blogombal Chapter 114 Good news: Kane is innocent! Bad news: The Slytherin heir chapter is here!
Chapter 114 Good news: Kane is innocent! Bad news: The Slytherin heir chapter is here!
Chapter 114 Good news: Kane is innocent! Bad news: Slytherin's heir has returned.
Before the curfew bell rang, Kane and his companions left the Gryffindor tower, and Hermione thoughtfully brought Harry's Invisibility Cloak with her.
Compared to the three people before her who were fearless, she was genuinely afraid of accidentally running into trouble and being fired.
And so, the four of them left the Gryffindor Tower and split up to search for the locations where Neville had appeared before, starting their search from those locations outwards.
Of course, if you can't find him inside the entire Hogwarts Castle... then you can't go outside the castle to look for him, not because you're afraid of being in danger, but because you're afraid Neville might be in danger.
If it really comes to that, we should call Dumbledore as soon as possible, otherwise what if Neville gets carried away by the big bad wolf in the Forbidden Forest?
Overall, Kane was quite lucky. He found Poor Neville, who was imprisoned by a forbidden spell and looked like a mummy, at the top of the Astronomy Tower. He quickly waved his wand and cast a spell to stop it.
"Poor Neville, get a good night's sleep and then go find Professor McGonagall. This place is a bit too much," Kane said, taking a hot stone from the little pumpkin's mouth to warm Neville up before taking him back to the Gryffindor tower.
"Let's not, Professor McGonagall will definitely come after us parents if she finds out," Neville said, holding the warm stone in his hands and shrinking his neck.
"Isn't this a good thing? It's the right thing to deal with it seriously." Kane raised an eyebrow and walked ahead.
"No, it's mainly because my grandma will definitely be here, and she'll give me a really bad scolding," Neville said timidly.
"That's not necessarily true. It's not your fault. Besides, your grandma sends you snacks and gifts every now and then. She really cares about you."
"It's heartbreaking, but it's also embarrassing. They're not the same thing," Neville explained somewhat awkwardly.
"Um... suddenly I'm not so bad being single and not having to worry about anyone else." Kane sighed helplessly. "So what are you planning to do? Just swallow your anger or what? Take revenge yourself? You're not planning on us getting revenge for you, are you?"
After saying that, he turned back and raised an eyebrow at Neville, who quickly shook his head: "Of course not, this is my own business. If I can't get revenge... then I can only pretend it never happened."
"Tsk tsk tsk...poor Neville."
Kane shook his head and sighed, then suddenly threw a ring at Neville, expecting him to catch it. However, it inevitably hit Neville on the forehead and fell to the ground.
"Uh, I'm sorry, I was just trying to give you a gift." Kane quickly went over to help Neville pick up the ring and hand it to him.
"What is this?" Neville asked, rubbing his forehead.
"The Eye of Medusa, the Medusa Ring. When worn, it can be opened or closed at your will. Anyone who sees this ring for five seconds will be temporarily petrified."
"Although the wind-up animation is very long, it's still a small tool that you have to be careful not to use it on the wrong target. Next time I use this, as long as the enemy doesn't want to be petrified, they will definitely look away or close their eyes."
"At this point, you can fight back... Ah, of course, you can run away. If the other party doesn't know, that would be even better. Just petrify him, and then you can carry him to the Astronomical Tower to get some fresh air."
After Kane finished speaking, he continued walking ahead, while Neville quickly jogged up behind him and thanked him.
Originally, the two of them would most likely have been able to return to Gryffindor Tower in a harmonious and pleasant manner, and then wait for the remaining three Harrys to return. However, unfortunately, fate may not have wanted them to return to their dorm safely.
As they rounded a corner, a patch of blood-red graffiti on the wall, along with some blackened graffiti, made them stop.
"The secret chamber has been opened. Those who oppose the successor, beware... What does this mean?" Kane instinctively nudged Neville with his shoulder, but Neville didn't answer; instead, he trembled.
Kane looked over in surprise and found that Neville was not just trembling, but was now so frightened that his face turned pale and his lips turned blue. He was as terrifying as could be.
"Alright, you can digest this yourself. I'll study it first." With that, Kane raised his wand and walked closer, intending to take a closer look at the graffiti to see if there was anything of interest.
Then he suddenly kicked something, and with a thud, he looked down at the ground.
"Hmm... a familiar cat." Kane frowned and crouched down. He recognized the cat as Mrs. Lorris, Filch's pet, but now...
Is it rigor mortis? Or petrification?
Well, it should be petrification for now, since even the stiffest corpse wouldn't make that clanging sound like a stone falling to the ground.
He looked up again at the words on the wall that seemed to be written in blood, so Lady Lorice was created by this so-called heir.
Kane turned to look at Neville, who was now somewhat normal, his complexion regaining its color.
"Neville, do you know what this heir is?" Kane asked as he picked up the petrified Lady Lorris.
Neville's lips twitched, and he began to stammer out a legend about a castle unique to Hogwarts.
