Chapter 203: A Fat Panda, I, Wayne Lawrence, Don’T Raise Idlers
After not seeing each other for two months, Tuantuan has now truly become a group.
After being taken out of the box, Tuantuan was still confused.
It wasn't until the little eyes saw Wayne that he let out a yelp, rolled into a ball at his feet and hugged his thighs.
"so cute!"
The black and white color scheme, voluptuous figure and short legs instantly captured the heart of Qiu's girl.
This is a national treasure over there. For a Chinese like Qiu, there is no way he can resist the charm of the panda.
If Newt and Aberforth weren't still there, she wouldn't be able to help but pounce on them.
Aberforth was also surprised and said: "You actually got it?"
Before, Wayne suddenly asked him to stop looking for the iron-eating beast, and he thought Wayne had given up.
Unexpectedly, it has been successful.
"The Bock family helped." Wayne said with a smile. He squatted down and touched the lump of body. It was full of thick fat. With a little force, there were waves of flesh.
"Ouch!" Tuantuan yelled in dissatisfaction.
"You're still shouting, you're so fat and you're not afraid of getting sick." Wayne cursed with a smile, took out his box and let it get into it.
As a result, when the box was of normal size, the lumps could not be stuffed into it at all.
Wayne could only temporarily expand the opening, and Gardevoir helped pull it inside before taking the 'little guy' home.
"You usually feed me too well." Wayne couldn't help complaining.
"You have to ask Tina for this, don't rely on me." Newt sighed: "The iron-eating beast is so spoiled. Every time I want it to exercise more, it runs to Tina."
"Just act cute, and Tina will give it everything."
"Not to mention exercise, I have to eat a lot of snacks every day, and over time I can't control it anymore."
Hearing this, Qiu couldn't help but chuckle behind her.
This iron-eating beast looks silly, but I didn't expect it to be a clever little kid.
Wayne told her that Tina holds the throne of the Scamander family, so it's no wonder she's so fat.
"You know how to act coquettishly, right?" The young man sneered: "It's okay, I will educate this little guy well."
Tuantuan, who was trying to please Gardevoir and Nagini in the suitcase, trembled and his hair stood on end. He looked around vigilantly, but found nothing.
Poor Tuantuan has no idea that his future life will not be so comfortable.
Wayne has a lot of experience in helping magical animals lose weight, just ask Jerry.
After dealing with Tuantuan's placement issues, Newt did not leave immediately.
He also had many questions for Wayne when he came this time.
"I heard that Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets was opened. Is this true?"
There were a lot of rumors outside, and although Newt didn't often interact with others, he had heard about it.
However, the rumors became more and more outrageous, and Newt remained skeptical.
"It's true." Wayne nodded: "A few students have been attacked, but their lives are not in danger.
"Just wait until the mandrake matures and use the resurrection potion to lift the petrified state."
"I came out secretly this time."
"I hope Dumbledore can solve it as soon as possible." Newt looked even more worried than Wayne.
"Tina also knows these things and is now planning to send Luo to Ilvermorny to study.
"He feels that Dumbledore is getting worse every year and can't even manage the school well."
Aberforth, who was wiping the wine glass with a dirty rag, paused and said seriously: "Let Tina come over for a drink another day. She and I have the same idea."
"Aberforth, he is your height after all."
Newt smiled bitterly, he also knew the grudges and grudges between the two brothers.
But it is really rare for someone who is over a hundred years old to still hold a grudge.
"Yes, because he is my brother." Aberforth put down the cup: "So I hope he lives well, but I think Minerva is more suitable for the position of principal."
"When it comes to the ability to instruct others, no one in this world can match him. Minerva has been the vice principal for so long and it's time for her to become a full-time employee. This is what she deserves.
Just as Newt was about to say something, a voice came from outside the door first.
"Maybe that's the principal's job? To put everyone in the right position."
"But you are right, Minerva is indeed more suitable than me. It is not impossible for her to be the principal and I to be the vice principal."
Hearing this voice, Qiu's little face turned pale.
Wayne also twitched the corner of his mouth, quickly hugged the girl and comforted her softly, then turned around.
"Principal, what a coincidence, I meet you here."
"I'm very surprised too, Mr. Lawrence." Dumbledore walked briskly to Newt's side and winked at Wayne.
"I didn't expect to see you anywhere other than the Great Hall and the Hufflepuff Lounge."
"Oh, and Miss Zhang too."
"Let me think about it, what is Minerva's punishment standard?"
