Chapter 629 Ginny’s Worries
“Harry, why didn’t you go to Defense Against the Dark Arts class this afternoon?”
Harry hurried to the hall and found his friend who was having a meal. Hermione put down her knife and fork, raised her head and cast a stern look at him.
"Wait..." Harry took a deep breath, and after calming down, he lowered his voice and said, "Don't talk about this yet, I have more important things to tell you."
"What's up?"
Ron's inquiry was stopped by Hermione's eyes.
"follow me."
Harry motioned to Hermione and Ron to find a deserted place with him. Some things were not suitable to be said here.
Ron and Hermione both noticed Harry's indicating look, and obviously knew what Harry probably found. They stopped talking nonsense, left their half-eaten dinner, and left the hall with Harry.
“Harry, tomorrow morning…”
When Wood saw Harry, he came over here and was about to tell him about the morning training, but was interrupted by Harry.
“Wood, we’ll talk about it later!”
Harry heard Wood calling him, so he said something casually and hurriedly left the hall with Hermione and Ron.
"What's up with him?"
Wood scratched his head, looked at Harry's hurried away figure, turned his head and asked Fred, who was stuffing grilled sausages into his mouth.
"It's probably an emergency. What do you want to do with him?" Fred swallowed the food in his mouth and asked casually.
"Come and inform him that there will be morning exercise tomorrow morning." Wood was also saying this to Fred and George.
“Why do we have to do Quidditch practice in the morning?”
Fred and George couldn't help but frown. If they were training in the morning, they would have to get out of their comfortable beds early in the morning, which would be a torture.
Albert didn't care about the twins' complaints. Anyway, he was not the one who needed to go for morning exercise.
There is no doubt that my arrangement has taken effect.
He looked away from the retreating figures of the three of them, feeling very good.
Harry Potter has apparently successfully met Tom Riddle and learned from him the "truth" about the opening of the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.
His plan was an unexpected success, and Albert couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The next step is...
His eyes accidentally glanced at the slightly pale Ginny Weasley not far away. He believed that Tom's diary would soon be back in her hands.
If things go well, I believe it won’t be long before Tom and the Basilisk will be on the road together.
"You guys remember to tell Harry about this for me later." Wood ignored the resentful looks from Fred and George, waved his hand and turned around to leave.
"How about I go talk to Harry!" Ginny stood up in a hurry, not caring about the food on the plate, made an excuse for herself, and left in a hurry.
Hardly anyone noticed the strange look on Ginny Weasley's face, except for Albert, who had been secretly paying attention to her from the beginning.
At this moment, Harry, Ron and Hermione had passed through the hall and walked to a remote flower bed outside the courtyard. Seeing that there was no one around, Harry told his two partners the information he had obtained from Riddle's diary.
Hermione and Ron all looked surprised after listening to Harry tell what he saw and heard in Riddle's memory.
Ron was surprised that there was such a secret hidden in Riddle's diary.
"Riddle may have arrested the wrong person." Hermione calmed down the expression on her face, "Albert told me that the students who were expelled back then were just scapegoats. I dare say he must have found out that Hagrid is fifty years old. The former student who was caught and expelled, that’s why he didn’t want to tell me what happened.”
"You mean..." Harry opened his mouth in surprise, "Albert has known about this for a long time?"
"Yes, he has known it for a long time." Hermione admired Albert's ability.
"He didn't say, he only said that Hagrid was framed." Hermione thought for a while and continued, "However, I can probably guess why he said that Hagrid was framed."
"Why?"
Ron and Harry both turned to look at Hermione. If Hagrid was just framed, it would make Harry feel much better. Harry definitely did not believe that Hagrid was the culprit of the attack.
“If Hagrid hadn’t been framed, do you think Dumbledore would have let him stay at school?”
Although she was very reluctant to admit it, Hermione actually did not think that Hagrid could find the entrance to the secret room, and according to Albert, opening the secret room might require the use of Parselmouth. Hagrid is obviously not a Parseltongue, and more importantly, Hagrid does not look like the heir of Slytherin.
If she was looking for reasons, Hermione could find a bunch of them, and it was not difficult for her to understand why Albert insisted that Hagrid was slandered.
It was just not appropriate to use these words to convince Harry, so she borrowed Albert's original words.
With Professor Dumbledore’s wisdom, if Hagrid was really the culprit, would such a dangerous person be allowed to remain in the school?
Obviously not.
If it was really Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets, he would have been thrown into Azkaban Prison long ago!
I have to say that there are still many benefits to communicating with Albert occasionally.
Hermione's thinking has been further developed and is far more flexible than Harry and Ron.
"But...who is setting Hagrid up, Riddle?" Harry said with a frown.
"have no idea."
"Actually, I think the possibility of Tom Riddle is not small." Ron said in a joking tone, "That guy is very similar to Percy - if sending the whole family to prison can make Percy become the Minister of Magic, I dare say He would certainly do that without hesitation."
"Ron, I think you are very prejudiced against Percy." Hermione looked at Ron in surprise, as if she was meeting him for the first time.
"No, he would do that. What's more, I have no doubt that the person who reported it was a stranger like Hagrid. What's more, he won a gold medal, didn't he?" Ron continued: "If the Chamber of Secrets is opened, If I were the prisoner, Percy would definitely report me without mercy and send me to Azkaban Prison."
Ron's bad attitude towards Percy made Hermione frown.
"Actually, I can probably understand why Riddle did this." Harry suddenly said: "If they close Hogwarts school, Riddle will go back to a Muggle orphanage, and I can understand that he wants to stay here. "
After all, Harry also didn’t want to go back to the Dursleys, so he could understand Riddle’s thoughts.
“Someone is coming.”
Hermione noticed that someone seemed to be secretly walking towards this side, and quickly called out a warning.
"Ginny, what are you doing there?" Ron looked at his sister in surprise.
"Well..." Ginny turned pale and said hesitantly, "Wood said... tomorrow morning... training, so I will come..."
She ran away quickly.
“What is she talking about?” Harry looked at Ron in confusion.
"I'm probably here to tell you that the Quidditch team will have morning practice tomorrow." Hermione couldn't help but raise her hand to support her head, feeling that Harry might be slow in some aspects.
Of course, it may be because I haven’t reached my age yet.
"Should we ask Hagrid about these things?" Harry looked at Ginny's hurried away figure and asked his two friends for their opinions.
He thought maybe Hagrid could give them some useful information.
There is no other way, the clue is broken again.
"Perhaps, we should talk to Albert. I think he may have more clues." Rather than asking Hagrid, Hermione felt that it was more reliable to go to Albert.
"Forget it!" Harry said after thinking twice, "Maybe the attacker has given up for good."
After all, Harry has never heard the snake whispers again, and there have been no attacks for a long time. If this incident ends like this, it is not unacceptable.
Furthermore, Professor Sprout told everyone a while ago that the mandrake is about to mature. When the mandrake matures and is mixed into a powerful recovery agent, the unlucky Colin in the ward can be revived. By then, everyone Knowing that there was an ugly basilisk hidden in the school, Harry believed that Dumbledore would definitely try his best to solve the problem of the basilisk, and there was no need for him to worry at all.
(End of this chapter)