Legend has it that during the era of the four great wizards of Hogwarts, due to the irreconcilable conflict between wizards and Muggles, Muggles would sometimes storm into the homes of wizards from entire villages to persecute them. Some powerful adult wizards were not afraid of this, and even if they could not fight back, they could easily escape.
However, some less capable wizards and some junior wizards would be captured and executed by Muggles.
Therefore, wizards and Muggles in that era were considered irreconcilable enemies. Salazar Slytherin, as one of the headmasters of Hogwarts at the time, naturally distrusted any young wizards of Muggle blood, fearing that bringing in Muggle wizards would attract hundreds or even thousands of Muggles or even an army.
However, the other three headmasters did not agree with this idea, and Salazars Slytherin eventually left the school in anger, from which a rumor began to circulate.
Salazars Slytherin left behind a secret chamber that only his successor could open. Inside the chamber was his legacy, and whoever received the legacy would have to bear his responsibilities.
For example, expelling those minor wizards from Hogwarts who were not recognized by Salazar and Slytherin, yes, I'm talking about Kane and Hermione.
"But why are you so scared?" Kane raised an eyebrow at Neville, who was still shaken. "Aren't you a pureblood?"
"I'm not much different from a Squib, so how could I not be in danger? Besides, it doesn't matter who's a pureblood or not in the castle now; the real issue is that there's a murderer in the castle! He can turn people to stone!" Neville said through gritted teeth.
"It shouldn't be that serious. Lady Lorris can turn back. At least I can tell that she's not dead. It's just a very powerful binding curse." Kane said, not forgetting to show Neville the horrific sight of Lady Lorris turning to stone.
"Ahem..." A familiar but long-unheard voice suddenly sounded behind Kane. He turned around and looked over: "Ah, Old Mike, how long has it been since we last met?"
"I don't know. The flow of time in the Eternal Realm is different from that in the real world. I came out out of curiosity. Why don't you guys run away?" Maxwell said, circling Kane with his hands behind his back.
"Hmm...why should I run?" Kane raised an eyebrow.
"Mrs. Lorris and Filch are inseparable. If you don't run now, he'll probably come after you, and you'll have to prove your innocence." Maxwell, like a harbinger of doom, had barely finished speaking when the light of a kerosene lamp came from afar.
"Wow, you're absolutely right." Kane raised an eyebrow at the agile figure that had left no more than three footprints in the hundred meters from one end of the corridor to the other.
As Filch ran up to Kane and snatched Lady Norris back from his grasp almost instantly, his aged face contorted in pain as he glared at Kane and Neville: "You two murderers! You killed Lady Norris!"
Kane quickly spread his hands: "We didn't do this. Even if you call Dumbledore, you can't just accuse us of crimes we didn't commit."
However, Kane's words seemed to remind Filch, who suddenly ran towards the distance, abruptly banging on a sleeping portrait to wake it, and hysterically roared, "Go and call Headmaster Dumbledore here! There's a murderer here!"
The portrait, which had just been woken up and was completely bewildered, actually thought someone had committed murder at Hogwarts, so it quickly left the portrait and went to the headmaster's office to deliver the message.
Filch, meanwhile, continued to hold his wife, Lady Lorris, pitifully, looking at Kane and Neville with a fearful and resentful gaze, as if he didn't know who the real killer was and simply hated both of them together.
Kane, looking at Filch's expression, truly couldn't understand why the old man couldn't listen to an explanation. The person at the crime scene was the murderer, not a bystander. There was no way the world could be so absurd.
However, he could understand to some extent why Filch was standing so far away.
After all, in his eyes, the two of them were the cat killers. What if he stood just a little bit closer to them and they became the murderers, and he directly reached out his claws to him?
In other words, Filch's courage in still standing here for Lady Lorris is commendable; anyone else, like a certain Slytherin boy, would have been scared out of their wits.
Soon, a flash of phoenix fire appeared. Dumbledore, along with Snape and Professor McGonagall, were hurriedly brought over by Fawkes the Phoenix. It's no wonder they were in such a hurry; what Filch had said was truly terrifying.
Even when it came to committing murder, Dumbledore was not entirely calm.
As Dumbledore and his companions entered the corridor and asked Filch about the corpse, Filch raised the statue of Lady Norris in his hand.
For a moment, all three of them were completely dumbfounded. Snape even reached for his wand, while Dumbledore was the first to calm down. It was all for the best that nothing had happened. Besides, he could tell that the dark magic was reversible. Even if Kane had really done it, he didn't intend to kill anyone.
However, we shouldn't be prejudiced; we still need to ask.
Then, Dumbledore looked at Kane, who was standing not far away: "So, Kane, did you do this?"
Kane slowly raised the hand holding the wand, and Filch immediately showed a hateful look, while Snape showed an expression of knowing satisfaction.
Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore looked puzzled, since the Kane they knew wasn't like that. Sure enough, when Kane's wand glowed and illuminated the wall behind him, they confirmed some good news: Kane was innocent.
But the bad news... Slytherin's heir is back!
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