Chapter 28: Enter the secret room

　　 In the evening, Aristophane waited at Boothbarton's door with his luggage. Mrs. Maxim and Fleur accompanied him and waited for Dumbledore.
　　 With a "pop", Dumbledore Apparated at the school's main entrance on time. He first greeted the two teachers and students of Boothbarton, and then turned to Aristophane and said, "Are you ready?"
　　 "Of course, Professor Dumbledore." He pointed to the box at his feet, "It's all here."
　　 "Then let's set off. In addition to you and me, there are others who want to go with us!" After saying goodbye to Mrs. Maxim and her students, they disappeared.
　　 "Go back, Furong, such an outstanding character, but unfortunately it is not our Busbarton." Madam Maxim turned and led Fleur back to the palace. Boothbarton's school gate slowly closed, and then disappeared into the sunset.
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　　 The Hogwarts principal's office is still the environment familiar to Aristophanes.
　　 "Welcome back, little Flivy." His uncle, Professor Flivy was the first to come up to say hello. Aristophane bent down, gave him a hug, then lifted up and gestured to Professor McGonagall, Professor Sprout and Professor Snape respectively.
　　 McGonagall and Sprout smiled and responded to him, while Snape kept his face cold, nodded slightly and ignored him.
　　 There is another person present, holding his cane in his hand, looking nervous.
"Okay, Aristophane is here too, let's go. Professor McGonagall, can you please call Harry?" Dumbledore said to McGonagall, then he turned his head to the other person present. , The tone was slightly cold, "Mr. Malfoy, please join our faculty and staff as the representative of the school board to see what the secret room is like, and report to the school board."
　　 "Okay... OK, Professor Dumbledore." Lucius Malfoy wiped his forehead with the back of his hand, and said nervously.
　　 "Albus, are you sure you want to call Potter over?"
　　 "Yes, Minerva, I have figured out the ins and outs of this matter, and the opening of the chamber requires a special key, which only Harry has."
　　 Professor McGonagall nodded, turned and walked out.
　　 "Let's go, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to unravel this nearly thousand-year-old history!" After speaking, Dumbledore took the lead to walk out, and everyone filed out behind him.
　　 Led by Dumbledore, everyone walked through the dim corridor with those words flashing on the wall, and came to a dilapidated bathroom on the second floor.
　　At this time, a ghost flew out of the innermost compartment. Seeing so many professors, she panicked for a while: "President Deng.. Dumbledore, are you here to kill me?"
　　 "Don't worry, Myrtle," Dumbledore said gently, "We are here to fix what killed you. Do you remember how you died?"
　　 Myrtle’s expression changed all of a sudden. No one had ever asked her this question. Now the principal of the school asked her personally, which made her feel honored:
　　 "Of course, principal, that was really terrible. It happened here, and I died in this toilet. I remember it very clearly.
　　 At that time, Oliver Hombe laughed at me for wearing glasses like a four-eyed dog, so I hid here, locked the door, cried inside, and suddenly heard someone coming in.
　　 What they said is funny, I think it must be another language. But what annoyed me most was that I heard a boy's voice talking.
　　 So I opened the door and scolded him to walk away and go to my boys' toilet. Then I only remember seeing a pair of scary yellow eyes. When I become conscious again, I will become what I am now. "
　　 After talking, Myrtle looked at everyone in a daze: "I still want to find Oliver to settle accounts, but she regrets laughing at me."
　　 Dumbledore exchanged glances with the professors, and then continued to ask: "Where did you see those eyes?"
　　 "It's almost there, the pool in front of the white-blonde man."
　　 Lucius stepped back in shock, as if a monster would suddenly jump out of the water.
　　 Aristophane stepped forward, he quickly checked the top and bottom of the pool, and found a small snake on the side of a copper faucet.
　　 "This faucet never runs," said Myrtle floating next to Aristophanes.
　　 "Professor, I think you should take a look."
