Chapter 43 Meeting
Felix found it difficult to understand Professor Lockhart.
He has seen through the nature of this man - a businessman who sells books by making up stories and self-hype.
As for magic skills, I have been given back to the teacher as I graduated.
The writer's routine is to give the protagonist of the story his own name, and shamelessly use the banner of "autobiography" to make money.
This kind of thing is not uncommon in the Muggle world, but the magic world is not so open. To some extent, it can even be said to be quite simple. If you say it is your own adventure in the book, everyone chooses to believe it - and this is suspected of fraud. Once it breaks out, it will basically end up being ruined.
Didn’t he know this? Why did he still dance like this after knowing it? And he performed in front of one of the best wizards in the British magic world?
To be honest, Felix didn't understand at all.
He and Lockhart are completely different.
"Silent." With Lohart's arrival, Dumbledore presided over the meeting.
"The second attack happened, just an hour ago, and was also petrified, just like Mrs. Loris." Dumbledore said slightly heavy.
"But the nature of this time is completely different. The victim is a little wizard and a freshman in the first grade. This shows-" His azure blue eyes looked around with great oppression, "The secret room is really opened."
“Hogwarts is facing a crisis!”
All professors became solemn.
Next, Professor McGonagall told the message of the last time the secret room was opened. She pursed her lips and began to tell the history: "Fifty years ago, the secret room was opened once."
"A student died because of this, her name is Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, and yes, she is still in Hogwarts as a ghost on campus."
"However, since then, the secret room has been closed until now-"
"So that," Lockhart couldn't wait to express his opinion, "The attack is over? I mean, a student has been caught, right? I've seen many similar cases, such as the Morgan Lake water monster, which appears every thirty years, and since I gave the residents I made my homemade amulets…"
Professor McGonagall's lips were pursed tighter, and she shouted very rarely: "I must remind you, Professor Lockhart! Colin Clivie was just petrified and he did not lose his life."
Dumbledore followed McGonagall's words: "Yes, none of us knows whether the monster will launch an attack, and whether the consequences are just petrification. If you have any suggestions, you can make them."
Professor McGonagall said: "I have arranged for the senior chief to inspect and strictly prohibit the young wizard from going to remote places. For young wizards in grades one and two, they have to queue up to get to and end classes and minimize the action alone."
"Very good, Minerva." Dumbledore applauded.
"President Dumbledore," Felix felt it was necessary to say what he had, "I have always focused on the secret room. There are three keywords around the secret room-"
He glanced at everyone, "Unknown Monster, Slytherin's Heir, the Location of the Secret Room."
"As long as we know anything, we can get the truth."
Dumbledore closed his slender fingers, as if thinking, "Please continue, Felix."
"Why don't we associate it from Slytherin? The symbol of Slytherin is a snake, and perhaps this monster is also a snake, so the problem of how it appears in the castle is also solved - with the help of pipelines all over Hogwarts."
Everyone was thinking, Snape spoke, and said in his warm and indifferent tone: "Felix, Slytherin's signature may be a snake, but this is just because he is a snake. If you study him a little, you will find that he is a master of bloodline research, and the magical bloodline he studies is beyond your imagination."
"But we can't rule out this, right?"
"Ha! That unknown monster murdered a witch fifty years ago, and fifty years later, all it did was petrification..." Snape stared at Felix with his cold eyes as stone. "If I understand it correctly, Felix, isn't the same monster?"
Felix shook his head, "I can't explain this, so my opinion is for your reference only."
He continued: "Slytherin's heir, there are two possibilities I can think of. Active and passive."
"Perhaps the heir was sober, he knew what he was doing, such as inheriting Slytherin's will and expelling the little wizard from the Muggle family. But it is also possible that he accidentally acquired the relics of Slytherin and was controlled by it."
Dumbledore raised his head, "A very insightful view, you have expanded your thinking for us."
He thought, "We ignored this in the past. It seems that we need to strengthen the ideological education of our students."
Felix's "manipulation theory" attracted a lot of discussion. He waited a little and continued: "As for the location of the secret room, I have no way to know. Maybe I can ask about the portrait and ghost of the castle?"
After a while of quiet, an old professor hesitated and said, "I shouldn't have said that, but I think Hogwarts is in a critical period, and any clue is important..."
Felix looked at the old professor, whose name was Silvanus Kettleborn, who was his teacher in school in the magical animal class, but it was said that he had plans to retire.
The professor is famous for his preference for researching and caring for dangerous creatures. He set an unprecedented record and experienced 62 stay-at-home viewings during his tenure at school.
Let Felix comment, it is another version of Hagrid.
At this moment, Kettleborn said: "That kid is definitely not a bad guy, but I want me to say, if he had made a mistake like me... because of curiosity," he paused and said a name: "Ruber Hager."
"It's not him, Silva," Dumbledore said firmly, "I was a professor of deformation at the school back then. I knew he was innocent, but there was no evidence... Under pressure, Principal Dippet fired him."
"This is a serious mistake, and we didn't catch the real murderer."
At the end of the meeting, Dumbledore assigned a series of tasks, and at present, he could only focus on prevention. In addition to conducting daily inspections, he also called on the little wizards to not trust any magical items in class.
When Felix went out, he saw Lockhart talking to Dumbledore.
Chapter completed!