The host prepared it so thoughtfully, and the guests also brought such a wonderful show. It can be said that the guests and the host had a great time. Everyone present had a great time - except for the three Harrys, the joys and sorrows of humans and ghosts are not the same.
They just think they are noisy.
When the hunters were exhausted and the guests had danced to their heart's content, Nick clapped his hands, the band stopped playing, and all the ghosts turned their attention to Nick, who was almost headless.
He straightened his collar and said in a sad and gentle tone: "My late lords, ladies and gentlemen, I am filled with great sorrow..."
Nick slightly adjusted the content of his speech, making it more like a thank you speech at the end of a banquet. He had originally wanted to wait for the guests to arrive before reciting the speech, but the arrival of the Headless Hunters disrupted his plan.
, he can only adapt to the situation and seize the opportunity to get all the guests excited first - he knows the style of the Headless Hunters, and those ghosts are simply a group of ADHD children. Let them listen to him quietly before venting their energy, that is tan90
°, it doesn’t exist. They are just a furnace for the tortoise to make a nest for—the turtle can’t live in it.
So Nick simply let them dance first, and then he went on stage to speak when they were tired. Sure enough, the effect was good. The undead patiently listened to his speech and the poem he carefully prepared.
After he ended with a bow, the audience burst into thunderous applause.
The party was over, and the ghosts left the underground classroom in twos and threes. Nick walked down from the stage with satisfaction. Mr. Patrick hadn't left yet. He laughed heartily and patted Nick's shoulder hard.
Separate their heads and necks.
It's just that Nick's head and neck are still connected a little bit, so he doesn't have his head missing like Mr. Patrick.
"Okay, Nick, I had a great time at the party today!"
Nick acted as if he hadn't heard anything and turned to Harry and the other three, "How about it, did you have a good time tonight?"
"Have fun."
There is no answer more duplicitous than this.
Obviously, no one believed this answer. Mr. Patrick put his head back on his neck and slapped his horse on the butt. The horse immediately broke away and started running, while Mr. Patrick chased after him hard.
Let him catch up successfully. He grabbed his horse's mane, jumped on the horse, controlled the bridle, and the ghost horse's hind legs stood upright. The whole process was so smooth that Harry wanted to applaud, but he just saw Nick's livid face.
The face - generally speaking, ghosts can't see faces - put away this thought.
By this time, Harry could no longer bear the cold. After the ghost dissipated, his digestive system seemed to have resumed operation. Only when it started to function did he realize that his stomach was as empty as a college student's brain in the exam room. So he
My stomach growled.
The three of them said goodbye to Nick. A minute later they were in the same aisle.
"Maybe the dessert part isn't over yet?" Ron had a hint of unrealistic fantasy and walked towards the auditorium at the lead.
"Where do you think our leftover food will be sent?" Harry was so hungry that he even had the idea of having leftovers from the Hogwarts party.
"Are you crazy? Why would you eat other people's leftovers? There won't be any leftover food. It's just some sausages, uneaten ribs, steak and lamb, various stews, roast chicken and duck.
...Neville, do you know how the leftovers at Hogwarts are disposed of?"
Unfortunately, Neville didn't know where the leftover food went.
"I heard that there is a kind of food in some places, which is to put all kinds of leftover stews from restaurants together to make a pot of stew. Everyone gathers around the pot, scoops out the pot with big spoons, and finally presses
Pay per spoon." Harry began to recall the news he saw on TV.
The three of them imagined for a while and became even more hungry. They quickened their pace.
However, when they walked up the stairs, they found that the outside of the auditorium was surrounded by water. Harry and the others squeezed through hard, and finally saw the two lines of writing on the wall. At this time, the writing was shining under the light of the torch.
With emblem light.
"All the enemies of the successor will be buried!" Malfoy became more energetic after seeing these words, his face flushed with excitement. He glanced at the crowd and found Ron Weasley, whom he hated the most. He looked at
He looked at Ron with a ferocious smile on his face.
