Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 148 New Knowledge and the First Victim

"Mr. Longbottom! You can't stay in school! It's too dangerous, too dangerous!" A house-elf wearing a dirty pillowcase pulled the hem of Neville's robe hard, with tears as big as beans falling down.

"I'm safe! Let me go, I want to go back. Don't call Filch." Neville was so anxious.

I hadn't seen it for a few months and had completely forgotten about this damn house-elf.

It actually dared to chase me into the school!

"It's not safe, it's not safe!" Dobby refused to let go. His hands with slender fingers were surprisingly strong, and he tore off a piece of Neville's robe with a single swipe.

Neville and Dobby were silent for a few seconds. Then Neville ran, but Dobby appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye, almost tripping Neville.

"Let me go!"

"Mr. Longbottom, please leave this school. The monster, the monster has been released!"

"What monster?" Neville stopped struggling and asked curiously.

"Oh no, Dobby can't expose the master's conspiracy, Dobby is a bad elf!" As he said that, Dobby banged his head against the thousand-year-old stone brick wall of Hogwarts, as if he might be killed at any time.

"You, don't do this, don't do this." Neville was soft-hearted and hurried to persuade.

Dobby stopped banging his head against the wall and said with a touched look on his face: "Mr. Longbottom is really kind. Dobby, Dobby is so touched."

Neville: "Then can you tell me about the monster..." Dobby started banging his head against the wall again.

"Okay, okay, I won't ask anymore."

At this moment, a spell shot silently towards Dobby's back.

As a result, Dobby suddenly ducked his body, as if he had shortened his body, and narrowly avoided the curse.

"Ah!" he screamed, and disappeared on the spot with a "bang".

Then, he heard clanging sounds coming from the corridor not far away, as if ten blacksmiths were forging iron.

Oh no! This little thing didn't choose to run away immediately, but chose to make a big noise. Is he trying to force Neville to drop out of school in this way? Too naive!

"Disappear~" Ted appeared during the sneak attack just now, and now he cast invisibility on himself and Neville.

Sure enough, in less than a minute, Filch rushed over cursing.

"Peeves! If I catch you, you'll be in trouble~" Tactical retreat.

After returning to a safe place, the two finally had time to chat.

It turns out that Neville followed Jerry out. The good boy was persuaded to be dishonest.
But when they came back, Jerry went to the kitchen to get some cheese for a midnight snack, while Neville wanted to go back to the dormitory first.

It was only a matter of two corridors, but I didn't expect that the house-elf would catch us!
"He said his name is Dobby!" Neville looked at Ted anxiously, "Do you think he has been watching me before school started and at school, and suddenly showed up when I was alone?"

This is simply following a pervert!

"That's right!" Neville said seriously, "He also said something about a monster being released!"

Ted nodded. "I see. Now is not the time to talk about this. We'll discuss it tomorrow. You can go back first. Don't worry about Jerry. That kid is very smart. Filch can't catch him."

Ted didn't expect that he would fail to capture Dobby.

I didn't expect the house-elves to be so sensitive to magic that they actually managed to dodge it.

The body lowered, which was a movement that was totally unattainable by a creature of flesh and blood. The upper half of the person was about to squeeze into the lower half!
But it doesn't matter. Catching him will only allow us to control Lucius Malfoy.

After this accident, I guess he won’t dare to show up again.

Go back to sleep, and when you open your eyes the next morning, guess what? Hey, it’s December!
"Ding~ Talent [Otherworldly Knowledge (Gold)] is triggered, and [Soldier 76 Tactical Goggles Research and Development Manual (Green)] is discovered."

[Soldier 76 Tactical Goggles R&D Manual (Green)] records the R&D data of the new tactical goggles developed by the technology company. It costs 260 experience points to exchange.

Huh? How did this get skewed to the technology side?
Ted felt a little sad, it was only an opportunity once a month!
He originally wanted to ignore it, but then he changed his mind and decided that under the current circumstances, he might as well give it a try.

Although looking at the route, it seems that the knowledge about the other world was wrong this time.

But what he is most worried about now is the basilisk's deadly gaze. He even made protective glasses for it, but he is not sure how effective they are.

Although this knowledge is related to technology, it may be useful.

It doesn't cost much experience, just three or four days.
Ted savored the new knowledge in his mind and felt that it was very valuable for reference.

