Chapter 84 83. Conspiracy
"Tears of the phoenix? These are rare items, and ordinary shops don't have them."
The eyes of the old man became deep, he looked at the air in front of him, and said the set code word.
Jon took off the invisibility cloak from his body, and met the eyes of this old man who had the same blue pupils as Dumbledore.
After he showed his figure, Aberforth pulled him into the bar, then he poked his head out and looked around, and after making sure that no one saw Jon, he went back to the bar at the same time Close the store door from the inside.
"Are there any customers in your store today?"
Jon looked at the messy environment around him, and couldn't help wrinkling his nose and asking.
"There are very few people staying here. After all, the price I want is too high and the conditions are not as good as the Three Brooms bar at the other end. It's the same tonight, no one comes."
Aberforth stared closely at Jon while talking, his expression was like seeing a ghost.
"Before coming to Hogwarts Castle, Albus told you that I live here?"
Jon took out the note with the pig's head drawn on it from his pocket.
"Isn't it the message you left me?"
"Yes, I saw the message you wanted to contact me, but Albus told me you were just a kid who just started the second grade. Even if he would choose you to infiltrate that castle, it would be enough to prove that you are different from ordinary people, I thought You will find a way to find me, but I don't think a twelve-year-old child can find my shop so quickly with only one emblem."
Aberforth stared into Jon's eyes, as if waiting for him to give him a reasonable answer.
"Before I entered Hogwarts Castle, I had already learned about all the shops in the small town of Hogsmeade through newspapers." Jon shrugged and said, "The shops related to pig heads are the only one in the entire wizarding world. .”
"Then how did you get out?"
"I found a magical map of Hogwarts Castle there, with secret passages leading to the outside marked on the map, and the exit of one of the secret passages is under the cellar of the Honeydukes Candy Store."
Hearing Jon's explanation, Aberforth couldn't help but frowned while heaved a sigh of relief.
"It's still too dangerous. The people in that castle have been checking the secret passages leading to the outside world. One of the secret passages leading to the Shrieking Shack under the Whomping Willow was blocked by them. You The current one is not necessarily without the risk of being discovered."
"No way, I have to contact you directly for some things, otherwise the things Dumbledore asked me to help will not go on." Jon looked at Aberforth, although he knew his name and he was Dumbledore Lido's own brother still blinked and asked, "What should I call you?"
"Percival." He said his unknown middle name, which is also his current surname.
"Mr. Percival."
Aberforth interrupted him: "Don't call me Mr., just call Percival. If you need any help, you can bring it to me directly. No matter whether Albus asked me before, I will do my best." help you."
Jon didn't worry too much about the address, he said seriously.
"Okay, Percival, I need a chicken."
Jon had to repeat it again.
"Chicken, rooster, preferably a rooster that is more energetic and likes to crow."
Aberforth heard it right this time, and he looked at Jon puzzled.
"What do you want a **** for?"
"There is a basilisk guarding the door of the principal's office. If I don't get rid of it, I won't be able to get in. The thing that Professor Dumbledore asked me to get is probably inside the principal's office."
After hearing the name Basilisk, Aberforth's expression became extremely serious.
"Have you seen the basilisk already?"
Jon nodded.
"I saw its body, but didn't look directly into its eyes."
"Nonsense! If you saw its eyes, you would never see me again."
Aberforth stood up from the chair a little anxiously, he stepped on the greasy floor, paced back and forth and said.
"If you want to use a rooster to solve the basilisk, this is indeed the most convenient and concise way, but things are not that simple."
Although Jon has read the original book and learned many unknown things, he never feels that he is much better than these people in the original book. No matter how much he knows, no older wizard has experience in dealing with related matters.
"Isn't the rooster's crowing deadly to the basilisk?"
"It's deadly, yes, but the basilisk is not so weak that it will die as soon as it hears the **** crow." Aberforth explained to Jon, "The longer the basilisk lives, the more it will be to the chicken. The higher the resistance to the song, although listening to it for a long time will still cause them to die in pain, but they will also have time to escape or hold on to kill the rooster.”
"Your ultimate goal is not to kill the basilisk, but to solve it and then steal something in the principal's office. If the snake escapes, or violently resists or even attracts the attention of other people by the crowing of the rooster, then you The mission will still fail."
Jon has long thought of countermeasures for this.
"So I didn't plan to deal with the basilisk on a normal day. On Christmas Day, most of the students will go home, and the remaining students and all the staff will also participate in the Christmas ceremony on the first floor that night. Dinner."
His words made Aberforth stop, and he looked at Jon with bright eyes.
"No wonder Albus chose you to do it, when I knew he actually had a twelve-year-old kid spying on me, I even wanted to poke my wand into his brain to see what was in there." It’s not that it’s turned into a mess, now it seems that his brain is still as useful as ever.”
Jon didn't care about Aberforth's compliment, he continued.
"The principal's office is on the eighth floor. The Christmas dinner will be held in the auditorium on the first floor. Everyone who stays in the castle will attend. This is my only chance. I must catch the snake before the dinner is over." Strange to kill."
"I can help you find a rooster that crows almost all the time as long as it can open its mouth," Aberforth promises, "but you can't just use the rooster's help before you make sure the snake is completely killed by the crowing , you have to think of a way to keep it and prevent it from escaping, or force yourself to kill the rooster."
Jon looked up at him, as if he heard what he meant.
"Is there anything you can teach me, Percival."
(end of this chapter)