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Hagrid then realized what was happening and quickly avoided the direction of the cross, circling around to Dolly's side, asking, "Are you alright? Is she alright?"

"Merlin's socks! I almost died of fright when I heard the house-elves talking about them!"

"I was almost scared to death too."

Dolly sighed and replied that she should have known long ago that she couldn't completely trust Dumbledore.

Even though Dumbledore was confident that he had the whole situation under control, in reality, as Dumbledore aged, there were more and more things that he could no longer control.

Especially now, the Ministry of Magic outside of Hogwarts doesn't like Dumbledore.

If Dumbledore has no intention of changing this situation, then he will have even fewer allies.

So Dolly decided that she would still need to build her own team.

Only when you have your own team can you truly feel at ease.

Instead of relying on others as we do today, only to end up having to fight tooth and nail ourselves.

Dolly briefly explained the situation to Hagrid, and Dobby arrived shortly afterward.

He cried and knelt beside Dolly, terrified that she might be even slightly injured.

Dolly comforted Dobby and had him take her and Luna back to Madam Pomfrey's school hospital. Then she revealed the information she had obtained from her conversation with Voldemort.

Sure enough, Hogwarts descended into chaos once again.

The fact that Voldemort was going to poison the waterways, in particular, terrified the Hogwarts professors.

However, as it turns out, Peter Pettigrew didn't have time to do it.

Voldemort thought he had Dolly figured out before revealing this information, but in the end, Voldemort lost.

Dolly won, so Peter Pettigrew won't have a chance to poison her anymore.

After learning of Voldemort's insane plan, Snape and Professor Hagrid also intervened.

Newt brought a whole host of magical creatures and began to hunt down Peter Pettigrew in the Hogwarts waterways.

There's no need to worry about the safety of these tiny, amazing creatures.

Because while inside the waterway, Peter Pettigrew also had to maintain his rat form.

Once Peter Pettigrew reaches the point where he can transform into a human and use a wand, Newt's magical creatures will stop their pursuit and begin alerting the wizards.

What awaits Peter Pettigrew is the combined strangulation by Snape, McGonagall, and other professors.

In the end, it was Snape's Freezing Curse that subdued Peter Pettigrew, right at the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets.

Peter Pettigrew wanted to join the Basilisk, and he learned some Parseltongue from Voldemort.

Although he doesn't speak Parsleyan, as long as his pronunciation is completely correct, he can control the Basilisk to some extent.

In the original story, Ron was able to open the Chamber of Secrets, find the Basilisk's fangs, and destroy the Horcruxes again because he remembered Harry's pronunciation.

Meanwhile, Harry's battle within the secret chamber was nearing its end.

The basilisk was indeed powerful, but Dumbledore had already sent Fawkes the Phoenix to peck out its eyes.

Although the basilisk without its eyes is still a huge creature, it no longer possesses the ability to kill.

So Harry, Ron, and Neville fought the basilisk, and finally Harry pulled the Gryffindor sword from the Sorting Hat and severed the basilisk's head with one strike.

With this, the crisis in the locked room was officially declared over.

At this moment, Lockhart, who was originally intended to be the bait and the one being rescued, finally revealed his true colors.

He told Harry and the others that he planned to use the Oblivion Charm on them, and then write about this adventure as if it were a past event, and publish it as his own novel.

Unfortunately, when he was about to make his move, the heads of the four houses of Hogwarts were already standing behind him.

And so, under the silent gazes of Harry, Ron, and Neville, Lockhart was struck down by the spells of the four professors and rendered indescribably disabled.

Fortunately, Lockhart did not lose his memory like in the original story; he was only injured and could be cured at St. Mungo's Hospital.

Unfortunately, he must confess to all his crimes, and the wizards he harmed will also learn the truth and receive their share of Lockhart's estate.

Soon, the professors, Harry's trio, and Lockhart arrived on the ground.

It was only then that they learned what had happened in the Forbidden Forest.

All the professors broke out in a cold sweat. Snape glared at Dumbledore, who had just returned, as if to ask: Didn't you say it was foolproof?

Dumbledore, unusually, did not have a joking expression.

He hadn't expected that Peter Pettigrew and Voldemort would split up.

In particular, if the eight-eyed giant spider were to actually attack Hogwarts, even if no one was injured or killed, the incident itself would have a huge negative impact.

It's important to know that the eight-eyed giant spider was kept by Hagrid, and Hogwarts' turning a blind eye to it was tantamount to tacit approval. As a result, the magical creature he kept turned against the students, so his job as headmaster was over.

Dolly, in particular, actually faced Voldemort in his physical form, even though it was just a wisp of the young Voldemort's soul, its strength still surpassed that of most wizards.