Especially the capabilities of "super aiming", "contour calculation" and "trace scanning".

But the technological side is so far away that it will take more than a day or two to learn from it.

Do we have to use alchemy to make chips, and then write codes in ancient magic words? Damn! However, just as Ted was about to go for morning exercise, he suddenly heard a scream.

Ted was startled. It was Hermione's voice!

He cast a spell on himself and ran over as fast as he could, already wearing his glasses whose effects he didn't know.

"Hermione, is that you?" Ted called out tentatively when he felt the presence of a mind as he turned the corner of the corridor.

"Ted, it's me, come and see!" Hermione shouted.

Ted walked around the corner and saw the reason for Hermione's scream - a little girl, now lying on the ground with a gray body, her movements stiff as a stone sculpture.

This is……

"It's Clara!" Hermione cried. "What's wrong with her?"

This is Hermione's roommate, Clara Twinkle, a dwarf student in her class.

Because there are not many students, basically each college has only one dormitory for each male and female student in each class.

Ted wasn't particularly familiar with the girls, but this petite girl, who was just over one meter tall, knew about it.

Clara is lively and quirky, and is very much loved by Professor Flitwick.

But the way she looks now, has she encountered a basilisk?

Ted noticed that Clara was wearing a pair of strange-shaped glasses with many magical components on them that he couldn't understand, but now they were destroyed.

Maybe that’s what saved her from a horrible death?

I met Neville in the castle yesterday, and someone was attacked this morning?! And it was in the Ravenclaw tower complex?!
"Hermione, when did you notice her like this?" Ted asked.

Hermione's face looked a little grim. "Clara often slacks off and wanders around nearby at night. She went out last night, but when I woke up in the morning I found that she hadn't come back at all. I was a little worried, so I came out to look for her..."

That is to say, it is possible from last night to this morning.

Doesn't that mean that Neville, the basilisk, and I might have been wandering around the castle at the same time last night? Shit!
Hermione's shout not only called Ted, but also several diligent Ravenclaws who got up early, and then they saw the dwarf girl Clara lying stiffly on the ground.

Soon, Professor Flitwick and the other professors arrived.

Dumbledore concluded that Clara was not dead, but was petrified, just like Mrs. Norris on Halloween.

People immediately thought of the line of words - secret room!
During breakfast, everyone already knew about this. The atmosphere suddenly became tense!
Before, it was just a cat that got into trouble, and everyone treated it as a topic of conversation after dinner.

But now it's real! Students are being attacked!
Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets! Purify the school! Many students began to feel uneasy.

"We can't wait any longer! We must hurry and make the Polyjuice Potion to get Malfoy to talk!" Her roommate was petrified, so Hermione decided to start making the Polyjuice Potion.

So in the abandoned classroom where Ted did his research, there was a crucible that burned forever.

The first day of December was so exciting that the little wizards said they couldn't stand it.

Now the students have no interest in class at all, they are all asking questions or making up stories about the Chamber of Secrets. Some little wizards have already started preparing amulets.

Ted still remembered that he had promised the twins and Ron that they would get rich together, so he came up with a plan for them to make their own magic amulets and sell them to the little wizards.

Although their craftsmanship was crude, the amulet was at least somewhat useful. It was better than a salamander tail, an onion, or something like that, right?

With the deans' strenuous reassurances, the first week passed without any strange incidents.

Starting from the second week, Professor McGonagall and her colleagues began to collect a list of students who would stay in school for Christmas as they did in previous years.

This time, Harry, Neville, Ron, Jerry and Hermione all signed the list, and Ted would naturally stay as well.

I don't know where Harry heard it from, but she knew that Malfoy was planning to stay over the holidays as well.

Everyone found this very suspicious!
Hermione calculated the time and thought that the Christmas holiday would be just the right time to use Polyjuice Potion to get the truth out of Malfoy.

The problem is that the two most important ingredients in the polyjuice potion are not yet available.

The horns of bicorns and the skins of boomslangs are materials that are strictly controlled by the Ministry of Magic. They can either be purchased through formal channels or on the black market.

Naturally, they were targeting Snape's private storage room.

Naturally, Harry and Jerry would be asked to steal the herbs from Snape.

Jerry has good talent, and Harley can take the blame.

(End of this chapter)