Alchemy professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 58

"Also, the spider will run away when it sees the basilisk, because the basilisk is the spider's deadly enemy.

"As long as the basilisk hears the crowing of the rooster, it will also run away in a hurry, because the crowing of the rooster is also fatal to it." Hermione added.

"If that's the case, then a lot of things can be explained..." Harry waved his arms excitedly, recalling everything that happened in the past.

"Remember? We saw a lot of spiders fleeing the castle in hordes because they were afraid of the basilisk!"

Harry took a bite of the lava cake, "Also, roosters! Hagrid also mentioned that all the roosters in Hogwarts have died recently."

"but--"

Harry quickly frowned again, "It doesn't make sense. Looking into the eyes of the basilisk will cause death, but Mrs. Norris and Colin Creevey only suffered petrification damage."

"I see, then it must not be a basilisk." Ron suddenly realized, but Hermione gave him a blank look.

"I also heard from the professors about this. They think that it is very likely that the basilisk is too old, and the lethality of the eyes has weakened."

Hermione pursed her lips, "I think it's very possible."

The three of them were talking, when Ron's mouse, Scabbers, suddenly jumped on the dining table and knocked over a glass of cherry juice. The bright red juice immediately spread and flowed along the edge of the table to the ground.

"Hey, Ron, watch your mice!" Hermione and Harry stood up quickly, avoiding the rush of cherry juice.

"Wait," Harry looked at his own reflection in the cherry juice, suddenly seemed to think of something, "I have an idea, maybe it can better explain why it's the petrification problem."

Following Harry's line of sight, Hermione also saw the table full of cherry juice, and immediately fell into a brief thought, "So that's it!"

Seeing Harry and Hermione smiling at each other, Ron hugged his mouse, Scabbers, and quickly asked, "What? What did you think of?"

Harry looked at Ron, "It's water! Although I wasn't there at the time, I've heard from others that there was a puddle of water at the scene of Mrs. Norris' attack."

"And then?" Ron still couldn't figure it out.

Hermione then added: "Maybe Mrs. Norris didn't meet the basilisk's eyes directly, but saw him through the water stains on the ground."

"What about Colin Creevey? There's no water stain where he was attacked." Ron forked a piece of cheese pudding and stuffed it into Scabbers' mouth.

Harry and Hermione were lost in thought at the same time.

"Damn it, I feel like the truth is right in front of our eyes, but I always feel like something is missing."

Ron waved his arms, imitating Harry's previous appearance.

In the auditorium, the cheerful Christmas dinner was coming to an end, Hermione knocked on the dining table with a silver knife and fork, "The time is up, we have to act."

Hermione watched Goyle and Crabbe get up from the table and leave, and urged: "I'll prepare the compound potion first, and come to me when you get their hair."

After finishing speaking, she stuffed the cake with sleeping potion into Ron, and left the auditorium first.

"Harry." Ron looked at the cake in his hand, "We have no other choice."

"Let's do it!" Harry made up his mind, and led Ron to secretly follow in the direction Goyle and Crabbe left.

Moaning Myrtle's washroom.

Hermione found the Polyjuice Potion she had hidden in the compartment, and put it on a row of circular sinks.

"Oh, what's there?" Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in her right foot, as if she stepped on something sharp, almost cutting her foot.

Backing away, Hermione found a dark green sheet-shaped object under the circular sink.

Pushing away the fallen tile fragments on the sink with her palm, she carefully pinched the dark green thin object in her hand and looked at it, "What is this?"

Staring intently at the thing in her hand, Hermione found that on its dark green exterior, circles of diamond-shaped textures could be seen, "My God, this looks like the snake scale of a basilisk..."

At this moment, the ventilation duct on the ceiling of the bathroom suddenly made a piercing sound, as if something was moving inside.

She screamed in fright, and the snake scale she held in her hand immediately fell quickly, and then fell into the compound decoction with a "plop" in her widened eyes.

"Do not--"

As the snake scales fell into the Polyjuice Potion, an unusual wave of magic began to ripple through the washroom.

Black ashes began to emerge from the hot compound decoction, like a black snake crawling out of the flames.

"Oh, it's ruined, it's all ruined, my Polyjuice Potion!" Hermione's brows were all wrinkled together, and she tugged at her collar in heartache, while keeping backing away.

"Crack clap..."

As the container containing the compound soup began to shatter, more and more intense magic fluctuations filled the bathroom.

"I have a bad feeling." Just as Hermione finished speaking, a small-scale explosion hit like a storm.

With a sound of "Boom", the circular washstand was instantly torn apart, and the broken bricks and stones hit the wall like arrows, leaving shallow dents.

Hermione hid outside the bathroom, and the flying gravel flew past her hair in a very dangerous way.

When she poked her head in, the bathroom was already a mess.

"If Professor McGonagall knows, he will punish me severely." Hermione had a bitter face, she felt that her Christmas was really bad.

He actually blew up a bathroom in Hogwarts, how many points should Gryffindor be deducted because of her?
"Fortunately, this bathroom has long been abandoned. If I accidentally hurt other people, I may be fired."

She was extremely annoyed, she shouldn't have picked up the snake scale on the ground just now.

Who would have thought that compound decoction with a piece of snake scale would explode!
"If there hadn't been a loud noise in the ventilation duct, the current bad situation wouldn't have happened." Hermione inserted her hands deeply into her curly hair and pressed her head hard.

The gravel fell to the ground, the smoke and dust dissipated, and the bathroom that suffered a small-scale explosion returned to calm.

Nervously, she stepped on the gravel all over the floor and walked into the bathroom again, only to find that the original row of cubicles had collapsed one after another.

The most severely damaged was the row of sinks in the center of the bathroom, all of which had been razed to the ground.

Pursing her lips, Hermione tentatively came to the sink, but unexpectedly saw a dark pipe leading directly to the ground.

"My God, what is this? There is actually a vertical pipe hidden under the sink in the bathroom?"

Surprised, she picked up a piece of gravel and threw it in, and then there was a series of ding ding dong dong sound, which lasted for a long time.

It can be seen that the pipeline in front of him is very deep, and it may lead to somewhere underground in Hogwarts.

Squatting on the edge of the pipe, the dark wall of the pipe is extremely wet and slippery. Occasionally, there will be cold wind with a fishy smell pouring out from the other end of the pipe, which is disgusting.

At the same time, water splashed in the deepest part of the toilet, and the silver-white ghostly Myrtle floated into the air, looking at the mess on the ground with an angry expression on her face.

"Look what good things you have done! You blew up my territory!"

Hermione was observing the dark pipe when the angry Myrtle suddenly appeared behind him, shouting at the top of her voice.

"what!"

Hermione screamed suddenly, her foot slipped, and she immediately fell into the slippery pipe, and disappeared without a trace amidst a series of screams.

"Don't think you can escape, my Myrtle will always catch you!" Hovering over the dark pipe, Myrtle shouted angrily.

(End of this chapter)