Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"The Basilisk? But its real power lies in the fact that the person being watched will die on the spot, not petrified?"

Hearing Sherlock's words, Professor McGonagall said puzzled.

Sherlock pointed to the camera in Dumbledore's hands that had been completely burned out.

"The students who were attacked should not look directly into its eyes, but passed through something, like Colin through the camera, and Justin, who was attacked last, through the reflection of the puddles under his feet."

Dumbledore looked at him in admiration.

"Very keen observation Sherlock, I'm a little bit confused now. When you joined the Auror, why did those people say that it is not suitable for you to join the combat department."

He looked at the camera in his hand and said softly.

"It is very likely that the attacked creature is a basilisk, but the key to the question is not who the attacker is, but who opened it..."

The voice of his last sentence was a little low, and Sherlock and Professor McGonagall didn't understand exactly what he said.

Then Dumbledore shook his head.

"If it is really a basilisk, then the way to defeat it is also very simple, the roar of the rooster is deadly to it, I remember that Hagrid kept a lot of chickens, and they can be used as a defense preparation. "

However, things are not so simple.

Hagrid's chickens were strangled to death by someone overnight.

Obviously, for these natural enemies, the person who released the basilisk was well prepared.

But anyway, with Sherlock's reminder, Dumbledore and the school's professors were prepared in advance.

The rooster is not a precious magical creature. It can be bought everywhere. The dangers that are known are more convenient to deal with than the unknown, which also gives the knowledgeable professors confidence.

But the students have no such confidence.

For the sake of secrecy, they discovered that the creature that attacked the students was a basilisk, and did not inform any students.

So the little wizards are still afraid of the unknown danger.

All the little wizards from Muggle families are in danger, and even Neville, who is usually timid, turns pale day by day, and the horror and fear in his eyes cannot be concealed.

"What are you afraid of Neville? You are pure blood, the monster in the secret room will not target you."

Ron comforted after seeing the expression on Neville's face in the Gryffindor common room.

But his consolation didn't have any effect, Neville left the common room looking lost, looking in his direction, as if he was going to the library.

"His courage has always been so small, leave him alone." Harry said with a heavy heart, he was not in the mood to doubt Neville's unusual reaction now.

"Professor Forrest blessed Colin just yesterday, and then something happened to Colin today. It's definitely not a coincidence!"

Hermione also looked puzzled.

"But it is absolutely impossible for Professor Forrest to be the murderer. We discussed it before. He is a half-blood. The descendant of Slytherin must be pure blood, right?"

"It's not necessarily." Ron said solemnly, "Remember what I told you before, there are very few wizard families who can truly be called pure blood. If they don't marry Muggles, wizards Maybe it's already extinct. The family that Slytherin has passed down may have forgotten their ancestral identities in the middle. After all, the few pure-blood families in existence have never heard of anyone and Slytherin. relation."

The previous evidence that proved Sherlock's innocence was now overturned by Ron. At this time, Hermione was shocked to discover that, based on the current evidence, Professor Forrest was not at all less suspicious than Malfoy.

she stammered.

"But, I still don't believe that if Professor Forrest is really the murderer, and he really hates Muggle-born wizards so much, why is he willing to answer my questions for me? Although the tone of his speech It's cold and has a very general attitude towards people, but in fact we all know that Professor Forrest is a very good person. He even fought for Mr. Weasley and Malfoy's father in Diagon Alley. One."

Hermione's words weighed heavily on both Ron and Harry.

When they first met Sherlock, they didn't have a good impression of him because of his indifferent attitude.

But in the later contact, they found that the real Sherlock was not as indifferent as he appeared on the surface.

The real Sherlock is suave and gentle. Even to students who are not smart enough, he never speaks harshly. The class is humorous and interesting. In order to make them interested in Defense Against the Dark Arts, he even tried to change the character from the cartoon to be their teaching assistant.

Nearly half a semester of study and getting along with him now has made Harry and the others truly accept this professor. They can't imagine that Sherlock is really the murderer who wants to ruthlessly "clean up" the entire school. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

After the silence lasted for a long time, Harry suddenly said coldly.

"You said that Professor Sherlock is indeed not a murderer, but he is simply a crow's mouth?"

Hermione and Ron were stunned by his assumption that it was neither magical nor scientific.

"Harry, I know you don't want Professor Forrest to be a murderer, and neither do we, but you can't use such baseless words to cover up his suspicions, it's not good for other people. Be responsible for......"

"I'm not covering up, I'm serious!"

Harry interrupted Ron's words solemnly, and he carefully analyzed it for Ron from beginning to end.

"Do you remember the day when the school started, we drove a flying car to school, and we hit the beating willow and got injured?"

Ron was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"Of course I remember that, that willow tree seemed to have gone mad and wanted to kill us."

"Then we went to Madam Pomfrey for treatment and met Professor Forrest on the way back to the Gryffindor lounge. Do you remember what he said to us?"

"Said... He didn't want someone to ask for leave in his first class."

Ron was only impressed by this sentence, because at the time he and Harry were negotiating about making excuses for not going to class tomorrow, and he was caught by Sherlock.

Harry shook his head.

"It wasn't, what he said after seeing us was, 'I thought you could finally land safely. ""

Ron and Hermione looked stunned.

"What kind of evidence is this? Professor Forrest may have just said casually at the time, and the fact that we were injured was just a coincidence."