Chapter 382 Is Suspicion Correct?

In fact, not only Boggarts, but other magical creatures are also unfamiliar to the students.

The prototypes of these golems are actually very weak little monsters, and Hogwarts students should learn how to deal with them in their second year.

But because of Lockhart, the students wasted more than half a year performing the play. Professor Abigail, who took over later, assumed that everyone had already learned it and did not pay attention to this aspect of knowledge.

It is true that students have read about it in books and professors have talked about it in class, but this is different from whether they have the ability to cope with real dangers.

Almost most of the people were extremely distressed at the beginning and screamed repeatedly, making Professor McGonagall's face look ugly.

But after a few minutes, the fighting ability honed in the maze challenge and the adaptability gained from being beaten by Professor Abigail finally gradually emerged.

Later, some smart students thought of a way to join up with their friends. After gathering in twos and threes, they finally defeated the first monster.

Professor Snape also hurried over at this time, with a strong smell of potion on his body.

He stood silently behind several professors and saw at a glance in the mirror, Draco Malfoy used a disarming spell to knock the red hat away. The action was decisive and the spell was very successful.

Professor Snape raised his lips and showed a satisfied smile. He looked around and said in a deliberately reluctant tone: "Well, Malfoy's spell is not bad. How are the Ravenclaw students doing?"

Everyone: "..."

Professor McGonagall lowered her head and looked at each other with Professor Flitwick. The two of them laughed and said, "Well, indeed... the performance is getting better and better."

Their attitude was a bit strange, but Snape took it as if they couldn't stand his show off and didn't take it seriously. He just folded his arms and watched quietly.

In fact, compared with Ravenclaw, Slytherin students did perform better at this time, and the battle ended faster.

Finally, the last demon doll was defeated, but the students in the venue did not know this. They still maintained a high degree of alert. The slightest movement of the curtain would make people suddenly alert.

Suddenly, all the curtains in front of them were closed, and many students saw other students nearby and several professors at the front of the classroom.

Seeing that their dean was there, the Ravenclaws greeted them cordially, and Professor Flitwick smiled and nodded.

The Slytherins were different. When they saw Professor Snape, their faces all turned pale, and they tried their best to recall what they had done before.

The painful past of Slytherin being severely mocked and reprimanded by his dean because of his poor performance in the maze, and he was given a lot of extra homework is still vivid in his mind.

The strange thing is that this time Professor Snape looked at them with gentle eyes, and for the first time, there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth.

The little snakes suddenly became even more panicked.

Only Draco Malfoy, whose eyes kept darting around the classroom and even looked up at the roof, seemed to suspect that his parents were hiding on the ceiling.

"Vade!"

Professor Abigail nodded at Vader. Vader magnified a flow mirror until it completely covered the blackboard. With a wave of his hand, images began to appear on the mirror.

Professor Abigail ignored the three deans next to him and began to comment on the students' performance one by one.

"But, how to deal with Kabbah? You have obviously seen him in the corridor. Why is your first reaction when you encounter him is to run away?"

"Goldstein, the red hat will sneak up on passers-by with a club in the dark night, but it only takes a simple spell to banish it..."

"The appearance of Xinkpunk is fragile and harmless. The most important thing is not to be deceived by it. Parkinson, do you regard Xinkpunk as your companion? Why are you so unwary?"

"Malfoy——"

Professor Abigail was about to criticize Draco Malfoy for being scared away by Boggarts several times, when she suddenly remembered the "funny" spell that she had never said before, and swallowed what she was about to say.

"Hmm... It's a good idea to temporarily repel the red hat with a disarming spell, but subsequent attacks didn't keep up..."

Malfoy's nervous expression softened slightly. At this time, he also understood that the "parents" he had seen before were actually Boggarts.

He is not a Mudblood, and his mother is not dead. Everything is still as he is used to.

This made Malfoy feel like he was saved. Even if he was criticized by the professor, he felt very relaxed.

Pansy, who was beside him, saw Professor Snape's face getting darker and darker, and his head getting lower and lower.

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The video that Wade had cut was taken away by Professor McGonagall. After a while, the school began to transform the Basilisk Chamber.

This is much easier for a wizard than it is for a Muggle to build a house.

It doesn't matter if the pipe is too narrow, the Seamless Stretching Charm can easily widen the pipe several times.

Building materials were sent into the secret room below using levitation spells, and specialists sent by the Ministry of Magic designed the routes for various pipes.

