According to the monster characteristics summarized earlier, Darren and the others started a big search in the library, and soon they found the answer in a book called "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them......

"Basilisk, Magic Part Class Level: xxxxx. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The first recorded basilisk was bred by 'Hellbo the Despicable', a Greek dark wizard with a parseltongue accent. After many experiments, this person discovered that if a male egg was hatched under the body of a toad, a dangerous snake with extraordinary abilities would hatch. The basilisk is a large snake with a dazzling green body, which can reach up to fifty feet in length. The male snake has a bright red feather on its head. Its fangs are unusually poisonous, but its most dangerous attack is to stare at its target with its large yellow eyes. Anyone whose gaze touches its gaze will be killed instantly. If the food is sufficient, the basilisk will eat all the mammals, birds, and many species of reptiles, and this snake will have a very long lifespan. It is believed that the basilisk of 'Hellbo the Mean' lived for almost nine hundred years. ”

"The creation of a basilisk has been considered illegal since the Middle Ages, but it's easy to hide because it only takes the male egg out from under the toad's body before the Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control arrives. However, basilisks are not controlled by anyone but the Parseltongue, so they are dangerous not only to others, but also to most dark wizards. In Britain, there have been no records of basilisk sightings for at least four hundred years. ”

"Also, the book says that spiders will run away when they see the basilisk, because the basilisk is the spider's mortal enemy, and the basilisk will only run for its life when it hears the rooster's crow, because the rooster's crowing is also fatal to it," Hermione said, holding another very old library book, "No wonder we saw so many spiders leaving the castle that night, and that's why." ”

"Parseltongue?

"Parseltongue!" Ron said, "It's the language of snakes, and people who know Parseltongue can talk to snakes!"

After listening to Ron's explanation, Harry's face suddenly turned pale, "Well, is the Parseltongue a terrible thing?"

"According to the records, the Parseltongue is a very rare ability, so even for wizards, it is amazing to be able to talk to animals," Hermione said, "and being able to talk to snakes is Salazar Slytherin's famous skill, so the symbol of the Slytherin school is a snake, in other words," she shrugged her shoulders and tilted her head, "The Parseltongue is most likely a trait of that 'heir', why, do you know who the Parseltongue is?"

Hearing this, Harry's mouth opened wide as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn't say anything.

"Well, now we know what the monster Salazar Slytherin left his heir in the Chamber of Secrets to attack the students is, but what's the use of that? We still don't know who the murderer is," Ron muttered, "and, basilisk, think about it, a basilisk that has lived for a thousand years is not something we can deal with!"

"Of course," Darren looked at Ron strangely, "why should we deal with the basilisk? This should be the work of the professors, and there is such a dangerous creature in Hogwarts, of course we have to report it to the school, it should have killed the myrtle fifty years ago." ”

"Darren is right, we must report it to Professor Dumbledore immediately," Percy said solemnly, "this is my responsibility as a prefect!"

Seeing that Percy was about to stand up and walk out, Darren quickly stopped him, "Wait!"

"What's wrong? The situation is dangerous now, and we must inform the professor as soon as possible. ”

"The news that the monster is a basilisk is just our own speculation, everything is in the book," Darren patted "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" on the table, "Before going to Professor Dumbledore, I think we should go to Professor Kettleburn, who is the teacher of the Fantastic Beasts protection class, and should know more about those magical beasts than we do." ”

"Oh, yes, you really should go to Professor Kettleburn to make sure, otherwise it will cause unnecessary panic," Percy paused and thought seriously, "Well, I'll go to the professor, you guys go back to the common room first, stay safe, since the monster could be a basilisk, it doesn't make sense even if Hagrid is taken away, he's unlikely to be a 'parseltongue', that is......"

Looking at Percy's hurried back, Darren shook his head helplessly, put all the books on the table back in their place, and walked towards the lounge.

"I didn't expect Salazar to leave a basilisk in the secret room," Hermione couldn't help but say on the way, "It's too much, didn't he think about the consequences, if the basilisk had succeeded in these attacks, Hogwarts would have been shut down." ”

"I don't think Salazar expected the basilisk to threaten the existence of Hogwarts," Darren responded to her, "Think about it, in the days when Hogwarts was founded, everything was in a state of savagery, there was chaos everywhere, dark wizards, magical creatures, monsters, and persecution from people, Muggles, and even Hogwarts itself was attacked by dark wizards many times, so at that time, I am afraid that it was not a big deal to kill someone." ”

"Judging from the current composition of the students, with Salazar's 'standard', no more than twenty people will be 'purged'. ”

"Twenty! Is that less?"

"But the question is, if you know that you will be killed in the school, don't you run away, just like everyone else did before, so I think with Salazar's plan, you only need to kill a few people to 'purify' Hogwarts, but in a thousand years, even wizarding society is constantly moving forward and changing, and now, the attack on a few students will make Hogwarts closed, which Salazar could not have imagined. ”

“…… Hogwarts is closed, that's too bad," Harry whispered.

"Yes," Darren understood Harry very well, if Hogwarts was closed, Harry would have to go back to the Dursleys, and he would have to go back to the church school, no, wait, Harry now has the Black house to go to, in that case, isn't he the only one who has nowhere to go?

"It's enough to spend Christmas alone once, why should I even be closed when Hogwarts is closed, I always ...... the most hurt person every time" Darren let out a silent cry in his heart.