Dumbledore used the Elder Wand to knock on the armor on the edge of the corridor. He tried all the methods of revealing his true form, showing his true form, and even using the Scarpin Revealing Charm to analyze potions, but he still couldn't find it.
There are no traces of the curse, not even the "Magic Happy Curse" that other armors have.
It doesn't have the magic spell that everyone else has, which means there's something wrong with it.
However, the armor in the castle is checked every once in a while, and no abnormality has been found in any armor before.
Dumbledore thought for a long time, thinking that the people who had tampered with this armor in the past had very good skills in hiding the curse, and in order not to expose their own information, they cleared it all after the curse was activated, leaving no trace. He couldn't find any clues on the armor, so he turned and looked at the wooden door on the wall.
There are endless secret rooms in the castle. Dumbledore has seen a few of them and plans to build one himself.
It's just that the secret room in front of you is a bit strange. The material is ancient, but the structure of the curse is hundreds of years older than the material.
While Dumbledore was thinking, inside the Chamber of Secrets, Charles and Professor Flitwick were trembling together.
In the secret room, lightning as thick as an arm kept coming and going, and no one would doubt that they would become mature after being struck by it.
Now only a small area behind the door is safe, but this safe area is gradually shrinking, and the lightning is getting closer.
Through the lightning, you can see a stone platform at the other end of the secret room more than 20 meters away. There is something on it. It will be safe if you take this thing away according to the normal routine.
However, neither Charles nor Professor Flitwick can use the spell now, and Charles' bag cannot be opened.
This will cost the wizard his life.
"We can only find a way to open the door!" Professor Flitwick's expression was more serious than ever before, "If it was left by the previous professors, they would not kill the students, and they would definitely leave a way to escape."
So Charles turned around with him and studied the wooden door, tapping here and pressing there, trying to find a place to surrender.
I don’t know how long it took, but the door suddenly opened.
There were all the formulas on the outside of the door. Dumbledore just clicked with his wand, and the door opened.
Professor Flitwick later recorded what happened next in his memoirs:
"Smith and I anxiously searched for a way to leave the secret room, but found nothing. There was no mechanism on the door, and the magic spell still couldn't be used. The lightning was getting closer and closer to us, and I felt my hair standing on end. The door suddenly opened.
, I saw Dumbledore standing in front of the door, smiling at us
Said 'Mr. Flitwick, Mr. Smith, you are so lucky.' That moment reminded me of that summer night ten years ago, when a large group of owls sent a letter telling me that Voldemort had been defeated. The feeling was the same,
I'm saying to myself in my heart, ah, I can finally live."
"Smith later often said that 'villains die by talking too much.' Every time I heard this sentence, I would think of what happened next. If Dumbledore had not spoken to us at that time, we would have left the Chamber of Secrets immediately. He
Then he won't be kicked into the secret room by that weird armor like us."
"Later, when I learned that Voldemort was back, I was never as desperate as I was at that moment."
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"Not even my father kicked me like this!" Dumbledore turned back and yelled at the closed wooden door.
"Armor protection...huh?"
Dumbledore immediately realized the seriousness of the problem. The spell was useless and the Apparition was useless.
Professor Flitwick came to his senses and asked him: "Albus, what can you do?"
At this time, the lightning was still three fists away from them, and Dumbledore's hair and long beard became fluffy due to static electricity, just like Hagrid.
The expression on Dumbledore's face also became serious, and he tried again, pointing his wand at his temple, and then pulled out a large cloud of silver-white gas.
He was originally going to the kitchen to get a nightcap, and he was holding a big empty cup in his other hand, and the silver gas just filled a large cup.
Dumbledore handed this large cup of memory to Flitwick and said very solemnly: "If anything happens to me, give it to Potter."
Then he said: "I'm going to explore the way."
After saying that, Dumbledore walked into the lightning without hesitation.
I saw a bolt of lightning hitting Dumbledore, instantly making his body stiff and emitting a faint white smoke, but he was still alive.
Charles and Professor Flitwick were startled. At this time, Dumbledore was only one step away from them.
Dumbledore saw that he could still move, and continued to walk towards the stone platform deep in the secret room.
But both Charles and Professor Flitwick were dumbfounded next, because Dumbledore trembled every step he took, and after being struck by lightning countless times, he circled around the secret room and returned to the door.
"Huh?!" Dumbledore was obviously frightened when he saw the two people. "I just saw the stone platform right in front of me. It's just one step away. Why are you back?"
He was blowing smoke rings from his mouth as he spoke. His whole body looked burnt, his hands were shaking a little, but he didn't seem to be fatally injured.
Professor Flitwick said: "I saw you circle around the room and come back. It seems that there is a very powerful confusion spell here."
"I'll give it a try. It seems that the damage from these lightning bolts is not as great as expected."
After saying that, he returned the cup of memory to Dumbledore, took out a handkerchief and covered his eyes to minimize the interference of the confusion spell.
But it was no use. Professor Flitwick could still walk in a straight line at first, but then he started to turn halfway and ended up back behind the door.
Seeing that the two professors had received so many electric shocks in vain, Charles said thoughtfully: "Could this secret room be only open to students? Neither of them are students, so they can't walk to the stone platform."<
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Dumbledore and Flitwick thought it made sense, so they made a "please" gesture together.
Charles looked at the lightning in front of him and hesitated for a moment, then the two men deliberately coughed a few times.
I have no choice but to bite the bullet.
Charles saw a dense flash of lightning not far away, his heart lit up, and he immediately rushed there.
He guessed correctly, these lightnings need cooling time, the more they appear, the longer it takes. He stood there for more than a second without being shocked.
At this time, another flash of lightning appeared three meters away. He quickly rushed over and was still safe.
Dumbledore and Flitwick watched nervously as Charles ran, jumped or rolled, dodging lightning again and again.
They had noticed this phenomenon just now, but as they got older, they couldn't move like young people.
I saw Charles advancing and retreating, left and right, making a long circle in the secret room, and finally came to the stone platform.
There was no more lightning, and Dumbledore and Flitwick breathed a sigh of relief.
Charles saw a parchment roll placed on the stone platform and immediately reached for it and opened it.
There was nothing on the parchment one moment, and a line of words appeared a moment later: "Do you think this is the end?"
When Dumbledore and Flitwick saw Charles picking up the things on the stone platform, they finally felt relieved and could finally go out.
The next moment, the lightning in the secret room became more dense than ever before, and all struck Charles.