Chapter 73

"Don't mention that name to me!" said the boy gloomily. "That damn mud seed! How dare he hurt the snake king left to me by the great Salazar Slytherin! And twice in a row!"

"Marca? Hurt the Basilisk?" Harry said in surprise.

"The first time, I was there... And Miss Granger," Lockhart said. "Unfortunately, I didn't have time to save her."

"Oh - Professor, you already know --" Harry's eyes widened.

"Hum! So what?" the boy snorted coldly. "One stinky mud seed wants to save another? Ridiculous!"

He paused and said with a sneer: "what's more ridiculous is that one of the mud species failed to save the next... It's a pity that you didn't see Harry Potter - Miss Weasley struggled and cried, and the mud species could only lean against the wall, cover her injured arm and watch her taken away by the snake king --"

"Oh, by the way, he can't see - because he didn't have the courage to open his eyes to see even one eye from beginning to end - isn't that a good joke?"

Harry clenched his fist and stared at him angrily.

Ron, who stood holding Ginny, hung his head from the beginning and looked at Ginny's face. He didn't know what he was thinking.

"We really blame Marca..." Harry said angrily. "And you did all this!"

"Don't say that... I've been waiting for you since Ginny and I got here. I know you'll come. I have a lot of questions to ask you! Harry Potter."

"What's the problem?" Harry snapped, his fist still clenched.

"For example," said the boy with a happy smile, "a baby doesn't have any special magic, but how on earth did he defeat the greatest wizard ever? How could you escape unharmed, leaving only a scar, while Voldemort's power was destroyed?"

Now there was a strange red light in his hungry wolf like eyes.

"Why do you care how I escaped?" cried Harry. "What does this have to do with you!"

"Of course! Of course it matters! Just because my name is Tom Riddle."

Harry immediately thought of the name in the diary, but he had no clue about the key.

But before Harry could doubt for long, riddle gave a direct explanation.

"Voldemort," said riddle softly, "is my past, present and future, Harry Potter... Just move the letters and you'll understand, in fact --"

"In fact, he is Voldemort, Voldemort at the age of 16," said Lockhart.

"Is he... Voldemort?" Harry was surprised at the speech.

"Do you think I'm going to use my dirty Muggle father's name all my life? You know, Salazar Slytherin's own blood flows in my veins, which was passed to me through his daughter! Will I keep the disgusting ordinary Muggle name?"

"He abandoned me before I was born because he found out that his wife was a witch! No, Harry. I came up with a new name for myself. I know that one day, when I become the greatest wizard in the world, wizards everywhere dare not say it easily!"

Riddell's voice grew louder and louder.

Just then, Lockhart took a big step forward.

"The greatest magician?" he looked at Riedel with a strange look. "Do you really think the person who did this would be a great magician?"

Lohat asked meaningfully, pointing to the diary at the foot of the Slytherin statue.

"You know what that is!"

Hearing the deep meaning of Lockhart's words, he immediately showed his surprised face.

Riddell immediately gave up his original intention and was no longer in the mood to continue talking nonsense with Harry. Instead, he resolutely turned and opened his mouth to Slytherin's statue, making a hissing sound - only Harry understood what he said.

"Speak to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the four Hogwarts!"

Slytherin's huge stone face moved, its mouth opened wider and wider, and finally formed a huge black hole.

It seemed that something was moving in the mouth of the statue. It was sliding up from the depths of the statue.

"Close your eyes! Step back!" LOHA shouted loudly.

Harry and Ron dragged Ginny back quickly, almost at the same time hitting the dark chamber wall, their eyes closed tightly.

A huge object fell on the stone ground, and the people felt that the secret room was shaking.

They all knew what was going on, and they could feel the giant snake unfolding its coiled body from Slytherin's mouth.

Then Harry heard Riddle's hissing voice.

"Kill him!"

To Riddell's surprise, the man in front of him looked like a soft egg, but his reaction speed was very fast.

