From Karma Taj to Hogwarts

Chapter 163 Playing tricks

Riddle frowned when he heard Xiven's question.

"I can understand that you are doubting me?" he asked softly.

"I'm just curious about Parseltongue." Xiven said with a chuckle. "After all, if we think of Parseltongue as a language, Mr. Scamander told us that snakes do not have hearing. They can only feel vibrations and cannot accurately hear our communication;"

"And if we regard it as a kind of magic for snakes, we don't see how the magic works. Who can resist being curious about such a magical ability?"

"It's nothing magical, it can only be regarded as a talent." Riddle looked a little better and said casually. "Magic power doesn't really work on snakes. It's normal to be unable to communicate with snakes that possess magic power."

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"It's unusual for a Parseltongue to be unable to communicate with Nagini!"

At this time, in the office of the Director of Transfiguration, Dumbledore was explaining something to everyone.

"When Tom used Parseltongue, Nagini was obviously influenced by it," he said. "Whether it's in the cave or Newt's box, Tom's Parseltongue can temporarily calm Nagini, which proves that it is possible to communicate with Nagini using Parseltongue."

"But Riddle said Nagini didn't trust him and didn't want to talk to him." Ghost Sivan asked. "Is it possible that Nagini has magical powers and can resist the influence of Parseltongue?"

Sivan repeated what Riddle had said to him.

"I don't think so." Dumbledore shook his head slightly and replied. "If Nagini's mad behavior in the cave was normal, her attack in the cage felt a bit pretentious."

"There is indeed something wrong with that." Newt explained at this time. "In fact, in addition to the two ways of movement that I showed you in the Albanian forest, vipers actually have a third way of movement - that is telescopic movement!"

"When being chased by a predator or hunting, a viper will often lift the front of its body and stretch it forward as much as possible. When it touches an object, it will retract the rear of its body forward. This telescopic movement consumes more energy. Big, but faster than a meandering crawl!”

"In addition, vipers usually do not flee when frightened. Instead, they coil their bodies into a circle and make exhaling sounds. Their bodies continue to shrink to scare each other and gain a sense of security."

"However, Nagini did not exhibit these two normal behaviors when she was locked up in the cage. Instead, she showed a very inconsistent and crazy state, constantly circling around the cage wall. It was like acting. !”

After hearing Newt's explanation, everyone else present almost believed Dumbledore's speculation, and they all felt puzzled and annoyed.

"But why did he lie to us?" Aurelius asked with a frown. He still couldn't believe that the seemingly polite little wizard would deceive them.

"If you look at it from Riddell's perspective, it's not impossible to understand his behavior." Ghost Xiwen pondered for a moment, and then said. "It's not easy to encounter a powerful snake creature. Riddle, who has a Parseltongue, may have a chance to subdue it and gain powerful help."

"Since no one else can understand the conversation between man and snake, why not do some tricks to make this big snake completely under his command?"

"So, that boy really dares to play tricks on us?" After hearing Xiwen's speculation, Aberforth was furious and shouted angrily. "See if I don't settle the score with him right away!"

However, Dumbledore stopped him, shook his head slightly, and said to him: "Strange is right. We couldn't understand the conversation between him and the snake, so there is no evidence that Tom was in Nagini's house." The matter was concealed or manipulated. To avoid causing more trouble, we should wait until Nagini is awakened."

"So, how should we wake her up?" Aurelius asked helplessly.

"Yeah, how to wake her up?" Dumbledore pondered.

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Unknowingly, Sivan and Riddle had walked down the spiral staircase and returned to the Slytherin common room. The journey went smoothly. I didn't encounter the Pringle administrator who was watching the night, and I wasn't caught red-handed by other professors. So even the note written by Dumbledore was not used.

"It's already very late. Go back and rest early, Riddle." Sivan said softly, looking at the green candles still burning in the lounge.

Riddle nodded silently and walked towards his dormitory.

Xiwen did not go back immediately. He just stared at the deep and dark black lake outside the lounge window, quietly in a daze.

Who created the blood curse? If it really has no cure, why isn't it classified as an Unforgivable Curse? Did Riddle play any tricks on this matter?

Xiwen thought about these and other questions, feeling like his mind was in a mess.

Shaking his head helplessly, he finally returned to the dormitory, where Mobley's weak snoring and the steady breathing of Abu and Gomez were heard.

It was indeed very late at night.

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Even though he slept very late the day before, Xiwen did not feel too tired or sleepy during the next day's course.

In the herbal medicine class in the morning, Xiven successfully answered Professor Essad's questions one by one using Miranda's herbal class notes that he had borrowed, and got another three points for Slytherin.

Of course, the Hufflepuffs next door received more bonus points, even though the questions they answered were not very technical. But Xiven was still pleased. After all, it was already a rare thing for Professor Essad to give Slytherin extra points.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the afternoon, Professor Enriquez with long lake-blue hair appeared in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom on time.

However, he seemed a little absent-minded this time. He did not use his knowledge of blood magic to give everyone the different Defense Against the Dark Arts experience he had in previous classes. Instead, he asked the young wizards to practice the repelling spell on their own in the classroom.

Professor Enriquez himself was holding a thick book and studying something with his brows furrowed. He would only raise his head to deal with problems when there were students under the podium casting spells.

After class, Xiwen originally wanted to stop Professor Enriquez to ask a few questions about Nagini. But the professor hurriedly left the classroom as soon as the bell rang. Judging from the direction he left, he was probably going to the Transfiguration Director's office to find Dumbledore.

Xiwen looked at his back and sighed silently.

Even Dumbledore didn't seem to have any solution to Nagini's blood curse, and could only keep discussing and researching with Professor Enriquez.

Ghost Xiven was occasionally called over to help observe the condition of Nagini's soul, so Xiven had some understanding of the situation there.

He knew that Nagini's situation was not very good. Meredith's blood curse was still eroding her humanity, and Dumbledore and the others did not have much time left.

Since what happened yesterday, Riddle has never been called to help again, even though he mentioned it accidentally many times.

After all, Nagini's body couldn't stand another adventure.

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