"It's a bold design."

Dumbledore could see at a glance the general scheme of the red and white balls: "It's very delicately constructed, it reminds me of an old friend of mine who died not long ago." ”

Dumbledore said with a rare hint of remembrance: "It's completely different from his design philosophy, I really want to introduce you to each other, he will definitely like you." ”

"A little trick, not worth mentioning." Dudley was very modest.

Snape tilted his head slightly proudly, as if Dudley had been taught him.

That said, though, is true.

Then Dumbledore's eyes fell on the very healthy mandrake: "Maybe I have a little friend who will like you too, and I have the opportunity to introduce you to you." ”

Fantastic beasts and magical plants are never separated.

"It's my pleasure, Professor Dumbledore."

With the mandrake here, the potion that de-petrified was not something with a super difficult coefficient, and it didn't take long to brew it.

With only two drops, the fur on Lady Loris's body, which was as hard as a stone, tended to soften.

A few drops again. Lady Loris's body began to soften, and the temperature came with it.

"It's a little bit worse than my skills, but it's amazing to be able to do that." Lockhart was there to be unashamed to push Lai Lai, but no one in the room took what he said seriously, including Filch.

"Stone dissolves, then. What the hell is the creature that petrified Lady Loris, such a thing to roam around Hogwarts, I don't think it's a safe thing to do. ”

Speaking of safety, Dumbledore's tone was slightly helpless, he still remembered that he had promised Dudley that Hogwarts was the safest place.

"It must be Medusa." Lockhart said to himself: "I met a Medusa during my adventures in Armenia, and there, you know, I subdued a werewolf, which is mentioned in my work Wandering with Werewolves. If I hadn't reacted quickly enough."

Even though there were only professors here, Lockhart still didn't forget to attract attention and sell his books along the way.

Lockhart's words are not completely unreasonable, but the magical creature Medusa does have the ability to petrify, but England is not the origin of Medusa, that creature is a specialty of Greece, even in the forbidden forest, there is no reason for a Medusa to appear.

But if not Medusa, what kind of magical creature would it be?

Professors are nerve-wracking about this. Even Dumbledore couldn't guess the answer.

But no matter what, there's a dangerous creature roaming around Hogwarts.

Cowmike didn't think he hadn't seen it, so the only one who saw the other party's true face was 'Lady Loris'.

You can't ask Lady Loris.

It doesn't seem impossible to talk to cats. Dumbledore thought of someone.

Lady Loris said. She saw a huge snake. ”

At that moment, Dudley, who was examining Lady Loris, suddenly spoke.

"What?" His words stunned everyone.

Including Lockhart.

"Lady Loris, she said she saw a giant serpent, very, very large, that took up almost the entire corridor." Again, Dudley emphasized that he fed the 'delicious little dried fish' to Lady Loris, which gave poor Lady Loris, who had just been released from petrification, some strength.

"I mean, you understand cat language?" Professor Flitwick asked, not thinking that Dudley was lying, just habitually making sure.

This is an excellent wizard who can cast spells without a wand in his second year.

"Didn't I say that? Actually, I know a little bit of cat language. ”

As he spoke, Dudley held two fingers, his thumb and index finger in a gesture of losing the Korean market: "A little, but enough to understand what Lady Loris's is trying to say." ”

"It's amazing." Dumbledore exclaimed.

"I guess that's a lot more insignificant than you, don't you know mermaid and goblin language, professor?"

To be precise, Dumbledore not only knew mermaid language and goblin language, but even Parseltongue could only understand it, but he couldn't say it.

"Snake head!" Lockhart grabbed the keyword: "Look at me and say Medusa." ”

Medusa has a head full of snake heads, isn't this a murderer? It's a real hammer.

Clapping his hands, Dudley stood up and looked at the other professors, "I don't think it's Medusa. ”

"Medusa's snakes are very small, and there are very many of them, and Lady Loris says that the snake is bigger than the hallway."

Millennial basilisk. How can it be that a mere Medusa can be compared?

"No kidding, how can there be such a big snake?" Lockhart teased, then showed his trademark two rows of teeth again, "Mr. Dursley, it's just a cat, you know what it means to be big?" What it sees is bigger, maybe it's just what it thinks is big. ”

Before Dudley could speak, Filch became excited: "Lady Loris is very smart! She doesn't lie, and she can't be mistaken! ”

He wasn't usually like that, and although Filch was very strict with his students, he always maintained enough respect for his professors.

But you can insult him, not his cat.

That's his only companion!

"Dudley, what do you think it is?"

Dumbledore ignored Lockhart, his eyes falling on Dudley, along with the other professors.

Under the gaze of countless eyes, he slowly spoke again: "Huge snake magical creature, Professor Dumbledore, I think the answer is already obvious."

There aren't many snake magical creatures in the first place, and there are only a few that are famous, and even fewer are petrified abilities.

"Basilisk, it's a basilisk."

"Mr. Dursley, your claim is even more ridiculous, the basilisk is a more rare magical creature than Medusa."

Lockhart tried desperately to prove his guess right: "As far as I know, that dangerous magical creature hasn't appeared for a long time, you say it's a basilisk. Why don't you just say that this is a Basilisk raised by Slytherin that has lived for thousands of years? ”

The portraits of Lockhart on the surrounding walls nodded after listening to Lockhart's words.

The basilisk is extremely complicated just to breed, let alone raise such a large one.

"And the basilisk has a lethal look, and the cat is just petrified."

Dudley said casually, "Is it possible that Lady Loris indirectly saw the basilisk's eyes through the stagnant water on the ground, so she was just petrified and not killed." ”

Lady Lorisy nodded frantically and meowed.

The two men disagreed.

The professors looked at each other with some headaches.

In fact, both Medusa and the basilisk seem to them to be nonsense.

Hogwarts Castle is the safest place in the world, how could there be that kind of east. Hey? Last year, it seems that a few trolls came in

(End of chapter)