Magical Studies at Hogwarts

Chapter 49 "How Dangerous Magical Creatures Are Raised"

Ike didn't take Lockhart too seriously. From the incident of the Cornish elf, it can be seen that apart from his attainment of the Oblivion Curse, his other talents are actually very sparse.

For this situation, Ike has a guess.

The improvement of the spell level in the waste notepad system will have a strong side effect, and this side effect is mostly related to the effect of the spell.Just like before the level of Ike's Explosive Curse has been raised quickly, there will be an urge to become an explosive madman.

In the same way, Lockhart put too much energy into the Forgetting Curse, which caused some problems with his own memory, which showed that the effects of other spells were not satisfactory.

In other words, the overly strong Forgetting Curse made him forget how to cast other spells correctly, and this effect was basically irreversible.

After all, Lockhart has no system.

The "Anti-Lockhart Alliance" is in full swing, but Ike puts most of his energy on his studies.

He hadn't forgotten what was the most dangerous thing about Hogwarts in his second year. It would be really unreasonable for things like basilisks to sneak attack.

Rough skin, thick flesh, and huge size make the basilisk very resistant to common spells, and the lethal effect of snake pupils also reminds Ike of a legendary creature——Medusa, to some extent Speaking of basilisks is even more dangerous than Medusa.

Seeing the eyes of Medusa is only petrified, seeing the eyes of the basilisk will immediately die, and seeing indirectly will be petrified.That is to say, in the original plot, the basilisk did not deliberately kill people. Otherwise, even if you were lucky enough to be petrified, and caught up with the basilisk convulsing and rolling with one hand, it would be nothing more than a different way of death.

Ike didn't want to bet on whether the basilisk would attack him, so he had to be prepared in advance.

A looking glass, a gadget that can detect malicious intent, is needed. Even if it doesn't react to the basilisk, it will have an effect on the manipulating the basilisk behind the scenes.Carry a small stone and a mirror with you.The stone is for something to turn into a rooster if you encounter a basilisk, and the mirror is inspired by the story of Medusa.

According to legend, Perseus, the son of Zeus, defeated Medusa with a mirror made of a bright shield. Ike guessed that it might also have an effect on the basilisk.

Maybe the basilisk petrified or even killed itself after seeing the mirror?

Ike didn't intend to fight the basilisk, and all the preparations he made were to create enough time for him to escape.For the basilisk in the secret room that has lived for hundreds of years, most of Ike's methods are either useless or useless.

Avada is definitely ineffective, and the damage of the Crushing Curse, Explosive Curse, and Cutting Curse is also limited, and the Fierce Fire Curse is too slow in effect, and it will also give Exhibit an Azkaban experience coupon.

The Eye Sickness Curse can abolish the basilisk's strongest means, but it is too difficult to hit the Eye Sickness Curse in front of the Basilisk, and if you are not careful, you will get hit.

After much deliberation, Transfiguration is more reliable. As long as the basilisk can control the movement, the next step will be easy, proper fixed target training.However, the main body of Hogwarts Castle was given anti-transformation magic, and no one except Dumbledore could deform the walls and ground of the castle, and this road was also blocked.

Therefore, it was just not enough, but Ike was still very sure.

The first attack in my memory happened at the Halloween dinner, almost two months, enough time, Ike can still make more preparations.

After the curfew, Ike skillfully put on the disillusionment spell and silently slipped into the restricted area for the first time in the new semester.

The goal this time is very clear, which is to find relevant information about the basilisk.

The basilisk is also mentioned in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", but it is only a few short sentences. After briefly talking about the origin and danger of the basilisk, it is gone. After all, Newt has never seen a basilisk. It's normal to understand.

But in the restricted area, Ike firmly believed that he would be able to find detailed information.

Hogwarts, which just started school, was very quiet at night, and habitual nocturnal offenders rarely came out so early, which happened to give Ike a chance.

Sneak into the restricted area and head straight for the bookshelves bred by evil creatures.After flipping through several books, Ike finally found detailed records in a book called "How to Cultivate Dangerous Mystical Creatures".

This is a rubbing copy of Merlin's contemporary wizard's notebook, which details the breeding of many man-made magical creatures, including hippogriffs, griffins, sphinxes and basilisks.

After cracking the protective magic on the note, he simply flipped through it in the restricted area.The more Ike watched, the more frightened he became, and he had a deeper understanding of the saying that if you don't do it, you won't die.

The author of the notes is a dark wizard who admires the famous ancient Greek black wizard Despicable Herbo, and most of the content is trying to restore the research of Despicable Herbo.

Curses, black magic, magic rituals, blood fusion experiments, all kinds of evil killing methods made Ike's scalp tingle, compared to the content about the basilisk, it was normal.

The breeding method is not simply placing a male egg under the body of a toad to hatch.First of all, the male eggs are taken from the roosters that have never crowed or mated with the hens, and then soaked in the venom of the thirteen poisonous snakes, during which the male eggs cannot lose their vitality.

After the male egg has absorbed enough venom, choose a male toad that is fat enough.After placing the male egg under the toad, it is necessary to ensure that the toad does not move during the entire hatching process. The wizard needs to feed a special potion to keep the toad alive while reducing its body temperature as much as possible.

The whole process cannot be interrupted. If the male egg is taken out during the incubation process, everything must be restarted.

When the hatching is about to be completed, the toad will slowly petrify until it becomes a stone, from which the newborn basilisk will crawl out.

The newly born basilisks are not powerful, even if they look directly into their eyes, they will only feel a tingling sensation in the brain.But when the basilisk grows to the length of an arm, it can kill birds, beasts and children.That is to say, from this time on, the basilisk will only obey the command of Parseltongue. If the wizard who cultivates it does not understand Parseltongue, it will become the target of its attack.

Many wizards who cultivated the basilisk would choose to kill it at this time to obtain the venom and snake skin, which were needed in some magical rituals and potions left by the vile Helbo.

The owner of the notebook once bred two basilisks, one was killed and turned into material when it was just grown, and the other ran away while the owner was not paying attention, and then came back to try to kill the owner of the notebook, and finally became a basilisk. the experimental materials.

The battle was swift, and the notebook's owner managed to slay the basilisk with just two spells: the Skinning Curse and the Death Curse.

The death curse is the Avada gnawing big melon that has been passed down to this day, and the skinning curse is the black magic studied by the despicable Hai Erbo.The spell is "skinning and bone removal", which will completely remove the target's skin, leaving only a pool of flesh and blood.This spell was originally used by the despicable Haierbo to peel off the fur of magical animals. It can ignore the resistance of magical animals to magic to a certain extent, but when a dark wizard used it cruelly on people, the scene was too bloody. It has been designated as black magic and its use is prohibited.

But its magic concept has been inherited, and now the excrement curse commonly used in St. Mungo's Magical Injury Hospital has the shadow of the skinning curse.

However, Ike doubted how effective the skinning spell would be on the basilisk in the secret room. A one- or two-year-old basilisk and a hundred-year-old basilisk are two different concepts, but this is also a good way.

Water drops through stone, quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and the method used by wizards to tame fire dragons is of great reference value.

Throw a few more skinning spells and it will always work.

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