Hogwarts Crawler.

"And why didn't you tell us, instead of going to deal with such a terrible thing alone?"

"Professor McGonagall, please allow me to answer your questions one by one."

Adam stretched out his hand and summoned the Rod of Darkness in front of everyone in the principal's office who were all surprised.

"First of all, how did I do it... It was with this magic item passed down by my ancestors."

There was a hint of doubt in Professor Dumbledore's eyes. How come he didn't know that Nicolas Flamel had such a magic prop?

However, with Adam's explanation, the doubt in Professor Dumbledore's eyes disappeared. It turned out that it was the ancestors from China...

Although he did not conceal the existence of the Clow Cards, he also did not give a detailed explanation of the Clow Cards. After using the magic props inherited from his ancestors as a shield for combat power, Adam continued:

"As for how it was discovered...do you professors know Moaning Myrtle?"

Professor Dumbledore's eyes flashed.

Moaning Myrtle...was once his student.

Adam explained that he combined what he heard from his classmates, that the chamber of secrets had been opened, the story of Moaning Myrtle, and the discovery of the spider's corpse in the castle, to form a guess - the monster in the chamber of secrets was a basilisk.

"…How did you guess that?"

Harry muttered with his eyes wide open.

The professors knew the characteristics of the basilisk, but Harry didn't, so Harry couldn't understand how these conditions led to this result.

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Ignoring Harry's question, Adam continued:

"Finally, why didn't I tell the professors... Like I said just now, I was just guessing, and I was confident that I could handle it even if I faced a basilisk, so I went by myself."

After listening to the entire explanation, the professors fell silent.

Although the story line Adam told was a bit outrageous, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

"So, putting aside the fact that you heroically defeated the basilisk in the end - who opened the Chamber of Secrets?"

Professor Snape folded his arms across his chest and squinted his eyes:

"That person must be very familiar with the secret room. He must have known that there was a basilisk in the secret room and knew how to deal with it..."

Professor Sprout seemed to understand something, and immediately glared at Professor Snape, then reached out and hugged Adam into his arms:

"Severus, what do you mean?"

Adam knew that Professor Snape was not sincere and that he would talk back to himself out of fear and worry even though he believed in him. He sighed secretly, then winked at Professor Dumbledore in Professor Sprout's arms. Professor Dumbledore immediately understood and said:

"Severus, stop your speculation. We should be vigilant, but we cannot suspect a student without reason."

Then Professor Dumbledore stood up and said:

"Okay, now it seems that most of the things are clear. Let Adam and I discuss the remaining details while we have lunch... Everyone, please go back. Maybe you have classes to prepare for in the afternoon?"

Although the professors were not very happy, since Professor Dumbledore said so, they left the headmaster's office one by one, and Professor McGonagall took Harry with her.

"Okay, now there are only two of us here."

Professor Dumbledore winked at Adam:

"What do you want to eat for lunch?"

"Why don't I do it?"

Adam waved the Dark Staff directly, and a plate of hot brownie-flavored pizza appeared on the table. He then looked at Professor Dumbledore, whose eyes lit up, and said:

"Professor, what would you like to eat for lunch?"

Chapter 72 The Magic of Love

Chew chew chew chew...swallow——

After finishing the last apple cinnamon pie, Professor Dumbledore listened to Adam's story and saw the diary with only four pages left.

Looking at the somewhat pitiful diary, Professor Dumbledore suddenly sighed.

Tom, have you ever thought that the Horcrux you created at the cost of killing a life would one day become so fragile?

"What's the matter, Professor Dumbledore?"

"It's okay, I just thought of something..."

Professor Dumbledore shook his head and began to answer the questions Adam asked him:

"This diary should be a Horcrux, an extremely evil black magic prop that can only be made by killing a person, so it can have such a strong magic resistance."

Professor Dumbledore couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he said this:

"In fact, most of the means in this world cannot cause harm to it..." Otherwise, Voldemort would not have been willing to cut off his soul in order to make a Horcrux.

Unfortunately, Voldemort's Horcrux encountered Adam.

While sighing, Professor Dumbledore suddenly remembered the basilisk. If he remembered correctly, the evil magic of the basilisk was enough to destroy the Horcrux.

"Is the body of the basilisk still in the secret room?"

"Oh, no, it's not dead yet."

"It's good that you're not dead... huh?!"

Professor Dumbledore stared with wide eyes as Adam took out a black round container from his bag. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a glass jar wrapped in black cloth.

"I shrunk the basilisk and caught it. It's in here."

Adam said as he pulled aside the gauze and took a look:

"It's sleeping now."

"..."

Professor Dumbledore opened his mouth, confused for a moment.

"Professor would you like to see it?"

"Uh, no."

Professor Dumbledore finally sorted out his thoughts:

"You... shrunk the basilisk?"

"Yes, the basilisk's strength has also decreased. Now even a glass jar can close it tightly."

Professor Dumbledore wanted to say that the skin of the basilisk had a magical resistance that was almost the same as that of the dragon, but thinking about the fact that the magic resistance of the Horcrux was much stronger than that of the basilisk and the dragon, he did not say anything about this issue, but just looked at the black jar for a while, hesitating:

"Adam, I have to remind you that it is illegal to keep a basilisk..."

