Anyway, since then, the half-blood giant has become a die-hard Dumbledore supporter, the type of person who, if he hears a bad word about Dumbledore, throws his old fist at him.

The people in the Snake Courtyard were slightly critical of this, and often mocked him in private as "a fierce dog raised by Dumbledore with a small amount of money".

Of course, they only dared to say this secretly.

After working in peace for decades, the unforgettable pain slowly faded with time. And Lockhart also conveyed the principal's meaning to him, saying that no matter what, it should be put down after 50 years, and asked him if he would like to be a professor of the protection of magical creatures.

It's hard to describe Hagrid's mood at the time—how long he'd lived in a daze.

After ten years, when I finally saw the first ray of dawn in my life, I am afraid that everyone's feeling is mixed with joy and at a loss and at a loss.

But he hasn't forgotten about the secret room, and people with "a criminal record" cannot hold public office.

Because Hogwarts does not have to pay tuition fees, most of the school's funding comes from the Ministry of Magic, so Hogwarts professors are also public offices in a sense and need to be reviewed.

But Lockhart told him that the Chamber of Secrets would soon be found out, and that his reputation tarnished by Voldemort could be restored.

"From what I know about the Ministry of Magic, they must be reluctant to bring up the wrongful conviction of the past. As long as you are willing not to pursue this matter, you can get more than a restoration of your reputation."

To be honest, Hagrid was really moved.

In the end, although he said to Lockhart that he had to think about it before answering to Dumbledore, Lockhart could see that he had not been able to swing for long.

Hagrid seemed to have seen that the nightmare of the past was gone, and a golden avenue appeared in front of him.

He tried not to think about it, and pretended he didn't hear anything and continued to act as if nothing had happened. But Harry Potter and his two friends rushed over that afternoon, and asked him if he knew a guy named Tom Riddle.

—Nonsense, even if he turns to ashes, he still knows that bastard!

"If we hadn't already known that the chamber monster was a basilisk, we might have thought it was you who opened the chamber." Harry said without noticing Hagrid's expression, "but we know now, That Tom Riddle must have made a mistake too..."

he? Got it wrong? hum..."

Hagrid slammed the cup on the small wooden table, and a crack appeared in the clay-fired earthenware cup, and tea seeped out from the bottom of the cup.

Hermione responded quickly: "Recovery! Clean up!"

"Thank you, Hermione...I couldn't hold back. That guy...he didn't do anything wrong, it was a frame-up!" Hagrid looked indignant. "I just kept an eight-eyed spider!"

Ron shuddered. "I don't think...this one is much better than a basilisk, really..."

Harry originally thought that Tom Riddle was in a hurry to find a suspect in order not to return to the orphanage, but now listening to Hagrid's meaning, there seems to be another hidden background behind this matter.

"Why did Tom Riddle frame you?" Harry asked curiously.

"Who knows," Hagrid replied in a sullen voice. "Anyway, he never explained why when he murdered or engaged in terrorist activities... He's just bad."

"He still kills?" Harry was startled." "Tom Riddle - is he a bad guy? "

This time it was Hagrid who was surprised: "He killed your parents, haha.

profit! "

Harry: ? !

Only then did the two realize that they had made a big oolong with each other at the same time.

Harry was surprised that Hagrid hadn't figured out who the culprit was after fifty years, and Hagrid was surprised that none of the three of them knew that Tom Riddle was Voldemort.

So he told Harry about it. Including who Tom Riddle was and what he did when he was in school.

After listening to Hagrid's account, if anger could ignite paper, Harry's anger is now on a par.

He took the diary out of his backpack on the spot and threw it into the fireplace in Hagrid's house.

The 15-year-old Voldemort actually wanted to use the magic of the diary to mislead him into thinking that Hagrid was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and if it wasn't for him... well, if Hermione hadn't already guessed that the Chamber of Secrets monster was a basilisk, he might have believed it. .

It's a pity that not only was the diary not destroyed by the flames in the fireplace, but a large stream of unpleasant ink sprayed out from the pages, dousing the flames around the book.

"Bring it here, we'll find Dumbledore!" Hermione called to Harry.

"Let me come! It's better not to touch such a dangerous thing with your hands." Hagrid shouted as he took the poker, and stretched it through the few remaining flames of the fireplace, trying to put the diary This clamp.

But maybe the burning act just now stimulated the diary, or maybe the word "Dumbledore" awakened some kind of protective magic on the diary. In short, as soon as Hagrid's tongs reached over, the diary immediately spurted out another jet of dark green ink, dissolving the front of the tongs into a grotesque mass.

