Chapter 56 Sniffing Is the Eternal God

Filch's attack still had a big impact.

For several days, the students didn't talk about anything else, all day long talking about his attack.

But everyone still holds a schadenfreude mentality.

Nobody likes Filch!

Filch's performance also made everyone forget this incident all the time. He seemed to be severely hit, holding a broom all day like a walking corpse and mechanically cleaning the castle.

He was always muttering: "Harry Potter."

Many students regard Harry as the hero who defeated Filch.

Mrs. Norris's behavior was the most bizarre. She didn't dare to approach Filch at all. Every night, she ran to sleep on the cat climbing frame of ******.

So, William prepared a small nest for Mrs. Norris, and served them all day long.

It would be better if Mrs. Norris could give birth to kittens here, so that they would not be noticed by Filch.

Although Dumbledore kept saying that the Chamber of Secrets was not important, William still wanted to look around and see what he found.

In fact, he has already had a secret room target, and it is not too difficult to find it.

For example... a secret passage!

There are many secret passages at Hogwarts.

Some winding paths lead to secluded, dense forests, and some are hidden in the deep valleys, with water gurgling outside.

Each secret passage is deep or shallow, large or tight, and the posture of entering is also different.

For example, in the corridor on the seventh floor of Hogwarts Castle, there is a portrait of Wenlock, the arithmetic and fortune-teller.

Behind the portrait there is a secret passage leading to the portrait room, which is filled with Hogwarts frames, and the password is "Snafflejack".

William had been there many times and had benefited greatly from discussing potions and spells with several of the principals.

There are a total of seven secret passages to Hogsmeade known so far.

In first grade,

The twins often walked the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor.

But later, William and the others found the skin of a giant snake inside, and several people never walked there again.

Dumbledore guessed that the basilisk was a monster in the secret room, and the basilisk had faded here, so this secret passage must have an entrance to the secret room.

When he came to this secret passage again, William was still very impressed. It is not so much a secret passage as it is the underground palace of Hogwarts.

It is really like an underground palace, with a main road, and there are countless small rooms and walkways on both sides of the road.

Soon, they arrived at the building directly below the rotunda.

By the light, they could see the solid form of forty Doric columns against the upper marble floor.

The buildings in this underground palace have no trace of time flow, the reliefs are lifelike, and the colonnade is carved with complex ancient runes.

When he first came here, William was a freshman in the first grade, but now he can read the text on the building.

"What does it say?" Cedric asked.

He has also studied ancient runes, but he is only limited to knowing the vocabulary, and he can't understand the meaning of the above.

"These pillars are engraved with magic to protect the building from destruction."

William did not get information from above about the specific purpose of the building.

However, in the era of the Big Four, it must be a very important secret meeting place.

It seems that the Big Four are also doing education work on the surface, and they are doing pyramid schemes behind the scenes.

The four walked towards the front and saw the lake deep in the ground.

There is an island in the middle of the lake.

There are pyramids on the island.

The pyramid was about two stories high and made of granite. Under the illumination of the floor lamp, the four facets are polished and polished.

The surrounding magic ensures that no one can enter the middle of the lake.

Since they couldn't get close, they didn't stop too much and walked towards the place where the basilisk skin was found.

"right here."

They came to a corridor with the bones of various small animals, apparently the basilisk had eaten here.

The four moved on and saw the outline of a coiled behemoth.

It was a huge snake skin, pale, and it seemed to have faded for a long time.

"Isn't there a basilisk in the back room?" Fred said worriedly.

In case they found the secret room and found there was another one inside, they would burp.

"Probably not. From the point of view of food, Hogwarts can only support one basilisk." William analyzed.

Didn't you see that this basilisk eats food like mice?

Rats are not enough to stick between their teeth. If there were two basilisks, they would have already pinched them.

This also shows from the side that the basilisk will not take the initiative to attack the wizard, otherwise, there are so many delicious snacks in the school, it would have given up a long time ago.

