Alchemy Black Technology at Hogwarts

Chapter 105 Big Fish Project
To William's surprise, Dumbledore readily agreed to cooperate with him even though he hesitated after listening carefully to his plan to capture and industrialize the basilisk.

"You mean, I need to tell the students to avoid using these bathrooms for a few days and put a spell on them?"

Dumbledore looked at the thick stack of plans for the castle's plumbing, which he was already trying to understand as best he could - but to be honest, the subject seemed a bit out of the blue for him.

Since defeating Grindelwald, Dumbledore has been keeping an eye on the world of ordinary people.

But whether he can understand current affairs news and weekly magazines, or defeat the Dark Lord, it doesn't mean he can also understand the whole set of water supply and drainage blueprints.

Even William himself finally understood these things after repeatedly reading the detailed explanation recordings and graphic annotations of the architect Mr. Anderson.

"That's right, the pipes connected to these bathrooms are the first batch of pipes in Hogwarts Castle, which is the batch supervised by Kvinus Gaunt. We need to reduce the water level in the secret room as much as possible. .”

William took out another blueprint that was pressed underneath, and pointed to the shaded area.

Compared with the drawings at the back of the book "Hogwarts Castle Piping System Planning Scheme and Drawings", this drawing looks newer, with a more detailed composition and higher precision.

It's from a recent plumbing remodel.

Although there are only two times in history.

"Hogwarts Castle has always been supplied with water from the Black Lake, but in terms of drainage, only those pipes built in the early days will converge into the passage of the Chamber of Secrets, while the new pipes have another drainage channel."

The reason for this is simple.

With the continuous inbreeding of the Gaunt family, the prodigal sons of the past generations have lost their fortunes, most of the wealth left by Slytherin has been lost, and the position of the school board has naturally changed hands.

The Slytherin Chamber of Secrets went from secret to legend.

"Then suppose you successfully lowered the water level in the chamber, what should you do next?"

Dumbledore asked a question.

"That's naturally casting bait."

William proudly presented the powerful sleeping potion.

"Professor Snape helped to improve its formula. You only need to stuff a small half of the bottle into the meat and eat it, and you can make the three-headed dog sleep for a long time. Even if you attack it with ordinary spells, it will not wake up." .”

He explained.

William spent the whole afternoon repeatedly teaching Dumbledore various details and contingency plans in the plan, just to minimize the possibility of mistakes.

Now it's finally time to execute.

William, Penello, Jimmy, and the two Weasleys all went to the prefect's bathroom on the sixth floor of the castle.It is hidden behind the fourth door to the left of the statue of Stupid Boris, and the decoration inside is simply shockingly luxurious.

A sumptuous candle-lit chandelier cast a warm soft light on the room, and everything was made of snow-white marble, including the central bath, which was sunken into the ground, like a rectangular swimming pool.

There were about a hundred golden faucets on the side of the bath, each with a gem of a different color set in the handle.There is also a diving board.There were snow-white linen curtains on the windows, and a large pile of fluffy white towels stood in one corner.

Only one picture hung on the wall, in a gilt frame.It depicts a blond mermaid sleeping soundly on a rock, her long hair brushing her face, trembling slightly with every breath she takes.

But what doesn't match such a luxurious decoration at all is this ridiculously large bathtub.

Its bottom has become bare, and a huge hole has been roughly dug out, exposing the extremely deep and spacious pipes inside.

"Presumably, after Gunter remodeled the castle's plumbing system, the first place he went to build it was this room."

William guessed that this extremely luxurious bathroom would undoubtedly satisfy Gaunt's pride as a descendant of Slytherin.

"Pfft" sounded softly.

The house elf Lalo appeared in front of him.

"Mr. Buffalo, Mr. Porter said, he had heard the snoring from the big fish, and heard it quite clearly."

He reported after bowing to William.

After obtaining Dumbledore's consent and cooperation, they waited for a few more days, and the water level in the pipe had been reduced to a very low level.

Harry, who could understand the words of the basilisk, was arranged by William in a corner underground in the castle—judging from the straight-line distance, it was the closest room to the Chamber of Secrets.If Harry could hear the basilisk's voice there, he could be sure that the basilisk hadn't left the Chamber of Secrets.

"let's start."

William nodded to everyone in the bathroom, and they took out their wands and held them in their hands.

He then pulled out of his bag a very large bag full of buttons, "Verto", and with a flick of his wand, William turned as many buttons as he could into mice, as did the others.

