HP solves the mystery

When Andre came back from dinner the next day, his eyes widened when he saw the moonlight grasses.

"Severus, you...you actually got the moonlight grass? There are so many more!" He exclaimed, carefully picking up a grass that emitted a faint blue light and inspecting it.

Moonlight grass is a material that can clear away heat, detoxify, enhance immunity, reduce swelling and relieve pain. If a newborn wizard is fed a tube, he will be healthy for three years, but it only appears on the night of the full moon. It appeared, and was over-exploited by wizards. It is difficult to find, and it is a medicinal material that is priceless and unmarketable.

Andre was able to recognize it because his uncle went around asking grandparents to find medicine for his sick little niece, otherwise he wouldn't be able to recognize it.

"Um...can you give me some more..." He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, his face a little red, "I'll pay you according to the market price..."

Severus thought about how much potion he wanted to brew for the little princess of the Lucius family and make some money, so he nodded.

"Wow, thank you so much, Severus." Andre grinned happily and hurriedly opened the cabinet and took out the gold galleons.

Severus took the gold galleons and looked at Andre's happy look. He actually wanted to tell him that he could bring the potion for a low fee.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and people who are freezing have frostbite on their hands.

The Quidditch training team collectively went to Madam Pomfrey to get some cold medicine and returned to the dormitory with smoke in their ears.

Severus noticed that the basilisk was always running away recently. Although it brought back some herbs from time to time, its sneaky appearance was very suspicious.

Another night, the basilisk got out of the soft quilt and tried to slip out through the vent, but was caught by someone.

"Where are you going?" Severus took out his wand and put some earplugs on the sleeping Andre, looking seriously at the basilisk's green body hidden in the blanket.

The basilisk Herbo poked his head out from under the blanket and spat out the message with a guilty conscience, [Hiss... Go to the kitchen to find some food to fill your stomach. 】

Severus looked at the bag on its belly, raised his eyelids, and stared at it without saying a word.

[Okay, okay...] The scales of the basilisk exploded slightly after being stared at, and it could only tell the truth, [I went to the Forbidden Forest to play... to play with the centaurs...] It has recently fallen in love with the centaurs riding in the forest, The wind is blowing and exciting.

Severus didn't know how this basilisk and horseman became friends, the language was a big problem!

Seeing that he didn't believe it, the basilisk continued to explain, [The centaurs have lived in the Forbidden Forest for generations. Salazar has signed a contract with them. I know their ancestors... They took over the job of feeding me...]

The corner of Severus' mouth twitched, yes, this is still a hereditary mission.

The basilisk was still talking, its tail slapping randomly on the blanket, [Isn’t it true that I can’t petrify creatures at will now? I can go and play with them. God knows how I got here in the tunnel for thousands of years...]

"What about the snake slough you mentioned before? Did you find it for me?" Severus interrupted its self-pity and waved the wand in his hand, "If you can't make money, after your money is gone, all snacks and meat will be lost." I'll cut it off for you! Go and feed the centaurs!"

He was not threatening, he was telling the truth. The Basilisk had no scruples in eating Duke Bee's sweets.

Speaking of which, do snakes have tooth decay?

"Starting from tomorrow, in order to prevent tooth decay, you can only eat two chocolate frogs a day! I am banning other snacks!" Severus said sternly, and cast a spell on the cabinet containing snacks, causing the basilisk to hit him. Don't open the cabinet.

[Ah, no, my snacks, my candy! 】 The basilisk's body twisted crazily, and he argued whimperingly, "I'm not doing bad things... I'm just bringing some food to play with Bain and the others... You can't deprive me of the fun of eating sweets!" 】

Severus turned a deaf ear, put some earplugs on himself and went to bed.

The basilisk Herbo reluctantly picked up the bag, went to the kitchen and had a great meal, then resolutely went to Bain the Centaur. It decided that if Severus did not find the snake, it would not come back.

When Severus got up the next day, he saw that there was no snake in the basilisk's nest, and he knew that it had gone to play again.

After finally getting through Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class, and after reviewing the Vanishing Spell, I felt increasingly empty.

He rubbed his belly and went to the hall. As soon as he sat down and ate a potato, he saw Andre approaching mysteriously.

"What's wrong with you?" Severus took another bite of the lamb chop. "You look as stupid as a troll now."

