Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 196 Secret Base
But Slytherin himself, or the ideas of that era, are quite cruel.

Ted felt that many experiments were a bit too cruel just by looking at the experimental design.

If modern wizards knew this, they would beat him to death.

"These things are too dangerous. I will first screen them and pick out some that we can use. It's impossible to learn everything, and many things are no longer suitable."

The friends naturally supported Ted's decision. After all, many things on the bookshelf were so scary that people dared not read them after just flipping through two pages, and some of the contents were so nauseating just by the pictures described in the text.

This thing seems evil the more you look at it!
Hermione glanced around and whispered, "Are we going to leave these things here?"

"I'm worried that it won't be long before the professors seal the entrance."

Her worries were not unreasonable, but Ted felt that it was unlikely to be sealed, but it was impossible to enter at will like this.

Maybe Dumbledore will use this place as a temporary shelter or a retreat.

Over the past thousand years, the school has built countless secret rooms leading to the outside world. The more the better!

"I think we could use the Room of Requirement!"

"Room of Requirement?" Harry was surprised.

"Uh~" Ted glanced at Hermione, this secret could no longer be kept.

After talking about the Room of Requirement, Ted was blamed by his friends for a while.

Why didn't you tell us about this interesting place earlier? We stayed there from morning till night!

Ted: I'm just afraid that you guys will find out and make trouble in there every day! There's a crown in there. If you really touch it, you'll be in big trouble!

Ted used a contract magic, and the six of them signed a temporary magic contract together and swore to keep the door of Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets secret. They wanted to borrow the magical power of Hogwarts to create a secret base belonging to the six of them!

This time it’s a real secret base, not an abandoned classroom.

From now on, no one, not even the principal, can pry into your room.

After all, Ted got a lot of information from Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets, especially the many records in the diary about her building the school, so it was not difficult to borrow the school's magic.

In fact, even now, professors have ways to leverage the power of the school, such as organizing clubs, which is equivalent to holding a small amount of authority.

Ted simply bypassed their permissions and applied for a small permission through the back door.

From then on, just like the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets, only the six of them could enter this secret base with the Room of Requirement as the entrance.

"Okay, I think that's enough!" Ron complained weakly.

After "applying" for the base, the two girls started decorating the base. They were still not satisfied after more than an hour, which made Ron and the others exhausted!

Wouldn't it be enough to have a few bookshelves, tables, chairs, and sofas? Why are there sculptures, flowers, paintings, and porcelain vases... It's too much!

Ted has already selected some knowledge that is suitable for current learning and understanding and placed it on the bookshelf.

There are not only Slytherins, but also Ravenclaws.

There are two large bookshelves just containing information on ancient magic writing!
It would probably take a normal person a year or two just to read it through.

The elective course will be offered next year, so now is the perfect time to prepare for magic literature in advance.

There are also articles about the evolution of spells and some ancient spells that are not too extreme. You can learn a few of them when you have time.

Because it is completely different from the current magic system, it might have an unexpected effect. Of course, the difficulty is also extremely high.

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Everyone was excited about the secret base for a short day, until dinner time, when Hermione suddenly asked, "Did we forget about Gryffindor's treasure?"

The Gryffindor quartet then remembered: That's right! How could we have forgotten our own ancestor?
There are only a few days left until the holiday, so I guess there’s no chance of it this year.

Ron suggested: "What do you think? Can we apply to stay in school?"

Harry dispelled his wish: "Don't dream, students are not allowed to stay in school during the summer vacation." "But it's so boring to go home for the holidays!" Ron suddenly felt that it was better to be in school. He could eat chicken legs all day, and there was nothing interesting to do when he returned home, and he didn't have the company of his friends.

"I still hope to stay in school and study entertainment together. I have hardly learned anything this year..." he said.

Jerry patted Ron on the shoulder: "My mom said that after experiencing setbacks, people will become smarter...but they won't become richer."

Ron was quite happy at first, but finally rolled his eyes: "Thank you for reminding me! I will buy a wand as soon as I have a holiday."

"Should we at least use these few days to investigate Sir Cadogan?" Hermione suggested.

Ted pulled out a book, "I've looked it up... Sir Cadogan is said to be a knight from the time of Merlin. Legend has it that he was one of the Knights of the Round Table."

Everyone rushed to grab the book and started flipping through it.

After watching for a long time, I felt a little confused.

Harry threw the book away and complained, "Where can we find this character who is older than the school? We might as well go find Merlin if we can find him!"

It is probably something like a portrait or a sculpture. Gryffindor would not spread the clues all over the place, so it is likely that it is still in the school.

The next day, at breakfast time, students in the school received the Daily Prophet delivered by owl.

The headline on the front page was "Shocking! Changes at Hogwarts!"

Ted: Does this headline sound familiar?

I took a look and found that it was claiming to be the whole story of the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts.

However, many things are just hearsay, and the author tries to exaggerate the terrifying and tense atmosphere in the text. If you don't know, you might think it's a suspense thriller.

And although Dumbledore was not mentioned explicitly, the words between the lines vaguely imply that Dumbledore played a disgraceful role in the incident.

They also said that nearly ten students were petrified in the attack! Five can indeed be said to be nearly ten...

In the final summary, there were some sarcastic questions.

This pen looks like it came from the South.

Ted looked at the back and read, "Written by: Rita Skeeter, special correspondent for the Daily Prophet."

This woman is really good at gossiping!

After reading the newspapers, many young wizards felt that this year had been too hard and difficult.

Some of the smarter little wizards felt that something was wrong with the article, but they couldn't find any fault.

Ted was thinking, what on earth does this woman in the original book want to do who is always trying to ride on the popularity and make up stories and dares to say anything for the sake of popularity and sales?
This is Dumbledore!
He is not only the pinnacle of the British wizarding world, but also recognized by the entire wizarding world as the greatest white wizard in the world.

Although he has been very low-key in the past decade, his recognition is still there. Why would someone suddenly attack him?
The pure-blood faction represented by Lucius?
That's not right. Lucius should be very honest recently because of the diary issue. He will never offend Dumbledore. Even when he was kicked out of the school board, he accepted it without any objection.

Who could it be? Without someone motivated by profit, this woman would not take the initiative to kill Dumbledore.

It can be seen from the little wizards who are still in school that this article is still useful.

Although there are no real guns or knives, it is probably just the beginning.

But Ted didn't intend to care. It would be a good thing for Dumbledore to find something to do.

Although the discussion has been held and both sides have expressed their views, it is still uncomfortable to know that there are eyes staring at you all the time.

The holiday was coming soon, and Ted gave Hagrid a small gift - a moving basilisk figurine.

I hope he can forget the pain of spending several days in Azkaban.

Hagrid: Oh my god, look at it, it's so cute!
Ted: My dear, this is not a good thing to raise!

(End of this chapter)