Harry Potter’s Book of Sin

Almost the whole body of the basilisk is covered with extremely tough scale armor, which can not only withstand ordinary swords and sharp weapons, but even spells can withstand or even rebound.

Even if it has become a corpse now, it is still quite troublesome to cut.

Speaking of which, Maca really wants to chop it up and take it away. After all, this is a basilisk!There is no exaggeration to say that it is a treasure.

But even this suitcase that had been stretched cursed could not fit it all in.

In the end, when Maca turned and left, the ancient beast that had caused Hogwarts to close the school and caused Dumbledore to receive the removal order from the school board has become a bunch of people who recognize it. Roshan that does not come out.

With Maca's departure, the Shimen finally closed.But before long, I heard a dull roar and collapse in the secret room, and the whole ground shook slightly.

...

On the other side, Lockhart returned to his office with Harry, Ron, and Ginny, and then Professor McGonagall came over not long after.She brought Lockhart and her three children to her office, where many people were waiting for them.

Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart stood at the door. Harry and the others were almost covered with mud and slime. Although Lockhart looked better, he had been invisible all the way, and the mud splashed. But it is always inevitable.

For a while, there was silence all around.Suddenly, there was a scream from the fireplace—"Ginny!"

It was Mrs. Weasley, who had been sitting in front of the fire and crying.At this moment she jumped up abruptly, followed by Mr. Weasley, and both of them stretched out their arms at the same time and embraced their baby girl.

Ron stood by, his head still drooping, not knowing what he was thinking.

Harry looked over them and looked into the room.

He saw Professor Dumbledore standing in front of the mantelpiece with a smile on his face.And standing beside Dumbledore was Hermione who was also smiling!

"Oh! Hermione? Are you alright?" Harry said in surprise.

Hermione smiled and nodded, but her eyes were still looking behind Harry, as if expecting something.

"When you violated a bunch of school rules, Miss Granger was already awake. It was McLean, who had spent two days and two nights in a row before making a resurrection potion out of freshly matured mandela grass--that was His improved formula is very effective!"

Professor McGonagall explained happily next to him.

Ron, who was standing not far away, raised his head suddenly.

He looked at Hermione, and then at Ginny, the expression on his face changed continuously, and finally he lowered his head again dejectedly.

At this moment, Mrs. Weasley looked at Lockhart excitedly.Unlike the usual worship of stars, it is a kind of respect from the heart.

"Professor Lockhart, you saved her! You saved her! What did you do?"

"This is what we all want to know." Professor McGonagall looked at Lockhart with hesitation.

In front of the mantelpiece, Dumbledore also put on a curious expression.

But Lockhart looked at Mrs. Weasley, with a rare confusion in his eyes.When Harry reached out his hand and pulled the hem of his clothes, he suddenly recovered.

"Oh-of course, I will tell everyone about the whole process." Lockhart showed the old smile, but the smile revealed not the usual show off, it seemed a little perfunctory.

"Well, but before that, I think everyone has to listen to Mr. Porter's reasoning. I think that is the real beginning of the rescue of Miss Weasley."

Following Lockhart's words, everyone's eyes fell on Harry again.

As everyone watched, Harry hesitated for a moment, and then began to tell what he had experienced.

He spoke for about ten minutes, and everyone listened quite attentively, and the room was silent.

But when he said that the note in Hermione's hand had brought him a key clue, Hermione nodded at everyone without surprise.

It's just that her hands hanging beside her clenched the cuffs tightly.

When Harry finished speaking, Lockhart had completely recovered to his usual state.He held his head up and exaggerated the whole process after entering the secret room with a passionate expression.

Storytelling has always been his specialty. What's more, this time he followed them almost invisibly!

"Is it really?"

Listen, Professor McGonagall couldn't help asking Harry.

Harry subconsciously glanced at Dumbledore, and saw the headmaster smile faintly, the fire flashing quickly on his half-moon glasses.

"Oh—it's roughly that way—"

"What interests me most is," Dumbledore said suddenly, "what did Voldemort use to confuse Ginny, because according to my sources, he is currently hiding in the forests of Albania!"

