Chapter 397 395 Abandoned Slytherin Common Room
Chapter 397 395. Abandoned Slytherin Lounge
"The Slytherin House common room is in the Black Lake?"
Jon mused, he really hadn't thought about it.
"Yes." Draco spoke more and more fluently, "My father told me that Slytherin's old lounge was underground, but after the headmaster ruled the UK, he canceled the previous sorting standards. Mud , the standards of the three colleges of Mugs, mixed-bloods and pure-bloods have been determined before admission, so after it is determined that the basement is the territory of Mugs, of course there will be no students from other colleges there. As a result, Slytherin's lounge was naturally deserted. No one has entered it in more than ten years."
Jon looked at Draco again, wanting him to tell more secrets.
"So? That common room was abandoned in the Black Lake, and it became a rumor in the castle because of this?"
Draco could indeed reveal more information.
"That's not the rumor. Someone mentioned that at the location where the Slytherin lounge used to be, you could vaguely hear some weird noises late at night, as if something was beating on the foundation."
Jon frowned at this.
"I remember that the curfew policy in the castle is extremely strict. Who can hear it this late at night?"
"No matter how strict the policy is, it's no big deal for pure-bloods to violate it. If the pure-bloods violate the curfew, they will die. The mixed-bloods will be expelled from Hogwarts Castle if they violate the curfew. For pure-bloods, it's just They were asked to submit a review or spend a day in solitary confinement.”
Even in front of Jon, Draco couldn't help feeling proud when talking about the privileges belonging to purebloods.
"Pure-blood students cannot be expelled. This is a rule set by the principal. Even if there was a case of suicide of a mixed-race student some time ago, the main participant was a pure-blood, but her graduation was postponed for one year and she was allowed to go home. It’s just a year of reflection.”
Draco was indeed right about this. The privileges of purebloods were obvious not only in Hogwarts Castle, but also in the British wizarding world. No matter how serious the magical laws that purebloods break, they will not be imprisoned in Azkaban, where dementors serve as jailers. Instead, they will be imprisoned in a special wizard "prison" located in the UK.
Jon didn't say anything about Draco's current complacency. He still had the mentality of a young man and had never thought about how many privileges the purebloods had now. When Voldemort was really defeated in the future, they would all have to give more and more. Spit it out.
"You're going off topic. In that case, do you know exactly where Slytherin's common room was located in the Black Lake?"
Hearing Jon's question, Draco pointed to the northeast.
"That lounge extends from Hogwarts Castle, so it must be in the direction of Hogwarts Castle. You should be able to find something if you go northeast from here."
Jon did what he said, and after getting useful information from Draco, he returned a pearl to Draco as a reward.
"What do you want to know about these?" Although it was clear that it was better not to ask, Draco still couldn't help but ask after getting the pearl.
"Do you believe me when I say that I'm preparing to dig up the roots of Mr. Principal?" Jon said without looking back.
His answer made Draco shiver all over, and a look of horror appeared on his face involuntarily, as he watched Jon gradually go away.
After his figure completely disappeared, Draco dared to swim out of the water plants carefully.
But at this time, he realized that he was actually entangled in the water plants, and he couldn't even reach out for the wand!
"Come back! Green! Mr. Green! Come back quickly! I'll pay you a pearl! Help me!"
However, sound cannot travel very far underwater, and Jon has already gone far away, so no matter how much he calls, he gets no response.
Jon soon arrived at the northeast corner of the entire black lake.
To be honest, he didn't really have much hope for this trip, he just wanted to try his luck.
After seeing the tragic situation of those mermaids, it is very likely that the giant squid, which has more profound significance to the entire Hogwarts Castle, has also encountered something unexpected.
Jon continued to follow the clues given by Draco and come here just to give Dumbledore some relief when he returned.
Along the edge of the northeast corner, Jon quickly patrolled, and when he swam to a deeply recessed rock wall, he actually made some discoveries!
It was a huge gap. It could be clearly seen that the gap should have been a wall before, but now the wall was opened and the lake water poured into the lounge, turning the originally sealed lounge into a part of the black lake.
Jon swam along the gap into the space that was obviously the former Slytherin lounge.
There are also some furniture inhabited by water plants and underwater creatures. There are green and silver strips of cloth on the walls that are still fluttering with the flow of the lake. Some broken portraits can be vaguely seen on the surrounding walls. Those are Distinguished House Representatives who formerly hung in the Slytherin Common Room.
Looking at the messy and dilapidated scene around him, Jon felt an inexplicable sarcasm.
He had not forgotten that this was where Voldemort had lived for seven years, but now it had become like this. Obviously, he could not have been unaware of this, and it was even more likely that he had done it on purpose.
After carefully checking the surroundings, Jon could clearly find some traces of being whipped by a huge whip, leaving deep grooves on the ground and walls.
From these signs, it can be seen that, apart from anything else, the giant squid must have stayed here before!
Jon's heart was a little excited. He went deeper. This public lounge was not the end. A gap was also opened in the wall facing the lounge, but this gap was obviously facing upwards. He estimated that if he went up a little further, he would be able to get out of the water level of the Black Lake. This part of the lake was not very deep.
Sure enough, as Jon expected, he continued to swim up about three or four meters, and his head was blocked by a layer of equally thick ice.
He did not hesitate, and immediately raised the wand in his hand and used the blasting spell underwater to blast the ice.
