Chapter 268
This is the girls’ restroom!
Chapter 268 This is the girls’ restroom!
"what is this?"
Harry couldn't help but scream. He knew he was like a frightened little girl at the moment, but he couldn't help it.
"Basilisk."
Professor Kettleburn stared at the lifelike portrait on the wall in fascination, his fingers slowly sliding over the emerald green scales that seemed to move.
"If a rooster egg is hatched by a toad, it will give birth to this serpent monster with extraordinary powers. It is very large and can grow up to fifty feet. Its fangs are extremely poisonous, but the most dangerous thing is its eyes."
"Eyes?" Harry repeated, looking again into those dangerous yellow eyes.
"Anyone who looks into its eyes will be killed instantly."
Professor Kettleburn said the terrible words lightly: "This basilisk has lived in Hogwarts for thousands of years... It is equivalent to living with us every day..."
Harry imagined...
When he was eating with his classmates, reading, or attending class... a murderous monster was lingering nearby...
He couldn't help but shudder, and couldn't help but question: "If that's the case, why didn't anyone see it?"
"It's moving in the pipes - Dumbledore has confirmed that."
Professor Kettleburn smiled and pulled a huge scale from his pocket.
He slowly stroked the scale, revealing an obsessed smile:
"See? This is what I found when I sneaked into the pipe... Thanks to my lost arm and one and a half legs, I can easily enter places that others can't enter..."
Harry looked at his mutilated limbs and felt a mixture of sympathy and a strange fear.
However, he saw this strange professor looking at him as if he were weighing meat.
"Come to think of it, you are small and thin, and your limbs are flexible. It should be more convenient for you to get into the pipe. Maybe this is why Dumbledore asked you students to challenge the basilisk..."
Harry shuddered uncontrollably, but thinking of Dumbledore, he calmed down.
Impossible... Dumbledore is not that kind of person...
And he also has Parseltongue... Everyone says that this is the language that can control snakes.
The basilisk was scary. But Harry thought that if he didn't go, other students who were facing the basilisk might be in danger; but if he also participated, Parseltongue might be able to help...
With this feeling, when Professor Kettleburn asked him again if he wanted to quit, Harry gritted his teeth and shook his head vigorously.
"Well then... good luck to you, kid." Professor Kettleburn looked at him sympathetically and said, "Come back alive."
These words immediately made Harry's heart hang in his throat.
But the words were out, and he couldn't back down. Harry could only bite the bullet and walk through the room.
Then I saw Michael unexpectedly.
"…Michael?" Harry called out.
"Well, surprised?" Michael asked with a smile.
"I thought it was some professor..." Harry said truthfully.
"Everyone else saw the professor. I was waiting for you." Michael said, motioning Harry to follow him: "Wade needs your help with something."
Harry hurried after him, and through the door they found themselves in an empty corridor.
He hesitated for a moment and reminded Michael: "Michael, I still have to participate in the challenge..."
"It's about the challenge." Michael said, "Without you, this game can't go on."
"Why?" Harry demanded.
"The entrance is blocked," Michael repeated what Vader had told him.
Harry remembered what Professor Kettleburn had said before and asked:
"Isn't the entrance in the pipe?" "The place opened by magic is too narrow. If we encounter danger, it will be the end. So we need a wide enough passage."
——Wade can’t open any door, so he still needs my help?
Harry was confused and didn't understand what was going on, but Michael was pulling him along very fast, as if he was in a hurry, so he had no choice but to catch up.
Afterwards, he found that the corridors around him were becoming more and more familiar, and the place in front... was clearly the girls' restroom where boys were not allowed to enter!
"Wait, wait, Michael!" Harry's face turned green as he pulled the person in front of him and asked, "Should we go in?"
He emphasized: "This is the girls' room!"
Michael smiled, "Don't worry, there's no one in there but Moaning Myrtle."
"Who?" Harry asked.
As a boy, he never went near the girls' restroom, so naturally he didn't know what myrtle was.
"The female ghost who always stays in that toilet." Michael introduced briefly: "Because she often makes trouble, no one comes to this toilet. Wade is waiting for you here."
"…Ved?"
Harry was shocked again.
He had been shocked so many times today that his reactions had begun to become numb, but the news that Vader was in the girls' room stirred him again.
As he spoke, Michael had already pushed open the bathroom door. Harry saw Wade at a glance, and to his surprise, Dumbledore was beside him.
These were two people who would never be associated with peeping into the ladies' room, and seeing them both there, Harry's embarrassment and nervousness disappeared.
Dumbledore and Wade stood side by side, bending over a faucet. The golden-red phoenix stood on the headmaster's head like a unique hat.
There was also a short and fat female ghost next to her. She looked like a student, wearing thick glasses, with an ordinary appearance and a gloomy expression.
Harry guessed it was 'Moaning Myrtle'.
She seemed a little embarrassed and excited next to the principal. She hid her body in a toilet cubicle and secretly observed them.
——This is really a strange combination.
Harry thought.
He tried to ignore the eerie, teal-tinted eyes above the cubicle and greeted, "Good evening, Professor Dumbledore, Vader."
"You're here, Harry." Wade stepped aside a little and said, "Come and see."
Harry hurried over and Michael followed curiously.
Then they discovered that what they had been observing was a copper faucet with a small snake carved on the side.
"Um..." Harry asked, "What's so special about this?"
Vader said, "Look at it and try saying 'open' in Parseltongue."
"Parseltongue?" Harry glanced at Dumbledore subconsciously, then asked curiously, "Didn't you learn it too?"
After knowing that he could speak Parseltongue, several people in SSC learned a few words, but most of them quickly gave up after hearing the almost indistinguishable "hissing". Only Hermione and Wade learned the most.
Vader would have already known how to say "open", such a simple word.
"I can," said Vader helplessly, "but this portal doesn't seem to recognize the fake Parseltongue."
He remembered that in the original book, Ron also used Parseltongue to open the Chamber of Secrets, but the same method hit a wall at the faucet.
Wade could only think that the magic left by Slytherin himself was more sophisticated than Voldemort's. When the basilisk was alive, it not only needed to speak Parseltongue, but also had to speak in real Parseltongue.
Harry's mind flashed back to the painting the professor had shown him just now, and he recalled those cold, deadly eyes.
[Open.]
A hissing sound came from his mouth, and the faucet emitted a dazzling white light.
(End of this chapter)