Hogwarts School of the Dark Arts

"You are very good. No one should be able to surpass you at your age."

Riddle took a deep look at Xavier and suddenly extended his hand to Xavier.

"I can forgive your previous disrespect, as long as you...ah!"

"How is that possible? How could you destroy it?!" Riddle stared in disbelief at the diary that Harry had just thrown to the ground.

Xavier also looked at the diary on the ground in surprise.

There was a light scratch on its cover that Xavier had just typed.

Riddle was shocked that Xavier was able to put a scratch on the Horcrux, while Xavier was surprised that it wasn't penetrated.

"It's quite hard. It's a black magic that is said to be even darker than the death curse."

Xavier smacked his lips and pointed his wand at the diary on the ground again.

"All things come to an end!"

"no!!!"

Silently, a hole appeared in the diary. Not only the diary, but also a hole on the ground under the diary, a bottomless hole.

"Oh... I used too much force, sorry."

Xavier smiled apologetically at Riddle, who had a big hole in his chest.

"I've only used this curse twice before, and I couldn't control it very well... I actually just wanted to perform a craniotomy on you."

"You! You..." Riddle pointed at Xavier's trembling hand: "Asshole! I will definitely come back!!!"

Bang!

The big hole in Riddle's chest suddenly gave off a dazzling light, and then he... exploded.

It was fried cleanly, leaving no dust at all.

"Tch, you think you are Big Big Wolf!"

Xavier gave the middle finger to Riddle who disappeared, and then looked at Harry aside.

After Xavier finished dealing with the basilisk, Harry felt something was wrong. His eyes were wandering and he didn't know what he was wandering about.

"Ginny should wake up later, please take her away first."

Xavier flicked his wand, and the diary on the ground flew into Harry's hand, and Harry woke up as if from a dream.

"Ah, oh... what about you? Aren't you leaving?" Harry asked softly with his eyes wandering.

"The basilisk is just trapped by me and is not dead. I have to deal with it first... It is better not to have this kind of monster that stares at everyone to death in this world."

Harry pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment and then nodded: "Okay, then please pay attention to your safety."

"You should take Ginny away quickly. The basilisk will break free at some point. I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you once it comes out."

"Okay, I'll take Ginny away right now."

Harry nodded vigorously, put the diary into his pocket, then bent down and picked up Ginny on the ground with difficulty, and walked outside.

Xavier, who was watching Harry leave, saw Ginny's arm quietly wrapped around Harry's neck, and he didn't know if Harry noticed it.

But even if Harry noticed Ginny's arm, he would not have guessed that Ginny was actually awake long ago.

"Tsk, tsk, little girls mature precociously... and can learn some things on their own without a teacher."

Xavier sighed, took out a silver flask from his pocket and turned towards the portrait.

Open the lid of the pot and press the spout to the large icicle in the mouth of the human head. The huge icicle is actually sucked into the wine bottle with a diameter of only one centimeter!

The inside of this hip flask had been cast by Xavier with a Traceless Stretching Charm. At this moment, storing the icicles that were much larger than the spout into the pot was an advanced use of the Traceless Stretching Curse.

There are not many people who know this advanced usage, but they are not few either. Newt knows how to use it, and he did it when he was young.

Newt is not only a master of magical animals, but also a master of the Invisible Stretch Spell - in order to house his larger-than-average zoo of magical animals.

Putting the entire icicle into the pot, Xavier returned outside and threw the pot directly into the pool without closing the lid, and poured water into the pot.

After filling the water for almost 5 minutes, Xavier felt that it was almost done. He inserted his wand into the pot and released a freezing spell to freeze the water in the pot with a thick layer.

This has two purposes, one is to trap the basilisk in the water under the ice, and the other is to lower the temperature inside the pot and force the basilisk to hibernate.

The only problem is that Xavier is not sure whether the basilisk can survive underwater for a long time... But it's not a big problem. Xavier won't feel bad even if it dies, since it was all done in vain.

Besides, if it weren't for its two eyeballs and the powerful venom, Xavier would have no interest in catching it given its ugly appearance.

Bo~

After closing the lid, Xavier put the wine bottle in his pocket, looked at the passage in front of him and thought for a while, then walked into the passage again.

When Xavier collected the icicles just now, he did not reach the end. Now, Xavier is ready to see what is at the end of this secret passage.

The smell became more pungent as he walked in, and even made Xavier feel a little dazed. It seemed that the air was filled with the poisonous gas of the basilisk, which made Xavier have to cast a bubble spell on himself before moving forward.

This passage was very long and winding. Xavier estimated that he had walked at least 300 meters, but he still had not reached the end.

After walking about 200 meters, Xavier came to another hall that was slightly smaller than the outside.

With the help of the lighting spell, Xavier saw that the ground was full of snake skins, but most of them were in tatters, not only badly broken, but also showing traces of corrosion.

What's more obvious is that these snake skins cannot resist the poisonous gas emitted by the basilisk's venom.

There are some broken stone pillars scattered in the hall, and there are many broken stone platforms near the walls... which may also be stone cabinets.

The basilisk probably uses them to help shed its skin.

There are square grooves every two meters on the surrounding walls, and I don't know what they are for.

There is a sunken area at the end of the left wall, and there are still pieces of wood left in some places. It seems that it was originally a bookshelf...or a shelf for other things.

There are several paintings on the wall directly opposite, but they are so confused that it is impossible to tell what they are. I don’t know if Slytherin did not cast magic on them, or if they are too old and the magic has failed, or maybe it is because The magic above was accidentally destroyed by the basilisk.

Except for a large amount of snake skins, there was nothing of value in the entire hall. Even those snake skins, most of them had no use value, which made Xavier very disappointed.

"Really, let alone the magic book, even a few boxes of gold coins will do! If it doesn't work, silver coins will do!"

Waving his wand and using Restoration and Cleansing to clean the hall, Xavier walked to the wall in front of him and looked up at the portrait above.

The portrait was severely damaged and has not been restored.However, it can be vaguely seen that it should be a portrait of Salazar Slytherin himself, which is very similar to the one hanging in the principal's office.

"From a modern perspective, your idea of ​​recruiting only young wizards from wizarding families is very undesirable. But in the era when Muggles and wizards were incompatible with each other, your idea was not There is nothing wrong... and it is very reasonable. In contrast, the admissions standards of the other three founders were actually very advanced and... overly idealistic for that era."

As soon as Xavier finished speaking, flames suddenly appeared from the grooves in the surrounding walls, illuminating the hall.

At the same time, the portrait on the wall in front began to become clearer little by little!