Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 394 Continuing Education Training Session! Solo Exploration of the Secret Chamber!

Old Deng would naturally not agree to such an outrageous request.

After thinking for a moment, he suggested in front of everyone that the Ministry of Magic could open a new department called the 'Continuing Education and Training Council'.

Adult wizards in the magical world who wish to hone their combat skills and spellcasting abilities can submit an application to this department and pay a certain training fee.

Once enough people have signed up, Hogwarts will send one or two professors to provide combat training for adult wizards in off-campus areas.

In the future, this will become a regular practice, allowing adult wizards in the magical world to maintain a good level of combat power.

Kingsley Shackles, the Minister for Magic who was also present at the press conference, agreed to Dumbledore's proposal without hesitation.

The plan will be implemented once we return, and adult wizards can submit their applications to the Ministry of Magic tomorrow.

The reporter who asked the question was completely taken aback by this outcome and was stunned.

The other reporters also understood what Dumbledore meant.

The current Hogwarts does not allow anyone to sneak in through loopholes.

So they stopped asking similar questions and instead inquired about the current status of Hogwarts faculty and staff that Dumbledore knew of.

For example, which professor is the youngest? Which professor has a family member who has been resurrected? Will the Hogwarts faculty and staff be reintroduced at the start of the next academic year?

These are mostly trivial gossip questions.

Dumbledore simply said that everyone would eventually find out.

They brushed it off.

The press conference announcing the miracle lasted until the evening of that day.

Dumbledore rubbed his throbbing head and returned to Hogwarts.

This astonishing news was officially published in the newspaper the following day.

The Daily Prophet devoted two full pages to a detailed report on every aspect of the press conference.

Meanwhile, many magical media publications also published similar reports.

A week later, except for some remote areas and prisons, wizards all over the world knew about the blessing given by the founder of Hogwarts.

The magical photograph of the now-young Dumbledore was also circulated around the world through newspapers.

Some questioned it, while others believed it.

There are countless people who are skeptical, preferring to believe it rather than not.

Many wizards developed a longing for the British magical world and for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

As for those who harbor evil intentions, their thoughts will keep regressing until they stop harboring evil intentions altogether.

Dumbledore was now extremely troubled and had to spare some of his time and energy to work with Professor McGonagall to approve the job applications from wizards both at home and abroad.

Dali was not idle either; on the contrary, he became even busier.

His clone was monitoring Eckeris, who was modifying her body, while his main body was active throughout the Hogwarts grounds.

He released the snakes from his personal storage space into the Forbidden Forest, leaving Hagrid to feed them.

He then gave them an order in a snake-like voice not to cause trouble.

Although they don't cause much trouble in the Forbidden Forest, apart from the three purebred Neanderthals and some snakes with magical animal bloodlines, other ordinary snakes are at the bottom of the food chain in the Forbidden Forest.

Dudley also added a passive conceptual repair spell to Hogwarts Castle, so that the castle can be automatically repaired immediately if it is damaged in the future.

The same treatment was given to the Old Fu No. 1 combat puppet used for graduation assessment.

From now on, Old Voltron No. 1 will no longer need to replenish its magic power, nor will it be afraid of damage, and can be passed down indefinitely.

In addition, Dudley went to the abandoned women's restroom on the third floor of the castle.

This bathroom is the dwelling place of the ghost Myrtle, and also the current entrance to the Chamber of Secrets left behind a thousand years ago by Salazar Slytherin, one of the founders of Hogwarts.

It sounds a bit convoluted, but it's actually quite simple to explain.

Salazar Slytherin, who valued honor and upheld the idea of ​​pure-blood supremacy, would never have placed the entrance to his secret chamber in the women's lavatory.

The original entrance to the secret room was a trapdoor and a magical tunnel.

The current entrance to the washroom was proposed by Corvinus Gaunt, a wizard and direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, during the 18th-century renovation of Hogwarts' plumbing.

The purpose was to better conceal the secret room.

Later, Salazar's secret chamber became a legend.

It wasn't until his student days that Voldemort rediscovered the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, entered it, used Parseltongue to subdue the basilisk dwelling inside, and forced it out of the Chamber to kill the Muggle wizard Myrtle.

Using this as a killing ritual, he split his first soul fragment and created the diary-shaped Horcrux.

Later, when the death escalated the situation, Voldemort framed Hagrid and his pet Aragog for the murder and closed the Chamber of Secrets again.

To this day, the basilisk left behind by Salazar Slytherin to purge the school of Muggle-born young wizards remains dormant in the Chamber of Secrets.

Dali came here to eliminate this hidden danger.

By the way, also get a batch of top-notch magical materials.

Dudley has a parsnip voice, but he doesn't intend to keep the basilisk as a pet.

The eyes of this thing are so overpowered.

Upon entering the women's restroom, Dali first asked the somewhat frightened ghost Myrtle if she would be willing to be resurrected.

They received a negative answer that elicited screams and cries.

Myrtle is a very sensitive ghost who is averse to people saying she is dead.

At the same time, she is timid but likes to scare people, and cries uncontrollably at the slightest provocation; she can empathize with other people's experiences, but can also be arrogant and willful at times.

More importantly, she likes handsome men.

This is also a major reason why she doesn't want to be reborn as a human. If she comes back to life, she can no longer pass through walls and become invisible like a ghost, and secretly go to the men's restroom and men's bathroom to look at handsome men.

Moreover, she didn't want to readjust to the current magical world as a junior wizard.

Dali had only asked casually, and since Myrtle was unwilling, he naturally wouldn't force her.

Then, he found the faucet in the bathroom that wasn't working and had a small snake carved into it, and shouted in his snake-like voice, "Turn it on!"

A hissing sound rang out, and the faucet emitted a white light, opening a circular pipe entrance.

Dudley flew directly into it, descending along the pipes until he arrived at a stone tunnel littered with small animal skeletons and a huge snakeskin.

This snake skin was the old skin shed by the basilisk, and it was considered a decent magical material. Dudley casually put it into his personal space.

Afterward, he continued forward along the stone tunnel. He did not use the fluorescent spell for illumination, and even closed his eyes, temporarily disabling the function of his X-ray vision, relying entirely on his spiritual perception to find his way.

At the end of the tunnel was a wall with two intertwined snakes carved on it, resembling the double helix structure of DNA, and emeralds inlaid in the eyes of the two snakes.

Another snake-like voice said, "Open."

The stone wall split in the middle, parting to both sides like a sliding door, and disappeared.

Behind the stone wall lies the true secret chamber.

A huge, rectangular room with a very high ceiling.

Dali entered and used his mental power to scan many pillars, all of which were covered with serpent reliefs.

At the far end of the room, against the wall, stood a massive full-body statue of Salazar Slytherin himself, reaching all the way to the ceiling.

Dudley knew that the statue's mouth could open, and the basilisk was inside.