days at Hogwarts

Chapter 175 I really like what Loren said: Huh?

After regaining his senses, Loren found that the two snake-shaped stone sculptures were still in their original posture, with their eyes facing each other and their tails coiled around.The Snake Tun Snake he saw just now had no trace, it was like a hallucination.

The snake's eye emerald still exuded the light of green minerals. Loren looked carefully at the snake's head, seeing the rough texture of the scales carved on the stone and the gravel on the surface of the fangs.Same as before, yet different.

His heart was full of doubts, why did the image on the "Book of Abraham" appear in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets?
Who was earlier, the time when Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets or the time when Abraham wrote the book?
Did Slytherin read the Book of Abraham, or did Abraham rarely see Slytherin's relic?
Or neither, but two mysterious wizards who witnessed the same scene, leaving the same record.

No one could answer Loren's doubts. Regarding the contents of the "Book of Abraham", he had no way to ask Dumbledore for confirmation, so he could only hide all the questions in his heart.

Dumbledore looked at the door of the Chamber of Secrets complicatedly for a while, and sighed inexplicably.

He used the bones on the ground to transform into a snow-white boa constrictor with transparent scales, coiled it in front of the door, stood upright and faced the two snake-shaped stone carvings, and uttered a snake language.

"Hiss~ hiss! (open)"

When the two snakes on the stone wall heard the command, their emerald eyes flickered a few times, and they let go of their intertwined tails, and retreated to one side with the stone crack in the middle as the boundary.The stone wall splits down the middle to reveal a passage behind.

Stepping in, Loren and Dumbledore looked at everything in the room.

A long aisle leads into the endless darkness. On both sides of the aisle, there are countless stone pillars carved with coiled serpents.

A few balls of light that could not find their place in the air entered the room, drifted towards the tops of the stone pillars on both sides, and landed on the candlesticks shaped like snakes spitting out beads.However, compared to the huge room, these lights are just faint dots, and more stone pillars and aisles are still in the dark.

Occasionally, a faint green and mysterious light is lit up on the ceiling, and with the help of the faint light, a bit of the whole picture of the secret room can be vaguely glimpsed.The main color of black and gray, the room with dark atmosphere, every place reveals a mysterious and ancient atmosphere.

"Loren, do you know the story behind the Chamber of Secrets?" Dumbledore asked, his old voice was particularly melodious in the confined and spacious space.

"I've heard of some."

"Listen to my old man."

Dumbledore led Loren into the depths of the secret room, "The exact time is not clear, it was probably more than 1000 years ago, when the four greatest wizards at that time: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hell Chippaqi, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin, they built this castle together in order to provide a shelter for young wizards and teach them the ability to protect themselves."

"In the first few years, the four founders worked harmoniously together, looking for children who showed magical talents, taking them in, and teaching them. Everything is developing in the best direction just like the vision when the school was built."

"However, gradually there were differences between them. Slytherin believed that magical education should only be aimed at children from pure wizarding families. He did not want to accept little wizards from Muggle families, thinking that they were unreliable. The best friend in the past, Gryffindor and Slytherin got into a heated argument over the issue, and Slytherin left the school."

The old headmaster paused at this point, his mood was not calm.From his teenage years, the dispute between wizards and Muggles was like a hurricane, destroying his family, or destroying the good life that Albus Dumbledore could have had.

Even so he didn't hate Muggles, hated all Muggle-born wizards, but not all of them did.He has seen people with lofty ideals but disregarding life, he has seen people who intend to conquer the world with power and fear, he has seen war fanatics...

I have seen too many Dumbledores, and I still feel a little embarrassed when I learn that another student from Slytherin College has joined Voldemort.

"Legend has it that Slytherin hid the other three founders and built a closed secret room in the castle. Only his true heir can open the secret room, release the horrible things inside, purify the school, and eliminate all those who are not worthy of learning magic. .”

Loren thought about the wording for a while: "It doesn't sound like I'm going to kill Muggle wizards. And I think such a big project can't be hidden from the other founders, at least it's impossible to hide it from someone as smart as Ravenclaw. People. What do you think?"

"Ha, I think so too. It's just that Loren, some smart people just can't see through. They always think that they are the smartest one."

Loren suddenly turned upside down: "Who is smarter, Slytherin or Ravenclaw?"

Dumbledore froze for a moment, then laughed easily: "It should be Ms. Ravenclaw."

