Bab 279: Chapter 279: Things not to eat indiscriminately (Edited)

After the vacations, Fish did not return to Hogsmeade immediately, but stayed at Hogwarts with Professor McGonagall.

"Minerva, when are we coming back?"

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After hearing the story, Fish sat down at Professor McGonagall's desk, legs dangling, and asked with a frown.

While staying at Hogwarts is fun, he hadn't been to Honeydukes candy store for a long time.

It wasn't that Fish had run out of snacks, there were plenty in his magic bag and in his dormitory, he just wanted to go to the candy store.

After all, snacking in a candy store is a different kind of enjoyment....

Not to mention that Grandpa Ambrose and Grandma Frum, who run the candy store, would always give him some rare snacks that were rarely sold in the market.

"One more day, tomorrow, and we'll be back."

Professor McGonagall patted Fish on the head and said, "Or you can ask Comey to take you home tonight and come back tomorrow, Dumbledore needs your help."

"You want Fish to go back to writing in the diary nya?"

(?ω?)

The little cat asked with some resistance.

"Of course not, the diary has been destroyed," Professor McGonagall said with a smile, "He just wants to go to the Chamber of Secrets and ask you to open the door."

"Oh, no problem, Fish was also going to say goodbye to Uroboros nya!"

Fish sighed in relief and then sighed a little helplessly, "It's a pity we can't get Uroboros out, otherwise he'd be left alone underground, it's too pitiful..."

The corners of Professor McGonagall's mouth twitched twice, but she said nothing.

The next day, Fish, who had slept in late, went straight to the kitchen for lunch and then ran to find Professor McGonagall, and together with her they arrived at the locked women's bathroom on the second floor.

Dumbledore was already waiting inside, as was Professor Snape.

"Severus, hello nya."

(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish greeted Snape, then bowed his head and asked Dumbledore curiously, "What do you want to do in the Chamber of Secrets?"

Dumbledore replied with a smile, "We're going to get the basilisk skin molt out of there, Severus is very interested in that."

Fish turned his head to Snape, who, with his usual nonchalant face, looked a little excited, as if....

He looked as if he had seen something delicious.

"Fish will give you a word of warning," Fish said to Snape, scratching his head, "Uroboros' molting skin doesn't taste very good nya."

(??ˇ?ˇ??)

"You little rascal! Eating again!"

As soon as Fish's words were out of his mouth, Professor McGonagall grabbed him by the human ear and scolded, "Is that something you can casually eat?"

"Nya!"

ヽ(●≥Д≤●●)ノ

The kitten waved its hands and hastily argued, "I only tasted a little bit, and it's not like snake molt are something rare!".

"The basilisk's molt, can it be the same as a normal snake's? What if it's poisonous?" said Professor McGonagall angrily, though she had let go of his hand.

"Fish didn't know Uroboros was a basilisk at the time..."

(〃｀3′〃)

Fish muttered under his breath as he rubbed his ears.

Then he raised his head again, wrinkled his nose and growled at Professor McGonagall, "And Fish can tell if there's poison in the food, so even if there is, Fish has a way to cure it nya!".

"Even if there's no problem, that snake molt has been on the ground for so long, it's not very clean, is it?"

Dumbledore stepped in to smooth things over, as for Fish's claim that he could cure the poison, Dumbledore still believed it, he just didn't believe Fish could cure basilisk venom. He then said, "Don't eat anything of unknown origin again, Minerva is worried about you too."

When he heard Dumbledore say that, Fish stopped pouting and whining.

But then he reacted by pointing at Snape and saying, "Isn't Severus trying to eat the Uroboros snake molt now nya? Why can't Fish nya?"

"Basilisk skin molt is a very rare potion material, Severus intended to take it to make a potion, not to eat it."

Dumbledore patiently explained to Fish.

But Fish was still grumbling unconvincingly, "If you make a potion, you still have to swallow it. ..."

But under Professor McGonagall's gaze, the little kitten's complaints quickly disappeared.

"Well, let's get the shedding of the basilisk's skin out first." Dumbledore smoothed things over again.

"Hiss..."

Fish opened the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets with the Parseltongue, and the unhappy kitten immediately jumped out while laughing.

"Nyajajajajaja!"

?(●≧? ≦●)?

No cat can resist the pleasure of sliding down a pipe.

Sliding to the ground with laughter, Fish waited a moment at the pipe exit to watch as Dumbledore and the others slid out of the pipe one by one.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall, who had experienced it once before, were a little better, but Snape, sliding down the pipe for the first time, looked even paler.

The three did not move immediately after landing, but remained silent for a while before Dumbledore guided them towards the basilisk's molting skin.

Fish looked hesitantly at the pipe they had just slid down, he hadn't had enough.

But the cat finally opted to follow Professor McGonagall to the basilisk skin molt.

Snape was so excited by the sight of the huge molt that he approached and walked around it several times, looking closely.

