The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

"...Dumbledore seems to have some relationship with the Magical Congress of the United States of America, and he easily obtained the business license..."

After Snape finished explaining what the professors had recently discussed, all the scales on the basilisk's body were removed and put into a suitcase that had been prepared in advance.

After the scales were removed from the basilisk's body, the rough gravel-like skin was exposed, and the thick horn and remaining broken scales looked even more similar to rocks.

He didn't feel it when processing the scales. After finishing the work, standing a little further away, Loren looked at the whole body of the basilisk. Seeing that the dozens of feet of behemoth was "skinned off", a kind of feeling suddenly rose in his heart. An extraordinary sense of accomplishment.

"What to do with the remaining flesh, viscera, and bones?" Loren had an excited expression on his face. He couldn't wait to dissect the basilisk.

Snape was walking among the suitcases, counting the number of boxes of scales, without raising his head: "I can finish the rest by myself without your assistance."

Originally, Loren was called to assist just to test his Divine Edge Shadowless Curse. If he was really in a hurry, he could have enlisted the help of several other professors, which would have been faster.

Loren was a little depressed and responded dully: "Oh."

I thought that processing the flesh and blood of the basilisk corpse was also a big project and would have to be busy until Christmas. Now that I suddenly learned that he would not be needed, Loren was a little disappointed.

This is the first time he has dealt with such a unique raw material. Compared with such trivial matters as extracting venom from poisonous snakes, picking flower pistils, etc., dealing with a basilisk corpse that is dozens of feet away brings a completely different sense of accomplishment.

To use an analogy, maybe even though I don’t like studying, it’s quite satisfying to solve the final question.

Now I have listed the equations according to the question design, and I have completed the most difficult journey. Just when I was about to solve the results and get the answers, suddenly the invigilator said, "That's it. I just know you can do it."

I don’t know how to describe it, but Loren felt a little bored.

Snape still didn't look up and continued: "I will pay you after the body disposal work is completed."

This was discussed from the beginning, and Loren could choose some materials from the basilisk corpse as "remuneration."

"Oh." Loren looked sadly, turned around and walked towards the exit of the secret room, ready to leave.

"Who said you can leave?" Snape's cold voice sounded, his tone was calm and there was no emotion in it, it was as ordinary as asking what the weather was like today.

"Is there anything else, Professor?" Loren asked.

"laugh!"

Snape's tone became emotional and mocking, "If I were you and encountered the carcass of a rare large magical animal, I would watch how my Potions Master handles it. Instead of rushing to have dinner, you loser!"

Loren said nothing and stood obediently by the side, ready to observe how Snape handled the situation.

While Snape turned around and walked towards the basilisk, Loren curled his lips and muttered in a low voice: "I am so angry and my words are always stinging. I might eat a whole Hungarian Horntail for lunch..."

I don’t know what happened to Snape. He was fine when he was dealing with his scales in the morning, but after lunch, he started acting strangely after he came back.

Snape came to the basilisk, stretched out his wand and pressed it against the seam at the corner of the basilisk's mouth. A bright white light, like the edge of a sword, flashed at the tip of the wand.

Holding the wand casually, Snape quickly walked around the basilisk's body. The wand did not leave the basilisk during the entire process. Snape's movements were not slow, but the basilisk's body was huge, so it still took some time to complete the process.

After a long while, the tip of the staff moved from one corner of the basilisk's mouth to the other. Snape's movements stabilized, and after he stopped his hand, he turned to look at Loren, and asked in a calm tone: "Do you understand?"

The crystal blue light in Loren's eyes gradually faded. He recalled the scene he had just seen and disassembled the magic spell used in it. He answered uncertainly: "It seems to be a splitting spell, a separation spell, a crushing spell." The combination of the curse and the Shen Feng Shadowless Curse?"

I knew he had talent...

In the dark secret room, Snape's eyes softened a little, and his tone became much calmer: "The Shadowless Curse of the Divine Edge is the foundation, and the other spells are to control the trajectory of the cutting. The most important thing is that there must be a clear mind. route."

Loren suddenly felt enlightened.

This was the accumulation of Snape's long career. Only by repeating basic work countless times could he creatively combine the spells he had mastered and achieve the desired effect.

This is something he can't do yet, but he can learn this idea of ​​comprehensively using magic spells.