Qiu was so frightened by Dumbledore's words that her eyes were red. If Ravenclaw had all her points deducted and the Quidditch Cup canceled because of her...
"Professor, please stop teasing Qiu." Wayne looked at the old man dissatisfied.
Even if you take a big risk and slip out of the castle, it's all for the school!"
"Sorry, what?" The old man couldn't believe his ears.
"Didn't you see?" Wayne pointed at Newt, "Senior Newt is the expert I specially invited. Is there anyone in the world who knows more about magical animals than him?"
"Didn't Professor Lockhart say that there is a monster hidden in the secret room? If you don't ask him, who would you ask?"
Aberforth and Newt looked at the boy with dumbfounded eyes.
Even those involved believed this.
"I see..." Dumbledore's emotions were incoherent. He just wanted to tease Wayne.
But when the other party said this, he felt a little embarrassed.
"So Newt, did you find anything?" Lao Deng turned his head.
"Um...uh..." Newt was at a loss. Seeing Wayne wink at him desperately, it took him a while to say a complete sentence.
"We just finished eating, and you came before we had much conversation."
"And Wayne knows too little information. Please tell me again in detail."
"That's fine." Dumbledore nodded and told him all the information he knew.
This lasted for half an hour, and Wayne was already so sleepy that he almost fell asleep, his head spinning slowly.
"Petrified..."
Newt frowned and thought, magical animals with the ability to petrify do exist.
He knew of several kinds, but the only one with such a powerful effect was the legendary Medusa of the Aegean Sea.
That is, the 5X-level Gorgon in reality.
But Medusa's petrification is closer to transfiguration, which truly turns people into stone.
Rather than the symptoms described by Dumbledore, it was like the soul and consciousness were frozen, but the body was intact.
"Gorgons..." Newt's eyebrows moved, feeling that he had caught something.
"Albus, please tell me about the scene where several people were attacked. Don't miss the surrounding details."
Dumbledore patiently repeated it again, and finally invited: "You can come to my office and use the pensieve to look at it a few times. It may be more helpful.
"No..."
Newt shook his head slowly: "Water stains, ghosts, smooth walls... I think I already know what the monster in the secret room is, but I can't guarantee it. It's just a reasonable guess."
Qiu was shocked and sat up straight, waking up Wayne who was sleeping next to her.
The two Dumbledore brothers also stared at Newt closely, and Old Deng couldn't help but urge: "Newt, don't be so cautious, just say what you think."
"Albus, do you know about basilisks?"
Dumbledore's pupils shrank suddenly and he murmured in a low voice: "The basilisk..."
"The basilisk can turn people to stone?" Aberforth frowned and said, "I have never heard of this saying. Doesn't it mean that you will die directly if you look at it?"
"That's why Newt emphasized water stains, ghosts, and walls.
Dumbledore tapped his fingers on the bar: "Yes, Mrs. Norris looked at the basilisk through the wall, and Mr. Smith saw the reflection in the pool."
"Crabbe and Goyle, it was Sir Barrow's body that saved their lives. Barrow was the only one who really faced the basilisk. But he is a ghost and cannot die, so he is in a strange situation."
The old man's eyes became extremely bright.
"Newt, as expected of you, you discovered the most critical problem with only the smallest clues."
"Don't say that, Dumbledore." Newt waved his hands in embarrassment and said modestly: "Just like Wayne said, this is just my expertise."
"Thanks also to the ideas provided by your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."
"Well, you're right" Dumbledore nodded.
"Gilderoy did play a big role, but it's a pity..." After saying this, Dumbledore shook his head and sighed again.
"He was the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets?" Seeing the change in Dumbledore's expression, Aberforth said scornfully:
"Look who you are looking for. Are they helping the Dharma Realm to clear out the Dark Wizarding District?"
"No, he shouldn't be the one who opened the Chamber of Secrets." Dumbledore shook his head: "But he has other secrets. Please forgive me for not being able to tell them now. We are currently in the stage of collecting evidence."
"I'm too lazy to care about your nonsense, you're just acting like a bastard every day."
Aberforth snorted, picked up the wine glass and walked into the kitchen.
"Professor." Wayne stretched and said, "There is a basilisk hidden in the school. This is a dereliction of duty on your part."
"You can't say that." Lao Deng made a rare excuse for himself, "After all, it is the founder's arm, so it is normal that I can't find it."
"Mr. Lawrence, the existence of the basilisk is also a threat to your friends. Is there any way you can find the secret room as soon as possible?"
"Newt, tell me what you think too."
When it comes to handling magical animals, Hufflepuff's wizards are the experts, and Newt is the strongest one.
