A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 52: Lies and truth

Next day, weekend morning.

Harry and Ron staggered out of the dormitory to see Hermione already sitting in a chair in the lounge.

As soon as the two sat next to her, they saw Hermione slap a newspaper on the table with a "snap".

"I knew it!" said the little witch angrily.

Harry and Ron woke up suddenly, they looked at each other, Harry asked: "What happened, Hermione?"

"Remember the book the professor showed us? The book about President Dippet. At that time, there was a copy of the "Daily Prophet" on Professor Hepp's desk. I felt something was wrong. This morning I I found the newspapers of the last few days... that woman, Rita Skeeter! She dared to slander Headmaster Dumbledore..." Hermione was trembling with anger.

Harry picked up the newspaper quickly, and Ron sat down next to him and poked his head over.

That was yesterday's Daily Prophet. The most eye-catching photo was the photo of Dumbledore looking up with his head full of white hair. From the shooting effect alone, he looked old and shady, and the name of the headline on the front page was "Dumbledore's Big Mistake".

Harry had a bad feeling, and he quickly read——

"Our newspaper's special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that Hogwarts' school principal, the eccentric Albus Dumbledore, has always been a highly controversial wizard."

"As recognized as the greatest wizard of our time, Dumbledore has been hiding in the Hogwarts castle since he defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, rarely appearing in the public eye .”

"Everyone is full of praise for this, thinking that he is guarding the hope of the British magic world and continuously sending all kinds of magic talents to the magic world, but is the truth really like this?"

"The author has recently received letters from some parents of students, saying that a horrific attack has taken place in the school, and the murderer has not been found so far. Mrs. Ferrian from Mount Top wrote: My child is trembling at school every day , afraid of life-threatening, the professors can't do anything about it, and they can't do anything! I have to send my children home for Christmas."

"The author found the parent who cared about the child with great anger and interviewed her. The matter was far more serious than imagined-this is not the first time the attack has occurred. As early as more than a month ago, The attack has already happened. Except that the victim was a cat, but the news was tightly sealed!"

"In order to reduce the impact and avoid being discovered and criticized by the outside world, the headmaster did not hesitate to fabricate a sensational lie - he pushed all this to the thousand-year-old Hogwarts legend, Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

"It's funny that he did something similar fifty years ago, when the Headmaster was still a Transfiguration professor, during which time a poor Ravenclaw witch died. Hogwarts Ci once caught the suspect, but Dumbledore had a huge influence on the then headmaster, Armando Dippet. Under his mediation, the matter was finally settled, and the suspect was only expelled from the school. "

"Three days before the author wrote this article, two weeks had passed since the second student attack, but the outside world knew nothing about it, and the murderer was still at large. We have to worry about this matter, and we have nothing to do Dumbledore, who can't, is he really old?"

"The author will follow up and report on this matter, and tell everyone the truth. In the next issue, we will start with the principal's work and reveal a more real image of Dumbledore for everyone."

This is the end of the text, but at the bottom of the page, there is a small line of text, which is the preview content of the next report. It says:

Dumbledore has always dared to hire controversial teachers, such as Gilderoy Lockhart and Felix Hemp this year, but are these two people really suitable? Let's wait and see (insiders are welcome to break the news, contact: Rita Skeeter, editor-in-chief of the "Daily Prophet" gold medal, author of twelve best-selling books, best-selling book record holder).

"How could she say that about Dumbledore!" Harry said angrily. "There is also the matter of the secret room, what we saw with our own eyes, how could it be a lie!"

"You can't believe a word of this woman, Rita Skeeter. She often fabricates rumors about celebrities' scandals." It was a big mess, and my mother hated her very much."

"It seems that we already know what this woman is." Hermione said sarcastically.

Ron picked up the newspaper, "Have you noticed that this woman actually wants to do a series of reports, the next issue is about Professor Lockhart and Professor Hemp. How will she arrange them?"

Hermione said helplessly: "Principal Dumbledore has been portrayed by her as a conspirator, and it is estimated that the two professors will not be spared."

"I don't care about Lockhart, he's just putting on airs. Do you think Professor Haip will storm into the "Daily Prophet" building and cast a bat-spirit jinx on that woman?"

"Ron! That's illegal, how could the professor do that!"

The three of them discussed this matter, but the final result was rather pessimistic.

Harry pointed to a sentence in the newspaper, "She said that the suspect was caught fifty years ago, who is she referring to?"

"Come on, Harry, do you still believe that woman's nonsense?"

"Of course I don't believe it, but—" Harry's eyes fixed on Hermione.

Her face quickly turned pale, "Fifty years ago, I was expelled... the suspect was Hagrid?"

Ron licked his lips nervously.

Harry said quickly, "I believe Dumbledore, Hagrid will not be the murderer! But since he is listed as a suspect, he must know something!"

The three of them were about to brave the wind and snow to go to the Forbidden Forest hut. Just as they walked out of the castle, they bumped into a burly figure. It was Hagrid. Carrying a dead chicken.

"Hagrid, oh—" Harry bumped right into him.

"Be careful! Little ones." Hagrid said gruffly, still waving the fluffy chicken in his hand, and a few chicken feathers were flying in the air with his movements...

It was evening.

Harry, Ron and Hermione have just returned from the abandoned classroom in the basement, and things are going well with the Polyjuice Potion.

Harry carried the magic scroll given by Professor Hap with him, translating the language of Parseltongue word by word. In the empty and abandoned classroom, hoarse, gloomy and terrifying voices would echo from time to time.

This kept the dozing Ron from sleeping well—he could always see a witch brewing a potion like mud~IndoMTL.com~A wizard made a snake-like "hiss" hissing sound.

And in the earlier afternoon, they finally heard the first-hand information about the secret room from Hagrid.

At the moment, they are hiding in the corner of the lounge.

"It's almost all right!" said Hermione suddenly.

"What?"

"The monster in the Chamber of Secrets! Wait for me—" Hermione obviously had a perfect thought, she hurried back to the dormitory, and took back a piece of parchment after a while.

The three of them got together and looked at the text on it. It was about a terrifying magical creature called "Basilisk".

After Harry and Ron finished reading the information, Hermione told the clues collected these days one by one, "The basilisk can sleep for a long time, the eyes of the basilisk are lethal, the basilisk is the natural enemy of spiders, and the basilisk is afraid Chicken crowing... what did you think of?"

"So, the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is the basilisk?" Ron asked excitedly.

"No mistake!" Harry slammed his fist on the table.

There are two main pieces of news they got from Hagrid: one is that the chickens he raises always die inexplicably; The monster in the book refused to reveal even a word.

You can match them all!

"But there is still the biggest problem, that is, the basilisk cannot petrify people. I ignored it at first because of this, but now, the side evidence is very sufficient." Hermione said very rigorously, "Maybe I should find time to ask Professor Haipu, is there any way to reduce the damage caused by the basilisk's gaze..."

She hammered her head bitterly, "It's really strange, I feel that something is in front of me, but I still can't find it..."

Harry swallowed sharply, "Hermione, I think I get it."