Loren has been exposed to the combination of spells, and each spell is isolated. Just like when Hermione was in first grade, she used the Levitation Curse combined with the Fire Curse to drive back the giant monster. Although there was cooperation and linkage between the Levitation Curse and the Fire Curse, the two were released separately and had no direct connection.

When Snape dealt with the basilisk just now, the linkage between the curse and the curse was one.

"In the process of processing the scales, I figured out the structure of the basilisk corpse and worked out the details of the anatomy."

Snape said, raised his wand and tapped lightly on the basilisk's corpse. The dozens of feet long behemoth instantly disintegrated. The superficial flesh and blood separated from the bones in pieces, and black and sticky plasma spilled all over the place. land. Large pieces of organs remained intact, lying quietly in the middle of the skeleton.

Loren's eyes flashed with surprise, and he had to admit that although this kind of magic was difficult to use against the enemy, the disintegration process of the basilisk corpse was like art.

The rest of the work is very simple. Use the floating spell to put the basilisk muscles broken down into pieces into the suitcase. Disassemble the skeleton into the same bones and put them into the suitcase.

The venom glands and fangs are carefully preserved separately.

Even the black plasma spilled on the ground was not spared. Snape packed several boxes and sealed them.

Loren got his wish and got two shriveled and damaged eyes of the basilisk.

Snape made the decision, and several boxes full of scales with defective condition that Loren had produced in the early stages of his work were all given to him.

Loren didn't mind it either, so he went back to the dormitory to get his space suitcase and put it all in.

…

At night, the alchemy laboratory of the Book of Fantasy.

The red brick walls form a hemispherical space. In the middle of the space, a black boiler shines with red light.

The virtual light and shadow of the two eyes were projected in the air, yellow, crystal clear and full, and the terrifying vertical pupils continued to expand and adjust according to Loren's thoughts.

Loren photographed one of the eyes in front of him, constantly zooming in and out of the image, analyzing the generation and flow of magic power from the lines on the cornea, the shape of the lens, and the flow of aqueous fluid and glass fluid.

When there is strong light, the pupils of snake eyes shrink, limiting the amount of light entering the eye to prevent the retina from being overly stimulated by light. In low light, the pupil dilates to increase the amount of light entering the eye, allowing the retina to receive sufficient light stimulation to produce clear vision.

He tried to find out the generation mode of the basilisk's strange magic power from these physiological structures and dynamic changes, and tried to use alchemical circles and runes to construct the same system to artificially produce two kinds of magic power.

While observing Snake Eyes' pupil reaction, he recorded the flow of magic power in the process. More than half an hour later, Loren still couldn't figure it out. He did observe that the magic power of three colors did appear from scratch, but this process did not conform to any theory of magic principles that he knew.

Loren had no choice but to look at the avatar floating on the boiler: "Frammel, can't you help me?"

"I worked so hard to restore the basilisk's eyes to their original appearance, how can you say I didn't help you?" Flamel said leisurely. He didn't seem to care much about the basilisk's magic power.

"But after you recovered your eyes, you just kept lying there——"

Loren rolled his eyes and vaguely came back to his senses. Flamel's attitude was a bit strange.

He threw away the basilisk eyeballs in front of him, came to Flamel's side, and asked: "You thought from the beginning that the basilisk's magic power could not be reproduced through alchemy, right?"

Flamel stood up slowly, floated in front of Loren, waved to capture a basilisk's eye, magnified the light and shadow, and displayed it in front of him: "Loren, you will see many magical animals in the future, naturally invisible. Invisible beasts, sometimes big and sometimes small, birds and snakes with space magic, thunderbirds that control thunder and lightning...their magic is not only generated from within, but also the transformation of natural energy. Thunderbirds can draw power from dark clouds, invisible beasts in the moonlight It’s more lively down there…”

"Unlike their innate talents, wizards' magic works in the form of magic. We are fundamentally different from them. Before wizards touch the essence of magic, alchemy cannot create something out of nothing."

In the slightly transparent eyeballs of the basilisk, the crystal liquid swayed and flowed, and the basilisk's magical power was strangely marked and generated from scratch.

Loren was a little frustrated, but still refused to give up. He gritted his teeth and retorted: "I still want to try! The basilisk is not a magical animal that exists in nature. It was cultivated by people. Haierbo can cultivate it from scratch. Basilisk, why can’t alchemy work?”

