Professor of Gemology at Hogwarts

A huge object suddenly fell to the stone floor, and the secret room was shaken.

Gray squinted and moved his gaze to the rough stone next to him. In his peripheral vision, he could see a giant snake slipping out of the mouth of the Slytherin statue. He also vaguely heard Harry hissing in the corner.

Now everyone retreated, waiting for Fox to attack and peck out its eyes.

The rooster's crow echoed in the hall. The basilisk was angered by the crow and began to attack. It hit Dumbledore directly in front of him.

Dumbledore moved a few steps to the side. He did not close his eyes. Like Gray, he was observing the situation with his peripheral vision. However, this was indeed dangerous. He would look away if he was not paying attention.

"Fawkes!" Dumbledore ordered softly, and Fawkes immediately chirped sweetly.

Then Gray heard a crazy hissing sound.Hearing a huge friction sound, it must be the basilisk swinging its body vigorously.I also heard something slam the stone pillar aside.

Fawkes kept chirping, and finally made a strange sound, and Dumbledore obviously understood what it meant: "The basilisk's eyes have been poked out."

Gray opened his eyes.

The two huge yellow eyes like light bulbs were pecked blind by the phoenix.Black blood spurted to the ground, and the basilisk grunted in pain. Its huge snake tail kept slapping against the stone pillars and walls, and it began to flee in all directions.

"It can bear it! Hogwarts doesn't allow you to cause trouble!" Flitwick jumped out, waved his wand, and the surrounding stone pillars began to move quickly towards the middle, trying to clamp the panicked basilisk, and the basilisk kept stopping. Turn left and right to avoid the pillars.

"Don't run!" Sprout scattered the devil's net vines on the ground at this time. Those vines took root in the gaps between the stone bricks and quickly grew bigger and bigger.

The devil's net and the stone pillars entangled each other, shrinking smaller and smaller, tightly binding the basilisk, making it difficult to move even an inch.

Harry stuck out his little head and started to look around: "It's in pain now, I hear it!"

Hagrid picked up the chicken cage that had just fallen, walked over carefully, and placed the cage next to the basilisk.The roosters jumped up and down next to it, and the basilisk made a shrill scream. It kept twisting, but it was entangled tighter in the devil's net.

Gray suddenly felt that the crystal he was holding was of no use. The people in front of him worked together to defeat the basilisk, as if it was not his turn even if he made an attack.

"Harry, what does it say now?" Hagrid asked curiously.

"It's... uh..." Harry walked between the professors. "It's scolding us... in a very unpleasant way."

Snape raised his wand and prepared to kill it. A beam of light hit the basilisk, but the spell was deflected, grazing Gray's robe and hitting the stone next to him.

Gray was stunned for a few seconds and looked at Snape in surprise.The divine edge is invisible?This was a rhythm that almost cut him!

Snape also looked at Gray with surprise.

"The surface of the basilisk's skin is covered with scales, which can deflect spells, Severus." Dumbledore added, "Fortunately, Gray is lucky."

"But what other way is there? Just wait for these chickens to kill it?" Snape looked at the twisting snake coldly.

"Uh... maybe we can trap it and starve it to death?" Harry came out of the corner.

"Unrealistic." Snape sneered.

"If you want a quick solution, the Sword of Gryffindor can defeat it." Dumbledore, "Fawkes——"

He was about to summon the Phoenix to get the Sorting Hat, when Gray thought of the spar in his hand.

"Try this." Gray slammed the large piece of hematite to the ground, and the intact stone fell into pieces.

He raised his wand and shined a white light at the fragments, and the hematite fragments began to glow faintly.

With a wave of the magic wand, the fragments were levitated, and he threw the crystal stone into the air. The two merged into one, and the fragments turned into small sparkling sequins, and there were a lot of them.

Then the small sequins were concentrated and compressed into a ball as big as the Quaffle, and Gray controlled it to float and move.

The snake was still screaming, with its two huge, bloody eye sockets, its mouth opened very wide, spitting out words, and two rows of thin fangs as long as silver swords were exposed in its mouth. Yes, glowing coldly.

"It's now!"

The sequins flew into the basilisk's mouth, and except for the feeling that the big ball choked the basilisk, no other changes occurred.

Just when everyone was wondering what Gray was going to do, several beams of white light shot out from the gaps in the basilisk's scales. The basilisk twisted in pain, and the devil's net almost wrapped around its body.

Then the white light became thicker and thicker, illuminating the entire dark secret room. The black scales of the basilisk exploded one by one, revealing beams of dazzling white light. Everyone couldn't help but squint their eyes.

Along with the basilisk's scream, it was submerged in white light. Finally, the light in the secret room returned to normal. The basilisk's head lay motionless on the ground. A section of its body near the head was missing, and the whole body looked like a cut water pipe. Black blood continued to gush out, and some pieces of meat and snake skin fragments were soaked in the pool of black blood.

"Ouch!" Harry covered his mouth, speechless in surprise, and took a few steps back.

Gray himself was also shocked. Is this hematite so powerful?Or is the crystal too powerful?Why haven't I seen anyone else use it before?Do you find it too strenuous to carry?

"..."

"It looks like Fox doesn't need to make another trip." Fox landed on Dumbledore's arm. "Well done, Gray. The power of the crystal is far greater than we imagined, especially when it exceeds the limit." In case of mixed crystal..."

"Now that it's solved, we should clean up the battlefield." Snape walked towards the basilisk corpse.

He had already had the idea of ​​a basilisk, and he conjured up a few empty bottles from nowhere, and began to collect the things on the basilisk, including snake skin, snake meat, internal organs, and snake nodules.

Harry also moved closer to take a look.

"Careful, kid, don't touch the fangs," Flitwick warned.

Gray looked at the saber-like fangs, which were thin and long and extremely sharp.nice one!This is an artifact that can destroy Horcruxes!Moreover, Gryffindor's sword did not absorb the snake venom just now, so one should be kept as a spare.

He squatted in front of the snake's head and carefully compared which one was more beautiful.

"Do you want its fangs?" Dumbledore bent down and looked at Gray with interest.

"Yes, I want to keep it as a souvenir." Gray waved his wand, and one of the fangs was pulled out and put into a glass jar. "Uh... is... not allowed? Principal."

"No, of course it is allowed." Dumbledore smiled, "This is indeed something of special significance. Just keep it safe and don't get hurt."

"Don't worry, Principal Dumbledore, of course I will pay attention to safety."

"How do we get out?" Sprout looked up at the top. Except for the door that came in, other places were closed.

"This will cause trouble for Fawkes." Dumbledore stroked Fawkes. "The phoenix is ​​not only a very beautiful and loyal pet, but it can also carry extremely heavy things. It is easy to take us up."

Fox shouted.

"Oh - well, it said we were too heavy and needed to be divided into two trips." Dumbledore looked at Fawkes with a smile, "But I guess it is resenting me for not feeding it for so long. food."