war and peace

Leaving the room full of stunned people, Harry picked up the scattered books and left the Slytherin common room after Tom, back to their dormitory at the bottom of the cellar.

Once inside, Tom went into the bathroom.Harry sat down heavily on the bed, still unable to shake off the anger at the fact that "someone wanted to be among them".Hmph, do they really think he's easy to bully?He was a Gryffindor, but he could also vouch that he knew more Dark Arts spells than all those little brains put together!Next time, he really doesn't mind letting them try their power, Voldemort will be very happy...

"I said," Tom finally came out of the bathroom, "you're not going to help me heal this wound?" He turned his head so that Harry could see the blood on the corner of his mouth.He had looked at the injury carefully in the mirror just now and found that it was not a big deal, but it was really unexpected that Harry would do so.

"Of course not!" Harry was getting angry, and retorted without thinking, "Let them all see it!" He suddenly thought of something, "You can't do it yourself!"

Tom raised an eyebrow. "I don't care, I can just make up a reason after the scar is formed... But you," he rubbed the back of his neck, "are you going to keep that?" Don't think he didn't see it, although Harry is not a compliance He is a law-abiding boy, but at least he will try his best to cover up his violation of the regulations, otherwise he will not give him any underage reasons to prevaricate him.

Harry subconsciously touched the place with his hand.The robe couldn't cover it, otherwise Malfoy wouldn't be able to breathe directly onto it.Thinking of dangling under the eyes of the professors with a bright hickey, Harry hesitated a bit; but when he thought of those coveting people, he immediately put all his hesitation to the wind: "Of course!" The voice was firm.

Tom kept watching his expression change. "It's up to you." Then he lay down on his own bed, and as usual, opened a thick tome and began to read.There was a large stack of such books on his bedside table, which would surprise anyone who saw it (house-elves would come in and clean the house, but they were gagged by Slytherin).

The secret room in the secret room has a rich collection of books, and most of them are orphans or rare books, which are extremely precious.Voldemort also taught him a lot of the content... Harry stared blankly at the silver family crest on the spine, and it took him a long time to recover, and then realized that he should take a bath instead of thinking about things that are not beneficial to the present. history of the situation.

The moment he pushed open the bathroom door, Tom called out to him: "Pissy wants to go out. I didn't want to tell you about it," he put down the book, "because you'll definitely object, yeah no?"

Harry froze as he kept his hand on the doorknob.Hanging around the same place all the time, even if the Hogwarts pipes are long enough, over 1000 years is indeed enough to break people - no, basilisks. "There is a way," he thought for a while, and then said, "it can make her eyes harmless... But I only have a fixed amount of potion, no formula... and I have already broken a bottle..." He Start walking back, ready to check your inventory.

"Are you agreeing?" Tom was a little surprised. He thought—letting the basilisk out for a walk—this idea should also touch Harry's bottom line... Should he say that his ancestors were really good at predicting things?Slytherin said that Harry would definitely help him find a way instead of vetoing it.

"To be exact, on the premise of not affecting other people's lives, I think it's understandable that Pixie wants to take a walk." Harry glanced at him, and then said matter-of-factly: "If Pixie is not a snake If it's weird, I think Slytherin's behavior must be punished by the Department of Regulation and Control of Fantastic Beasts (Tom frowned) - I mean, if they knew - he is definitely abusing his pets."

But just before he took out the medicine chest, Harry noticed a detail that he had overlooked in the first place.The book in Tom's hand had the title How to Raise a Basilisk Safely (With a Guide for Non-Barspeaker included) stamped on the cover. "Oh! You have the formula!" He should have thought of it earlier, he hadn't heard of the basilisk prevention method until he and Voldemort returned to Hogwarts!

"Then can I assume," said Harry's familiar smirk again on Tom's face, "are you willing to try this difficult potion?"

The next day, Tom and Harry purposefully ignored some of the girl's almost fire-breathing stares, and Professor Slughorn's banter later at the Slug Club ("Oh, come on, fall? Seriously. Tell me, which hottie made it for you, Tom? And Harry, you too!") and Nott and Rozier, who couldn't be more stiff at hearing this, began their Potion plan.

For the next two months, Harry and Tom went to the Chamber of Secrets every night.Because no matter how you calculate it, the secret room is much safer than the dormitory or other places.And instead of walking down the corridor to the bathroom entrance on the second floor, they Apparated straight away—a horrific master's privilege in a Slytherin castle.Tom and Harry took turns looking at the potion in the obsidian cauldron (Harry had seen Voldemort make this kind of dark potion before), and when they were tired, they went to rest directly in the secret room, anyway, there were beds and bathrooms in it.Slytherin occasionally gave them a look, but most of the time he was nowhere to be seen.

By the time of the Easter holiday, the potion in the cauldron turned into a thick liquid that didn't stick to the walls at all, like black mercury, which meant that it was finally boiled.The timing couldn't be better, and the two decide to take Percy into the Forbidden Forest one night during the holidays.

"I've never tried an invisibility spell on something this big," Harry told Tom the night of the operation, starting at the basilisk's head and working its way down. One would be better." Truth be told, he was full of anticipation for what was to come - he had never done anything like this before!Join the Dark Lord and unleash the Basilisk right under Dumbledore's nose!

