From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

"Now there is another question, does the basilisk belong to the category of 'snake'?" Sivan looked at Newt and asked.

"Yes, basilisks also belong to the magical animal category of snakes." Newt nodded and affirmed.

"It seems that it was indeed Riddle who did it. There is no other possibility." Xiven sighed and said softly. "As a descendant of the Gaunt family, he can speak Parseltongue. It doesn't surprise me that the basilisk obeys his instructions."

"And as far as I know, Riddle doesn't want to return to a Muggle orphanage, so he doesn't want Hogwarts to close. So he most likely knows the basilisk's ability before we do, and specially arranges it He used half of his ability to attack Mannis and Grubb, but did not actually commit murder to prevent Hogwarts from being forcibly stopped by the Ministry of Magic."

"But what he may not know is that Hogwarts is no longer a school that the Ministry of Magic can easily stop." Sivan shook his head and chuckled.

"Not only that, this basilisk is probably the one left by Salazar Slytherin in the Chamber of Secrets a thousand years ago." Newt added next to him. "After all, in a completely dormant state, basilisks can live for more than a thousand years!"

Once he knew who the enemy he was facing was easier to deal with, Xiven immediately turned around and opened a dimensional door, preparing to find Riddle and the basilisk and deal with them directly to avoid causing trouble for other little ones. The wizard brings crisis.

"Wait a minute, Sivan. Are you really ready to face the basilisk?" Newt stood up and asked worriedly. "A regular-based ability like the Basilisk that can cause death is really not that easy to deal with!"

"It doesn't matter. Didn't you say that the crowing of the rooster is also fatal to the basilisk? They will run away crazily when they hear the crowing of the rooster?" Xiwen said nonchalantly. "I'm going to buy a big rooster first and then deal with the basilisk."

As he said that, he turned to look at Newt and asked, "Speaking of which, I still don't know why the basilisk is afraid of attacks. The two are not of the same size, right?"

"Maybe it's because of the way the basilisk hatches?" Newt said uncertainly. "If you place an egg under the body of a toad and hatch it, there is a certain probability that this creature called a basilisk will hatch."

"There may be many roosters who will eat them as bugs when they see a small snake hatching from the egg. Over time, the basilisk will feel scared when it hears the crowing of the rooster." Newt analyzed. "Many animal instincts are acquired and are ultimately deeply engraved in their blood."

"I know, then I don't have to worry anymore!" Xiwen said with a smile. "Wouldn't it be nice to get a few more roosters? No matter which one crows first, it can cause considerable damage to the basilisk."

Looking at Xiwen's performance, Newt shook his head helplessly.

"Stop thinking about the cock. Have you forgotten the name of our organization?" he asked. "There is obviously a more suitable magical animal for you to take away than a rooster."

"You mean...you want me to take Fox with me?" Xiwen asked with his eyes wide open.

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When Xiven saw a creature like a basilisk for the first time, it was one day not long ago in a girls' bathroom at Hogwarts.

At that time, Xiven was looking for the whereabouts of Riddle and the basilisk. On the way, he passed a female bathroom, and a steady stream of crying came from inside.

Xiwen originally didn't want to pay attention to the cry of the little witch in the bathroom, but he accidentally heard a slightly familiar name from the little witch's intermittent sentences, so he stood outside the bathroom door and shouted inside -

"Who's crying in the bathroom?"

The crying in the bathroom stopped suddenly, as if it was cut off immediately.

Some time after Xiwen finished speaking, the crying inside began to come out intermittently again.

Xiwen went and returned. After confirming that there were no other little witches in the bathroom, he walked into it without hesitation.

"Stop crying, tell me something." He whispered to the crying little witch in the cubicle. "May I have your name?"

The little witch seemed a little frightened by Xiwen who broke into the women's bathroom. It took him a long time to react and said tremblingly: "I thought this was the women's bathroom..."

"It's the women's bathroom, yes." Xiwen nodded and said nonchalantly. "But as a prefect, it shouldn't be a problem for me to enter a place like this and deal with the crying matter of the little wizard, right?"

"Tell me your name first. Just treat it as a question from the prefect."

"I...my name is Myrtle Warren. I just have a habit of coming to the bathroom and crying for a while when I'm sad. I shouldn't have made any mistakes..." the little witch named Myrtle Warren said. said tremblingly.

"No, it's not your fault to be sad." Xiwen said comfortingly. "Tell me, what makes you so sad?"

After a lot of talking, Xiven finally managed to convince the third-grade witch named Myrtle Warren to tell her story to him.

So in Myrtle's hesitant voice, Xiwen learned the whole story.

It turns out that Myrtle is a Muggle-born witch. After entering Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, she was sorted into Ravenclaw House.

However, Myrtle failed to make friends at Hogwarts. Instead, she was often ridiculed and bullied because of her appearance, including ugly glasses and acne. Among them, her roommate, Oliver Humbe, mocked her the most.

"At that time, Oliver Humbe laughed at me for wearing glasses like a four-eyed dog, so I hid here." She complained through tears. "Why do they have to fight with me? I don't want to wear glasses either!"

After hearing Myrtle's story, Xiwen didn't know what to say.

As far as he knew, although the Ravenclaw academy had a very strong learning atmosphere, it often happened that people looked down on others. This atmosphere of mutual comparison was second only to Slytherin.

Slytherin's main comparison is blood, while Ravenclaw's comparison is some academic matters and whether a young wizard can get along with others.

If the descendant of the prophet who opened the third eye, Manto Trelawney experienced a long period of being ridiculed and ridiculed by others, but she could clearly see everyone's behavior that was about to ridicule her. Ridicule and sarcasm often remain unflinching.

Over time, the Ravenclaw wizards no longer came to her to ask for trouble.

But Myrtle is different. She is a genuine hemp wizard. Having no friends at Hogwarts means that she cannot make friends in the entire magical world. Therefore, she must have finally been unable to bear the loneliness from the bottom of her heart recently, so she chose to come to this bathroom to cry bitterly.

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