Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 107 The Basilisk Without Dignity

"Professor Dumbledore, of course I can rely more on you to solve this basilisk - but in that case, wouldn't the nature of this matter change?"

William looked Dumbledore in the eyes and replied.

Of course he can ask Professor Dumbledore to use that powerful old wand to catch the basilisk like a god descending from the earth without much effort.

But if time permits and conditions are sufficient, William is still willing to do this through his own efforts and ordinary methods.

Even if this is slightly complicated, it will take a lot of effort.

"But that would be meaningless."

William said with a smile, "I hope it's not just me, but they can also get involved and realize that magic is not something mysterious."

What he really wanted was actually a team.

A trusted core of young wizards who are open to hearing his ideas and willing to try.

There aren't many more cohesive team-building sessions than a team-building session in which everyone gets involved, catches a 1000-year-old basilisk, and explores the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

"As I promised you, I will take it seriously as a career."

The bright afternoon sun streamed in from the windows surrounding the arched principal's office, giving William's short, thin, blond hair an almost white sheen.

They seemed to have walked for a long time in the dark, and passed through several forks. William could feel that their direction was going all the way down, and they might have reached the bottom of the Black Lake by now.

"Hold on."

Harry whispered.

At a fork in the road, he signaled everyone to stop, and stood there listening carefully for a while, "Go this way, it is sleeping deeply, and the snoring sound is like thunder."

According to the direction indicated by Harry, they walked a short distance again, but this time when William raised his wand and released "Basilisk Appearance", he felt the aura of the spell bounce back not far away.

"The basilisk is ahead of us."

William said.

He took out the "History of Magic" by Bathilda Bassett, whose cover had become tattered, and pointed at it with his wand, "Verto".

The textbook turned into a long, somewhat strange hand standing on a base of four rollers. William stuffed the camera into its hand and let it out from the edge of the slate.

The basilisk is also a snake, and its eyes do not have movable eyelids, only a transparent membrane.Therefore, even in deep sleep, the basilisk's eyes are open.

"Oh?"

said Professor Dumbledore softly.

"It's just a trick."

William replied, he controlled the "creation" all the way forward until it hit something and stopped, and with a "click", he pressed the photo switch of the camera.

After a while, there was another sound.

William used the Flying Charm to get the photos back. Although the focus was messed up, they still took pictures of the basilisk from different angles.

It was a giant snake tens of meters long, thicker than Harry's height, and William dared to assure that it could eat the whole of Hagrid in one meal.

"It looks like it's sleeping soundly."

Penello said.

What she said was right, the basilisk's head was lying on a slightly higher platform, and its opened eyes were looking in another direction.The slender body of the snake extended to the depths of the dark passage, and the tail could not be seen.

William used transfiguration to make a jar-like stone headgear, and carefully fastened it to the basilisk's head with the Levitation Charm, then waved his wand, and used the magic spell to close the edge of the headgear to the snake's body.

"But how do we defeat it? If we use a spell, wouldn't it be possible to wake up the basilisk?"

Jimmy asked suspiciously.

He was not the only one who was equally confused. In the plan he shared with others, William only mentioned how to find the basilisk, but did not tell them what to do after finding the basilisk.

"Why do something so dangerous, when it's so quiet?
We have more than 100 house elves here. "

William rubbed the coin in his hand, and the house elf Lalo suddenly appeared beside him.

"Mr. Buffalo."

he asked respectfully.

House-elf teleportation is downright frighteningly convenient.

"Is everything ready at the factory?"

William looked at the house-elf.

"Everything is ready, just as you asked, as long as you give an order, we can start right away!"

Lalo said excitedly.

Since meeting William, the house-elves' workload has skyrocketed, and they couldn't be happier!
"Then let's get started."

With a flick of his wand, he dispelled the Transfiguration slabs in front of him—then the basilisk would have no chance of harming anyone.

"Yes, Mr. Buffalo!"

The house-elf responded happily.

He snapped his fingers and disappeared from the air, only to bring back a whole string of house-elves the next second.

