Chapter 155 Nagini and Meredix Blood Curse

"Not entirely." Newt occasionally added a few strokes to the notebook with another quill, and said at the same time, "Some animals are easier to observe, and I will collect them in my box. In this case, I will ask you A professional painter helped me draw it.”

"However, the danger of the basilisk is still too high to seek help from an artist. Just use a sketch quill to draw a sketch."

He glanced at the basilisk's closed eyes and asked, "Can you let it open its eyes a little? I can close my eyes and let the sketch quill draw. It would be too much to just leave the image of the basilisk with its eyes closed." It’s not comprehensive anymore.”

"No problem." Dracula nodded and patted the basilisk's big head. "Open your eyes. I just want to ask you something."

At the mention of opening its eyes, the basilisk's huge body trembled visibly, and subconsciously shook its head.

"Hurry up, how can I use Legilimency to communicate with you if you don't open your eyes? I don't know how to talk like a snake!" Dracula urged.

"Wait, Professor Dracula..." Newt heard Dracula's words and couldn't help but ask, "You want to use Legilimency to communicate with the basilisk? Doesn't that mean you have to look at the basilisk?! "

"That's right." Dracula said matter-of-factly, "This is the only way I can think of to communicate with the basilisk."

Newt couldn't help but swallow.

Is this human language? Staring at a basilisk, is this something a human can think of?

Oh, Professor Dracula is a vampire, that's okay.

Newt pushed the notebook and quill floating in front of him forward, placed them in a suitable position for drawing, and then closed his eyes tightly.

The basilisk also opened its eyes under Dracula's coercion and inducement, and stared at Dracula's wine-red eyes with its big yellow eyes.

Dracula once again felt the feeling that his whole body became light, as if he had drunk too much wine, and something was grabbing his soul and pulling him out.

Of course, the basilisk's magic cannot really pull Dracula's soul out of his body like it did with Myrtle.

It can only consume the magic power in its body in vain, while transmitting everything it sees and hears in the Albanian forest to Dracula's magical eye child through the intersection of sight.

After a moment, Dracula looked away clearly.

After looking away, the basilisk quickly closed its eyes tightly, fearing that Dracula's eyes would look over again.

"It seems that you have been living quite well in this forest in Albania during this period!" Dracula raised the corners of his lips and said teasingly to the basilisk, "If you were to return to Hogwarts now, Are you unwilling to do so anymore?"

The basilisk shook its big head quickly, with rejection written all over its face.

The basilisk means whoever loves Hogwarts will return!

Ever since Slytherin left the snake alone in Hogwarts, it could only stay in the dark basement, relying on the sewers of Hogwarts that had not been cleaned for hundreds of years...

If there is not enough food, we can only catch some rats in the sewers to satisfy our hunger; if there is no clean water source, we can only drink the smelly water in the sewers and the sewage leaked from the basement. That is simply not something for snakes to drink!

The most outrageous thing is that even if the basilisk wants to fall into a deep sleep completely and use sleep to survive the difficult times of thousands of years, there will always be some ignorant heirs of the Gaunt family who open the secret room from time to time and disturb its sleep...

It would be fine if those descendants of Slytherins with evil intentions but no courage came to disturb it. At worst, they would have to sleep for a while and then catch up on their sleep after they left.

However, you might also meet a guy like Tom Riddle, who is both evil-hearted and courageous, and arranges for the basilisk to do this and that, and even causes it to accidentally kill a Hogwarts student. .

In the days after killing Myrtle, the entire basilisk was actually panicked.

Maybe it would be found by the then Principal Dippet, and then let it redeem Myrtle's life?

Not to mention that the Professor of Transfiguration at that time was still the most powerful wizard in the magic world. If you search carefully, it will only be a matter of time before you find the secret room left by Slytherin.

Fortunately, it may be because the transfiguration professor named Dumbledore was mainly focused on a dark wizard named Grindelwald and did not pay too much attention to the internal affairs of Hogwarts, so there was no Discover the existence of the basilisk.

Finally, when Dracula changed his living environment to the Albanian forest, the Basilisk immediately felt the difference.

There are towering trees everywhere, space for free activities, fresh air, sufficient food, abundant water, and a wide range of activities... After the Basilisk came here, it simply felt like it was in paradise!

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Its huge size has no natural enemies here. It can go wherever it wants, and there is also the viper Nagini, who also has advanced intelligence, to chat with it to relieve its boredom... This is much better than staying in the cramped and dirty Hogwarts. It’s so much better inside a dirty basement!

All in all, the basilisk definitely doesn't want to return to Hogwarts!

It glanced at Dracula warily and shrank back, silently thinking about how likely it would be to resist successfully if Dracula insisted on letting it return to Hogwarts...

Seeing the basilisk's performance, Dracula laughed and shook his head.