In fact, when Jon climbed out of the water, he had already seriously violated the rules of this event. As long as the participating warriors went ashore, they could not go into the water for the second time. This was announced by Matthew in front of everyone before the game started.
But Jon obviously didn't care about these. Not to mention that in this broken place, no one would know even if he went ashore a hundred times. Even if he was discovered, he would only be ranked on the spot. If the scores were calculated, he might not be the last or second to last.
After coming out of the water, Jon could see that this should belong to the former Slytherin dormitory.
The reason why it is not said to be a certain room is that the walls around here have been broken through, and the ground is full of rubble and broken fragments of beds, tables and chairs. The space is very large, and there is only a ceiling above.
However, the ceiling of the original Slytherin student dormitory was not very low, it was four or five meters high, so even if the space was large, it would not make people feel depressed.
Jon lifted the body-soaking spell on his body and breathed the cold and humid air here. He turned over the pile of ruins in front of him, and then saw a shocking scene.
The giant squid was laid on the hard and cold ground, with a circle of light green magic runes shining with a faint silver light under it.
But only by walking into these magic runes and observing carefully can you find that the light green color is not the magic runes themselves, but the blood slowly flowing from the squid!
Jon looked at the giant squid and couldn't help holding his breath. He found that its tentacles still had some signs of activity, which meant that even if it was dying, it was not dead yet.
Without any pause, he immediately took out a feather from his body and began to summon Fox.
Soon the golden light appeared beside him. Fox was always reliable. After it appeared, it did not stop and left with the giant squid.
But Jon did not leave immediately. He stared at the magic runes on the ground and studied them carefully for a while.
Before, when he pretended to be very interested in magic runes in front of Sir Stoke at sea, he had studied some magic runes. Later, every time Hermione copied some magic runes from the castle this year, he could see and listen to Dumbledore explain some of the principles.
Therefore, even if he is still a novice in magic runes, he is also a novice who has been exposed to high-end games. He is no longer completely in the dark when looking at these things that look like ghost paintings in the eyes of ordinary people.
After careful study, he can at least judge that these magic runes have not been engraved here for a long time. They were probably engraved only last year, which means that the giant squid was drained of blood for about half a year.
But it has never appeared in the Black Lake before, and it is likely that it has been imprisoned here for more than ten years.
Jon patrolled the surroundings again and saw some scattered broken chains on the ground, and the ceiling just above the location of the giant squid had obvious signs of being hit hard.
Just as Dumbledore expected, when Voldemort just took over Hogwarts Castle, he had already discovered the unusualness of this squid. Although he did not take any precautions against the Black Lake itself, he directly imprisoned the giant squid, which was the root of the problem, for use when needed.
And now all the arrangements he made in the castle have been clearly placed in front of Dumbledore and others.
The magic runes in the secret room are used to wear down the will of the castle itself, the magic runes in the principal's office are used to fill his own will, and the magic runes in this room that use blood transfusions from giant squids, the meaning of which is not yet clear.
All three places are the key to Voldemort's arrangements. He seems to have made a lot of preparations to gain absolute control of the castle, but now it seems that he doesn't care about any of them.
Just as Jon was looking at these magic runes, he suddenly found that as the giant squid was taken away, the magic runes themselves not only did not dim, but gradually became brighter and brighter!
Jon had a bad feeling in his heart. Without any hesitation, he turned around and rushed towards the Black Lake. He cast the Body-Breaking Spell on himself again while running.
Then he jumped off the blasted ice and dived back into the lake!
Less than a minute after he entered the water, the magic words had already become dazzlingly bright.
The curved symbols swam and spread on the ground as if they had come alive. Finally, dark green lines bulged from the ground, and turned into living creatures one by one and rushed into the water!
In less than three minutes, all the space in this area was crowded with these magic script snakes. They seemed to be able to produce endlessly from those magic scripts, constantly appearing and jumping into the lake.
After Jon left the confines of the Slytherin lounge, he kept swimming forward. He had a premonition that something was wrong, and even suspected that the magic text under the lake was actually a trap.
However, even if he was swimming fast enough, he still couldn't compare with those snakes that were like lightning in the water.
Jon knew he couldn't escape. He had to first verify how much trouble these snakes could cause him.
His forward movement remained unchanged, but he held the wand in both hands and turned around to aim at the swarm of snakes that looked like wasps at first glance!
"The Divine Edge is Shadowless!"
The icy water was cut open by the invisible sharp blade in an instant. The resistance of the lake water reduced the power of Shen Feng Wuying a lot, but it was still better than the blasting spell used underwater.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the venomous snakes rushing at the front were silently divided into two pieces, but the sharp blade did not stop there, dividing the entire group of snakes along the middle, like a dark piece. The chocolate is now neatly cut!
But none of the venomous snakes that were chopped in half showed signs of death. Instead, they split into two, and dark green liquid continued to spurt out from the fracture, and then grew back to their original size, turning the entire group of snakes into It has become even bigger!
And just when Jon turned around to cast the spell, the venomous snakes began to approach Jon. When they were still about one meter away from Jon, they suddenly exploded, causing a violent impact underwater.
Fortunately, Jon's body was always maintained by the Iron Armor Curse, and he was not harmed by it. However, the Soaking Curse used to maintain breathing was destroyed.
This left Jon without the ability to breathe underwater, and he had no way of regaining it.