Chapter 68 Opportunity to Leave School

The sudden threat from Ginny made Lu Yunkai's mind, which had become tired and relaxed because of the fruitless search for solutions, tighten again.

Soon, Chris brought Lu Yunkai the first valuable intelligence after it monitored Ginny:

On that day, it followed and monitored Ginny who was not in class as usual. After finding that she wrote in her notebook for a while, she ran to the bathroom on the second floor. After Chris followed her in, she found that she was not there.

It searched for a long time in it but couldn't find it. Just when it thought that its surveillance was discovered by Ginny and she avoided it in some way, it saw something that scared it.

A huge hole appeared on the sink in the bathroom, and Ginny walked out of it.

Soon after, the news of Creevey being petrified came out.

The news brought back by Chris made Lu Yunkai and it understand where the "secret room" written on the wall in blood was. However, after it circled around the place where Ginny entered and exited for several times, it did not find any mechanism that could open the hole, so it could only run back.

Knowing the location of the secret room did not make Lu Yunkai feel relaxed, because he really could not enter that place: the bathroom was for girls only.

Although there was a ghost named Myrtle in it, who liked to play pranks on people who entered, resulting in not many people using this bathroom, but after all, it was a female toilet! He did not dare to run in openly...

There was no way to determine what was going on, so Lu Yunkai began to worry about his own safety.

This time, Ginny attacked Creevey, who had a good relationship with her, and it was definitely not as Daphne guessed, because Creevey liked to pester Harry and disturbed her and Harry's relationship.

He was sure that this was led by Voldemort.

For Voldemort, the threat posed by a passerby who might affect his control of Ginny was much smaller than that posed by someone who knew the secret of its existence.

So for the next period of time, on the one hand, he arranged for Chris to pay attention to safety when following Ginny, and to notify him immediately once Ginny entered the Chamber of Secrets. On the other hand, he also tried to avoid acting alone.

Although Chris complained that the people of Hogwarts did not pay attention to the safety of cats, after Creevey was petrified, Hogwarts still did not seem to pay much attention to this matter.

At least it seemed that way.

Because from the headmaster Dumbledore to the deans of various colleges, and all the professors who taught in the school, they did not admit that there was such a chamber of secrets in the school.

"Since the founding of Hogwarts, this legend has always existed. In the past thousand years, the school has conducted many school-wide searches, but no chamber of secrets has been found. Do you think you are better than so many professors and classmates?"

This was the answer given by Professor McGonagall to Harry who asked the question in a Transfiguration class.

Hearing their dean say this, the Gryffindors could only hold back their worries and resentment, believing that Creevey and Mrs. Norris might have been petrified because they accidentally touched a prank trap left by their predecessors.

"Don't worry, everyone. When the mandrakes you transplanted grow up when school starts, you can use their juice to remove Creevey's petrification."

This is the promise made by Professor Sprout, the head of Hufflepuff, to the students.

Such statements have indeed calmed the students who were panicked by Creevey's experience.

Of course, this does not include the Slytherins who have been watching the fun.

Since Malfoy brought the news of Slytherin's successor to the lounge, Slytherin students have never worried that they will be attacked. Even Snape, the head of Slytherin, refused to make any comments on this incident.

For Lu Yunkai, who had used and removed the petrification spell before and knew that this spell could be resolved with just a spell, the fact that Creevey and Mrs. Norris could not recover quickly shows that this petrification is definitely not petrification in a simple sense.

After finding out from the book that Mandrake juice has the effect of "strengthening the soul and removing curses", Lu Yunkai instinctively felt that Creevey and Mrs. Norris might not be "bad luck" as Harry said, but might be lucky to still be alive...

Anyway, two weeks of turmoil and calm have passed. It's the end of October, and Halloween is here again.

"Are you still celebrating Halloween at school this year?"

Blaise asked Lu Yunkai while fiddling with a pumpkin pendant that can be decorated on a wand.

"Why?"

"My mother wrote to say that she hopes to invite you to her home again." Blaise smiled, "I really don't know whether I am her son or you are."