Andre straightened his expression, and within a few seconds he was done.

He leaned closer to Severus and whispered, "You know? The Clintons of Hufflepuff, and..." He named several names in one breath and pointed to the direction of the Hufflepuff table. Several people had bruises and bruises on their faces. The senior wizard was covering his face in embarrassment, "The dragon liver specially purchased for the kitchen was stolen last night, and the fruits and vegetables were messed up. Those house elves were frightened... They thought it was them..."

"Hahaha, that's unlucky, but they always go to the kitchen to get something to eat..." Andre laughed unkindly, then put his hand to his lips and coughed in a serious manner, "The house elf is still investigating. Who did it...I really hope Gryffindor..."

Severus stiffened and nodded. He had already guessed who the culprit was. Who else but the snake could steal things quietly without the house elf noticing.

Severus didn't see the basilisk again in the next few days, but he wasn't worried. There was nothing in Hogwarts that could hurt it, except Fawkes, well...except that old phoenix.

There are more and more rainy days, and the gray sky makes Hogwarts light candles early.

There was a lot of commotion outside, and it actually started to snow lightly.

Severus looked at the calendar and realized that it was already December and the basilisk's den was still cold.

"Severus, where is your snake?" Andre asked curiously as he hadn't seen the little green snake in a long time.

Severus lay in bed, turned a page in the magic book, and said calmly, "It may have gone to hibernate somewhere."

"Oh, yes, it's winter." Andre nodded seriously.

After a while of silence, there was a rustling sound in the room. Andre got up, drank some water, and went back to sleep.

"My mother told me to take a leave of absence from school and go home after getting the Apparition Certificate. Anyway, my family doesn't expect me to have a big future..." Andre's dull voice came from the bed curtain, seeming melancholy and sad, "But I think I need to finish my studies, otherwise I will be the only one in the family without a diploma."

He seemed not to have expected Severus's answer, and continued to murmur, "Actually, the content of each house in Hogwarts is similar, so why are it divided into four houses? It's not Oxford and Cambridge, and Beauxbatons and Deutschland are There are no branches in Armstrong, so wouldn’t school life still be good?”

A person's quality cannot be easily divided, not to mention the sorting behavior of the Sorting Hat. The four houses of Hogwarts are given specific labels and frame people's thoughts.

Perhaps the original intention was to identify students' talents and assign them to appropriate houses, but this subjective consciousness was too strong; just like when Harry was admitted, the Sorting Hat considered that he was unwilling to go to Slytherin. His wish sorted the person into Gryffindor.

If the college publicizes it properly, then wouldn’t the wishes at the time of branching out determine which college the students go to? If you go to a good college when building your personality, your achievements will be higher. (Famous teacher effect and impression during publicity)

Severus listened quietly to Andre's complaints. He didn't understand it very well, but the wizarding world had a system that had lasted for thousands of years and no one questioned or changed the school rules, which meant that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.

The night was quiet, and it was snowing outside.

Severus discovered that the little animals loved to hold dance parties. No matter how busy they were, they would always take time to have fun. What's more, this time Dumbledore announced a Christmas dance, and all students could participate. At that moment, the little animals The animals were excited and invited others to be their dance partners in all kinds of ways.

In order to invite a dance partner before Christmas, Lockhart of Ravenclaw showed his white teeth and smiled every day, intending to seduce the young wizards in the lower grades.

He was not very popular, but in order to attract others' attention, he did a lot of unpopular things. He used magic to carve a personal signature on the Quidditch pitch. Each letter was twelve feet long. For this, he He was imprisoned by the dean for a week and had to help Filch clean the castle.

Severus felt that this man was really a talent. It was just like making a support sign for a celebrity, except that he had his own name engraved on it.

The dance will be held in more than ten days, and Hogwarts is full of spring atmosphere.

Severus declined a girl who invited him to the ball. He didn't know why the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs kept looking for him, and there were both men and women, and they were all unfamiliar to him. people.

He thought about it and agreed to someone's invitation later. After all, it was a dance for the whole school, but it was only on Christmas Day, and those who wanted to go home still had to go back.

Severus's mind flashed to the faces of the people who invited him, and he realized that they were all people who had been taught by the Slytherin nobles.

When he was passing by a classroom, a person suddenly jumped out and passed by him with his mouth covered. The side of his face looked familiar.

