Chapter 52: Heir to Slytherin

Ivan, Harry and Hermione hurried into the castle, not bothering to wear their invisibility cloaks, and just as they reached the portrait of the fat lady at the entrance to the Gryffindor common room, they suddenly saw Snape step out of the shadows.

"What a pleasant surprise! Potter, Granger, Mason, I thought using the Multijuice potion to pretend to be Slytherin students running around inside the castle was bad enough, but I didn't think you would make wandering around at night a habit," Snape said as he glared at them with a sneer

"Professor, this is an emergency, we need to get back to the common room," Hermione said hurriedly.

Snape had a smug grin on his face, clicked his tongue and said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk! I'm afraid you're not going to the common room, Gryffindor gets 150 points deducted, let me think..."

"You don't understand Professor! It's Voldemort, he's opened the Chamber of Secrets, we have to stop him, there's a diary...." Hermione said reluctantly.

Snape looked at them for a while and then said slowly, "Shut up, Miss Smarty Pants! This is Hogwarts, that person can't be here, come with me, I want to see what Dumbledore will do with you."

Harry looked down, he didn't know what to do, no matter what he said, Snape didn't believe him, the other side just wanted to find excuses to punish him.

Harry was already filled with anxiety, when he heard a voice determined to do something.

"Time to kill..... Let me rip apart.... Let me rip..."

Harry's heart sank, he knew that if the basilisk was allowed to enter the common room, the consequences would be disastrous, so he quickly said, "I hear the voice again, it's the basilisk, it's moving towards the common room!"

Think about it, a group of defenseless students, facing a creature that can kill people with a mere glance, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Ivan, Hermione, he's here!" shouted Harry, not caring about not Snape standing in front of him, before shouting the password and running towards the entrance of the common room.

Ivan and Hermione froze for a moment before hastily following him.

The common room was exactly the same as before, the only difference being that the fire in the fireplace had gone out.

Through the dim light, Ivan could see that the place where he had left the diary was empty, so it must have been taken by the student Tom Riddle was controlling.

But who was it, Ginny or....

Then he noticed the writing on the wall above the fireplace: Tremble, you dirty bloods, Hogwarts will be purified and the heir of Slytherin will fulfill his greater purpose!

Ivan's pupils shrank, Hogwarts will be purified, and the heir of Slytherin will fulfill his greatest purpose, What does Tom Riddle want to do?

A figure stepped out of the shadows, It was Ron!!!!

Ron looked strange, he was elegant and calm, radiating a bit of domination, he was completely different from his usual self.

"Ron, thank god you're here, the basilisk is coming, we have to..." exclaimed Harry anxiously.

"I know, it was me who summoned it here," Ron said with a strange smile.

"You, what did you say?", Harry and Hermione looked at him with surprised expressions.

Ron's strange smile deepened and he said, "What I mean is that I did everything that happened at school with the attack. Harry Potter, I've wanted to see you for a long time, out of all the Hogwarts students you're the one I wanted to see the most."

"Ron, what are you talking about?" said Harry as he stepped forward.

"Don't go there Harry, it's not Ron, it's Tom!" exclaimed Ivan hurriedly.

The smile on Ron's lips cooled in an instant as he heard Ivan's words and said, "Ivan Masson! You bloody dirty blood, I expected you to get in trouble, but I didn't think you'd make fun of the great heir of Slytherin, I'll make you pay the price, you'll regret it..."

"Stop it, what the hell are you four doing?" said Snape, interrupting Ron as he entered the common room with a grim face.

He had stood outside and overheard their conversation, Snape frowned as he wondered what the four of them were up to.

Weasley as the heir to Slytherin was the biggest joke on him, those four must be playing a joke on him.

Snape pulled out his wand, he was ready to use a Desmaius to knock them out.

But before he could cast it, he heard a loud noise inside the common room, loud enough to wake up the whole castle.

"Don't you Gryffindor idiots know what time it is, or do you want to be expelled from Hogwarts?" shouted Snape.

But he stopped when he heard a roar from the bathroom not far away. It was as if something huge had suddenly fallen from a great height onto the stone floor, and the entire Gryffindor tower was shaking, which was clearly not something a student could do.

Snape turned around hurriedly and looked at the bathroom, and pointed his wand at it.

Ron had a strange smile on his face, while the others stared at the bathroom door in horror.

The atmosphere was terribly tense, as creepy noises could be heard from inside the bathroom and something was about to come out.

Ivan, Harry and Hermione quickly drew their wands, and Snape stepped forward with the tip of his wand emitting a faint fluorescent light.

With a bang, the bathroom door fell down and dust flew everywhere.

In the dust, Ivan saw an ugly giant snake come out, it was green, as big as the trunk of an oak tree, and the upper body was high in the air.

"It's a basilisk, don't look it in the eyes," Ivan shouted, as he pointed his wand at the basilisk.

Snape was even faster than him, and as soon as the basilisk emerged from the bathroom, the faint fluorescence on the tip of his wand intensified, produced three dark silver rays and shot out like an arrow, hit the basilisk with precision and left three bloody scars on its green, scaly skin.

Not expecting to be attacked the moment it crawled out, the basilisk's huge head shook as if it were drunk, the pain seemed to have enraged it. It produced a mad hissing sound, its two yellow eyes searched for anyone who was ready to attack it.

Then, he saw a ball of orange light flying towards him.

Ivan's "Conjunctivitis" curse hit the basilisk making him close his eyes in agony.