In the next few days, Professor Custer opened the secret room and the story of bravely capturing the basilisk quickly spread in the castle.
As the only living witness, Justin was not able to gain a dominant position in this craze. First, because he was accidentally injured by Aaron's blinding water and temporarily lost his sight, resulting in seeing nothing.
The second reason is that he was imprisoned by Professor McGonagall for violating the ban by going out...
Without truth, rumor will take its place. In just a few days, many versions of the story spread in the castle:
They are mainly divided into two groups: the conservative ones probably just edited the process of Aaron opening the secret room, and the exaggerated ones went directly to the story novel.
The Weasley twins played a great role in spreading the rumors. They took great pains to compile a wonderful story with detailed and interlocking content. Its style is probably similar to "Custer fights the Basilisk three times, Professor breaks the secret chamber and explores the strange micro", mainly highlighting one nonsense.
There is no doubt that these two people were sanctioned by Aaron again.
When Aaron put them in solitary confinement, George and Fred still shouted in dissatisfaction:
"Professor, what we preached to you this time are good words? Why do you have to punish us?"
Aaron couldn't laugh or cry: "It doesn't matter whether you praise or slander me, what I punish you for is spreading rumors!"
The reason why the Weasley twins were punished was because Aaron knew that the Basilisk had not been killed and that the descendants of Slytherin were still active in the dark. Spreading such stories everywhere at this time will make the little wizards lower their vigilance.
Soon, almost all the professors clarified during class that although the secret room had been found, the basilisk and its controller were still lurking in the corners of the castle, and the danger had not really receded.
Of course, almost - because one professor said otherwise.
Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Gilderoy Lockhart
"I think our colleagues are too nervous about this, and this may not be a good thing for the students..."
Lockhart vowed in class:
"Professor Custer has defeated the basilisk! The castle is safe! I have to admit that he is a great young man. Seeing him reminds me of when I defeated the vampires in the village with a Put the dagger against its chest and tell him to leave or die..."
In view of the recent collapse of Professor Lockhart's reputation, most young wizards took this as a story, while only some idiot fans still refused to recognize the reality.
However, this time, after everyone learned about the basilisk, they were not as scared as before, and they would no longer madly exchange those messy amulets.
This time, there is only one amulet recognized by everyone——
chicken!
Rooster!
From various sources, the little wizards learned that the crowing of roosters could scare away the basilisk, and a trend of raising chickens soon started in the castle.
The little wizards bought roosters from outside and kept them as pets. For a while, roosters could be seen flapping their wings everywhere in the corridors of the castle. Every time it was dark, there was a continuous crow, making people unable to sleep peacefully.
This worries the caretaker Mr. Filch. Nowadays, little wizards often lead a rooster when they go out, just like Muggles walking their dogs. This disturbed the peace of the castle, and the corridors were filled with rooster feathers and excrement, which he had to clean up.
Ron's mother, Lady Molly, sent him and Harry two roosters to keep. Harry didn't mind this. His original pet was an owl, Hedwig, and it had no enmity with the rooster.
But Ron was miserable. There seemed to be something wrong with the rooster that Mrs. Weasley sent him. As soon as he entered the room, he stared at Ron's little mouse Scabbers and scratched it, scaring the poor little guy. Squeaking.
"Why does that stupid chicken always have trouble with my poor Banban? I'll make it stew and eat meat sooner or later!"
As he said this, Ron grabbed a chicken drumstick and took a big bite.
Harry looked at the other side of the long table. Apart from attending classes these days, they had rarely seen Malfoy in person, so they didn't realize that he seemed to have changed.
"Ron, look."
Harry whispered to Ron.
Ron looked at Malfoy. He looked sickly. His already pale skin became even paler, as if he was dehydrated, and his face looked thinner.
A rooster brought in by someone unknown was flying around in the auditorium, clucking and crowing, and several little wizards hurriedly went to catch the rooster.
The rooster flapped its wings and flew over Malfoy's head, and a few falling feathers fell into the soup bowl in front of him, causing Malfoy to feel disgusted.
"Can't be wrong!"
Ron excitedly said to Harry: "He must be the descendant of Slytherin! Professor Custer destroyed his lair, which must have dealt him a severe blow. Look how haggard this guy is now."
"As long as we brew the Polyjuice Potion, everything will be revealed!"
Hermione joined in and said confidently.
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"...Always remember, if something can speak and communicate with you, but you can't find where its thinking organ is, then never believe it easily..."
In the first grade potions class, Aaron chatted with everyone while waiting for the potions to be prepared as usual.
These words were true to his heart. In the entire magical world, there were probably not many wizards like him who had a lot of exposure to objects and could think about objects independently, so Aaron could definitely be regarded as a 'experienced person'.
Even Runas, he only trusted him after thorough research and testing. An extremely powerful magical contract was formed between them.
After Aaron's research, he discovered that this contract originated from the protection given to him, a descendant of the Custer family, by the old house of the Custer family. It made Runas forever loyal to Aaron.
Soon, the little wizards' potions were prepared. Aaron sat in front as usual, waiting for the little wizards to bring the potions to him for inspection.
"Mr. Creevey, your finished product of the Forgetting Potion is not quite right... I said it should be light snow-blue, right?"
"Yes, Professor." Colin Creevey held the bottle of liquid that was obviously much darker in color, feeling a little nervous for a moment.
"Let me guess, when you added the Wangchuan River water in the third step, you stirred less often, right?"
"It seems like this..." Colin was stunned for a moment, and then said with some embarrassment: "I was thinking about teaching you the experience of catching the basilisk, and I was distracted for a while."
"That's nothing to ponder, Creevey. What's worth pondering is your studies."
Aaron shook his head: "Everything else seems fine. I'll give you an 'A'. Go back and write the lab report carefully and write down the problems clearly."
After checking the little wizards' potions one by one, Aaron noticed that there was a little red-haired girl standing blankly in the corner, seeming to be hesitating about something.
She is Ginny Weasley, the youngest daughter of the Weasley family.
What she handed over was a standard bottle of forgetting potion. The color and smell were perfect, no problem.
"I give you an 'O', Miss Weasley, you are much better than your brothers. It would be great if George and Fred could be as serious as you..."
Aaron admired sincerely.
However, after hearing such words, Ginny was not very happy. She just looked at Aaron and tightened the hem of her robe with her hands. Her voice was a little stiff. It could be seen that she hesitated for a long time.
"Professor, I have something to ask you, is it okay..."
"Oh?" Aaron raised his eyes: "What is it about?"
"If...I mean if, there is a wizard who encounters the situation you just mentioned and is deceived by a thing that can think independently and does something bad, do you think..."
"It's not her fault." Aaron shook his head: "May I ask, do I know this wizard?"
"Actually, I have a friend..."
