From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

After all the ghosts were dispatched and searched the Hogwarts Castle several times, they finally discovered the figure of little fat Grub in a hidden corner.

When Xiwen arrived, he saw his chubby body floating above an abandoned classroom on the second floor of the castle, with his protruding belly close to the ceiling, making him appear naive and adorable.

His whole body was in a semi-transparent and semi-petrified state, and the expression on his face was not as frightened and frightened as Mannis's. Instead, he seemed to have a... feeling of joy at seeing the hunter?

Xiwen looked at the strange expression on Grubb's face and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.

"So the thing that attacked them was indeed a magical animal, right? It had to be a magical animal that looked delicious..." he commented.

"I think there's nothing wrong with it." The fat monk nodded in agreement.

With the mentality of doing an experiment, Xiwen silently blew on the ceiling, causing Grubb's body to sink into the ceiling, leaving only half of his body exposed in front of the faces of Xiwen and other ghosts.

"It seems that Grubb's current petrified form is slightly closer to the entity. I have never seen a ghost that can be blown by the wind before." Xiwen pinched his chin and said thoughtfully.

Nick, who was almost headless, shook his shaky head and asked, "So what does this prove?"

"This seems to prove that the attack of this magical animal is a magical power that can hurt people from the soul level. It is very weird and very powerful." Xiwen said thoughtfully. "Currently, I only know of a life-killing spell for magic of this nature, which means it is also an almost rule-based magic."

"Now that we have come to this conclusion, the scope of our search for corresponding magical animals will be much narrower, and it will be much easier to find them."

Thinking of this, Xiwen's spirit was slightly lifted from the two consecutive attacks, and then he said to the two ghosts around him: "Friar, Sir Nicholas, the little fat guy Grub is left to you, take him to the school Go to the hospital, I believe Professor Bierley and Mrs. Dallaire will come up with a treatment."

After explaining this matter, Xiwen opened a golden circle of light around him again.

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"Can it involve the rule-based power of the soul?" Newt asked in surprise at the Pig's Head Bar, the temporary base of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Yes, I feel that it has similar properties to the Death Curse, except that one causes death and the other makes people petrified." Xiwen analyzed. "But essentially they should start from the soul and then affect the body through the soul."

"But this doesn't explain the little ghost's behavior." Newt frowned and said in confusion. "I have never heard of a magical animal whose petrification ability can affect the soul from the body!"

"Have you never heard of it?" Xiwen couldn't help but frowned and asked in a different direction. "Or if you think about it on the other hand, is there any magical animal that looks delicious and can make Grub look like he was hunting before he was petrified?"

Newt shook his head slightly, took out his copy of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" from the old-fashioned suitcase that he kept with him, and began to rummage through it carefully.

"I don't think there are any animals I've ever seen that have such abilities and look delicious. Either there's something wrong with your description, or I've never seen that kind of magical animal before." Newt said doubtfully. .

But he was confused, but his expression was full of interest, "The second option is best, I can also add another illustrated book of magical animals to this book!"

Newt gradually became excited as he thought that he might discover another magical animal that he had never seen before.

"Wait a minute!" Just when he turned to a certain page in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", Newt suddenly stopped turning the book and asked. "I seem to have found a magical creature that is somewhat similar to the one you mentioned!"

"Oh?" Xiwen also became interested and moved closer to Newt to look at the book and album in his hand. "This magical creature is... a basilisk?"

The album shows a huge venomous snake with dark green skin and yellow eyes. It has a bright red feather on its head. The basilisk in the picture also swings its tail from time to time, or changes its direction, seemingly to allow readers to better see its full picture.

There is a text next to the moving picture, which introduces the creature basilisk——

The basilisk is a dangerous creature of the ?????? level, also known as the snake king. This snake, which can grow to very large sizes and often live for hundreds of years, is hatched from an egg by a toad. The basilisk kills in astonishing ways. In addition to its deadly fangs, its glare can also kill. Anyone caught in its gaze will die immediately. Spiders will run away when they see a basilisk, because the basilisk is the mortal enemy of spiders, and the basilisk will run for its life as soon as it hears the crowing of a rooster, because the crowing of a rooster is also fatal to it. ——Newt Scamander, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them".

"As far as I know, the basilisk's glare is also a rule-level magic, but like the Death Curse, it will directly deprive the wizard of his life instead of petrifying them." The famous author explained. "As for that little ghost, maybe he has never seen such a big snake, so he is almost drooling?"

Xiwen was startled for a moment, nodded in agreement and said, "This is really possible."

He recalled the scene of Mannis's attack and the situation of Grubb's attack, and slowly opened his eyes.

"I remember... the direction Mannis was looking at when he was attacked was the black lake below the entrance courtyard." Xiwen said word by word. "If looking into the eyes of a basilisk can kill people, what if it is through the reflection of light on the lake? Will it be weakened?"

"I don't know about this. Maybe there are other aspects of the basilisk's abilities that I haven't discovered yet." Newt's expression became a little excited again as he said. "If seeing the sight of the basilisk through the reflection of the lake surface will weaken the damage suffered by the wizard from death to petrification, what is going on with the little ghost? According to his expression, it does not look like he is seeing it from the reflected mirror The basilisk."

"I guess, after all, Grubb has already died once, and it is impossible for him to die a second time." Xiven said. "So, it's very possible that as a ghost, it only has a remnant soul. The death gaze of the basilisk cannot have the full effect, so it was weakened to petrification, making Grubb what it is now."

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