"What...what?" Mrs. Weasley said in astonishment. "Mysterious man? Confused Ginny? But Ginny isn't... Ginny doesn't... does it?"

"It's all the diary," Harry said quickly. "It was written when Riddle was sixteen, and there is a memory in it."

"Diary?" Dumbledore frowned slightly.

Harry looked at Lockhart. He thought Lockhart should know the final whereabouts of the diary.

But Lockhart shook his head. He said, "As I said just now-I pierced it with the basilisk's fangs, and the basilisk's venom penetrated the entire diary. It also disappeared. Then I was busy taking the children out, that diary... should still be in the secret room now.

"It's amazing," Dumbledore thought for a while, and said softly. "Without McLean, he would probably be the best student ever at Hogwarts."

He turned around and faced the Weasleys, both of whom looked very confused.

"Few people know that Voldemort used to be Tom Riddle. Fifty years ago, at Hogwarts, I personally taught him. He disappeared after leaving school...wandering all over the world... Sinking deeper and deeper in the quagmire of black magic, mingling with the most evil fellow in the wizarding world, undergoing many dangerous magical transformations."

"In the end, he reappeared as Voldemort, and it was hard to recognize him at that time-almost no one connected Voldemort to the smart, handsome boy student council chairman who had studied here."

Dumbledore remembered that time in the past, but at the same time he remembered Maca now.Complicated eyes faintly flashed in his pale blue pupils.

"But Ginny?" said Mrs. Weasley. "What does our Ginny have to do with him?"

"His day...diary!" Ginny sobbed and said, "I've been...writing on it for a whole year. He...he kept writing back to me..."

"Ginny!" Mr. Weasley was stunned and said, "Didn’t I teach you? How have I told you? Never believe in anything that can think independently, unless you see it clearly. Where is it hidden. Why didn't you show me or your mother the diary? A suspicious thing like that is obviously full of black magic!"

"I... I don't know," Ginny was still crying sadly, "I found it in a book my mother gave me. I... I thought someone caught it there and forgot..."

"Miss Weasley should go to the school hospital right away," Dumbledore interjected involuntarily. "This is a painful torture for her, and the school will not punish her. Many are older and older than her. Wizards more resourceful than her were blinded by Voldemort."

He strode to the door and opened it gently.

"Bed rest. Maybe I should drink another big cup of steaming chocolate milk-I always think that is good for improving my mood."

As he said, he bowed his head and blinked at Ginny kindly.

"You will find that Madam Pomfrey has not slept. She has been studying the modified mandela resurrection potion formula that McLean gave her!"

Mrs. Weasley led Ginny out, and Mr. Weasley followed, still looking like a big blow.

And more depressed than Mr. Weasley, it was Ron who was stopped by Dumbledore—he wanted to go to the school hospital with his father.

"You know what, Minerva," Professor Dumbledore said thoughtfully to Professor McGonagall, "I think it's worth having a banquet to celebrate such things. Can I ask you to let me know Where's the kitchen?"

"Well, by the way, please help me ask McLean and take him to my office to wait for me." Dumbledore added.

"Okay," she said simply in response, and set off to walk to the door, "Potter and Weasley will be left to you, right?"

"Of course." Dumbledore said.

Professor McGonagall left, Harry and Ron stared at Dumbledore nervously.

What did Professor McGonagall mean?Deal with them?Shouldn't they...should they...be punished?

But Dumbledore smiled and added some points to each of them. He also praised Harry for his decisiveness and cleverness, and Ron's love for his sister Ginny.

After that, he turned to Lockhart and looked at him curiously.

"Gidro, I think you are very suitable for teaching this profession, maybe next semester—"

Lockhart hurriedly interrupted: "Oh! No, no... I mean... This experience has made me discover a lot of shortcomings. I need to work harder. When I feel that I When there are more things to teach the students, I will come back to teach..."

He talked a lot in a mess, and his thoughts about not wanting to stay to continue teaching have been revealed.

"Oh—that's a shame." Dumbledore said casually, then turned his gaze to Ron again, "I want to talk to Harry a few more..."

Lockhart hurried out immediately.Ron hesitated for a moment, and then left.