Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 125 The Second Gathering

The story of Peter's taming of the basilisk soon appeared in the newspapers, followed by a flurry of letters, including letters of thanks from the students' parents and fierce criticism from some anti-Dark Arts activists.

Since the morning, no less than ten owls had crashed into the window of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher's office. Peter specially opened the window a small slit to let them in and out, so as not to hurt their heads again.

He himself was busy training the basilisk in the office, and Scabbers was very resistant to Peter's new pet. Whenever Peter was next to the snake, it would angrily crawl into a crack in the room, leaving an empty hamster wheel.

It took Peter a thousand shrinking spells to shrink the snake down to its juvenile form. Even so, it was much larger than ordinary snakes, and its upper body stood as high as an adult's chest. However, the juvenile snake The temper of the snake is still a little more docile than that of an adult (it may also be because its stomach is too full).

Peter took great care to keep Haierbo's Basilisk Dictionary by his side. He had to guarantee his (fake) command authority as the ancestor of the Basilisk. You must know that being stabbed by the basilisk's fangs is no joke. He even made a special A pair of strong dark glasses covered the deadly yellow eyes, and the snake scraped around in disgust to get them off, but gave up when it found the thing difficult to remove.

Peter conjured up a lifeless Hermione figurine - one of his prized achievements at the last club meeting - and he moved a fake Hermione with a stiff smirk under Snake's nose, Step back a few steps and watch how it reacts.

"Muggle...Master...There are...Muggle..." it hissed, as if to remind Peter that an ugly cockroach had entered his office.

"You can't hurt any Muggle, Muggle is your good friend." Peter brainwashed it over and over again.

"Muggle...disgusting..." It turned its head in disgust, and carefully avoided "Hermione"'s feet to prevent "Hermione" from touching its scales. down the smell.

Fortunately, the basilisk seemed to obey its master's commands just like the house-elf, and since Peter ordered it not to hurt anyone, it didn't bite down on the Hermione figurine.

But then, how to eliminate its hostility to Muggles is still a big problem. I don’t know how long it took Salazar Slytherin to teach it to recognize bloodlines and eliminate those with impure bloodlines after it was hatched.

The basilisk hates sunny dwellings, and their scales are afraid of drying out. In order to make the snakes live more comfortably, Peter used transfiguration to create a huge obscura with shelves for snakes to crawl on. A large water basin for snakes to bathe in.

The contraption took up two-thirds of Peter's office, and he had to move the desk back, but watched Snake crawl in and never want to come out, and Scabbers hopped back into his pocket , he vaguely felt a little fun that belonged exclusively to Hagrid.

On the way to class, Peter met Hagrid, Sirius and Kreacher, all three (elves) were holding several thick books in their hands.

"Are you robbing Lihen Bookstore?" Peter asked.

"What, we just got back from the library!" said Hagrid cheerfully.

Peter looked at Hagrid, then at Sirius, "Isn't it, Rubeus Hagrid and Sirius Black going to the library together? It's about as common as trolls dancing ballet."

"Hagrid suggested that he would give you some reasonable advice on raising basilisks, and the two of us made a special trip around the restricted area." Then, Sirius handed an old thick-covered book in front of Peter. On the cover was written " A guide to all stages of basilisk domestication: from hatching to being poisoned.

"Thank you, I'm particularly interested in the stage of 'being poisoned'." Peter said with a smile, "By the way, Sirius, I have to change the guest for this week's Defense Against the Dark Arts club."

Sirius frowned, "He's back?"

Peter nodded, "I think it would be an absolute disaster to put you together..."

"I understand." Sirius said heartily, "Just don't forget to ask me for a drink on weekends, sometimes this kind of life is too boring."

"Don't forget to prepare more silver moon fish skewers, that's amazing." Peter said.

……

At six o'clock on Saturday night, still in the warm classroom with a strong fire and bright lights last time, the Defense Against the Dark Arts club met again.

The students were still sitting around on the soft sofas, but this time the atmosphere was obviously much stagnant than last time.

The fragrant food was no longer placed on the mantelpiece, and the two round sofas that were originally next to each other for the teacher to sit on were also moved to both ends. Peter sat by the fireplace as before, looking at the little wizard with a smile. Here, Snape sat across from him, keeping as far away from the fire as possible.

"Last week, everyone's performance was very good, I was very touched." Peter said happily, "When Ouroboros called you, you stood up and bravely faced the real battle that may come... thank you all."

Snape snorted when Peter said the word "brave".

"Then, Professor Snape returned today, and it so happened that we also resolved the basilisk crisis—"

When he said this, the students all looked up at him, their eyes sparkling, but Peter noticed that Draco was still pale and dazed, and he sat upright on the chair with his legs together, beside him. Zabini looked at him with some disdain.

"—So after discussing with Professor Snape, I decided that we will put Charms and Transfiguration aside for this meeting, and talk about common dark magic creatures."

Peter and Parvati met eyes, and Parvati blinked.

He pulled out a pamphlet issued by the Ministry of Magic and flipped to the section on "Dark Magical Creatures". "I think you've all read this pamphlet, and I personally think it—"

"—doesn't work," Snape commented.

"—Worth learning from," Peter said. "It mentions werewolves, infernals, dementors, and a few other dark magic creatures, basically covering the most frightening things."

Mention the names of these dark magic creatures, the students are silent, everyone knows what their appearance means.

"Professor," Parvati said sharply, "may I ask... would You-Know-Who really use the Inferi Legion?"

Peter thought of the black lake water in Regulus' memory, pale corpses crawling up the shore, turning Regulus into their kind...

"Yes." Peter said a little uncomfortable, "I don't want you to panic, but it's true... Inferi are man-made dark magic creatures, essentially corpses controlled by black magic, so, about I would like to ask Professor Snape to explain to us about the corpse."

Peter gestured politely to Snape, but Snape didn't speak for a while, he stared at Peter meaningfully until Peter lowered his head slightly and raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, I don't know what kind of person you think of me. Generally speaking, I don't make the dead into ghouls." Snape said slowly.

(End of this chapter)