Hogwarts Card System Chapter 176

Chapter 176: Senior Tom

The new Bubble-Head Charm, which Ted also called the Safety Helmet Charm.

In addition to the original Bubble-Head Charm’s air filtration and underwater breathing, it also had a certain protective effect, and it was an elastic protection.

Ted even made a secondary development, adding the Shield Charm to create the Safety Helmet Charm – Type II, evolving it from a helmet shape to full-body coverage.

It could even incorporate the Disillusionment Charm effect, becoming the Safety Helmet Charm – Type III!

This thing was like Ted making a motherboard, where other spells could be plugged in to work together.

As long as they weren’t incompatible spells, they could be added. It had great potential!

Not only could it be waterproof, protective, and filter toxic gases, but it could also block heat transfer, muffle sound, and provide invisibility.

These modifications were specifically made for the Basilisk.

Snakes, in addition to normal vision, could also perceive heat. This modified Shield Charm + Bubble-Head Charm—the Safety Helmet Charm—had already replaced the old Bubble-Head Charm and Shield Charm at the system level. It should be considered a mid-to-high-level spell, currently at Lv 2, and the incantation was “Danger is inevitable~”

Several of the companions were encased in transparent protective armor, covered from head to toe, like spacesuits.

However, despite looking bulky, it actually had no weight and wouldn’t hinder movement.

But their voices couldn’t be heard.

But it didn’t matter, Ted directly used his psychic abilities to establish a short-range communication network, allowing everyone to directly speak their “inner thoughts”~

“Wow~” Jerry looked at his protected hands, feeling a wonderful sensation.

“Hello hello~ Can you hear me?” Ron was “testing the mic” on the other side.

In addition to the Safety Helmet Charm, they also had Shield, Protection from Evil, Mage Armor, Energy Shield, Feather Fall, and Grease on them.

Finally, there was Arcane Intellect. After Ted and Hermione cast it on everyone, they were all surprised.

This, this feeling of becoming smarter, am I growing a brain?

Ron kept complaining in the psychic communication: Ted, Hermione, why didn’t you use this magic sooner! Let me also experience what it’s like to be smart!

Ted was too embarrassed to retort—Ron, even with Arcane Intellect, you’re still a little short of being smart.

However, Harry, whose intelligence attribute was already high, would definitely be considered smart after adding Arcane Intellect.

After a lot of preparation, everyone was ready.

Ted also provided necessary protection for the troll and the mud golem, mainly by covering the troll’s eyes and having Ted control it telepathically, so it wouldn’t be instantly killed by a glare.

Not long after they set off, a large circular door carved with many scattered snakes appeared.

Neville didn’t need anyone to instruct him; he directly stepped forward and said in Parseltongue, “Open~”

The carved venomous snakes began to converge towards the center, and at the same time, the mechanism behind the door twisted, and the circular door slowly opened like a bank vault door.

Ted used the card [Ravenclaw’s Wisdom (Blue)] to strengthen himself as much as possible.

High intelligence and high mental attributes enhance spells. Now was the time to go all out!

Ted told his companions through the psychic network: Follow me, I’ll lead the way.

Ted raised his hand and added the Invisibility Charm effect to everyone’s Safety Helmet Charm. Then, the group silently entered.

Behind the door was an extremely vast space, feeling about half the size of a football field.

When the door opened, two rows of huge braziers suddenly ignited, illuminating the entire space.

In front of Ted and his companions was a passageway, with huge stone statues of venomous snakes on both sides.

At the end of the passageway was a vast space, with some marks on the ground, as if something had been placed there before but had since been moved.

And at the end of the space was a huge human head statue.

This head statue was larger than the head of the Leshan Giant Buddha, but it was a bit ugly, bony and wrinkled, with a long beard that gave a feeling of being unapproachable.

This was Slytherin!

He must have delved too deeply into the dark arts; Slytherin’s appearance was quite unsettling.

Ted had seen small portraits of the four founders in Ravenclaw’s Chamber. Gryffindor was a blond, burly man, looking to be over 1.9 meters tall. Hufflepuff was a short, slightly plump, kind lady.

