A week ago, Rhett was in the library when he heard a snake talking to him.

'I'm hungry...... I'm so hungry...... The rats have eaten it all......

He immediately called the castle house-elves—compared to the students here, he knew how to summon these little things from the beginning, all he had to do was take out his wand and call them. He took some raw chicken from the elf and began to follow the sound for the poor hungry snake.

He followed the snake to the toilet, and when he locked the toilet door and made sure no one would break in, he opened the iron lid of the sewer and called it out of the hole. But it took him a long time, and the snake never crawled out.

'It's so narrow...... Can't get out......'

- The snake is stuck.

The first time Red had seen such a stupid snake, he suspected that it had been deliberately thrown into the sewer, and it never climbed out again. He looked at the mouth of the pineapple drain that was big enough to fit in, and wondered what kind of snake it was to think that the pipe was so thick and narrow.

He had to stuff the chicken in and use his wand to slide it underneath.

He commanded the serpent: 'Eat it.' 'A whole raw chicken, it swallowed it for at least a week without eating, right?' Then he'll have enough time to get it out of the way—the stupid snake.

Ten minutes later, he was sure that the snake had finished eating the chicken and decided to leave, when he heard it cry out again.

——……

Red suddenly wondered how many chickens the snake could swallow, and if it kept screaming hungry? His mother once taught him a saying, "The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant", which means that the snake will swallow an elephant without its own strength, and then of course it will be strangled to death.

- She used this as a warning to keep reading the magic book and learning spells for him. Although he was sure that she was just scaring him, he still stopped learning spells.

Later, he asked for more than 200 chickens from the elf to feed the snake, which directly led to the absence of fried chicken thighs and chicken salad for dinner that day.

- He thinks he might have run into a magical creature!

This made Red very excited, and he couldn't wait to guess what a huge snake it was? One can swallow more than 200 chicken snakes in one go! Could that be the Oriental Dragon that Mom said? I heard that they just have the body of a snake, and the antlers and horse eyes have robbed a bunch of monsters with the bodies of other animals. I heard that this animal is very huge, it can fly into the sky and rain, swallow clouds and mist, it must be very majestic!

Red thought of a lot of ideas, and he even thought of letting the snake go down the sewer pipe into the great lake in the Forbidden Forest, so that it could come out. But the snake was very stupid, and it always said, 'It's so narrow,' and 'it can't get out.'"

He really wanted to get this snake, he thought this snake was a good Christmas present, it must have been given to him by his heavenly father - he had already learned of his father's death, obviously his mother was afraid that he would be sad and sad so she didn't tell him, many parents are like this, they will lie to their children that their father is on a business trip, going out, or going to buy you a gift, and when he buys a gift, he will come back.

Red sighed deeply. He wanted to tell his mother not to think of him as one of those childish children. Although he was a little surprised by the news of his father's death—and a little sad, of course, he was completely acceptable, and there was no problem.

- Father, please don't worry about us, I will protect my mother well, if I have the chance, maybe I will have another father, you can rest assured in heaven.

He is definitely a sensible child, and he will not clamoring for his father to come back. Absolutely not, he can assure.

Then he tentatively and pretended to tell his mother about the snake. He thought that his mother would always have an idea, and she had so many ideas, and she seemed to be omnipotent. In order to make himself look credible, he even said in a nostalgic tone: "This may be my father's Christmas present to me." "When I mention my father at this time, my mother will definitely be soft-hearted.

Paucus looked at the man who seemed to be remembering Tom Red, how could she possibly believe such a rudimentary trick?

"Oh......" Rose nodded calmly, meeting Red's expectant eyes, she thought hard, and said, "Red, I don't think there are too many magical creatures related to snakes in the wizarding world, you can go to the library and see what ancient magical creatures there will be in this place?" Maybe there's one in Hogwarts too. She was almost certain that it was a basilisk, but she doubted that Red would be able to find the entrance to the secret room like his father, and she knew her son well, he had a very strict self-discipline creed, like an old-fashioned gentleman - she believed that he would never go into the girls' bathroom, whatever the reason.

At this point, he was a little more persistent than his father.

Red doesn't have the habit of flipping through books when he has a problem, he thinks that kind of people are rigid and mediocre, and he believes in the value of thinking, so he ran to the library after getting guidance from Bussy, and found the 'basilisk' after a day's search.

- I think he wants the one in the castle to be a basilisk.

Basilisk is so rare and so cool!

He still couldn't believe the basilisk based on the description of the basilisk in the books, so he took the books with him to the only two wizards in the school that he liked, Dumbledore and Sgollahhorn.

Sgollahhorn's eyes lit up at the sight of the basilisk, and he sighed, "Oh, a living basilisk is like a vault, which means there are not many Galleons!" ”

He counted how much the basilisk's venom was, and every piece of flesh and scale was worth the same amount or more of Galleons! But he also said that the basilisk was a rarity.

