I Have a Big Problem with My Hogwarts

Inside the house upon request.

Lynn asked for a quiet room, empty with nothing but a chair.

He dragged Hubert to a chair and let him sit down, then took out the Veritaserum from his pocket, squeezed Hubert's mouth, and put three drops into his mouth before magic woke him up.

Hubert woke up from the coma leisurely. He stared blankly at Lynn who was standing in front of him, and said nothing.

Lynn did not start the interrogation directly, but first tested the effect of Veritaserum.

"Who is your father?"

Hubert opened his mouth mechanically and replied, "Tels McClain."

"What is his job?"

"He is the head of the Ministry of Magic, Division of Magical Accidents and Disasters, Team Reversing Occasional Magical Events."

"Is he a clean and honest Ministry official?"

"No, he's not. He's very greedy. Half of the property in our family's treasury is obtained by him through various bribes."

"Then do you know how to bring down your father?"

"I have seen secretly that he hid a ledger in the dark compartment of the cellar, which may have a great impact on his position."

In this way, Hubert told the story of his father without any words, and Lynn praised him with satisfaction.

"Very good, Mr. McClain."

Then he went straight to the main question of the interrogation, "Then can you tell me where you were at 11 o'clock on September 5th?"

Hubert had the same reaction as when he answered the question just now, without the slightest hesitation.

"I slept in the bedroom."

Lynn frowned, which was very different from the answer he wanted.

"Did you not go out that night?"

"Because I had a nightmarish experience in first grade, so I never went out when the curfew started."

Lynn's thoughts changed and he asked another question.

"Do you have a small black bag in your hand? It's the size of two palms. It's made of animal leather. Where is it?"

"No, I've never seen this bag."

Totally wrong!

Things were getting more and more troublesome, and Lynn was walking in place, rubbing his chin subconsciously while thinking.

Veritaserum was definitely not a problem, and Lynn was sure that he was not mistaken in the secret room that night. Hair color, body shape and face that person must be Hubert.

But now I can't ask anything. Hubert seems to be completely unaware that he has opened the secret room. Based on the situation in the magic world, there are three possibilities.

The first possibility is that this matter has nothing to do with Hubert. The person who really opened the secret room and took the basilisk away used the compound decoction. He randomly found the hair of a little wizard in Hogwarts Transforming to hide his identity, Hubert just happens to be the hapless one.

If this is the case, then Lynn has completely cut off the clues. No matter what, there are more than a thousand people living in Hogwarts. Without a clue, he can't find out who the real murderer is.

The second possibility is that Hubert did not know when the Imperius Curse was cast, and he had no idea that he was being controlled.

Entering the secret room and letting go of the basilisk, his role is just a puppet, and there is actually someone else who does all this remotely.

This is also difficult to track down, but at least it can exclude most people in Hogwarts. Imperius is one of the three unforgivable curses in black magic, and it is not easy to learn, even Lynn is so The wall hanging is only at the level of just getting started, and has no experience in using it, but can control Hubert for so long without any accident, and also prevent him from being aware of it, then use the Imperius Curse. Even if this person is not a master of black magic, he is definitely a top-notch existence among black wizards.

The third possibility is that Hubert did it on his own will, but he still had accomplices. After transferring the basilisk from the secret room, for the sake of safety, he let his accomplices use it on him. The oblivion spell clears all the memory of the secret room and the basilisk in his head, and he has nothing to do with the follow-up.

If this is the case, then Hubert's accomplices are most likely wizards other than Hogwarts. How did they know that the source of the secret room was unknown, and the purpose of opening the secret room to take away the basilisk was unknown, and basically they were not investigated and cleared. possible.

However, the possibility of this happening is also the lowest, because from the perspective of Hubert's usual performance, he does not seem to be such a deeply scheming person, and a person's memory can be modified but his personality cannot be modified. Lynn only needs to ask him a few more questions, and he can clearly see what kind of person he is.

It will take some time for the effects of Veritaserum to end. Lynn pondered these three possibilities and continued to ask Hubert.

"Have you been in contact with anyone recently? Suspicious or someone you didn't know very well before, but suddenly became interested in you during this time?"

This question made Hubert think for a moment, and soon he shook his head.

"No, I never deal with strangers."

"So have you encountered anything strange since school started?"