The construction work was completely handed over to the students, with the sixth and fourth graders being the main force. The fifth and seventh graders only participated occasionally because they had to prepare for exams.

Those in third grade and below are also very enthusiastic about participating. For them, this is much more interesting than attending classes and writing papers.

However, the magical abilities of most lower-level students only add to the confusion and do not help much. The first-year students have to worry about hitting the wall even when transporting materials on broomsticks.

But the school did not exclude these students. Professor Sprout led the students to transplant a group of relatively safe plants into the secret room, make magic torches, arrange some simple decorations, etc.

Interestingly, various tasks were never assigned to students of a certain college alone, but all colleges participated, so quarrels would be heard from time to time when working.

There were several serious injuries in the secret room, and Mrs. Pomfrey was very angry, but Dumbledore did not separate the students because of this.

"Didn't you notice, Poppy?" Dumbledore said: "Compared with the beginning of the maze challenge, the number of students injured now is much less."

"But the degree of injury is also more serious!" Mrs. Pomfrey said seriously.

"This is because their magic level is stronger than before."

Dumbledore smiled with a complicated expression: "I used to think that maintaining competition between colleges is more conducive to promoting student growth, but they taught me that cooperation is actually more effective."

Mrs. Pomfrey was stunned: "-they?"

Dumbledore did not intend to continue to explain.

Sometimes he would also participate in the transformation of the Chamber of Secrets, and occasionally he would see Wade instructing Colin Creevey and Rolf Scamander to record these precious pictures.

Both of them were photography enthusiasts and had rich shooting experience, so Wade gave them two master lenses to operate.

But Colin always couldn't help but point the lens at Harry Potter, and Rolf often unconsciously mixed into the Ravenclaw team, which made Wade correct him several times.

Sometimes, Dumbledore would see Abigail discussing the transformation plan with the designer of the Ministry of Magic. She wanted this Chamber of Secrets to imitate various environments - jungle, grassland, desert, city, and countryside.

The designer shook his head vigorously, saying that it was impossible - the expansion space approved by the Ministry of Magic was limited, how could it be so complicated?

So Abigail made a compromise and only required the environment to be complex enough, with sufficient opportunities for hiding or sneaking, and various traps.

After rejecting an outrageous suggestion, the designer felt that this suggestion was much easier, and the two happily reached a consensus.

Abigail put a lot of effort into the renovation of the Chamber of Secrets. She was the only professor who would come here whenever she had time, and every detail had to be perfect.

Of course, the words she said would often make the students nearby pale, imagining how they would defend themselves if they were to encounter such a sudden attack.

Abigail also asked to add more dangerous puppets here - vampires, werewolves, poisonous horned beasts, five-legged monsters, eight-eyed giant spiders, corpses, etc.

This time, Wade's production speed was much slower, and it basically took about a week to make one.

And, it was also Abigail's suggestion to let all students participate in this construction, disrupt the arrangement of different colleges, especially to ensure that there was at least one Slytherin in most groups.

"I know that most students hate Slytherin. These brats are indeed sinister, and quite a few of them have mastered the dark arts."

"But Professor Dumbledore, didn't you notice that when students were bullied by Slytherin, they were also bullying Slytherin in a subtle way; they were excluded by Slytherin because other colleges were also excluding Slytherin."

Professor Abigail said seriously: "And you, Professor Dumbledore, your attitude is definitely one of the very important reasons."

"There are only a few hundred students in this school, but there are always a quarter of the students who are isolated and are enemies rather than partners with others. What a big gap this is for Hogwarts!"

"If a student is regarded as a reserve of Death Eaters just because he is sorted into Slytherin by the Sorting Hat, and is subjected to some inexplicable disgust and accusations, then perhaps his only way in the future is to really become a Death Eater."

"Is this what you want to see, Professor Dumbledore?"

Dumbledore was speechless.

He couldn't say how much effort he put into this - because he really didn't like Slytherin.

Because of Voldemort, because of their admiration and yearning for pure blood, and because most of the Death Eaters were indeed from Slytherin.

In the end, Dumbledore acquiesced to Abigail's leading this event and supported her decision throughout.

Bloodshed and conflict are inevitable, but he did see that students generally began to try to understand and tolerate each other.

Privately, Dumbledore said to Wade: "Sometimes I even doubt my judgment - are our suspicions about Professor Abigail correct? She seems upright and conscientious."

Wade only said: "The vampire puppet is ready, and I made it very strong."

One update tonight.