The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

The giant snake's body and head were separated, and almost instantly, its body made a sizzling sound and quickly shriveled up. Its flesh and blood melted, forming disgusting pus flowing out of the wound.

After more than ten seconds, all that was left was a huge piece of bones wrapped in snake skin.

"It should contain highly corrosive poisons all over its body," Melanie walked over and said, "After the head was severed, these highly toxic substances went out of control."

Erwin felt it was a pity. The flesh and internal organs of the basilisk should be quite good materials.

The first thing to do after the battle is naturally to count the loot, and this is not as simple as squatting down and touching the glowing corpse.

Erwin used an invisible blade to cut open the snake's skin, and then used a cleaning spell to carefully remove the pus attached to the snake's skin and bones. This was a delicate and time-consuming job.

Melanie knelt down, hugged her knees and watched Erwin busy with interest.

"That's how you look at it?" Erwin glanced at her.

"Then what can I do? Rub your shoulders or something?" Melanie said and was about to stick in.

"No." Erwin immediately raised his hand to refuse.

This woman really couldn't help much now. Erwin looked at Ginny who was lying on the ground, "How is she doing?"

"I just fainted. There is no danger to my life."

After taking care of the body, the next step was the snake head embedded in the floor tiles. Quasimodo swung the cross and smashed the incredibly hard surrounding floor tiles into pieces, making it easier for Erwin to pry the snake head out.

Disappointingly, the basilisk's most valuable organ, the eyes, has been reduced to a mixture of meat paste and lenses. Although it can show a terrifying instant death effect, the eyeballs themselves are difficult to strengthen like muscles, so

When the entire snake head withstood Quasimodo's heavy blow, the force was transmitted to the eyeball, shattering it directly.

The only valuable items left are the skull, brain, venom glands and snake teeth.

Before it is fully unfolded and formed, the Lemay Cabin looks like a black cube. It can function as a portable storage, but it cannot ignore the collision of objects when storing or taking it out. That is, if you want to take out or put in items,

The cube must be expanded to a size that can accommodate it.

Erwin allowed it to expand to a length of five meters, and then ordered Quasimodo to return to it with the trophies that had been processed. Esmeralda would store these things in the warehouse in the most appropriate way.

Melanie held her fair chin, "These things of yours are really convenient. Damn it, why can't I meet a master alchemist who is about to die and has to distribute his inheritance?"

Erwin didn't say anything, watching Quasimodo's back disappear, and then shrunk the cube again to the point where he could hold it with one hand. "Compared with you and Quasimodo, who is more powerful in combat?" He suddenly said.

asked.

Melanie was stunned for a moment, "His speed is too slow," she said.

"That means you can't compare to your offensive capabilities and resistance to blows, right?" Erwin automatically translated.

"Yes." Melanie kept smiling.

Ginny woke up at this time, and Erwin and Melanie immediately stopped talking and looked at her.

The red-haired girl was a little at a loss, and then she cried immediately, as expected, "I'm sorry, Mr. Erwin, I don't want to hurt you, it's that guy..."

Although she is not as good as Melanie, who is almost a vampire with the ability to pinch her face, Ginny is quite cute. In terms of appearance, it is not a problem to crush Miss Nutria. The way she cries is very inspiring to others.

Compassion.

"Which guy?" Erwin asked calmly.

"This." It was Melanie who answered. She gestured to the diary on the ground over there, "Be careful, there is a soul on the facade."

Since the armor ring was damaged, Erwin carefully cast an armor protection spell on himself, and then picked up the diary. It felt cold at first, and it didn't look anything special from the outside, so he opened it.

I found a line of words floating on the blank page:

"Ginny? Accept me again quickly. Only I can control that basilisk. These two people have discovered your secret and must be eliminated..."

Erwin's face suddenly became a little playful, "This soul usually communicates with you through text?"

Ginny nodded timidly, her tears still wet.

"It's really a bit low-level, and he doesn't even have the ability to sense the outside world and doesn't know the current situation." Erwin shook his head slightly. "I think you must have completely opened your heart to him, so you were attracted by him.

control?"

This guy is just as good as deceiving a little girl. Only a simple Ginny would foolishly expose her soul to him.

Ginny nodded again, "He said his name was Tom and he was also a student at Hogwarts."

Tom? This name is a bit too popular, but since he can speak Parseltongue and can open secret rooms and control basilisks, it is a bit too obvious.

There have not been too many books on Voldemort in the past ten years. People are eager to know where such a Dark Lord came from. Excluding the false information that has been fabricated and spread, at least his real name is no longer a secret.