This time Hubert was silent for a long time. He seemed to be seriously recalling and wanted to tell Lynn everything he knew.

Seeing Hubert's reaction, Lynn's eyes suddenly lit up, he knew that he had asked the right question, and Hubert was likely to give him a valuable answer.

"There is a very strange thing." Hubert's voice sounded very confused, "There has always been an inexplicable voice in my head these days. I can't understand it, and I don't remember where I heard it, but It's always ringing in my head."

"What sound? Can you say it?" Lynn stared at him tightly, and asked in a hurried voice.

"Yes." Hubert said calmly.

Then he opened his mouth and made an "ahah" sound, as if trying to repeat the sound in his head.

Hubert was screaming erratically at first, but soon he gradually found the feeling. Slowly, his voice became lighter and shrill.

It ended up being the "hissing" sound that Lynn was so familiar with!

Snake language!

The voice that appeared in Hubert's head was Snake Language!

The first one can be ruled out, the person who sneaked into the secret room was Hubert himself!

Lynn didn't hesitate, and after hearing that Hubert was speaking snake language, he immediately took Tom out of his pocket.

"Can you say hello to me before you take me out? You always startle me when you reach out like this," Tom complained as soon as he came out.

Lynn squeezed that he didn't speak, motioning him to concentrate and listen.

Hubert's snake language was spoken for a long time, and Lynn couldn't understand it, but he was sure that this snake language was the one that Hubert said to the Slytherin statue in the secret room before!

Hubert finished speaking the snake language, and Tom automatically translated it without Lynn telling him.

"One of the great four giants - the servant of Salazar Slytherin, the agreement a thousand years ago will continue to be maintained, as the descendant of the noble blood Slytherin, I will become your new master after a thousand years, ancestor Slytherin I will not go against your wishes. Those filthy blood are not worthy of the divine power of magic, but the strength of the enemy cannot be ignored. The secret room of the ancestors is no longer suitable for your habitat. We need to hide in another place, where there will be Better for you, Hogsmeade's former treasure trove"

Lynn was listening, but Tom's voice stopped abruptly, and he couldn't help frowning.

"What about the back? Where is that place?"

Tom said helplessly: "It's gone, he only said so much."

Lynn slapped his cheeks a little uncomfortable, but it was broken at the most critical moment. It was like a dog author who wrote an online novel out of chapter. It made people want to find his house and hang him on the beam and whip him with a whip. , let him write the following chapters immediately!

But now Hubert himself didn't know, even if Lynn wanted to whip him with a whip, he couldn't ask him.

Putting the tool ball Tom back in his pocket, Lynn began to think about the meaning of this snake phrase.

So far, this is the only useful clue he has harvested, and it is very crucial. The Basilisk is very likely to be hidden in a treasure trove in Hogsmeade.

Listening to the previous narration of Snake Language, the real murderer who instructed Hubert to open the secret room claimed to be the descendant of Slytherin. There is only one known descendant of Slytherin, and that is Tom.

But Tom once opened the secret room and even instructed the basilisk to kill people. If he meets the basilisk again, he is unlikely to say "As a descendant of the noble blood Slytherin, I will be your new master in a thousand years." sentence.

So is this person claiming to be a descendant of Slytherin one of Voldemort's Horcruxes or someone else?

While Lynn was thinking, the effect of Veritaserum had passed, and Hubert regained his consciousness.

"Professor Lockhart? You, what are you doing?"

He was aware of his current situation, combined with the inexplicable stunned by someone with a stun spell before. Although he didn't know that he was infused with Veritaserum and asked questions, Hubert could also clearly feel Lynn's unwillingness. kindness.

Lynn looked at Hubert, rubbing his wand lightly in his hand, with a serious face, his brows furrowed, his body exuding a pressure that had never been seen before, and his eyes were fixed on him.

"Mr. McLean, because you are suspected of serious violation of school rules, Professor Dumbledore specially asked me to ask you some questions."

Lynn put a lot of pressure on Hubert, he swallowed hard, even if Lynn's words were full of flaws, he didn't have the slightest doubt, and said in a trembling voice.

"Teach, professor, even if you want to ask questions, you don't need to be like this, just let someone call me to your office."

Lynn shook his head expressionlessly and held out his wand at him.

"It's better that you don't remember some things. Forget them all."