Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 268: Wonderful glasses, a prop to avoid eye contact with the basilisk!

Professor McGonagall and several other professors hurried to the library.

She looked at the mess on the floor and couldn't help but cover her mouth with her hands, gasping for air. The other professors were also shocked.

Professor McGonagall bent down and took the initiative to help Lin Xia and Hermione up.

"What happened, kid?"

Lin Xia looked at Hermione who was crying in her arms, then looked at the little wizards watching around her, and said with a headache:

"Professor, let's talk somewhere else. I have something important to report to you."

Professor McGonagall immediately dispersed the young wizards around her, while the other professors moved Madam Pince to the infirmary.

Lin Xia and Hermione came to Professor McGonagall's office.

"At first I saw a pair of huge snake tails and thought it might be a basilisk, so I immediately closed my eyes and told Hermione to close her eyes, and then used the Shield Charm to protect myself."

Professor McGonagall asked seriously, "Did you just use the Shield Charm?"

Lin Xia: "Not only did I use this spell, I also used the Crushing Body Spell.

The basilisk seemed to be angry, and it resisted fiercely. We were pushed onto the bookshelf by the reaction force of the armor spell."

Professor Lockhart had arrived and was chattering away.

"It's a pity that I didn't come to the first crime scene. If I were there, I could easily subdue the basilisk. When I went to Bach Forest three years ago, I encountered a basilisk. I only needed a simple avoidance spell and it ran around me..."

Lin Xia suddenly looked up at Lockhart.

"It seems that Professor Lockhart is very experienced. Why don't you do a self-examination in Hogwarts and search for the basilisk yourself."

Lockhart paused for a moment, and seeing the other professors looking at him, he immediately said:

"Of course, no problem. I'm happy to help. But I'm still a little short of manpower just by myself. I need some help from the professor..."

Professor McGonagall interrupted, "Okay, that's not the point right now."

She looked at Sprout who had just arrived, "What did Mrs. Pangley say?"

Dean Sprout said solemnly, "He was petrified. The symptoms are the same as those of the person who was petrified before."

Mag's brows furrowed, "So, it really is a basilisk?"

Professor Snape suddenly said: "It may not be a basilisk, perhaps a powerful master of dark magic sneaked into the library and wanted to get something from it.

But Lin Xia and Hermione accidentally saw it, so he disguised himself as a basilisk and fought them. After all, they didn't see the whole appearance of the basilisk. "

Hermione had calmed down and said angrily, "Professor Snape, if we really saw the basilisk, we would have been petrified!"

Professor Snape said indifferently: "I just pay attention to evidence."

Hermione argued: "Madam Pince was petrified, which is the best evidence."

Snape still had that arrogant tone: "It is not difficult to petrify a person. Many senior wizards can do it."

Lin Xia asked back, "But Madam Pince is an adult wizard after all. In terms of the difficulty of petrifying people, it should be easier for little wizards like us, right?"

Snape sneered: "Who knows what that person is thinking."

Professor McGonagall said seriously, "Okay, that's all for this investigation. You can go back first. The other professors can stay. We need to discuss this matter all night."

After Hermione and Lin Xia went out, Hermione was still very angry.

She asked, "Does Professor Snape suspect that we are in cahoots with that dark wizard, so he is questioning us?"

Lin Xia was stunned.

She really didn't expect this angle, it is indeed possible.

But Lin Xia was 100% sure that it was a basilisk.

If she hadn't sacrificed the Philosopher's Stone and made her magic even more powerful, she might not have been able to drive the basilisk back under normal circumstances.

However, the appearance of the basilisk served as a reminder to her that she should work hard to develop her ability to fight in the dark.

A wizard cannot guarantee that every battle he fights will be fought in a brightly lit area.

Practicing fighting in the dark is helpful in dealing with various difficulties.

Lin Xia returned to the Hufflepuff common room.

Draco didn't sleep and waited for her here.

When he saw Lin Xia, he immediately walked over, cast an anti-eavesdropping spell, and asked what had happened today.

