hear sounds, but you guys I haven’t seen it yet, so I have doubts.”

"Hermione must have discovered something new these days. What did she do during the holidays?" Tom asked.

The two boys had blank faces as they stammered in memory: "Uh...snowball fight?"

"Go to the library to read and do homework..."

"Opening gifts...eating a big meal?"

Tom looked at them helplessly.

"So you didn't find anything unusual." Tom concluded, "Okay, then we can try from another aspect."

"I knew you always had a solution!" Harry said cheerfully.

"Actually, you can also think of it -" Tom smiled slightly, "Let's go find out what the last book Hermione borrowed was. Since you said before that she was in a hurry to borrow books from the library, and it seemed that she had discovered something, then she The last book she borrowed must have something she wanted to show us."

Under the current martial law situation, it is not easy to sneak out. Ron entangled his brother Percy, and Harry couldn't leave as the focus of attention, so he donated the invisibility cloak and let Tom sneak out quietly.

"Who?" The fat lady was inexplicably called open, and she shouted as she opened the door.

Tom quickly pulled down the hood of the invisibility cloak, and while gesturing "shhh" to the fat lady, he winked at her.

"Okay," the fat lady lowered her voice and scolded, "Bad boy." She warned, "Come back soon."

"Don't worry, madam." Tom grabbed a handful from the void, pretended to hold the fat lady's hand, and gave her a simulated kiss on the hand, making the fat lady tremble.

"Go, go," the fat lady closed the door for him to prevent others from noticing, "don't wander around for too long, it's not safe."

"It's all up to you, madam." Tom pulled the invisibility cloak back on and walked to the library.

As luck would have it, Mrs. Pince wasn't here.

Also, at this point, the students were all driven back to the common room, the huge library was empty, and Mrs. Pince naturally got off work.

Tom dug out the book borrowing record, and the penultimate entry was Hermione's borrowing record: "Interpretation of the "Prohibition on Domesticating Animals for Experiments". The luckier book hadn't been returned to the bookshelf yet, and he didn't have to look for it on the shelf - the shabby book was lying on top of the pile waiting to be returned.

"Trace tracing." Tom tapped the "Interpretation of "Prohibition of Domesticating Animals for Experiments" with his wand, and then the pages of the book started to move automatically without any wind, as if there was an invisible hand "clattering" turning the pages of the book for a long time. Then he stopped.

The opened page read: "In our land, there are many terrible monsters and monsters wandering. The most bizarre and lethal among them is the Basilisk, also known as the Snake King. This kind of Snakes can grow to extremely large sizes and can live at least nine hundred years as long as they have enough food. And they can eat all vertebrates (including humans), so this is easy to do.

Legend has it that it came from a magic egg laid by a seven-year-old rooster when Sirius was in the sky, and was hatched by Leper. The creation of basilisks has been illegal since the Middle Ages, but it was easy to hide by removing the rooster's eggs from under the leprechaun before the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures arrived. However, no one can control basilisks except those controlled by Parseltongues, so they are dangerous not only to others, but also to most dark wizards. There have been no recorded sightings of basilisks in Britain for at least four hundred years.

The way the Basilisk kills is also very gruesome. In addition to its deadly fangs, its glare can also kill people. Any creature that directly meets the Basilisk's gaze will be killed immediately. "

Several words in these paragraphs are circled in pencil: "parseltongue," "direct." Next to it are Hermione's annotations: "water", "ghost", "pipe".

Tom remembered that there was a large puddle of water on the ground when Mrs. Norris was petrified. The ghost itself was in a state of death. The petrified Hermione was holding a small makeup mirror in her hand...

And pipes! The snake must be swimming in the pipes in the wall, which can explain why Harry can hear the sound but no one sees anything unusual...

A basilisk that has lived for thousands of years? Cold sweat broke out on Tom's back. He looked around the wall cautiously, imagining that when he was unaware, there was a huge cold-blooded animal hiding in the wall, looking at the two-footed "food", and perhaps in the dead of night, Hissing out the letter and licking it quietly, taste the taste to see which one is more in line with its taste... Maybe save the particularly delicious ones, just like saving up your favorite little cakes to eat last...

Tom's imagination aroused goosebumps all over his body.

Good guy, what kind of magic academy is this? This is clearly the basilisk's cafeteria!