Chapter 264 Calling God to Guard (page 12)
A question that had troubled Tom Riddle for a long time finally got an answer.
That's Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, and where did the big basilisk go?
The entrance to the secret chamber has historically been moved.
Moved twice.
The first time it was changed by the little wizard named Corvinus Gaunt.
His starting point for changing the entrance to the secret room was actually good, because he was worried that after the secret room was accidentally connected to the sewer system repaired by Hogwarts, some young wizards would accidentally find the entrance and (nine times out of ten) get curious. Go in and bump into the basilisk.
Then, pawn.
Therefore, he changed the trap door that was originally the entrance to the secret room into a faucet made by alchemy. Only a person with the talent of Parseltongue can control this faucet and open the entrance to the secret chamber.
As for why Corvinus Gunter, a boy, placed the faucet in the girls' bathroom, it can only be said that it was a coincidence.
The second time the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets was changed was done by "Sherlock", and it happened last year when Bourne and Harry came to Hogwarts for the first time.
At that time, Professor Quirrell, who had "someone behind his back", was unfortunately targeted by Peeves.
Although the poltergeist who could be described as "crazy" failed to bombard Quirrell with his collection of cannons, he did take Quirrell to revisit Voldemort's hometown and to the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets ("The Sorcerer's Stone").
This wave of outrageous operations not only led to the death of Professor Quirrell, but also caused the Hogwarts School Board to bleed again and invited Italian magic craftsmen from the British Ministry of Magic to repair the water-soaked corridors.
Halbo, who was disguised as a magical portrait of the wizard detective Sherlock, also took the opportunity to control the magic craftsmen and changed the location of the entrance to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets to another location - which later led to Voldemort's failure to find the basilisk. When he wanted to bring in foreign aid to help him obtain the Magic Stone, he found that apart from Quirrell, the only foreign aid he could rely on was a mouse...
The reason why Helbo knew the secret that the entrance to the secret room was located in the girls' bathroom was because he had briefly come into contact with Tom Riddle's diary more than a hundred years ago, and roughly peeked into a large amount of the Dark Lord's privacy when he was young. .
Although Tom Riddle has not been a kind person since he was a child - this cannot be washed away - but the unforgivable "Avada Kedavra" he just released on Halbo's clone, to be honest, from In a sense, it does have some justice.
Haierbo had tricked him badly.
Moreover, this is not counting the evil thing Helbo did after Tom Riddle's diary was completely destroyed, which made the three corpses jump.
That despicable guy actually used Parseltongue to command the basilisk belonging to Slytherin and let it attack Bourne.
What a "current crime"!
You know, even serious Slytherin descendants like Tom Riddle knew to avoid people when they went to great lengths to find this basilisk and try to control it. .
If Tom knew this, he would do whatever it took to make himself hold on for one more second before dying, in order to hit Halbo with the Avada Kedavra.
However, it's too late to say anything now.
The diary Horcrux has been completely destroyed, and any trouble caused by this thousand-year-old snake can only be settled by others.
The huge basilisk was like a derailed train, its mouth wide open, and it rushed towards Bourne, who was having a heated exchange with Haierbo.
Dumbledore took action.
"Obscuro!"
Basilisks are extremely resistant to most magic, whether black magic or white magic.
Except for Bourne, Dumbledore and Herbo who were present also knew a secret, that is, even if the Unforgivable Curse was used to deal with the basilisk, there was no guarantee that the spell would be 100% effective.
Moreover, the Unforgivable Curse mentioned here not only includes "Cruciatus" and "Soul Out of Body", but also the "Avada Kedavra" that can directly destroy the soul.
For the first two spells, the basilisk was able to withstand both of them by relying on the scales on its body. For it, it was completely out of reach.
As for using the "Avada Kedavra" to kill the basilisk, some Parselmouths have tried it before. Except for the younger basilisk, the older basilisk is actually not good at this spell. It also has good resistance ability.
Although Dumbledore was holding the Elder Wand in his hand, he had only used the "Avada Kedavra" once in his life when he was learning this spell, so he didn't dare to bet on whether he could kill him with one blow. Die this super basilisk that has lived for nearly a thousand years.
(Don’t doubt that if Dumbledore was 100% sure, he would 100% use the Death Curse on the Basilisk in this situation.)
So, he simply used "Binding" on the basilisk first, summoning a pair of stainless steel eyepatch formed by magic, which was directly stuck on the basilisk's face and several chains stretched out from behind. Its head was tightly tied with several knots.
The basilisk's gaze is too deadly, and the petrification curse takes effect too quickly. So far, there is no recorded way to reverse its effect.
Although its venom and the terrifying giant kiss that can kill an elephant are also very deadly to ordinary people, there were no ordinary people present.
Whether it's Burne, who is wearing an alchemical armor and is stronger than Hagrid after the transformation of Mags; or Dumbledore, who is holding the Elder Wand and a fire phoenix hovering next to him, the basilisk is glaring at everyone. Dead eyes are obviously more threatening.
The reason why he doesn't use the "Eye Spell" is similar to the reason why he doesn't use "Avada Kedavra". That kind of spell that directly acts on the target of the spell is difficult to have an effect on a thousand-year-old basilisk.
"Impedimenta!"
Dumbledore waved the Elder Wand this time and cast a barrier spell on the air around the basilisk.
Although this spell is generally used on the Quidditch pitch, mainly to rescue players who have fallen from those flying broomsticks, only a few wizards can use the Obstacle Curse to restrict the movement of their opponents during duels.
But even the exact same standard spell can have somewhat different effects when cast by different people (and with different wands).
The barrier spell released by Dumbledore directly transformed the air around the basilisk into a substance similar to a non-Newtonian fluid.
The huge and heavy body of the basilisk rubbed against this "air" while moving at high speed, and actually made a harsh "zapping" sound similar to the friction between the wheels and the rails when a train brakes urgently.
Naturally, the momentum of the basilisk's attack was also curbed, and its ferocious triangular head stopped about one meter away from Bourne's back.
Even though the basilisk has the same infrared sensing ability as other snakes, its eyes were blocked by the goggles and its body was restrained, which still made it feel extremely uncomfortable. It kept struggling in the air, like a fish caught on the shore, swaying up and down from left to right. It even stretched out its long forked tongue and almost licked Bourne's back.