Chapter 280: [Animal Shrinkage] (Edited)

The three of them and the little cat entered the green mist of the Chamber of Secrets. They passed the stone pillars carved with coiled snakes. Slowly, they walked into the deepest part of the Chamber of Secrets.

Among the four of them. Snape was the most serious. He looked carefully at everything around him. Even the cracks in the tiles and the snake scales on the pillars. He had to scrub everything.

On the contrary. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were much more relaxed. It was like being a tourist.

The one who was bored the most was Fish. He had been up and down in the Chamber of Secrets. There was nothing but rocks. Nothing interesting to look at. Snape's nose was almost stuck to the pillar.

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They walked slowly towards the innermost part of the Chamber of Secrets. Snape became even more excited when he saw the statue of Slytherin. His thin lips even trembled at the sight of it. He looked at the huge statue of Slytherin. There was no telling what he was thinking as he didn't move.

"Minerva, can I call Uroboros now nya?"

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After standing stupidly with Snape for a while, Fish finally got a little impatient, tugged on Professor McGonagall's sleeve and asked.

Professor McGonagall said nothing. Instead, she looked at Dumbledore. As long as it didn't involve her own cat, for the most part, she still respected Dumbledore.

"Ahem! Severus. Back up a bit. Fish is about to call the snake monster."

In fact, Dumbledore was getting impatient as well. He was a Gryffindor. He had a lot of respect for Slytherin. But that was as far as the respect went. After all, if it came down to a contest of magical prowess. The current Dumbledore was not necessarily inferior to the Founding Four.

At Dumbledore's reminder. Snape's body jerked. He snapped back to reality. Then he stepped back as he was told. And closed his eyes along with Professor McGonagall. And put on a supersensory spell.

"Hiss..."

Fish spoke Parseltongue again, but this time the sentence was obviously much longer.

The statue's mouth slowly opened. With a crunch, the huge body of the basilisk came out of the statue. And landed hard on the ground.

"Uroboros, I've come to see you nya."

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Fish greeted the basilisk, trotting over to meet him.

Uroboros first touched Fish's face with his usual kiss. Then he looked behind Fish at Dumbledore and the others. There was some confusion in his mind...

How could there be another guy who wasn't afraid of his gaze?

The third heir?

As for Snape and Professor McGonagall, they were simply ignored. They couldn't even look him in the eye, there was nothing to worry about.

But the next moment he didn't think so....

"Let me introduce you. Minerva McGonagall. Fish's mother," Fish said, pointing at Professor McGonagall. Uroboros immediately approached her. He also touched her cheek with a kiss. A gesture of friendship...

Professor McGonagall stiffened at the basilisk's touch and forced a smile.

"This is Albus Dumbledore. Headmaster of Hogwarts nya."

"Hiss."

Nothing unusual about the headmaster of Hogwarts. Uroboros knew the Founding Four who founded the school. So he simply said hello.

To his surprise, Dumbledore replied with a smile, "Hiss."

"Hiss, hiss?" (Do you speak Parseltongue, too?)

The basilisk asked suspiciously. Parseltongue from the other party...

Why is it so bad?

It had to be said. Dumbledore had a real talent for languages. The first time he said "hello" in Parseltongue, it was recognizable to the basilisk. But the intonation was a bit off.

And while Fish couldn't understand Dumbledore's Parseltongue, his ears were very good.

"Albus. There's something wrong with your pronunciation nya. It's 'hiss' not 'whistle'."

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The kitten blinked and corrected.

"Really? I'm just trying" Dumbledore chuckled nonchalantly. Then he said to Fish, "Translate the basilisk for me. I just learned Parseltongue on my own. I can't innately speak Parseltongue. I can basically only understand, but I'm not very good at speaking."

"That's awesome too nya. Fish made a great effort to learn English at first nya" exclaimed Fish. He relayed Dumbledore's words to Uroboros with sincerity.

Then the basilisk lost interest in Dumbledore. Though the other party could see him, he should be a wizard with good strength. But... he had seen four of those wizards before. No big deal.

"This is Severus Snape. The current Dean of Slytherin House nya."

The basilisk looked at Snape, not even daring to look him in the eye.... Shame on the old master!

But he did it for the sake of his old master and Fish. He would also say "hello."

Even if it was a simple greeting, it made Snape very excited.

Then he heard Fish say again, "And. Severus took the change of skin you left outside. He said he was going to make a magic potion out of it."

Snape wasn't the only one. Even Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were getting nervous. They didn't expect Fish to suddenly say this to the basilisk. God knows what the basilisk's attitude towards the skin that was shed.

Dumbledore was annoyed. He had forgotten to warn Fish earlier - it would be bad if the basilisk got angry about this!

Luckily, what they feared didn't happen. The basilisk just leered at Snape and wagged its tail lazily, not intending to chase him at all.

Of course, Uroboros didn't care. His molted skin had been used by his former master to make potions. It was mainly used to make an antidote to his own poison (it only delayed the appearance of the basilisk's poison. It did not cure the poison). The great squid of the black lake had drunk a lot of that potion.

And also. Snape seems to have a good relationship with Fish. He is also the younger generation of the old master. It's just a shedding of skin. No big deal.

Seeing that the basilisk didn't react, Dumbledore and the others were relieved and planned to leave first God knows what else this kitten could do to scare people.

As a result, they only took one step when Fish stopped him.

"Albus, wait nya!"

"What's wrong, Fish?"

"Fish needs your help with something. Just wait a moment nya."

Dumbledore paused curiously, Snape and Professor McGonagall were also waiting with their eyes closed.

They saw the kitten hugging the large basilisk head. After mumbling for a moment, the basilisk spat out its tongue and then obediently curled up in front of Fish.

Then Fish put his hands on the basilisk. His face was tense. his little face was tense and he looked very serious, Dumbledore couldn't help but get nervous.

And then. From Fish's hands came a faint white light. It spread quickly all over the basilisk's body. And then. The basilisk's massive body shrank to less than half a meter in size, as Dumbledore watched in awe.

[Animal Shrink: Shrinks a willing animal. Damage caused by the animal's natural attack is reduced as it shrinks in size]

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Not just Dumbledore. Even Snape and Professor McGonagall, who sensed the situation around them with their spells, were surprised.

Especially Professor McGonagall, who was good at transfiguration. It was not particularly difficult to shrink a creature. All that was needed was a certain level of transfiguration skill. Or a good understanding of the shrinking spell. It is possible to shrink ordinary creatures, and even some magical creatures.

For example, in the last school year, Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort, once shrunk a Troll.

But change the target to a magical creature with a system as large and as resistant to magic as a basilisk. It was a different story.

Not to mention her, even Dumbledore couldn't do that!

Unless multiple wizards cast a shrink spell or a transfiguration spell at the same time. Using the overlapping effect of the spells and relying on brute force to force such an effect by force.

Snape's shrinking basilisk skin shedding was another matter.

First, the difficulty of shrinking a living creature is different from that of a dead creature. Secondly, the magic resistance of a basilisk skin molt had a significant reduction against magic. And lastly. A shedding of skin is just a layer of skin. It looks huge, but the actual size is very small.

Shrinking a molt of basilisk fur is even less difficult than shrinking a mink.

"Ha! It worked nya!"

Fish didn't know how amazing what he had done was, he grabbed the ultra small basilisk lying on the ground and ran over to Dumbledore with it, walked on his tiptoes and lifted the basilisk in front of him.

"Albus, take a look, Uroboros eyes can kill people now nya?"

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