Although the basilisk had left the molt alone after shedding its skin, no snake or insect had dared to touch it, so apart from the gaping hole where the basilisk had emerged when it molted, there was only a small tear where Fish had curiously broken.

After careful examination, Snape pulled out his wand, cast a few spells on the skin molt to keep it from breaking as it moved, then used a shrinking spell to shrink it down to about fifteen inches, then pulled a long box out of his pocket and put the shrunken skin molt inside.

"Nya!"

∑(●?ω?●)

Seeing what Snape had done, Fish's eyes suddenly lit up.

He might as well shrink Uroboros with the [Animal Shrink] spell and take him out.

The only problem was that Uroboros's eyes would still kill whoever looked at them after shrinking....

If only he could solve the problem of the basilisk's gaze.

?ω?

The kitten frowned in some distress.

Why did the basilisk have such a troublesome ability?

As Fish frowned, Snape approached him, having picked up the basilisk's shedding skin.

He hesitated for a moment, but said, "Fish, can you show me the inside of the Chamber of Secrets?"

Snape sounded a little excited, as a Slytherin, he wanted to see the Chamber of Secrets that had been left by the founder of his House, and if he wasn't such a weakling, Snape would have liked to see the basilisk that had left Slytherin.

Turns out Fish was going to test his [Animal Shrinking] Spell on Uroboros, so he agreed to do so.

"No problem nya, I'm just going to find Uroboros, but remember not to look him in the eyes nya."

Fish lifted his legs and walked towards the secret room, as he kindly reminded her.

Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall had nothing else to do for the moment, so they arrived together at the door of the Chamber of Secrets.

"Hiss..."

Fish shouted in Parseltongue and opened the door to the Chamber of Secrets, intending to run to the statue to call Uroboros.

But Dumbledore stopped him.

"Don't call the basilisk yet, let Severus have a good look at the Chamber of Secrets," Dumbledore said, guessing what Snape was doing in the Chamber of Secrets, and after stopping Fish, he turned to Professor McGonagall and said, "Minerva, let's have a look as well, last time you kept your eyes closed, and I was so busy preparing spells that I couldn't see properly."

Professor McGonagall wasn't really interested in Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, but she didn't want to spoil Snape and Dumbledore's fun, so she nodded and led Fish into the Chamber of Secrets with her.

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Bab 280: Chapter 280: [Animal Shrinkage] (Edited)

The three of them and the little cat entered the green mist of the Chamber of Secrets. They passed the stone pillars carved with coiled snakes. Slowly, they walked into the deepest part of the Chamber of Secrets.

Among the four of them. Snape was the most serious. He looked carefully at everything around him. Even the cracks in the tiles and the snake scales on the pillars. He had to scrub everything.

On the contrary. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were much more relaxed. It was like being a tourist.

The one who was bored the most was Fish. He had been up and down in the Chamber of Secrets. There was nothing but rocks. Nothing interesting to look at. Snape's nose was almost stuck to the pillar.

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They walked slowly towards the innermost part of the Chamber of Secrets. Snape became even more excited when he saw the statue of Slytherin. His thin lips even trembled at the sight of it. He looked at the huge statue of Slytherin. There was no telling what he was thinking as he didn't move.

"Minerva, can I call Uroboros now nya?"

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After standing stupidly with Snape for a while, Fish finally got a little impatient, tugged on Professor McGonagall's sleeve and asked.

Professor McGonagall said nothing. Instead, she looked at Dumbledore. As long as it didn't involve her own cat, for the most part, she still respected Dumbledore.

"Ahem! Severus. Back up a bit. Fish is about to call the snake monster."

In fact, Dumbledore was getting impatient as well. He was a Gryffindor. He had a lot of respect for Slytherin. But that was as far as the respect went. After all, if it came down to a contest of magical prowess. The current Dumbledore was not necessarily inferior to the Founding Four.

At Dumbledore's reminder. Snape's body jerked. He snapped back to reality. Then he stepped back as he was told. And closed his eyes along with Professor McGonagall. And put on a supersensory spell.

"Hiss..."

Fish spoke Parseltongue again, but this time the sentence was obviously much longer.

The statue's mouth slowly opened. With a crunch, the huge body of the basilisk came out of the statue. And landed hard on the ground.

"Uroboros, I've come to see you nya."

(●ΦωΦ●)?

Fish greeted the basilisk, trotting over to meet him.

Uroboros first touched Fish's face with his usual kiss. Then he looked behind Fish at Dumbledore and the others. There was some confusion in his mind...

How could there be another guy who wasn't afraid of his gaze?

The third heir?

As for Snape and Professor McGonagall, they were simply ignored. They couldn't even look him in the eye, there was nothing to worry about.

But the next moment he didn't think so....

"Let me introduce you. Minerva McGonagall. Fish's mother," Fish said, pointing at Professor McGonagall. Uroboros immediately approached her. He also touched her cheek with a kiss. A gesture of friendship...

Professor McGonagall stiffened at the basilisk's touch and forced a smile.

