Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 156: Another Victim and Diary Appear
The days after the new year were relatively peaceful. Hermione's cat ears were also healed by Madam Pomfrey, which was quite a pity.
At the beginning, the friends were still searching for the secret room, but children are inevitably short-lived and gradually forgot about it after no progress for half a month.

Apart from Hermione who visited her roommate Clara in the school hospital every now and then, it was Neville who would talk about the growth of the mandrakes in the greenhouse.

Ted and his friends have repotted the mandrake three times this semester, and each time it was a complete mess.

With the help of the horned boy Guff, Neville cultivated the first batch of magic seeds. But after planting them, he didn't know whether the final effect would reach the effect recorded in the manual.

Breeding new magical plants is also a long process. Even because the mutations of plants are not that drastic, it often takes several generations of improvement and several years.

This is also the reason why Ted never thought of working on magical plants himself. He didn't have the energy, so he might as well study how to strengthen magical animals. This thing works instantly!

Anyway, Anzu's "evolution" was very successful...

On January 1, when the students were returning to their dormitories after dinner, a shocking news suddenly came - someone was murdered again!
And this time it’s not one, but two!
Hufflepuff's resident ghost, the Fat Friar, and Hufflepuff student Justin Finch-Fletchley were petrified in the basement near the kitchen.

Justin and Ted are in the same class. Although they are not very outstanding, they are sincere people.

Ted still remembered that he had a duel with himself in the Dueling Club. Although he lost in a few moves, he was not angry at all. Instead, he said that he admired Ted very much.

Now he was as stiff as a stone statue, lying in the corridor.

And falling with him was the ghostly fat monk.

It is said that since it is already a ghost, it cannot be killed a second time.

But his current state is really weird, still without substance, but stiff and motionless, with a faint black aura emanating from his body, which looks very ominous.

If the last time Clara was tricked, it only scared the little wizards, then this time it really terrified them.

Because this shows that the last time Clara was attacked was not an accident, the Chamber of Secrets is real, and the heir's cleansing of Hogwarts is also likely true - Justin is a Muggle-born.

Moreover, what method could petrify ghosts as well? !
At this time, people remembered Neville's Parseltongue again.

They were having dinner in the auditorium now, and Ted and his friends were the only ones within three meters of Neville.

Everyone looked at Neville as if they had seen a ghost, avoiding him and pointing and whispering behind his back.

Fortunately, Neville's mentality is much more stable than the original Harry, and he has more friends.

The other five people, including Ted, the Weasley twins, Ginny and Luna did not care about other people's eyes and often talked to Neville.

Although Neville has been under tremendous pressure since childhood, which has made him mentally tough, he cannot really remain calm about the gossip behind his back, and he still feels depressed.

One day, he went to the bathroom, washed his hands and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a faint whisper.

"Come here! Come here ~ Come to me ~" It seemed like someone was calling him.

Neville walked to the innermost part of the bathroom curiously and saw an old diary on the windowsill.

The leather cover is quite worn and looks quite old.

Neville didn't know why, but he felt that this diary was very familiar to him and couldn't help but pick it up and read it carefully.

"Tom Riddle..." He saw the signature on the diary, but when he opened it, there was nothing inside. When he turned to the end, he saw the address of a Muggle bookstore.

"Is it a little wizard from a Muggle family?"

Neville thought for a moment, "No, no, no, judging from the appearance of this diary, it must be from a long time ago. The owner of the diary might be very old now. How did it get here? Who left it here?"

With his affection and trust for the young wizard from a Muggle family, Neville took the diary and brought it back to his dormitory.

When we returned to the dormitory, there was no one there. Ron and Jerry went to the kitchen to help (to get some free food and drinks).

The other two, Dean and Seamus, were so afraid of Naveen that they would not come back until the lights were turned off and the dormitory was sealed every night.

Neville even thought that they might have to apply for a new dormitory next semester.

"Oh~" He sighed when he thought of this.

Feeling depressed, Neville opened his diary, took out a quill and started writing his homework.

As a result, less than one page of the paper disappeared! It was as if the ink on the notebook had seeped into the book!
Neville: My homework! Just as Neville was surprised, new words appeared in the diary: This paper has just been written, and it is full of loopholes...

Then the mistakes in Neville's hundreds of words were displayed.

"Who are you?" Neville asked. But the diary did not move.

"Oh oh oh!" Neville picked up the pen and started writing: Who are you?
Journal: I am a memory of Tom Riddle.

Tom Riddle?
Yes, if I'm not mistaken, it has been almost fifty years since I went to school.

Neville was stunned. Fifty years!
Although he guessed that the original owner of the diary might be very old, he did not expect that it was a diary from fifty years ago.

Next, the two pen pals began chatting.

Senior Tom is eloquent and considerate. On the one hand, he advises Neville not to be burdened by the false reputation of the Boy-Who-Lived, and on the other hand, he tells him that there will always be misunderstandings in life and he should not care too much about other people's opinions.

He also helped Neville finish his Potions homework. When it came to Defense Against the Dark Arts homework, senior Tom was silent for a moment: What kind of thing did your current Defense Against the Dark Arts professor leave behind? !

Soon, senior Tom gained the trust of Neville, who had not experienced much intrigue.

He began to guide Neville to talk about his troubles, his experiences, and by the way, talk about the current situation of the school...

Neville was having a very happy chat, and it felt like he was chatting with Ted.

He had been very busy recently because of the cultivation of magical plants and the second victim of the Chamber of Secrets, and he had not communicated with Ted much.

I have been feeling depressed for a long time.

Suddenly, Neville remembered the Chamber of Secrets.

According to Malfoy, the Chamber of Secrets was opened once fifty years ago and killed someone.

Did Senior Tom experience this period of history?
He quickly asked in his diary: Senior, do you know Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets?
After several seconds, the words appeared: Chamber of Secrets? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?

you know?
Oh, yes, a very bad memory. Someone even died because of it! Now you ask me, could someone open Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets again?
Neville became excited when he saw this: Senior Tom really knew it!

Do you know who the Heir of Slytherin is?

This...I do know.

Tell me, senior, we have to stop him!

Well, if you insist, don't resist, I will show you my memories...

Neville felt dizzy and as if he had fallen into a diary.

Then, in a ghost-like state without substance, which no one could touch, see or hear, he followed the young and handsome senior Tom and cracked an illegal pet breeding case on the Hogwarts campus!
He also knew who the student who died fifty years ago was. It was the ghost called Moaning Myrtle!
After an unknown amount of time, he regained consciousness and sat at the table in a trance.

He was breathing heavily and was caught in a very difficult inner struggle.

Hagrid is actually the heir of Slytherin!
He raised a monster that killed his students, so he was expelled!

How could it be Hagrid?!
Impossible, impossible!

But, but this is what I saw with my own eyes.

what to do? what do I do?
The first thing he thought of was to contact Ted.

But the note had already been written, and when he was about to cast a spell to turn it into a paper crane, he suddenly stopped.

What if Hagrid really is the heir?
Should I report him myself?
What would Ted do if he knew? Would he tell on Hagrid?

Neville's pupils dilated and his forehead was covered with sweat. He was in a dilemma.

At this moment, the sound of Jerry and Ron talking and laughing suddenly came from outside the door.

Neville panicked and quickly put away the diary...

(End of this chapter)