"why?"

"I don't know, it's just my personal opinion."

"Can I borrow the sapphire? Let me experience the wisdom of Ravenclaw."

"At least not now."

"It's boring."

……

The two walked non-stop along the road, passing one stone pillar after another, quietly, only the sound of footsteps echoed in the empty room.At the end of the passage, their attention was drawn to what lay behind the last pair of stone pillars.

It was a towering gigantic stonework, almost as tall as some of the towers outside the castle.There was a strange old wizard carved in the stone. He had a monkey-like face, squinting eyes, and a haughty demeanor.His long, sparse beard trailed almost to the hem of the wizard's robes carved in stone.

The statue clings to the dark stone wall behind.

For some reason, the stone statue was sitting there, and his name came to Loren and Dumbledore's minds: Salazar Slytherin.

"Slytherin is a great wizard with a long-term vision, the most mysterious of the Big Four. I don't understand why he insists on pure blood so much."

Dumbledore looked up at the founder of Hogwarts, with determination in his eyes: "I don't believe that he left the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk so that someone could use it to kill Hogwarts thousands of years later. students. I would not allow such a thing to happen."

Loren looked at Dumbledore and felt that he should be hoping at this time, looking forward to facing the real Salazar Slytherin.

Then, ask him a question!
The old wizard waved his wand, and suddenly a light wind blew up in the space. The light source falling on the stone pillar swayed slightly with the direction of the air flow, and the dust accumulated on the ground for thousands of years was blown away. of Python.

The python spit out its tongue, and uttered the longest Parseltongue that Loren had ever heard: "Hiss——hiss...his~"

"Speak to me, Slytherin—the greatest of the Hogwarts Four."

Loren looked up at the transparent python, admiring Dumbledore's wonderful transfiguration from the bottom of his heart.

Although conventional transfiguration involves the transformation of substances and the change of appearance characteristics, most of them still change from fluid to fluid, from solid to solid, from clear water to fine wine, and from beetles to buttons.And Dumbledore transformed the air without a fixed shape into a solid and touchable physical python.

This is the first time he has seen such a profound transformation technique, ignoring rules and characteristics, and changing the nature of matter at will.

Loren longed for when he could do this himself.

The gigantic face of the Slytherin stone gradually opened its mouth wide and wide, his cheeks gradually elongated, and finally formed a huge black cavity, revealing two sharp opposing lower teeth.

The majestic, green magic light shines in the giant mouth of the stone statue, as if the stone statue contains some magnificent treasure.

"call--"

"call--"

"call--"

A slow but powerful airflow spit out from the cavity, making a slight airflow sound as it passed through the stone statue.

Dumbledore tapped Loren's shoulder again with his wand, and he felt that lightness again, as if a pair of invisible hands were supporting him.

The bodies of the two floated up, and they floated into the statue's mouth as silently as feathers.

Dumbledore pulled Loren down directly in front of the snake's head, and the tiny gap left by the coiled snake's body was enough for the two to fit in.

Even though he knew that the basilisk was still sleeping and that the most powerful wizard of this century, Dumbledore, was beside him, Loren couldn't help but hold his breath when he saw the basilisk, which was nearly 50 meters long and thicker than him. took a breath.

The thick and long torso and tail are curled up in the outer ring, protecting the lizard-shaped snake head in the middle.The dark green scales reflect a metallic light, especially the thick scales on the tail, which can almost shatter gold and stone.

"call--"

A huge airflow spewed out from the air hole at the tip of the snake's head, and the wind they heard just now was the slow breathing of the basilisk in a deep sleep.

An indescribable stench enveloped the two of them in an instant, and Loren was slightly dazed, his head groggy.

He pinched his nose and muttered, "Is the breath of the basilisk poisonous? I think I'm poisoned."

"The venom of the basilisk is not in the nose." Dumbledore smiled, pointed his wand at Loren's head, and with a soft "Bo'er", a transparent bubble covered his head, blocking the stench outside snake breath.

Dumbledore began to explain the knowledge of the basilisk to Loren: "The first basilisk was bred and hatched by the despicable Haierbo. As a dangerous creature of a certain level, it cannot be domesticated or tamed in most cases."

"The gaze of the basilisk can directly kill the life in front of it." Then, he stretched out his wand, and used magic to open a gap in the eyes of the basilisk from a distance.