"In the wizarding world at the moment, I haven't heard of anyone who has ever seen a living basilisk. It was thought to be extinct. Sgollahhorn sighed.

Red thinks that Sgollahhorn is too greedy for money, which makes him respect him a lot less, because it means that he can be bought. He likes to be with people like that, but he doesn't see them as equals.

Then he went to Dumbledore, a wizard who seemed to be able to be bought with just a small glass of mead, but Red knew full well that he was the kind of man with a gritty will. He admired such people and was wary of them. But when it comes to advice, he trusts him.

Dumbledore laughed and instructed him to go to the Hogwarts Hunting Ground Warden, a filthy half-blood giant, which was as incredible as asking Red to sit at the same table with a house-elf!

But Dumbledore insisted: "You will find that he knows a lot." Hagrid knew all magical creatures like he knew about his bed. And he's very fond of large, somewhat dangerous magical creatures. ”

Rhett knew the saying 'Corporal Rite Hyun,' and his mother said that if he wanted to be a great man, then he would need a lot of talented people around him.

You have to make them like you and treat you like a real friend. So that they will help you. ’

Mom asked him what he would do if he needed to talk to a lot of people who were different from him. He was like, 'I'm going to do well.'" ’。

So, the time has come!

Red bravely walked to the cabin next to the Forbidden Forest, he saw the filthy half-blood giant, God forbid, he can't make his own clothes from animal skins, right?

He sat down to talk to him very politely, drank his house tea, ate the cake he made with his own hands, and then he asked him if he had ever seen a basilisk.

"Oh, I used to get some basilisk scales when I was drinking in the tavern." The half-giant really surprised him!

Red looked at the scales, which were about the size of a palm, and he couldn't tell if it was a basilisk or not, but it at least meant that the half-giant, Hagrid, had his talents.

They said...... You're Tom's son......" The half-giant wrung his fingers in a stiff manner.

Red immediately understood that he was afraid that he had some unpleasant experience with his father, who used to go to school here, maybe his father had bullied him—framed him? The latter is like a father,

He immediately said sincerely: "If my father had ever offended you, and I apologized to you on his behalf, he would have regretted it long ago." Of course, the father will not regret it, but since he is already in heaven, then as his son, of course, he must create a beautiful image for him to be remembered. And looking at his Christmas present, the basilisk, he believes that his father will not mind saying 'sorry' to the half-giant.

"No, it's not!" The half-giant's face was burning, and it looked like he would not be known to be sorry to him, which made him very unaccustomed.

Red immediately felt that the half-giant was much more pleasing to the eye, and that he would be a very loyal person. In this way, his huge body suddenly became a merit, how powerful!

"Tom, Tom, he's very good, very smart." The half-giant lowered his head and said.

"Thank you." Rhett was very moved, "Father will be very happy to find out." "He's not here, so he says he's happy, he's happy.

In order to make this huge friend, Red invited him home for dinner, so when Pauss saw Hagrid in their little room, her plate almost fell to the floor.

- There are not enough dishes in the kitchen.

She thought so.

After a dinner, Red immediately became the first of Hagrid's friends, and he went to him almost every day, and after half a month, he decided that the time was right, and then he asked the loyal half-giant friend to use his great strength to help him catch the basilisk.

"I suspect there's one in the castle." He implicitly expressed his desire to capture him as a pet, and after learning that his half-giant friend liked the great danger of magical creatures, he bitterly offered to take care of him with Hagrid.

Hagrid, of course, would not believe a child who said that there was a basilisk in the castle, he suspected that it might just be a snake running from the Forbidden Forest to the castle, or maybe some animal had dug up its hibernation hole, and it was so cold in winter that it had little food. Maybe Red might have seen a little tail of it somewhere.

Hagrid began to go to the castle to catch snakes, and there were many students in the castle, and he was worried that the snake would hurt the students and cause trouble for Hogwarts, and that the snake would be found by other students and torture it. He decided to get the snake back early and let it go back to the Forbidden Forest.

Red was in high spirits and ran around the castle with Hagrid's iron hooks, net pockets, and a cage of fat rats, and he had begun to imagine what it would be like to have a basilisk pet.

Dumbledore laughed and let them play in the castle for a week, then decided that he had played enough of the game, and he was very happy to see Tom's son and Hagrid become inseparable friends.

He thought they should go outside and play this game of hunting, so one day when Red and Hagrid walked into the castle with their things, he came up to them and smiled and asked what are you doing here?

Hagrid knew that Red believed that there was a basilisk in the castle, and of course he couldn't bear to break the child's dream, so in front of Red, he laughed, "Let's catch the basilisk." "It's as if he said they were coming to catch something as cute as a kitten.

The smile on Dumbledore's face froze, and Hagrid gave him a wink, so as not to let him show his stuff in front of Red, so as not to hurt his young heart.

