Chapter 397 395. The Abandoned Slytherin Lounge
"The lounge of Slytherin College is in the Black Lake?"
Jon pondered, he really hadn't thought of it.
"Yes." Draco became more and more fluent, "My father told me that the Slytherin lounge was underground, but after Mr. Headmaster ruled the UK, he canceled the previous sorting criteria. Mud The standards for the three colleges of scumbag, mixed blood and pure blood have already been determined before admission. So when it is confirmed that the basement is the territory of scumbags, of course there will be no students from other colleges there Living here, the Slytherin lounge is naturally deserted, and no one has been in it for more than ten years."
Jon looked at Draco again, wanting him to tell some more secrets.
"So what? That common room was abandoned in the Black Lake, and because of that it became a rumor in the castle?"
Draco could reveal more information as expected.
"The rumor is not this, but someone said that in the place where the Slytherin lounge used to be, some strange movements could be faintly heard in the middle of the night, as if something was beating the foundation."
Jon frowned at this.
"I remember that the curfew policy in the castle is extremely strict, who can hear this late at night?"
"No matter how strict the policy is, it is no big deal for pure blood to violate it. If the hemp breed violates the curfew, it will only lead to death. If the mixed blood violates the curfew, they will be expelled from Hogwarts Castle. Asked to submit a review, or spend a day in a brig."
Even in front of Jon, Draco couldn't help but feel complacent when talking about the privileges of pure bloods.
"Pure-blood students cannot be expelled. This is the rule set by Mr. Principal. Even if there was a suicide incident about a mixed-race student some time ago, the main participant was a pure-blood student, but her graduation was delayed for one year and she was sent home. It’s just a year of reflection.”
Draco is indeed right about this point. The privileges of purebloods not only in Hogwarts Castle, but also in the British wizarding world are obvious. No matter how serious the magic laws violated by the pure-bloods, it is impossible to be imprisoned in Azkaban with dementors acting as jailers, but a special "prison" for wizards located in the British mainland.
Jon didn't express anything about Draco's current complacency. He still has the mentality of a young master. He never thought about how many privileges the pure-bloods have now. When Voldemort is really defeated in the future, they will double and double. Spit it out.
"You're getting too far away from the topic. Since this is the case, do you know where the Slytherin's former public room is located in the Black Lake?"
Hearing Jon's question, Draco pointed to the northeast direction.
"The lounge extends from Hogwarts Castle, so it must be in the direction of Hogwarts Castle. If you walk northeast from here, you should be able to find something."
Jon did what he said, and after getting useful news from Draco, he returned a pearl to him as a reward.
"What do you want to know about these?" Although it is clear that it is better not to ask, but Draco couldn't help asking after getting the pearl.
"I said I'm going to dig out the roots of your principal, do you believe it?" Jon said without turning his head.
His answer made Draco shiver uncontrollably, with a terrified expression on his face, watching Jon gradually go away.
After his figure completely disappeared, Draco dared to swim out of the aquatic plants carefully.
But at this time, he realized that he was actually entangled in aquatic plants, and he didn't even have the ability to reach out for his wand!
"Come back! Green! Mr. Green! Come back quickly! I will pay you a pearl! Help me!"
However, the underwater sound cannot travel very far, and Jon has already gone away, so no matter how much he calls, he will get any response.
Jon soon came to the northeast corner of the entire black lake.
To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this trip, he just wanted to try his luck.
Seeing the tragic situation of those mermaids, it is very likely that the giant squid, which has a far-reaching significance to the entire Hogwarts Castle, also encountered an accident.
Still following the clues given by Draco to look here, Jon just wanted to give Dumbledore some relief when he went back.
Along the edge of the northeast corner, Jon quickly inspected, and when he swam to a deep recessed rock wall, he actually found something!
It was a huge gap, and it was obvious that there should be a wall before the gap, but now the wall is broken through, and the lake water is poured into the lounge, turning the originally sealed lounge into a part of the Black Lake.
Jon swam along the gap and into the space that was obviously the Slytherin lounge.
There are also some furniture inhabited by aquatic plants and underwater creatures. There are green and silver cloth strips on the walls that are still fluttering with the flow of the lake. Some broken portraits can be vaguely seen on the surrounding walls. Distinguished House Representatives that used to hang in the Slytherin Common Room.
Looking at the messy and dilapidated scene around him, Jon felt an inexplicable ridicule.
He has not forgotten that this was once the place where Voldemort himself lived for seven years, but now it has become like this. Obviously, it is impossible for him not to know, and there is a high probability that he did it on purpose.
Carefully inspecting the surrounding area, Jon could clearly find some marks that seemed to have been whipped by some huge whip, leaving deep ravines on the ground and walls.
It can be seen from these signs, among other things, the giant squid must have been here before!
Jon's heart was cheered up, and he went deeper. This common room was not the end, and a gap was opened in the wall facing the lounge, but this gap was obviously facing upwards, and he expected to go further. If you walk up a little bit, you will be able to get away from the water level of the Black Lake. The area by the lake is not that deep.
He didn't hesitate, and immediately raised the magic wand in his hand, and used the blasting spell underwater to explode the ice layer.
In fact, when Jon climbed out of the water, he had already seriously violated the competition rules of this event. As long as the participating warriors landed, they could not go into the water for the second time. Read it in front of everyone.
