"Harry, is it useful for you to read the contents of this book?"
In an abandoned classroom in the dungeons, Harry, Ron and Draco each had a book, looking for the contents about the Chamber of Secrets and the heir.
Beside them, there was a thick stack of books.
These were all sent to Draco by his mother at home.
Malfoy is a top pure blood family so naturally, there are also many books in the family.
During this time the three meet here at night.
If they were to be caught by the Heads of their respective Houses, it would not be as simple as losing just a few points.
Harry glanced at the books Ron handed over and shook his head.
"It's useless, this is also the reason why Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets in the first place."
"But what's in the Chamber of Secrets, there's nothing mentioning where the Chamber of Secrets might be!"
Hearing this, Ron looked a little frustrated.
"After searching for so long, could it be that there is no relevant content about the secret room in the books at all."
Harry also closed the book in his hand, frowning tightly and looked up towards the roof.
"Draco, do you really not know who the heir is? Could it be Lucas?"
"Impossible, I can assure you that there is no so-called heir in Slytherin House."
Seeing Draco's determined expression, Ron turned hostile in disdain.
"Even if there is an heir, you Slytherins will probably protect him."
"What do you mean by that Weasley!"
It was seen that the air between the two became tense again.
Harry quickly separated them.
When everyone calmed down, Draco frowned and suggested, "Why don't we ask someone else?"
"Ask who?"
"Lucas might or might not know."
"No!" Harry jumped to refuse.
Draco opened his mouth, and the unspoken words eventually turned into a long sigh.
He still can't figure out why Harry suddenly became estranged from Lucas.
Of course Draco wouldn't understand.
Because the education they received was different, Harry has lived a life of slavery since he was a child.
When he first entered the magic world, he was ignorant and regarded everyone around him as his friends.
But there was always someone by his side who was stronger than him in terms of grades, strength or wealth.
This made Harry unable to accept it. Especially when he saw the people who surrounded him originally, those who looked up to him because he was the savior and the boy who lived.
Now they ignore him in favor of someone else.
Such a psychological gap is not acceptable to a 12-year-old child.
If he had someone who can enlighten him in time, perhaps he wouldn't have become like this.
Unfortunately the friends he surrounded himself with aren't very good at such things.
And his best friend is someone like Ron who is even more jealous, so the easily influenced Harry ended up like this.
On the Quidditch pitch between Ravenclaw and the Slytherins.
From when he heard the girl he had a crush on confessed to Lucas.
Harry Potter and Lucas Grindelwald are no longer on the same path.
"Why don't we ask Hermione Granger? She has the best grades besides Lucas."
Draco proposed something again.
"This... ok!"
Harry was reluctant at first, but finally nodded in agreement, they desperately needed a smart person to point them in the right direction.
As everyone knows, their conversation was clearly heard by Lucas outside the door.
Waiting until they finished talking, Lucas made noise on purpose.
"Who's outside!"
The three rushed outside the classroom to see who made the noise just now.
Following the sound, the three of them came to the second floor.
Looking at the empty hallway, Ron said with uncertainty, "Could it be that we got it wrong?"
"Shh, listen carefully."
Listening attentively, faint cries came from the bathroom.
"Moaning Myrtle!"
The three of them immediately walked to the bathroom.
"Is this the thing?"
Harry looked at the diary, which was covered with water stains and picked it up with disgust.
Myrtle choked and said: "That's right, that's it. I know everyone hates me. I'm not good-looking, I'm fat, full of pimples and I don't speak well."
"But it's really abominable to smash me with a book."
Harry looked at Myrtle who was crying again and didn't know how to comfort her.
He asked awkwardly: "Then did you see the person who threw the diary?"
Seeing Myrtle shake her head, Harry fell silent for a moment.
He didn't notice that Draco behind him was frowning tightly.
His eyes looked at the diary without blinking.
It's this diary again, this is already the third time Draco has seen it.
The first time was at home in the hands of his father.
