Harry Potter: New World Chapter 93 - 93

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After discovering the corpse of an unknown man in the Chamber of Secrets, I didn't do anything hasty. If it wasn't Pettigrew as the rat in the first place, then in his place, I would have thrown soone else. Since, is it any wonder that the "brave Gryffindors" decided to bury the not-so-nice beastie? Well, or hide it? But, on second thought, even in that situation, if I were Pettigrew, I'd run the hell out of the castle, especially if he suspects Black of trying to get to his traitorous body. Anyway, looking for Pettigrew now is a rotten thing. I can only bla myself for my hasty decision and my indifferent attitude toward the rat.

However, the rat was not the only reason I went down to the Chamber of Secrets. The basilisk was the main target. To my delight, the basilisk carcass was still lying in the Chamber of Secrets' main hall. The carcass looked as if it had been killed literally five minutes ago, and only a huge puddle of coagulated and slightly cracked blood beneath the basilisk told otherwise. I got tools and a bag with a wide neck with great joy, but as soon as I ca close to the carcass, joy faded - how to cut this thing at all? My knowledge about skinning a snake is simply inappropriate here - the snake is small and soft, and the skin of this creature is dense and hard like a wall, thick, and its size. I also rembered the strange effect of the poison - Lucius's lted head. Although this could be caused by the combined effects of the sword and poison, it is better to conduct an experint.

Examination of the corpse's mouth showed that the venom had definitely oozed from the fangs for so ti. There were traces of spilled venom under the mouth and on the lower jaw. However, the floor's stone was only slightly lted, and the traces looked like acid exposure, and the jaw was intact. I cut through the flesh under the scales with a special knife, which was a couple of centiters in size, but it did not matter. I went under the scales with the knife, punctured the skin, and cut out so at. Transfigured a long needle, poked a piece on it, and rubbed it against its fang. The poison clearly got on the at, and there were even traces of it, but there was no effect. I materialized a sword, poked the piece of at with it - no effect. But experints are needed.

The next day, Sunday, I looked into the kitchen to the house-elves and asked: "Are there any rodents in the castle?" The answer was yes, but the house-elves assured that they instantly catch pests along with spiders. I asked them to catch a couple and was about to leave, but they gave four rats almost imdiately. Not wasting ti, but not forgetting the invisibility charms in my haste, I got to the secret room again and conducted an experint. I rubbed a live rat against a basilisk's fang. It writhed for a long ti and died. The second rat's head was twisted off by myself, though I did not want to - traumatic childhood mories of my past life: then, long ago, I nailed a rat with a brick, but not hard enough, and it was alive, but could not survive. I rember this stupid feeling from the look of a twitching broken rat - it seed necessary to finish off, but there was nothing. Was I really that cruel back then? This ti I got it right.

I poked a rat at a basilisk's fang and placed it on the floor, noticing how the corpse began to rapidly lt into a skeleton. I poked the third rat with the materialized sword of the Spirit. Well, I didn't pierce it. I scratched it. Like the first, this rat writhed for a long ti before deciding to die but was unhard. I killed the fourth rat by unscrewing its head again and poking it with my sword - the rat was lted to the bone.

I cut off a piece of at from a basilisk and poked it with my sword - nothing. That's good. With ordinary hand tools, I can swarm around in a giant basilisk carcass, which is a little less than my height in width, until the end of next year, and given a certain inertness to the magical effects of this carcass... In general, I will cut with a sword, especially since it copes well with the skin. Although, again, the term "easy" here is used only in comparison with other slashing tools.

Based on the experint results, I decided, just in case, not to cut out fangs with glands yet, though I certainly want to get this substance first. But first, I decided to carve the rest of the carcass.

But no matter how I tried to approach the matter, nothing worked. In the end, I simply ran my sword around the base of the head, cutting off the head. I could not remove the whole skin, as I should do with a snake, even with magic-I simply could not reproduce such a powerful effort. So I made the commander's decision to make cross cuts in rings and remove them in pieces from the longitudinal incision on the abdon. And this should take a lot of ti because a basilisk, being not only magical but also an artificially bred creature, does not spoil, rot and decompose - neither bacteria, nor worms, nor anything else likes it.