Chapter 155 Chapter 154 Public Opinion Storm
Exploded.
The entire Hogwarts, as well as the British magical society, exploded.
First, when the students who stayed at school on Christmas came to the cafeteria with trepidation and wanted to have dinner on time, they suddenly looked up and saw a fifty-foot-long giant snake hanging from the ceiling. They were startled; then several of them disappeared. Dumbledore of the month suddenly appeared and told the students that it was not Slytherin who had scheduled the House Cup, but that the basilisk that had been harming the students had finally been killed...
So that night, all the students in the school rushed to tell each other, and all the students who had been hiding in the lounge in fear suddenly came out and came to the auditorium to visit the huge basilisk - now people were finally convinced It was a basilisk that caused the students to become petrified, rather than the "castle will" boasted by the school board. This made the Muggle-born students' disappointment and grievances disappear in an instant, replaced by the joy of surviving the disaster. …
That night, Dumbledore made an exception and lifted the curfew, allowing the students to celebrate in the Great Hall all night.
Then the next day, all the students who left school received a letter from Hogwarts, with a striking photo of the basilisk corpse on it, and reminded them that they could come back to school with confidence.
At the same time, an explosive news also appeared on the front page of the Daily Prophet, causing a storm of public opinion to instantly sweep across the UK and even Europe:
"Many murders of students at Hogwarts have been solved - the thousand-year-old basilisk appears in the castle, and the mysterious man is dead but not dead?" 》
Below is a series of photos: a basilisk corpse hanging over the Great Hall of Hogwarts, several pictures of ancient and spooky-looking rooms, and even a huge statue of Salazar Slytherin located somewhere...
[Recently, the former headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore, suddenly reappeared with a high profile after disappearing for several months, and provided a series of extremely complete evidence chains to the Ministry of Magic and the Wizengamot. We show the truth behind the petrification of students that has plagued Hogwarts for half a year: he discovered a basilisk in the castle...]
The following is popular science information about the basilisk, a magical animal, and a brief mention of the legend of the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts.
[…But it seems there’s more to it than that. After displaying the basilisk's body, Albus Dumbledore made direct accusations against seven of the twelve Hogwarts Governors - he accused them of intentionally causing harm to students and of concealing, Misuse of dark magic items. 】
[In Dumbledore’s description, the culprit that caused the basilisk that had been dormant for hundreds of years to reactivate and attack Muggle-born students was a dark magic item left behind by a mysterious person, and it was created by Lu Xiu, one of the school directors. Malfoy secretly sent the item to the school on the premise of knowing its origin, triggering a series of disasters...]
[In addition, Dumbledore's accusations also include using dark magic items to directly attack students, causing the "Hogwarts student coma incident" that was originally solved in November last year. The detailed evidence he provided to the Wizengamot showed that the culprit that caused the student's coma was not the "evil bird in the pipe", but the relic of the mysterious man who controlled a certain student and used the accused... The invisibility cloak and other black magic props provided by a school director were used to attack students, with the purpose of driving Dumbledore out of the castle on unfounded charges...]
Attached below are photos of some of the physical evidence provided by Dumbledore, such as the dark magic item that seemed to be made of withered mandrake, the letters exchanged between the school directors, and the institution that identified the mutation of the evil bird. Shady stuff, etc...
["I feel disappointed and angry."]
[Dumbledore told reporters: "I knew that my statement last year might touch the nerves of some sensitive people, but I never thought that they could do such a crazy thing: attack innocent students in order to add charges to me. , and even want to deprive all Muggle-born students of their right to receive education, which will have an extremely bad impact on the entire magical society..."]
["Yes, those students are very troubled now. Those students who were attacked by black magic items and fell unconscious have delayed their study progress for at least a month, not to mention those children who were petrified - we will spend at least two more It will take several months for them to recover, which means that the most unlucky among them have missed a full three months of classes...especially among them there are many children in fourth and fifth grade. I am worried that this will It will have a very adverse impact on their OLS exams and thus the entire future."]
[At the same time, Dumbledore specially thanked Severus Snape, the current principal and potions professor of Hogwarts, saying that he had been providing intelligence to Dumbledore during his reign and did his best to protect him. Students are not harmed. Although he may have made some unflattering remarks during this period, he still hopes that students can understand his difficulties and merits. 】
[The currently accused school director has been controlled by Aurors, and the trial is scheduled for one month later. 】
[...In addition, Dumbledore also tried to overturn an old case fifty years ago. It was reported that the person involved in that case was none other than the gamekeeper of Hogwarts, Rubeus Hagrid, who had been convicted of A dangerous magical creature raised without authorization killed a student and was prosecuted. In the end, he did not enter Azkaban under Dumbledore's bail...]
As the only educational base in the UK, Hogwarts is a place where almost all wizards have studied. Every move it makes will attract great attention from society, especially when there are only eleven magic schools in the world. Its status is It cannot be underestimated in the entire international magical society - so, the news of the Hogwarts incident swept the entire magical society in an instant. Everyone was shocked by the emergence of the basilisk, concerned about the children who were harmed, and angrily denounced those who A school director who harms innocent people for his own selfish purposes...
Combined with Dumbledore's speech last year and the school board's attempt to drive away Muggle-borns, the old topic of "bloodline theory" has once again been brought up and discussed fiercely, and almost all of them denounced bloodline Supporters of the theory...
Therefore, in this storm of public opinion, several subtitles on the margins of the newspaper were subconsciously ignored by people, such as these——
"Famous author Gilderoy Lockhart accused of intentional injury and abuse of the Oblivion Charm"
"The truth behind the opening of the secret room fifty years ago - the tip of the iceberg of the evil deeds of the mysterious man in his youth"
"The Hogwarts School Board will be reorganized in the near future, and Dumbledore will assume the position of principal"
"The mysterious man's "old enemy" - the students who sealed him once again thwarted the mysterious man's conspiracy"...