The second time was in Lucas' dormitory on top of his desk.
And this is the third time.
It looked exactly the same and he felt that there was something strange about this matter.
Such an old diary, how could it be so coincidental?
'I should have a good talk with Lucas.'
Draco just had such an idea when he heard Harry calling his name.
"What's the matter, Harry?"
"I asked, have you ever seen a diary like this?"
Harry looked at his friend strangely.
"No, I haven't seen such an old diary, and Slytherin students wouldn't have something like this."
Getting such an answer, Harry frowned slightly and opened the diary.
Looking at the blank inner pages, he suddenly lost interest in researching.
Just at this time Percy Weasley came in through the door suddenly.
"Very well, you violated the night ban and also entered the women's bathroom, Ron Weasley, you are really embarrassing our family."
Percy wore the prefect badge on his chest.
Even in such a dim environment, the badge was still shining brightly.
"Percy, don't do this, we were doing something important." Ron begged helplessly.
But Percy didn't buy it, and he wouldn't let them go just because Ron is his younger brother.
"Two points from Gryffindor for violating the ban."
Percy finished speaking and glanced at Draco with eyes full of regret. He is only a prefect of Gryffindor, and has no right to deduct points from other houses.
"Now, please go back to the dormitory immediately, otherwise I will continue to deduct points."
Percy finished straightening his wizard robes which made the prefect badge even more visible.
Not long after they left, Ginny Weasley came to the bathroom again.
She just couldn't rest assured, what if someone learns what she did from the diary?
So she was about to retrieve the dreaded black diary, but the diary is already gone!
Ginny panicked.
She didn't expect that in such a short time the diary was already taken away.
She returned to the dormitory with apprehension, tossing and turning all night, still unable to fall asleep.
Early morning the next day, the Hogwarts students got up and went to the great hall for breakfast.
Hermione took Cho's hand, and the two came to the long table in Slytherin excitedly.
"Handsome Mr. Lucas, we already have the answer."
"What?"
Lucas didn't understand what the two of them meant at first.
But seeing the excited expressions and the pride in the eyes of the two girls, he immediately understood that their investigation had results.
"Tell me, what's in the chamber of secrets."
The two looked at each other and replied in unison: "A basilisk!"
"Anyone who looks directly into the eyes of the basilisk will be killed, as it happened to Mrs. Norris."
"We also learn that Myrtle was once a student of Ravenclaw, but died inexplicably fifty years ago."
"According to what she said, she saw a pair of big yellow eyes."
Lucas nodded appreciatively.
"Then how do you explain Colin Creevey and the others still being alive?"
"That's easy." Hermione said confidently, "Colin Creevey saw the basilisk through the camera lens."
"Justin saw the basilisk through the glass reflection."
"It's just that we can't figure out what happened to Susan Bones. There doesn't seem to be a place where she could have seen the basilisk's reflection."
Looking at the frowns of the girls, Lucas comforted: "It's already very good. You have investigated in detail and the answer is correct. The monster in the chamber is indeed a basilisk."
"Then let's go tell Dumbledore!"
Hermione was just about to act but was stopped by Lucas.
"It's useless, Dumbledore already knows it's a basilisk, but we don't know how to get into the Chamber of Secrets nor its location."
"With just words the parents will not believe it."
Their expressions became depressed after hearing this.
They thought they only needed to find out the identity of the monster and it would be enough to help the school survive this crisis.
Pulling them to sit next to him, Lucas said to the two: "Harry also seems to be investigating the secret room recently."
"If he asks you for help, you can give him a proper reminder, otherwise our savior will be running around like a headless chicken."
"However, it's not possible today. You have to wait at least two or three days before you can tell him the answer, understand?"
Cho sighed: "He already doesn't recognize you as a friend, why do you still help him like this, Lucas, your heart is too kind."
Hermione nodded, she also agreed with Cho's statement.
Lucas just smiled when he heard that.
…
Ginny Weasley walked out of the dormitory absentmindedly.