Tom folded his hands and stood beside an empty jar (the amount of potion given to the basilisk to drink far more than that of a human being), watching the basilisk's body disappear from the air bit by bit.It has to be said that this gave him an intuitive understanding of Harry's hidden strength, at least in terms of invisibility spells and tracking; and his accomplishments in potions are also amazing.Tom looked again at Harry's eyes, which were narrowed in concentration (they looked very charming now), maybe this man was really what he said, he was an adult - although he was still impulsive and reckless at times, But that's only in front of him... Look at how he settles those annoying admirers!And Dumbledore... Tom actually wanted to know what Harry had said to Dumbledore that day to keep him silent after seeing the hickey.

"...Okay, if we are careful, it will only take half an hour to get to the Forbidden Forest, and it shouldn't be a problem until then." After Harry finished speaking, he didn't hear anyone answering, and turned around to find that the latter was staring blankly. his movements.Foolishly?Harry was surprised by his discovery, "Tom! I said, shouldn't you pay more attention to this?"

"Aren't you working on it?" Tom pulled his thoughts back, and replied bluntly: "If you ask me, it's basically impossible for this plan to go wrong..." How could a Hogwarts student be so advanced? Invisibility spell?To put it bluntly, this is entirely the patent of brilliant wizards.It is completely impossible for anyone to think of it, so it means that they will definitely be able to reach the Forbidden Forest safely without being discovered.

Besides, the creatures in the Forbidden Forest, such as unicorns, have been domesticated and Percy will not take the initiative to attack them; It was vague, so he wasn't worried about what Dumbledore would hear—because even if he heard it, it didn't matter, there was nothing he could do with them now, and Tom was absolutely confident of that.

Finally, there is the issue of potion persistence.It takes a long time to brew it, but the lasting effect is also impressive.A jar's goodness lasts about four months, and they're brewing enough to last two years at a time (as for the precious medicinal ingredients that's going to be consumed -- come on, who cares?).In other words, Percy can move around Hogwarts at will in the future, as long as she drinks the potion on time.In fact, that's what Slytherin did more than 1000 years ago.But before he passed away, he locked her in a secret room for safety.

"When did you feel so relieved..." Harry muttered softly.But it is undeniable that this sounded very pleasant, and he was very happy.Then he cast an invisibility spell on himself and Tom, and Tom cast a shrinking spell on Percy, and the two of them started walking out of the castle in one snake (apparition may cause the magic to fluctuate, causing the invisibility to fail, so they didn't use).

Hogwarts was very quiet at night.Tom was surprised to find that Harry's Invisibility Charm had allowed them to pass through the castle walls invisibly, and made another note to Harry.Although Harry's magic was not enough to make the basilisk's body disappear into the air, they had to let her crawl out of the castle gate-but this already shows one aspect of the future that he rarely mentioned. He was probably telling the truth, about being popular or something… Tom pursed his lips, he had to say he really didn't want to find out.

Everything happened as expected.They didn't alarm anyone, and they didn't get lost in the Forbidden Forest (they had scouted the terrain beforehand and found Percy a nest in a wet hollow).However, just as he was about to reach the scheduled location, Tom felt the snake in his arms start to twist, and then something got out. "Passie!" he had to call out.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked in a low voice.Having reached the depths of the Forbidden Forest, he simply lifted their invisibility spell.

"She moved suddenly, as if something else had attracted her attention." Tom looked around vigilantly, but found nothing.The invisibility spell cast on the basilisk is still in effect, which means that Harry and Tom can't see anything, and can only judge her direction by the slight friction sound.

The two called out in a low voice while slowly moving forward.Suddenly from the side front came the sound of many feet trampling the ground, mixed with the creak of tripped branches and something, and then a crack like an arrow cutting through the air.There was a piercing scream at the end, and it sounded like something had hurt.It was struggling desperately, making the trees rattle.The birds in the forest in the distance were startled by the movement, and fluttered around.

Harry glanced in Tom's direction in the dark, and at the same time began to run wildly.He had a bad premonition, the sound of many feet stepping on the ground that he heard first, was very familiar...

They were not far away and quickly arrived at the scene of the incident.The light in the Forbidden Forest is very dark, especially at night, and it takes a very large object to barely see the outline.What they saw now was an eerie sight: an animal with many legs was waving a pair of pincer-like objects in mid-air (Harry was sure they were pincers) and screaming in pain, begging for mercy with the last of its strength and struggled, as if something underneath had bitten half of its body and held it in midair.It's almost the size of a large roulette wheel, so imagine that the invisible thing underneath is a bigger guy.

Harry stared blankly at Aragog, then at Tom, and then asked, "You removed Percy's shrinking spell?"

"Yeah, I just got time to do this..." Tom's voice sounded equally stunned. "This seems to be... an acromantula?" It was obvious, the thing was a spider at first sight, and no other kind of spider could speak human words while being bitten—at any time.

Harry wondered if he should stop this going on.Apparently the movement of the basilisk had disturbed Aragog, who was originally living in Hogwarts, so Hagrid sent it to the Forbidden Forest.Unfortunately it was wandering (or maybe just passing) near their chosen location tonight and was spotted by Percy.Leaving aside the creepy feeling of having spiders big and small everywhere and Aragog later letting his offspring eat him, Harry had a hard time imagining how a half-eaten spider would heal.

This all happened in an instant, and a basilisk that was more than 1000 years old was more than enough to deal with an acromant that hadn't grown up yet.Percy solved Aragog in two bites, and also solved Harry's problem by the way.

The visual effect of this scene was so strong that Harry was stunned.Until Pai Xien settled down and returned to the cellar dormitory, that scene was still circling in his mind.At last it struck him with horror: Could it be that he hadn't seen Aragog in the Forbidden Forest in his first year because he had killed it with Voldemort and his basilisk 50 years earlier?