Chapter 245: Losing One's Dignity in Old Age

Just as Hermione and the other two were discussing their plans for the evening in the hallway, Firth was sitting next to Professor McGonagall, skillfully using a knife and fork to quickly cut the steak in front of him and put it into his mouth.

Firth's dining movements were not only extremely standard, but also smooth and flowing, with a sense of elegance unique to cats.

The kitten was willing to accept defeat, and he was still very committed in this regard.

While eating the food on the plate, Firth talked and laughed with Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout next to him, while Fox, who had been following him before, flapped his wings and flew to Dumbledore's side.

Fox first took off Dumbledore's glasses, and then put his head on his right temple.

Although Dumbledore could not understand the call of the phoenix, Fox was not just a pet to him. Like Ouroboros, it had signed a magic contract with Dumbledore, so Dumbledore could get complete information from Fox through other means.

"Okay, I got it."

After receiving the information from Fox, Dumbledore's blue eyes flashed a few times, he put on his glasses again, and restored his smiling expression.

He reached out and stroked Fox's beautiful golden and red feathers, thanking him: "Thank you for your hard work, you should continue to stay with Fish."

"Li--"

Fox called softly, then pecked Dumbledore's beard with his beak, then fluttered back to Fish and landed on his shoulder.

"Meow? Fox, you're back?"

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Fish took out a mushroom with a large cap from his pocket and handed it to Fox's mouth, "Are you hungry, meow?"

"Li--"

Fox responded casually and began to peck at the mushroom in Fish's hand.

"This is a jumping toadstool."

Professor Sprout leaned over and said affirmatively. As a professor of Herbology at Hogwarts, she could not possibly mistake the plant in Phish's hand, and she had just introduced this plant to her students not long ago.

"Really..." Professor Sprout sighed helplessly and said, "It seems that the little guy in our college has secretly taken plants out of the greenhouse again..."

Because she did this herself, she often did it, so the Hufflepuff students also developed a similar habit, always liking to take something back from the greenhouse to plant and play.

Then Professor Sprout looked at Fox, who was staying on Phish's shoulder, and said with some envy: "This is the first time I have seen Fox eat food handed over by others..."

Because Fox occasionally went to the greenhouse to find food, Professor Sprout, who stayed in the greenhouse all year round, had encountered it many times.

And Professor Sprout tried to feed Fox more than once, but unfortunately the other party was too lazy to pay attention to her and pecked at the plants in the pots in the greenhouse.

So now seeing Fox change his proud temper and eat the food in Phish's hand affectionately, it would be a lie to say that Professor Sprout is not envious.

But...

"This happened to Phish, it doesn't seem to be so surprising."

Professor Sprout laughed, and then took the half-eaten jumping mushroom from Phish and tried to feed Fox again.

"Li--"

Fox glanced at the food in her hand, then shook his head and ignored it.

"It's true."

Shaking his head helplessly, Professor Sprout handed the jumping mushroom back to Phish.

"Meow?"

Phish scratched his head, wanting Fox to give Aunt Pomona a face, but felt that it was not fair to Fox to do so.

So after struggling for a while, Phish shook his ears, said nothing, and continued to hold the jumping mushroom to feed Fox.

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The Christmas banquet at noon ended quickly. Firth carried Fox back to the dormitory, turned back into a cat and curled up on a chair by the fireplace. Fox also curled up next to him on the chair. The two fur balls, one gray and one red, leaned against each other and fell asleep.

While Firth was sleeping soundly, others were busy.

Harry and Ron secretly took two pieces of chocolate cake from the banquet at noon and sprinkled the hypnotic drugs given by Hermione on them.

"I say, can this plan really succeed?"

Ron looked at Hermione who was still stirring the polyjuice potion and asked guiltily.

"Do you have a better way?"

Hermione asked without looking back. As bursts of black smoke came out of the crucible, her face also showed joy.

She opened "Powerful Potion" again to confirm that the black potion in the crucible was exactly the same as described in the book. Hermione nodded with satisfaction and closed the book.

Then she walked to the shelf nearby, took down several glass bottles with corks, and used a long-handled spoon to scoop the potion from the cauldron into these bottles.

"This room is really great, and all the tools you need can be found in it."

Hermione exclaimed, and handed the two corked glass bottles to Harry and Ron.

"The only inconvenience is that this room is on the eighth floor, and the Polyjuice Potion only lasts for an hour, so to be on the safe side, we can't be here when we transform."

As she spoke, she put other glass bottles filled with polyjuice potion into her satchel, preparing them before giving them to Fish.

"I do have a good place to go."

When things got to this point, it was impossible for Harry to back down, so he simply started thinking positively, and then thought of the underground classroom where he and Ron went to attend the death anniversary party.

After telling Hermione about that place, she clapped her hands excitedly, "Great, now we just need to go to the laundry room, steal a few changes of clothes, and wait for night to come."

Ron looked at the excited Hermione, and then at Harry who became more active. He sighed helplessly, then shook the glass bottle in his hand and said resignedly: "Okay, I hope this thing will last longer." It won’t taste too bad after Crabbe and Goyle’s hair.”

In addition to Harry and the three of them, Dumbledore, who had obtained information about the Chamber of Secrets from Fox, was also busy.

After the banquet, he quietly sneaked to the girls' bathroom on the third floor and came to the innermost sink.

"Unexpectedly, the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is actually here... Yes, Myrtle died here back then... It seems that my original guess was correct... But why was it Ginny Weasley?"

After carefully exploring it, Dumbledore rubbed a small snake-shaped carving on the side of the copper faucet and murmured to himself.

Although this entrance was cast by Slytherin, Dumbledore was not helpless. However, if he did so, it would definitely cause damage to the surroundings. The movement would be too great. Before Voldemort was lured out, such a It’s really not worth the gain.

In addition, the basilisk in the secret room has a good relationship with Feishi. We should try to let Maomao win it over without necessarily killing it all...

After all, it is not easy to see a basilisk these days, and Fei Xu will be sad if he does this.

The most critical question at the moment is to find out what happened to Ginny, whether she was under the Imperius Curse or something like that.

"Woooooooooooo..."

"Hahahaha! Watch the trick!"

Just when Dumbledore turned around and wanted to leave, Moaning Myrtle burst through the wall crying, and behind her was Peeves, who was chasing her to bully her.

So the two ghosts who broke in collided with Dumbledore who was about to leave.

Myrtle: "!!!"

Peeves: "!!!"

Dumbledore: "..."

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