I added points to my talents at Hogwarts

Chapter 201 The entrance to the secret room is on the second floor of the castle, in the abandoned women’s bathroom.

Ivis and Dumbledore stood in front of a huge circular pool made up of a large number of bathtubs. They walked half a circle along the pool and finally stopped in front of one of the bathtubs.

Dumbledore pointed to the copper faucet of the bathtub and motioned for Elvis to look over.

I saw a snake-shaped engraving on the copper faucet, which was exactly the same as the snake-shaped symbol on Slytherin’s locket.

“If my guess is correct,” Dumbledore explained,”the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets should be hidden behind this.”

Aves looked at the copper faucet carefully, and he tried to twist it twice. As expected, as described in the original book, this faucet would not produce water.

He turned around and asked:”Professor, what do we want? How to activate this mechanism?”

“I think, like the way to open the locket, you need to use Parseltongue.”Dumbledore replied with a smile.

This is what troubles Dumbledore the most. Although he is very talented in language and can even understand Parselmouth after self-study, he is not a real Parseltongue after all.

He can neither communicate with snakes using snake language, nor can he control snakes.

However, now they must solve the big problem of the basilisk. Although they have caught the real behind-the-scenes mastermind, they still have to let a snake emerge from its slumber. The awakened basilisk wandering around the castle is too dangerous for students.

Dumbledore stroked his beard and fell into thinking. Anyway, Voldemort’s diary has been obtained, or we can use coercion and inducement to get him to take the initiative to help us open the secret room. Open…

While the two were communicating, a sharp female voice came from the deepest compartment of the bathroom.

“Who is outside! Are you here to see my joke?”The owner of the voice asked.

Immediately afterwards, a ghost wearing thick glasses and a Ravenclaw school uniform floated through the wooden door of the compartment to the two of them.

Her words interrupted Dumbledore’s thoughts , but he was not angry, but looked gently at Myrtle floating in the air.

Seeing that the person in the bathroom was not a naughty little wizard, but the principal of Hogwarts, Myrtle hesitated. Say:”I’m sorry, Professor Dumbledore……”

During her lifetime, Dumbledore was already a professor at Hogwarts

“Very few people come here, and even if they do come, they come to laugh at me.”She explained why she had been so angry just now.

“It’s not your fault,” Dumbledore shook his head,”By the way, Myrtle, have you seen anyone else come here?

Myrtle recalled,”The new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor in the school came in once because he went to the wrong room. Apart from him, there were only a few faceless little wizards who came to tease me a few times.” Second-rate. She got angry when she mentioned this.

She shouted angrily:”They said there is a short, fat, ugly, acne-faced, and crying ghost here, so they came here to take a look!””

This seemed to arouse her sadness. Myrtle covered her face, rushed back to the innermost compartment with a whoosh, and hid in the toilet there. She could still vaguely hear intermittent crying.

“well.”Dumbledore sighed,”It is precisely because of this that I have always wanted to reform the education system of Hogwarts.……”

After learning about Myrtle’s experience, he became more determined to reform.

Ives shrugged and changed the subject:”Professor, if Voldemort doesn’t cooperate, how about we let Harry try?”

“you mean……”Dumbledore adjusted the glasses that were about to slip off on the tip of his nose,”Harry is a Parselmouth?”

“But he has no blood relationship with Slytherin.” He quickly recalled the Potter family’s genealogy, and he was very sure that the Potter family was not a descendant of Slytherin.

“Professor, Harry once told me that he had a conversation with a python in a Muggle zoo before he entered school.”

Seeing that Dumbledore was still frowning, Ives no longer concealed it and added:”Don’t forget the relationship between Harry and Voldemort.”

Dumbledore raised his head and stared at Ives with his blue eyes, not understanding what he meant.

“Professor, that incurable scar on Harry’s forehead.”Ives reminded.

Dumbledore’s eyes gradually became shimmering, but it soon dissipated.

He paced back and forth in the empty bathroom. What Ives had just said made him With a bold guess, a guess that was extremely painful for Harry

“When did you find out?”He suddenly stopped and asked Ives

“When I learned about the existence of Voldemort’s diary and the magic of Horcruxes,” Ives said calmly.