"This is Albus Dumbledore. Headmaster of Hogwarts nya."

"Hiss."

Nothing unusual about the headmaster of Hogwarts. Uroboros knew the Founding Four who founded the school. So he simply said hello.

To his surprise, Dumbledore replied with a smile, "Hiss."

"Hiss, hiss?" (Do you speak Parseltongue, too?)

The basilisk asked suspiciously. Parseltongue from the other party...

Why is it so bad?

It had to be said. Dumbledore had a real talent for languages. The first time he said "hello" in Parseltongue, it was recognizable to the basilisk. But the intonation was a bit off.

And while Fish couldn't understand Dumbledore's Parseltongue, his ears were very good.

"Albus. There's something wrong with your pronunciation nya. It's 'hiss' not 'whistle'."

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The kitten blinked and corrected.

"Really? I'm just trying" Dumbledore chuckled nonchalantly. Then he said to Fish, "Translate the basilisk for me. I just learned Parseltongue on my own. I can't innately speak Parseltongue. I can basically only understand, but I'm not very good at speaking."

"That's awesome too nya. Fish made a great effort to learn English at first nya" exclaimed Fish. He relayed Dumbledore's words to Uroboros with sincerity.

Then the basilisk lost interest in Dumbledore. Though the other party could see him, he should be a wizard with good strength. But... he had seen four of those wizards before. No big deal.

"This is Severus Snape. The current Dean of Slytherin House nya."

The basilisk looked at Snape, not even daring to look him in the eye.... Shame on the old master!

But he did it for the sake of his old master and Fish. He would also say "hello."

Even if it was a simple greeting, it made Snape very excited.

Then he heard Fish say again, "And. Severus took the change of skin you left outside. He said he was going to make a magic potion out of it."

Snape wasn't the only one. Even Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were getting nervous. They didn't expect Fish to suddenly say this to the basilisk. God knows what the basilisk's attitude towards the skin that was shed.

Dumbledore was annoyed. He had forgotten to warn Fish earlier - it would be bad if the basilisk got angry about this!

Luckily, what they feared didn't happen. The basilisk just leered at Snape and wagged its tail lazily, not intending to chase him at all.

Of course, Uroboros didn't care. His molted skin had been used by his former master to make potions. It was mainly used to make an antidote to his own poison (it only delayed the appearance of the basilisk's poison. It did not cure the poison). The great squid of the black lake had drunk a lot of that potion.

And also. Snape seems to have a good relationship with Fish. He is also the younger generation of the old master. It's just a shedding of skin. No big deal.

Seeing that the basilisk didn't react, Dumbledore and the others were relieved and planned to leave first God knows what else this kitten could do to scare people.

As a result, they only took one step when Fish stopped him.

"Albus, wait nya!"

"What's wrong, Fish?"

"Fish needs your help with something. Just wait a moment nya."

Dumbledore paused curiously, Snape and Professor McGonagall were also waiting with their eyes closed.

They saw the kitten hugging the large basilisk head. After mumbling for a moment, the basilisk spat out its tongue and then obediently curled up in front of Fish.

Then Fish put his hands on the basilisk. His face was tense. his little face was tense and he looked very serious, Dumbledore couldn't help but get nervous.

And then. From Fish's hands came a faint white light. It spread quickly all over the basilisk's body. And then. The basilisk's massive body shrank to less than half a meter in size, as Dumbledore watched in awe.

[Animal Shrink: Shrinks a willing animal. Damage caused by the animal's natural attack is reduced as it shrinks in size]

!!!

Not just Dumbledore. Even Snape and Professor McGonagall, who sensed the situation around them with their spells, were surprised.

Especially Professor McGonagall, who was good at transfiguration. It was not particularly difficult to shrink a creature. All that was needed was a certain level of transfiguration skill. Or a good understanding of the shrinking spell. It is possible to shrink ordinary creatures, and even some magical creatures.

For example, in the last school year, Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort, once shrunk a Troll.

But change the target to a magical creature with a system as large and as resistant to magic as a basilisk. It was a different story.

Not to mention her, even Dumbledore couldn't do that!

Unless multiple wizards cast a shrink spell or a transfiguration spell at the same time. Using the overlapping effect of the spells and relying on brute force to force such an effect by force.

Snape's shrinking basilisk skin shedding was another matter.

First, the difficulty of shrinking a living creature is different from that of a dead creature. Secondly, the magic resistance of a basilisk skin molt had a significant reduction against magic. And lastly. A shedding of skin is just a layer of skin. It looks huge, but the actual size is very small.

Shrinking a molt of basilisk fur is even less difficult than shrinking a mink.

"Ha! It worked nya!"

Fish didn't know how amazing what he had done was, he grabbed the ultra small basilisk lying on the ground and ran over to Dumbledore with it, walked on his tiptoes and lifted the basilisk in front of him.

"Albus, take a look, Uroboros eyes can kill people now nya?"

?(●?ω?●)?

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