Chapter 140 Phoenix

Half a month after the Basilisk's first attack, another victim showed up the night after a Quidditch match.

Kewen was practicing magic spells in the 'House of Requirement' when suddenly a 'patron messenger' rushed in, threw a note to him and disappeared.

Spread out the note, there is only one word on it - infirmary.

Seeing this, Kewen put away his wand, turned and left the practice room, rushing all the way to the infirmary.

It didn't take long to come to the infirmary. Inside, Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were whispering beside a hospital bed.

Kewen looked at the hospital bed, then turned to look at the other hospital bed where someone was lying.

Combining the information in his memory, Kewen understood the situation.

At this time, Dumbledore saw Kewen at the door, so he raised his hand and beckoned.

Dumbledore asked in a low voice when Kewen approached, "Son, do you still have a mature Mandrake in your place?"

Professor McGonagall added worriedly: "You also saw that Colin Creevey was also attacked and petrified like Mrs. Norris."

Kewen shook his head: "No, the 'Mandela grass' was the only one I bought before."

Professor McGonagall was very disappointed when he heard the words and sighed: "It should be the same. After all, 'Mandela grass' is too dangerous, and not many people in the outside world will cultivate it."

"Then we can only wait." Dumbledore looked down at the petrified Colin Creevey and said softly, "But the 'Mandelagrass' in the academy may not be mature until the end of the period."

"What shall we do now?" Professor McGonagall asked Dumbledore somewhat helplessly.

After hearing this, Dumbledore turned his head slightly and looked at Harry, who was injured and hospitalized due to a Quidditch match on the hospital bed in the distance.

Raising the volume slightly, Dumbledore said: "Tell all the staff the truth, the Academy is no longer safe, and as we feared, the Chamber of Secrets has indeed been opened again."

Hearing this, Professor McGonagall was even more worried.

After not staying much, everyone quickly left the infirmary.

Professor McGonagall left to make some arrangements, and Dumbledore greeted Kewen and returned to the principal's office together.

Facing Cowen alone, Dumbledore showed some worried emotions. After sitting down, he made Cowen a cup of milk tea, and then asked, "Son, do you have any ideas for adaptation?"

"Indeed." Kewen nodded in response.

Dumbledore couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He just mentioned it helplessly and casually. He didn't expect Cowen to actually provide him with some surprises.

Regardless of whether Kewen's idea was useful or not, Dumbledore quickly sat up and urged, "What is it?"

"I have recently observed changes in the academy."

Kewen held the milk tea cup and didn't drink it, and said directly: "Recently, the spiders in the castle are fleeing. Even if they have to face the severe cold weather outside, they must escape from the castle."

"Also." Kewan continued, "I heard that something happened to Mr. Hagrid. The roosters he kept were constantly being mutilated."

After hearing this, Dumbledore began to consider the information provided by Kewen, but unfortunately, he could not come up with any results for a while.

Seeing this, Kewen reminded: "You know my memory, so both cases are related to the content of a book."

"Which book?" Dumbledore gave up thinking and asked directly, "What's the content?"

"Greek Natural History."

Kewen said, took out his wand and swayed it in the air.

Immediately, a small piece of phantom brilliance appeared, and finally formed a scene showing the contents of a page of books.

"The Basilisk..." Dumbledore murmured in surprise after reading the content projected by Kewen.

The next moment, Dumbledore came back to his senses, and then he successfully connected all the situations.

"So it is... so it is!"

"Shh" suddenly got up, and after pacing back and forth a few times, Dumbledore said happily: "Very good boy! Thank you! You really helped us a lot!"

Very impatient, Dumbledore, who learned the details, planned to leave overnight to prepare something.

Therefore, after some hasty explanations to Kewen, he left the academy through the fireplace in the principal's room.

The next day, Cowen did not see Dumbledore all day.

Dumbledore didn't reappear until the dinner party, and his expression seemed much more relaxed.

...

The weekend two days later belonged to Dumbledore's one-on-one tutoring time with Cowen.

Kewen was stunned when he entered the principal's office, because there was one more thing in the office that he was already very familiar with.

It was a bird stand with an ugly phoenix standing on it, looking like he was suffering from a serious illness.

At this time, Dumbledore, who heard Kewen's greeting, appeared on the second floor. After seeing Kewen's strange eyes, he said with a smile, "That's Fox."

"fox?"

Because Dumbledore was far upstairs, and the pronunciation was a little vague, Cowen couldn't understand a little.

"It's Fox."

Dumbledore repeated with a laugh.

This time, Kewen heard it clearly, and suddenly smiled and said, "Is this a phoenix or a phoenix from the east?"

"It's the phoenix." Dumbledore walked down the stairs and said apologetically when he came to the side of the phoenix: "It's approaching the moment of rebirth, but I have to disturb it and ask him to come to the academy to help."

Kewen nodded understandingly.

Although the dragons and phoenixes in the magical world today are not mythical creatures, their personalities in the magical creature category are still apex.

Although Cowen didn't want to admit that the Fox in front of him was a phoenix, there was no problem with using it to suppress the basilisk.

Then the two chatted for a while, and then Dumbledore began to teach...

In the days that followed, except for Dumbledore and Cowan, everyone else still seemed uneasy.

Dumbledore was quite prepared, but he didn't tell anyone else about it.

Cowan asked why.

Dumbledore's answer was that what he really wanted to hide was not the professor in the academy, but someone else. He was preparing to go fishing, taking advantage of this college crisis to catch a big fish.

Combining the memory of the plot in his mind, Kewen suddenly realized that what Dumbledore had to deal with was the Malfoy family, one of the directors of the academy.

The reason why there will be basilisks in the academy this year is all because of Lucius Malfoy.

It was the other side who secretly stuffed the notebook of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes to Ron's sister Ginny Weasley before school started.

After that, the remnant soul in the Horcrux bewitched and controlled Ginny, thus opening the secret room in the castle and releasing the basilisk...