Chapter 215: A mistake (Edited)

"So how can I save Norris nya?"

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After confirming that it had nothing to do with Uroboros, Fish immediately tugged at Dumbledore's robe and asked impatiently, as he was more concerned about Lady Norris, so neither Dumbledore nor Professor McGonagall noticed the little secret he had been hiding.

Even Professor McGonagall had taken the trouble to check Fish's knowledge, "You should know that, come to think of it, you should have studied it in your classes this term."

She rubbed Fish's head gently and pulled his away.

Dumbledore, who was about to respond, immediately shut his mouth and looked at Fish with a smile.

Filch became less hysterical when he learned that Lady Norris had been saved, and cast a tearful, expectant look at Fish.

"Did we..., did we ever learn this?"

Ron asked quietly, nudging Harry discreetly in the side.

Harry returned a surprised look, 'What makes you think I would know?'

The simple look contained such a complex message, and Ron understood.

"Well..."

Ron shrugged and looked at Fish, waiting for his response.

Only Lockhart, the insensitive one, was still showing his presence on the sidelines.

"You must be talking about what happened to me in Ouagadougou, right?" Lockhart said, "At that time, I gave the local inhabitants several amulets, which solved the problem in an instant..."

Although this was written in Lockhart's autobiography, "The Magical Me," he felt that since Fish was a fan of his book, he should have read it as well.

Fish wagged his tail again, with a hint of danger in his green eyes....

The thought of punching Lockhart in the face again was getting stronger and stronger.

"!"

A familiar sense of crisis hit him, and Lockhart immediately stopped showing off and shut his mouth tightly.

Fish withdrew his gaze and looked down for a moment to contemplate.

"Is that a mandrake nya?"

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The kitten had a good memory, and quickly recalled the use of mandrake that Hermione had answered in his first herbology class.

"That's right."

Professor McGonagall smiled and rubbed his head again.

"When the mandrake that Pomona raised matures and grows, we can make a potion, and then we can bring Lady Norris back to life."

"I will," Lockhart said, unable to suppress his vanity and jumping up once more, "I must have done it a hundred times, I can make a potion can remove the curse on Lady Norris..... "

"Excuse me," Snape, who had not spoken before, said coldly: "I believe I am the Potions professor of this school."

Snape's gaze didn't have the oppressive feel of a predator like Fish's, but it made Lockhart sense danger all the same, so once again he kept his mouth shut.

There was an awkward silence.

"Now, we should ask, why are Potter and his friend here?"

Snape was the first to break the silence, a laughing expression on his face as he looked at Harry and Ron.

At the same time, Filch shot them a look of hatred.

"That's right, it must have something to do with the two of them, they must be punished!"

Even knowing that Mrs. Norris had been spared, Filch still had no intention of letting Harry and Ron go, because in his eyes, Harry Potter was to blame for this incident.

The two, who had thought themselves safe, suddenly tensed up, and gritted their teeth as they hated Snape for bringing this up.

"There's no way a second year could have done that."

Dumbledore shook his head, refuting Filch's claim.

But Filch had his reasons too, "You saw what he wrote on the wall! He found...he knew it was a.... it was a..."

To avenge his cat, Filch endured the humiliation and told his secret: "He knows I'm a Squib!"

"I haven't even touched Lady Norris!" Harry argued loudly, "I don't even know what Squib means!".

Fish, who didn't know either, tugged at Professor McGonagall's robes.

"Minerva, what's a Squib?"

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"A Squib...," Professor McGonagall looked at Filch, who was still arguing with Harry, and explained in a whisper, "It's a wizard who can't use spells, which is a relatively rare thing."

"Like a Muggle?"

"Yes, the only difference is that they were born into a wizarding family" Professor McGonagall said.

"And what does that have to do with the writing on the wall? Why did you petrify Norris just because Argus was a Squib? And what is the Chamber of Secrets?" asked Fish.

"The Chamber of Secrets is a legend that has passed through Hogwarts..."

Professor McGonagall lowered her voice and told Fish the legend of the Chamber of Secrets.

"Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, with a terrible monster inside nya?"

Fish blinked, thinking again of Uroboros hiding in the pipes.... While he didn't think Uroboros was scary, if you added Kanaloa's comment about the ability to kill anyone who looked, it seemed like a scary monster.

Not to mention the room was littered with snake carvings, dense green gems, and seemed to have a strong connection to Slytherin.

But out of an abundance of caution, and out of a promise to Ginny, Fish decided to ask first, "What is the monster hidden in that Chamber of Secrets and how do I open it?"

"It is said that only a Slytherin heir can open the Chamber of Secrets, and I am the headmaster of Gryffindor, so there is no way I know where it is."

Professor McGonagall replied with a smile.

And then she got Fish out of the way.

Only a Slytherin heir would be able to open the Chamber of Secrets?

Fish froze, relieved again.

So it wasn't a secret room where Uroboros was staying, after all, he and Ginny could get in, and Harry, who could also speak Parseltongue, probably could too.

They were both Gryffindors!

While Fish and Professor McGonagall whispered, Harry and Ron had been cornered by Filch and Snape.

"We just went to Nick's party, there were hundreds of ghosts there, and they can prove we were there!"

"And you stayed until now?" Snape had a mischievous gleam in his eye, "I guess the food the ghosts served at the party, wasn't fit for the living."

"We've been haunted by Peeves!" Ron replied loudly, "Or we'll get to the end of the feast!"

"Who's shouting Lord Peeves' name?"

An ugly looking ghost suddenly appeared on the wall, it was Peeves, who had just attended Nick's party and was walking around trying to make some noise.

He didn't see Fish, who had been blocked by Professor McGonagall, and instead turned his attention to Harry and Ron.

"Ah, it's you two!"

Pointing at Harry and Ron, Peeves blurted out a nonsensical accusation, "How dare you two sneak off without a word, Nick was very angry when he couldn't find you!"

"It seems Mr. Potter's 'witness' doesn't seem to prove his innocence." said Snape chagrined with a smirk on his face.

Harry and Ron: "..."