Chapter 272： Who is the murderer?

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Snape looked at Lynn with a cold face. He was the one who protected the calf the most, and he protected the Slytherin students in every possible way.

"He cursed Mudblood," Lynn said blankly. "I was merciful if I didn't deduct points for Slytherin."

Snape had nothing to say, and Lynn was right. Just relying on Malfoy's curse, Linn couldn't be too much to curse him after deducting points.

But he still wanted to catch Lynn who didn't go to the Halloween dinner tonight, but he couldn't explain where he was going to let Lynn explain.

It wasn't that Snape and Lockhart had any grudges, but that he just saw all the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors not pleasing to his eyes.

"Okay, Severus." Dumbledore stopped Snape's questioning. "You all go back first. I will talk to Guidro alone."

Snape was a little unwilling, but Dumbledore’s authority lay here after all. He could only walk out of Lynn’s office with Professor McGonagall. Harry and the others also took a peek at Lynn and Dumbledore, and then together Left here.

Only Lynn and Dumbledore were left in the office, and Lynn didn't have to continue to pretend, he pulled a chair and sat across from Dumbledore.

"Did the basilisk do it?"

Dumbledore nodded: "This level of petrification can only be achieved by the eyes of the basilisk, but Finley did not die because of it, obviously because he did not look directly into the eyes of the basilisk, but What refraction passed."

Dumbledore easily analyzed how Finley was petrified.

"Why didn't you go to the Halloween party tonight?"

There is nothing to hide from Dumbledore Lynn.

"I changed back to my original identity and went to Nick's death dinner with Hermione and the others. I didn't expect something happened tonight."

Lynn did not expect this.

In the original book, the first attack by the basilisk indeed happened tonight, and the victim was Filch’s cat, Mrs. Lorris.

However, because the current situation has changed a lot from the original, he relaxed his vigilance, thinking that there will be no more accidents tonight.

Unexpectedly, the cat was not petrified, but a Hufflepuff student was recruited.

Dumbledore crossed his fingers on the table, rubbing his thumbs lightly.

"What was the purpose of attacking this student this time? What was the purpose of arrogantly claiming that the secret room was opened?"

Dumbledore’s question was critical, and Lynn thought about it, and he spoke after a while.

"There are two possibilities. The first possibility is that the person who controls the basilisk really wants to fulfill Slytherin's last wish and use the basilisk to clean Hogwarts. The second is his action this time. I still want to purely aim at me, and want to put the blame on me."

Dumbledore added another guess after listening to Lynn.

"It's also possible that this was just an accident. If you guessed these two possibilities, then he has no reason to keep Finley alive. Maybe when the basilisk is moving in the castle, Finley has discovered through some refraction. it."

Dumbledore's speculation is also reasonable, but it is useless for them to speculate on the cause of the basilisk attack. It must be found out in order to put an end to it.

"Professor, do you have any way to find signs of basilisk activity in the castle?"

Dumbledore nodded and said, "We are going to my office now. Maybe those portraits will have some clues."

They got up and left Lynn's office and walked towards Dumbledore's principal's office.

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"Who do you think is more like a murderer?"

On the way to the meeting room, Harry and the three of them were discussing what had just happened.

Hearing Harry’s question, Ron said without hesitation: "I think Malfoy is more like it. It is said that the secret room can only be opened by the descendants of Slytherin, and there is no pure-blood descendant in this world worse than Malfoy. He It's like a descendant of Slytherin."

Harry nodded in approval. He and Ron had the same views on this point. After all, the person who usually didn't deal with them most was Malfoy, and he suspected him right away for the first time.

Hermione shook her head solemnly.

"Malfoy is nothing like that. Think about his performance today. If Slytherin's heir is like this, then Salazar Slytherin might be able to pop out of the coffin angrily."

Harry and Ron both looked at her: "Then who do you think it is?"

"In contrast, Professor Lockhart is more suspicious."

Harry and Ron's eyes widened when they heard Hermione's words.

"He just helped us teach Malfoy!" Ron exclaimed.

Harry also followed in denial: "Professor Lockhart is of mixed blood. He cannot be a descendant of Slytherin."

Hermione calmly pointed out that their argument was not valid.

"Professor Lockhart just helped us teach Malfoy, but that doesn't mean anything. His anger may be disguised, because only in this way can he appear to hate discriminating against non-pureblood people and make him more suspicious. Small.

As for what Harry said, no one ever said that the offspring of Slytherin must be pure blood. There were so many pure-blood families, but most of them later chose to combine with Muggles in order to continue the offspring. The Slytherin family may not be One of them, so this cannot be evidence for Professor Lockhart to remove the suspicion.

And the most important thing is that when we arrived, according to Professor Lockhart himself, he was only half a minute ahead of us, but he was too calm, so calm that he had predicted that all this would happen. Same.

And in the office he couldn’t answer Snape’s question about where he went tonight Her analysis was justified, but Lynn just taught Malfoy’s behavior in Harry’s mind. They had a good opinion, so they didn't want to believe that the murderer was Professor Lockhart.

"We can verify it." Hermione groaned for a moment.

"Verify what?"

"Since you think the murderer is Malfoy, let's ask if it is him."

Harry and Ron looked at Hermione worriedly, as if wondering if her brain was broken.

"How could Malfoy tell us something like this?"

"Perhaps there is a way," Hermione said slowly, and hurriedly glanced around, lowering her voice lower. "Of course, it's not easy to do, and it's dangerous, very dangerous. We probably violated fifty. School rules."

Suddenly, Harry and the others seemed to know Hermione for the first time.