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Chapter 81 Give him this chance
There are many types of magical animals in the wizarding world.

Discovered and undiscovered, there are thousands of species in total.

The book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by Newt Scamander, a famous researcher on magical animals, records about 80.00% of the existing magical animals in the wizarding world.

This book is not only a must-use textbook for first-year students, but also an almost necessary tool book for every wizarding family.

But even a popular science book like this one doesn'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 grasped the clues.

It is absolutely indisputable that it was not the Heir of Slytherin himself who attacked the students, but the monster in the Chamber of Secrets.

As for the magical creatures capable of turning people into such a look, the entire magic world can never count five fingers.

Such a distinct feature is sure to find a corresponding Fantastic Beast in the recorded books.

So these days, she has been looking up various materials related to magical animals.

Especially those unorthodox ones, which have never appeared a few times in history, are her key research objects.

But it took her nearly two months to search 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 unable to move.

In the library, Hermione returned the "Encyclopedia of Fantastic Beasts" that she had borrowed earlier, and then flipped through a few books in front of the bookshelf, and was a little disappointed to go outside.

She put her hand into the pocket of her robe, and suddenly felt a small ball of paper. She took it out and unfolded the paper to find it.

This is a temporary note she made when Sherlock arranged snake-like magical animals for them to search for information a few months ago.

It can also be clearly seen on the above that Hermione wrote on it before, about some characteristics of the black magic creature of the xxxxx dangerous level-the basilisk.

'The basilisk, a man-made black magic creature, has eyes that have a direct death effect. It is extremely lethal and extremely dangerous, but the hatching method is simple. '

Hermione looked at the note on the note, her eyes gradually diverged, as if thinking of something, she muttered to herself.

"Parselmouth. 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 around excitedly, and then quickly wanted to find Harry and Ron and tell them what she had found.

However, when she just ran to a remote corridor, she felt something was wrong!
She stopped in her tracks and listened carefully to the movement she had just noticed. The rustling sound was above, as if some slippery creature was wandering on the ceiling!

Hermione's breathing became labored and her hands were shaking from the tension.

Without acting rashly, she carefully took out a small round mirror from her pocket and pointed it at the ceiling.

It was a long, emerald green body that was slowly sliding across the ceiling, and it looked exactly like the animal Hermione had guessed!
Just when Hermione's breathing became heavier and heavier, and she couldn't suppress her nervousness anymore, she was about to scream.

A pair of huge brown eyes suddenly appeared on the mirror, looking directly at Hermione's eyes!

The next moment, Hermione completely froze 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 sculpture falling to the ground.

On the ceiling, the rustling sound gradually faded away, and finally completely disappeared in this corridor.

But immediately, a wave of erratic footsteps gradually sounded from a distance, and they walked slowly to the side of the petrified Hermione.

He bent down, and the outstretched hand was trembling constantly, even more trembling than Hermione before.

But in the end he got what he wanted.

It was the ball of note paper with the characteristics of the basilisk written on it.

He put the ball of paper into his pocket, then took out another note, and stuffed it into Hermione's clenched hand with great effort.

After doing all this, he straightened up again, and staggered away from here.

After another ten minutes or so, a few girls who had just come out of the library and were about to go back to the Ravenclaw lounge came here chatting and laughing.

When they saw Hermione lying on the ground, everyone froze in place.

In the next second, screams of terror spread throughout the entire Hogwarts castle.

News of another attack spread quickly.

Because the Quidditch match originally planned to start today was cancelled, and Professor McGonagall called Harry away with a serious expression.

The other students were all ordered to return to their lounges and were not allowed to go out at will.

Ron squeezed out of the crowd and walked to Professor McGonagall with Harry.

Rarely, she didn't object to the professor this time.

She led them past students, some muttering about the cancellation of the game, and others looking nervous, up the marble stairs, but this time they were not taken to anyone's office.

Professor McGonagall eventually took them to the school hospital.

Harry and Ron saw Hermione petrified in the hospital hospital bed.

The two stood there in a daze, completely unaware that the person 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 want to ask, this was found next to Miss Granger, do you know how to explain it?"

She held a small round mirror in her hand, and both Harry and Ron shook their heads, their eyes fixed on Hermione, unable to speak a word.

Professor McGonagall finally sighed and took the two of them back to the Gryffindor lounge.

At this time, in the principal's office, 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 about something quietly, and after a while, he spoke.

"The news can't be suppressed now. If the outside world knows everything that happened at Hogwarts this semester, there is a high probability that the school will be closed. At that time, all his plans will be in vain. So he is waiting for an opportunity, a It is a suitable opportunity for him to do it and accomplish his ultimate goal."

The principal's room was completely quiet, and even the light snoring that used to sound on the wall disappeared.

Dumbledore's voice sounded softly.

"And we can try to create that opportunity for him."

(End of this chapter)