Not only that, but after Hagrid retracted the tongs in surprise, the ink that had just sprayed out of the diary was also dried by the flames and turned into a bright green powder.

As if spiritual, the diary quickly turned its pages and blew the powder into the fire of the fireplace.

"Gryffindor common room!" A voice suddenly came out of the diary

It was a voice Harry knew very well - the same voice, the one who had taken him "swimming" with a memory in that diary last night.

So when it was sprayed with floo powder and disappeared into Hagrid's fireplace, Harry momentarily

Half a meeting still did not respond.

By the time he realized what had happened, it was too late.

"It's back in Gryffindor!"

Harry rushed to the fireplace, looking at the almost extinguished flames, chasing after him.

Mochi: "Hagrid! Do you still have Floo fans here? We have to go back quickly."

But Hagrid was also stunned: "Floo fans? I never prepare that kind of thing here.

"why?!"

"Because there aren't many fireplaces in the world that I can get into." Hagrid scratched his head, "The Floo cable for this fireplace is still from the last hunting ground keeper. If it weren't for it, I would have changed it a long time ago. Live in a bigger cabin."

"Oops!" The three governors were going to be broken.

Chapter 101 Preparation is never too little

Because Harry hasn't learned any flying spells yet, and Harry hasn't learned the Flying Spell at this time, he can summon his own Nimbus 2000, so if the three want to go back to the castle, they can only use running.

When they went up the mountain from the hunting ground on the edge of the forbidden forest, then entered the castle through the viaduct, and then climbed several floors back to the Gryffindor common room, the last thing they wanted to see happened.

The Gryffindor classmates crowded around the lounge door in panic, discussing the line next to the door.

— "Her remains will remain in the Chamber of Secrets forever."

The three of them didn't need to ask to know who "she" was here.

Harry hates himself so much now that if he didn't throw the diary in the fireplace, but took it directly to Dumbledore, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so much.

If Hagrid hadn't told himself who Tom Riddle was, he probably would have thought he was a responsible prefect, and he would have reported Hagrid just because of a misunderstanding, or because he really didn't want to go back to the Muggle orphanage.

Because of anger, he did extreme things, and the consequences of doing extreme things are that the consequences will become unpredictable, this teaching is enough for Harry to remember for a long time

But he obviously didn't have much time to reflect now, because it was urgent to save Ginny.

"Let's go!" he said to his two companions through gritted teeth. "Go to the bathroom, we're going to rescue Ginny."

Ron agreed immediately, but Hermione held them back.

how? "Harry thought he was trying to persuade himself to let the professors handle this.

But Hermione shook her head solemnly: "I'm not saying that we shouldn't go, but we should be ready to go, you are now completely dazed by anger, and you will only be mysterious if you go rashly. Human trap."

"Trap? I'd like to see what's waiting for us!" Ron was no better than Harry at this time.

Hermione had to calm down his two little friends: "But don't forget, we are dealing with the mysterious man who was a student, and now he has a basilisk by his side, no matter which one we can't. Easy to deal with, and they're combined now...get it?"

"If you can't deal with it, you have to deal with it." Harry obviously got into the horns.

"Yes, of course we're going to beat them. But we're just three sophomores, it's a fact that we have to measure our own strengths before we fight...

Hermione first affirmed Harry's statement, lest the two of them panic, but then began to state her opinion.

Io even though Harry and I could occasionally beat a third or even a fourth grader on the duel ring, we never won against a sixth grader, and the guy whose name can't be mentioned...his There are more than 6th graders, you know. "

This simple comparison is very convincing, and Harry and Ron are suddenly sober, but at the same time they are starting to panic.

"Then what should we do?" Ron muttered to himself, "but, she is also a victim now, is it too late for us to tell Dumbledore the location of the Chamber of Secrets and how to open it?"

"In that case, we will be fired immediately." Harry thought of something:

"Hiding important information about the secret room clues from the school for so long, and also covering for Ginny... It doesn't matter what lies we make up."

Thinking of this, Harry has made up his mind.

He didn't want to be expelled from Hogwarts even if he died. Because that meant he would have to go back to Number Four, Privet Drive, live with the Dursleys, maybe wear Dudley's old school uniform, go to Stonewall Middle School, and make up for two years of junior high school classes, and be— The group of students younger than their own age mocked...

"I'm going to bring the Christmas present Lockhart gave us so we don't have to look the basilisk in the eye... I'll deal with the snake then. You two go and deal with Tom Riddle, Hermione with That umbrella defense, Ron, use that lens to check his weakness..."

"Oh my God..." Ron gave a look of disbelief.

