When Professor Lockhart handed Hermione the handkerchief, Hermione was obviously stunned, and the tears in her eyes quickly stopped.
"Miss Granger, I understand your feelings, but it is too dangerous to rush over hastily. We are not yet sure what happened to Mr. Yoder."
At this time, Professor Flitwick also completed the evacuation of the students and walked up with Snape and Professor McGonagall. Seeing Tom's state, Professor Flitwick's eyes widened and Professor McGonagall also sighed.
tone.
"Go to my office, which is closest to here," Professor Flitwick said weakly.
Dumbledore stepped forward, checked for a moment, and then picked up Tom on the ground. Although the little wizards no longer blocked the door of the astronomy tower, they did not leave. They just watched silently in the corridor as Dumbledore hugged him.
Walking with Tom.
"When I come back here, I hope you are already sitting in the classroom and the common room," Snape said, looking at the young wizards who were watching. "If you don't want to sit in the classroom, you are always welcome in my office.
—to experience confinement.”
As soon as these words came out, the young wizards immediately dispersed. Only Harry, Ron, Neville and Hermione were left. Dumbledore asked them to follow him to the office.
"How come every time something happens, you three are always there?" Professor McGonagall looked at the three newly introduced troublemakers in her college and became very angry: Last semester, the three of them sneaked into the restricted book area late at night, and then
They had been caught by Madame Pince; at the beginning of the term, two of the three of them had traveled across Britain in a flying car; now they were involved in the incident again.
Professor McGonagall felt that her temples were a little swollen.
"Professor, please listen to our explanation..." Ron tried to explain, but Professor McGonagall told them to shut up. They could only stand with Hermione who seemed to be in a trance, and Hermione squeezed her hands tightly.
He was wearing a handkerchief, said nothing, and his eyes were red.
Dumbledore walked up to Tom, muttered something, then took out his wand and tapped Tom, but there was no response.
"Tom is not dead," Dumbledore said.
After reaching this conclusion, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then what happened to him?" Professor Flitwick asked in a sharp voice.
"He was petrified. The reason is very complicated. I can't come to a conclusion at the moment."
The scene fell into silence.
"The heir of Slytherin is trying to open the Chamber of Secrets," Lockhart, who was standing on the side, suddenly said, "We need to be more vigilant, that person (You Konw Who) may be back..."
The eyes of the four deans, Dumbledore, and four students all focused on Lockhart.
Lockhart shrugged his shoulders, "I also know what happened to the former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. To be honest with you, I only plan to fulfill the contract with Professor Dumbledore for one year, so that I can be a normal person."
Reason for retiring, rather than letting something weird happen to me."
Everyone present:…
Even Snape reconsidered his job intention - he really wanted to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but Dumbledore asked him to teach Potions instead.
Snape quickly threw away the messy thoughts, "Okay, let's put the mysterious man aside for now, we have more practical things to consider." A hint of sneer appeared on his lips, "Our Potter
Sir, should you explain why he and his friends appeared at this place at this time - I remember that this was not the time for Gryffindor's second-year astronomy class."
Harry's heart was beating wildly.
There is a reason why Harry appears here.
This afternoon, he had no classes, and out of shame, he went to the library to read alone - it was just a make-up lesson. He didn't want to behave like a Muggle again in Lockhart's next exam.
But while he was reading, he heard a creepy, cold and vicious voice. Compared with this voice, Snape's tone was as gentle as a hospice nurse. Just hearing this voice,
Harry felt like his breathing had stopped.
"Come... come... let me tear you apart... kill you, I crave... your flesh and blood! I'm starving... for a long time... it's time to kill!"
He listened carefully to the sound and followed the direction of the sound. On the way, he met Neville and Ron who came to the library to find him for class. So the number of people looking for the source of the sound became three, and finally they were in the astronomy class.
We saw Tom who was petrified in the classroom.
Harry thought for a while, but still couldn't tell the whole story about his experience.
"I read the wrong class schedule."
Snape showed an ugly smile, "Potter, you didn't tell the truth completely. I think he should be allowed to resume his status as an ordinary student. I suggest that he leave the Quidditch team until he is willing to tell the truth.
That's it for us."