And Slytherin, although already bald and with a somewhat gloomy expression, still had a very majestic and superior feel.

Now, this plague-ridden old monkey look, was this also Slytherin?

Could it be that in his later years, he delved too deeply into dark magic, even causing his appearance to change drastically?

Ravenclaw’s diary also recorded that after the school had been founded for more than ten years, Slytherin’s educational philosophy gradually diverged from the other three.

This was mainly because witch hunts were too frequent back then. Most ordinary wizards were naturally awakened, only able to produce a few simple spells in their lifetime, and they were specialized.

Once discovered by ordinary people, they would almost certainly die if attacked by a mob.

It was a bit like ordinary people spearing a monster hunter with pitchforks.

And while the newly founded Hogwarts took in many young wizards, some children from Muggle families couldn’t sever ties with their original families and even chose to betray the wizarding community, turning to persecute other wizards instead.

Slytherin was extremely pained and angered by this situation, so he proposed no longer accepting any young wizards from non-wizarding families into the school. Moreover, he wanted to teach students more powerful and lethal dark magic.

The other three founders disagreed. They believed that the current situation was indeed helpless, but it was not something that could be changed by human effort. Instead, it would take enough time for the situation to change, and a time would naturally come when wizards and Muggles would live in peace.

And fighting violence with violence would only intensify the conflict between the two, eventually escalating into an all-out conflict.

In that case, while individual wizards might survive, the wizarding community would inevitably perish.

This dispute was only the first; several more followed. After realizing the huge divergence with his friends, Slytherin built his own Chamber and secretly taught dark magic to the Slytherin students he favored.

That’s right, at first, this was an underground classroom, a place for private tutoring.

But later, Slytherin’s descendant branch, the Gaunt family, found the Chamber through Parseltongue.

At that time, they were one of the school’s governors. Using the opportunity of maintaining and renovating the castle, they built a bathroom disguised as an entrance and also built many large pipes inside the castle.

Later, the Gaunt family’s inbreeding completely wiped them out. Voldemort found clues to the Chamber’s existence in the family’s records and spent several years before finally finding the Chamber in his fifth year using Parseltongue.

However, at that time, he was just a half-grown child and didn’t have many ideas, only utilizing the information and magic left by Slytherin.

As a result, after opening the Chamber, the Basilisk accidentally killed Myrtle.

Later, because Dumbledore kept a close eye on him, Voldemort never opened the Chamber again until he graduated.

But he used the opportunity of killing Myrtle (killing to split his soul fragments) to create his first Horcrux.

The diary Horcrux had a unique characteristic: it was infused with Voldemort’s emotions and memories. This was the special aspect of the diary Horcrux, which carried a significant hidden danger, potentially leading to a clone-like entity vying for authenticity with the main body.

Later Horcruxes didn’t have this function; they were purely resurrection tools and were all protected by extremely sinister dark magic and defenses.

…

From the moment they entered, Harry had been observing, and finally, on the ground not far in front of the Slytherin statue, she found Malfoy, his face as white as paper.

His hair was disheveled and fell across his forehead, his face pale as paper, as if he would succumb to weakness and die any second.

Harry was anxious, but she knew she couldn’t lose her composure and affect Ted’s arrangements and plans.

While Ted and his companions remained in an invisible state, a person emerged from behind the Slytherin statue—a boy of sixteen or seventeen.

He had dark brown hair parted down the middle, was quite handsome, but his eyes were somewhat gloomy, his figure tall and straight, and a hint of a reserved smile played on his lips.

Overall, he was a very attractive young man.

In his hand, he held Malfoy’s wand.

Neville, still invisible, suddenly felt his forehead burning, and his scar had a searing sensation.

“Alright! Welcome. I’ve been waiting for a while now, so why don’t we introduce ourselves frankly?” the young man called out to the empty space.

After a few seconds, there was no movement, and his eyes darkened slightly: “I say, the Boy Who Lived, Neville Longbottom, isn’t that you? Then I’d be very disappointed!”

At this moment, Ted communicated with Neville.

Neville steadied himself and walked out.

As the invisibility effect disappeared, he appeared in the passageway.

“I heard you were looking for me?”

(End of this chapter)