days at Hogwarts

Chapter 55 Parseltongue

In the evening, several people followed Loren to Snape's office.The basement at night is a bit dark and eerie.

"Madame Pomfrey must not have carefully examined my injury, I should go back and have a look." The closer Ron got to the office, the more frightened he became.

Harry went on to say, "When you go to see Madam Pomfrey this afternoon, you should get me some antidote so that I don't have to make an extra trip later."

Hermione didn't want to listen to the nonsense of these two, so she chased after Loren, trying to gain some experience from Loren, "What did Snape ask you to do before?"

"Help with some medicinal materials and learn how to brew some potions." Loren blushed without heartbeat, telling the truth...

This is indeed the case, but the medicinal materials processed are a little different.

The door of the office was open, Loren knocked on the door, and led a few people in.

Snape did not sit behind the desk to correct homework as usual, but stood in front of the desk, watching several people enter the office one after another.

His eyes darted back and forth over each of them, lingering longest on Harry.

The three people who came to Snape's office for the first time did not dare to look around, but from the corner of their eyes, they saw snakes soaking in glass jars, giant toads, and even baby-like things, and their faces turned pale with fright.

"Oh, the warrior who destroyed the troll."

Snape sneered, "If I had changed the timing, I would have made you realize how ridiculous and self-righteous I am."

The four of them buried their heads, and none of them wanted to touch this bad luck.

Snape looked at Loren and Hermione, "I thought you two were smarter, but you turned out to be as reckless and ignorant as other Gryffindors. What's the difference between your brains and trolls?"

Silence reigned in the office.

No one saw, Snape looked at Harry with dark eyes, at the scar on his forehead.That was the imprint left by Lily, almost, almost Lily would be disappointed in him again.

"follow me."

Without looking at the four people who were buried in quail, Snape led them into the storage room, where four boxes were placed, all covered with lids.

Loren vaguely guessed what was inside, and he thought to himself: It's a flower and not a snake, it's a flower and not a snake.

"I don't have time to play confinement games with you four warriors. The Gallon that Dumbledore promised you is on the table. Loren will tell you what to do. If I come back and find that the materials have not been processed properly, then you will continue to Come here every Friday for a month for confinement." After finishing speaking, Snape paced out of the office and slammed the door behind him.

The four people in the storage room looked at each other.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, and joked, "I thought I was going to be poisoned and sent to the school infirmary tonight, but I didn't expect it was just to deal with potion materials."

Ron also relaxed, "It's actually just being scolded by Snape, which is much better than I thought."

Hermione looked at Loren, "What are we going to do?"

"Don't be too happy."

Loren sighed, walked to the box, "Open the treasure box!"

With that said, he lifted the lid.

"Hiss~hiss~" The green-striped viper twisted and coiled in the box.

"Ah!" Ron and Hermione screamed, and Hermione stepped back in fright.

Harry stared blankly at the two boxes of densely packed snakes, his expression a little dazed.

"Bingo! Jackpot."

Loren exhaled, old friend.Now he will not be so scared that he can't sleep like the first time.Walking forward, he took out a row of test tubes on a shelf from the cabinet, "Look at it."

As he said, he reached into the box, caught a snake, opened the mouth of the snake, nibbled the snake's teeth on the mouth of the test tube, and waited for the venom to secrete into the tube with peace of mind.

"These snakes are enchanted, so they can't bite people, and they will be stiff when they exceed the height of the golden thread. There is no danger."

Loren didn't introduce the toxicity of the Green Viper, which would only make a few people more panic.

After completing a set of procedures, Loren stepped aside and motioned for several people to do it.

Harry was still in a daze, and Ron's legs were shaking and he didn't dare to move forward.Hermione kept shaking her head with tears in her eyes.

"Do you want to be locked up for one night, or for a month later." Ignoring the few people, Loren started collecting snake venom on his own.

There is no way to persuade this, Loren was scared to death for the first time, so he could only wait for a few people to muster up their courage.

Watching Loren do it for a while, Hermione clenched her hands into fists, wiped her eyes, and walked to him, "I, I'll try."

The girl was crying, sounding timid.

Hermione stretched out her hand trembling slightly, and gently held a snake.The moment he touched the scales of the snake, his shoulders trembled visible to the naked eye, and then with firm courage, he lifted the snake out, stretched his hands straight, retracted his head, and pressed the snake against the mouth of the test tube to get the venom.

After taking the venom, Hermione closed her eyes and threw the snake into another empty box, gasping for breath and whimpering, but she didn't shed tears.

Loren put his hand on her shoulder, trying to bring her some comfort.

Seeing that any girl in Hermione could do it, Ron, not to be outdone, pulled Harry to another box and began to operate.

After a while, Harry started making strange noises, hissing like a snake.