Harry thought he was afraid: "Don't worry too much, don't Fred and George often beat sixth graders on the duel ring? After all, it's just a magical memory he left in his diary, It shouldn't be too strong, and the magic power used should also be Ginny's, so we can't even win Ginny, right?"

"No, I mean you." Ron shook his head, "It's too dangerous for you to deal with a basilisk alone, and that's a thousand-year-old basilisk."

"What are you afraid of, I'm Parseltongue," said Harry. "Okay, I'm going to get my invisibility cloak, and that 'third eye'..."

Hermione seemed to think differently about Harry's first sentence, but she didn't say anything.

After Lockhart revised her memory, in order to make up for the gap of more than an hour, he compiled a set of false memories for her of "come to ask for instructions on how to cast the shining pattern".

Although the memory was false, it was true that Hermione had learned the magic of shining patterns.

She now knows that the basilisk's natural enemy is the rooster, and has learned the shining pattern. She also secretly packed a strong-smelling snake repellent and a pile of bezoars for detoxification in her small bag. Although the bezoar was of no use in detoxifying the basilisk, she was much more prepared.

But what Miss Know-it-all regrets most is not carrying a little more Floo powder with her, but starting today, this will also be one of the must-have items in her small bag.

During the operation of the Savior trio, Dumbledore watched their every move through the crystal ball until they entered Myrtle's bathroom and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Fox, send the Sorting Hat over, every Gryffindor should be able to draw that sword." He ordered to the phoenix beside him.

Unlike the school that was kicked out in the original book, Dumbledore is still safely serving as his headmaster at this time." Even if the school directors have been linked together under Malfoy's secret arrangement

Fox grabbed the Sorting Hat, left a phoenix cry and disappeared with a flash of fire.

Having sent away his phoenix, Dumbledore turned to the man in front of him again. "Gildrow... As you said, Mr. Potter is making up his mind, Miss Granger is the one who is in charge, and the sixth of the Weasleys is the glue between them."

"It's not hard to guess." Lockhart shrugged.

"What do you think of this model?"

"It can only be said that it is in line with some people's values, Principal." Lockhart said with a smile, "under the leadership of the leader of positive energy, a military advisor and a loyal knight assistant. He ascended to the throne...what a song."

Lockhart's words were thorny, and of course Dumbledore heard it.

Because he's not just talking about Harry + Hermione + Ron, he's talking about Gryffindor (the brave and charismatic king), Ravenclaw (the wise counselor) and Hedge Patch (the tough and loyal knight), this combination is what Dumbledore really wanted to see.

Many people tend to overlook the important role of Ron Weasley in the Iron Triangle, but even those who are selectively blind must admit that the Weasleys really mean a lot to Harry.

In a sense, the reason why Harry was able to grow up in such an environment was not blackened. Except for the friendliness of some lion wizards such as Hagrid, the Weasley family was the most important reason, no one.

They provided the savior with selfless friendship, kinship, and even love. In the war against Voldemort, the Wesley family can be said to have put the whole family on Harry Potter's side, and paid a heavy price.

If there is a distribution of benefits after the war, the Weasley family will undoubtedly be the biggest winner, but no one in their right mind will make irresponsible remarks about this winner, because the Weasley family also sacrificed the most.

Even more admirable is that their efforts are not even utilitarian.

Lockhart asked himself that he couldn't make the sacrifices like the Weasleys, so he could only put himself in an important and secondary position, and use every opportunity to do things for Dumbledore.

The more you pay, the more you gain. He still understands this simple truth.

"So...are you going to follow too?" Dumbledore asked Lockhart.

"I'm the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at the school," Lockhart said.

Chapter 102: Trapped Beasts Still Fighting

Although Lockhart intends to follow, he is not very nervous.

It might be that after defeating Voldemort with ease before, he vaguely felt that the enemy was not so difficult to deal with, or it might be that the arrival of the ordered goods gave him confidence, or it was "original" Harry that was surprised. The risky journey gave him confidence, and in short, he didn't think anything would go wrong.

With anti-magic lenses, protective clothing, new weapons, and the principal's constant concern, Lockhart didn't think the three saviors would be in danger, and neither did he.

It was precisely because of his reassurance that Lockhart did something superfluous.

Lockhart came to Myrtle's bathroom and sighed as he looked at the hole revealed by the dispersal of the sink.

He wasn't afraid, but felt that sliding down this dirty pipe would likely get dirty things on his clothes. This bathroom was still in use at least fifty years ago, and God knows what was going through that pipe.

Mangfang water and moisture! "

He first cast a spell on himself, and then began to say hello to the side.

"Myrtle? Can you help me down?"

A transparent head suddenly popped out of the bathroom compartment.