237 5 years, mistake, encounter
The next day, the library was almost crowded with students who came to borrow books. Lily, who came early, finally borrowed a copy of "Hogwarts: A School History". She couldn't help but pull Karan He and Snape walked to an empty table and sat down.
"We have to find out what the chamber is."
She said while flipping through the book quickly, her face looking a little haggard.
"I had a nightmare last night. In the dream, Mrs. Norris turned into Barian. I watched helplessly as she turned into that..."
Her tone gradually turned to uneasiness, but this uneasiness soon turned into dissatisfaction with Karan's appearance of not waking up.
"Then you took me away by force. I couldn't say anything to the professors!"
Rarely, Snape did not agree with Lily.
"Karan did the right thing."
While looking at "Hogwarts: A School History", he whispered to Lily: "It won't do any good for us to stay there. After all, only we know that we are innocent, and others may not think so. "
Lily looked around at the two of them, and finally sighed helplessly.
Unfortunately, after looking through the book, they could not find anything related to the secret room.
"I do know some legends."
After hesitating for a long time, Snape said cautiously: "It is said that the secret room was left by Slytherin. Only his true heir can open it and release the terrifying monsters inside to purify the school."
"Purge...all those unworthy of learning magic."
Snape stared at Lily nervously.
Lily understood what he meant immediately.
"You mean me?" she asked with wide eyes, "a Muggle-born like me?"
Snape suddenly became a little panicked. After looking around, he pointed at Kahlan.
"I...I'm talking about him!"
Lily slapped his fingers away angrily.
"Neither can he!"
She said angrily, and then whispered: "And you don't want to think about who among the three of us is really unworthy of learning magic."
In front of the two people who suddenly became silent, Karan yawned lazily.
Then he opened his mouth and said.
"Does any of you know what happened in the girls' bathroom on the second floor?"
The sudden words deepened the silence.
The two stared at him strangely.
There was even some suspicion and disgust in Lily's eyes.
"That's the girls' bathroom," she said, "but you're a boy."
Snape's guess was a little bolder.
"You actually went to the girls' bathroom secretly?"
"boom!"
The heavy book flew up without warning and hit Snape on the forehead.
Karan said angrily: "You should know what I am referring to."
"At least you should understand, Lily."
Lily stared at Karan suspiciously for a while, and finally she whispered: "I do know something... You must have seen that condensation, right?"
Karan nodded.
"No one knows what caused it." Lily continued: "It is said that the professors have tried to solve the condensation, but they have failed."
"Some people say this is because there are invisible ghosts there, which makes the bathrooms rarely used by students, and over time they become abandoned."
"But why are you asking about this?"
she asked finally, her eyes still suspicious.
"I'm just curious about this castle." Karan concealed it without changing his expression: "Just like the moving stairs, these were designed and manufactured by Ravenclaw himself. Who knows where they are? Are there any secrets hidden in the agglomerate?"
"Then you will be disappointed." Lily lowered her head, planning to read "Hogwarts: A School History" again to see if there was anything she had missed.
At the same time, she continued: "It is said that the condensation only appeared for a few years, and it certainly cannot be traced back to the founder's period."
"several years?"
Karan suddenly froze.
He originally thought that the time when this condensation appeared would be at least when Voldemort was in school, but he didn't expect that it would only be a few years ago.
"When exactly?" he asked suddenly.
Karan's strangeness attracted the attention of both of them at the same time.
"If you must know..."
Lily showed an incomprehensible expression. She glanced into the distance and spotted Frank Longbottom and his girlfriend Alice near another table.
After jogging to inquire, Lily came back with a thoughtful look on her face.
She seemed to understand why Karan suddenly asked this question.
"It was about five years ago or so," she said with a skeptical tone.
"It's about the same time that Professor Meadows will stop making mistakes."
(Chapter 228)
The two repeated what Professor Slughorn had said to Snape.
"Are you saying that after the so-called condensation appeared, Professor Meadows suddenly became good at performing magic?"
Snape frowned and asked, "But she was just a student at the time. How could she cause problems that even the professor couldn't solve?"
After a brief silence, Karan suddenly whispered.
"Perhaps that's because she didn't mean to do it."
"It was a mistake."
He suddenly thought of what Dean Sprout had said to him.
[Perhaps it is not limited to helping. Teachers in schools also have the obligation to correct mistakes for students. 】
(Chapter 86, and Chapter 205)
At this time, the sudden sound of words broke the silence between the three of them.
"This is the only place available, can we sit down?"
Although he was asking, the two people who suddenly appeared were already sitting next to Karan.
Steve and Gaspard each held a stack of thick books. Judging from the writing on the covers, they were about alchemy and magical animals. These were not contents that second-year students should study.
Karan was squeezed between the two, and Steve sat opposite Lily.
The first time she saw Steve, Lily subconsciously wanted to bend down and grab something, and then she realized that Barian was not here.
After Steve carefully looked around, he suddenly took out a handful of snacks from his backpack. He quickly stuffed a chocolate frog into his mouth. It seemed that this was not the first time he had eaten secretly in the library. Something.
"Want some?"
He said to Lily enthusiastically, and opened the backpack for her to take a look. Apart from snacks, there seemed to be nothing else in it.
Lily shook her head warily. The sugar-coated bullets had no effect on her at all. She would not let Barian fall into Steve's clutches.
Compared to the two of them, the atmosphere between Guspard and Snape, the other pair sitting opposite each other, was much colder and silent.
"Hello,"
Gaspard pushed up his glasses with his fingers. He seemed to have forgotten Snape's name, so he called him expressionlessly.
"Slytherin."
Snape's cheeks were twitching abnormally. He stared at Gaspard's lenses that seemed to flash with a layer of light, and felt that the other person's tone was a bit like Karan's mockery of him.
"big eater?"
"That's better than a trash can."