From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

"Bird Snake Egg?" Snape recognized the egg in his hand at a glance.

As a magical animal identified by the Ministry of Magic, the danger of bird snakes is obvious to all.

Although in general, their main foods are small creatures in the forest, including insects, mice and birds, but they can also capture monkeys.

The magical ability of the bird snake is to change the body shape according to the size of the space. It can be so large that it can be stuffed with the entire room, or it can be used to install it into a teapot.

The eggs of the bird snake are sterling silver, very soft and high, so they are very sought after in the black market in the magic world.

"Do you use bird snake egg yolk to make the main material of shampoo?" Snape snorted coldly, "It's really a storm."

Because the bird's egg yolk can give the hair gloss, it can be used as an additive for shampoo. However, in addition, bird snake eggs are one of the main ingredients of making Fuling agents. Therefore, for Snape's potion professor, it is indeed a rare and precious material.

Facing Snape's poisonous tongue attack, Lohart was not angry, but shook a finger erected, and said with a smile: "Consider, Severus, you are jealous."

"As long as you have read my series of works, you can understand that I am an important qualification for a small and well -known adventurer -keen observation and precise and efficient intuition!" Lohart apparently put the flash of silver light Bird and snake eggs are used as their own prizes. He raised silver eggs on his face once again showing his big white teeth. "If you want to be a qualified master of black magic defense, carefulness and courage are absolutely indispensable. These advantages can be found in this humble place! "

"Ship house is not inconspicuous." Ron murmured outside the door, facing the eyes of two friends, he also said, "I mean ... think about it, this is Hogwarts, the most in the world, the most in the world A good magic school, the first time I entered the school for the first time, I started from here. "

Hermione shook his head: "Why do birds and snake eggs in the school? They are all banned products!"

Harry's eloquent expression was seen by the keen Hermione, so she asked doubt: "Do you know what? Harry? Is it Hagrid? Will it be a pocket pyramid or guest Maira beast next year? "

"I can only say -this is indeed nothing to do with Hagrid." Harry said vaguely that he noticed that the conversation between the two professors in the boat house continued, or that Lomat's performance continued. So he quickly moved Hermione's attention: "Look at Professor Snape's expression, I think he may launch an attack at any time."

"It was scary after playing the big manure in the potion class last year after Fred and George ..." Ron commented that although he hadn't seen him with his own eyes, he could understand that Snape could be understood from the description of the two brothers. How angry is it. For Snape, I am afraid that Lohart in front of him was the one that made him even more angry, because they were colleagues, and Snape had no appropriate reasons to punish Lohart.

"This way Professor Lohart is dangerous ..." Hermione said worriedly.

"He is a master of black magic defense, and he also subdued the monsters in the secret room. Which round of we was worried?" Ron didn't want a good show to fall. Appreciate the battle of the two adult wizards.

"Oh my God ..." Hermione sighed in a low voice, hate iron and looked at Ron, "Do you still don't understand now? Professor Lohart had no monster in the secret room ... His injury before was that his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was just his injury was. It is caused by the boat house ... perhaps the bird snake that appears here ... "

"What?" Ron couldn't help but look back. I didn't feel right as I wanted to say something, and then found that her good buddy Harry looked at himself with the same eyes.

"Harry ... is Hermione's all true?"

Harry nodded.

"No one tells me?" Ron scratched his head and said, "Now Lohart is going to be violently stunned by Snape."

Lohart was indeed violent, but it was not Snape, but the bird snake that suddenly came out of the small wooden boat.

This monster with blue and blue feathers and a pair of glittering purple wings immediately turned his body bigger, almost occupying the entire ship house, hissing and launching an attack facing Lohart.

"Great, Professor Lohart." Snape took a step back and said, "I can see the famous Lohart war bird snake."

"Help! Severus!" Lohart dodged the sharp beak of the bird snake, screamed.

"I believe that the master of the Dark Magic Defense has a lot of spells to cope with the situation in front of me," Snape retreated a little back, without any intention of shooting.

"It will kill me! I was not like this last time!" Lohart hit a roller on the ground, and the wand in his hand fell aside. "It passed less than a month! How does it grow so big? "

"Don't worry, Professor Lohart." Snape almost retreated to the corner. "If you die, I will tell you every reader, their idols are killed by a bird snake just full of the moon, But before that, he worked hard to resist ... at least, um ... dead. "

"Really?" Lockhart seemed to be attracted by Snape's flat description. "The end of the legendary master of Defense Against the Dark Arts? This title sounds good! Maybe my reputation won't be damaged... Maybe my next series can use this title - Dark Force, the Fall of Gilderoy?"

Just when Snape was shocked by Lockhart's off-line behavior, the bird snake that had just come into this world gave Lockhart a profound lesson.

The knife-like beak pierced deeply into Lockhart's arm, leaving a hole with blood.

"Ah--" Lockhart screamed and rolled on the ground, frantically asking his colleagues for help, "Help me, Severus! I can give you all the bird snake eggs!"

"This is really impressive." Snape muttered in disgust, and at the same time provided the only little help, kicking Lockhart's wand back to him, "It's more eye-catching than the more than 800 Valentine's Day cards you sent to yourself when you were in school. It's a pity that your loyal fans can't see this scene."

"It's certain that a loyal fan saw it..." Ron whispered outside the door, and Hermione glared at him.

Harry, who witnessed everything that happened, finally connected all the events together and pieced together the whole picture of the matter.

