Chapter 599 A waste of breath
Lee Jordan failed to fulfill his wish to beat Lockhart until the end of the Dueling Club.
The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor seemed to have seen through Lee Jordan's sinister intentions. Every time he asked for guidance, Lockhart pretended not to hear and ignored him.
On the way back to the Gryffindor common room, Lee Jordan complained about it, but no one wanted to listen to him. Everyone was discussing the fact that Harry Potter was a Parseltongue. Even when they returned to the lounge, they would first look around to find Harry Potter.
“Is Harry Potter really not the heir of Slytherin?”
Lee Jordan, who had just sat down, started chatting about what happened at the Duel Club.
There is no way, Parseltongue is one of the symbols of Slytherin, it is not surprising that everyone would have this idea.
“Shut up!”
Fred stuffed a cookie into Lee Jordan's mouth, trying to silence him.
“Everyone is very curious.”
Lee Jordan took a bite of the biscuit and mumbled indistinctly.
The next moment, this guy turned into a canary.
“It’s the **** canary biscuits again.” Lee Jordan couldn’t help complaining: “Don’t give me that thing again.”
“What do you think?” George threw the question directly to Albert.
“The heir of Slytherin should be a Parseltongue.” Albert drank the hot cocoa in his cup and calmly analyzed: “Harry Potter gave me an inspiration.”
“What inspiration?” the three asked in unison.
"The symbol of Slytherin is a snake. Things related to the heir of Slytherin are very likely to be related to snakes, and Parseltongue is one of them. Maybe, opening the Chamber of Secrets requires the use of Parseltongue. In the Chamber of Secrets The monster is probably also related to snakes, and monsters related to snakes are rare."
“What you said makes sense.” Fred nodded and said, as expected of Albert, he has a good brain.
“I feel like I’m getting closer to the truth.” Lee Jordan gave a thumbs up to Albert.
“Are you suspicious of the target?” George suddenly asked.
"Well, there is indeed a target of suspicion." Albert nodded and admitted, "However, if the secret room cannot be found, it is useless even if there is a target of suspicion."
“What is it?”
The three of them were very curious about this.
"A terrifying monster called the Basilisk." Albert raised his finger and pointed at a book on the bedside table. "The Basilisk is dangerous, but the heir of Slytherin should be able to control the Basilisk using Parseltongue."
“Oh my God!”
The three of them turned to the bookmarked page and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"I know what you want to say, but..." Albert made a shushing gesture, "Remember, don't talk nonsense about this matter. The principal and professors should already be investigating this matter. Currently, Harry Potter's The suspicion is indeed high, but I still think it was not him."
“Besides, as long as the petrified students return to normal, they can identify the culprit.” After Albert drank the hot cocoa, he soaked his feet in hot water, reapplied the ointment, wrapped a bandage, and went to bed.
However, several of his roommates are destined to have insomnia tonight.
Of course they believed Albert's judgment, but they felt inexplicably uneasy after knowing that there was a basilisk hidden in the castle.
A few people gathered together and whispered for a long time. Finally, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they remembered that the heir of Slytherin seemed to only attack Muggle wizards.
The three of them are all pure-blood wizards. Albert, who was born into a Muggle family, is obviously in a more dangerous situation than them. He can be so calm now, so what does he have to fear?
Then, unable to sleep, they began to discuss whether to raise a rooster or something in the dormitory for Albert's safety.
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Harry Potter's reputation has become very bad since he was revealed to be a Parseltongue at the Dueling Club.
There is no way, the parselmouths in history are so notorious that almost everyone instinctively avoids him, as if Harry carries some kind of terrible deadly bacteria on his body, or opens his fangs and spits out venom when he speaks.
"What's wrong with your feet?" Hermione noticed that Albert's walking posture was a little strange.
“I was stepped on.” Albert said casually, then changed the subject: “Is Harry Potter really a Parselmouth?”
Hermione didn't want to talk about this topic here, and they all noticed that other people around them were pricking up their ears to eavesdrop on the conversation.
"I'm not doubting that Harry is the heir of Slytherin." Albert said to Hermione, "I just suspect that only a Parseltongue can open Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."
Ron, who was playing wizard chess next to him, couldn't help but secretly cursed: Aren't you suspecting that Harry is the heir of Slytherin?
"You probably didn't understand what I meant." Albert looked at the astonished Hermione and reminded, "Why has no one found Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets before?"
Before Hermione could answer, Albert continued, "Because they are not Parseltongues, they can't find the Chamber of Secrets, but Harry Potter is different. He might be able to find Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets and use Parseltongue." The cavity opens the secret chamber.”
Hermione and Ron both looked at Albert blankly, unable to recover from the meaning of Albert's words for a while.
"However, if you find the secret room, don't enter without authorization. You must ask the professors for help." Albert added before turning around and leaving, "I know you don't plan to go back during the Christmas vacation."
“What does he mean?”
Ron asked after using a knight to checkmate Hermione's king.
“He should mean that Parseltongue is the key to opening the Chamber of Secrets.” Hermione thought for a while and said, “Maybe, we should do something.”
Actually, Hermione had already guessed, but she didn't expect that Harry would actually be a Parseltongue.
"What's the meaning?"
"Try to find the location of the secret room." Hermione lowered her voice and said, "This is probably the hint that Albert just gave us!"
“But, do you know the location of the secret room?” Ron asked angrily.
Hogwarts Castle is not small. I don’t know that I have to find the Monkey Year, Horse and Moon, and there is also a terrifying monster hidden in the secret room.
To be honest, Ron didn't want to provoke the monster in the secret room at all. It was not a terrifying existence that they could fight against.
Shortly afterwards, Harry came back, but he looked very irritable.
He had just had a big argument with Justin Finch-Fletchley, who thought he had ordered the snake to attack him at the Dueling Club.
"It's pointless for you to argue with him." Hermione said after listening to Harry's complaint: "Justin Finch-Fletchley has decided that you are the heir of Slytherin. No matter how you explain, you can't change him. views will only make both parties more unhappy."
"But…"
"No need to waste your breath." Hermione comforted, "When the truth comes out, you can ask Justin Finch-Fletchley to apologize to you. If he has the courage to apologize to you."
"This is not something you would say!" Ron was a little surprised by Hermione's words.
"I learned this from Albert. He would never argue with me about Professor Lockhart." Hermione's expression was very strange. "Every time I talk to Albert about Lockhart, he always Everyone just smiled and never expressed their opinions.
Hermione actually knew that Albert believed that the contents of Lockhart's book were fabricated and not Lockhart's personal experience.
He is not as great as he is in the book.
Although she was reluctant to admit it, Hermione's intuition told her that Albert's guess was most likely right, especially after seeing Lockhart's poor performance at the Duel Club.
"I think Albert is quite sensible." Ron said dryly. Both he and Harry knew that Hermione admired Lockhart, and there were several times when both parties were unhappy because of that guy.
"We'd better see if we can get any useful information from Malfoy first. If we don't try to find Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets again." Harry didn't like the method of using Parseltongue to find the Chamber of Secrets. He suspected that if someone looked at it, By the time he was looking for the secret room, things might have gotten worse.
(End of this chapter)