Marvel's Magic Master

Chapter 58 Basilisk appears

October 31st, Halloween Eve.

As soon as George walked into the castle hall in the morning, he smelled the sweet and tempting smell of roasted pumpkin.

Today's breakfast is basically all pumpkin-related, and I guess a lot of the ingredients were taken from Hagrid.

But to be honest, the cooking skills of the house-elves are really good. No wonder Tonks always said she missed the delicious food at Hogwarts.

Although he doesn't like Western food very much, he would occasionally feel his eyes brightened by it.

If there is a chance, he plans to see if he can get one in the future to use as his butler.

After the last class in the afternoon, the young wizards went to the Great Hall in groups. George, as the star of Slytherin, was naturally surrounded by his classmates.

"Have you heard? Dumbledore has specially invited a Skeleton Dance Troupe to this Halloween dinner!"

"Wow, is that the dance troupe made up entirely of skeletons?"

Amid the excited discussion among the young wizards, George stepped into the auditorium.

The auditorium was now decorated with a variety of colors. A thousand live bats were fluttering on the walls and ceiling, and another thousand were circling above the dining table like low dark clouds.

Huge pumpkin lanterns were floating in the sky above the auditorium, and each pumpkin lantern was big enough to accommodate two or three little wizards.

It was a pumpkin specially made by Hagrid using the Swelling Charm, and George was present.

But he was not interested in the pumpkin, he was interested in the expansion spell.

The Swelling Spell is a spell that can make a person swell rapidly and float like a balloon. It also has the same effect on objects, but you must be careful to control the effect, otherwise it is easy to over-expand and cause an explosion.

George was interested in this spell because he thought that if he had known this spell when he escaped from the base, he could have controlled the grenades to expand more than ten times as they flew out.

It would not be just a matter of blowing up a few houses; perhaps the entire base could be blown up.

However, this spell was quite difficult, and even after asking Hagrid for help, he still hadn't mastered it completely.

Of course, the main reason was that there were too many magic theories and spells he wanted to learn, and the expansion spell was not the most important one, so it could only be put at the back, so naturally the time spent on it would be much less.

Otherwise, if he studied this spell every day with two bodies, he would have learned it long ago.

The Halloween party at Hogwarts did not disappoint George. There were mountains of delicious food carefully prepared by the house-elves, gorgeous and interesting magic demonstrated by the professor, and funny performances by the Skeleton Dance Troupe.

These were not things he could see in the normal world, and they opened his eyes.

Compared to watching a movie, the immersive experience is much more wonderful. For many things, if you don't experience them in person, you may not be able to experience even one tenth of them just by relying on words and images.

No matter how high Mount Everest is on TV, you won’t feel anything, but when you actually stand there, you will understand why it is the highest peak in the world.

The dinner was over and everyone dispersed. The Slytherin students, including George, chattered and walked towards the dormitory in the basement, but at a corner, they suddenly stopped.

Because they saw Filch's Mrs. Norris, hanging upside down on the torch stand, her body stiff and her eyes dull, and a few big words written on the wall next to the torch:
"The chamber of secrets has been opened.

Those who are enemies of the heir, beware! "

Standing on the other side of the wall were Harry and the other two who were equally frightened.

"Those who are enemies of the heir, beware! You will be the next one, mud."

Upon seeing this, Malfoy immediately walked out of the crowd and excitedly started mocking Harry and the other two. However, he had only said half of his words when George behind him grabbed his shoulder.

"Malfoy, now is not the time to do this. Go inform the principal and professors to deal with it." Malfoy turned around and saw that it was George. After hesitating for a moment, he shut up and turned around and trotted towards the auditorium.

Soon, a group of professors including Dumbledore, Snape, Lockhart, McGonagall and Filch arrived.

When Filch saw his beloved Mrs. Norris being petrified, he immediately roared in anger.

He was convinced that Harry must have done this to take revenge on him, and finally Dumbledore gave up after he personally explained that this was not a spell that a lower grade student could cast and that Mrs. Norris could still be saved.

George did not speak out about the "Basilisk" in public at this time. Although it might get extra points, he did not want to get involved now.

After Harry and the other two were taken away by Dumbledore, he returned to the common room with the other young wizards of Slytherin.

Most of the other young wizards were discussing about the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, but he was the only one who still found a corner to study the magic book. This scene made the young wizards secretly admire him.

After Halloween, the castle fell into silence again, but the topic of the Chamber of Secrets has never decreased, and many young wizards believe that Harry is the heir of Slytherin.

That day, George, who was reading in the library, was found by Harry and his two friends.

"You suspect Malfoy is the Heir of Slytherin and that he wants to kill all the Muggle-born children in the school?"

"Their whole family is in Slytherin, and he always brags about it to others.

I suspect they are probably descendants of Slytherin, his father is evil enough that he must be the heir."

Harry looked certain.

Ron followed up with a guess:
"They may have held the key to the Chamber of Secrets for centuries, and it has been passed down from father to son, and from son to grandson, and so it came into the hands of Malfoy."

"I think apart from him, no one else should hate wizards born in Muggle families so much. Last time he even called me a mudblood."

Hermione also agreed with their guess.

"Even if your guess is reasonable, how can you prove it? You can't convict him based on guesswork alone. His father has great power in the Ministry of Magic."

George said with a smile.

Malfoy is not a descendant of Streeling, Voldemort is, but he will not tell this to the trio.

"So, George, we need your help."

The three of them moved closer to George.

"We need you to get us some hair from Goyle, Crabbe, and Millicent, and to give us the password to your Slytherin common room."

"It's not a difficult thing, but what do you want to do?"

George asked knowingly.

Harry trusted George very much and did not hide anything:
"We plan to make Polyjuice Potion, transform into these three people, and go directly to the Strelling Common Room to get Malfoy to talk."

"That's a good idea, but you should know that doing so violates at least fifty school rules. Which of you three came up with this?"

George nodded and asked casually.

Harry and Ron pointed at Hermione at the same time. They couldn't come up with such a good plan because they didn't know what Polyjuice Potion was at all.

(End of this chapter)