Dumbledore’s movements stagnated for a while before he said:”……don’t tell harry”

“I see.”Aves nodded.

“Ivis,” Dumbledore ordered again,”go to the Great Hall and call Harry over.”

He also thought clearly. Instead of letting the uncontrolled Voldemort help them open the entrance to the secret room, it would be better to let Harry come.

……

In the auditorium,

Lockhart, who had woken up, sat blankly in his seat. Of course, the effect of the Veritaserum had long since dissipated, and the reason why he sat there like a fool was that he clearly remembered what he had said.

The little wizards in the audience were noisily discussing everything that happened tonight. Fortunately, with the suppression of Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout, the angry little witches could not rush to the stage to give him some color.

Lockhart suddenly remembered the last question Ivis asked, and his already pale face turned even paler. He stood up and wanted to escape back to his office.

Before he could get up, Professor McGonagall pushed him back into the chair.

“Professor Lockhart, where do you want to go?”The older cat girl asked in an unhappy tone.

Lockhart touched his hair awkwardly, forced a smile and said,”Professor McGonagall, I didn’t want to go anywhere.”

“Just stay here honestly, Albus has already contacted the Ministry of Magic.”Professor McGonagall mercilessly dropped a piece of news that was extremely impactful to Lockhart.

Lockhart felt that the blood in his veins was about to stop flowing, but he still tried to quibble:”Professor, what I just said None of those things are true, someone is trying to frame me!”

“You should save these words for the Aurors.”At the end, Professor McGonagall snorted heavily.

Seeing that Professor McGonagall did not believe his words, he looked at the other professors at the guest table with pleading eyes.

But after he prayed for a long time, there was no one. Showing his willingness to help him.

Fred, who witnessed everything on the Ravenclaw table, gloated and said:”To be honest, no Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has ever been able to do this. Hated by all the professors in school……”

George clicked his tongue

a few times in response.

“really. Cedric recalled,”Even Quirrell, who didn’t like to be clean last year, didn’t reach this point.”

While several people in the mystery shop were chatting, Hermione, who had been staring at the door of the auditorium, absent-mindedly, suddenly saw Avis walking in. She whispered:”Avis is back!”

As she said this, she waved vigorously.

Avis, who walked into the auditorium, waved in response, but the next second he walked to the Gryffindor table.

This move made several people in the Mystery Shop excited. Somewhat surprised, Neville asked curiously:”Why is Elvis going to Gryffindor?”

“There’s probably something going on. Qiu said uncertainly.

Amid the probing eyes of several people, Avis called Harry away.

“Why did he take Harry away?”Fred narrowed his eyes, and a shocking guess emerged from the bottom of his heart,”Could it be that……”

Seeing his expression of understanding everything, George leaned over and asked,”What?”

Fred lowered his head and lowered his voice and said,”Is Harry really the heir of Slytherin?!

” Everyone, including Neville, gave him a blank look.

“Fred and Professor Dumbledore have both clarified that Harry is not the heir of Slytherin.”Hannah said speechlessly.

Fred smiled mischievously,”Then I really can’t imagine what Dumbledore would do if he asked him to leave.”

“We’ll find out when it’s over.”Hermione said slowly, but she always felt a little uneasy in her heart. She always felt that what Ivis was going to do next would be a little dangerous.

I hope it’s okay, she prayed to Merlin.

……

On the other side, Avis took Harry towards the second floor.

“Ives, what did the principal ask me to come over?”Harry asked Ives curiously on the way.

The matter was troublesome, and Ives didn’t want to waste his time.”We’ll find out when we get there.”

“By the way,” Harry asked again,”I saw in the newspaper that they said you saved the entire New York. Is this true?”

Avis just returned to Hogwarts today, and Harry hasn’t had a good chat with him yet.

“it is true.”Aves nodded and affirmed.

“Wow~” Harry exclaimed, looking at him with admiration,”Can you tell me what happened?”

At this moment, the savior of the British wizarding world is like a little fanboy who meets his idol.

“I’ll try to keep it short……”Ives organized his language and briefly told Harry the process that Congress had negotiated with him.

