Chapter 68: Let's deal with the basilisk like this

Go back in time to when you first killed the basilisk.

The basilisk was killed, and the professors searched the castle again, and when they found that there was no longer any threat, they declared that the state of emergency was lifted.

Lockhart, unconscious, was taken to the school infirmary and tied up, while Snape stood by the sidelines.

Knowing that the school was safe, students flocked to the foyer to look at the basilisk corpse, causing congestion.

So everyone worked together to get the basilisk to the lawn outside the castle for everyone to watch.

The basilisk is about fifteen meters long, a little more than a meter in diameter, and weighs more than ten tons. The huge size makes people feel creepy at first glance. A lot of students had just used the levitation charm to transport it outside the castle.

Many students were scared when they saw the basilisk for the first time. Then a group of single dogs took the opportunity to show their brave and reliable side in front of the girls.

Suddenly, the basilisk's head moved, and most of the single dogs who were chatting and laughing in front of the basilisk collapsed to the ground in fright.

Then, a pair of red-haired twins are hung by a group of people on either side of the gates of Hogwarts Castle.

Zhang Xu's camera was borrowed by Zhang Qiu, and everyone was taking pictures around the basilisk.

After taking out all the film in the treasure bag and handing it to Zhang Qiu, who was taking pictures with a camera, Zhang Xu walked to a group of people on the side.

The students of the "Defenders" who had just joined the battle and did not have to lie in the school infirmary gathered around to discuss what to do with the basilisk's corpse.

The admiration of the surrounding students gave them a little satisfaction to their vanity, and the single dogs smiled at the girls around them who thought they were mature and charming.

The students who had just participated in the battle took photos with the basilisk in the foyer, both in group and individual photos.

Even the two daredevils who were petrified were taken out with a levitation charm to take pictures together.

Half a century later, an old wizard showed a photo of himself and the basilisk corpse on the lawn in an interview with a television reporter, claiming to be one of the people who participated in the battle.

After the show aired, a group of old men and women such as Snape, the newly retired head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Hermione Granger, the minister of magic, posted on Weibo that you are nonsense, and the group photos of students, professors and basilisks who participated in the battle were all taken in the foyer of Hogwarts Castle.

Basilisk, a magical creature that has lived for thousands of years, can be said to be full of treasures. Not to mention selling it for money, but many students of the magic family want to get something good for their home. Even Muggle-born students wanted to leave themselves with something to the bottom of the box.

Moreover, the thousand-year-old basilisk is still a non-renewable resource, and the information on it is less than a little bite, after all, no one will make a bunch of basilisks to make a cellar basilisk like winemaking. Except for someone.

So everyone started to fight the idea of the basilisk, because the basilisk was their trophy and they had the right to deal with it first.

"The basilisk's meat is edible, right?"

As soon as Zhang Xu's words came out, a group of students who were still discussing passionately just now quieted down.

Then a group of people stared at the basilisk with bright eyes.

Such a big basilisk seems to eat a little by itself, so it shouldn't be a big deal.

The next question is whether the basilisk meat can be eaten.

After discussing it for a while and coming to the conclusion that the basilisk's flesh was theoretically not poisonous, several of the prefects of the snake courtyard got together and muttered for a while.

"Ahem." A seventh-year prefect from the Snake Academy caught everyone's attention and said, "The basilisk is a pet left by the founder of our Slytherin house. ”

The student from the Snake Academy next to him nodded.

"As students of Slytherin House, we have no problem with killing it for the safety of the whole of Hogwarts, after all, Slytherin House is an integral part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and it is also our responsibility to protect the safety of Hogwarts."

The student from the Snake Academy next to him nodded.

"However, if you want to eat a pet left by the founder of Slytherin House, such an act is still very inappropriate for a Slytherin student."

The student from the Snake Academy next to him nodded.

"Of course, if our Slytherin students eat something strange without knowing it, and this kind of thing happens, no one wants it."

The students of the Snake Academy next to him nodded frequently.

Then in the eyes of the students of the other three academies, the prefect of the Snake Academy took two steps to the side with the students of the Snake Academy, indicating that we didn't know anything.

The students of the other three colleges summed it up and decided that this matter could only be done secretly, and if the whole school had about 5,000 people to eat together, each person would only get less than half a catty.

But how to get the meat of the basilisk has to be planned.

In the afternoon, Zhang Xu brought a suggestion to dispose of the basilisk corpse, and everyone agreed.

It is not possible for a specimen of a basilisk to soak a whole basilisk in formalin solution.

According to Zhang Xu's concept, the specimen of the basilisk will be combined with four statues representing the students of the four colleges to form a sculpture + specimen combination with the theme of students fighting with the basilisk. Then put a fountain around it.

The address was chosen right in front of the gates of Hogwarts Castle. Anyone entering or exiting the castle through the gate must first pass by the specimen.

In the wizarding world, it is very happy to be an architect, because the Transfiguration Charm can create a model of the effect of a work in a very short time.

After some discussion and design, everyone finally chose the plan with the Hogwarts Castle gate as the centerline, with a specimen of the basilisk in an attack pose on one side, and four statues of students raising their wands to attack the basilisk on the other. It is surrounded by a huge fountain pool, and if you want to go straight to the main entrance of the castle, you need to walk over a bridge erected over it. When you walk to the middle of the bridge, there are huge basilisk specimens on one side and four student statues fighting basilisk on the other. When the fountain sprays water, a jet of water from the top of the wand of the four statues will spray at the basilisk specimen, and the basilisk will spew out multiple jets of water from the open mouth and fall next to the four student statues on the opposite side.

As for whether the basilisk specimen will be damaged if it is sprayed with water on the fountain, with the blessing of magic, even if it is sprayed with sulfuric acid for more than a hundred years, it is not a problem.

On the contrary, the figures of the four statues have been debated for a long time. In the end, the statue representing the students of the Lion Academy used the image of Harry Potter who gave the final blow to the basilisk, the statue representing the students of the Snake Academy used the image of the daredevils who were the first to break out of the cafeteria and was petrified, the statue representing the students of the Badger Academy used the image of a girl who pushed her companion away from her when the basilisk was finally dying and struggled, and she was swept by the tail of the basilisk, and Zhang Xu, who represented the image of the students of the Eagle Academy.

After this plan was reported to Dumbledore, Dumbledore immediately approved it.

Sylvanus Kettleburn, the professor in the Conservation of Magical Creatures class, began working on the basilisk corpse that afternoon, and he was in charge of making the basilisk corpse into a specimen.

Professor Sylvanus Kettleburn worked with several students to peel off the basilisk's skin.

Then put the basilisk's muscles, bones, and internal organs into enchanted chests. This kind of chest can effectively preserve the freshness of magical creatures, and can also effectively reduce the loss of mana.

In the middle of an afternoon, the basilisk's corpse was disassembled. The skin of the basilisk needs to be embalmed first, and then filled and positioned according to the requirements of the specimen design.

The rest of the parts just need to be packed into boxes and transported back to the castle.

The basilisk was taxidermy, except for a few boxes of basilisk meat and bones that showed up in the kitchen.