Chapter 110 The Disappearing Heir
Everyone present was relieved to see Dumbledore coming. With this recognized strongest white wizard here, the basilisk was completely vulnerable.
This was indeed the case. The basilisk was now tightly wrapped by countless stones. Its originally fierce struggle became less and less intense, and in the end it simply stopped moving.
But Dumbledore obviously didn't want to let it go. He pointed the elder wand at the basilisk, and saw that the stones wrapped around the basilisk began to shrink again. The force was so great that many stones were instantly turned into stone powder.
The basilisk, which had stopped moving, began to struggle violently again, but to no avail.
Gradually, bright red blood began to flow out of the cracks in the stones, and the basilisk's cry of pain began to become weaker, until it finally disappeared.
When Dumbledore put down his wand, the basilisk's entire body had been squeezed to pieces and was unrecognizable.
Mike and others watched Dumbledore display his power, and they all dared not breathe. It took a long time for him and his companions to barely knock off a little bit of snake scales, but Dumbledore crushed the basilisk to death like a bug. The strongest white wizard was indeed worthy of his reputation.
Dumbledore looked at the dazed crowd and explained again: "I'm sorry, I'm late. I didn't expect you to find the basilisk so quickly. In order to solve the petrification caused by the basilisk, I went to France to visit an old friend and got some mandrake, so it took some time."
Abbott and others looked at each other in silence, only Mike frowned slightly and sneered in his heart.
Mandrake is very valuable, and there are immature mandrakes in Hogwarts. That is to say, as long as you wait for a while, you can use free mandrakes without spending money to buy them.
It seems that this strongest white wizard really loves his savior, Mr. Little, and in order to let him recover and return to school as soon as possible, he made a special trip to France to get some mandrakes back.
At this time, more and more Aurors came from the pipes at the beginning. They all gasped when they saw the basilisk on the ground, which was like a puddle of mud. After being surprised, they cast admiring eyes at Dumbledore.
When Dumbledore saw that almost everyone had arrived, he said, "Leave half of the people to take care of the wounded, and the rest of you can continue to explore with me. Remember to stay alert. Although the basilisk has been eliminated, there is still a Slytherin heir who has not been found."
The Aurors at the scene had no objection to Dumbledore taking over the command, and they followed Dumbledore's buttocks and continued to move forward.
Mike did not follow to explore Slytherin's secret room because he consumed too much magic power in the previous battle. Looking at the white-robed wizard walking in front of many Aurors, Mike also had a little enlightenment in his heart.
This is the meaning of being strong. The weak need to stick together, and the strong only need to continue to improve themselves. As long as you are strong enough, wealth, power, fame or women will come to you uninvited. This is the biggest difference between the idealistic world of wizard society and the materialistic Muggle society.
Of course, it is not easy to do this. Looking at the history of the wizarding world in the past hundred years, there are only three people who have really done this, Dumbledore, Grindelwald and Voldemort.
"Mike, I am so grateful to you. If it weren't for you just now, I might...maybe..." Abbot said to Mike sincerely.
Mike, who was thinking, was interrupted by Abbot's sudden appearance, but he was not annoyed. He smiled and said, "Friends don't need to say thank you. In that case, it was just a piece of cake for me to save you. Don't take it to heart."
Abbot was still very nervous at this time. The scene of the basilisk opening its bloody mouth and biting him just now gave him a great shock. Although he was born in an Auror family and his father was the deputy director of the Auror Office, he had undergone a lot of training under the influence of his family since he was a child, but the first time he encountered such a situation still made him feel uneasy for a long time.
He stretched out his trembling hand and scratched his hair, and said to Mike: "You are right, I am unfamiliar with you. You are my friend, my best friend."
Mike looked at Abbott who messed up his neat slicked-back hairstyle, and couldn't help laughing. He gently patted Abbott's arm and continued to comfort him.
Of course, he could see that Abbott was very grateful to him at this time and wanted to repay him. He estimated that even if he made any excessive demands, the other party would satisfy him. But from the long-term interests, it is obviously better to be friends with the other party.
Abbott obviously understood what Mike meant and did not continue to ask for repayment.
The two chatted like this, and Abbott's mood gradually returned to normal, and he became the elegant and polite gentleman again, but the messy hairstyle on his head still made Mike want to laugh.
Dumbledore soon came back with the Auror team. Although they found Slytherin's secret room, they found nothing.
Mike was not surprised by this. Now the whole Hogwarts was firmly controlled by the Aurors, and the heir had no chance to run out and continue to give orders to the basilisk.
Although the heir of Slytherin was not caught, everyone's faces were still filled with smiles. The basilisk was their target this time. Compared with the harm of the basilisk, the heir of Slytherin, an underage wizard who had not yet graduated, was obviously not worth mentioning.
Leaving a few Aurors to deal with the body of the basilisk, Dumbledore took Mike and others back to Hogwarts Castle through the pipe.
When they came to the hall and announced that the basilisk had been eliminated, the young wizards who had been looking forward to it all cheered, and the sound was so loud that it almost overturned the magic ceiling of the hall.
The returning people were treated like heroes. Originally, Mike should have stayed in the hall to enjoy this glorious moment that belonged to him, but at this time there was a more important thing waiting for him to do.
In the special ward of the infirmary, Mike was nervously watching Madam Pomfrey applying medicine to Penelope. Thanks to Harry, Penelope was finally freed from her petrified state. Fortunately, Dumbledore bought Penelope's medicine when he went to buy medicine for Harry. If he only bought the medicine Harry needed, Michael guaranteed that he would never let him suffer in the next few years.
The light yellow liquid flowed into Penelope's slightly opened mouth, and soon Penelope's body became soft again. The originally stiff and twisted posture also became normal.
Michael, who noticed this, hurriedly squeezed in. Madam Pomfrey saw his anxious look and smiled and shook her head. Madam Pomfrey picked up her medicine box and left the ward, leaving the rest of the time to the boy and girl.