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"Rooster." Newt said concisely: "I don't have any clues to find the secret room, but what the basilisk fears most is the crowing of roosters."
Qiu suddenly thought of something and exclaimed: "Hagrid's cocks..."
"That's right." Dumbledore said regretfully, "It seems we have wronged Mr. Weasley.
"The phoenix can also be considered the nemesis of the basilisk. The basilisk's strongest petrification ability has no effect on the phoenix." Wayne also added.
"That's a good idea."
The few people discussed for a while, and Newt introduced some of the living habits of the basilisk and how to deal with them. They left after about an hour.
Before leaving, Wayne handed him a letter to Tina.
"Professor, after helping you so much, you shouldn't punish me and Qiu, right?"
"Of course not." Dumbledore smiled: "But please be careful, I don't want Severus to say that I prefer other houses again.
"We're leaving now." Wayne summoned Phoenix King.
The secret passage was one-way, so he and Qiu could only apparate back.
"That's right." Dumbledore suddenly said: "If I remember correctly, every Saturday night is your time to make up lessons for Harry and Mr. Malfoy."
"I have already told several professors that you can come out, but you must send the two of them back to the dormitory."
"Okay, I understand." Wayne nodded and disappeared into the distance with Qiu.
In the evening, it was still the familiar classroom.
Malfoy's mental state was very bad, and the petrification of Crabbe and Goyle was a big blow to him.
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He had always thought that pure blood was absolutely safe, but reality told him that was not the case.
It was Crabbe and Goyle who were attacked today, and it might be Malfoy tomorrow.
He also wrote a letter to his father, but Lucius Malfoy did not reveal anything to him.
Just ask him to be more honest these days and don't run out alone. Snape will take good care of him.
Seeing Malfoy's listless look, Harry had no intention of mocking him.
In the past few days, the professors were discussing the cancellation of this year's Quidditch, which made him and the other Gryffindor players quite uneasy.
Wood even took every opportunity to escort the little wizard to Transfiguration class to plead with Professor McGonagall, but it seemed to have the opposite effect.
"Today's training is about actual combat." Both of them were silent before Wayne finally spoke.
He pushed his hands to both sides, and the classroom space began to extend, expanding tenfold in the blink of an eye. The emptied tables and chairs flew to Wayne's side.
With a wave of the magic wand, the tables and chairs began to transform, turning into thick pythons six or seven meters long.
Being stared at by dozens of pythons, Harry and Malfoy were so frightened that they backed away and leaned closely together.
Harry looked at Malfoy: "Aren't you a Slytherin? Why are you afraid of snakes?"
"Nonsense!" Malfoy's teeth were chattering, "We are not afraid of our own snakes, but we are afraid of eating our own snakes!"
"These snakes are vegetarian, so your life is not in danger." Wayne said lazily: "But it is inevitable that a bite will leave some blood and shed some flesh.
"No matter what method you use, if you eliminate these snakes, today's mission will be considered completed."
As soon as the voice fell, dozens of pythons rushed forward hissingly.
Harry and Malfoy yelled, and the first thing they did was not to fight back, but to run away.
While running, he fired magic spells backwards randomly.
Stun spell, repel spell, disarming spell, whatever comes to mind, use it.
Looking at the two people who were cooperating tacitly, Wayne frowned and controlled the python to forcefully separate the two people and rush them in two different directions.
"Don't come here! Don't come here! Go after him!"
Harry saw most of them coming towards him, and he screamed anxiously. Suddenly, his voice became extremely hoarse, and his words also turned into a hiss.
Malfoy felt goosebumps rising on his skin. When he turned around, the pythons that were originally following Harry's butt all turned around and I got on top of him.
"Parseltongue!" Malfoy screamed: "Potter, you are actually a Parseltongue!"
"What are you talking about?" Harry looked at him blankly and his voice became normal again.
Snapped!
With a few crisp explosions, the group of pythons turned into tables and chairs again and flew to the side.
Wayne walked over and looked at Harry thoughtfully: "You can't tell, Harry, you really hide everything."
Harry was even more confused: "What on earth are you talking about?"
Wayne pursed his lips, "Malfoy, explain it to him."
Today he deliberately forced Harry to reveal his Parseltongue ability. By connecting all the clues and necessary conditions together, the risk of the secret room being exposed would be greater.
He wanted to take the initiative to push Tom and see how far he could go.
If it fails, what awaits Tom will only be a ball of fierce fire, or a snake's fang full of venom.
He, Wayne Lawrence, is not a man of leisure. .