Chapter 882 Chicken-Body Snake-Tailed Monster
The fact that Anton taught the three apprentices also brought many good benefits to the hut, that is, finally a few reliable people gave advice to the 'Top 100 Competition'.
According to the original members of the cabin, Anton, George and Fred have always been referred to by others as the "three insane Weasley brothers".
Anna often maintains the appearance of a quiet and virtuous noble young woman, but friends who have become familiar with her know that this witch must be thinking about some weird magical machine ideas. The so-called quiet and dignified is just a state of wandering spirit.
As for Hannah, the big housekeeper of the hut, although she can sometimes offer good suggestions, most of the time, because she likes to weave stories, she always has some strange suggestions that are unrealistic and full of inexplicable romantic feelings. Like something like 'Maybe we should build a castle for the 'Top 100 Tournament', stuff a dragon in it, and let the warriors save the princess' or something like that.
The only reliable person in the hut belonged to Neville, but although this naive child was getting more and more mature, he preferred to follow the rules and follow the rules. According to Hannah, Neville's head has only plant fibers and no spirituality.
If Minister Fudge hadn't advised Anton to rely on the initiative to seize the initiative of the "Top 100 Tournament", Anton definitely hoped to leave this matter to Dumbledore or the Ministry of Magic, as long as he came forward to guide it.
It's fun to propose this event, and it's exciting to watch others fight to the death, but the preparations, planning, and all the other things in the middle seem so boring. According to Anton's urination, it is 100% possible to be the shopkeeper.
It was also until the last time that the hut started thinking about opening registration, and the suggestions of the hut members became more and more unreliable.
First Draco interjected, Hermione retorted unwillingly, and finally the partners from outside the cabin organization joined in.
Draco can always think about the operation mode of the wizarding society from a very high perspective. Ron, who upholds the old-school wizarding thinking, talks about ancient traditions. No matter what is mentioned, some historical cases can be given as a reference. Gore and Crabbe seem silly, but they can always say what they think is common sense but everyone does not know.
Even Dudley, a child from a Muggle family, seems to be able to think about some problems from a Muggle perspective better than Harry and Hermione, and give different solutions.
On the contrary, it was Harry, the unreliable player, who belonged to the kind of person who sat beside him and exclaimed, and then called "old iron 666" along with him.
"In fact, some dangers can be avoided!" Hermione quickly flipped through the notes in her hand, "It is recorded that in the Triwizard Tournament in 1792, the warriors wanted to capture a cockatrice. The cockatal suddenly Lost control, went on a rampage, and all three principals who were referees were injured."
"Cocktail?" George's eyes lit up suddenly, and he turned to look at Fred.
Fred's eyes lit up, "Sounds like fun!"
"Merlin's beard!" Ron wrinkled his face and looked at the two brothers, "What kind of disgusting animal is this?"
George shrugged. "Never heard of it before, but it sounds like a bird or snake?"
Fred shook his head, "Hey, there's a difference between a bird and a chicken, and they're not the same thing in Magizoology."
So everyone looked at Hermione, who also shook his head blankly when he saw Hermione, and then looked at Master Malfoy, who claimed to be knowledgeable, Draco also shook his head.
"It's a basilisk!" Seeing that everyone didn't know, Gore couldn't help being stunned, "Hey, Draco, don't you remember? There is this sculpture in the garden of Sister Sitaia's terrible castle. Were we still intimidated?"
Draco recalled for a moment, still shaking his head, "Damn it, I did forget."
Crabbes slobbered and added, "Draco, have you forgotten? That basilisk has eight oversized chicken legs!"
"!!!"
Those who understood this description, those who didn't understand, all frowned.
"It's a basilisk, not a basilisk." Anton walked in from the door with a smile, put a large jar in his hand in the corner of the hall on the second floor of the hut, clapped his hands, walked over and sat down beside Anna. next to the sofa.
"The earliest basilisk is a myth and legend, which belongs to the bedtime fairy tales in the eyes of ancient wizards. I think this legend first came from the mouth of a wizard like a prophet."
Seeing everyone's curiosity, Anton couldn't help talking about it, "A rooster lays an egg, a toad hatches, grows a body with a snake, and has the most powerful toxin in nature. The myths and legends of that era are limited to this level. "
"Since there is such a legend, generations of wizards will try their best to get it out. Undoubtedly, most of them have failed."
