Half a month after the Basilisk's first attack, another victim appeared on the second night after a Quidditch match.
Kewen was practicing spells in the 'House of Requirement' when suddenly a 'Guardian Messenger' rushed in, threw a note to him and disappeared.
Spread out the note, there is only one word on it—infirmary.
Seeing this, Ke Wen put away his wand, turned around and left the practice room, and rushed all the way to the infirmary.
It didn't take long to come to the infirmary. Inside, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were whispering around a hospital bed.
Ke Wen looked at the hospital bed, then turned his head to look at another hospital bed with someone lying on it.
Combined with the information in memory, Ke Wen understood the situation.
At this moment, Dumbledore saw Cowen at the door, so he raised his hand to beckon.
When Ke Wen came close, Dumbledore asked in a low voice: "Son, do you still have mature 'Mandrakes'?"
Professor McGonagall added worriedly from the side: "As you have seen, Colin Creevey was also attacked and petrified like Mrs. Norris."
Ke Wen shook his head: "No more, the 'Mandrake' was the only one I bought."
Professor McGonagall was very disappointed when he heard the words, and sighed: "It should be so. After all, the 'Mandrake' is too dangerous, and not many people outside will cultivate it."
"Then we can only wait." Dumbledore looked down at the petrified Colin Creevey, and said softly, "But the 'Mandrake' in the academy may not mature into medicine until the end of the day."
"What should we do now?" Professor McGonagall asked Dumbledore helplessly.
Dumbledore turned his head slightly after hearing this, and looked at Harry, who was injured and hospitalized because of the Quidditch match, on the hospital bed in the distance.
Slightly raising the volume, Dumbledore said: "Tell all the staff the truth, the academy is no longer safe, just as we feared, the secret room has indeed been opened again."
Hearing this, Professor McGonagall was even more worried.
Without staying long, everyone quickly left the infirmary.
Professor McGonagall left first to make some arrangements, while Dumbledore greeted Cowen and returned to the principal's office together.
Facing Ke Wen alone, Dumbledore showed some worried emotions. After sitting down, he made a cup of milk tea for Ke Wen, and then asked, "Son, do you have any idea of adaptation?"
"Indeed." Ke Wen nodded in response.
Dumbledore couldn't help being taken aback, he just mentioned it helplessly, but he didn't expect that Ke Wen could really provide him with some surprises.
Regardless of whether Kewen's idea was useful or not, Dumbledore quickly sat up straight and urged, "What is it?"
"I have observed the changes in the academy recently."
Ke Wen held the cup of milk tea and didn't drink it. He said directly: "Recently, the spiders in the castle have been fleeing. Even if they need to face the severe cold weather outside, they must escape from the castle."
"Also." Cowen continued: "I heard that Mr. Hagrid also had some problems. The roosters he raised have been constantly mutilated."
Upon hearing this, Dumbledore began to consider the information provided by Cowen, but unfortunately, he couldn't get any results for a while.
Seeing this, Ke Wen reminded: "You know my memory, so these two situations are related to the content of a book."
"Which book?" Dumbledore gave up thinking and asked directly, "What is it?"
"The Natural History of Greece."
As Cowen spoke, he took out his wand and waved it in the air.
Immediately, a small piece of phantom light appeared, and finally formed a scene, showing the contents of a page of books.
"The Basilisk..." Dumbledore murmured in astonishment after reading what Cowen projected.
The next moment, Dumbledore came back to his senses, and then successfully connected all the situations together.
"So that's how it is... that's how it is!"
With a 'shua', he got up suddenly, and after pacing back and forth a few times, Dumbledore happily said with all his worries gone: "Very good boy! Thank you! You have really helped us a lot!"
Very impatient, Dumbledore, who learned the details, planned to leave overnight to prepare some things.
Therefore, after explaining a few words to Ke Wen hastily, he left the academy through the fireplace in the principal's room.
The next day, Cowen did not see Dumbledore for the whole day.
It wasn't until the dinner that Dumbledore reappeared, and his expression looked much more relaxed.
…
The weekend two days later was Dumbledore's one-on-one tutoring time with Cowen.
Ke Wen was taken aback when he entered the principal's office, because there was something extra in this office that he was already very familiar with.
It was a bird stand, and on it stood an ugly phoenix, looking sickly as if suffering from a serious illness.
At this time, Dumbledore, who heard Ke Wen's greeting, appeared on the second floor. After seeing Ke Wen's strange eyes, he said with a smile, "That's Fox."
"fox?"
Because Dumbledore was far upstairs, and his pronunciation was a bit vague, Cowen couldn't hear it clearly.
"It's Fox."
Dumbledore repeated with a smirk.
This time, Kewen heard it clearly, and then he suddenly smiled and said, "Is this a phoenix or a phoenix from the east?"
"It's the phoenix." Dumbledore walked down the stairs and said apologetically when he came to the phoenix: "It's almost the time of rebirth, but I have to disturb it and ask him to come to the academy to help."
Cowen nodded understandingly.
Although the dragons and phoenixes in the wizarding world today are not mythical creatures, they still belong to the apex of the category of magical creatures.
Although Ke Wen didn't want to admit that the Fox in front of him was a phoenix, there was no problem using it to suppress the basilisk.
Then the two chatted for a while, and then Dumbledore started teaching...
In the days that followed, except for Dumbledore and Cowen, the others still seemed anxious.
Dumbledore was well prepared, but he didn't tell anyone else about it.
Cowen asked why.
Dumbledore's answer was that what he really wanted to hide was not the professor in the academy, but someone else, who was preparing to fish, and took advantage of the crisis of the academy to catch a big fish.
Combined with the memory of the plot in his mind, Ke Wen suddenly realized that what Dumbledore was going to deal with was the Malfoy family, one of the school's trustees.
The reason why there will be a basilisk in the academy this year is all because of Lucius Malfoy.
It was the other party who secretly slipped the notebook of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley, before school started.
After that, the remnant soul in the Horcrux bewitched and controlled Ginny, thus opening the secret room in the castle and releasing the basilisk...
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