A Certain Magical Hogwarts

Chapter 273 The Niffler is the Eternal God

The attack on Filch still had a significant impact.

For several days in a row, the students didn't talk about anything else but the attacks he had been subjected to.

But most people were gloating.

Nobody likes Filch!

Filch's behavior made everyone remember the incident. He seemed to have suffered a severe blow, spending his days like a zombie, mechanically sweeping the castle with a broom.

He kept muttering, "Harry Potter."

Many students consider Harry the hero who defeated Filch.

Mrs. Lorris's behavior was the strangest; she dared not approach Filch at all and slept on the cat tree at Bobo Tea every night.

So William prepared a small nest for Mrs. Lorris and served her good food and drink every day.

Ideally, Mrs. Lorice could give birth to kittens here, so that it would be done discreetly and Filch wouldn't find out.

Although Dumbledore kept saying that the Chamber of Secrets was unimportant, William still wanted to search for it and see what he could find.

Actually, he already had a target in mind for the secret room, so finding it wasn't too difficult.

For example... a secret passage!

Hogwarts has many secret passages.

Some paths lead to secluded spots, hidden by dense forests; others are nestled deep in valleys, with flowing streams outside.

Each secret passage is either deep or shallow, wide or tight, and the posture for entering is different for each one.

For example, in the seventh-floor corridor of Hogwarts Castle, there is a portrait of the arithmetic diviner Winlock.

Behind the portrait is a secret passage leading to the portrait room, which is filled with framed pictures from Hogwarts. The password is "Snafflejack".

William had visited many times and discussed potions and spells with several of the principals, from which he benefited greatly.

There are currently seven known secret passages leading to Hogsmeade.

When they were in first grade, the twins often took the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor.

But later, William and his companions found the shed skin of a giant snake inside, and they never went there again.

Dumbledore deduced that the basilisk was the monster of the Chamber of Secrets, and since the basilisk had shed its skin here, this secret passage must have an entrance to the Chamber.

Returning to this secret passage, William was still filled with emotion. It was less of a secret passage and more of an underground palace of Hogwarts.

This place really resembles an underground palace, with a main road and countless small rooms and passageways on both sides.

Soon, they arrived at the building directly beneath the rotunda.

By the light, they could see the solid form of the forty Doric columns that supported the upper marble floor.

The buildings in this underground palace show no signs of the passage of time; the reliefs are lifelike, and the colonnades are carved with intricate ancient runes.

When William first came here, he was a freshman in first grade, but now he can understand the text on the buildings.

"What does it say?" Cedric asked.

He had also studied ancient magic script, but he was only able to recognize the words and couldn't understand the meaning at all.

"These pillars are carved with magic, used to protect the building from destruction."

William did not obtain any information from above regarding the specific purpose of the building.

However, this place must have been a very important secret meeting place during the era of the Big Four.

It seems that the four giants are ostensibly doing education work, but secretly engaging in pyramid schemes.

The four walked forward and saw a lake deep underground.

There is a small island in the middle of the lake.

There are pyramids on the island.

The pyramid is about two stories high and is made of granite. Under the illumination of the ground lights, all four facets reveal their polished smoothness and exquisite beauty.

The surrounding magic ensured that no one could enter the center of the lake.

Since they couldn't get close, they didn't linger and headed towards the place where they had found the basilisk skin.

"This is it."

They came to a passageway filled with the bones of various small animals, where the basilisk had clearly once fed.

The four continued forward and came into view the outline of a huge, coiled creature.

It was a huge snakeskin, pale white, and clearly had been peeled off a long time ago.

"Is there another basilisk in the secret room?" Fred asked worriedly.

If they find the secret room and discover there's another one inside, they might just kick the bucket.

"Probably not. From a food perspective, Hogwarts can only support one basilisk," William analyzed.

Didn't you see that this snake monster eats things like small mice?

Mice aren't even enough to fill a tooth gap; if there were two snake monsters, they would have already started fighting.

This also shows that the basilisk does not actively attack wizards; otherwise, it would have already devoured all the delicious snacks at the school.