"You might be next, a pure-blood traitor like you!"
"It's hard to say whether Mr. Weasley will be buried, but Mr. Malfoy, you will definitely be punished with solitary confinement. Ten points will be deducted from Slytherin." Professor McGonagall's voice came from the back of the crowd. She was gathered together.
The little wizard was attracted by him, but as soon as he arrived at the scene of the incident, he heard Malfoy's arrogant remarks.
The little wizards suddenly became quiet and automatically made way for Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall couldn't help but frowned when she saw the writing on the wall.
"Prefects of each house, lead the students of their own houses back to the common room." She decided to evacuate the students first and then discuss it with Principal Dumbledore. She had already guessed why Professor Dumbledore left in a hurry during the banquet.
At this time, the three deans Flitwick, Sprout, and Snape also arrived. Under their silent urging, the young wizards returned to the lounge obediently. When the students dispersed, Dumbledore's
The patron saint also appeared in front of the four deans and took them to the school hospital.
In the school hospital, Dumbledore had placed Victoria on a bed. Madam Pomfrey was preparing potions to replenish Victoria's energy. Tom and Hermione were standing aside, doing nothing.
Hermione's eyes turned to the bed at the end of the ward, which was blocked by a white curtain, but Hermione knew that the real Professor Lockhart was lying there.
While they were in a daze, Professor McGonagall pushed open the door and walked in, followed by the other three deans.
"Albus..." She glanced at Victoria on the bed with some worry.
"Fortunately, it's nothing serious." Dumbledore thought that Victorique had just consumed some of his life force, which could be replenished through potions. He turned his attention to Tom and said, "Professor Lockhart, tell me what happened.
."
Tom came to his senses and began to tell Dumbledore the story he had made up: he was invited to the 500th anniversary party of Nearly Headless Nick, but midway he received an early warning that the office was invaded by an unknown creature - Snape
When I heard this, the temperature around my body dropped by one degree.
Since there were papers in the office that would be used for the exam next week, he hurriedly left the underground classroom, and saw this line of text on the way to the office. His life was at stake, so he immediately went to the secret room——
"Wait, how do you know where the Chamber of Secrets is?" Snape interrupted Tom.
"Looking up information and library documents, the location of the Chamber of Secrets was actually hinted at in the notes of predecessors. The Gaunt family guarded it from generation to generation until the end of the line. According to my investigation, the Chamber of Secrets was opened when Hogwarts was being renovated.
It's built under a washroom and requires Parseltongue to open it."
"Then how did you open the Chamber of Secrets?" Snape always felt that the Lockhart in front of him was very suspicious, so he pressed forward step by step. Unfortunately, Lockhart didn't seem to panic at all.
Tom said unhurriedly: "It was open when I went there. Miss Granger and I entered the secret room together and found that Miss Brown was already there - she seemed to be possessed by something strange. Later,
Professor Dumbledore also knows everything about it."
Professor McGonagall sensed the problem.
"So you didn't get rid of the monster that possessed Miss Brown, did you?"
Tom shook his head.
Several people fell into silence.
"Professor Dumbledore, what happened to Miss Brown should be that she accidentally took some dark magic item. I suggest that her belongings and luggage in the dormitory be searched immediately. When she wakes up, we should also ask her about the ins and outs of the matter."
Snape immediately realized that this matter must be related to a very evil dark magic item.
"We must hurry up, otherwise there may be a second victim." Professor Flitwick also expressed his attitude.
Just when Dumbledore and the four deans were about to leave the campus hospital ward, Tom asked a question that concerned him more.
"Professor Dumbledore, this incident must have caused great psychological harm to Miss Brown. Do you want to use the Forgetting Curse..." Tom meant to simply use the Forgetting Curse to make Victoria forget this painful memory.
"Or you can use the diluted venom of the Winged Demon to erase people's memories." Snape gave a brand new idea.