"Professor, I checked the laws of wizards. It is illegal to breed basilisks, but it is not illegal to keep basilisks."

Adam winked at Professor Dumbledore:

"So as long as I can prove that this basilisk was not bred by me, I will not violate the laws of wizards."

"...Okay, you're right."

Professor Dumbledore was silent for a moment after recalling his past:

"But keeping such a dangerous animal on campus—"

"Professor Dumbledore... This basilisk is already in the safest state in my hands. Should I let it go? Or should I kill it? Although it has killed a person before, it was the mysterious man who ordered it, right?"

Adam looked at Professor Dumbledore sincerely, trying to awaken the love between Professor Dumbledore and his student:

"Besides that, all it has done since its birth is sleep in Hogwarts for nearly a thousand years - it's almost as old as Hogwarts and has witnessed the history of Hogwarts!"

Looking into Adam's eyes, although Legilimency gained nothing, Professor Dumbledore could see the pure love for magical creatures, which reminded him of an old friend.

If the other party were here, he would probably find a way to protect this snake monster...

And after all, Adam is just a student, a Hufflepuff, and the heir of Nicolas Flamel. He just saved the school. What bad intentions could he have?

Finally, Professor Dumbledore relented:

"Okay...but you have to ensure that no student will be injured by this basilisk's attack—even if they are petrified."

"Of course I can promise that, Professor."

Adam smiled and put away the basilisk jar, then looked at Professor Dumbledore:

"By the way, Professor, I read in a book that although you were not born with Parseltongue, you learned the language of snakes through acquired learning... Is that right?"

Professor Dumbledore blinked and understood what Adam wanted to do. But it must be said that this is actually a good idea... At least being able to communicate with the basilisk will only allow Adam to take better care of the basilisk.

After a little thought, Professor Dumbledore stretched out his hand, and a book on the bookshelf floated into Professor Dumbledore's hand:

"This is a book about snake language and merman language... I hope you can remember to return it to me after you have learned it."

"Of course~"

"Don't tell your classmates about what you said in the principal's office today. If they must ask, just say that I asked you to keep it a secret."

"No problem, Professor, but..."

Adam recalled for a moment:

"Harry seemed to have heard a lot as well."

"…I'll have Minerva tell him."

Professor Dumbledore sighed:

"Well, that's about it, finally..."

After a pause, Professor Dumbledore smiled:

"For dealing with the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets before anyone else met with misfortune—200 points for Hufflepuff!"

Adam was a little surprised, but found that he didn't need to be that surprised. It would be strange if Professor Dumbledore didn't give him extra points - although it seemed a bit stiff for Harry to give Gryffindor extra points at the end of each year, it had to be said that the things he did were indeed worthy of extra points.

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Otherwise, how could the other professors sit and watch Professor Dumbledore perform?

However, Professor Dumbledore's performance was not over yet:

"For solving the truth of that case - 50 points for Hufflepuff. On behalf of Myrtle and Hagrid, who was falsely accused, I thank you for your feat. It seems that there is a medal in the trophy room that needs to be cleared out."

"This is what I'm supposed to do, Professor."

Professor Dumbledore smiled and nodded:

"Don't forget to keep these things secret, and keep an eye on your little pet. Go."

After leaving the principal's office, Adam took stock of what he had gained today.

The first thing was to make the existence of the Clow Cards and his knowledge of the Horcruxes public, so that his spellcasting, which had been done without concealment, could be made more open and aboveboard, and he could also arrange to obtain the Ravenclaw Diadem from the Room of Requirement.

The second thing is about the basilisk. I got a book on learning snake language from Professor Dumbledore, and it also gave mermaid language as a bonus, which was an unexpected gain.

The last step is to test the magic of love cards.

"Sure enough, this love card that has been in effect is very powerful."

This is also the effect of the Love Card that Adam discovered accidentally: the Love Card can subtly influence the people around.

For people who have a certain emotional foundation with themselves, love cards are probably equivalent to a halo that rationalizes things, and the effect is proportional to the depth of emotion and the degree to which the other party is affected by emotional factors.

Even though it was such an outrageous thing as raising a basilisk in school, Professor Dumbledore actually agreed. It seems that Professor Dumbledore is really emotional.

Originally, Adam thought that at most he could make the old man waver. He was ready to sacrifice this basilisk. Now it seemed that another basilisk could be put into the pot. Should he make a basilisk soup or a dragon-phoenix fight?

Coming back to his senses from the delicious food, Adam turned his attention back to the love card. He has now discovered that the effect of the love card is more than just affecting the people around him.

Chapter 73 Lockhart Becomes Restless Again

In addition to influencing the people around him, Adam discovered that another ability of love cards is a bit magical...

How to say it, he wasn't really sure what this ability was used for, but the somewhat unreal figure with red hair and green eyes that he could see next to Harry should not be the effect of other Clow Cards, so after ruling them out, it must be the ability of the Love Card.

Because this is the only abnormality at the moment, Adam has no way of testing what exactly happened or what this ability is, so he can only put this question aside for the time being.