The Wizard of Hogwarts is Unscientific.

Chapter 206 Searching for Slytherin's Laboratory

Hermione opened her mouth, wanting to say that this basilisk was Hogwarts property.

After all, this basilisk was personally bred by Salazar Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, and it has always lived in Hogwarts.

From any perspective, it belongs to Hogwarts.

However, Hermione ultimately swallowed back what she wanted to say.

It has to be said that after a year of continuous transformation, Hermione is no longer the Hermione she once was.

Andy deserves much credit in this regard.

Andy was also a little surprised that Hermione was so quiet this time.

"In this world, nothing ever truly belongs to anyone."

Andy felt it best to explain, "Even a country has been occupied by others throughout history."

Andy felt that since he had killed the basilisk, it now belonged to him.

Whether Dumbledore knew the location of the Chamber of Secrets or not, he could not ask Andy for the Basilisk's corpse.

It's best that he doesn't know.

He knows... so he will continue to pretend he doesn't know.

"That's just sophistry." Hermione thought Andy had a lot of fallacies, and they always sounded somewhat reasonable.

"You're still young. You'll understand when you grow up."

Andy continued, "Just as if you want to change the wizarding world, you will inevitably take away the interests of some people. You may think they are evil, but those things originally belonged to them."

After saying that, Andy turned to look at the Slytherin head statue.

To be precise, it's about looking at the statue's open mouth!

"Let's see what we've got today," Andy said.

Hermione didn't continue arguing with Andy; she couldn't win against his seemingly reasonable fallacies.

Andy took out his wand and cautiously walked toward the statue's open mouth.

"Be careful!" Andy warned.

"You too." Hermione's voice sounded a little nervous.

Throughout this escape room adventure, Hermione felt completely uninvolved. It was only during the exploration of the basilisk's lair that a tense atmosphere was barely created.

The little witch found it very exciting.

Da da da!

In the empty tunnel, Andy and Hermione's footsteps sounded exceptionally clear.

Holding his wand, Andy carefully made his way deeper into the tunnel, aided by the glow of the glow spell.

The tunnel was long. After walking about fifty meters, Andy arrived at a spacious stone chamber.

Andy waved his wand, and several flames roared around the stone chamber. With the light from the flames, Andy could see the entire layout of the chamber.

"This must be the basilisk's lair," Hermione said.

"Let's split up and search to see if there are any hidden mechanisms or secret doors."

Andy cautioned, "Be careful!"

"Okay! Be careful too. Don't think you can act recklessly just because you're powerful." Hermione responded and began to inspect the stone chamber with her wand.

Andy walked around the stone chamber and tried to probe with Parsley, but unsurprisingly, he found nothing.

This stone chamber looks like the basilisk's lair, but there's nothing particularly special about it.

"Hermione, have you found anything over there?" Andy asked.

Hermione shook her head, then, thinking Andy might not be able to see clearly, she could only say, "No, what about your end?"

"Same!" Andy said, somewhat disappointed.

Did Voldemort take all of Salazar Slytherin's research data?

This is such a rip-off!

Although the basilisk's severed corpse made Andy rich overnight, those Galleons were nothing compared to the Slytherin research data.

Research data on magical transformations—that's Andy's future.

"Andy, I don't think this search is going to work."

Hermione walked over and said, "This is the basilisk's lair... Andy, if you were building a laboratory, would you build it inside the petting zoo?"

of course not!

Andy thought Hermione had a point.

but……

"Slytherins may be different from normal people."

Andy cautioned, "Even if he's not crazy, he seems like an extreme person. He really likes snakes..."

At this point, Andy suddenly thought of the statue standing in the hall of the Ministry of Magic—all intelligent magical beings had submitted to the wizards at their feet.

Wizards are a proud group of people. They look down on Muggles, other intelligent life forms, and magical creatures.

Even the extremely dangerous fire dragons were raised by wizards like pigs. They would kill a fire dragon whenever they needed magical materials from it.

Following this line of reasoning, would Slytherin have built his laboratory in the pet room?

of course not!

Andy went over his thoughts again. "Slytherin left the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets for what seems to be only two reasons."

"First, kill those he deems unworthy of learning magic. Second, protect his laboratory."

Hermione nodded in agreement. "The intricate network of pipes in the Chamber of Secrets was built at the end of the 18th century. Without those pipes, the Chamber of Secrets would only have one exit."

"In addition, Ms. Gray's words can also serve as evidence."

According to Lady Grey, Slytherin, despite having some disagreements with the other three leaders, was not an extreme person.

He was simply obsessed with dark magic.

"Don't believe what Ms. Gray says!" Andy didn't trust that woman at all.

If Ms. Grey is indeed Ms. Ravenclaw's daughter, Andy thinks she might have intellectual disabilities.

Otherwise, how could she have gotten herself into such a mess?

"Don't forget, Slytherin eventually left Hogwarts. If it weren't for huge ideological differences, how could he have left?"

Andy analyzed, "Also, the way to open the Chamber of Secrets is through Parsleyan speech. Logically, only descendants of Slytherin should be allowed in, so why would he leave a Basilisk to guard the Chamber?"

Andy felt there were too many things that couldn't be explained.

"But you came in, Andy."

Hermione stuck to her initial assessment: "Persona might be able to control the Basilisk, but you can't."

Andy shrugged and said, "I'm also a Hogwarts student. If someone who isn't a descendant of Slytherin would be killed by the Basilisk if they entered the Chamber of Secrets, then it means that Slytherin already had murderous intent."

Hermione remained silent for a moment upon hearing this.

"Andy, we're arguing about these things in order to find Slytherin's laboratory."

Hermione said, "We can analyze these two points together."

Andy held up three fingers. "Three! Slytherin left Hogwarts, leaving the basilisk behind... maybe just because it was inconvenient to carry."

"Okay, so that makes three points!"

Hermione analyzed, "If Slytherin left the basilisk there to guard the laboratory, then the laboratory should be near the basilisk's lair."

(End of this chapter)