　　 Dumbledore stepped forward. At this time, Professor McGonagall hurriedly brought Harry over. Hermione and Neville were with him. Hermione was holding a note in her hand.
　　 "Albus, I met them on the way to the Gryffindor dormitory. These three kids have something to tell you."
　　 "Principal, we found out what the monster in the secret room is! It—cough cough cough." Harry didn't breathe at this moment, and Neville slapped him on the back quickly.
　　 Hermione took the stubborn words: "It's the Basilisk, Principal Dumbledore. The book is very clear,"
　　 Hermione began to play to her "all-rounder" characteristics, "In our country... (the original text will not be repeated)
　　The way the basilisk kills is amazing. In addition to its deadly fangs, the gaze of the basilisk can also cause death. Anyone who is caught by its gaze will immediately die. Spiders will run away when they see the basilisk, because the basilisk is the spider's mortal enemy, and the basilisk can only run away if he hears the rooster's cry, because the rooster's cry is also fatal to it. "
Neville went on to say at this time: "Snakes... the basilisk is afraid of roosters, so Hagrid will say that his roosters have been killed, so that the descendants of Slytherin can unscrupulously release the basilisk to harm the students. Up.
　　 and it is also a natural enemy of spiders. I found that the spiders in the castle were all running outside the castle because they felt the smell of natural enemies, and Harry went to check the records, and he found—"
　　 "The last girl who died was found in the bathroom. I think it was Myrtle, and the entrance to the secret room is here!" Harry recovered and said firmly.
　　 "Then Potter, how do you explain that our students were all petrified instead of being killed by the basilisk?" Snape stared at Harry and asked directly.
　　 "Whoever the basilisk's eyes look at will die. This is already established, but neither the petrified Hogwarts nor the animal directly looked at it.
　　Mrs. Loris saw the basilisk through the water on the floor at the entrance of the bathroom, and Colin saw it through the camera.
　　 Justin must have seen the basilisk through Nick who was almost headless. Nick was caught by the basilisk's gaze, but he could not die a second time.
　　Because the basilisk is moving in the pipe in the wall, and I am a snake-like voice, the sound I hear comes from the wall, and only I can hear it. "
"Pap, papa, good job, three." Aristophan clapped first after listening, and then Professor McGonagall, Professor Sprout, Professor Flivy, Snape reluctantly I patted my hands a few times~EbookFREE.me~ Lucius seemed to be sweating more, and his forehead reflected light.
　　 Only then did the three of Harry discover Aristophanes, and Hermione was about to rush to hug him, and then Neville's grabbed him.
"Very well, Mr. Potter, Mr. Longbottom, Miss Granger," Dumbledore nodded, "You did a good job, Gryffindor plus one hundred and fifty points, for your wonderful reasoning. But now I want to ask Harry to do me a favor."
　　 Harry and the three were relieved from the joy of seeing Aristophanes: "What do I need to do, principal?"
　　 "Faced at the tap and ordered him to open it in a snake-like voice."
　　 Harry stood in front of the faucet with a dazed expression, knowing that before, he could only speak snake-like voice when facing a real snake. Aristophant patted him on the shoulder: "Relax, do you see the snake on that faucet? Just talk to it."
　　 Harry nodded, then stared at the carved little snake, trying to imagine it as a real snake.
　　 "Open it," he said.
　　 He looked up at Aristophane, he shook his head, and Neville and Hermione cheered for him.
　　 Harry turned his head and looked at the snake again, forcing himself to believe it was alive. Harry thought that if he shakes his head a few times, the flickering candle light will make the snake look as if it is moving.
　　 "Open it," he said.
　　 However, what everyone heard was not this sentence, but a strange hissing sound from his mouth.
　　 Suddenly, a dazzling white light appeared from the dragon's hair and began to spin quickly. Then, the pool moved.
　　 They watched as the pool slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe that could accommodate a person in it.