Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

In the teachers' lounge, Professor McGonagall is arranging the next task of organizing students to leave the school.

Dumbledore had left the school at this point, and no one knew where he went.

So now the work in the castle can only be coordinated by Professor McGonagall.

"Although the students have left, the patrol work in the castle will continue. Wait for Sprout, you and Filch to lead the students to the station, I, Filius, Snape, and Sherlock are here. Investigation in the castle..."

Just as she said this, the door of the teacher's lounge was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

All the professors looked at Harry, who was out of breath, and Snape frowned.

"You should be packing your things right now to leave the school, what are you doing here! What the hell!"

Harry didn't care about Snape's reprimand, he took a breath and said quickly.

"Neville is missing, Professor!"

Suddenly, the entire lounge fell into a dead silence!

Before they could speak, Harry continued, gasping for breath.

"I also know where the entrance to the secret room is!"

In an instant, all the professors present stood up!

They stared at Harry, and Professor McGonagall's excited body was shaking slightly.

"You knew already!"

"Myrtle's bathroom on the first floor! The monster in the secret room is a basilisk! It moves through the castle through pipes in Hogwarts!"

Sherlock was also very shocked at this time, Dumbledore actually bet right!

He was also the quickest person to respond, speaking quickly.

"Now organize the students to leave the school immediately and let them get on the train first. When the students have left the castle, we will go to the secret room!"

Professor McGonagall also recovered at this time. She heard Sherlock's words and immediately made arrangements.

"Sprout and Filch, both of you will find the prefect right now, and organize the students and other staff to the station, remember to keep the train from driving, and wait for our news. Filius, Snape also With Sherlock, let's go to that bathroom first!"

After her words fell, the professors immediately took action.

Harry and Ron also followed Sherlock and the others, and the four most capable professors of Hogwarts went to the bathroom together.

At first, Professor McGonagall wasn't going to take them, but Harry explained that he had a talent for Parseltongue and might be able to help, and finally she decided to take them.

After arriving at Myrtle's bathroom, Sherlock and the others searched the entire bathroom.

Soon, they will find out!

Flitwick pointed to the side of a copper faucet on the sink and called the professors over.

It has a small snake carved on it.

"This faucet never comes out of water." Myrtle floating on the side said sadly, further verifying the problem of this faucet.

Sherlock stared at the little snake carved on the faucet and called Harry over.

"Say whatever you want to this faucet in your Parseltongue."

Harry stared intently at the carved snake, trying to imagine it as a real snake, imagining the flickering candlelight making the snake move.

"Open."

An unpleasant hissing sound came out of his mouth, and the next moment, the dragon head emitted a dazzling white light and began to spin rapidly.

Then, the pool moved, and they watched as the pool slowly disappeared from sight, revealing a very thick water pipe that could allow one person to get in.

The entrance to the secret room was opened like this!

Every professor present was very excited, and Harry and Ron cheered with excitement.

But Sherlock and the others knew very well that opening the secret room was just the beginning,

Next they have a tough battle to fight!

"We have to take the rooster first and deal with the basilisk. The roar of the rooster is the best weapon!" Professor McGonagall said calmly.

Afterwards, Flitwick and Sherlock went to the Hogwarts Greenhouse to catch roosters.

After Sherlock revealed that the monsters in the secret room were likely to be basilisks, even if Hagrid's roosters were strangled to death, Dumbledore specially instructed him to buy a lot of them from outside and keep them separately.

In an abandoned greenhouse managed by Professor Sprout, there are a few roosters.

Soon, the two of Sherlock carried the rooster over, and they waited until all the students at Hogwarts had been evacuated by the organization before entering the secret room.

Harry and Ron were ordered to wait outside, with Professor McGonagall guarding them outside.

As a former dueling champion, Professor Flitwick was the first to climb into the secret room with a cock in front of him because of his short stature.

Sherlock and Snape followed him and entered the secret room.

They had been crawling down for a long time, as if several miles underground, before finally crawling through the tunnel into a wide underground space.

"This should be under the Black Lake." Professor Flitwick said, looking at the dark and sticky walls around.

"Fluorescent flashes."

The sound of the three spells sounded, and the three professors used the lighting spell at the same time, illuminating the underground secret room as if it were daytime.

Only then did they realize that they were now in a wider tunnel and had to move on.

The three of them stepped on the wet ground with a clatter, making a loud noise.

The rooster clucked in Professor Flitwick's arms until they turned a corner and found a giant snakeskin!

