Admiral of Hogwarts

201 Rumors and truth

"Can anyone tell me where the idea that Hagrid was the murderer first spread?"

While learning various fighting skills in the Room of Requirement over the weekend, Hermione took advantage of the break to ask the two ship girls and her brother the questions that had been swirling in her mind for the past week.

"Although it may be disrespectful to say it, based on the information about Slytherin I have read in the history books, I don't think Hagrid is qualified to be his successor."

"If this matter is told, it will be a long story. Are you sure you want to hear it?" After hearing Hermione's question, Firefly and Hugo looked at each other and then said to her.

"After the owl died, I asked someone to check the files at the Ministry of Magic. It turned out that the records in the files showed that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets had been released nearly 50 years ago."

After seeing everyone nodding, Firefly told the three people in the room the story from 50 years ago.

"In that attack, a Ravenclaw girl named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren was unfortunately killed in the bathroom. Hagrid was found to be the murderer and was expelled from Hogwarts."

"You mean someone was killed?" Hermione's eyes suddenly widened and she said, "But I checked the school information before, but these things have never been mentioned in the information."

"Actually, I wanted to check these files from the school at the beginning, but like you, I couldn't find any records about this incident." Firefly shrugged. "Fortunately, Sister Hood finally found someone to get it from the Ministry of Magic. Some information related to this."

"According to a file from the Ghost Office, part of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Myrtle Elizabeth Warren became a ghost after her death and continued to harass Olive Humbey. The problem was not resolved until they issued a warning. ."

"After discovering that the dates and names matched, Sister Hood checked the public information of other departments of the Ministry of Magic, and then found the file on the cancellation of the Muggle Warrens' memory of their daughter in the records of the Incident Reversal Team for that year.

"Through the scattered contents recorded in those files, we can finally roughly restore the time when you were?" What happened during the monster attack? "

"As for why this news is spreading now, I can understand it. After all, with the lifespan of wizards, there should be quite a few people who experienced that attack alive today."

"So in theory, when their grandchildren tell them what happened in school, there is a high probability that these old people will tell their children what happened back then, and then spread the news throughout the castle. All."

"Is it true that the memories of Mr. and Mrs. Warren were written off?" After listening to Firefly's narration, Hermione immediately grabbed one of the questions that concerned her and asked.

"In this way, the Warrens forgot that they had a daughter who unfortunately died after going to wizard school, as if she never appeared?"

"That's true. According to the records in the file, this approach is to prevent those Muggles from venting their anger on the magical world after the death of their loved ones, and then exposing the existence of the magical world." Firefly shook his head and said.

"At least I think that compared to the security of the entire magical world, sometimes harming the interests of some people is inevitable. However, it is really bad to only give 300 Galleons compensation as recorded in the file. ”

The purchasing power of currency in the wizarding world is much more stable than the purchasing power of currency in the world of ordinary people. Therefore, when Myrtle died, the compensation given to them by the wizarding world was equivalent to about 1500 pounds in today's purchasing power.

Obviously, compared to a human life, this price is too low. However, according to the standards of the Ministry of Magic that have not changed for hundreds of years, this is the only compensation for a wizard of Cucumber origin who died unexpectedly in school.

We all got together to criticize the Ministry of Magic for this inhumane approach for a long time, but this criticism was just based on the same hatred and hatred based on our identity as a muck wizard.

Because they all know that their current status cannot change anything. After venting her emotions for a while, Hermione calmed down and suddenly said as if she had thought of something:

"By the way, since Miss Warren has turned into a ghost, we can ask her what the monster in the secret room is. But where should we find her now -"

"Myrtle is not a common name, and ghosts often only linger in places that have the deepest memories for them during their lifetime, so——"

"She is the ghost in the women's bathroom on the first floor, Moaning Myrtle." Before the fireflies had finished selling out, Hermione immediately guessed the identity of the ghost.

Now Hermione couldn't sit still, so she quickly persuaded Veneto and Firefly to go to the first floor to look for Moaning Myrtle, while Hugo was left in the Room of Requirement to wait for news because he was a boy.

More than twenty minutes later, the door to the Room of Requirement opened, and Hermione walked in from the door with a frustrated look on her face.

"Didn't you hear the news?" Hugo, who was deducing a certain knowledge point in ancient runes on the parchment, asked without overdoing it. "Myrtle is not here today."

"No, Myrtle is here, and we also got the answer to the question we wanted to ask." Hermione walked to the cushion and sat down directly, and then said. "But the conclusions reached are not very helpful to us."

"According to the ghost, she just saw a pair of big yellow eyes like light bulbs, and then she felt as if her whole body was being grabbed, and then she died immediately." Veneto added later .

"We checked the location where she said the eye appeared, but found nothing unusual. The entire bathroom was no different from other bathrooms except that it was a little shabby."

"Are you sure you're not mistaken? In theory, shouldn't there be a small snake carved on the side of a copper faucet?" Hugo, who pretended to listen carefully to what his sisters were saying, asked Veneto through the Admiral's network.

"Yes, theoretically there should be such a carving on one of the faucets in the circle, but we turned around and didn't find that faucet."

"What's even more interesting is that all those brass faucets have traces of being polished in the past few days, and a layer of dust has been specially sprinkled on them." Firefly also inserted into the communication at this time to tell what he had just seen. .

"If we hadn't known about the mechanism in advance, we would have thought it was a very ordinary pool and would not have realized that this place was the exit of the secret room."

"It has just been polished - it seems that the person who got the Horcrux this time is smarter than we thought." Hugo said after thinking for a few seconds.

"Obviously, whether it is polishing off the carvings on the faucets or spreading messages, they actually have only one purpose, which is to muddy the water in the school and hide themselves."

Hermione became a little frustrated at the failure of this operation, but soon she came up with a backup plan. "I think we can ask Hagrid what the situation is when we have time."