The Dark Lord's Guide to Employment at Hogwarts

"Click."

The door of the room was closed, like the sound of a heart breaking.

After leaving the Hog's Head Inn, Nagini did not stay in Hogsmeade for long. She turned and walked towards the Forbidden Forest outside the village.

Soon, Nagini arrived in front of the Forbidden Forest.

She carefully identified the direction and then walked into the dark forbidden forest...

She didn't know how long she walked before she stopped in front of a stone frog statue.

Nagini looked around and coughed twice, "Ahem... I'm here. Excuse me..."

Suddenly, the frog statue came to life and swallowed Nagini in one gulp!

Nagini felt dizzy and when she could see her surroundings clearly, she found herself in the fairy workshop where Levid had treated her before.

But now, there is not a single fairy to be seen in the entire fairy workshop.

A green figure was standing on a stone platform not far away with his back to him.

Nagini took a deep breath and walked towards the figure.

It was not until she walked behind the figure that Nagini realized that it was a young woman wearing a green robe, with long golden hair casually draped behind her.

"Is this a message you left for me?" Nagini asked.

"Yes." The woman turned, her green eyes fixed on Nagini. "When I helped Vader heal you, I left a message in your soul."

Nagini looked at the beautiful woman in front of her in surprise. She seemed a little unreal. Only then did she realize that the owner of this fairy workshop was actually the woman in front of her.

This woman looks very powerful... Nagini suddenly understood why Li Wei De had so many things. This woman must be the person behind Wei De!

"Thank you." Nagini expressed her gratitude sincerely.

Since this woman is the one behind Wade, she must have made great contributions to my treatment, so it would never be wrong to thank her first.

"You're welcome. I was just helping Vader."

"I wonder if you called me here because you want me to do something?" Nagini asked.

The other party would not call me here for no reason, so there must be something he wants me to do.

"I heard that you want to repay Wade and help him realize his dream?" the woman asked.

"It's not entirely for repayment. I really think his ideals are good..." Nagini smiled.

"But your current abilities are insufficient, Nagini. Vader's ideals cannot be realized peacefully. If you want to be of any help in the future, you will have much to learn."

Nagini felt a little ashamed. "I've never learned any magic before, so... I'm still pretty bad at it..."

"It's okay. You have great potential. It only takes a short time for you to become powerful... So, how about staying here for a while? I can make you stronger."

"Okay." Nagini agreed without hesitation. "So... what should I call you?"

The woman was stunned for a moment before she said, "I forgot my name... so you can call me whatever you want."

"Then...what did Vader call you?" Nagini asked puzzledly.

"He likes to call me senior..."

……

Hogwarts.

In the Potions professor's office.

Professor Slughorn looked delightedly at the parchment in his hands.

"Great... Very good! This is what should be taught in a moral education class! [...We should prioritize establishing the correct core values ​​of a wizarding society...] Wow, that's brilliant! Compared to this, all the material I taught in my previous moral education classes is pure bullshit!" He looked up at Levid in front of him, "You've really helped me a lot!"

"Don't say that, teacher. This is what I should do..." Li Weide smiled. "If there is no problem..."

"No problem, absolutely no problem!" Professor Slughorn said with a smile. "From now on, I'll leave the content of the Moral Education class to you!"

"I understand! I will try my best to organize the manuscript, and then you just need to read it in class." Li Weide said with a smile.

Professor Slughorn laughed so hard his belly shook.

"Hahaha, you little brat! I'm already starting to worry. When you graduate, where will I find another considerate student like you?"

"Then I will try my best to come back and become a professor after graduation?" Li Weide said with a smile.

"Ha! That's a deal! To be honest, you and Tom are my favorite students!"

"I'm honored, Sensei."

"Hey, you little brat..." Professor Slughorn was no fool either. He reacted at this point and said, "Tell me, what do you want to get from me this time?"

Li Weide said in surprise: "Teacher, you are wronging me. I have no purpose at all."