"Hiss, hiss~"

Ron didn't pay much attention, he was trying to control his trembling hands.

"Sigh~"

"ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss"

Such behavior was too weird, and Ron couldn't stand it anymore, "Please! Harry, don't make any weird noises, please?"

Harry woke up with a start, and Loren and Hermione also looked this way.

Harry looked at Ron suspiciously, "Didn't you hear them talking?"

Loren patted his head, forgetting that Harry speaks Parseltongue.

Ron opened his mouth in surprise and began to stammer, "You, you, are you a Parseltongue?"

"What am I?" Harry asked.

"Parseltongue!" Ron was a little excited, "You can talk to snakes!"

"Is there a problem with that?" said Harry. "It's the second time I've done this. I've talked to a boa constrictor before."

"It's a long story. I thought being able to talk to animals was a wizard's talent. Many people can do it, right?" Harry looked at Loren and Hermione.

The two shook their heads in unison.

"They can't," said Ron. "It's not an ordinary skill, Harry."

"Didn't you hear what I said just now?" Harry sensed something was wrong.

"I only heard you making weird noises! This is too bad." Ron was very excited at the first half of the sentence, and then suppressed his voice for the second half, for fear that others would hear it.

Harry didn't see what was so bad about it, "What does it matter?"

Hermione replied: "Parseltongue is a famous skill of Salazar Slytherin, so the symbol of Slytherin House is a snake."

Ron added: "It's generally believed that people who speak Parseltongue are descendants of Salazar Slytherin. Many Parseltongues are dark wizards. Parseltongue has a bad reputation."

"I, I'm not." Harry suddenly panicked, he was not a descendant of Slytherin, nor was he a dark wizard.

Loren didn't expect Harry to show his talent for Parseltongue here. According to the plot, this should be the plot of the Chamber of Secrets.He thought for a moment about how to say, "We all know Harry is not a bad guy."

Loren looked at Hermione and Ron, "As friends, we should keep this secret."

The two responded to Loren's gaze and nodded.

Loren turned to Harry and said seriously, "Don't show your Parseltongue ability in front of others in the future."

Harry nodded in a daze, he could feel that it was for his own good, and the care of his friends made his panic gradually fade away.

Parseltongue is not illegal, he thought, relaxing.

Several people continued to take snake venom.

"hiss~"

The three of Loren looked at Harry all at once.

Harry raised his head and smiled innocently, "They told you to grab it softly and quickly, because it's very uncomfortable outside the gold thread."

right!Can communicate!

Loren's eyes lit up, "Ask them if they can spit the venom into a test tube by themselves."

Hermione and Ron's eyes lit up too, looking at Harry expectantly.

Harry lowered his head and let out a "hissing" sound, and the snake in the box also made a "hissing" sound in response, which seemed to be a question-and-answer conversation.

Even though the three of them already knew about Parseltongue in their hearts, this weird scene still made goose bumps on their arms unconsciously.

After communicating for a while, Harry raised his head and said happily: "They said yes, it's good for both parties. Let's just put the test tube in."

"Okay!" Ron cheered, if he reached out to take the snake venom one by one, he would definitely sleep with the snakes in his dream at night.Oh, that's scarier than a spider.

Loren fixed the test tube on the rack and put the whole thing into the snake box.

The snakes in the snake box began to surge, wrapping around the test tube one by one in an orderly manner, spitting venom into the test tube.

Harry stared at the snake box, "hissing" from time to time, Ron looked at such a scene, afraid and wanted to take a closer look.

There was no need to take the snake venom anymore, Hermione's tense shoulders relaxed, and only then did she leisurely look around the entire storage room.

"Bicorn horn."

"African tree snake skin."

Hermione counted the distinctive materials placed in conspicuous places one by one.

"Professor Snape must be very rich," Hermione concluded.

Ron also started to look around, "How do you know that?" He didn't know those potion ingredients at all.

Hermione was a little disgusted, but explained, "Every material here is very valuable, and some high-quality African tree snake skins are worth hundreds of Bagaleons per ounce."

Ron's eyes glistened with money, drooling and looking around the storage room, he quickly gave up his thoughts, "If it wasn't for the fear that Snape might make me into potion ingredients, I..."

He didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but the people next to him understood what he meant.

Harry took out a test tube full of venom and said with a smile, "You may not have any medicinal value, and Snape may make you into snake food."

Ron looked at the densely packed snakes in the box, and thought of that scene, he shuddered, "I hope I don't feed the snakes alive."

Harry put in an empty test tube, hissed for a while, looked up with a suppressed smile and said, "These snakes say they have a specially formulated diet and won't eat something as smelly as you."

"Hahahahaha..."

A spooky storage room becomes cheerful.

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