The Death Knell

The tactic of flash grenades plus automatic shotgun bursts works well most of the time, especially when dealing with basilisks who don't even know what flash grenades are.

When the death knell led the girls to the center of the secret room at the deepest part of the underground pipe network, there was only a strange huge stone statue there, occupying an entire wall, and there was no trace of the basilisk.

After the professor said, 'Speak to me, Slytherin, the greatest of the Four,' the stone statue's mouth opened, and the sound of something rubbing in the pipes was heard.

Hermione immediately threw out the flash bomb, turned around to avoid the bright light, and fired wildly at the pre-aimed position.

When he opened his eyes a few seconds later, he saw that the basilisk was already dead.

The snake's entire head was missing, and part of its body was missing. Now it looked like a stone statue of Slytherin holding a thick black noodle in its mouth.

"That's it? Isn't it a little too simple?"

She looked at her hand suspiciously, then at the gun in her hand.

There are so many books recording how difficult the basilisk is to deal with and what a threat it poses to people, but this golden bullet is very special and seems to be able to penetrate any defense.

Su Ming took out the God Killer and skinned the basilisk. The fangs flew to nowhere, but the scales were still intact.

Put it away for her first, and make a uniform in the future after her height is determined. Of course, the casting will have to go to Vulcan, and the material must be mixed with n metal and promethium metal.

"That's it. Since you know all the enemy's weaknesses and have made a complete plan in advance, how difficult will it be?" The professor peeled off the snake skin like taking off a sock and put it into his bag: "It's just a baby dragon. How much time do you want to waste with it?"

"It's obviously not a dragon..."

Hermione was speechless, as if she didn't even have the strength to hold the gun.

After preparing for so long, the meeting ended in less than thirty seconds. This is simply not right.

"Okay, if you don't plan to eat it, then just leave the body here. I will tell the principal what happened in the secret room, but if you want the reward, I guess the winter vacation is over." Su Ming clapped his hands and took the naked snake. The flesh and blood were dragged out of the stone statue's mouth and coiled into a pile.

Hermione shook her head. The other two girls behind her also looked helpless. They got in through the sewer of the bathroom and walked in the dark and smelly place for nearly fifteen minutes. In the end, they didn't even see what the basilisk looked like. Qing, is this the end?

"I want to see a real dragon, one with wings and four legs." Hermione stared at the professor and used a pitiful attack.

"Well, it's not impossible. If we fly to Wales now, we can kill a few green dragons and maybe go to Hogsmeade for a while." The professor shook off the blood on his hands and took off his own Tie, it turned into a flying carpet again: "But it is illegal to hunt dragons without the approval of the Ministry of Magic. We have to do it secretly. Here are some pieces of black cloth for you to cover your faces."

Hermione no longer cared about whether it was against the law. She was talking about slaying dragons before, but there were no dragons today. The psychological gap made her very unwilling.

No matter what, she wanted to see the dragon today, whether to kill him or not was another matter.

She picked up the black handkerchief and put it on her face without noticing that the professor had already prepared it.

Unknowingly, this became her first record of breaking the law.

Su Ming was very satisfied with this. He never cared about whether he could kill the dragon. What he cared about was how to make the law and common sense no longer the shackles that restricted his apprentice's development.

The more modern and civilized the world is, the more people have this problem. All kinds of rules are everywhere. Hermione must learn to ignore some people's rules so that she can formulate her own rules in the future.

Now that she has completed all the basic courses in this area, under the temptation of Deathstroke, she has made a good start, and her illegal activities are proceeding naturally.

But the rest depends on how she goes in the next few years.

The cloak led the three of them out of a sewer above their heads. After turning left and right, they rushed out of the sewer outlet and disappeared into the dark night in an instant.

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That night, Hermione not only fulfilled her wish to slay the dragon, but also received a package from Ollivander, the gift she had promised before, a second wand, and a short letter.

The scrawled handwriting explained the situation. This new wand was made of exactly the same material as her original one. It was nine and three-quarter inches long, made of grape vine wood. Even the core of the wand was made from the heart tendon of the same dragon, which was the dragon's heartstring. .

This is the secret of how a wizard drives two wands, they choose the user, and most of the time they recognize the same person with the same wand.

The new wand is an unregistered one. She can use it to do some shady things without worrying about being monitored by the Ministry of Magic. It is said that many successful wizards have such skills.

But Hermione didn't care anymore. The shotgun and tactical thinking were enough for her. She cared more about the Horcruxes, the Dark Lord, and the so-called Seven Mysteries.

Some things also happened during the holidays. For example, Principal Dumbledore retrieved the gold cup and once again asked the physical education professor to purify it. After disposing of three of Voldemort's Horcruxes in one semester, he seemed to relax a lot.

Also, the mouse the professor was playing with that day turned out to be a human being. It was said that it was related to an unjust case in the wizarding world. Hermione was not sure, but she heard that Harry Potter cried until he fell into coma in a common room with no one during the holidays. It was very strange. Shameful.

The students leaving school have made the campus quite empty, but it has little impact on Ravenclaw. People in this college seem to have no idea what a holiday or festival is.

Perhaps it was only on Christmas Day that they came out of the lounge, had a dance, had something to eat, and then retreated back?

The days flew by so quickly.

Hermione couldn't sit in the common room like those people. She felt that she might have too much energy due to exercising too often, so she ran around the Black Lake wearing a scarf on the day before Christmas.

The high-top snow boots didn't save her much energy, but at least they were warm. She just had to hold on to her scarf and keep it from falling.

At this time, she suddenly saw Professor Snape and Professor Wilson. The two of them were standing on the covered bridge between the main building of the castle and the Star Observation Tower, seeming to be chatting while looking at the silver-covered forest.

My professor still looks the same, standing crookedly with a cigarette in his mouth.

Snape looked agitated, as if he was shouting something at the people around him.

Hermione wanted to eavesdrop, but the distance was too far and there was no cover at all. She would definitely be discovered if she walked on the white snow.

So she could only find a tree stump and sit down, trying to tell something from the expressions of the two people from a distance.

Unfortunately, if she wanted to deduce conversations through lip reading or expressions, this kind of course was still too advanced for her. In the end, she covered her ears and became stunned. She could only see Snape's long black hair from a distance. Swinging around like the rock singer I saw on TV.

"What makes Snape, who is always serious, so excited? I'm so curious..."