Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 309 The Exploding Tail Snake Monster
On the lawn in front of Hagrid's hut, after everyone had left with their Bombtails, Hagrid turned to Harry and said very seriously, "So—you're going to the tournament, Harry. The tournament. To become a champion of the school."

“One of the warriors,” Harry corrected him. “Tierra also participated.”

“This is a very dangerous game… Tyella shouldn’t have done this…” Hagrid’s thick, bushy eyebrows framed beetle-like, dark eyes filled with worry. “I just don’t know who put your name in there, Harry?”

“What, you believe I didn’t do that?” Harry said, trying to hide the sudden surge of gratitude he felt after hearing Hagrid’s words.

“Of course I believe you,” Hagrid muttered. “You say you didn’t do it, and I believe you… By the way, Dumbledore believes you, and everyone believes you.”

"I wish I knew who did it," said Harry bitterly.

The two looked out over the lawn; the students had scattered, each struggling to walk. The giant snail was now over three feet long and possessed astonishing strength—

They were no longer fleshy, shellless, and colorless; instead, they had grown a thick, shiny, grayish-white armor-like substance.

These blast-tailed snails resemble something between a giant scorpion and an elongated crab.

But you still can't see where their heads and eyes are. They've become incredibly strong and difficult to control.

"They seem pretty happy, don't they?" Hagrid said suddenly, clearly pleased. Harry was certain he was referring to the Blasttails, since his classmates were obviously not happy.

Every now and then, with a terrifying crackle, a skrewt's tail would explode, propelling it forward several meters. More than one student was dragged to the ground by it and struggled desperately to get up.

“Well, I don’t know either, Harry,” Hagrid suddenly sighed, his gaze returning to Harry with a worried expression. “As a hero of the school… anything can happen to you, can it?”

Harry didn't answer. Yes, anything could happen to him.

“Harry, you know what you should be doing, right?” Hermione, who had been standing silently to the side, said.

"What?" Harry looked at Hermione with a blank expression.

"Write a letter! You silly little thing!" Hermione said, exasperated. "Write to Sirius. You have to tell him what happened. He wants you to write to him about everything that happens at Hogwarts!"

“Don’t talk nonsense,” Harry said. “He rushed back home just because my scar stung a little. If I told him someone had invited me to sign up for the Triwizard Tournament, he’d probably come straight to the castle—”

“I don’t want him to get caught again!” Harry said.

“I also think you should write a letter to Sirius,” Hagrid said.

Clearly, Hagrid, as Dumbledore's confidant, already knew that Sirius was innocent.

“He definitely wants you to tell him,” Hermione said sternly from the side, like she was scolding a sulking child. “Anyway, he’ll find out sooner or later—”

“How could that be?” Harry denied.

“Harry, this is going to get all over the place,” Hermione said, her tone very serious. “This tournament is something everyone’s watching, and you’re so famous, and you heard from Tierra that the Daily Prophet will be sending people to interview every contestant! You’re so famous! You know, half the books about the Man of Void mention your name… Sirius would definitely prefer to hear about this from you, I know he would.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll write to him,” Harry said. “I’ll write to him as soon as I get back.”

“But whose owl should I use?” Harry said. “Sirius told me to stop using Hedwig.”

"Ask Ron if you can borrow—"

“I won’t ask Ron anything!” Harry interrupted decisively.

"Hey! What's going on between you and Ron again?" Hagrid asked, puzzled.

"nothing!"

“It’s nothing,” Harry and Hermione said almost in unison.

"Tell me, Harry, did you and Ron have a falling out?" But Hagrid didn't give up and continued to press.

“No, I didn’t!” Harry said irritably. “It was Ron! It was Ron…”

Harry started complaining.

……

And at the same time.

After the door of the stone house in the woods opened, two pairs of bright yellow eyes emerged from the dark space behind it—

When Tierra saw those two pairs of eyes, she froze instantly, then quickly waved her "Mad Walker" sign.

One by one, grayish-white worms began to crawl out of Tierra's body.

“Not bad.” Tiera smiled happily.

As Tiera laughed, cursed worms continued to fall from her body one by one.

Because the blasttail snails have a faster physiological cycle than humans, although it has only been two months since Tiera fed them the Hydra potion, the two blasttail snails have already molted seventeen times under the influence of the Hydra potion and have acquired some characteristics of a basilisk.

This included the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which Tiera valued most.

It must be said that Hagrid is a genius. Despite having shed his skin seventeen times, these two Blasttail Snails are still in their infancy and growth stage. Therefore, the magic eyes of these two Blasttail Snails cannot achieve an instant death effect, but can only achieve a petrification effect.

In addition, these two blast-tailed snails were far larger and more bloodthirsty than the ones on the lawn in front of Hagrid's cabin.

Upon seeing Tierra, the two blast-tailed snails immediately burst out of the stone house, baring their fangs and brandishing their tentacles covered in dark green scales and their pincers resembling stone locks as they charged towards Tierra.

Tiera neither dodged nor flinched, but simply smiled and raised her hand—

It's like conducting a band that doesn't exist in the air.

The two monstrous, tailless snails seemed to have been suddenly put on pause, their forward momentum halted in place.

Tiera stepped forward, first pinching the bright yellow eyes of the Exploding Tail Snails, then tapping their hard shells, pincers, and tentacles, collecting some of their slime, and cutting off a scale, which she then put into a test tube.

"Alright." Tiera checked their teeth one last time, then slowly stood up and snapped her fingers—

A portal of light appeared, instantly enveloping the two Blast-tailed Snails. The next moment, the two Blast-tailed Snails appeared on a planet tens of thousands of light-years away from Earth.

“What a pity, my little darlings,” Tiera said. “Even Hagrid is starting to be afraid of you…”

The cultivation of the Exploding Tail Basilisk Snail has come to an end. Tiera's main purposes in feeding the basilisk the Hydra potion were twofold—

First, we need to study the effects of the Hydra potion on magical creatures.

Secondly, Tiera needs to do something next: study the epigenetic effects of Hydra potion on the reproduction of magical creatures.

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