The day before Valentine's Day, Hogwarts was filled with a restless youthful atmosphere, and the whole school became lively.

Among the young wizards, various tips for confessing love began to circulate, from the way and place of confession - under the mistletoe was the most popular, to what clothes to wear when confessing love, a set of rhetoric was sorted out.

Even a batch of inferior love potions suddenly appeared, and several professors severely put several students in confinement to stop this trend.

So the young wizards' attention shifted to the star students of each college. They began to discuss which wizard was more handsome and which witch was more beautiful...

Some of the popular ones even had fixed admirers, such as Cedric Diggory of Hufflepuff. He was very popular to begin with, and his talent shown in several dueling classes made his fame quickly expand to other grades and colleges.

Harry has also been a little distressed recently. With the double bonus of the savior halo and the school's special contribution award, his fame has always remained high. Especially after the basilisk corpse was displayed in the school, everyone's fear of the basilisk also turned into awe of Harry, Ron and Hermione.

But this awe was more obvious in Harry, because only he showed a strong fighting talent - his disarming spell even surpassed many senior students.

This made him gain a group of admirers from the lower grades.

"Harry, there are a few girls looking at you over there, can't you take care of them?" Hermione said irritably. Harry

looked at a group of first-year girls in the corner of the library and felt very helpless. They were very bold and stared at him directly. When he looked over, they hid their faces behind the books and laughed "chuckle". Ginny was doing homework

not far away, and occasionally glanced at Harry while flipping through the books.

Not long after, Harry's troubles were solved by himself. The librarian Madam Pince waved her wand and drove away all the noisy girls.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

Ron was a little envious, because the people who loved to listen to his stories were all boys, and the enthusiasm of the stories was gradually fading.

When the three of them walked out of the library, they began to discuss the new professor.

"I wonder what the new professor is like. I hope it's not Lockhart and Quirrell again..." Ron said with lingering fear. These two left a huge psychological shadow on him.

"I can also learn something from the dueling class." Harry didn't care much. The course he was most satisfied with this year was the dueling class, but it was a pity that it only happened twice a month. "Harry

, the dueling class is different from the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The Defense Against the Dark Arts teaches you to resist danger, and fighting is just a way to resist danger." Hermione said: "In fact, Snape's theory is quite in line with the requirements of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

Ron looked at her in shock, as if she had said something shocking.

"Oh~ Don't be like that, I'm just making an objective evaluation." Hermione said.

Harry didn't say anything. What he opposed was not Snape's view on dueling, but him as a person.

On this point, the two of them had a tacit understanding. He didn't like Snape, and Snape didn't like him either.

So he changed the subject and said, "Are there any rumors about the new professor? Don't talk about the dwarfs..."

As they were talking, a dwarf walked past them with a gloomy face - after Dumbledore agreed to the dwarfs' Valentine's Day performance, they brought the entire team, a total of twelve.

These green-skinned short men walked around the school, becoming a unique landscape in February this year.

Harry was very glad that they didn't usually wear golden wings and carry harps.

The three of them watched the dwarf disappear from their sight, and Hermione replied to his previous question: "The new professor is Damocles Belby, a potion master, who has just been awarded the Order of Merlin for inventing the Wolfsbane Potion."

"Potion Master? Wolfsbane Potion?" Harry asked puzzled.

"The Order of Merlin? The thing Lockhart showed off?" Ron said with disgust.

The little witch first said to Harry: "Wolfsbane potion is a new potion invented this year. It can keep werewolves awake when they transform into a full moon--" Then she looked at Ron and said, "Professor Belby received a second-class medal, which is different from Lockhart's."

Harry nodded.

"How do you know so much?" Ron asked curiously.

"I asked Professor Hepp. He is a good friend of the new professor, and it was he who recommended the new professor to Dumbledore." The little witch said.

Ron smacked his lips and said, "Then why did he recommend his friend to come? I mean... the curse?"

Hermione shook her head. She couldn't understand Professor Hepp's behavior.

Privately, she actually thought that Professor Hepp was inconsiderate. But she still refuted Ron and said, "The new professor is only teaching for half a semester. I think he may not think it is dangerous." She said with some confidence.

Ron muttered, "That is dangerous too."

It was not until the evening that their doubts were answered to some extent in the common room.

Ginny said unnaturally, "Luna's mother died in a magical accident. She told me that if you want to study something new, you will inevitably encounter various dangers..."

"...Unless you do nothing."

Ancient Rune Office.

Felix sorted out his harvest. He used the weekend to divide the materials of the basilisk with Snape.

Other professors were not very interested in this, except Kettleburn and Hagrid who came to see it several times.

Professor Kettleburn's attitude was the purest. He said with regret, "If you can raise it...I mean, you have to be fully prepared."

In view of the professor's exaggerated experience, Felix was deeply skeptical about this.

Hagrid's attitude was more complicated. His big hand stroked the scales on the basilisk, and said with a little sadness, "I was expelled because of it. It wasn't long after my father died. He loved me so much...It was really a dark day."

He wiped his tears with a dirty handkerchief and told Felix about his sad story.

But soon, before Felix could think of words of comfort, Hagrid adjusted himself. He looked at the basilisk's fangs and big empty eyes and said, "What a fascinating creature, isn't it?"

...

In front of Felix was the green snake skin, the scales separated from its body, and a dozen fangs.

These are the results of the treatment. The original scales of the snake skin cannot be peeled off. Like most snakes, the so-called scales are actually the product of the accumulation of the snake's surface skin and keratin.

But under the effect of magic, everything is not a problem. He easily separated the scales and keratin from the snake skin.

The basilisk has extremely strong magic resistance. By horizontal analogy, it can be compared with a fire dragon. Even if a spell is cast on thick scales, it may only cause a small pit.

He considered making a close-fitting soft armor so that ordinary spells will not work on him at all.

As for the scales, Felix has not figured out how to deal with them yet - this thing is full of magical inertia.

He can only hope that Professor Snape can develop the use of the basilisk scales, and it would be best to turn it into a rare alternative material for potions.