"I wish I had a mother, but your mother is like that... forget it." Lu Yunkai laughed and complained.

"If she knew you said that about her, she would definitely be very sad." Blaise didn't mind Lu Yunkai saying that.

In fact, he often complained about his own mother like this.

"Are you going?"

"Daphne's father wrote to Snape, saying that he hoped I could go to his house..."

"Oh!! OK." Hearing what Lu Yunkai said, Blaise nodded with a teasing smile on his face, "But you guys are too fast, aren't you? Are you going to decide now?"

"...I'm just going to spend the weekend!!"

"My mother always said that you must pick and choose more before deciding on your life partner. I think this is right..."

"Let's go! Let's go to the party!" Lu Yunkai put on a pumpkin-decorated wizard hat on his head and interrupted Blaise.

"I'm just talking. If you don't want to listen, forget it." Blaise smiled even more happily, "By the way, my mother also said that if you are interested, you can sell the potions you made in her shop without charging you any consignment fees."

"Well, that's good news." Lu Yunkai smiled and nodded, "Then I'll go to the shop to thank your mother later!"

"Oh? You still have time to go to the shop? Don't you want to stay at Greengrass's house?"

"...It won't take long to go to Diagon Alley." Lu Yunkai complained to Blaise. "You are worthy of being your mother's son!"

"Don't! I'm different from her! She is she, I am me!" Blaise shook her head, "Let's go, go to the party!"

"Okay!"

The two walked out of the dormitory together, and met Daphne and her bestie who were also going to the Halloween dinner at the door of the lounge.

Well, actually Daphne was waiting for Lu Yunkai here with Millicent.

Afterwards, Millicent dragged Blaise, who was already quite tactful and knew that she shouldn't stay with Lu Yunkai, away, and Daphne followed Lu Yunkai to the auditorium side by side.

When they attended the banquet, they also sat together.

This was a fairly cheerful banquet, and the first-year students were particularly noisy. Lu Yunkai and his friends didn't care, after all, they had the same thing last year...

Fortunately, there was no mountain monster this year.

After the dinner, they returned to the lounge. There were still many students who had not had enough fun and were making a fuss, and Lu Yunkai was pulled to a corner by Daphne.

"Are you ready?"

Daphne had a little nervous look on her face.

Of course, she was more excited.

She was a little confused in her speech in the auditorium tonight, and she made a big joke...

"I'm ready! I have clothes, a pretty good evening dress, and I've prepared gifts, which should be very satisfactory to your parents..."

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Daphne blushed, "I mean, my dad will ask you some questions at that time, you..."

"Oh, don't worry about that, I won't mess it up."

"Well, my dad is a person who takes bloodline very seriously. Although he may not make things difficult for you because of your relationship with your adoptive father, there may be some...well, he always speaks very directly, but he definitely doesn't want to..."

"I understand!" Lu Yunkai nodded with a smile.

He remembered the ring that had been made long ago.

Although Lu Yunkai didn't think Daphne's father could really recognize the origin of the ring (although he was an archaeology enthusiast), with such a thing, Lu Yunkai still felt that his back was much stronger.

Is this the so-called confidence?

"I just hope you won't be angry then. He definitely didn't invite you to my house just to make things difficult for you."

"What you said makes me think he just wants to make things difficult for me..."

"Really not!!"

"I understand!" Lu Yunkai gently patted Daphne's cheek, "Okay, go to bed early. You have to take the train early tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Daphne blushed at Lu Yunkai's intimate action. She could only nod and ran back to the dormitory.

Lu Yunkai looked at Daphne's running back and laughed.

This time he left school on Halloween, not just to attend Daphne's family dinner.

He had hastily read one-tenth of the library's banned book list, and still had no solution for him to solve the notebook. He needed some "off-site help".

The Halloween holiday was his only chance to leave school, and he had to make good use of these rare days.

But, is Mrs. Zabini reliable?

Or should he ask Daphne's father, who might know a lot of weird magic?

Lu Yunkai was a little unsure, but he was going to try to find out indirectly.

Hope it helps!

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