"Barty Jr.? What did you do to Andre?" Severus spotted Barty Jr. chasing him out of the corner of his eye. He was sure that it was Andre who was leaving, so he couldn't help but ask.

Little Barty glared at him angrily, touched the bite mark on his neck, and said irritably, "As you can see, I didn't do anything." After that, he chased Andre in the direction he left.

Severus blinked, an idea flashing through his mind.

Potter became a prefect when he entered seventh grade. Lily had an quarrel with him last year, but later reconciled. The two officially confirmed their relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend, and started dating in school.

For a time, the number of noble men and women surrounding Potter decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye. They regretted that the wizarding world would lose another pure-blood noble. After all, Potter's mother's surname was Black before marriage.

The cold wind blew the snow off the branches, and bonfires were lit in the tribe where the horse people lived, and they were also wrapped in leather clothes.

[Hiss... Bain, how much skin have you shed from me? ] Haierbo asked lazily as he lay beside the campfire, absorbing the heat.

"It's been thirty years since you last shed your skin. Apart from those left behind by our tribe to make books and the werewolves who made leather armor, it's still less than 25 meters away." Bain, the centaur, replied, adding a piece of firewood.

[Harm, it’s so hard to make money. ] The basilisk sighed.

"Do you want to make money? There is no need to sell your snake sloughs... They may not be able to afford it..." Bain, the centaur, couldn't laugh or cry. Seeing it looking over in confusion, he said funnyly, "The unicorn in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid There are a lot of spiders and things you have raised. You can get some as you like and give them to the cub, you can sell them at a good price..."

[Hiss...but...I can eat too much...their food has too little energy...] The basilisk felt very aggrieved, [I don't eat blood orchids. 】

Bain, the centaur, was silent for a while and came up with an idea.

"How about we collect some unicorn hair or phoenix feathers? I heard that the staff makers like them very much..."

This time the basilisk was silent. The unicorn could still grab some blood and fur. As for the phoenix feathers? Thank you, it doesn’t want to die yet.

One man, one horse and one snake did what they said. They attacked the big spider Aragog at night and squeezed out the venom from its abdomen, only to get about 20 ml.

[Hiss... so little...] Haierbo poked the belly of the big spider with the snake's tail, squeezed out some more, and then put down the tail with satisfaction.

The big spider Aragog crawled on the ground in fear, his eight legs shaking like a sieve.

The little spiders can only line up and put venom into the empty jars one by one.

Baine, the centaur, lowered his head to hide the smile on his lips. This big spider is the tyrant of the Forbidden Forest. It has multiplied so much that it almost captured the ponies of their tribe. It really crossed the line. There is a basilisk to help. It would also be nice to clean it up a bit.

The basilisk Haierbo looked at the little spiders around him that were ready to move. The snake venom in the fangs spurted out, and the corrosive liquid burned the land and vegetation. The little spiders that were unlucky enough to be splashed wailed but did not dare to move.

The basilisk grinned a weird smile, left a message to come back later to get the venom, and rode the centaur away from the spider gathering place.

As for unicorns? Unicorns are very easy to talk to. When they saw Herbo and Centaur, they knew their purpose and took them to collect the hair that the cubs had fallen off. After all, cubs are different from adult unicorns and cannot control themselves yet. the power of.

The basilisk was very happy. Seeing the hard-working centaur Bain, he boldly promised to bring him the best bow and arrow in the Muggle world when he came back from vacation, making other centaurs envious of him.

Bain smiled helplessly, carefully wrapped the bottle containing the spider venom and put it in the bag, then wrapped the unicorn's fur in snake skin, and then carried the basilisk out of the Forbidden Forest.

Severus didn't know yet that there was a big surprise waiting for him. Now he was concerned about whether the mosquitoes in the school were so fierce. The corners of Andre's mouth were swollen. He kindly provided anti-swelling medicine, but received a complicated look in return.

Before he could think too much, Mera, a fifth-year Ravenclaw girl, invited him to the Yule Ball, but he declined politely.

He would go home for Christmas. It didn't matter whether he attended the dance or not. After he decided, he fell asleep on the pillow.

In the tunnel under Hogwarts Castle, the basilisk entered the secret room with a bag in its mouth, its vertical pupils lingering on the bottles and jars.

Although these things are a bit old, they should still be usable, right? The basilisk thought uncertainly.