Chapter 52： Lies and truth

The next day, weekend morning.

Harry and Ron staggered out of the bedroom and saw Hermione sitting in a chair in the lounge.

As soon as the two of them sat next to her, they saw Hermione snap a newspaper on the table.

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

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

"Remember the book that the professor showed us? Regarding the book of President Dipeter, there was a copy of "Daily Prophet" on Professor Haipu's desk at the time. I felt something was wrong. I found it this morning. The newspapers of the last few days...that woman, Rita Skeeter! How dare she slander Principal Dumbledore..." Hermione trembled with anger.

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

That was yesterday’s Daily Prophet. The most striking thing is the photo of Dumbledore looking up with his white hair. From the perspective of the shooting effect, it looks old and shameful. The headline name is "Dumbledore." Lido’s big mistake".

Harry felt bad, and he quickly read—

"Our newspaper special correspondent Rita Skeeter reports that the school principal at Hogwarts, the weird Albus Dumbledore, has always been a very controversial wizard."

"As recognized as the greatest contemporary wizard, Dumbledore has been hiding in the Hogwarts castle since he defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, and rarely appeared in the public eye."

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

"The author recently received letters from some parents of students saying that there had been appalling attacks in the school, and the murderer has not been found. Mrs. Ferrian of Top Hill wrote this: My child trembles at school every day for fear of suffering. Life is threatening and the professors are helpless and do nothing! I have to send my children home for Christmas."

"The author found the parent who cared about the child with a feeling of excitement, and interviewed her. The incident was far more serious than imagined—it was not the first time the attack occurred. The attack had already occurred more than a month ago. Yes. It's just that the victim was a cat, but the news was tightly sealed!"

"In order to reduce the impact and avoid being discovered and attacked by the outside world, this principal did not hesitate to fabricate a sensational lie-he pushed all this to the Hogwarts millennium legend, the Slytherin secret room."

"The funny thing is that he did something similar fifty years ago, when the principal was still a professor of transformation. During this time, a poor Ravenclaw witch died. Hogwarts was arrested for a while. The suspect stayed there, but Dumbledore had a huge influence on Armando Dippet, who was the principal at the time. Under his mediation, the matter was eventually settled, and the suspect was only expelled from the school."

"Three days before the author wrote this article, two weeks have passed since the second student attack, but the outside world knows nothing about it, and the murderer is still at large. We have to worry about this, the omnipotent Deng Blido, is it really old?"

"The author will follow up and report on this matter and give you the truth. In the next issue, we will start with the principal's work and reveal a more realistic 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 a preview of the next report, and it says:

Dumbledore has always dared to hire controversial faculty members, such as this year's Guidro Lockhart and Felix Hoop, but are these two really suitable? Let's wait and see (Welcome insiders to break the news, contact: Rita Skeeter, the gold medal editor of the Daily Prophet, author of twelve best-selling books, best-selling record holder).

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

"Rita Skeeter can't believe a word of this woman. She often fabricates celebrity gossip rumors." Ron said knowledgeably. "The news that she and Lockhart had a fight in the newspaper a few years ago made a special noise. My mother hates her very much."

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

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 Haipu. How would she arrange them?"

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

"I don't care about Lockhart, he is just a fake. You said, Professor Haipu will rush into the "Daily Prophet" building and give that woman a bat curse?"

"Ron! That's illegal, how could a professor do this!"

The three people discussed the matter, and the final results were relatively 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 fixed her eyes on Hermione.

Her face quickly turned pale, "Fifty years ago, was expelled... Is that suspect 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. They just walked out of the castle and ran into a burly figure head on. It was Hagrid. His face was covered with wind and snow, his thick beard was frozen with ice, and he was holding one in his hand. Only dead chicken.

"Hagrid, oh—" Harry hit him directly.

"Watch out! Little guys." Hagrid said gruffly, still waving a soft chicken in his hand, a few feathers flying in the air with his movements...

That evening.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione had just returned from the abandoned underground classroom, and everything went well with the compound decoction.

Harry took the magic scroll given by Professor Haipu with him, translating the language of Snakespeare word by word. In the empty abandoned classrooms, hoarse, gloomy and terrifying voices reverberate from time to time.

This made Ron, who was dozing off, never slept well-half asleep and half awake, he could always see a witch brewing a potion like mud, and a wizard hissed like a snake. "sound.

And in the earlier afternoon, they finally heard the secret room information from Hagrid.

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

"Almost everything is up!" Hermione said suddenly.

"what?"

"Monster in the secret room! Waiting for me—" Hermione obviously had perfect thinking. She hurried back to the bedroom, and soon took back a piece of parchment.

The three people got together and looked at the text above, it was about a kind of terrifying magical creature named "bassilisk".

After Harry and Ron finished reading the information, Hermione said one by one the clues collected these days, "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 of chickens... What did you think of?"

"So, the monster in the secret room is the basilisk?" Ron asked excitedly.

"You can't go wrong!" Harry hit the table with a punch.

There are two main news they got from Hagrid: one is that the chickens he raises always die inexplicably; the other is that he raised the eight-eyed giant spider fifty years ago, and the eight-eyed giant spider is very afraid of the monsters in the secret room. , Refused to disclose even a word.

can all match up!

"But the biggest problem is that the basilisk cannot be petrified. I initially ignored it because of this, but now, the side evidence is very sufficient." Hermione said very rigorously, "Maybe I It's time to ask Professor Haipu if there is any way to make the basilisk's gaze less damage..."

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

Harry swallowed sharply, "Hermione, I think I know."