Chapter 212
Harry reappeared on the other side of the hall.
"Thanks, Hedwig," Harry said as his avian friend puffed her chest up, "There's no point in wasting time, let's put the plan into action now."
Hedwig gave a sharp nod and rose into the air with a determined trill, before flying off with a burst of speed towards the Basilisk. Harry wanted to make sure that she was alright, but dared not waste any time, instead speeding off towards the door with the snakes on it, through which he had entered the Chamber. Turning off Mage Sight so that he could tell the door apart from the walls around it, Harry quickly hissed out, "Close"
Much like how the serpents had parted as the wall had cracked open, the halves reappeared, and smoothly slid shut with a thud.
Behind him, Hedwig was doing a fantastic job of distracting the Basilisk. Harry closed his eyes, turned Mage Sight back on and looked back into the chamber. The Basilisk had moved to the center of the Chamber, where the enormous serpent had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Hedwig was soaring around its head, and the basilisk was snapping furiously at her with fangs, long and thin as sabers.
Harry dipped into his inventory and pulled out a pencil nub that he had idly thrown in there once. Making sure that there was little to no graphite on the nub, Harry tossed it at the serpent. It landed on the floor near the spot where the Basilisk was tussling with Hedwig.
And it was time.
"Hedwig! It's time!" Harry called loudly. Taking the cue, Hedwig burst into flames and reappeared on Harry's shoulder.
"Listen, Hedwig. As soon as I cast the spell, get us out into the tunnel outside. FULGURIS!" Harry yelled, aiming at the pencil nub and pushing as much mana into the spell as he could.
As soon as the burst of lightning left his wand, Hedwig immediately flamed them out of there and into the tunnel outside.
Amongst all his training in the spell and using it to convert metal to metal, the one thing Nicholas had told Harry to never do was to overdo an Alchemical Transmutation. Since alchemy worked by fiddling with the atom's structure itself, overdoing the spell risked setting off a nuclear reaction which, as any muggle worth his salt could tell you, is usually a dangerous thing.
Harry's aim struck true, and temperature of the pencil stub rose millionfold to the point that it was flash-heated to that of the surface of the sun. The Carbon atoms in the nub structurally burst open into electrons protons and neutrons. The protons then interacted with the Hydrogen in the air around them to undergo one of the most common and powerful nuclear reactions in the known universe called the Proton-Carbon cycle.
In short, literal milliseconds after Harry and Hedwig teleported out, an explosion the size of a dozen hand grenades rocked the Chamber.
BOOM!
As soon as Harry reappeared outside the Chamber, he dropped to his knees and shielded himself and Hedwig as rocks and stones lodged in the roof of the tunnel that had gotten shaken loose and fell on them.
Finally, a minute later when the dust settled, Harry rose to his feet and dusted himself off. Hedwig shook herself, flapping her wings to shake the dust off them before trilling apprehensively at Harry.
"I don't want to go in too, Hedwig," said Harry, "But we have to help Lisa."
And turning to the entrance, he hissed, "Open" making the serpents part and the halves slide out of view.
Hedwig flew in, scoping out the situation as Harry gingerly stepped into the room with eyes closed and Mage Sight on.
"Are the snake's eyes closed?" he asked his phoenix, who flapped over to the now unmoving glowing green serpent to check before trilling out an affirmative.
Harry opened his eyes and shut down Mage Sight before taking in the sight of what he had done.
Three of the pillars had completely broken down, and a lot of the others had cracks on them. The floor was cracked as well, though whether that was from the basilisk or the explosion, Harry did not know. Dust covered pretty much every surface, and Salazar Slytherin no longer had much of a lower body, since one of his legs, both his arms and much of his abdomen were now simply missing. And in the middle of Chamber, massive and unmoving, lay the Basilisk. The snake must have been thrown around and roughed up pretty bad in the explosion because it looked bent up in a lot of wrong ways.
As the urgency of the situation set in, Harry quickly called for Hedwig, who had picked up his Cloak, put the cloak back into his Inventory, and headed towards the spot in between Slytherin's feet. Before, when he had mage sight on, he had absently noticed something that he wanted to check out.
Reaching the spot in between the feet, Harry noted that the gramophone that had been playing music must have been charmed unbreakable since it was still completely intact and playing that jazz. He shook off that thought before he turned on Mage Sight. Sure enough, one human-sized rectangular portion of the wall was much lighter than the rest. That, as Harry knew, meant that the wall had empty space behind it. He cast Observe.
Entrance to the inner Chamber
The wall requires a Password from anyone who wishes to gain entry. This password is given to this wall, which can give access to the tunnel which leads to the inner chamber.
Password - 'Salazar' in Parseltongue
"Salazar" he hissed, following the Observe's information, and the section of the wall slid down into the floor. With Hedwig on his shoulder, he walked into the tunnel with Mage Sight turned on, just in case there were any traps or wards.
The light from the chamber behind him soon disappeared around a bend, leaving him in complete darkness. It was a few moments and a couple more bends later that the end of the tunnel appeared, lit by a single torch in a torch bracket, a solid wall with a snake carved on it.
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