But Jon obviously doesn't care about this, not to mention that even if he goes ashore a hundred times in this crappy place, no one will know, even if he is discovered, he will only be settled on the spot. It must be the first to last and the second to last.
After coming out of the water, Jon could see that this should belong to the range of the former Slytherin bedroom.
The reason why I don’t say it’s a certain room is because the walls around here have been broken through, and the ground is full of broken stones and fragments of broken beds, tables and chairs. The space is huge, and only the ceiling exists above.
However, the ceiling that originally belonged to the Slytherin student dormitory is not very low, it is four or five meters high, so even if the space is large, it will not make people feel oppressed.
Jon lifted the Body Soaking Curse on his body, breathed in the cold and humid air here, he turned over the pile of ruins in front of him, and then saw a shocking scene.
The huge squid was spread out on the hard and cold ground in this way, and under it was a circle of light green runes that glowed with faint silver light.
But only when you walk into these runes and observe carefully, you will find that the light green color is not the runes themselves at all, but the blood slowly flowing from the squid!
Jon looked at the giant squid and couldn't help holding his breath. He found that its tentacles still showed some signs of activity, which meant that even though it was dying, it was not completely dead.
Without stopping, he immediately took out a feather from his body and summoned Fox.
Soon Jin Guang appeared beside him, and Fox was always reliable. After it appeared, it didn't stop, and left with the giant squid.
But Jon didn't leave immediately, he stared at the runes on the ground and studied them carefully for a while.
When he pretended that he was very interested in runes in front of Sir Stoke at sea before, he specially studied the basics of runes. Later this year, every time Hermione copied some runes from the castle, he also You can see and listen to Dumbledore explaining some of the principles to him.
Because even if he is still a half-baked man in terms of rune, he is also a half-baked man who has been in contact with high-end games. Seeing these things that look like ghostly symbols in the eyes of ordinary people is not only a black eye.
After careful study, he can at least judge that these runes have not been engraved here for a long time, probably only within the last year, which means that the blood of the giant squid was almost drawn out. About half a year.
But it has never appeared in the Black Lake before, and it has been imprisoned here for more than ten years.
Jon inspected the surroundings again, and he saw some scattered and broken chains on the ground, and the ceiling directly above where the giant squid was before had obvious signs of being hit hard.
Just as Dumbledore expected, when he first took over Hogwarts Castle, Voldemort had already discovered the unusualness of this squid. Although he did not take any precautions against the Black Lake itself, he directly addressed the most fundamental problem. The giant squid was imprisoned and used when needed.
And now the various arrangements he made in the castle have been clearly placed in front of Dumbledore and the others.
The runes in the chamber of secrets are used to wear down the will of the castle itself, the runes in the principal's room are used to fill one's own will, and the runes in this room where giant squids are used to transfuse blood, the meaning of which is temporarily unknown.
Three places, all of them are the key to Voldemort's arrangement. He seems to have a lot of preparations for gaining absolute control of the castle, but now it seems that he doesn't care about any of them.
While Jon was looking at these runes, he suddenly discovered that as the giant squid was taken away, the runes themselves not only did not dim, but gradually became brighter and brighter!
An extremely bad premonition surged in Jon's heart. Without hesitation, he turned around and rushed towards the direction of the Black Lake. While running, he used the Body Soaking Curse on himself again.
Then he jumped off the blasted ice and dived back into the lake!
And less than a minute after he entered the water, the runes had already become dazzlingly bright.
The curved symbols swam and spread on the ground as if they were alive, and finally dark green lines bulged from the ground, turning into living creatures one by one and rushing into the water!
In less than three minutes, all the space in this area was filled with these rune snakes. They seemed to be able to produce endlessly from those runes, constantly appearing and jumping into the lake.
Jon kept swimming forward after leaving the area of the Slytherin lounge. He had a premonition that something was wrong, and even suspected that the rune under the lake was actually just a trap.
However, even if his swimming speed is fast enough, there is still no way to compare with those snakes who are like lightning in the water.
Jon knew he couldn't escape, he had to verify how much trouble these snakes could bring him.
His forward action remained the same, but he turned around holding the wand in both hands and aimed at the black snake group that looked like a wasp at first glance!
"Shenfeng Wuying!"
The icy water flow was split by the invisible sharp blade in an instant, and the resistance of the lake water reduced the power of Shenfeng Wuying a lot, but it was better than the blasting spell used underwater.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the poisonous snakes rushing to the front were silently split into two sections, but the sharp blade did not stop there, separating the whole group of snakes along the middle, just like the original black piece The chocolate is now neatly cut open!
But none of the venomous snakes that were cut in half showed any signs of death. Instead, they split into two, continuously spewing dark green liquid from the cut, and then grew back to their original size, making the whole group of snakes look like a monster. It got even bigger!
At the moment when Jon turned around and cast a spell, some poisonous snakes began to approach Jon. When they were about one meter away from Jon, they exploded suddenly, causing a violent impact underwater.
Fortunately, the Iron Armor Curse was maintained on Jon's body all the time, so he didn't suffer any damage because of it, but the Body Soaking Curse used to keep breathing was destroyed because of it.
This made Jon lose the ability to breathe underwater, and there was no way he could use it again.
(end of this chapter)