Lin Xia said succinctly: "I encountered a basilisk and escaped death."

Draco looked at Lin Xia several times, and asked in surprise: "Why can you say it so calmly? If Hermione hadn't reacted so violently, I would have thought it was just a small matter."

Lin Xia said calmly: "Crying can't solve all problems, Draco, we have to grow up after all.

Rather than crying, what I am more worried about now is how to stop the basilisk now that it has run out so blatantly.

I was able to repel it this time, but that doesn’t mean others can. If a few more young wizards are petrified, Hogwarts might not be able to continue operating.”

Draco asked solemnly: "Do you have any solution?"

Lin Xia: "You mean to deal with the basilisk?"

She shook her head: "Don't think about it, this matter cannot be solved, and it is not something we can solve."

She thought, "Perhaps, we can take precautions from another aspect, at least to prevent the little wizard from being petrified immediately after seeing the basilisk.

Even if he is not petrified, he does not necessarily have a great chance of survival. After all, compared to his individual combat power, even if the basilisk loses the ability to petrify, its huge body is enough to kill the little wizard."

Draco immediately said: "If you need my help, just tell me!"

Lin Xia returned to the golden wooden house.

She opened the diary, wrote just one sentence, and closed it.

[I was attacked by a basilisk today. Fortunately, I survived.]

Tom was about to answer, but the diary was covered again, which made him feel depressed.

The basilisk appeared again? Who released it? Besides him, is there another heir of Slytherin? Is Lin Xia injured...

Tom had a lot of questions he wanted to ask, but he couldn't express them.

It didn't realize that a single word from Lin Xia could turn its mind upside down and it was no longer as calm as before.

Lin Xia came to the small laboratory in the golden wooden house.

The sky is big, the earth is big, and cultivation is the most important, so she practiced as usual.

She didn’t know if it was because the longer she was exposed to the barrier of the Xuan Dian Realm, the more she could sense the changes in her body and the balance problems in her body.

Her body is seriously out of balance!

Fortunately, she had read many banned books before, both in physical form, online, and borrowed from the library, all of which became nourishment for her and made up for some of her shortcomings.

Otherwise, her body might have some problems due to extreme imbalance.

For wizards, signs of physical problems often cause magical riots, which is a common effect of losing control.

Even if Lin Xia becomes Momo, she can still retain her self-awareness, but if possible, she doesn't want to transform into that state.

This will reveal a lot of her cards.

And who knows what kind of harm her magic power will cause now that it is rampaging.

Lin Xia sighed: "I still need to read more banned books and make up for my shortcomings!"

She only practiced for a while and then stopped.

Her body was so unbalanced that she would have wanted to stop practicing if it weren't for the need to maintain her cultivation state.

In the dead of night, Lin Xia started researching a new invention.

She wanted to make something that would prevent people from looking into the basilisk's eyes even if they saw it.

Lin Xia pondered, perhaps, she could use the principle of optical refraction to make a distorted optical imaging?

For example, the eyes are clearly looking forward, but the scene presented in the lens is a little more deviated from reality?
Lin Xia immediately started the experiment.

the next day.

During the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Lin Xia took out her homemade "magic glasses" and asked Hermione and a few others to try them on and share their experiences.

The young wizard no longer had any expectations for Lockhart's class, and everyone was chatting privately.

Lin Xia and the others had to be reserved and put on the illusion that they were concentrating on the lecture, at least in the eyes of outsiders—

Their backs were straight and they listened very attentively.

But the reality is, Lin Xia and others were chatting.

Hermione put on the magical glasses and felt the different world outside while answering Lin Xia's questions.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just couldn't react yesterday, I was too scared.

Thank you, Lin Xia. If you hadn’t reminded me, I might have turned into a stone statue.”

Lin Xia said, "I think we can try to use the spell in the dark, so that we won't lose the accuracy of the spell in the dark."

"I thought so," Hermione agreed.

Ron took off his wonderful glasses, put them on again, and then took them off again, making a sound of amazement.