While they were chatting, they walked to the abandoned bathroom on the second floor.

The two stopped, and Harry looked at the girls-only sign hanging on the bathroom and hesitated, not sure whether he should go in.

He has never been in the women’s restroom!

“Let’s go.”Avis saw his hesitation and pushed him in.

In the bathroom, Dumbledore was waiting there.

After hearing the footsteps of the two people, he turned around and pointed directly at the ground. Leigh asked:”Harry, I heard from Ives that you have ever communicated with a python in a Muggle zoo?”

“Um?”

Harry was confused. He didn’t remember telling Ives about that incident, but looking at Ives’s confident eyes, could it be that he had forgotten it?

He hesitated for a moment and then came back to his senses,”Yes. Yes, professor.”

Dumbledore nodded. Harry’s answer made all his original guesses come true. He didn’t know whether to be happy or sad.

However, solving the big problem of the basilisk was more important at the moment. He led Harry away. Go to the copper dragon head engraved with snake-shaped runes

“Harry, do you see that faucet? After receiving Harry’s confirmation, Dumbledore continued:”I would like you to say a few words to it, say a few words in Parseltongue.””

“Parseltongue?”Harry asked doubtfully.

“Parseltongue, as the name suggests, means speaking and communicating with snakes in their language. Ives explained.

Harry asked again:”Professor, can’t you all do it?””

“cannot.”Dumbledore shook his head and said in a regretful tone:”That is not an ordinary skill, Harry, none of us can do it.”

“But I always thought that talking to snakes was a very common thing. Harry opened his mouth, trying to see other expressions on Dumbledore and Ivis’ faces.

“You don’t need to be so scared, Harry.”Aves comforted,”This is just a talent.”

He and Dumbledore made a tacit agreement not to reveal the relationship between Parseltongue and Slytherin.

“All right. Harry nodded slowly, accepting that he had the gift of Parseltongue that ordinary people did not have.

He cheered up and asked,”Professor, can I just say a few words of Parseltongue to that snake-shaped rune?””

After receiving Dumbledore’s confirmation, he walked to the copper faucet, stared at the snake-shaped rune and said,”Open it.”

There was no movement.

” Ives warned:”Harry, you have to imagine it as a snake.””

Harry nodded, trying desperately to recall the state when he was communicating with the giant python. Those green eyes were staring at the snake-shaped runes carved on the copper dragon’s head, trying to imagine it as a real snake.

“Open.”He said.

He looked up at Dumbledore and Ives. Ives shook his head and said,”You are still speaking in human language.”

Harry turned his head and looked at the snake again, forcing himself to believe that it was alive.

He looked at it for a while, and his eyes felt a little sore. When he blinked, he saw the dim candlelight on the wall, and there was something strange about it. The thought came to the bottom of his mind – if the candlelight flickered, it would make the snake look like it was moving.

Harry tried shaking his head a few times, opened his mouth and said:”Open.”

This time, he finally said this in Parseltongue.

In the ears of Ivis and Dumbledore, they heard a strange hissing sound, and a trace of joy flashed in their eyes..

Under the gaze of the three people, the copper faucet emitted a dazzling white light and began to rotate rapidly.

Then, the circular pool also moved, and part of the bathtub sank into the ground, while the rest spread out.. A thick pipe gradually rose up in the center of the pool. A person of Hagrid’s size could easily get into the pipe.

“Professor,” Ives said,”this should be the entrance.”

“Um.”Dumbledore looked at the dark entrance of the pipe with solemn eyes. He turned back and said,”Avis, Harry, you two stay here. Ives shook his head,”Professor, take us both with you. There may be a mechanism in front of the secret room that requires Parseltongue to open.””

Dumbledore thought for a while and then said:”Okay, remember to protect yourself.”

“clear”

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Achievement: Two hundred chapters, achieved!

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Yesterday, there was a bug in the word count of the coding software, and the posted chapter was missing five words without even reminding me. As a result, I didn’t have 4,000 words yesterday, so I was absent from work for a whole day. I was exhausted. The only leave request I had this month was gone.

(End of this chapter)