Ancient wizards return to Hogwarts.

After Neville left, the house elf who had been waiting for a while came up to him. He first bowed to Les, his nose almost touching the kitchen floor, and then asked respectfully: "Dear Sir, how can I help you?"

Behind him, hundreds of house elves were gathering around the long table to collect the cutlery and leftovers that had been removed from the dining room.

"I missed the Halloween dinner and wanted to come here to get some food. Just grab some." Les announced his intention.

"Oh! This is such a pity! Do you mind waiting for a moment?" After receiving the reply of "No," the house elf saluted Les again, then turned and ran away, passing by the dining table. , several elves stopped what they were doing and rushed into the catering area to get busy with him.

A calf leg was taken out, and the elves neatly cut off several pieces, rolled them in flour, and fried them over low heat. After the meat had browned, they poured whiskey into the pan and cooked it over a fire. While they were doing this, they also prepared the sauces, side dishes, and stews to go with it.

Of course, the enthusiastic elves didn’t just prepare one dish, they also took out lamb tongue and a pork loin. And while Les was waiting, he brought him a plate of desserts and a jug of pumpkin juice to prevent him from waiting hungry.

Les originally wanted them to stop and not be too extravagant. He was still in a hurry, but after seeing the cooking techniques of the elves and the aroma of the ingredients, Les changed his mind.

Maybe Daphne is not full either, so you should bring her more food back.

After a while, the house elves ran over holding a large three-layer lunch box.

“Braised veal knuckle, lamb tongue with mushroom sauce and oyster mushrooms and loin with Cumberland sauce, happy Halloween, sir!”

Les walked out of the kitchen carrying the heavy lunch box, and for a moment he envied the young wizards of Hufflepuff House - modern young wizards eat much better than they did back then.

Although the founders a thousand years ago could eat very rare animals, being rare does not mean they are delicious. The peacock loved by the nobles in the Middle Ages is a very good example. More importantly, the lack of spices and backward breeding technology make food quality generally lag behind modern times.

As he passed the auditorium, Les suddenly heard a voice.

"Hungry, so hungry...I need to eat, now! Kill, kill--"

Les suddenly heard a cold, murderous voice. He was stunned for a moment, then stopped. After making sure there was no one around, he immediately asked in Parseltongue: "Snake King, what are you doing?"

The cold voice disappeared immediately, as if someone had strangled its neck.

After a few seconds, the basilisk's voice came through the wall: "I'm hungry, looking for food. The mouse is small and runs fast, so there is not enough food."

Les took a look at the large packages of dishes he got from the kitchen, and felt that he was not qualified to blame the Basilisk.

"Okay, be careful, don't let other people see it, let alone hurt others." After thinking about it, Les gave the Basilisk a few words, "I'll go to the Forbidden Forest to find you some food later."

The basilisk was so active that Les had to bear at least half of the blame.

Normally, the basilisk is always in a dormant state and does not consume much energy, so it naturally stays in the secret room and does not care about the world. However, in the past two years, he had awakened the basilisk too frequently, and it had been severely injured once. Based on these operations, Les had not fed it food in time. This caused the basilisk to enter a rare state of hunger, and voluntarily left the secret room to look for food, almost killing all the easy-to-catch rats in the castle. The remaining rats became more or less cunning under the survival of the fittest mechanism. It was so easy to catch, and now the basilisk fell directly into a vicious cycle.

Fortunately, it finally made Les aware of his plight and solved the food crisis.

Just as the basilisk was satisfied and ready to return to the secret room, and Les was about to return to the lounge, another voice reached their ears from afar.

[I, the heir of Slytherin, beg the Snake King to obey my orders]

Basilisk:?

Les:?

Les suddenly remembered the Weasley who tried to awaken and control the basilisk before. Now she was evil again and appeared to try to control her basilisk.

However, considering the Weasley family tradition, Les felt that she might have been bewitched by something. It might be a monk from the Secret Order, or it might be an evil spirit or dark creature that she encountered somewhere. Of course Various dark wizards who sprouted again after being cut like mushrooms were also highly suspected.

Anyway, since he was being threatened within Hogwarts, he couldn't just sit back and do nothing. Les decided to cut the knot quickly and solve Ginny's problems.

"You, go talk to that guy, and then take him to the secret room." Rice gave the order directly to the basilisk.

He needs the basilisk to help him solve some difficult problems, such as stabilizing the emotions of the mastermind who manipulates Ginny's mind, and then bringing it to him. The basilisk was just like the bait he put on the hook, except that the bait was a little too bulky.

The basilisk, which wanted to go back to the secret room to sleep, reluctantly swam towards the place where the sound came from.

Tom Riddle was confused at this time.

During the summer vacation, he had been "chatting" with Ginny and took control of her soul step by step. After he could control Ginny's body movements, he couldn't wait to perform the spell to awaken the snake king, and then something incredible happened: the snake king who had obeyed orders decades ago now refused to obey his orders.

Riddle was completely confused.

Before he could find out the reason, his actions were interrupted by two people, which forced him to hibernate. What's even more troublesome is that since that conversation, little Ginny seemed to have a little curiosity about the boy named Les, and even a little bit of trust.

Fortunately, he was more skilled and used his bird-like tongue to persuade Ginny, making her give up the idea of ​​talking to Les and instead devote more of her efforts to herself.

With Ginny's tireless efforts, Riddle's strength recovered rapidly, and he could now actively control Ginny's body, and even make himself appear directly near the diary.

What also recovered at the same time as Riddle's strength was his self-confidence. He took advantage of the end of the Halloween dinner to regain control of Ginny's body. He planned to summon the Snake King again. If the summoning failed, he would directly enter the secret room and ask the Snake King face to face why he violated the agreement with Slytherin.

But today, his fortune seems to have turned around, and the Snake King took the initiative to answer his call!

Although the tone is cold and the mood is full of resentment, responding is better than just ignoring it!

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The second update is here!

Next update at midnight!

The three dishes mentioned in this chapter are accompanied by pictures:

Chatty lamb tongue with mushroom sauce and oyster mushrooms