"It's amazing, Lin Xia, how did you do this? What kind of magic did you use?"

Harry was also very interested in the magical glasses, but he seemed to understand some of the principles. At least he could feel that this was not magic.

Harry said, "This should have something to do with physics."

Draco only tried it on for a while before he solved the case: "It uses the principle of optical imaging to fold the scene we see twice, and when it is reflected on the lens, the pattern becomes different."

Ron exclaimed in amazement and fixed his neck: "I am very sure that I was looking forward, because I could clearly see the back of other people's round heads.

But with the glasses on, I can only see a small tuft of hair on top of someone's head, and the image is offset! It's amazing!"

Hermione waved her wand, and the quill automatically jumped up and began to write on the parchment.

She is already writing a trial report on using the Magic Glasses!

Lin Xia waited until they were almost done playing before asking, "Do you think that after you put on these glasses, you can avoid eye contact with the basilisk in the first place?"

Hermione, Harry, Ron and Draco all said in unison, "Yes!"

Draco raised a question: "But it's actually useless. Even if the little wizard avoids the basilisk's gaze, he may not be able to escape the basilisk's pursuit.

It is not as fast as the basilisk, nor as strong as the basilisk, and the basilisk's skin is resistant to magic. Even if magic is used, it may not cause damage to the basilisk.

If you see a basilisk and are petrified immediately, you can avoid danger, what do you think? "

Ron and Harry looked at each other. That was true.

Those who were petrified never suffered any secondary damage, and each one was intact.

But if he hadn't been petrified and had been running away, he might not have been able to escape intact.

Lin Xia thought for a while, and her eyes lit up: "We can take advantage of the basilisk's weakness. Didn't we invent a screaming chicken doll before?"

Hermione figured it out, and said excitedly, "Yes, we can use the magic glasses to avoid the first eye contact with the basilisk, so that we will not be petrified, and then use the screaming chicken doll to drive the basilisk away.

Basilisks are very strong, but they are not without weaknesses. They hate the sound of roosters and will hide when they hear it.

Moreover, in places where basilisks appear, roosters are the first to die, and they must have been killed by the basilisk.

Although roosters are not the natural enemy of basilisks, their behavior is enough to prove that they are afraid of roosters!"

Hermione didn't know what she was thinking of, and said fiercely: "If more and more little wizards see the basilisk, let's see what Professor Snape will say!"

The Defense Against the Dark Arts class was over, and Lockhart wanted to keep the class after a long time with a smile on his face.

Lin Xia and others had already slipped out in advance by using an illusion.

When they wanted to promote the magic glasses, the first people they thought of were the Weasley twins.

As long as he is recognized by the twins, his ability to sell goods will be great.

Professor Lockhart talked incessantly for five or six minutes until a little wizard blushed and raised his hand to say he wanted to go to the toilet. Only then did he officially end the class.

Alas, what a pity.

He was telling a story about his adventures in the dark forest and had some trouble with a witch.

Then he went on to convince the witch, and the witch finally wanted to devote herself to him, but he righteously refused.

After a while, all the little wizards left, and only the illusions of Lin Xia and others remained on the table.

The illusions are taking notes carefully.

Lockhart walked over and said with a smile on his face, "Hey, why don't you guys leave? The next class is about to start."

Got no response.

Lockhart was a little embarrassed and said with a fake smile: "I didn't expect you guys like my class so much and keep your heads down to take notes. Let me see, maybe I can give you some guidance."

As soon as his hand touched Ron's shoulder, he missed and fell on the table, hitting his head hard on the table and seeing stars.

……

After hearing Lin Xia's idea of ​​the magical glasses, the Weasley twins decided to take the goods for free and work hard to sell them.

This upright look made Ron a little uncomfortable.

He muttered, "I thought you guys were going to try to get money out of this."

George: "It seems that our lovely brother has lost his mind."

Fred: "A magical tool that can help Hogwarts through difficulties, no need to charge money."

George and Fred said in unison: "We only make the money we deserve!"

(End of this chapter)