"Okay, okay. Don't I know you little brat?" Professor Slughorn raised his wand lightly, and a bottle of potion floated over from the shelf next to him and landed in front of Levid.

"This is a potion made from basilisk blood and venom. I'm giving it to you... It's truly miraculous that something so toxic can be brewed into the most effective healing potion. It's a pity that the ingredients are limited. It would be much better if there were more."

Li Weide took the potion bottle and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Teacher, the materials are indeed limited now...so why don't we make more materials?"

Professor Slughorn sat up straight after hearing this. "Wade, what evil plan are you planning, little fellow?"

"Teacher, don't forget that Tom also speaks Parseltongue. Since Slytherin can do it, why can't he?" Levid said softly.

Professor Slughorn's pupils shrank when he heard this. "This... this is dangerous... Vader."

"Of course it would be dangerous if we did it on our own, but... with your help, it wouldn't be so dangerous, right?"

Professor Slughorn pondered and said, "I need to think about this. Besides... raising a basilisk is not that simple... You bad boy, this is your real purpose, right?"

Chapter 259 The human heart is the most sinister thing in the world

Professor Slughorn was actually very tempted, even though breeding basilisks was a very troublesome task.

He had never seen a real basilisk before, but now, there was a living basilisk in front of him.

Therefore, he also tested out the magical medicinal properties of many materials on the basilisk.

With Professor Slughorn's level of potion skills, he has indeed developed several potion formulas with very good effects.

But unfortunately, there is only one basilisk at present, and the materials that can be used are limited.

In other words, once the materials are used up, the formulas he developed will lose their effectiveness...

There are also many potion formulas that have not yet been developed and cannot be released into the world due to lack of materials.

When I think about it this way, I really feel unwilling to accept it.

If the basilisk's materials were inexhaustible...

"But... raising a basilisk is extremely dangerous... the Ministry of Magic will never allow it." Professor Slughorn said helplessly.

When Levid heard him say this, he knew that Professor Slughorn was moved.

Otherwise, he would not consider how to legalize this matter.

"As long as we can prove that the basilisk can be controlled, this matter will be easy to handle," said Li Weide.

"Just relying on Tom's Parseltongue?" Professor Slughorn frowned. "Theoretically, it's possible... but Tom is too young. The Ministry of Magic won't allow it. Actually, if Tom were an adult now, I would have a chance to get the Ministry of Magic to allow it, although the chances are very slim... but now... how about waiting a few more years?"

Li Weide smiled and said, "Actually, I just want Tom to participate in the experiment of hatching the basilisk. I don't want him to be responsible for raising the basilisk forever."

"If the only way to control a basilisk is to use Tom's Parseltongue, then its keeping will never be legal."

"Because Parseltongue is so unique, if the scale of breeding gets bigger in the future, how can Tom manage it all by himself?"

"Even if he can manage it and nothing unexpected happens, what if Tom dies of old age? Or if Tom meets with an accident and dies young?"

"If there's no one else in the world who can speak Parseltongue, then no one will be able to take over his job. As a result, the so-called breeding farm will be completely ruined. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic will definitely not agree to this."

"Ha, then let Tom get married and have children, and then turn it into a family business!" Professor Slughorn joked.

Li Weide smiled and shook his head. "Teacher, I don't think Tom would be willing to raise a basilisk for the rest of his life."

"Haha, I know. Tom is an ambitious kid, and Parseltongue is just the least impressive of his many talents. It's such a waste of his talent to ask him to abandon everything else and focus on raising basilisks."

Professor Slughorn's tone also became serious.

"Besides, I just thought too simply. In fact, the Ministry of Magic will never allow something as dangerous as a basilisk to be in the hands of only one person."

Professor Slughorn looked up at Levid. "However, since you just said that you only wanted Tom to participate in the experiment, does that mean that after the experiment is successful, you have other ways to control the basilisk?"

"Of course there is, teacher." Li Weide smiled and said, "I wandered in the Forbidden Forest for so long before, and I didn't gain nothing. I found a ruined goblin camp inside, and I got something inside."

