“Very bold design.”
Dumbledore saw the general principle of the red and white balls at a glance: "It's a very delicate structure. It reminds me of an old friend of mine who passed away not long ago."
As he spoke, Dumbledore showed a rare trace of nostalgia: "It's completely different from his design concept. I really want to introduce you to each other. He will definitely like you."
"A little trick, not worth mentioning." Dudley said very modestly.
Snape raised his head slightly proudly, as if he had taught Dudley.
Although that is correct.
Then Dumbledore's eyes fell on the very healthy Mandrake: "Maybe I have a child who will also like you and have the opportunity to introduce you to him."
Magical animals and magical plants have never been separated.
"It would be my pleasure, Professor Dumbledore."
With the mandrake around, the potion to remove petrification was not something with a high degree of difficulty, and it was brewed in a short time.
After using only two drops, Mrs. Norris's stone-hard fur had a tendency to soften.
After a few drops again, Mrs. Loris' body began to become softer, and the temperature also increased.
"Although my skills are still a little bit worse than mine, it's already amazing to be able to do this." Lockhart was talking shamelessly there, but no one present took his words seriously. Everything happened, including Filch.
"The petrification has been lifted, so what kind of creature petrified Mrs. Norris? I don't think it is a safe thing to have such a thing wandering around Hogwarts."
Speaking of safety, Dumbledore's tone was a little helpless. He still remembered his promise to Dudley that Hogwarts was the safest place.
"It must be Medusa." Lockhart said to himself: "I encountered a Medusa when I was adventuring in Armenia. As you know, I subdued a werewolf there. It was mentioned in my work "Wandering with Werewolves". If my reaction hadn't been quick enough."
Even though there were only professors here, Lockhart still did not forget to gain attention and promote his books along the way.
Lockhart's words are not completely unreasonable, but a magical creature like Medusa does have the ability to petrify, but England is not the place where Medusa comes from. That creature is a specialty of Greece, even in the dense Forbidden Forest. There is no reason for a Medusa to appear.
But what magical creature would it be if not Medusa?
The professors were very troubled by this. Even Dumbledore couldn't guess the answer.
But no matter what, there is a dangerous creature wandering around Hogwarts.
Cormac thought that he had not seen it before, so the only one who saw the other party's true appearance was Mrs. Norris.
You can't ask Mrs. Norris.
It didn't seem impossible to talk to the cat. Dumbledore was thinking of someone.
"Mrs. Norris said she saw a huge snake."
At this moment, Dudley, who was checking Mrs. Norris's body, suddenly spoke.
"What?" His words stunned everyone.
Including Lockhart.
"Mrs. Norris said she saw a giant snake. It was very, very big and almost occupied the entire corridor." Dudley emphasized again and fed Mrs. Norris the 'delicious dried fish' in his hand. Only then was she lifted from the petrification, and poor Mrs. Loris regained some strength.
"I mean do you understand cat language?" Professor Flitwick asked. He didn't think Dudley was lying, he was just making sure out of habit.
This is an excellent wizard who can cast spells without a wand in his second year.
"Didn't I say it? Actually, I know a little bit of cat language."
As he spoke, Dudley held up two fingers and made a gesture with his thumb and index finger to express his grief for losing the Korean market: "A little bit, but it is enough to understand what Mrs. Norris wants to express."
"It's amazing." Dumbledore also praised.
"I think this is insignificant compared to you. Professor, don't you also know mermaid and fairy language?"
To be precise, Dumbledore not only knew Mermaid and Goblin, but he also understood Parseltongue, but he could only understand it but could not speak it.
"Snake head!" Lockhart caught the key word: "Look at it and say it's Medusa."
Medusa’s head is full of snake heads, isn’t she a murderer? Really hammered.
Clapping his hands, Dudley stood up and looked at the other professors: "I don't think this is Medusa."
"The snake heads of Medusa are all very small, and there are a lot of them. Mrs. Lorris said that the snake was bigger than the corridor."
How could a thousand-year-old basilisk be compared to a mere Medusa?
"Stop joking, how could there be such a big snake?" Lockhart joked, and then showed his iconic two rows of teeth again: "Mr. Dursley, it's just a cat, what does it mean to be big? The size it sees may be just what it thinks it is."
Before Dudley could speak, Filch became excited: "Mrs. Norris is very smart! She can't lie and she can't be wrong!"
He was not like this usually. Although Filch was very strict with his students, he always maintained enough respect for his professors.
But you can insult him, but not his cat.
That's his only companion!
"Dudley, what do you think that is?"
Dumbledore ignored Lockhart and focused his gaze on Dudley, along with the gazes of other professors.
Under the gaze of countless eyes, he slowly spoke again: "A giant snake-like magical creature, Professor Dumbledore, I think the answer is already obvious."
There are not many magical snake creatures in the first place, and there are only a few famous ones, and with the ability to petrify, there are even fewer.
"The basilisk is a basilisk."
"Mr. Dursley, your statement is even more ridiculous. Magical creatures like basilisks are rarer than Medusa."
Lockhart tried his best to prove that his guess was correct: "As far as I know, that dangerous magical creature has not appeared for a long time. You said it was a basilisk. Why didn't you just say it was Slytherin?" Raise, where is the basilisk that has lived for a thousand years?"
The Lockhart portraits on the surrounding walls nodded after hearing Lockhart's words.
Breeding a basilisk is extremely complicated, let alone raising one that big.
"And the basilisk's eyes can kill. The cat was just petrified."
Dudley said casually: "Is it possible that Mrs. Norris indirectly saw the eyes of the basilisk through the water on the ground, so she was only petrified instead of killed."
Mrs. Norris nodded frantically and meowed in agreement.
The two held their own opinions.
The professors looked at each other with a headache.
In fact, both Medusa and Basilisk are nonsense to them.
Hogwarts Castle is the safest place in the world. How could something like that happen? Eh? It seems like a few trolls came in last year.
(End of chapter)