"Is she okay?"

"Is my sister alright?!"

Harry, disregarding his broken arm, anxiously inquired about his sister's condition.

Hagrid quickly reassured Harry, saying, "Your sister is fine. She's just a little tired and not hurt."

"Luna is fine, but she was affected by dark magic and may need to rest for a month or two."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, then his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Ron and Neville weren't much better off. The three of them divided the work of making noise to attract the basilisk's attention, and it could be said that they were all affected by the basilisk to some extent, with each of them suffering from fractures.

The only saving grace is that all of this was finally resolved without any fatalities.

"Let's send them all to the school hospital."

Dumbledore finally spoke. No matter how humiliating the victory, he had won nonetheless.

"Next, we need to figure out what to do with Peter Pettigrew."

"Then of course we should hand him over to the Ministry of Magic..."

Professor McGonagall cautioned, "Such a criminal must be severely punished; he faces life imprisonment in Azkaban..."

“Don’t joke around, McGonagall. Azkaban is like home to them. We absolutely cannot hand him over!”

Snape said those words with tears in his eyes.

Peter Pettigrew was one of the main culprits in Lily's death, and Snape was a man seeking revenge. How could he allow him to continue living?

"Then we can't resort to vigilante justice, Snape!"

Professor McGonagall stood her ground, saying, "This is a matter of principle and bottom line!"

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Chapter 218, Part 7+8: Luna's Discovery.

Snape wanted to argue further, but Professors Flitwick and Spudela sided with Professor McGonagall without hesitation.

He even subtly protected Peter Pettigrew to prevent Snape from secretly harming him, which led to Snape's own demise.

Snape's hand, gripping his wand, bulged with veins. In the end, he could only use Occlumency to restore his emotions to normal.

“In that case, I’ll leave this matter to you, Professor McGonagall.”

McGonagall nodded and accepted the job.

As the vice principal, she was obligated to do so.

However, McGonagall did not actually disagree with Snape's idea. She knew that once Peter Pettigrew was handed over, there was a high probability that he would one day follow Voldemort again.

But what can be done?

They cannot bear the responsibility of violating the law.

Soon, officials from the Ministry of Magic arrived.

To the surprise of the Hogwarts professors, only three Aurors arrived, and they didn't even find a single decent official.

This gave the professors a rather bad feeling, but since the Ministry of Magic had already taken over Peter Pettigrew and Lockhart, they naturally had no choice but to hand them over.

After the Aurors left, the professors finally felt relieved and began to clean up the mess at Hogwarts.

Clearly, it will take some time for Hogwarts to return to normal order.

As for the students affected by this chaos, it will take them longer to return to their normal lives and studies.

"You guessed what was going to happen, didn't you?"

Snape stared at Dumbledore and said, "Just like Sirius back then."

"I don't quite understand what you're talking about."

Dumbledore didn't want to answer the question, but Snape didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Sirius's life or death was none of Snape's business; he wouldn't have cared at all if Sirius had died in Azkaban.

But it's a different story when it comes to Peter Pettigrew.

Peter Pettigrew was an enemy Snape had to kill as soon as possible, and the direct murderer of Lily. Snape could not accept not killing such a person or even letting him reappear later.

The reason Snape now suspects Dumbledore is ultimately because Sirius's fate back then was too suspicious.

What exactly happened back then?

After learning that James and Lily's son Harry Potter had become the target of the Dark Lord Voldemort, Dumbledore suggested that James use the Faithful Charm to hide.

This spell requires a designated person to keep the secret. The soul of the person keeping the secret will be bound to the spellcaster's secret. As long as the person keeping the secret does not reveal it themselves, the secret will remain unknown even after their death.

If this secret is a location, then that location will be invisible and undetectable.

James Potter originally intended to appoint Sirius Black as the Keeper of Secrets, a decision that Dumbledore agreed to.

However, before the incident, Sirius Black persuaded James to change his mind and appoint Peter Pettigrew as the secret agent, because Peter appeared to be the most timid and cowardly among their friends, and Voldemort would not target him.

The problem lies here: Peter Pettigrew had long been Voldemort's spy, and this last-minute change in the plan led to the tragic deaths of James and Lily.

Meanwhile, all the members of the Order of the Phoenix knew that James had appointed Sirius Black as the Secret Agent. Given how things had developed, Sirius Black naturally wanted to settle scores with Peter to prove his innocence and, incidentally, avenge his friend.

But when Sirius, in his rage, found Peter, he hadn't expected to step into a trap that had been laid long ago. Peter quickly used an ancient explosive spell to kill many Muggles around him.