From Azkaban To Hogwarts

'Concealing the entrance to the chamber is no longer feasible. ’

Although he was in crisis, Lockhart's mind was racing, 'I must make it impossible for anyone to doubt me. ’

This was not too difficult - so far he had not been suspected, and if he had discovered the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets first, no one would have linked Professor Lockhart to the Chamber of Secrets.

'It's just a pity, those secrets, and the hidden Slytherin items,' Lockhart quickly calculated his losses, 'I could have gotten the Order of Merlin, but now I can only get a headline——'

‘It’s decided, sell the secret room, and no one will find out that it has anything to do with Professor Lockhart! ’

After making up his mind, Lockhart's search speed immediately became faster.

He knew the location of the secret room very well. If someone discovered it first, wouldn't it mean that the headlines would be gone?

With this thought, he quickly approached the real entrance to the secret room. Well, yes, it was that pipe!

"I found it!"

While all the professors were searching, Professor Lockhart's cheerful and irrepressible voice rang out.

"Let me see!" The old professor's wooden legs made a nice impact sound, and he ran to Lockhart's position in three steps at a time.

Where Lockhart's finger pointed, on the side of a copper faucet, there was a small snake carved on it.

"Are you sure it's not a decoration?"

The old professor looked at the little snake in confusion and was about to take out his wand to test it, but was stopped by Dumbledore who rushed over.

"I'll test it," Dumbledore said, smiling.

But soon, Dumbledore stopped laughing.

"Albus," the old professor said eagerly, "can you open it?"

"I'm sorry, Sylvanus," Dumbledore shook his head. "My answer is I'm afraid not."

"There is no doubt that it is the entrance to the secret room. It is not solid and cannot be cracked. Moreover, this is not the entrance that was built in the first place. (Note)"

Dumbledore pressed his hand on the little snake and shook his head.

"But it has been hundreds of years since it was completed. The magic used to guard the castle over the years has also been applied to this entrance. When it was built, it was cleverly linked to the castle's protective magic. Over the years, in the follow-up With the addition of protective magic applied from generation to generation, trying to remove this magic is equivalent to destroying half of the castle's protection."

As the headmaster of Hogwarts, it was obviously impossible for Dumbledore to do such a thing as tearing down the house in order to kill the mice.

Everyone understood this, and Lockhart began to feel distressed - even though Dumbledore was going to find this entrance today, what if he didn't find it? If he couldn't open it even if he couldn't find it, wouldn't he be able to continue looking for the secret soon?

"So, it can only be cracked normally?"

The old professor's cheerfulness was compromised.

"I'm afraid so, Sylvanus," Dumbledore nodded, "but I think it won't be long before I find the right method."

The old professor suddenly became energetic again.

"Albus, don't lie to an old man who is about to retire." The old professor pretended to be pitiful.

"A month at most," Dumbledore pressed the little snake, "Maybe less."

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"A month at most?"

The words appeared in the diary, "Dumbledore is being modest, twenty days at most."

"Twenty days?"

Lockhart shook his head, "What difference does it make?"

His plan to explore the secret room has been ruined. The bathroom is now heavily guarded by school professors. Let alone sneaking in to open the secret room for research, it is not even convenient!

"Are there any other hidden secrets? Like Hufflepuff's or Gryffindor's?"

He wrote in his diary without any worry, "The secret room is gone, we have to change to big news."

"Yes, yes," a line of words appeared in the diary. It was written in a cursive style that had never been seen before, and it was written quite playfully.

"I'm afraid you won't have the luck to investigate, Professor Lockhart."

This new font made Lockhart quite uncomfortable, and he frowned - since the implementation of his new plan, this somewhat submissive book is no longer as mocking as before, but what's going on today?

"Speak clearly! What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that the Chamber of Secrets is lost. I'm afraid I can't keep the fact that Professor Lockhart is the descendant of Slytherin. Let alone the secret, I'm afraid I can go to Azkaban to explore - maybe, the great Can Professor Lockhart publish a Legend of Azkaban story?"

The diary's taunting came again, making Lockhart feel upset.

"The person who opened the Chamber of Secrets is the descendant of Slytherin. What does it have to do with Professor Lockhart?"

He quickly wrote in his diary - he had thought it through on the way here. No one knew what happened. No students saw it, and no paintings or ghosts saw it. That's why he was so relieved and tried to read it from the diary. Explore new knowledge in this book.

"Professor Lockhart graduated from Ravenclaw. All the professors at the school know this. Who would doubt it?"

'If this diary says stupid things like this again, it should be dealt with. ’ Lockhart thought to himself, ‘Although the remaining secret treasures are exciting, safety is more important. This book knows too much. ’

"Yes, if your name is not written on the secret room's inheritance." A line of words suddenly appeared in the diary.

"Isn't it unclear to our great professor? Slytherin's heirs must leave their real names when using basilisks for inheritance. There is magic in names," the diary showed in the unique cursive font. , "Think about it, how surprised it will be twenty days later when Albus Dumbledore opens the Chamber of Secrets and discovers the name of the person who is undergoing the inheritance trial?"

"You're talking nonsense!"

Lockhart began to panic.

"Oh," a word was written in the diary in a beautiful cursive script, "don't you think about it, if the real name is not recorded, how could the vicious basilisk be controlled so easily? If the name is not signed, what will happen next? How to activate inheritance?"

Lockhart made no response, he was stunned.

Damn Slytherin's heritage, why does it have a name!

Twenty days, twenty days!

There was no point in escaping, Dumbledore could easily extradite him from anywhere in the world - he knew it very well.

"No, I don't believe it!"

Lockhart shouted.

Then, he closed the book vigorously and stuffed it into the deepest part of the drawer.

——

‘Be afraid, be panicked. ’

‘It’s not enough to panic now. As the twenty days get closer and closer, there will be more panic. There is already enough fear, and panic is all that is left. ’

Although the diary is shared, the cursive characters still appear.

Note: There was originally no bathroom at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. When the bathroom was subsequently built, under the operation of a student named Corvinus Gaunt (a descendant of Slytherin) who knew the Chamber of Secrets, the new entrance to the Chamber of Secrets was turned into a copper pipe. .

ps: There are still a thousand words left in Chapter 2. I will make up for it at noon tomorrow...

I wanted to go to bed early today, but my state was so bad at night...