On the second day of the weekend, the news of Colin Creevey's attack spread throughout Hogwarts.
This time was different from the last time. It was just a cat after all, and this time it was a student. If we hadn't heard that he could be rescued, it would have caused widespread panic.
On the other hand, the regular inspections of professors and prefects also indirectly increased everyone's anxiety, although this was a necessary behavior.
After the magic text teaching in the evening.
Felix and Hermione briefly talked about some information that could be revealed, "The professors at Hogwarts will ensure the safety of the young wizards, you can spread the word to them."
Hermione agreed happily.
"But, professor, why do you guess that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a snake?" Hermione asked cautiously.
Felix would of course not tell the truth, he could only tell the little story that Slytherin and the snake had to tell.
"Slytherin manipulates snakes to serve him?"
"Of course, after all, he is the most famous Parseltongue known." Felix replied.
From the few words left by Ravenclaw, it can be seen that Slytherin had all kinds of snakes accompanying him all year round and being driven by him, which made him very famous at the time.
Hermione screamed, "Professor! You mean... Parseltongue can control snakes?" Her heart was pounding.
"I'm just guessing. After all, the number of Parseltongues is too rare, and there are not many samples for research. But since this ability can be inherited, it means that it is not a simple alien language, but contains magic..."
...
In a corner of the common room, the trio was having a fierce conflict.
"Harry, I think you should tell Dumbledore, or Professor Happ, that you are a Parseltongue."
"Don't say it." Ron retorted without thinking.
"Ron! You don't know the seriousness of the problem yet." Hermione glared at him angrily.
Ron lowered his head and whispered, "Harry, what I mean is, don't make this secret public. If you reveal your Parseltongue in public, you're done for. You will definitely be considered the heir of Slytherin."
"We can just tell Headmaster Dumbledore and ask him to keep it a secret." Hermione argued.
Harry rubbed his forehead, "But that doesn't make much sense, right? You know I'm not the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets, which means there's another Parseltongue hidden in the school."
"If I reveal it, he'll hide it even deeper."
Harry didn't want to reveal his secret, not only because of the bad reputation of Parseltongue, but also because of some hidden resistance in his heart. When he was sorted in his first year, the Sorting Hat strongly invited him to Slytherin House.
Does this indicate something?
And the Sorting Hat saw his true nature?
Harry said to Hermione, "Besides, we can't be sure whether the monster is a snake, right? Maybe what I heard that day was just the mumbling of a passing snake. Professor Hepp admits this. You have been searching in the library for so many days, but you haven't found the corresponding snake, right?"
Hermione was speechless. Among the information she found, the closest one was a creature called a basilisk. Its gaze was lethal, but it couldn't petrify people.
Ron finally said in a muddy way, "Let's make the Polyjuice Potion as soon as possible and ask Malfoy for clarification."
"And that elf named Dobby is also very strange."
...
In the new week, in addition to calming the emotions of the little wizard in class, Felix also reminded them, "Don't believe in any magical creature that can speak, unless you can see where its brain is hidden."
"Professor, are you talking about the Sorting Hat?" asked Fred, one of the twins.
"No, it has gone through the test of thousands of years, we can trust it," Felix said seriously, "but some other things, such as those you accidentally obtained from the mezzanine of the library and the abandoned old broom room, if you find that you can talk to them, you must be careful."
"They may be extremely dangerous dark magic creations."
"I can cite hundreds of similar examples..."
In the next half of the class, Felix used real cases in various countries to constantly intimidate these unreliable little wizards. From their expressions, his goal was achieved.
In the evening, when the twins told the story they heard to everyone, everyone was fascinated.
"I never thought that Professor Hep was so knowledgeable." Fred and George came to a corner of the lounge and said to Ron.
He squinted his eyes and signaled Ginny, who was in a low mood, "Ginny, I still have a lot of stories to tell. If you want to listen, I..."
"No need!" Ginny said dryly.
The twins looked at each other and began to perform exaggeratedly. They imitated an unlucky person who picked up a dark magic book and their eyes grew on the book from then on.
Ginny trembled when she heard this.
"Okay, don't scare Ginny." Hermione took the little girl's hand and said comfortingly, "The professor will protect us, as long as we are not too curious..."
Ginny nodded.
At noon the next day, Ginny took a sneak peek, left the main group, and came to a secluded place. She took out a black book from her schoolbag and threw it out with force.
After the afternoon potion class, the trio quietly came to the abandoned bathroom to brew the polyjuice potion.
"Everything is going well so far." Hermione looked at the color of the potion and announced happily.
"Wait." Harry looked at a corner of the bathroom. There seemed to be something there, but it was too dark for him to see clearly.
Just as he was about to get closer, footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.
The three looked at each other in horror-"Who's there?" Harry shouted.
The footsteps ran away quickly.
Harry gritted his teeth, opened the door and chased out. After a while, he came back.
"It's Malfoy!" he gritted his teeth, "He must have followed us."
"Did he find out..."
"Not sure."
"But it's not safe here anymore."
Harry, Ron and Hermione agreed to change places. This time, they chose an abandoned classroom underground.
"It's very remote here."
The three were very satisfied with the new location.
In the evening, a young wizard quietly sneaked to the place where Harry and his friends had brewed potions before, hesitated slightly, and walked into the girls' bathroom.
After a while, he came out and left quickly, with something tucked into his robe.