It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 48 Is it possible that Professor Forrest is a crow's mouth?
"The basilisk? But its real power lies in the fact that the person being watched will die immediately instead of being petrified?"

When Professor McGonagall heard Sherlock's words, he said inexplicably.

Sherlock pointed to the completely burned out camera in Dumbledore's hand.

"The students who were attacked should not have looked directly into its eyes, but passed through something, like Colin through the camera, and Justin, who was attacked last time, through the reflection of the puddles under his feet."

Dumbledore gave him a look of admiration.

"Sherlock has a very keen observation ability. Now I can't figure out why those people said that it is not suitable for you to join the combat department when you joined the Auror."

He looked at the camera in his hand and said softly.

"It is very likely that the creature that attacked was a basilisk, but the crux of the matter is not who the attacker was, but who opened it"

The voice of his last sentence was a little low, and Sherlock and Professor McGonagall didn't hear what he said clearly.

Then Dumbledore shook his head.

"If it's really a basilisk, the way to defeat it is also very simple. The crowing of a rooster is fatal to it. I remember that Hagrid has a lot of chickens and can use them as a defense. "

However, things are not that simple.

Hagrid's chickens were all strangled to death by someone overnight last night.

Obviously, the person who released the basilisk had already prepared for these natural enemies.

But anyway, with Sherlock's reminder, Dumbledore and the school's professors made preparations in advance.

Cocks are not precious magical creatures, they can be bought everywhere outside, and the known dangers are much easier to deal with than the unknown ones, which also gives confidence to the professors who know it.

But the students have no such confidence.

In order to maintain secrecy, they found out that the creature attacking the students was the work of the basilisk and did not tell any of the students.

So the little wizards are still afraid of unknown dangers.

All young wizards from Muggle families were in danger. Even Neville, who was usually timid, turned pale day by day, and the horror and fear in his eyes couldn't be concealed at all.

"Why are you afraid of Neville? You are a pure-blood, the target of that monster in the Chamber of Secrets will not be you."

Ron comforted after seeing the expression on Neville's face in the Gryffindor common room.

But his consolation didn't have any effect. Neville left the common room in a dazed state, looking in his direction, as if he was going to the library.

"He's always been so timid, just leave him alone." Harry said thoughtfully, he was in no mood to doubt Neville's abnormal reaction now.

"Professor Forrest just blessed Colin yesterday, and then Colin had an accident today. This is definitely not a coincidence!"

Hermione also looked puzzled.

"But Professor Forrest is absolutely impossible to be the murderer. We discussed it before. He is a half-blood. The descendant of Slytherin must be of pure blood, right?"

"That's not necessarily true." Ron said solemnly, "Remember what I told you before, there are very few wizarding families that can truly be called pure blood. Maybe it has been extinct long ago. The family passed down from Slytherin may have forgotten their ancestral identity in the middle of the process. After all, the few pure-blood families that survive now have never heard of anyone who has anything to do with Slytherin. relation."

The evidence that proved Sherlock's innocence before was also overthrown by Ron. At this time, Hermione was shocked to find that, based on the current evidence, the suspicion of Professor Forrest was no less than that of Malfoy.

She stammered.

"But, but I still don't believe it. If Professor Forrest is really the murderer and he really hates Muggle-born wizards so much, then why is he willing to answer my questions for me? Although his tone of voice He is indifferent, and his attitude towards people is very average, but in fact we all know that Professor Forrest is a very good person. In Diagon Alley, he even fought for Mr. Weasley and Malfoy's father. One."

Hermione's words weighed heavily on both Ron and Harry's hearts.

When they first met Sherlock, they didn't have a good impression of him because of his nonchalant manner.

But in the later contact, they found that the real Sherlock was not as indifferent as he appeared on the surface.

The real Sherlock is gentle and gentle. Even if he is not smart enough, he never speaks ill at each other. The class is humorous and interesting. In order to make them interested in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he even tried to conjure up characters from cartoons and anime to be their teaching assistants.

Now nearly half a semester of studying and getting along with each other has made Harry and the others truly accept this professor. They can't imagine that Sherlock is really the murderer who wants to "clean" the entire school cold-bloodedly.

After a long silence, Harry suddenly spoke abruptly.

"You say that Professor Sherlock is not the murderer, but that he is simply more crow-mouthed?"

Hermione and Ron were flabbergasted by his hypothesis, which was neither magical nor scientific.

"Harry, I know you don't want Professor Forrest to be the murderer, neither do we, but you can't use such baseless words to cover up his suspicion, it's not good to others Responsible"

"I'm not covering up, I'm serious!"

Harry solemnly interrupted what Ron was saying, and he analyzed it carefully for Ron from beginning to end.

"Do you still remember that on the first day of school, we drove a flying car to school, but we crashed into the Whomping Willow and got injured?"

Ron was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

"Of course I remember that. The willow tree seemed to go crazy suddenly and wanted to kill us."

"Then we went to Madam Pomfrey for treatment. On the way back to the Gryffindor common room, we met Professor Forrest. Do you remember what he said to us?"

"I said...he doesn't want someone to ask for leave in his first class."

Ron was only impressed by this sentence, because he and Harry were discussing how to make up a reason not to go to class tomorrow, but Sherlock caught him.

Harry shook his head.

"Not that, what he said when he saw us was 'I thought you'd finally land safely. ""

Ron and Hermione looked stunned.

"What kind of evidence is this? Maybe Professor Forrest just said it casually at the time, and the fact that we were injured was just a coincidence."

(End of this chapter)