Tom Marvolo Riddle.

Now is not the time to study whether this diary is related to the most powerful dark wizard in Britain in the past fifty years. Erwin closed the diary and asked, "Where did you get this thing?"

This is a very critical question.

"I found it in my Transfiguration textbook. I wonder who put it in there." Ginny was a little confused.

"Exact time?"

"It was after I bought it in Diagon Alley that I discovered it when I opened the book for the first time."

"So, who did you meet from the time you bought the book at Flourish and Blotts to when you got home?" Erwin looked directly into the girl's eyes.

Ginny named some Diagon Alley clerks and young wizards, and finally mentioned a name, Lucius Malfoy.

"That's Brother Malfoy's father. Dad had a very unpleasant quarrel with him in the bookstore." Ginny suddenly stopped and her face turned pale. "It was him. He must have put the diary in my textbook."

inside."

"A very direct inference." Erwin nodded slightly.

The Malfoy family? That's interesting.

He put his hand on Ginny's shoulder and could feel the little girl's thin body trembling slightly.

"Don't be afraid, you are safe, no one will blame you." His tone was gentle, and the temperature in his palms was very warm.

Ginny's mood actually calmed down, and there was a hint of gratitude in her eyes when she looked at Erwin.

It doesn't matter whether this little girl was completely controlled or not, and how much of her previous actions contained her will. "Leave this diary to me for safekeeping. I will hand it over to Professor Dumbledore tomorrow. You

You should have no objections, right?"

Ginny nodded.

"Then what happened tonight, including the existence of the basilisk and the secret room, is not suitable for public disclosure, so we should all keep it a secret, what do you think?" Erwin was persuasive.

How could Ginny not agree?

"Finally, I hope you can forgive Melanie. She is not really bullying you. Everything is just to help you get rid of the control of this diary."

Ginny glanced at Melanie, her face still a little unnatural, but the latter smiled sweetly.

"Well, it's getting late, let's get out of here. It's time for you to go back and rest."

He coaxed Ginny and sent her back to her dormitory, but Erwin had no intention of falling asleep.

How could he possibly sleep?

He did not let Melanie follow him. He stepped into the Forbidden Forest at night and came to the familiar open space. Erwin fully unfolded the Flamel cabin and walked in.

What should he do now? Deal with the basilisk's head? Study the diary? Or check whether Quasimodo has suffered any damage? No, the first thing he has to do now is to remake an armor ring.

The battle with the basilisk has clearly demonstrated the superiority of permanent armor protection.

When dawn came, Erwin stopped working. This time he made two rings at once, and the third one was mostly completed.

Since they are easily damaged, prepare a few more. This is the same as preparing several spare wands.

Back at Hogwarts Castle, Erwin took the diary to the principal's office. After all, it was about a basilisk hiding in Hogwarts, so it was obviously inappropriate to conceal it.

But he found that Professor Dumbledore was not in the school again.

"When will the principal come back?" He found Professor McGonagall and asked,

"I can't give you a guarantee. Professor Dumbledore has a lot of important things to do."

Looking at Professor McGonagall's serious face, Erwin hesitated for a while, and ultimately did not tell her the situation, because it would need to explain how he defeated a basilisk. And Quasimodo, Flamel's cabin and his bloodline

, the fewer people who know, the better.

During lunch, Gilderoy Lockhart asked a senior Gryffindor student to bring a message to Erwin, saying that what he wanted was ready.

"Got it." Erwin said.

The door to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office was ajar, and Erwin didn't intend to knock on the door, so he just pushed the door open and went in.

What he saw in front of him was a huge portrait of Lockhart, and his eyes were still scanning his portrait. The portraits all over the wall were really a bit mentally polluting.

Erwin couldn't help but feel a little distracted.

At this time, a loud shout came from behind him, "Everything has been forgotten!"

The beam formed by the Oblivion Curse struck Erwin, and then triggered the armor protection with a bang, and was bounced to Lockhart's feet. He jumped up in fright, his face turned pale.

"So, you are hiding in the closet and using such clumsy means to cast a forgetting spell on me?" Erwin turned around slowly, his eyes cold.

He took out his wand at a slow but oppressive speed and pointed it at Lockhart, who was getting paler and paler. The man's wand flew out immediately, and the next second, his whole body flew away.

He went out and put it on his portrait.

"But unfortunately, you made the wrong calculation."

Erwin raised his wand, and the door behind him closed automatically.