"Don't worry, I don't want you to return to Hogwarts either." He said, "If you were put together with the little wizards, Professor McGonagall, that old lady without a sense of humor, would not be the first one to let you go. I."

The basilisk breathed a sigh of relief and once again moved its big head towards him in a flattering manner.

"Speaking of which, where was the viper you met in the Albanian forest?" Dracula was a little curious that a guy like the basilisk could actually make friends, so he asked, "It was Nagini who ?"

"I just happened to invite a magizoologist today, so Mr. Scamander can take a look at what species your friend is... This is the first time I've heard of such a big viper."

In fact, Dracula was not only curious about the viper friend that the basilisk made. He had just discovered some news related to Voldemort during his Legilimency communication with the basilisk.

And all the news related to Voldemort involves the viper named Nagini.

Dracula wanted to see the viper with his own eyes, and then directly use Legilimency to obtain the information related to Voldemort from the viper's memory.

After all, no news about the Dark Lord had been heard for some time since Voldemort committed suicide in front of him.

The basilisk nodded its big head at Dracula.

Its huge body seemed too bloated even on this empty ground, so it could only coil up and turn in a circle, then reluctantly changed its direction and climbed into the dense trees.

"Professor Dracula, besides the basilisk, are there any other magical animals here that I haven't seen before?" Newt had already recorded the basilisk's physical characteristics in detail. He closed the book and asked Dracula expectantly. Gula asked.

"It doesn't have to be a magical animal, right?" Dracula recalled the image of the viper in the basilisk's memory and said with some uncertainty, "Maybe it's just a viper that has lived long enough and has undergone some mutations?"

"That viper seems to be no different from an ordinary viper, except that it is slightly larger and more intelligent."

"Actually, just the two differences in size and intelligence are already very different from normal vipers." Newt shook his head and said.

While he once again opened his notebook where he had recorded many magical animals and made full preparations, he explained to Dracula: "In fact, there are many magical animals in the magical world that are very similar to some species in the Muggle world."

"For example, the swallow-tailed dog is very similar to the Muggle Jack Russell hound, and the ball eagle is exactly the same in appearance as the extinct dodo bird in the Muggle world... But they are indeed xxx And xx level magical animals.”

"So those of us wizards who study magical animals usually do not judge animals as non-magical species because they are too similar to Muggle species." Newt introduced Dracula carefully.

"I understand." Dracula nodded understandingly, "You really made me gain a lot of knowledge today, Mr. Scamander."

The basilisk moved very quickly. Not long after Dracula and Newt had been chatting, it crawled over from the depths of the trees with a giant viper about twelve feet long.

Although for a snake, twelve feet is quite large, and its body is almost thicker than an adult's thigh.

But when compared with the fifty-foot-long basilisk, which was as thick as an oak trunk and nearly covered the sky, the viper seemed quite miniscule.

"Is this your new friend in this forest?" Dracula looked at this giant green viper with black markings curiously and asked.

The basilisk nodded its big head obediently and rolled sideways very consciously, allowing Nagini's figure to be fully displayed in front of Dracula and Newt.

"Mr. Scamander, come and see if this snake is a magical animal?" Dracula circled around Nagini, with light flowing in his eyes, observing with interest whether there were any magic fluctuations in its body. exist.

I don't know if the basilisk had explained to his viper friend the terror of the Count. Nagini was looked up and down carefully by Dracula, and she was so frightened that she trembled all over and didn't dare to move.

"It seems that there are indeed magic waves in this viper, although it is a little obscure." Dracula thoughtfully supported his chin with two fingers, "What do you think, Mr. Scamander? "

However, Newt didn't respond for a long time.

Dracula turned to look at Newt, only to find that he was motionless with his eyes wide open, looking at the viper Nagini who appeared from the bushes with a mixture of extreme surprise, astonishment and even some reminiscence.

"Mr. Scamander?" Dracula asked doubtfully.

"Professor Dracula, you just said...what is the name of this viper?" Newt took a deep breath, his tone trembling.

"Her? Can you tell the gender of a snake so quickly?" Dracula looked at Newt in surprise, "The viper's name should be Nagini, at least that's the name in the basilisk's memory. .”

"Is it really Nagini?" Newt murmured.

He suddenly opened the old-fashioned suitcase he had been carrying, and used the flying spell to summon a cowhide notebook that was very similar to the one floating in the air, but looked older.

Newt caught the cowhide book and began to rummage through the book in a rare sight.

"Wait a minute...Mr. Scamander, have you ever seen this viper?" Dracula looked at Newt's performance and raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Maybe this is a very rare snake. Species?"

"Wait a moment, Professor Dracula. I will explain it to you carefully in a moment." Newt hurriedly turned the leather notebook in his hand to the front page, "Found it!"

