novelslam Chapter 273 Nixiu is the eternal god
Chapter 273 Nixiu is the eternal god
Chapter 273 Nixiu is the eternal god
Filch's attack still had a considerable impact.
For days, the students talked about nothing but the attack on him.
But everyone is still more gloating.
No one likes Filch!
Filch's performance also made everyone never forget this incident. He seemed to have suffered a serious blow, holding a broom all day like a walking corpse, cleaning the castle mechanically.
He still muttered, "Harry Potter."
Many students regarded Harry as the hero who defeated Filch.
Mrs. Norris had the weirdest behavior. She didn't dare to approach Filch at all, and went to sleep on Bobo Tea's cat climbing frame every night.
Therefore, William prepared a small nest for Mrs. Norris, and served him with food and drink all day long.
It would be best for Mrs. Norris to give birth to kittens here, so that nobody would notice and Filch wouldn't notice.
Although Dumbledore kept saying that the Chamber of Secrets was not important, William still wanted to look for it and see what he found.
In fact, he already had the target of the secret room, and it was not too difficult to find it.
For example... a secret passage!
There are many secret passages in Hogwarts.
Some winding paths lead to secluded places, covered by dense forests; some are hidden deep in the valley, with gurgling water outside.
Each secret passage may be deep or shallow, large or tight, and the posture of entering is also different.
For example, in the corridor on the seventh floor of Hogwarts Castle, there is a portrait of Wenlock, an arithmetic and divination expert.
Behind the portrait is a secret passage leading to the portrait room, which is filled with Hogwarts framed pictures and the password is "Snafflejack".
William had been there a number of times, and had benefited greatly from discussing potions and charms with several of the headmasters.
There are currently seven known secret passages leading to Hogsmeade.
In the first grade, the twins often walked the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor.
But later, William and the others found the retreated skin of a giant snake inside, and they never walked there again.
Dumbledore guessed that the basilisk was a monster in the chamber of secrets, and the basilisk had shed its skin here, so this secret passage must have an entrance to the chamber of secrets.
Coming to this secret passage again, William was still very moved. This place is not so much a secret passage as it is the underground palace of Hogwarts.
This place is really like an underground palace, with a main road, on both sides of the road, there are countless small rooms and walkways.
Soon, they arrived at the building directly below the rotunda.
By the light they could see the solid form of forty Doric columns resting on the marble floor above.
The building in this underground palace has no trace of time, the reliefs are lifelike, and the colonnade is carved with complicated ancient runes.
When he first came here, William was still a freshman in the first grade, but now he can understand the writing on the building.
"What does it say?" Cedric asked.
He has also learned ancient runes, but he is limited to knowing vocabulary and cannot understand the meaning of them at all.
"The carvings on these pillars are all magic, used to protect the building from being destroyed."
William did not get any information about the specific purpose of this building from above.
However, in the era of the Big Four, it must have been a very important secret meeting place.
It seems that the Big Four are also engaged in educational work on the surface, but secretly engaged in pyramid schemes.
The four of them walked forward and saw the lake deep underground.
There is an island in the middle of the lake,
There are pyramids on the island.
The pyramid was about two stories high and made of granite.Under the illumination of the floor lamp, the four facets are polished and polished.
The surrounding magic ensures that no one can enter the middle of the lake.
Since they couldn't get close, they didn't stay too long and walked towards the place where the basilisk skin was found.
"right here."
They came to a passageway with the bones of various small animals, apparently where the basilisk had eaten.
The four continued to move forward and saw the silhouette of a huge coiled creature.
It was a pair of huge snake skin, pale in color, and it looked like it had faded for a long time.
"Isn't there another basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets?" Fred said worriedly.
If they found the secret room and found another one in it, they would be belching.
"Probably not. From the perspective of food, Hogwarts can only support one basilisk." William analyzed.
Didn't you see that this basilisk eats little mice and the like?
Mice are not enough to get between their teeth. If there were two basilisks, they would have already pinched them.
This also shows from the side that the basilisk really would not take the initiative to attack the wizard, otherwise it would have already eaten so many delicious snacks in the school.