"But we still need to be careful," George said, pulling a rooster out of his ring.

The rooster's crow is deadly to the basilisk.

"Where did this chicken come from?" William asked curiously.

"Hagrid's chicken? I stole it all!" George said excitedly. "Look how big and fat this chicken is. We can eat it in the secret room after we find it."

William nodded. He still had plenty of seasonings on him; he could definitely have a barbecue.

The four walked forward along the passageway, and Cedric couldn't help but ask curiously:

"William, I looked it up in the library. To get the basilisk, you need to put an egg under a toad's body to hatch it."

"If the method is so simple, then there should be many basilisks, but why does Mr. Scamander's book say that no basilisks have appeared in England for hundreds of years?"

The twins were also looking at William.

William pondered for a moment, then explained, "Not just any egg can hatch into a basilisk; it must be a male egg."

"Do roosters have eggs?" Fred asked curiously.

"Roosters certainly have eggs," William said. "But those eggs aren't eggs in the conventional sense; they're a mixture of the rooster's semen and droppings."

"This mixture, after seven years of gestation, will grow to the size of an egg. Because of this false egg inside its belly, the rooster will stop eating and keep digging at the straw in the coop, unable to stay still."

Then, it will evade detection and secretly lay its eggs on Sirius's brightest night.

The eggs laid are rooster eggs, also known as demon eggs.

William saw this method of creating the basilisk in a book in a restricted area of ​​the library.

Magic is vast and complex, and many books only mention it briefly, without telling you the spells or how to make certain magical items.

But you can always find the answers you seek in the forbidden areas of the Hogwarts Library.

Of course, there are times when we fail.

William had seen an entry about Horcruxes in Tywin's book, The Mystic Philosophy.

He searched the restricted area of ​​the library several times but found no information on how to make Horcruxes.

It is only briefly mentioned in the preface to "The Most Poisonous Magic": "The most evil magical invention, Horcruxes, will not be discussed or instructed here."

What kind of behavior is this?

It's similar to Fermat's statement... "I am convinced that I have found a beautiful proof, but unfortunately the space here is too small to write it down"...

Why bring it up if you're not going to write about it?

Absolutely outrageous!

"So, it takes seven years just to gestate, no wonder there are so few basilisks," Cedric said, shaking his head.

William thought for a moment and continued to explain: "Actually, these magic eggs can be obtained not only from basilisks."

If it were hatched by a venomous snake instead of a toad, it would give birth to a monster with a chicken's body and a snake's tail.

Unlike the snake monster, the chicken-bodied, snake-tailed monster has wings and a chicken-shaped head.

However, it was just as dangerous as the basilisk. In the Triwizard Tournament of 1792, the warriors had to fight a monster with the body of a chicken and the tail of a snake. As a result, three headmasters were injured and many students died.

Since then, the tense and exciting three-way battle has never been held again.

The four walked and talked until they reached the end of the passageway, where there was a broken wall.

They passed through the wall and peered inside.

"This is... the Hogwarts sewer system," George exclaimed.

"The basilisk is always moving around in the pipes, so no one can find it," Fred said.

No wonder the Basilisk was able to enter the Quidditch arena from the Black Lake.

Most of Hogwarts' pipes flow into the Black Lake, where the Basilisk can enter and then use a section of one-way pipe to reach the Quidditch arena.

William then recalled something else: in the Hogwarts construction blueprints that Dumbledore had shown him, it was written:

In the 18th century, Corvinus Gaunt oversaw the construction of the Hogwarts pipeline system.

The Gaunt family are descendants of Slytherin.

He suspected that the secret chamber had been discovered, so he deliberately used a complex piping system to completely hide the basilisk and prevent it from being found by others.

"It's very complicated here. Even if we search, it will take a long time, and it's easy to get lost," Cedric said.

Hogwarts has pipes all over the school, so it's not easy to not get lost in such an environment.

"It's okay, we have it." Fred grinned and pulled out his big treasure.

—Sniff sniff.

Indeed, the Niffler is the eternal god!

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