Dracula casually dodged and quietly appeared next to Newt, curiously looking at the page Newt turned to——

On the brown paper with obvious yellowing and wrinkles at the corners, two figures supporting each other and hugging each other are painted in a painting style that is far less mature than today.

There are two figures, a man and a woman. The man is a young man with an old-fashioned solitary head, a pale face, a reserved and dull expression; the woman is a beautiful Asian woman wearing a dark blue long skirt with complex patterns, and long black hair. Hair combed back.

A man and a woman are cuddling together. They are obviously a handsome man and a beautiful woman, but they seem to have a sense of desolation and helplessness.

"Do these two people have anything to do with the viper brought by the basilisk?" Dracula frowned slightly.

"Professor Dracula, look at this page." Newt turned back a few pages of the leather notebook.

On this page, which is also somewhat yellowed, Newt's painting ability has obviously improved a lot, and the images on the page are more realistic and detailed.

In this picture, the pale male young man from before is gone, leaving only the dark-haired woman still wearing a dark blue complex patterned dress, standing quietly on a lawn.

Judging from the layout of this lawn, it looks like the one near the Forbidden Forest in Hogwarts.

Just when Dracula was still puzzling over the relationship between this beautiful Asian woman and the viper Nagini, the image on the page suddenly moved——

The woman's irises suddenly expanded, and the whites of her eyes turned black in the blink of an eye. Then, she crossed her arms and her body suddenly fell backward. Her whole body seemed to have no bones, and her back was almost at a parallel angle to her thighs.

At the same time, the woman's two arms were quickly covered with scales, turning into snake-like bodies and wrapping around her upper body.

The next moment, the dark blue patterned dress suddenly changed. The patterns on the dress turned into speckled black stripes, and the dark blue color turned into green snake lins, wrapping the woman's body in an instant...

Within a few moments, a beautiful woman transformed into a giant viper that was thicker than an adult man's thigh and twelve feet long!

Dracula subconsciously turned his attention to the viper Nagini, who was lying beside the basilisk. He compared the patterns on the scales of the two and found that the two vipers were indeed exactly the same.

"Is this... the blood curse of Meredix?" Dracula said thoughtfully.

"Indeed." Newt sighed and nodded slightly, "During the Global Wizarding War, I met Nagini in a wizarding circus, and she was already under the Meredix blood curse. "

"Nagini was ordered by the circus leader to turn into a snake for the audience for a long time. She was almost treated like a sideshow monster. Fortunately, Credence later took her to escape."

"Credence is...?" Dracula asked.

"That's him." Newt turned the book back to the previous page and pointed out the reserved and dull young man to Dracula. "Actually, Credence should be named Aurelius Dumbledore. That’s right…”

"His surname is Dumbledore?!" Hearing Credence's surname, Dracula instantly became interested, "Does Dumbledore have an illegitimate child outside?"

He couldn't help but curl up the corner of his mouth, and was already thinking about how to tease the old principal when he returned to Hogwarts.

"I didn't expect that Dumbledore, even though he looks like a crooked man, is also so crooked in his behavior." Dracula said with an exaggerated grin on his face.

"Ahem, Credence is not Albus's child." Seeing that Dracula was thinking of something strange, Newt hurriedly explained, "He is Albus's younger brother. Dumbledore's child."

"So Dumbledore actually didn't have an illegitimate child?" Dracula's grin instantly retracted.

Newt nodded helplessly.

"It's boring." Dracula curled his lips, "Let's skip this point and continue talking about Nagini."

Dracula's sudden change of attitude made Newt smile bitterly.

He coughed twice and reluctantly followed Dracula's idea and continued to tell Nagini's story.

"Well... Credence was later seduced by Grindelwald and joined the Wiccan camp, so Nagini became alone." Newt recounted, "Later she came to Hog with us. Watts, come find Dumbledore."

"At that time, her Meredix Blood Curse was already quite serious. We tried to cure her...but because the Meredix Blood Curse was still too rare after all, Dumbledore was held back by Grindelwald for a long time. Stumble."

"We haven't found any way to recover her. We can only watch her transform into a snake and lose her humanity for longer and longer..."

"Later, Nagini probably didn't want us to suffer torture with her anymore, so she secretly left us alone. Later, until today, none of us have seen her again."

Newt sighed deeply, "I think she should have been hiding in this forest in Albania since then."

While listening to the story told by Newt, Dracula rested his chin on two fingers and thought quietly.

"It's a pity that old guy Nico didn't wake me up at that time." He said softly, "I have always been an expert in blood-related magic."

Of course, Dracula knew exactly why Nico Flamel didn't wake him up during the Global Wizarding War.

Because the camp Grindelwald belonged to at that time was not as lacking in style as dark wizards like Voldemort and Herbo...

Under such circumstances, he might choose to help Grindelwald and the Wiccan Party, and stand against Dumbledore and Newt.

How could he think of helping a Meledix whom he had never met before?

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