Chapter 155: Chapter 155 Nagini and the Meredith Blood Spell.
"Not all." Newt occasionally added a few strokes to his book with another quill while speaking, "Some animals are less difficult to observe and I will have a collection in my case. In this case I will ask a professional artist to draw them for me."
"But the danger of the snake monster is still too high to go to a painter for help, just a sketch with a quick feather brush is about right."
He glanced at the snake monster's tightly closed eyes and opened his mouth to inquire, "Can you get it to open its eyes a little? I can close my eyes and let the sketching feather pen do the drawing. Leaving just the image of the snake monster with its eyes closed would be too incomplete."
"No problem." Dracula nodded and casually patted the snake monster's large head, "Open your eyes, I just happen to have to ask you something."
At the mention of opening his eyes, the snake monster's huge body physically shivered and subconsciously shook his head.
"Hurry up, how am I supposed to communicate with you using Regard and Fetch Thoughts if you don't open your eyes? It's not like I know the old snake accent!" Dracula urged.
"Wait, Professor Dracula ...," Newt heard Dracula's words and didn't hold back to open his mouth to inquire, "You're going to communicate with the snake monster using Regency Nimbus? Wouldn't that be looking at the snake monster?!"
"That's right." Dracula said rightfully, "This is the only way I can think of to communicate with a snake monster."
Newt couldn't help but gulp.
Was this speaking human language? Staring into the eyes of a snake monster, is this an operation that a human could come up with?
Oh, Professor Dracula is a vampire, that's okay then.
Newt pushed the book and quill that were floating in front of him forward, placing them in the right position for drawing, and then closed his eyes tightly.
The snake monster also opened its eyes at Dracula's coercion, glaring into Dracula's burgundy-eyed child with its large yellow eyes.
Dracula once again felt that sensation of his entire body becoming light and airy, as if he had drunk too much wine, and something was grabbing his soul and pulling it outward.
Of course, the snake monster's magic couldn't really yank Dracula's soul out of his body like it had yanked Myrtle in the first place.
It could only consume the magic power in its body for nothing while transmitting what it saw and heard in the Albanian forest to Dracula's magical eye child through the meeting of sight.
After a moment, Dracula moved his eyes away in realization.
After removing his line of sight, the snake monster hastily closed his eyes tightly, fearing that Dracula's eyes would once again look over.
"It seems that during this period of time, you've been living quite nourishingly in this forest in Albania!" Dracula hooked up the corner of his mouth and teasingly said to the snake monster, "Now if I let you return to Hogwarts, are you unwilling instead?"
The snake monster quickly shook up its big head one by one, with refusal written all over its face.
The snake monster stated that this Hogwarts would return to whoever it liked!
Ever since Slytherin left it alone at Hogwarts, it could only stay in the dark basement, relying on Hogwarts' sewers that hadn't been cleaned in hundreds of years. ...
Without enough food, it can only go to catch some rats in the sewers to barely satisfy its hunger; without a clean water source, it can only go to drink the stinky water in the sewers and the sewage leaking down from the basement, which is simply not something for snakes to drink!
The most outrageous thing is, even if the snake monster wants to completely fall into a deep sleep, with sleep to get through the thousands of years of hard time, the result is always some do not know the high ground of the Gunter family heir to open the secret room from time to time, to disturb its sleep ...
If those who have the heart of a thief without the courage of the descendants of the Slytherin to disturb it, even if, the big deal is to sleep less for a while, and so on the people left and then make up for sleep.
However, it is possible to come across the kind of Tom Riddle, who has both the heart of a thief and the courage of a thief, arranging for the snake monster to do this and that, and even causing it to accidentally kill a Hogwarts student.
In the days after killing Myrtle, in fact, the snake monster's whole snake was panicked.
Maybe it would be found by then-Principal Dippet and made to atone for Myrtle's life?
Not to mention the fact that the then Professor of Transfiguration was also the most powerful arch wizard in the magical world, so it would only be a matter of time before it found the secret room left behind by Slytherin if it was seriously searched for.
Fortunately, probably because that Professor of Transfiguration named Dumbledore's main focus was on a dark wizard named Grindelwald, and didn't pay too much attention to the things inside Hogwarts, so he didn't find the existence of the snake monster.
Finally, when Dracula changed its living environment to the Albanian forest, the snake monster immediately felt the difference.
Here is everywhere is the sky trees, everywhere is available for free movement space, fresh air, enough food, abundant water, wide range of activities ... snake monster after coming here, simply feel is to come to heaven!
Its huge size in this place can not find natural enemies, want to go wherever, and also has the same high-level wisdom of the viper Nagini can chat with it to relieve boredom ... This can be better than staying in the Hogwarts narrow, dirty basement inside too much!
All in all, the snake monster was adamant that it did not want to return to Hogwarts!
It gave Dracula a somewhat wary look and shrank back, silently thinking about how likely it would be to resist if Dracula insisted on letting it go back to Hogwarts....