"Memory is a person's most precious asset. We have no right to change it without authorization," Dumbledore adjusted his glasses and said seriously, "Let's go to Ravenclaw Tower first."
While Dumbledore and the others were discussing how to face Victoria in the school hospital, Peggy walked out of the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor of the castle. Riddle's diary gave her a task, asking her to wait until she received her
Hide yourself in the Room of Requirement during the signal. In the middle of the Halloween dinner, Peggy received the signal from Riddle's diary, so she sneaked into the Room of Requirement without anyone noticing.
The door of the Room of Requirement slowly closed behind her, hiding the mountain of debris inside. After the door closed, a dense black air suddenly emerged from a diary in the pile of debris.
The black air floated slowly, finally stopping in front of a worn-out crown...
Peggy ran all the way and saw a large group of seniors in front of her. She followed them silently and stayed behind them. Listening to their conversation, Peggy learned that an attack had occurred in the school: the legendary
The secret room was opened again, and a student became a "sacrifice."
Peggy instinctively felt that this incident was related to the diary.
Shortly after she returned to the common room, her suspicion was confirmed.
The young wizards of Ravenclaw, led by their prefects, returned to the Ravenclaw common room. As soon as everyone entered, they could not suppress their curiosity and began to discuss the secret room attack that occurred today. Because
The attack that occurred at the beginning of the school year created a strong interest in the secret room in that warning.
During that time, "Hogwarts: A School History" became the most popular book. All the inventory in the library was borrowed, and reservations were even scheduled for two weeks. Everyone wanted to find out about the Chamber of Secrets from the book.
There are clues, but no little wizard has found any records about the secret room. It's like someone has erased the story of the secret room, and no information or legends about it can be found at all.
Perhaps, among the young wizards at Hogwarts, only Malfoy knows a little bit about the Chamber of Secrets. The other young wizards, even if they are pure-blooded, know very little about the Chamber of Secrets. After all, the Chamber of Secrets is very important to their parents and even their grandfathers.
It is also a mythical legend. Nearly fifty years have passed since Riddle opened the secret room in 1943. Even those who witnessed it may not know the truth, because the official version of the case that year was due to a
A student illegally raised an acromanthus, which resulted in the death of another student.
After a while, the rumors gradually passed, and the little wizards even thought that the secret room was a complete fabrication. So many strange conjectures appeared. The core argument of all the conjectures was the same: Tom had offended someone, and was killed by someone.
Attacked and retaliated.
Some people think that the culprit is Marcus, who hopes to gain an advantage by getting rid of Ravenclaw's most powerful Chaser; some people think that it is Professor Snape, who must be conducting some evil experiment, and Tom happens to be
There is also a very outrageous theory that Professor Lockhart is the murderer. He fell in love with Hermione Granger, a second-year Ravenclaw student, but Tom Yoder and Hermione left.
Very close, so Professor Lockhart took advantage of Tom to get rid of his competitor...
This statement has always been regarded as a joke by young wizards. It is true that Granger often ran to Professor Lockhart's office, but that was because she was a teaching assistant. Professor Lockhart was recruiting teaching assistants through open recruitment.
, how can there be any behind-the-scenes operation? Other candidates are not qualified!
The little wizards would rather believe that their headmaster Dumbledore was defeated by Grindelwald because of his beauty than accept this outrageous statement. They even made up many similar jokes, which can be said to be very imaginative.
As a result, another secret room attack occurred today! Once it happened, it could be said that someone made up a term, but what about the second time? Even if the secret room is a fiction, there is a real criminal in the school who keeps attacking students.
, he lurks among the students, licking his fangs, looking for the next prey...
The little wizards were scared.
Now they are discussing in the lounge in full swing, just to relieve the fear in their hearts. There are two questions they are most concerned about: first, what is the secret room, and does it really exist? Second, which classmate becomes the person this time?