It didn't take long before the floor of the bathroom was full of gray-black mice—it's just that these mice were all bald, and had button-like eyes. There was no light in their eyes, and they kept screaming scream.

"Professor McGonagall will definitely be pissed off when she sees it. She has been asking us to do every detail well, so as to ensure that the deformed things are alive, not like this. Monsters."

Penello said in a low voice, she hesitated for a moment, trying to find an appropriate adjective.

"But before that, we will all be turned into talking black-haired mice by her." Jimmy shuddered, as if thinking of some horrible scene.

They waved their magic wands, drove all the scalp-numbing rats into the pipe, and waited quietly.The deep and dark pipe was like a huge mouth, swallowing them all clean.

The mice were given only very simple commands.

Run forward, screaming desperately.

They are responsible for waking the basilisk.

After a while, William suddenly felt that the connection between himself and one of the mice conjured through the transfiguration technique was broken, followed by the second, and the third. Many mice "died" at the same time Lost.

"My mouse is dead!"

Penello said excitedly.

"mine too."

Fred was the second to raise his hand.

"And mine."

Then George, and Jimmy.

They were lucky. After only waiting for such a short time, a large number of rats died-this shows that the basilisk is not far from the exit of this pipe, and the sleep is not too deep.

"Lalo, put down the bait!"

William began to execute the next step of the plan.

The house-elves threw the chunks of meat as thick as a human arm that had been prepared and sprinkled with fresh pig's blood down the pipe.

In addition to mixing some blood into the powerful sleeping potion, William also glued a button-turned mouse on the surface of each piece of meat.

Lalo went back to Harry's side.

Among the five major exceptions to Gamp's basic law of transformation, the number one is food - no matter how clever the transformation technique is, no matter how powerful a wizard is, it is impossible to conjure real food out of thin air.

I ate it, but I didn't seem to eat it.

"The awakened basilisk will definitely not feel any satiety after eating those mice. If the basilisk smells the smell of blood at this time, it will definitely not be able to resist eating these pieces of meat."

William recalled the steps of the plan.

This is a crucial step.

He waited quietly.

"coming!"

William keenly felt that the connection between him and one of the rats tied to the meat block was suddenly broken.Almost just a minute or two later, the other rats on the piece of meat disappeared.

The basilisk could not wait to swallow all the meat.

It must be starving.

William still vaguely remembered the description of the Chamber of Secrets in the original book, where there was a mountain made of rat bones - in the past few hundred years, perhaps since the Gaunt family fell, the basilisk has hardly eaten anything decent .

It can only have fun smashing hapless mice.

"Next, you just need to wait quietly for the sleeping potion to take effect. It takes 10 minutes for the three-headed dog Lu Wei, but it should take at least the same or even longer time for the basilisk."

William made an "OK" gesture, indicating that other people with him could temporarily relax their nerves.

At this stage of the plan, more than half of it has been successful-the most difficult part of this is to ensure that the basilisk will not wander in other pipelines.

"Fishing a basilisk isn't really that difficult, is it?"

Fred and George clapped hands.

"Like grabbing a goblin and throwing it out of the garden, wow!"

He compared the action of a strong man throwing a Frisbee.

"I really want to go down now and see what the legendary Slytherin's chamber of secrets looks like—but I think besides the basilisk, it should also hide some other secrets?"

Penello said curiously.

Unlike Jimmy, who was pulled in as a reliable acquaintance, she participated in William's plan almost all the way, whether it was preparing potions or studying Hogwarts' pipeline drawings.

Her learning ability is very strong, and because she is also an ordinary person, she can quickly get started in many aspects without William explaining too much.

"Who wouldn't? Come to think of it, one of the Big Four thousands of years ago, Salazar Slytherin himself left the Chamber of Secrets. I dare say that even the Dark Lord himself couldn't help but want to go in and take a look around. of."

Jimmy pulled his tone.

"Maybe the Dark Lord himself has seen the Chamber of Secrets? 50 years ago, the Chamber of Secrets was once opened. At that time, a girl died from the basilisk."

William patted Jimmy on the shoulder.

Everyone knows the title of the Dark Lord, and most people know that the Dark Lord calls himself "Voldemort", but only a few people have heard of Voldemort's real name, "Tom Marvolo Riddle".

Marvolo Gaunt is the descendant of Voldemort's grandfather, Slytherin.

(End of this chapter)