Looking at the performance of the snake monster, Dracula lost his smile and shook his head.
"Don't worry, I don't want you to return to Hogwarts either." He said, "That humorless old lady Professor McGonagall wouldn't be the first one to leave me alone if I put you with the younger wizards."
A man and a woman snuggled together, clearly a handsome male and a beautiful female pair, but they seemed to have a forlorn and helpless feeling.
"Do these two people have anything to do with this viper brought by the snake monster?" Dracula frowned slightly.
"Professor Dracula, look at this page." Newt flipped the cowhide book back a few more pages.
Only on this same somewhat yellowed page, Newt's drawing ability had clearly improved a lot, and the image on the page was more realistic and detailed.
There was no longer the pale-faced male youth from before on this picture, only the black-haired female still wearing a dark blue intricately patterned dress was left, standing quietly on a piece of lawn.
From the layout of this lawn, it looked like the one near the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest.
Just as Dracula was still puzzling over what this beautiful Asian woman had to do with Viper Nagini, the image on the page suddenly moved-
The woman's irises suddenly widened, the whites of her eyes turned black, and then, with her arms wrapped around her, her body suddenly collapsed softly backward. Her entire body was as if she had no bones, her back nearly reaching a parallel angle with her thighs.
At the same time, the woman's two arms were quickly covered by scales, transforming into a snake-like body that wrapped around her upper body.
In the next moment, the dark blue patterned dress also suddenly changed. The floral pattern on the dress transformed into speckled black spots, and the dark blue color transformed into a green serpentine, turning instantly to wrap around the woman's entire body ...
Within a few moments, a beautiful woman was transformed into a giant viper with a size thicker than a grown man's thigh and twelve feet long!
Dracula subconsciously turned his attention to the viper, Nagini, who was lying honestly on his back beside the snake monster, and compared the patterns on the scales of the two, realizing that the two vipers were indeed identical.
"Is this the ... Melodicus Blood Spell?" Dracula said thoughtfully.
"Indeed." Newt sighed and nodded softly, "I met Nagini at a wizard circus during the Global Wizarding War, and she was already under the MacLeodix Blood Curse then."
"Nagini was long ordered by the ringmaster of the circus to become serpentine for the amusement of the audience, and was abused almost as if she were a sideshow monster. Fortunately, Creedence later escaped with her."
"Creedence is ...?" Dracula asked.
"That's him." Newt turned the book back to the previous page and pointed the formal, mousy young man out to Dracula, "Actually, Creedence should have been named Aurelius Dumbledore ..."
"His last name is Dumbledore?!" Hearing Creedence's surname, Dracula instantly became interested, "Dumbledore has illegitimate children outside?"
He couldn't help but tickle the corners of his mouth, already thinking about how to flirt with the old principal once he returned to Hogwarts.
"I can't imagine that even if this Dumbledore guy looks old and immodest, he's also so immodest in this aspect of being a human being." Dracula grinned an exaggerated arc at the corner of his mouth and said with interest.
"Ahem, Creedence is not Albus's child." Newt, eyeing Dracula as he wondered what strange things had come to mind, hurriedly explained, "He's Albus's brother, the child of Albus Dumbledore."
"So Dumbledore doesn't actually have a bastard child?" The corners of Dracula's grin instantly retracted.
Newt nodded helplessly.
"No point." Dracula bristled, "Let's skip that point and move on to Nagini."
Dracula's flip-flopping speed made Newt laugh a little bitterly.
He coughed dryly twice, and helplessly followed Dracula's idea, and proceeded to tell the story of Nagini.
"Well ... Creedence was later lured by Grindelwald and joined the camp of the Witch Nazi Party, so Nagini became alone." Newt recounted, "Then she came with us to Hogwarts to find Dumbledore."
"At the time, she had a pretty bad Meredith blood spell. We tried to cure her ... but because the Myladix Blood Curse was still too rare after all, and Dumbledore had been tied up with Grindelwald for a long time."
"We didn't find anything that could bring her back, and had to watch her transform into a snake and lose her humanity for longer and longer ..."
"Then Nagini, probably unwilling to let us suffer with her anymore, secretly left us alone. And then, until today, none of us ever saw her again."
Newt sighed deeply, "I suppose she's been hiding in this forest in Albania since then."
While listening to the story that Newt was telling, Dracula supported his chin with two fingers and thought quietly.
"It's a pity that old Nicole didn't wake me up at that time." He said softly, "I'm traditionally an expert in magic related to blood."
Of course, Dracula was fully aware of the reason why Nicole LeMay didn't wake him up during the Global Wizarding War.
Because that camp Grindelwald belonged to at the time was anything but as lacking in style as dark wizards like Voldemort and Helpo ...
In such a situation, he might have chosen to help Grindelwald and the Wizarding Party, standing against Dumbledore and Newt and the others.
And how could he even think of helping a Meredith he'd never met before?