"But you still have to guard against it," said George, taking a cock out of the ring.
The crowing of a rooster is fatal to a basilisk.
"Where did you get the chicken?" William asked curiously.
"Hagrid raised it. I stole it." George said excitedly. "Look, this chicken is big and fat. After we find the secret room, we can eat chicken in it."
William nodded. He still has a lot of condiments on him, so he can indeed have a small barbecue.
The four walked forward along the corridor, and Cedric couldn't help asking curiously:
"William, I checked in the library book. If you want to get the basilisk, you need to put an egg under the body of a toad to hatch.
Since the method is so simple, there should be many basilisks, but why does Mr. Scamander's book say that there have been no basilisks in England for hundreds of years? "
The twins also looked at William.
William pondered for a moment, then explained: "Not all eggs can hatch a basilisk, it must be a male egg."
"Do cocks have eggs?" Fred asked curiously.
"Of course a rooster has an egg," William said. "The egg is not an egg in the conventional sense, but a mixture of semen and feces from a rooster."
"This mixture, after seven years of gestation, will become as big as an egg. Because there is such a false egg in the belly, the rooster stops eating, keeps digging the grass in the chicken coop, and can't calm down.
Then, avoiding its eyes and ears, it lays its eggs secretly on Sirius' brightest night.
The eggs produced are male eggs, also known as magic eggs. "
This section of the method of making the basilisk was seen by William in a book in the restricted area of the library.
Magic is so vast that many books only touch it in passing, without telling you about spells or how to make certain magic items.
But in the restricted area of the Hogwarts library, you can always find the answers you want.
Of course, there are times of failure.
In Tywin's "Three Volumes of Mysterious Philosophy", William saw an entry about Horcruxes.
He searched in the restricted area of the library several times, but he didn't find any information about how to make a Horcrux.
It is only mentioned briefly in the preface to The Most Poisonous Magic: "The horcrux, the most evil magical invention, is neither discussed nor instructed here."
What is this behavior?
And Fermat's sentence...'I am sure I have discovered a wonderful proof, but unfortunately the blank space here is too small to write'...there are similarities in the same way and the same effect.
If you don't write it, why mention it!
Simply outrageous!
"So, it takes seven years just to conceive, no wonder there are so few basilisks." Cedric shook his head.
William thought for a while, and continued to popularize science: "Actually, this kind of magic egg is not the only way to get basilisks.
If it is not hatched by a toad, but by a poisonous snake, a cockatiel will be born. "
Unlike the basilisk, the chicken-tailed snake-tailed monster has wings and holds the head of a chicken.
But it is as dangerous as the basilisk. In the Triwizard Tournament in 1792, the warriors had to deal with a chicken-body snake-tailed monster. Then three principals were injured and many students died.
Since then, the tense and exciting Triwizard Tournament has never been held again.
The four walked and chatted, and finally reached the end of the corridor, where there was a broken wall.
They passed through the wall and glanced in.
"This is...the sewer pipes of Hogwarts." George exclaimed.
"The basilisk has been shuttling through the pipes, so people can't find it," Fred said.
No wonder the basilisk entered the Quidditch field from the Black Lake.
Most of the pipes in Hogwarts flow to the Black Lake, and the basilisk can enter the Black Lake, and then enter the Quidditch field through that one-way pipe.
William remembered one more thing. In the Hogwarts construction diagram that Dumbledore showed him, it was written:
In the eighteenth century, Corvinus Gaunt led the construction of the Hogwarts plumbing system.
The Gaunts are descendants of Slytherin.
He estimated that he had discovered the secret room, so he deliberately used a complicated piping system to completely hide the basilisk to prevent others from finding it.
"It's very complicated here. Even if we investigate, it will take a long time to find it, and it's easy to get lost," Cedric said.
The pipes of Hogwarts are spread all over the school, and it is indeed not an easy task not to get lost in such an environment.
"It's all right, we have it." Fred grinned and pulled out his big treasure.
— Sniff.
Sure enough, Xixiu is the eternal god!
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