Harry Potter: The Age of Magic

Chapter 11 Grace of Slytherin

"Uh..." Seeing that the other party didn't seem to want to talk to him, Rossi gave up on communicating with him.

"Forget it, I won't talk to her anymore. I probably won't be able to go out tonight anyway. Before my energy bar drops to the lowest level and I need to get some extra sleep, I'd better look for the information I want to check."

Thinking of this, Rossi stopped trying to communicate with the other party and turned directly to another bookshelf, where he picked out a book related to magical creatures or dangerous creatures from the title of the spine.

After a long time like this, just when Rosie was about to pick up a book with a three-headed dog snoring on the cover, Grace's slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded from behind:

"What are you looking for?"

The unsuspecting Rossi was startled, turned to glare at the other person, and said with some displeasure: "Find a book about or about basilisks."

While speaking, Rosie complained in her mind: "Is she taking revenge on me for scaring her just now?! Absolutely!"

"You have such a strong sense of revenge at such a young age. You are really a Slytherin!" After complaining about the atmosphere of Slytherin House in his heart, Rossi suddenly realized that the other party did not react in any way after hearing his answer.

, instead he stared blankly in his own direction.

"Why did she become so dazed?" Rossi couldn't help but think, "Being dazed like this is not like Slytherin's usual insidious style. It feels like an honest Hufflepuff."

"AI crashed?" After waiting for a while but still seeing no other actions from the other party, Rossi couldn't help complaining in his heart, and then prepared to bypass the other party and continue searching.

"The book you are looking for is over there." Grace suddenly said.

While speaking, she pointed her arm towards a row of bookshelves in the front left: "Fourth row, third column, seventh book, "Fantastic Beasts", page 103, and the fifth row, sixth row in the general book area.

Column, Book Three, "Terrible Monsters of the Wizarding World", page 68."

"Ah?" After she finished speaking, a few seconds passed before Rosie suddenly reacted, "Thank you!"

As he said that, he quickly followed the other party's instructions and found the magic book titled "Details of Fantastic Beasts".

While flipping through the pages quickly, I thought to myself: "It turns out that she was down for a long time because she was trying to remember where the book was stored!"

"This memory is nothing short of an AI!" While praising the other person in his heart, Rossi finally turned to the content he wanted to read.

"In this world, there are many terrible beasts and monsters wandering around, and the most bizarre and lethal among them is the basilisk.

Basilisks are huge and can live hundreds or even thousands of years.

It hatches from the egg under the toad's body. Not only does it have sharp fangs, but it also has an extremely dangerous gaze. Anyone who comes into contact with its gaze will be killed immediately.

Even using the toad's blood to weaken the power of its eyes, or indirectly looking into its eyes through other means, is enough to turn a person into stone.

Basilisks are the natural enemies of spiders, so wherever there are basilisks, spiders will flee.

The rooster's crowing is fatal to it, so it runs away when it hears the rooster's crow..."

"No, there's something wrong here." After hearing Rosie read this, Grace, who was following her, corrected her in a low voice, "The person who wrote this book made a mistake. The basilisk is not afraid of the cockcrow."

"Well, maybe you're right!" Rosie, who had never planned to use her cock to deal with the basilisk, didn't care about this, especially after hearing the system prompts and her mood became more joyful.

I didn't take the other person's words to heart.

"Obtain important clues for mission two: Investigate the truth behind the attack."

Rossi immediately opened the task panel and saw that the prompt information above had changed.

"Task 2: Investigate the truth behind the attack (ongoing).

Important clue one, about the basilisk, reasoning (the clue is incomplete and cannot be carried out), conclusion (lack of prerequisites)"

I casually clicked on the yellow words about the basilisk, and its detailed information immediately jumped out.

"Judging from various details, the monster that came out of the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets can basically be determined to be the legendary basilisk."

Seeing this, Rossi couldn't help but smile dumbly and complained in his heart: "Am I stuck in a bug?"

"The basilisk is huge...it is extremely dangerous in itself. However, fortunately, the creatures attacked in Hogwarts may not have faced it head-on, so they were lucky enough to be petrified.

According to rumors, it is not afraid of roosters, which seems to be different from the records in the book..."

After reading the system prompts, Rossi found another book that Grice mentioned that recorded basilisks. After reading through it, he found that the descriptions of basilisks in the two books were almost the same, and "The Wizarding World"

Scary Monsters lacks a lot of information compared to the other book.

Rossi, who didn't get any more useful tips, put the book back to its original place and said to Grace, who had been following him since just now: "Thank you for letting me find some important information."

Grace shook her head. Under the dim light of the magic torch, the overly white skin on her face showed a bit of red blood.

"No, you're welcome." After saying that, she asked in a weird tone, "Why are you looking for a book about basilisks?"

Rossi thought for a while and said: "I am an agent from the Ministry of Magic, and I came to Hogwarts to investigate the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets. I think there is a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, and it is the culprit of Mrs. Norris being petrified."

"

Hearing this, Grace took a half step back in surprise and panic, and even her breathing became a little heavier.

After hesitating for a moment, Grace nodded slowly and seemed to have figured out some key points, confirming Rossi's words: "Yes, you are right."

Since Grace could point me to the exact page number about the basilisk in the magic book, he must have read about the basilisk. In this way, it is not surprising that the murderer who attacked Loris was a basilisk.

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While thinking this, Rossi made suggestions to the other party: "By the way, when you move around Hogwarts in the future, you'd better bring a mirror with you. When you have to turn a corner, you'd better use the mirror to look at yourself first.

"

"Well, I have to do the same in the future." Rossi said to himself at the same time.

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Seeing that Grace didn't respond, Rossi added: "In this way, even if you are unlucky enough to encounter a basilisk, you will only be petrified at most, and there is still a chance of being cured."

"Well, the resurrection potion prepared with mandrake can indeed remove the petrification ability of the basilisk." Grace nodded in response, "But I don't need to use a mirror."

"You actually know the name of that potion?" Rossi looked at the other party in surprise. Although he knew from the movie that there was a herb that could treat people petrified by the basilisk, he had no memory of the name of the potion.

Thinking of Grace actually saying it casually, "You really deserve to be a Slytherin!"

When Rossi thought about it, even though Grace was an NPC, as a student, her knowledge in potions could only be explained by being from the same school as Potions Professor Snape.

Hearing the other party's claim that he didn't need a mirror, Rossi was about to persuade him when he saw the ribbon covering his eyes and said, "Don't you think it's enough to put on a blindfold and not look at the basilisk? But if you

If you were really unfortunate enough to encounter a basilisk, wouldn't it be even more unfortunate if you didn't get petrified?"

(End of chapter)