Chapter 314: Agent Mikel
Chapter 314 Agent Mikel
The Christmas vacation ended quickly. The students took trains and returned to Hogwarts. The originally quiet castle became noisy again.
After the holidays, the fear caused by the attack seemed to have eased a lot. Everyone was talking and laughing on the surface, unlike before leaving school, which was as panic-stricken as before.
Perhaps from their perspective, the professors had already solved the monster in the secret room during the vacation.
At least that's what Lockhart said.
This professor was the first to leave the school. He even left earlier than the students. He left in a hurry after the last Defense Against the Dark Arts class and did not even attend the final dinner.
I don’t know what he experienced during the vacation, or what gossip he heard. When he came back, he announced in a high profile... that the secret room had been solved by him.
While Kyle was waiting for someone near the foyer, he accidentally saw him talking to Professor McGonagall.
“I don’t think there will be any more trouble, Minerva.”
Lockhart's voice was loud, "I think the Chamber of Secrets will never be opened again this time because I have found the true successor, but I decided to give him a chance. If he is smart enough, he will not continue. What a joke."
Many people heard what he said, some believed it and some did not, but in any case, it at least had a certain comforting effect.
However, it is worth mentioning that five minutes ago, at the same position, Lockhart also said the same thing to Professor Flitwick...
Ten minutes ago, it was Professor Sprout...
Kyle was all present.
No matter who he spoke to, Lockhart never changed a word of what he said, as if he had memorized the lines in advance.
Soon, Professor McGonagall left. Lockhart stood there and looked around, probably looking for the next target.
In order, he might be looking for Snape...but this task is a bit difficult.
I don’t know if Snape will ignore him or listen patiently...
Of course, it may also be possible to directly shut up his mouth with a locking tongue, or to shut him up forever.
These are all possible.
Kyle quite wanted to stay and take a look, but at this time, the person he was looking for arrived.
Cedric walked into the castle along the stone steps, and walked over directly after seeing Kyle.
“I’ve asked for you.”
He handed a piece of golden chain to Kyle and said: "Including Diagon Alley, I have never bought anything with this kind of decoration in any store I know."
“There are no similar ones?” Kyle frowned.
"No." Cedric thought for a while and continued: "But I didn't go to Knockturn Alley to ask, my father wouldn't let me go there..."
"It doesn't matter, that's enough." Kyle shook his head and said, "Very few people in Knockturn Alley tell the truth, so it's useless to go there."
“You have a point…” Cedric and Kyle walked into the auditorium together. "I just wanted to ask, what on earth is this."
"I don't know either." Kyle said: "I picked this up, and it feels like it should have something to do with the recent attacks. That's why I asked you to ask to find out what it is."
"You mean...the secret room?" Cedric paused, perhaps because he realized that his voice was a bit loud. He quickly lowered his voice and asked, "Are you sure?"
“It’s just a guess, maybe it’s a decoration on clothes.”
"Can I look at it again?" "Of course," Kyle glanced at the thing in his hand and handed it to Cedric. "You can take it, but be careful not to get too close to the fireplace, otherwise it may It just changed back.”
“Is this transfiguration?” Cedric looked at Kyle in surprise, he hadn’t noticed it at all before.
The banquet started not long after the two sat down at the long dining table.
Dumbledore was wearing a light blue robe and was chatting with Professor Trelawney, who taught divination.
But speaking of divination class...Kyle suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to have attended a divination class from the beginning of the school year to now.
I heard from people in the same grade that he has almost become a teaching tool in divination classes. Professor Trelawney was very dissatisfied. She even said directly before the holiday,
"I'm sorry. If he doesn't come to the divination class again, he will leave us forever next semester."
In this regard, Mikel and Ryan also persuaded him to take time to take a divination class.
Kyle originally wanted to go, but by chance, the divination conflicted with the ancient runes, so he could only give up one.
Ancient runes must not be given up. Without Riddle as a tutor, he could only ask Professor Babling about the problems he encountered in the runes...and only once a week.
Because except during class, no one knew where Professor Babling was at other times, and she could not be seen in the entire castle.
So Kyle had no choice but to give up the divination class and did not go.
It is estimated that after the start of the second half of the school year, his name will probably become a "teaching prop" in the divination class.
Beside Dumbledore were Professor McGonagall with a serious expression and Lockhart with a beaming expression.
Lockhart looked particularly happy. He even took out a bottle of whiskey and wanted to have a few drinks with the other professors.
Everyone refused. Professor McGonagall pursed her lips, as if she was dissatisfied with his behavior of drinking strong drinks in school, but Dumbledore didn't care, and she couldn't say anything.
After the banquet was over, a dizzy Lockhart stood up and repeated what he had said to the professor before.
There was a burst of cheers from all around.
Moreover, Lockhart also said that he will publish a new book about Hogwarts and the Chamber of Secrets, in which all students will become the protagonists.
The cheers got louder.
However, there are still a small number of students who have not moved. They no longer believe anything Lockhart says and just think that he is drunk and crazy.
After returning to the Hufflepuff common room, some students began to sit on the sofa to catch up on their holiday homework as usual.
Kyle handed over his homework to Mikel.
“Thank you.” Mikel said happily: “My Potions homework is only five inches short, and I can’t finish it!”
While he was doing his homework, Kyle asked: "Did you notice that anyone in Slytherin behaved abnormally some time ago?"
Mikel said before that he was going to the Slytherin common room to find out information. He was not just talking about it, he actually went there.
What's even more outrageous is that he succeeded. With the excuse that his face was stung by a three-tailed wasp, he managed to sneak into a group of Slytherin students who had just finished the Care of Magical Creatures class, followed them into the common room, and Secretly wrote down the password.
But later for some reason, he was discovered, and because of this, Snape deducted fifty points from Hufflepuff.
(End of this chapter)