"But be careful," said George, pulling a rooster out of the ring.

The sound of a rooster is deadly to a basilisk.

"Where did you get the chicken?" William asked curiously.

"Hagrid's, I stole it." George said excitedly. "Look at this chicken is big and fat. After we find the secret room, we can eat chicken in it."

William nodded. He still has a lot of condiments on him, so he can indeed have a small barbecue.

The four walked along the corridor, and Cedric couldn't help but asked curiously:

"William, I checked the books in the library, to get the basilisk, you need to put an egg under the body of a toad to hatch.

Since the method is so simple, there should be many basilisks, but why does Mr. Scamander's book say that there have been no basilisks in England for hundreds of years? "

The twins also looked at William.

William pondered for a moment and explained, "Not just any egg can hatch a basilisk, it must be a male egg."

"Do roosters have eggs?" Fred asked curiously.

"Of course the rooster has an egg," William said. "The egg is not an egg in the normal sense, but a mixture of cock's penis and feces."

"This mixture, after seven years of gestation, becomes the size of an egg. With such a false egg in the belly, the rooster stops eating, keeps digging the grass in the nest, and can't be quiet.

Then, avoiding its eyes and ears, it secretly lays its eggs on Sirius's brightest night.

The eggs that are laid are male eggs, also known as devil eggs. "

This section of the method of making a basilisk was seen by William in a book in the restricted area of ​​the library.

There is so much magic that many books only touch on it, and don't tell you a spell or how to make a certain magic item.

But in the restricted area of ​​the Hogwarts library, you can always find the answer you want.

Of course, there are times when it fails.

William had seen an entry about Horcrux in Tywin's "Three Volumes of Esoteric Philosophy".

He searched the restricted area of ​​the library several times, but found no information on how to make Horcruxes.

It is mentioned only slightly in the preface to The Poisonous Magic: "The Horcrux, the most evil of magical inventions, is neither discussed nor directed here."

What is this behavior?

And Fermat's sentence... 'I am sure I have found a wonderful proof, but unfortunately the blank space here is too small to write down'... It is similar to the effect.

If you don't write it, why mention it!

Simply outrageous!

"So, it takes seven years to conceive, no wonder there are so few basilisks." Cedric shook his head.

William thought about it for a while, and continued to popularize: "Actually, this kind of devil egg is not only able to get basilisk.

If it was hatched not by a toad, but by a poisonous snake, a basilisk would be born. "

The basilisk is different from the basilisk, it has wings and bears the head of the chicken.

But it is as dangerous as the Basilisk. In the Triwizard Tournament in 1792, the warriors had to deal with a chicken-body snake-tailed monster, and then the three principals were injured and many students died.

Since then, the tense and exciting Triwizard Tournament has never been held again.

The four walked and chatted, and finally reached the end of the corridor, where there was a broken wall.

They crossed the wall and glanced inside.

"This is... the sewer of Hogwarts." George exclaimed.

"The basilisk is always going through the pipe, so people can't find it," Fred said.

No wonder basilisks can enter the Quidditch field from Black Lake.

Most of the pipes at Hogwarts flow to Black Lake. Basilisks can enter Black Lake, and then enter the Quidditch arena through the one-way pipe.

William remembered another thing. In the Hogwarts tectonic plan that Dumbledore showed him, he once wrote:

In the 18th century, Corvinus Gaunt led the construction of the Hogwarts plumbing system.

The Gaunt family is descended from Slytherin.

He estimated that he had discovered the secret room, so he deliberately used a complex piping system to completely hide the basilisk to prevent it from being found by others.

"It's very complicated here. Even if we investigate, we have to find it for a long time, and it's easy to get lost." Cedric said.

Hogwarts has pipes all over the school, and it is not easy to get lost in such an environment.

"It's okay, we have it." Fred grinned and pulled out his big treasure.

- Sniff.

Sure enough, sniffing is always the god of dripping!

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