Harry's improvised excuse was very lame: one person might have read the class schedule wrongly, but it would be outrageous for three people to remember it wrong together - even including Neville, who had an extremely poor memory. It's no wonder that Snape could notice that Harry
You're lying, you don't even need Legilimency to tell.
Snape was a little unhappy. He thought that Potter's mind was simply broken. Why was he hiding information here? He was as disgusting as his arrogant father!
Lockhart next to him sighed quietly. Harry was naturally led over by the transformed Tom. He knew that Harry had no class at the time of the first class this afternoon, so he had no class this afternoon.
, he deliberately finished class ten minutes early and rushed to the library where Harry was - Harry's location was also deduced by him.
During the exam in the morning, although he looked like he was standing behind Ron, he actually read Harry's test paper again. As expected, there were basically few correct answers.
A student failed the exam and happened to have a little free time in the afternoon. What would he do? Any student with a little self-respect would go to the library to read, right? So the probability of Harry going to the library is very high.
As for Harry being really lazy and sleeping in the dormitory, it's not a big deal. The best person to discover the petrified "Tom" is Harry, but it's not impossible for others to discover him.
As expected, Tom met Harry in the library, so he attracted Harry's attention by imitating the basilisk's tone, and then lured Harry to the astronomy tower. The next thing happened naturally - of course, meeting Harry
Well, Tom was also surprised.
The students who came to class encountered the three Harrys and the "crime scene", and then the standard plot unfolded.
In doing so, I still hope that Harry can confess to Dumbledore what he heard, and then Tom can put forward the basilisk hypothesis, thereby letting Dumbledore know the special nature of Harry's soul.
It's a pity that Harry didn't confess. Although the impact was not big, it still made part of Tom's plan fail.
Dumbledore ignored Snape's private punishment methods and glanced at Harry. His piercing blue eyes made Harry feel like he had been seen through.
"Well, if I remember correctly, Mrs. Sprout has been cultivating mandrakes recently. Once they grow up and mature, I can prepare a potion that can bring Mr. Yoder back to life." Dumbledore
He used a levitation spell on Tom to make him float in mid-air, "Okay, you go to class first, and I'll take Tom to the school hospital."
As soon as these words came out, Harry and the other three were relieved, and the other professors also left one after another.
But when Tom walked out the door, Snape followed him.
"What's the matter, Professor Snape?" Tom quietly started his Occlumency.
"A few days ago, someone broke into my private potion storage room and stole a batch of potions." Snape himself was still very upset about the theft of his potions. As for the so-called consensus reached by everyone:
Phoenix Fawkes broke into his office and stole the potion. As an adult wizard, Snape didn't believe a word of this - all he did was inform Dumbledore of such a thing, and then find a wealthy family to recover it.
A little loss.
Snape thought about the suspects and found that no one was worthy of suspicion, so he changed his mind: eliminate people who definitely could not be thieves. First, exclude Dumbledore, then McGonagall and other veteran professors, Snape
I feel that after being together for so many years, he still knows a lot about his colleagues, and they will not steal his potions.
Due to the special nature of Polyjuice, there are not many students who can prepare Polyjuice. Those who can successfully prepare Polyjuice while they are students must be amazingly talented.
So Snape set his sights on the new professor Lockhart. At first, he thought that this guy was a bombastic loser, and the incident at the beginning of school fully demonstrated his inference. But unexpectedly, he was discovered by the Ministry of Magic.
After being fined a sum of money, this guy seemed to have changed into a different person - becoming normal and more reliable.
If Lockhart was still the same as before, Snape would rather believe that the real murderer was Fawkes than doubt Lockhart.
Lockhart's behavior became more and more suspicious. For example, in today's exam paper, Snape thought it would be a "Lockhart Behavior and Hobbies Questionnaire", but he didn't expect that it actually contained exam questions.
This is outrageous.
Combined with the Polyjuice Potion's ability to disguise another person as someone else, Snape felt that all the evidence pointed to Lockhart.
So there was a conversation like this.
Tom looked at Snape, "That's a pity, but I think the valuable potions should be kept well. If you don't know the anti-theft spell, Professor Snape, I believe Professor Flitwick will be happy to help."
of."
Snape's eyes became extremely deep, and his empty, dead eyes seemed to be able to see into people's hearts, but this time he failed.