There are more than a hundred house-elves living in the entire Hogwarts castle, and now except for the five in the kitchen and the three in Nymph, all the other house-elves are here!
"Mr. Buffalo, and Miss Clearwater, give me your hand."

A house-elf walks up to William and says he's also a model employee of Nymph's Secret, Cork.The other people also had house-elves waiting beside them, but most of the house-elves were led by Lalo to the side of the basilisk.

They stretched out their hands and stuck to the body of the basilisk.

Except for Dumbledore, who squinted his eyes and secretly smiled very happily, everyone else held the hand extended by the house elf beside them in a daze, waiting quietly for William's next instruction.

"For Merlin's sake, William, you are not preparing. You are preparing. Are you really preparing?!"

Penello suddenly realized something.

But before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a very strong sense of pulling, as if being pulled into a vortex, and lost all sense of direction, but this feeling only lasted for one breath.

She found herself standing on solid ground.

Then there was a loud "boom!", as if something huge fell into the water, and then there was a grinding sound of "click, click", and another very heavy muffled sound. ring.

"boom!"

Another sound.

But compared to just now, it seems that the voice has become much quieter this time.

"Where are we?"

Harry asked suspiciously.

He carefully looked at the environment he was in—here is a circular square, and there are many enchanted oil lamps floating in the air for lighting. The walls are made of mud, and the ground is also made of mud, but the pushed very flat.

Such a large space is empty except for a few of them at the moment, only a few thick stone pillars as support.

"I didn't even know you were moving so fast."

Dumbledore looked at this space with great interest - he knew that William had been digging this underground world with a few little wizards and house elves, but this was the first time he had really walked in.

"It could have been faster, but we went to do something else some time ago."

William explained, "Aren't you wondering where the basilisk went? I thought you would ask first thing."

His words reminded others.

What about the basilisk?

What about the big basilisk?

"What did you do?"

Hermione looked at William and asked suspiciously.

"We dug a big hole."

William led them to the other side of the square - Fred and George were whispering to their younger brother Ron and Harry, showing off the huge project that William had led them to dig.

"Looking forward to Christmas this year, we have something for everyone!"

Fred said very proudly.

"Yes, even Percy has!"

George put his arms around his little brother's shoulders, pulling Ron and Harry closer.

Lalo and the other house-elves greeted them.

"Mr. Buffalo, we have sent the basilisk into the pit and sealed it. It just woke up and tried to struggle, but"

He said, pointing to several bulges on the ground.

"You guys are doing very well. When it subsides, we will go and rescue the basilisk."

William patted Lalo on the shoulder and encouraged him, making him open his eyes happily, "It's not hard work! It's an honor for our house elves to serve wizards!"

"The Basilisk is down here? William, what did you put in there?"

Jimmy squatted down and looked at it curiously.

He noticed that what they were stepping on at the moment seemed to be a whole piece of thick metal plate - not far away, he also saw a long gap half the width of a palm, from which he could see under the metal plate.

But it was dark inside.

"It's a door and a lid!"

Jimmy blurted out.

"Yes, underneath, we dug a big pool and filled it with wet cement. We'll close the lid as soon as the basilisk falls in."

William explained that the cement was naturally not mixed here. After Harry said that they were close to the basilisk, William had already notified Lalo, asking him to notify the architect, Mr. Anderson, and let the workers preparing the cement leave construction site.

Afterwards, under the leadership of Lalo, hundreds of house elves used the levitation spell and apparition together, and within a very short period of time, they transferred the several truckloads of cement prepared in advance to this big pit.

That's why William didn't tell the others what to do after finding the basilisk.

Because there is nothing to do.

From the very beginning, he was not prepared to be like a DND, equipped with a full range of tactics, animal husbandry, full buffs, aggro and mobs - doing so would not only increase the risk factor, but also damage the loot.

The distance from the underground of the castle to the big pit William had prepared for the basilisk was not far away. Hundreds of house elves worked together and had plenty of time to read the article, so they could easily throw the basilisk into it.

(End of this chapter)