Give Him This Chance
There are many types of magical animals in the magical world.
There are thousands of species that have been discovered and those that have not been discovered.
Newt Scamander, a famous researcher on magical animals, has recorded about 80% of the magical animals in the magical world in his book "Where Are Fantastic Beasts".
This book is not only a must-have textbook for first-year students, but also a must-have tool book for every wizarding family.
But even such professional science books don't cover all magical creatures.
Hermione really wanted to catch the person who opened the secret room, but she also knew clearly that if she wanted to find out the truth of the matter, she had to grasp a direction that could explore the truth.
She is indeed a very smart girl.
The state of the students who were attacked became the point where she grabbed clues.
It is absolutely indisputable that the one who attacked the students was not the descendant of Slytherin himself, but the monster in the secret room.
As for the magical creatures that have the ability to turn people into such a look, the entire magical world can never count five fingers.
With such obvious characteristics, it is certain that the corresponding magical animals can be found in the recorded books.
So these days, she has been looking up all kinds of information related to magical animals.
Especially those who are biased, who have never appeared a few times in history, and are her key research objects.
But it took her nearly two months to go through all the books related to magical animals in the library, and she couldn't find any animals with the ability to permanently petrify people and make them immobile.
In the library, Hermione returned the "Encyclopedia of Fantastic Beasts" she had previously borrowed, and then flipped through a few books in front of the bookshelf, and prepared to walk outside in disappointment.
She put her hand into the pocket of her robe, and suddenly felt a small piece of paper. She took it out and unfolded it before she found it.
This is a temporary note she made when Sherlock arranged for them to find information on snake magical animals a few months ago.
It can also be clearly seen above that Hermione wrote on it before about some characteristics of the black magic creature of xxxxx dangerous level - the basilisk.
"The basilisk, an artificial black magic creature, with eyes that have a direct-to-death effect, great lethality, and extremely high danger, but the hatching method is simple. '
Hermione looked at the note on the note, her eyes gradually spread out, as if thinking of something, she muttered to herself.
"Parseltongue...basilisk...that strange sound..."
She stood in front of the library door, looked up at the ceiling, and the pupils in her eyes shrank slightly.
"It's a pipe!"
Her tone began to become extremely excited!
"It's the pipe! It's been moving through the pipe!"
Thinking of the answer, Hermione jumped up and turned in a circle excitedly, and then quickly wanted to find Harry and Ron and tell them what she found.
However, when she ran to a remote corridor, she felt something was wrong!
She stopped and listened carefully to the movement she had just noticed. The rustling voice was above, as if some slippery creature was wandering on the ceiling!
Hermione's breathing began to quicken, her hands trembling from the tension.
Without acting rashly, she carefully took out a small circular mirror from her pocket and pointed it at the ceiling.
It was a long, emerald green body that was slowly sliding on the ceiling, and it looked exactly like the animal Hermione had guessed!
Just when Hermione's breathing became heavier and he could no longer contain her nervousness, she was about to scream.
A pair of huge brown eyes suddenly appeared in the mirror, looking into Hermione's eyes!
The next moment, Hermione was completely frozen in place.
The small mirror in her hand fell to the ground, and there was a crisp sound.
At the same time, Hermione's completely stiff body also fell to the ground, making a muffled sound like a stone statue falling to the ground.
On the ceiling, the rustling sound gradually faded away, and finally disappeared completely in this corridor.
But then, the sound of erratic footsteps gradually sounded from a distance, and slowly walked to the petrified Hermione.
He bent down, and the outstretched hand was trembling constantly, even worse than the previous Hermione trembling.
But in the end, he still got what he wanted.
It's the piece of note paper with the characteristics of a basilisk written on it.
He put the ball of paper into his pocket, then took out another note, and put it into Hermione's clenched hand with great effort.
After doing all this, he straightened up again and staggered away from here.
After more than ten minutes, finally a few girls who had just come out of the library and were about to return to the Ravenclaw lounge came here chatting and laughing.
They saw Hermione lying on the ground, and everyone froze in place.
The next second, screams of horror spread throughout Hogwarts Castle.
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The news of another attack spread quickly.
Because the Quidditch match that was originally planned to start today was canceled, and Professor McGonagall called Harry away with a solemn expression.
All the other students were ordered to return to their houses and were not allowed to go out at will.
Ron squeezed out of the crowd and walked with Harry to Professor McGonagall.
Rarely, she did not object to the rule-breaking this time.
She led them up the marble stairs, some grumbling about the cancellation of the game and others looking nervous, and up the marble stairs, but this time they were not led to anyone's office.
Professor McGonagall eventually took them to the hospital wing.
Harry and Ron saw the petrified Hermione in the hospital bed.
The two stood there blankly, completely unaware that the person who was attacked this time was actually their best friend!
Seeing the expressions on their faces, Professor McGonagall's voice was surprisingly gentle.
"You will be shocked, but I still have to ask, this was found around Miss Granger. Do you know how to explain it?"
She held a small round mirror in her hand, Harry and Ron both shook their heads, their eyes fixed on Hermione, unable to say a word.
Professor McGonagall finally sighed and took them both back to the Gryffindor lounge.
At this time, in the headmaster's room, Sherlock also stood opposite Dumbledore with a solemn expression.
"He's doing it again! We can't go on like this anymore, we have to find a way!"
Dumbledore stared at a letter on the desk, thinking quietly about something, and after a while, he said.
"The news can't be suppressed now. If the outside world knows what happened at Hogwarts this semester, there is a high probability that the school will be closed. At that time, all our plans will be in vain. So he is waiting for an opportunity, the right opportunity for him to start and accomplish the ultimate goal."
The headmaster's room was completely quiet, and even the light snoring that used to sound on the walls disappeared.
Dumbledore's voice came softly.
"And we can try to create this opportunity for him."
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Editor: The time publish thing broke sorry #23
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