Chapter 52: The Late Arrivals (Second Watch, Thank You for Your Votes)
In an instant, Rick disappeared from the basilisk's view. This caused the rapidly diving basilisk to lose its target in an instant.
The monstrous instinct made the basilisk feel a crisis it had never felt before, but when it tried to stop to avoid the invisible crisis, it saw its body fall in the other direction......
Rick's sword is fast, and even if he can't use phantom shifting, his speed is not something that a basilisk can capture.
In the United States, he can be a secret Auror before the age of twenty, not just because of his status as an official N generation. The renegade dueling style has terrified the dark wizards of North America.
Draw the sword! It's a "real" wizard - Rick Graves has long learned the sword move, and it is also the most commonly used.
Draw the sword in one place, and the enemy's body is separated.
Boom! Boom!
"Alice must not know about the killing of the basilisk, otherwise this madman will definitely ask me to compensate her for a ......"
Rick, who returned to the ground, stepped on the head of the basilisk, gouged out its two vertical pupils with his sword, and then took off his coat to wrap it tightly before daring to open his eyes.
Throwing the sword flower and throwing the blood of the basilisk attached to Prometheus's body to the ground, Rick summoned a white cotton cloth and began to carefully wipe the blade.
Because Prometheus has a demon-breaking effect, Rick can't clean it with the Cleanup Charm, so he has to do it himself.
"Professor Graves! Professor Graves! ”
At this moment, the door of the school hospital was opened, and the three Hermione ran to Rick's side with nervous expressions, looking at the black sword in Rick's hand and the terrifying basilisk giant at his feet.
The three of them gasped and took a step back, and Ron fell to the ground in fright.
"Be careful, don't touch the liquid around you, if you accidentally get the venom, the professor I can only amputate your limb as soon as possible."
Rick examined the blade carefully and found that there was not a trace of smudge, then inserted it into the scabbard on his back, looking very curious about the basilisk and wanted to go up and find out, Hermione and Harry half-jokingly warned.
Now the garden was pitch black, and only the faint candlelight from the windows of the school hospital barely allowed the three little ones to see the silhouette of the monster that attacked them. Harry and Hermione tried to see what kind of monster it was, but when they heard Rick's warning, they retreated to Ron's side and helped Ron up.
"Professor! What kind of monster is this? Why is it in schools? Could it be that the mysterious man sent him to attack Harry? ”
Hermione asked, she reasoned for a long time, removing the impossible suspicions, and there was only one possibility left in her mind, that is, the mysterious person who escaped in the first half of the year has returned.
"Well, let's ask Professor Snape, the head of our Slytherin Academy, to answer it."
While Hermione and the others looked at Rick suspiciously, Headmaster Dumbledore appeared in the garden with several professors.
Professor McGonagall unleashed a fluorescent flicker of light up the garden, and they walked quickly to Rick's side as they looked at the mess and the corpses of the giant basilisk in front of them.
"Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, and Mr. Weasley, I need you to explain why you're here at this late hour?"
Professor McGonagall walked to Hermione's three with great speed and questioned them angrily, her stern tone barely concealing her concern for them.
"Professor, Harry's sudden headache has led us to bring him to the hospital to see Madam Pomfrey."
Hermione hurriedly explained that as Gryffindor's most "decoratory", she didn't want Professor McGonagall to misunderstand, after all, she really took Harry to see a doctor this time.
"Really?"
Professor McGonagall looked into Hermione's sincere eyes, and her tone began to soften.
"It's true, we're not lying! I had a splitting headache, Hermione and Ron, they noticed my anomaly, and they followed me to the school hospital, but just as we were about to enter the gate, the monster appeared. Thankfully, Professor Graves showed up and killed the monster, and we were able to get out of harm's way. ”
Because of the death of the basilisk, the snake whisper that was hovering in Harry's mind also disappeared, which made him stop having a headache and return to normal. Seeing that Professor McGonagall was still a little unconvinced, he hurriedly explained.
"Hehe, Professor Graves, making you the defence-the-dark arts professor at the school should be the wisest choice I've made in the last few years."
Because Professor McGonagall was overly worried about Harry, including Dumbledore and Snape, she never asked Rick about the situation. When Harry finished telling the facts he knew. Dumbledore stroked his beard and smiled at Rick.
"As long as Headmaster Dumbledore hasn't forgotten our direct agreement."
Seeing that Dumbledore didn't see the basilisk corpse at all, Rick gritted his teeth in response, very dissatisfied with Dumbledore's release of his dove.
'The older you get, the better you get, and if I don't remind him, he'll forget our agreement!' ’
"Haha, the European Magical Academic Council is meeting recently, and I will complete the agreement with you when I am free next month."
Suddenly Rick broke his appointment, Dumbledore's old face was slightly red, and he casually tried to fool Rick for a very reasonable reason.
"Yes......" Rick looked at Dumbledore in disbelief, which made Dumbledore quickly look at the head of the basilisk at Rick's feet.
"Professor Kettleburn, come and have a look. Could this be..."
Dumbledore thought it was just an evil serpent with a dark aura, but when he looked closely at the head of the basilisk, he noticed something unusual about the serpent.
The dark green skin makes people instinctively fearful, and the bright red feather on the top of the head.
Dumbledore's long-sealed memories came back to his mind, and in order to confirm his conjecture, he wanted the professor of the Magical Creatures Protection class behind him to come forward and confirm it.
Hearing Headmaster Dumbledore's call, a one-armed professor with a cane stepped forward from behind Snape.
Silvanos Kettleburn is the current Professor of Conservation at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Although the old teacher was born in Hufflepuff, he acted sloppily and recklessly in his early teaching career, and was once placed under observation by Armando Duppert, the headmaster of Hogwarts at the time.
However, after Albus Dumbledore became Headmaster, Kettleburn became much calmer.
A fellow drinker, Rick knew it was because Kettleburn was scared, afraid that his own recklessness would lose his remaining limbs again.
"This !! This is!!! You can't go wrong! It's unbelievable!! ”