The snake pupils under the eyelids can be faintly seen as a frightening cold yellow, and the green magic light bursts out from the eye slits, accompanied by raging magic power.

It was the first time Loren saw this majestic magic power with a deadly spirit, green and full of utter malice towards life.If there is any will hidden in the magic power of miserable green, it is the complete deprivation of life.

Before the magic came, Dumbledore took out the Deluminator and popped off the top cover.

All the leaked basilisk eyes and magic power were strangely drawn to the extinguisher, restrained by the magic circle engraved on the outer wall of the extinguisher, and could not be leaked at all.

Staring wide-eyed at the structure of the magic circle and the runes on the extinguisher, but with Loren's current alchemy attainments, he couldn't understand anything. He could only see that the structure of the extinguisher was complicated, and the magic words were linked together one by one. The ring is very delicate.

Dumbledore squatted down and held the Deluminator in front of Loren's eyes. He only held it with his thumb and forefinger, and spread the rest of his fingers to show the Deluminator, so that he could see it more clearly: "The one on the side is A push-pull switch, I refer to the casing of Muggle lighters and flashlights, when using it, push the top cover and shake the extinguisher at the light source you want to charge."

Loren nodded, heartbroken.

The main body of the Deluminator is held in Dumbledore's hand, and the other end is pulling the majestic and dangerous magic power of the basilisk.

Dumbledore began to shake the Deluminator with a strange frequency, and the magic power clustered at the top swayed accordingly. With the shaking, the miserable green magic power began to layer up, and separated into three colors of magic power threads: crystal dark green silk threads, and A yellow silk thread with the same snake pupil, and a gray silk thread that does not shine.

It is similar to the magic threads that Loren saw from the eyes of the acromantula during the day, but compared with the mottled and mixed magic threads of the acromantula, the color of the threads drawn from the eyes of the basilisk is more pure, and it seems to be more beautiful. Higher order, less impurities.

Dumbledore spoke at the right time: "The gaze of the basilisk can directly kill the creature in front of it, but as long as it is reflected, the green magic power representing death will be blocked and cannot take effect. And the gray silk thread can be reflected, which will cause - petrification. Only a potion made from a mandrake can revive a victim."

"What's that yellow one?" Loren asked curiously.

"The yellow silk thread represents the gaze of the snake pupil, which is the carrier of two magical powers."

Dumbledore reached out and fiddled with the extinguisher, and a powerful and silent suction appeared, pulling out the green magic thread representing death from the snake's pupils, and continuously put it into the extinguisher.

The whole process lasted only two or three seconds, and the green magic power thread disappeared completely, and the death magic power in the snake pupil on the right was completely pulled out, turning into a miserable green light cluster exuding a dangerous atmosphere in the extinguisher.

Dumbledore fiddled with the switch of the extinguisher, closed the top cover, and disconnected the dusty silk thread representing petrification and the yellow silk thread representing the carrier of gaze, and retracted it into the snake pupil along the eyelid gap.

"So the eye of the basilisk can only be petrified, but not kill?" Loren was amazed.

Handing him the extinguisher, Dumbledore said with encouragement in his eyes, "Come and try the other eye."

"That's not good." Loren couldn't help raising the corners of his mouth, showing a shy smile, and took the extinguisher neatly.

Although he was a little embarrassed, but it was the first time he played with such an advanced alchemy tool, he couldn't help but toss the extinguisher back and forth between his hands, touching it a few more times.

"You can't control the gaze of the basilisk in the first place. You can turn on the extinguisher first, and then open the eyes of the basilisk." Dumbledore instructed from the side.

Loren followed the principal's command like a follower, and used the extinguisher to connect the snake pupils... But his control over magic power is not as detailed as Dumbledore's, and he got stuck in the step of separating the magic threads by color.

"If you can't find the shaking frequency that makes the magic thread layered, you can shake it for a while, and you will find the feeling slowly." Dumbledore said patiently.

Shake for a while, wait for the magic thread to separate into three colors, control the extinguisher to absorb only the green thread, then close the snake's eyelids, and close the top cover of the extinguisher.

"It's not as difficult as I thought!" Loren scored 82 points for his performance just now, and didn't want the remaining 666 points, lest others think he is not humble enough.

Dumbledore also smiled brightly: "The extinguisher will be handed over to you, and I will ask you to restrain the eyes of the basilisk every month from now on."

"what?"

"what!?"

"what!!!"

"This is a basilisk!"

(End of this chapter)