"The most successful one should be the ancient black wizard 'Helbo the Despicable'."
Harry froze for a moment, "Why call him despicable, what did he do?"
"Oh~" Ron called out, "Harry, don't interrupt."
Anton thought for a while, then shook his head, "I don't know, maybe the names of wizards in that era were like this, they liked to add prefixes in front of their own names, or his original name was 'Despicable Haierbo', maybe in There was no pejorative connotation in those days, who knew?"
Seeing that the building was led crookedly, George and Fred, who wanted to know the follow-up the most, kept urging.
"Anton, keep talking, don't pay attention to the name!"
Anton took the iced drink handed over by Anna with a smile, took a sip, and then continued, "This 'Despicable Haierbo' should be the most successful. He used the ideas of potions and ritual magic to make the snake Blame this monster that originally only existed in legends for being bred."
"A snake with a body bigger than a viper, with a cockscomb head, and its fangs are highly poisonous. It can kill people if they look at each other. Even if they don't look at each other, as long as they touch their eyes, they can turn people into petrification."
"Besides him, there are also other wizards' researches. Some other wizards have researched from the perspective of alchemy, and they have bred the cockatiel, which is more like the legendary basilisk than the basilisk bred by 'Despicable Haierbo'. "
"The same highly poisonous and deadly gaze, but smaller in size, and the power of the deadly gaze is not great, it can only harm insects and small mammals."
"The chickentail first hatches as a snake with the head of a rooster, oh, sometimes two heads."
"At this time its body is soft and covered with a lot of chicken feathers."
"As it grows, it will grow two pairs of chicken feet that look like side webs."
"After that, its forefoot will become extremely powerful, not only allowing them to swim extremely fast in the water, but also digging into the ground, and its claws are as flexible as human hands."
"Then they go into adulthood, and the hind feet start to develop, and they become huge, and they grow to be as big as half the length of their body. Its tail starts to shed hair, it grows a lot of snake scales, and it starts to grow chicken wings on its back. , looking like a big rooster with a snake's tail, at this time they have the ability to fly for a short time."
"Next, as they grow older, they will grow a pair of chicken feet every hundred years, and at the same time, it will become stronger and stronger."
"Crabbe says there are four pairs of chicken feet on the statue, which means the basilisk is over four hundred years old."
"The basilisks bred by the despicable Haierbo and the chicken-tailed snakes bred by the alchemists are completely different in their habits."
"The basilisk is huge in size, likes dark and humid places, and hates sunlight."
"The chicken-tailed snake tail is petite. It likes to live in the hills and forests on the sunny side. It often follows the water source to swim in the lake. It doesn't like dark caves."
"Of course, they all have one thing in common, which is that they are afraid of the crowing of roosters."
"Sometimes the rooster's crowing can kill them instantly."
"As for why I know so well..."
Anton raised his eyebrows, raised his hand slightly, pointed at a large vat in the corner, and hooked his fingers.
"Boom~"
The lid on the big vat flew up, twirled on the ground, clanged a few times, and finally fell flat on the ground.
"Quack quack..."
"I brought back one!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
Boom~
The big tank vibrated, as if some animal had woken up.
"Ah~~~"
The friends all screamed and ran towards the other side of the hall.
"Anton, are you crazy? Bringing this horrible monster to school!" Hermione screamed, pulling out Harry who was still still, and quickly pulled out the wand from the pocket of the wizard's robe with one hand.
George and Fred, who had looked excited just now, also screamed and backed away again and again, with fear on their faces.
"Will we be killed?" Crabbe and Goyle, who were still recalling the taste of delicious chicken legs just now, were almost crying.
Anton shrugged, "It's okay, it's okay, I tied a piece of cloth around its head, as long as it doesn't fall off and its eyes don't meet, nothing will happen."
"But……"
Ron pointed to the big vat behind Anton in horror. A big rooster's head poked out, shaking a piece of rag on his head. I don't know how Anton tied it. The piece of cloth obviously couldn't fall off. look.
"That cloth is going to fall!!!"
"Ah~~~"
Everyone screamed again.