"Uh, I'll take back the preamble," Lawrence rushed to Riddle, who hissed low, "Leave the wand alone and close your eyes."

"It's useless, no matter how badly injured I am now, it will only delay my full resurrection." Riddle roared, and he was knocked to the ground by Lawrence's punch, "Even if it's a newborn basilisk, can you handle it without a wand?"

The stone statue began to shake slightly, and a bright green serpent burst out of its originally open mouth, Lawrence hurriedly lowered his head and did not dare to continue looking, from the glance just now, although this basilisk was not as big as the one that was put in the school, it was not small, at least twenty feet, it was younger, agile, and no less deadly,

The phoenix Fawkes in the air swooped down singing strange songs, and the basilisk also roared angrily, raising its body to attack the phoenix,

"Looks like your basilisk doesn't listen to you much," Lawrence sarcastically said, Riddle already getting up by now,

"A phoenix just out of its infancy?" Riddle retorted disdainfully, beckoning, and Ginny's wand actually flew back into his hand from the shadow of the pillar, "Actually, I prefer it that way."

Lawrence looked at Voldemort in his youth, at this time he had a strange ability to cast spells, without a demon battle he can be said to have no chance of winning, and he may not even be able to escape, but behind him is Snape and Luna who fell to the ground, if they escape, they can only wait for death,

"At least, I can hold you back for a while," Lawrence suddenly smiled lightly, "Since you may all be dead, I don't mind delaying you for some time, Professor Dunbulido's phoenix is here, as long as the professors arrive, it will be your end."

"Do you have what it takes...... Huh?" Riddle said with a smile, but he suddenly stared blankly at Lawrence's sorting hat in his hand,

Just as Lawrence said that, he felt the classification hat in his hand begin to become a little heavy, he looked down and saw a shiny silver hilt revealing from the hat, which was inlaid with an egg-sized ruby, Lawrence suddenly drew his sword, and the classification hat fell on Snape, who fell beside him,

"Gryffindor's sword?" Riddle stared greedily at the sword in Lawrence's hand, "A treasure for heirs."

"Now, do I have the ability?" Lawrence raised his sword and asked with a smile, they were very close, Lawrence only needed to swing his sword to easily hit Riddle, and similarly, Riddle's spell could easily hit Lawrence, and Lawrence's purpose was only to delay time, and that was enough,

"Very good, very good," Riddle smiled, "at Hogwarts, right here at my ancestor Salazar. In front of the Slytherin statue, Gryffindor and the descendants of Slytherin are once again at war."

At this time, the basilisk let out a miserable scream, and the phoenix sang weakly, as if celebrating his victory, Lawrence turned his head and found that where the basilisk had eyes, there were only two blood holes left, black blood gushed outward, and the place where Fawkes flew also sprinkled flame-like blood, and slowly burned into ashes after landing,

"Looks like Fox has a slight advantage." Lawrence turned his gaze back to Riddle, he quickly took a step forward, and waved his sword decisively,

"Ahh

"Lawrence—your wand—" Luna, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, Lawrence turned to look at her, and saw her raise her black walnut wand, and then throw it over, Lawrence was stunned for a moment, but still caught the wand accurately,

"Kill them—I say—" Riddle roared, his voice hissing into an angry and rapid hiss,

Riddle raised his wand and shot a black spell again, the basilisk dropped Fawkes hovering in the air, stretched out its slender tongue to explore the air, and then pounced on Lawrence accurately, Fawkes was injured and couldn't fly so fast, it didn't have time to rescue, it could only let out a warning cry,

"Thanks!" Lawrence shouted, he swung his sword in his left hand and slashed at the basilisk, and the wand in his right hand shot out a dazzling white light, shattering the black spell, and in Riddle's angry scream, his figure was shattered into pieces of light, but there was a sharp pain in his left hand, Lawrence bowed his head, and the basilisk was stopped and cut in two, but before he died, he bit Lawrence's left arm,

"Still going to die......" Lawrence's vision was a little blurry, he let go of his hand and fell to the ground weakly, he felt Luna coming,

"Well done, but I'm not telling you to leave your wand alone and close your eyes?" Lawrence asked in confusion, the fiery pain spreading from the wound to the whole body,

"I think you'll need it." Luna said, kneeling beside Lawrence, staring at Lawrence with silver-gray eyes, then turning to look at the phoenix,

"Thanks, it's up to you," Lawrence said, "I think I'm dying...... The diary must be destroyed before Riddle is resurrected......

"No, you're not going to die," Luna said, and she smiled, "You're not going to die."

"Don't be stupid, the basilisk's poison is deadly......" Lawrence began to complain in a chattering voice, ignoring the fact that the two had just realized, "It's really inverted, it's my third birthday, but do you think I'm cursed?" Strange things have always happened on birthdays in the past two years, last time it was a mountain monster, and this time another cat was attacked."

"Oh?" Luna tilted her head to look at Lawrence,

"My left hand is also quite upside down," Lawrence continued to complain, "I was stabbed by a fragment of the Philosopher's Stone last year and almost killed me, and this year I was bitten by a basilisk...... It's ......."

"Don't worry, you're not going to die," Luna said, Lawrence couldn't understand why she was so adamant.

"Look, the phoenix is coming," Luna continued,

"Huh?" Lawrence suddenly felt his pain subside, he found the phoenix sitting on top of him, he felt warm all over, Fawkes was crying, his pearly tears dripping on Lawrence's wounds,

"Uh......" Lawrence froze, then fumbled in the small pocket of his sleeve and pulled out a small empty glass bottle, he asked Fox, "Can I take some out?" I seem to have had a bloody disaster in the past few years?"

"Goo?" Fawkes tilted his head, then poked Lawrence's head with his long, pointed golden beak, and he flew up, and a few tears fell into the tiny glass bottle, which made Luna laugh.

"It's not funny," Lawrence shrugged, carefully sealing the glass bottle.

"Indeed, nothing funny," the light and shadow in the air began to converge, and Riddle reappeared in front of them, but more transparent than when they first entered the stone chamber, "You haven't won yet."

"Oh." Lawrence smiled, picking up his wand from the ground and pointing at Riddle, "What else do you have without the basilisk?"

Fox screamed and grabbed the black diary not far away,

"No—" Riddle screamed and shot a spell at Fawkes, who dodged, but the injured one wasn't as nimble, and the diary fell and was caught by a pale hand,

"Professor?" Lawrence shouted, "Destroy that diary, that's the root of everything."

"Give me the diary, Death Eater!" Riddle roared, "Kill them, and we can breed new basilisks again, kill all the mudbloods in the school, and I'll forgive you for your betrayal."

"......" Snape was silent, he looked at the diary in his hand, and the sorting hat beside him, Lawrence blinked, he seemed to see the silver light shining there, Snape suddenly raised his head and said to Reddle, "Never say that word in front of me." (Note 1)

A flash of silver pierced Reddle's diary, and it was only then that Lawrence discovered that the Granffindor sword, which was supposed to be at his feet, had appeared in Snape's hand. (Note 2)

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Author's words: The second volume is probably coming to an end, so it's time for it~

Note 1: This word is only a "mud species", and in Episode 7, Snape's recollections, he had a reminiscence of Phineas. Nigelles. That's what Blake's portrait says.

Note 2: In Episode 7, Snape's recollection, Deng Bulido said to Snape, "You know, I sometimes felt that our division was too hasty."