"This is what the snake shed." Snape muttered to himself, "Snake skin of nearly a thousand years, this is an extremely precious potion material."

"When you kill that snake, you'll get a better one, don't think about this one, and move on," Sherlock said.

They continued on until they reached the end of the tunnel, where a solid wall stood, carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, gleaming emeralds in their eyes.

Sherlock frowned at the two snakes on the wall.

"We still need to get Harry here."

Snape shook his head indifferently.

"No, I remember Pott's pronunciation."

Then, facing the wall, his throat wriggled, making the same "hiss" that Harry had just made at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

The two snakes parted, the stone wall cracked in the middle, and slowly slipped to the sides and disappeared.

Professor Flitwick praised excitedly.

"Nice job, Severus!"

Sherlock also looked at Snape unexpectedly. He didn't expect his foreign language talent to be so high.

After the door was opened, the three of them acted more cautiously.

This time they really entered the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

In this secret room, which is almost half the size of the auditorium, there are many stone pillars engraved with entangled snakes, towering and supporting the ceiling that melts in the darkness of the high place, casting long lines on the whole room filled with the mysterious green light. of eerie shadows.

Sherlock, Flitwick, and Snape stood in front of the huge statue.

It was an old, monkey-like face, a long sparse beard that dragged almost to the hem of the stone wizard's robes, and two large gray feet on the smooth floor of the room.

"Salazar Slytherin."

Snape whispered the name of the statue.

But there was nothing in the secret room except those stone pillars and statues.

Sherlock and the others searched this secret room carefully for a long time before they found a line of writing on the foot of the Slytherin statue.

[The glory of Slytherin will live with this castle forever! Even if his back room is no longer a secret. 】

Flitwick's face darkened.

"He ran away with Longbottom!"

Snape's face was also very ugly. Although Sherlock's face was also very bad, he was thinking about something.

The three searched here for a while, and after confirming that they found nothing, they returned to the bathroom.

Professor McGonagall has been waiting here with Harry and Ron.

The successor who got Slytherin and the basilisk were not in the secret room. After she disappeared with Neville, she was in a trance and almost fell to the ground.

"What am I going to tell the Longbottoms...how am I going to tell his parents..."

Sherlock and the others were also silent, and Harry and Ron were even more unacceptable.

They thought that if they found the secret room, the matter would be completely resolved, Hogwarts would not be closed again, and Neville could be rescued.

But I didn't expect the result to be like this.

Professor McGonagall quickly recovered from the pain, she took a deep breath and said.

"Sherlock, take Harry and the others to the lounge to get their luggage and take them to the train first."

Sherlock has been frowning since he came out of the secret room.

Dumbledore's plan had failed so far, and Tom was more cunning than he had imagined, but he always felt that something was wrong.

But no matter what, the safest thing to do now is to send all the students away, and then conduct a full-scale search of the castle.

Harry and Ron followed Sherlock towards the Gryffindor lounge.

Their mood was very low, and no one wanted to speak.

Until Harry looked at Sherlock, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed across his mind!

He suddenly grabbed Sherlock's arm and asked in a trembling voice.

"Professor! Do you think we'll find Neville and the diary before we leave on the train?"

Sherlock and Ron were stunned at the same time, but Ron quickly reacted and guessed what Harry was going to do.

His eyes flashed, and he looked at Sherlock nervously, waiting for his answer.

Sherlock sighed and shook his head.

"Hope is very slim. But let's leave the matter in the castle to the professor. You can take the car home today and wait for the news. The matter is resolved, and Dumbledore will inform you to return to school."

Both Harry and Ron's eyes showed surprises!

They almost jumped up on the spot, and Sherlock looked at their actions strangely, not understanding why this would make them excited.

Harry and Ron looked at each other and both saw hope in each other's eyes!

They followed Sherlock to the tower where the Gryffindor lounge was located.

At this time, the common room was no longer guarded by the Fat Lady, because all the students were on the train, and only Harry and Ron had not passed.

The three of them climbed into the portrait passage, and when they entered the Gryffindor common room, they found a pale boy lying on the sofa in the lounge!

"Neville!" Harry and Ron exclaimed.

At the same time, Sherlock frowned, pursed his lips, and slowly drew out his wand.

Because he saw, sitting on a chair by the fireplace in the lounge, a tall boy with dark hair, with an indistinct, ghostly body, was sitting.

The portrait passage in the Gryffindor common room suddenly closed with a bang!

The boy named Tom Riddle looked at them with a smug smile on his face.