Although Lockhart also closed his eyes at this time, he seemed to see the situation around him and aimed his wand at the stone pillar around him.

"Falling apart!"

Under the effect of the cutting spell, part of the stone pillar fell to the ground and fell into several pieces.

Then Lockhart waved his wand again, and one of the stones quickly turned into a big cock.

"Damn it!"

Riddell immediately felt bad, but he couldn't make effective interference because he didn't have a magic wand in his hand.

He suddenly waved to Lockhart. A thrust formed by magic suddenly hit the rooster, but Lockhart waved his wand and easily dissolved it.

The cock suddenly crowed. The crow had a remarkable effect, and the snake monster immediately swam around in a panic. For a time, several stone pillars were cracked, dusty everywhere, and the scene was quite chaotic.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lockhart quickly ran to the foot of the stone statue under the cover of the dust in the sky.

On the other hand, riddle obviously planned to do the same. I don't know because of the different forms, the fuzzy riddle is faster than Lockhart!

But when Riddell overtook Lockhart, he didn't notice that Lockhart stopped running immediately.

With a quick and decisive wave of his wand, a black fog skull the size of a head suddenly rushed out of the tip of the wand, flew forward like a fierce ghost, and fell behind Riedel's vague figure without any tricks.

"Ah --"

After the sudden impact of the black fog skull, Riddell's figure became more blurred and distorted as if he could not control his body.

Before long, the figure was quickly divided into two virtual shadows. The big one went straight to the diary, while the small one made an arc in the air and landed on Ginny accurately.

After the big virtual shadow gradually integrated into the diary, Lockhart waved his wand and called the diary back to his hand.

In fact, he could have done that just now, and his sudden running over was just for Riedel to see.

This series of actions was almost completed in a few seconds, and there was hardly any chance for Riddell to respond when he was caught off guard.

After Riddell was solved, Lockhart closed his eyes again, and once again, blindfolded and rushed into the dust that had not yet settled.

After a while, I only heard a huge hiss from a corner of the secret room, and then there was a heavy falling sound.

In the opposite corner obscured by dust, Lockhart was standing next to the huge head of the basilisk. His eyes were not on the scale or fangs of the basilisk. He was more concerned about the insignificant horn on its head.

That's actually the most precious part of the Basilisk!

It is said that Salazar Slytherin once used it as the core of his wand, which is very powerful.

"Come out! What to do next, I think you should understand," said Lockhart - or Marca, whose appearance became Lockhart.

"Of course! Nothing is easier than this!"

As he spoke, a figure suddenly appeared not far away - that was the real Lockhart himself. He handed over a suitcase in his hand.

"Take them away and leave it to me."

"Of course, have a good cooperation, Mr. McLean."

……

When the real Lockhart hurried to Harry and them, a soft groan just sounded - Ginny had woken up.

Her blank eyes first looked to the left and right, then to Ron, who had been holding herself, and finally fell on Harry, who was a little embarrassed.

Immediately, her tears flowed down.

"Oh - Harry, I wanted to tell you at breakfast, but in front of Percy, I can't... I can't say I did it, Harry, but I... I swear, it wasn't intentional. Riddle forced me. He controlled me! Oh - where's riddle? I only remember him coming out of his diary -"

"Don't worry, it's all right! I've killed them! Look -" Lockhart looked cheerful. He pointed to the huge body deep in the secret room.

But Ginny didn't seem to feel much at ease.

"I'll be fired!" Ginny cried as Ron helped her stagger to her feet without saying a word. "I've been looking forward to studying in Hogwarts since bill came. Now I have to leave. What... What will mom and dad say?"

Urged by Lockhart, they passed through the dark, empty and echoing room and returned to the tunnel. But they did not notice that the stone gate behind them was not closed because they left.

Of course, even if they noticed it, they would never think that there was still a man tearing up the body of the Basilisk!