Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"Basilisk? But what makes it really powerful is that the person being watched will die on the spot, not petrified?"

Professor McGonagall said in confusion when she heard Sherlock's words.

Sherlock pointed to the camera in Dumbledore's hands, which had been completely burned out.

"None of the students who were attacked should have looked directly into its eyes, but passed through something, like Colin through the camera, and Justin, the last attacked, through the reflection of the puddle under his feet."

Dumbledore met his gaze in praise.

"Very keen observation Sherlock, I'm also a little confused now. When you joined the Auror, why did those people say that it is not suitable for you to join the combat department."

He looked at the camera in his hand and said softly.

"It's very likely that the attacking creature was a basilisk, but the question is not who the attacker was, but who opened it..."

The voice of his last sentence was a little low, and Sherlock and Professor McGonagall didn't understand exactly what he said.

Then Dumbledore shook his head.

"If it is really a basilisk, then the way to defeat it is also very simple, the roar of the rooster is deadly to it, I remember that Hagrid kept a lot of chickens, and they can be used as a defense preparation. "

However, things are not so simple.

Hagrid's chickens were strangled to death overnight by someone I don't know.

Obviously, for these natural enemies, the person who released the basilisk was already prepared.

But anyway, with Sherlock's reminder, Dumbledore and the school's professors were prepared in advance.

The rooster is not a precious magical creature. It can be bought anywhere outside. The dangers that are known are more convenient to deal with than the unknown, which also gives the professors who know it more confidence.

But the students have no such confidence.

For the sake of secrecy, they discovered that the creature that attacked the students was a basilisk, and did not inform any of the students.

So the little wizards are still afraid of the unknown danger.

All the little wizards from Muggle families are in danger, and even the usually timid Neville's face is getting paler every day, and the horror and fear in his eyes can't be concealed.

"What are you afraid of Neville? You are pure blood, the monster in the secret room will not be targeting you."

Ron reassured after seeing the expression on Neville's face in the Gryffindor common room.

But his consolation didn't have any effect, Neville left the common room looking lost, looking in his direction, as if heading for the library.

"He's always been so timid, leave him alone." Harry said thoughtfully, and he wasn't in the mood to doubt Neville's unusual reaction now.

"Professor Forrest blessed Colin just yesterday, and then something happened to Colin today. It's definitely not a coincidence!"

Hermione also looked puzzled.

"But Professor Forrest is definitely not the murderer. We discussed it before. He is a half-blood. The descendant of Slytherin must be pure blood, right?"

"It's not necessarily." Ron said solemnly, "Remember what I told you before, there are very few wizard families who can truly be called pure blood. If they don't marry Muggles, wizards Maybe it's already extinct. The family that Slytherin handed down may have forgotten their ancestral identities in the middle of the process. After all, the few pure-blood families in existence have never heard of anyone and Slytherin. relation."

The evidence that had previously proved Sherlock's innocence was now overturned by Ron. At this time, Hermione was shocked to discover that, based on the current evidence, Professor Forrest was not at all less suspicious than Malfoy.

she stammered.

"Can,

But I still don't believe that, if Professor Forrest is really the murderer, and he really hates Muggle-born wizards so much, why is he willing to answer my questions for me? Although he speaks in a cold tone and has a very general attitude towards people, in fact we all know that Professor Forrest is a very good person. When he was in Diagon Alley, he also tried to help Mr. Weasley and Marr. Fu's dad got into a fight. "

Hermione's words weighed heavily on both Ron and Harry.

When they first met Sherlock, they didn't think very well of him because of his indifferent attitude.

But in the later contact, they found that the real Sherlock was not as indifferent as he appeared on the surface.

The real Sherlock is suave, never swears at students who are not smart enough, and has a humorous and interesting class. In order to make them interested in Defense Against the Dark Arts, he even tried to change the characters from cartoons to be their teaching assistants.

Nearly half a semester of study and getting along with him now has made Harry and the others truly accept this professor. They can't imagine that Sherlock is really the murderer who wants to ruthlessly "clean up" the entire school.

After a long silence, Harry suddenly spoke in a cold voice.

"You said that Professor Sherlock is indeed not a murderer, but he is simply a crow's mouth?"

Hermione and Ron were stunned by his assumption that it was neither magical nor scientific.

"Harry, I know you don't want Professor Forrest to be a murderer, and neither do we, but you can't use such baseless words to cover up his suspicions, it's not good for other people. Responsible......"

"I'm not covering up, I'm serious!"

Harry interrupted Ron's words solemnly, and he carefully analyzed Ron from beginning to end.

"Do you remember the day when the school started, we drove a flying car to school, and ended up getting injured in the beating Liushang?"

Ron was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"Of course I remember that, the willow tree seemed to go crazy and wanted to kill us."

"Then we went to Madam Pomfrey for treatment and met Professor Forrest on the way back to the Gryffindor lounge. Do you remember what he said to us?"

"Said... He didn't want someone to ask for leave in his first class."

Ron was only impressed by this sentence, because he was discussing with Harry at the time that he would make up a reason not to go to class tomorrow, and was caught by Sherlock.

Harry shook his head.

"It wasn't, what he said after seeing us was 'I thought you guys could finally land safely. ""

Ron and Hermione looked stunned.

"What kind of evidence is this, maybe Professor Forrest just said it casually at the time, and the fact that we were injured was just a coincidence."