It so happened that Dumbledore remembered how the Muggle-born schoolgirl had died, she had no wounds on her body, no poisoning, no illness, and no magical reaction—so she hadn't even died from the Avadaso Curse.

He takes the two to his office, and after serving cocoa milk and strawberry cake, he gently tricks Red into revealing how he thinks there is a basilisk in the castle.

Alert Red made the first condition: "If I catch this basilisk, I will say, it is the first thing I discovered." I'm going to keep it, it's my pet. He would never allow the basilisk to be sent to a zoo - this was how his mother had stopped him from buying a python to go home.

If it's seen by a neighbor, or if it runs out, he'll be taken to the zoo, and then you won't just say it's your pet. Grown-ups won't listen to you. ’

- He just wants a majestic pet.

Dumbledore thought for a moment, "I promise, if you catch it, it's you." You can raise it in the Forbidden Forest, do you know Aragog? It's Hagrid's pet, a giant talking spider that is now in the Forbidden Forest. ”

Red added: "No one can intentionally hurt it or kill it." "He is a person who thinks about problems without leaving corners, this is what his mother taught him, when signing a contract, he must take into account all the circumstances, and then write them down.

Dumbledore smiled and raised a hand, "So let's make a deal?" ”

Red patted it: "Deal!" ”

As a result, a vigorous snake digging operation began in the castle. With Dumbledore's support, everything is much simpler.

According to Red, the snake roams around the castle, so it must have its own path, but luckily it will be hungry.

Dumbledore prepared a large number of rats, probably almost all the rats in the castle, and asked Red to call them.

All the students were driven to the other side of the castle, and all the professors came, all of them waiting with their wands.

Dumbledore warned them that the basilisk eyes would kill, and that people would die immediately if they saw it, so they should close their eyes as soon as they heard it, and then attack again, so that everyone would faint together, and have enough roosters on hand, just in case.

Everything was ready, Dumbledore stood in front, and when he asked Red to call the basilisk over, Red rolled his eyes and said, "I forgot to tell you, Professor, it's probably big, so it can't get out of the sewers." After seeing so many professors, he began to worry that these people would hurt the basilisk, and he didn't fully trust Dumbledore. Besides, he's not lying.

Dumbledore realized that he had forgotten one very important thing, and that was that Red was Tom's son, and he was a clever little ghost.

The basilisk capture operation can only be temporarily suspended, and a passage large enough to get the basilisk out must be dug first. Later, it was decided to simply dig directly outside the castle so that it would be safe for the students. After asking for the consent of Headmaster Dippert, Dumbledore found someone to dig such a passage, the head of the passage was a huge box, which was a mouse, and the basilisk was directly locked in the box after it came out, and no one outside could see its eyes, which was safe and convenient.

Red agreed to the plan, and on a fine Monday, while all the students were in the castle, Dumbledore, Hagrid, and Red caught the giant basilisk in the open space outside Rhett's castle.

As soon as the basilisk got into the chest, Red was about to go crazy with joy! He circled around the box like a real child, and the basilisk was very disturbed, and when it found itself in a small box, it began to ram the box wildly. Red kept comforting it, and Hagrid was also worried, and said, "Does it like to eat mice?" I think the rats in the castle are too small, there is a Scottish sea rat that can grow as big as a wild boar, and I must raise more to feed it in the future. ”

Dumbledore asked Red to make the basilisk 'close' his eyes: "Otherwise, if it is released, it will see that people and animals will die, this is not good, I can't let it live in the Forbidden Forest like this." There are many animals in the Forbidden Forest, there are centaurs, there are unicorns, and they are all residents of the Forbidden Forest. You have to make sure your pet is safe and that it doesn't hurt anyone, otherwise ......"

Red bitterly agreed to Dumbledore's terms under this threat, and he ordered the hungry basilisk to 'close' its eyes. Then Dumbledore added another layer of magic to its eyes, and it became a blind basilisk completely.

Later, Dumbledore and Hagrid sent the basilisk into the Forbidden Forest, and found it a place where no one would bother it, and if Red wanted to see it, then Hagrid had to bring him.

Rhett is dissatisfied, he thinks that the pet should be closer to him, not that he has to play with it and have someone else bring him.

Dumbledore spread his hands and said, "Of course, of course." Red, I promised you. If you can get your mom to allow you to bring a basilisk home, you can take it with you, and let it sleep under your bed at night. ”

Red pointed at Dumbledore speechless, of course there was no way for his mother to agree! He's been framed! Oh, he finally knew, this Dumbledore was very cunning! He's a sinister guy!

Looking at Red's blushing face, Hagrid wanted to comfort his little friend, he knew how proud and ...... his little friend was

Dumbledore, on the other hand, was so satisfied that he even hummed a little song back to the castle.

- Tom's son is much cuter than him.