Chapter 81: excellent deduction that astounded everyone
Well for the time being no one cared about him. Both Crabbe and Goyle were stunned for a while and then went to support Draco. But they could not find the person that hit Draco from the crowd.
Instead they thought that Draco did this by himself and slammed into the wall because he slipped when walking forward faster. Dumbledore told them to take Draco to the infirmary along with the cat that was carried by caretaker Flich.
There is one thing that Jack did not understand that is why they should wait for a long time for the medicine when they can by them in the market instead of waiting for the mandrakes grown by professor sprout.
Also Jack looked at the situation where Flich and Snape wanted to convict Harry while Dumbledore defending him saying that it was some sort of dark magic. But Jack suddenly laughed attracting the attention of everyone.
Then they know that a good show was about to begin.
"Professors I have few doubts here. First of all Chamber of secrets incident should have happened in the past of this school once and there is already a victim. Why is it not solved till now?
Based on the situation on both times even a second year student like me can tell that this was done by a creature but not a wizard or dark magic. There are few more points here that needed to be considered here.
First there is a mild smell of poison or fishy smell in the air. There is no sign of any struggle from the victim that was either killed or petrified. There are signs of water present here before on the floor.
Harry here is saying that he heard strange noises of someone speaking. I heard the sounds of rustling or crawling before when I was walking along the corridor. The chamber of secrets is related to the Salazar Slytherin.
Based on all these conditions I can conclude that the creature is most likely being a snake type magical creature. Then the other things pointed to the death and petrifaction is rare mode of attacking.
Based on the book of magical creatures that I studied there is only one magical creature that fits the bill. That is a basilisk. Probably the past victim must have looked straight into the eyes of basilisk and died.
The second victim Mrs. Norris seems to have seen the reflection of the basilisk eyes and was petrified. She is not dead, which is a good thing. Congratulations Mister Flich your cat seems to be lucky as it has survived the confrontation with a basilisk.
Then coming to the words on the wall, this was a warning from someone that hates wizards that are not from pure blooded families. This means that someone opened the chamber of secrets and released a basilisk to roam freely in the castle.
That is not all there is to it. That person should be utterly stupid because anyone and everyone that faces basilisk irrespective or pure blood or muggle born would die. It is really surprising that the great Salazar Slytherin is an idiot to keep such a dangerous creature here.
Also there is another good thing I discovered that is, Harry here seems to be able to hear the voices of the snake. This means that he was naturally endowed with Parseltongue.
Congratulations Mister Harry potter you can officially become the alarm bell for the coming of basilisk or locating it with your ability." Jack said with a voice that make others think that he did not care about Harry's capabilities.
After he finished speaking Jack stood up and put on a pose. There is an idiot here that likes to take photos for every possible thing. Jack is particularly ready expecting something like that to happen.
"Bushb…"
So as soon as Jack was done with his deduction he heard a sound of old camera photo snap. Jack looked at Colin that took his photo and smiled. Jack is going to write a letter to Rita tonight about the current incident.
Revealing about the basilisk did not have any risks for Jack. Also this would not make many changes to the plot. What Jack needed right now is for those people to ask him to deduce the location of the entrance to the chamber of secrets.
Naturally wizards are a little slow in terms of logical thinking. Well most of them are like that but there are still many geniuses in logical thinking in them too. But having logical thinking is not enough.
One has to think unconventionally to find the holes in the situation and find the true source of the problem. That is what Jack has shown just now. The surrounding people were dazed by the deduction of Jack.
But they were also alarmed because there is a basilisk that is roaming freely in the castle right now. This means that all of their lives are currently at risk. Penelope that is also in the crowd was shocked by the deduction that Jack made.
She got a new impression of Jack and now she believed that Jack has told her about Percy with good intentions. Well her thoughts are still complicated. But her affection points have reached 30 points too.
As for Hermione she has a completely different idea and felt that she is inferior to Jack in this kind of work related to clues finding and solving. Well she is a competitive person so she wanted to compete in everything.
Her affection points have reached 35 points directly. Romilda was more moved and her affection points have reached 80 points directly. She is getting closure and closure to falling in deep love with Jack.
Finding news sides of Jack would make any women curious and the curiosity is the first step of falling in love. Well many girls are like this but the panic and fear of basilisk is more problematic right now.
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