Levid said, placing a red collar in front of Professor Slughorn.

"Is this the thing goblins use to control magical creatures?" Professor Slughorn had seen a lot and recognized what it was at a glance.

"Hmm? No... this seems a little different."

Although Professor Slughorn was not well versed in alchemy, he could still tell that this thing was different from the ones used by goblins.

Professor Slughorn looked at Levid doubtfully.

"Yes, this is what I picked up." Li Weide took out another broken collar and put it on the table.

"Based on this collar, I made some improvements. After testing, the effect is very good."

Professor Slughorn picked up the two collars and compared them briefly. He knew that the magic runes on the red collar were much more complex than those on the broken one.

He looked at Li Weide in amazement. "You always surprise me, Weide... From the improved potion formula to the alchemical tools now... What's wrong with your brain? Others at your age are still worried about brewing a qualified living hell potion, but you have already achieved this level!"

If someone had told Professor Slughorn about such a young genius, he would have thought that the other person had drunk too much Firewhisky and was out of his mind.

But now, that young man was standing in front of him, and what he took out was indeed not fake!

This gave Professor Slughorn a sense of unreality...

"I'm actually not much smarter than other people. I'm just full of curiosity about the world." Li Weide said calmly.

"You are too modest, Vader..." Professor Slughorn didn't know what to say.

He has a photographic memory, extraordinary comprehension, and a seemingly endless capacity for innovation… and yet he claims to be no smarter than anyone else? How can anyone else survive?

Professor Slughorn calmed himself down, then continued, "Even if this thing can control other magical creatures, how do you know it can control a basilisk? A basilisk is not an ordinary magical creature."

"That's why I need Tom's help with the experiment." Li Weide smiled. "In the initial experiments, Tom's ability can provide us with a backup. To be honest, if it weren't for Tom's Parseltongue, I would never have thought of breeding basilisks."

Professor Slughorn understood what Levid meant, that is, if the collar could not control the basilisk, then there was still Tom's Parseltongue as a backup.

Then they continued to improve the collar until they could control the basilisk without the need for Parseltongue.

Thinking back to the glasses Dumbledore had given them when they were catching the basilisk, and with Tom's Parseltongue as a backup, Professor Slughorn suddenly felt that this might actually be possible.

However, the Ministry of Magic will not allow the breeding of basilisks unless it can prove that they can completely control them.

This way, the whole thing falls into a vicious circle.

To get permission, you must first provide evidence to prove that you can control the basilisk. To get evidence, you have to conduct experiments. However, experiments without permission are illegal...

In fact, Professor Slughorn had thought about secretly raising a basilisk.

However, if basilisk breeding is not allowed, then his potion formula cannot be submitted for review because the formula contains basilisk materials, and the source of the materials cannot be explained at all.

A potion made from a potion recipe that fails to pass review will be treated the same as the three-no potions sold in Knockturn Alley.

It’s fine to use it yourself, but it’s hard to sell it...

This was not the result Professor Slughorn had intended.

To put it nicely, he wanted these new special potions to benefit society.

To put it selfishly, he couldn't show his power in public with these potions, nor could he gain any benefit.

Even if we take a step back, basilisk breeding also requires funds. If there is no profit, such breeding industry will have no other meaning except consuming gold galleons.

In this case, even if you use basilisk materials to research and develop a powerful potion, it is still illegal...

Professor Slughorn frowned tightly. He really wanted to do it...

Because basilisks have rarely appeared in history, rare things are valuable, and products related to basilisks can definitely generate huge profits.

But...it's too difficult to legalize it, even he can't solve it.

Suddenly, Professor Slughorn saw that Levid still had a smile on his face.

"You look so confident... have you already figured out a solution?"

Li Weide smiled and said, "In fact, the most crucial point in the whole matter is how to explain the legal source of the basilisk materials. Therefore, we have to consider legalizing basilisk breeding from the beginning. Since the British Ministry of Magic is facing so many difficulties, we might as well keep it simple..."