She followed the corridor and kept walking all the way to the Black Lake.
Her mind is now full of the black diary.
At this time the weather was really cold so there would be no one by the lake, and this was just the quiet environment Ginny needed.
But she didn't expect that someone would come to the lake first.
Looking at that black hair and familiar appearance, Ginny looked a little dazed.
'Harry Potter, what is he doing here?'
Before she stepped forward to ask, she saw the familiar diary in his hand.
And at this time he was holding a quill, writing and drawing in the diary.
Feeling someone coming close, Harry Potter turned his head to look in panic.
And finding out it was Ginny Weasley his expression became even more flustered.
"Ginny, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."
Looking at Harry who left in a hurry, her heart sank. He must have learned something from the diary and that's why he looked so panicked when he saw her.
No, she needs to recover the diary no matter what. Ginny made up her mind, turned around and walked towards the dormitory.
Some time after she left, Harry Potter returned to the lake.
Accompanied by a burst of body changes, Harry Potter quickly disappeared, replaced by Lucas standing by the lake.
And the black diary in his hand has become a common book.
Body Transfiguration.
Lucas' father, Gellert Grindelwald's forte.
…
It wasn't long before lunch time.
Harry, Draco and Ron went to Ravenclaw Tower.
It wasn't long after they reached the door to Ravenclaw's common room that Neville came running from the other side.
"Harry, you need to go back and have a look, our dormitory has been robbed!"
"And your things were thrown all over the place"
As soon as the words came out Harry and Ron were taken aback.
The two couldn't care less about continuing to wait for Hermione Granger.
Leaving everything to Draco, Harry turned and ran to the Gryffindor common room on the other side of the castle.
Watching the back of his friend leaving, Draco stood helplessly at the door of Ravenclaw's common room.
Praying that someone comes out of it soon.
…
Someone has sneaked into Gryffindor Tower to steal, such a big event quickly attracted the attention of the professors.
But in the end it turned out that nothing was missing, so they just let it go.
But Harry knew that the magical diary was missing.
He just learned from it last night what happened fifty years ago and originally planned to ask Hagrid after finding Hermione Granger.
Unexpectedly, someone stole it.
It must have been done by the heir, he must have stolen it to prevent him from finding out the truth from the diary.
Harry told Ron what he thought and immediately got the support of his friend, so the two left the dormitory and went to Hagrid's cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
But they seem to have forgotten that Draco is waiting at the door of Ravenclaw.
Time flies, and before you know it, it is night.
Today is Christmas Eve.
All the remaining students came to the great hall to celebrate together.
They were all telling each other about the gifts they received.
Lucas thought about it carefully, the gifts he received this year seem to be no different from last year.
Dumbledore's is still a good book, while he gave Dumbledore woolen socks signed by Gellert Grindelwald.
This was specially prepared when he returned to Nurmengard during the summer vacation.
I believe Dumbledore will love his gift.
What surprised Lucas the most was probably the gift from the Weasley family.
Mrs. Weasley actually gave him a hand-knitted Red sweater, along with a note thanking Lucas for taking care of their family.
It appears the twins have already spoken to Mrs. Weasley about working in the summer.
[Ding, the platinum prize pool for holiday specials has been opened, the time limit is until 12 midnight, please spend as much as you like...]
Hearing the system prompt Lucas took a deep breath.
There is no rush yet, he still has some work to do.
After a great Christmas dinner he returned to the dormitory and used a void rift to leave.
He cast the Disillusionment Charm and hid at the corner of the third floor near the Gryffindor common room, waiting there until the dead of the night.
Sure enough, the figure of Ginny Weasley appeared.
Looking at her blank eyes, she should be controlled by the diary again.
Following her all the way to the washbasin, Ginny suddenly spoke a few words in Parseltongue and the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets appeared in front of Lucas.
Once Ginny jumped into the pipe leading to the Chamber of Secrets, Lucas jumped off to follow her without hesitation.
It's finally time to come face to face with the basilisk.
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