Chapter 577： Tom doesn't know

Chapter 577 What Tom doesn’t know

“Albus, why are you here?”

Professor McGonagall asked subconsciously after seeing Dumbledore.

"I just came downstairs to get a cup of hot chocolate. What happened here?" Dumbledore asked. He noticed the change in the expression on Professor McGonagall's face at a glance.

"I heard a strange sound... By the way, I just found Mr. Creevey. He is most likely... petrified." When Professor McGonagall was talking to Dumbledore, he raised his head and looked towards the end of the corridor, as if There's something over there.

"What did you find?" Dumbledore followed Professor McGonagall's gaze.

"I think that sound just now... was most likely made by the guy who attacked Mr. Creevey and Argus's cat." Professor McGonagall hesitated for a moment and expressed his opinion on the matter. "That sound was not caused by walking." The sound was like something dragging on the ground."

 “Go over and have a look…”

Dumbledore pulled out his wand and walked forward quickly, followed immediately by Professor McGonagall. When they walked through the corridor and stood at the corner, there was dead silence and no strange sounds.

 “Hidden?”

Professor McGonagall listened carefully and lowered her voice and said, "But how did he do it? Is it a secret passage?"

"Okay, calm down Minerva." Dumbledore looked at the deep darkness at the end of the corridor and said calmly, "Since the attacker has run away, I think we'd better send Mr. Creevey to school first. Hospital, where is he?”

 “On the stairs over there.”

Professor McGonagall took a deep breath and followed Dumbledore towards the stairs. The two soon found the petrified boy.

Dumbledore knelt down and checked the boy's condition. After discovering that he was only petrified, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. "He was petrified. We sent him to the school hospital."

With that said, Dumbledore stretched out his hands to lift Colin's shoulders, and Professor McGonagall also cooperated to lift Colin's feet. The two of them, one after the other, slowly lifted Colin's body up the stairs and towards the distance. I passed the school hospital not far from here.

 On the other side of the castle, Tom Riddle has successfully recalled the basilisk.

 The appearance of Professor McGonagall was a bit unexpected.

 Fortunately, the other party did not catch up at the first time, otherwise there would really be an accident.

After all, as the transfiguration professor of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall’s ability cannot be underestimated. Once the basilisk fails to kill it at the first time or is petrified, it will trigger a series of chain problems.

 The aftermath of the battle will most likely wake up all the students in the school, not to mention that Dumbledore is nearby.

Tom Riddle doesn’t want to be exposed just yet.

However, the situation is going well.

The basilisk returned to the secret room, and the two men behind him chased after it, but it was already too late.

 Only a Parseltongue can open the secret room.

 After Dumbledore and McGonagall lost the basilisk, they immediately gave up looking for him and went to the school hospital together.

Tom Riddle has controlled Ginny Weasley towards the Room of Requirement, where he plans to let Ginny Weasley stay one night.

After all, returning to the Gryffindor common room in the middle of the night is suspicious no matter how you look at it, and the portrait on the doorkeeper will definitely arouse suspicion.

 As for why you didn’t return home all night?

Tom had already made preparations. Before leaving, he cast a spell on several of Ginny Weasley's roommates so that they could sleep until dawn without worrying about waking up in the middle of the night and finding that Ginny was not in the dormitory.

 Confirmed again and again that Dumbledore and McGonagall had gone to the campus hospital, and that Tom Riddle had reached the eighth floor through the secret passage and was standing in front of the Room of Requirement.

 “Dumbledore is still as annoying as ever.”

Tom stared at Dumbledore's footprints on the map, and the expression on his face became more and more ferocious, "But you can't stop me, not fifty years ago, and you can't now."

 After saying that, Tom closed the diary and prepared to enter the Room of Requirement. Suddenly he felt as if someone was staring at him.

He turned his head suddenly and looked around, but found no one else. The silence and darkness were thick and terrifying.

Tom opened the Room of Requirement and when he opened the door and was about to go in, he suddenly noticed a magical light coming from behind.

Before Tom could react, a magic hit Ginny Weasley from behind, causing her to stagger forward two steps and fall to the ground.

 Who on earth attacked me?

Tom clearly used the human trace spell to make sure there was no one else around.

How did the other party hide it...

Even though Tom tried his best to resist the coma spell, he still lost control of Ginny Weasley's body, and he didn't know who attacked him until the end.

After Ginny Weasley was knocked down by the coma spell, Albert emerged from the void without warning, walked into the Room of Requirement, and closed the door smoothly.

 “The situation went smoother than expected.”

Albert raised his foot and pushed the wand away from Ginny Weasley's hand, and took out the box sent to him by Nico Flamel from the deformed lizard skin bag. He began to put on dragonhide gloves before taking Tom Riddle's diary from Ginny's hand and putting it into the box.

 “In this case, I’ll see how you can cause trouble for me.”

 Albert hummed happily, preparing to prepare this diary another day. He waved his wand and cast the Disillusionment Charm on Ginny Weasley, temporarily transporting her out of the Room of Requirement.

 Then, Albert will be returned to the **** dump in the Room of Requirement with the box containing Tom Riddle's diary.

 It’s actually a bit funny to say it.

At first, Albert designed Dumbledore to take away Voldemort's crown Horcrux, and now he personally hid Voldemort's diary Horcrux here.

 He needs to buy himself enough time to make complete preparations and prepare Tom Riddle's diary.

Albert is convinced that as long as it is controlled properly, Tom's Horcrux will be a hen that lays golden eggs, which can provide him with sufficient task experience and rewards, and can also minimize risks, which is even better than last semester's Tool Man. Luo is easy to use.

Well, it can also reduce the impact of the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets on Hogwarts.

 I am indeed a good person.

After leaving the Room of Requirement, Albert immediately rushed back to the Gryffindor common room with Ginny Weasley.

 The Fat Lady still hasn’t come back, but someone has helped him open the entrance to the common room.

After Albert walked into the Gryffindor common room, the familiar voice suddenly sounded, "It's time for you to go, you'd better go to the bathroom, the second to last one.

 “What should she do?”

 “I’ll take care of it,” the voice said calmly.

"Excuse me." Albert walked upstairs. When he disappeared at the end of the stairs, another Albert appeared out of thin air, looked at the unconscious Ginny Weasley, and murmured: "You should Thank me properly.”

 (End of this chapter)