Young man, it's not a bad thing to try more... Flamel smiled softly and did not hit him, but told him some information related to the basilisk.

He floated into the air, taking on the image of a basilisk, but his size was not so exaggerated.

"Loren, have you ever thought about a question? If the sight of a basilisk kills you, then who first spread the information about the basilisk, and how did he learn about the role of the basilisk?"

The eyes of the virtual basilisk emitted yellow light, which shone on the simulated figure. The figure instantly stiffened, lost signs of life, and dissipated into dots of light and shadow.

"Perhaps someone observed the basilisk's murder?" Loren guessed.

Flamel did not judge whether this view was right or wrong, and asked another question: "Do you think the despicable Herbo cultivated the basilisk in a planned way, or did he hatch such a monster by coincidence?"

Plan...coincidence...Loren hesitated.

Reminiscent of what Snape said not long ago, choose the right horoscope, select special breeds of roosters and toads, feed two animal potions, induce the rooster to lay eggs, and induce the toads to hatch...

If such a complicated process is a coincidence, then these conditions are too harsh.

If it was planned in advance, it seems unlikely. After all, it is the creator's right to design creatures according to his own ideas. If the dark wizard Haierpo had such ability, he would have ruled the world long ago.

Seeing Loren lost in thought, Flamel paused for a moment and continued to guide his thoughts: "I wonder if you have noticed that in Muggle myths and legends, there is a character named Medusa, who is related to snakes and petrification. related……"

Muggle myths and legends... Loren remembered the topic of the Immortals that he had talked with Flamel a long time ago: "This could also be the message left by the Immortals when they traveled?"

"Maybe, maybe not, who knows?" Flamel said mysteriously,

"Although history books record that the first person to cultivate a basilisk was the evil dark wizard, the despicable Herbo. However, in orthodox magic books, the concept of basilisk was first proposed in the book "Natural History" by a Roman wizard. Pliny the Elder wrote it in AD 77."

"Volume 8 of "Natural History", Chapter 33, mentions that there is a snake in the province of Cyrene that is no longer than 12 fingers wide (about 20 centimeters). It has white spots on its head and can destroy shrubs with its breath. It scorches the grass and breaks the rocks. And its gaze is equally deadly..."

The length is no more than 12 fingers wide, which is much smaller than the basilisk that can easily reach dozens of feet.

Destroying shrubs and scorching the grass may be the effect of the basilisk's venom, but destroying rocks... Loren recalled several encounters with the basilisk and was convinced that the basilisk's breath was not so powerful.

Putting all the information together, Loren speculated in an uncertain tone: "There once existed a small basilisk. It was an original magical animal in nature? Is it the prototype of the basilisk cultivated by Haierbo?"

Flamel nodded: "Although I don't know the specific breeding method of basilisks, my conclusion is that Haierbo designed a set of rituals for artificial breeding of basilisks based on the breeding methods of natural basilisks. In this process , he made some trade-offs with the original basilisk's abilities, strengthening the magic power of the eyes and increasing the size of the basilisk, but removing the power of the breath."

After a pause, he added: "Maybe it's a mutation!"

"What about the small basilisk? Why did the small basilisk disappear?" Loren asked.

"The extinction of magical beasts is not a rare thing. In fact, before Newt Scamander pushed for the introduction of the Magical Creatures Protection Act, magical beasts would become extinct every year. Since the 14th century, Nico I have witnessed the extinction of several magical animals." Flamel sat back on the boiler unsteadily.

The plan to mass-produce basilisk magic failed, which also meant that Loren's first alchemical invention plan failed.

Before exiting the Book of Fantasy, Loren remembered what happened at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Maladies. Regarding the suspicion of using Bloody Mary's mirror to treat the Longbottoms, Loren asked Flamel's opinion.

Flamel said: "I do not recommend that you enter the deep consciousness of a confused patient. No one knows what it is like. If the owner of the consciousness is hostile to you, it may cause harm to you."

"What if the patient's relatives are allowed to enter the conscious space? The patient must not be hostile to his relatives."

There really is a book called Natural History, and it was indeed written in AD 77.

Coincidentally, the description of the basilisk above has some similarities with the content in "Snake Catcher's Story": There is a strange snake in the wild of Yongzhou, with black substance and white markings. It will die if it touches the grass and trees.