The eyes of her Petrified self happened to be facing Lynn as she struggled toward the Hospital Wing entrance.
Silently opening the Hospital Wing door, Lynn, dressed in hospital pajamas, walked out barefoot.
To save her strength, Lynn even skipped the motion of waving her wand, using a wandless and silent Levitation Charm.
She slowly rose into the air and headed toward the girls' washroom on the second floor of Hogwarts.
Arriving at the entrance of the girls' washroom, the heavy wooden door was torn off with a "crack" by Lynn's controlled Levitation Charm.
Floating into the girls' washroom, the ghost who always "guarded" this place, Moaning Myrtle, emerged from a toilet.
"Hey! Why did you tear the door off?"
"Wait, are those hospital pajamas you're wearing?"
Hearing Myrtle's words, Lynn looked up at her and opened her mouth to answer, but she couldn't make a sound.
Closing her mouth again, Lynn apologized to her in her heart.'Sorry, although I should answer your question to be polite, I don't seem to be able to speak right now.'
Two streams of bright red blood gushed from Lynn's nostrils. The damage to her body from five consecutive Cruciatus Curses was obvious.
Lynn's face remained expressionless, ignoring the nosebleed she was having.
As she blinked slightly, the entire girls' washroom emitted a faint cracking sound.
Myrtle's eyes widened in shock as she floated in front of Lynn.
"What are you doing? Are you going to tear this place apart?! Have you gone mad?"
Crack, crack... Bang!
Water gushed from the washroom pipes, and everything in this washroom was levitated by Lynn.
The central sinks, the wooden stalls, even the floor and the walls couldn't escape.
Seeing the massive opening revealed after the sinks were levitated, Lynn withdrew the Levitation Charm, and the surrounding floating objects fell to the ground with a crashing sound.
"Merlin, you really are mad, but... you really are amazing."
Myrtle blinked as she watched Lynn, unable to help herself from speaking when she saw Lynn controlling herself to float above that massive opening.
"Are you really going down?"
Lynn turned her head toward Myrtle, her eyes looking at her like inorganic objects.
Myrtle floated back a bit. "Alright, I hope you can still come back up."
Lynn nodded stiffly, then suddenly plummeted downward.
With the help of the Levitation Charm, Lynn easily navigated the extremely long tunnel to reach the deep underground of Hogwarts.
Looking at the countless bones of small rodents below, Lynn quickly judged that she hadn't come to the wrong place; the Basilisk was here.
A trace of blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, and the trembling in Lynn's body grew more severe.
She closed her eyes, accelerating her floating speed, the sound of whistling wind constant in her ears.
Her soulless eyes constantly scanned the conditions inside the tunnel. She didn't slow down even when she saw a massive coiled object ahead.
Instead, she rushed straight past it. That object didn't have even the slightest rise and fall of breath.
It was a shed skin.
Making the judgment without even needing to think, Lynn sped past the shed skin and finally stopped in front of a door carved with several lifelike snakes.
She raised her right arm, holding her wand as if the continuous pain throughout her body didn't affect her at all.
A purple beam of magic shot out violently. A powerful Impediment Jinx directly blasted a dent into the door.
There was protective magic on the door, Lynn's brain quickly concluded, and she fired another purple beam of magic.
Boom!
With a loud crash, the door flew backward into the Chamber of Secrets, then slammed heavily onto the ground.
Lynn floated inside, her eyes quickly scanning the entire chamber, performing a detailed analysis of every area.
The pools on both sides were too shallow to hide a Basilisk, and the other areas were very open, containing only the pillars supporting the chamber.
Therefore, the only place that could hide the Basilisk... Lynn locked her gaze onto the statue of Salazar Slytherin at the other end of the chamber.
Modeling and analyzing the entire statue in her mind, Lynn finally raised her wand and aimed it at the mouth of the Salazar Slytherin statue.
This was the most likely result: the Basilisk entered and exited from here.
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