More than a hundred years ago, Ivy got a nest of bird snake eggs from the dark wizard in the Forbidden Forest. Because he had been away from the nest for too long, he just put the eggs in the Room of Requirement.

As the magical animals in the Room of Requirement a hundred years ago began to appear in Hogwarts today, the nest of bird-snake eggs also drifted to the boathouse, and one of them hatched a living bird-snake.

In early December, Lockhart returned to Hogwarts with a body full of horrible-looking wounds. According to him, those wounds were left when he fought with the monster in the Chamber of Secrets. But later in the school hospital, Harry, Ron and Hermione went to visit Lockhart, and heard from the head nurse Madam Pomfrey that the wounds on Lockhart's body were just some superficial injuries.

Now think about it, those wounds were caused by the bird-snake in the boathouse, and Lockhart himself also understood that a newly hatched bird-snake was not enough to take on the monster in the Chamber of Secrets, so he assigned them three extra homework. He wanted to use the students' conjectures about the Chamber of Secrets to add material to his writing.

Later, on the day after Christmas, Harry saw Lockhart tidying his hair outside the Defense Against the Dark Arts office. The small silver bowl on his desk should be the bird-snake egg obtained from the boathouse.

Now that the holiday is over and Professor Snape has recovered his vitality, Lockhart can't wait to come to the door and invite the Potions Professor to go to the boathouse to find potion materials. Although Lockhart is a big talker, he at least knows that bird snake eggs are a very rare potion material. Maybe he learned it when he was researching shampoo.

Harry remembered the test in the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class of this school year. The test paper that only Hermione answered correctly mentioned Lockhart's ambition: to eliminate evil in the world and to promote his own shampoo.

The shampoo he invented must have used the expensive and rare bird snake egg yolk. As for Lockhart's saying that he wanted to "eliminate evil in the world", it now seems that it might just be an act of self-promotion.

Harry still remembers the words he said when he pulled him to the greenhouse, those advices about reputation and the like. Lockhart must be keen on that thing.

Looking at the two friends around him, Ron was exclaiming excitement, because Lockhart in the boathouse was in danger and had to roll back and forth on the ground to avoid the attack of the bird snake.

As for Hermione, she stared at everything happening in the boathouse with a worried look on her face.

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

Maybe she hopes that Lockhart will show his power to deal with the bird snake, just like in the novel.

Harry thought, and looked at the paper held in Hermione's hand again - the extra homework that Lockhart used to collect materials for the Chamber of Secrets.

A flash of inspiration flashed through Harry's mind.

Hermione must have guessed everything a long time ago, including the fact that Lockhart was a liar, she just tried not to let herself doubt Lockhart.

No wonder she seemed so struggling and furious before submitting the paper. Harry knew that his friend had always believed in the knowledge learned from books, but what should he do when there was contradictory evidence in the two books?

On one side is Lockhart, the master of Defense Against the Dark Arts who has written seven adventure stories, and on the other side is the big book hidden in the corner of the Hogwarts library. Who is right?

Thinking about what Hermione said to Ron before, she must have known the answer. Now she is so entangled, obviously because she still has a little fantasy about Lockhart in her heart.

Harry felt that he couldn't watch his friend being deceived by a shameless big talker like this, and wanted to tell the whole truth, but immediately thought of Dumbledore asking him to keep it secret in the headmaster's office.

"Can I see your paper, Hermione?" Harry asked aloud. If Hermione herself had really guessed the truth, then he would not have violated the confidentiality agreement with Dumbledore.

"What?" Hermione stared at him in confusion, "Now?"

"Yes! Just a glance..." Harry grabbed the paper from Hermione's hand and looked for the word on it at a glance, "... Basilisk... Basilisk... It's here!"

"Dude, it's a fight inside - I mean, Lockhart is rolling around like a sausage on a pan, and you're thinking about reading a paper? Did the book hit your brain?" If they were not both wizards studying at Hogwarts, Ron would have suspected that Harry was possessed.

Harry ignored Ron and said to Hermione sincerely: "Your guess is right, there is really a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets."

"How did you know?" Hermione asked in surprise, "The Chamber of Secrets was opened? During the Christmas holidays?"

Hermione guessed the truth at once, but Harry could only answer vaguely: "I can't say... Anyway, Dumbledore already knows everything..."

"Ah--" Hermione's expression relaxed, she sighed and said, "I actually knew the truth about the Chamber of Secrets a long time ago, and I have verified it from Ivy. But I just... I still have a little hope for Lockhart... But I still want to say, thank you, Harry."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Ron looked at his two friends suspiciously, "Are you hiding something from me? Why did I hear Ivy's name?"

Harry was speechless for a moment, so he had to look at Hermione with expectation, hoping that she could help out.

"It's hard to explain it in a short time," Hermione glanced at the boathouse again. Lockhart's blue forget-me-not robe almost turned into a beggar's outfit. "Anyway, you just need to know that Lockhart is indeed a guy with a superficial appearance."

"Oh... I actually saw this a long time ago." Ron muttered and stopped talking.

The bird snake's huge body crushed one small wooden boat after another, and it was still attacking Lockhart relentlessly. However, since it had just hatched less than a month ago, the attack was quite accurate. Even a idiot like Lockhart could rely on rolling on the ground to avoid its sharp beak.

However, as the anger grew, the bird snake's body became bigger and bigger, and Lockhart's rolling space became smaller and smaller. Even Snape, who had been standing in the corner, felt that he had nowhere to stand.

So he reminded him: "Recite the spell, Professor Lockhart? Could it be that the wand in your hand is just a small wooden stick with a superficial appearance?"