Chapter 53: The Mad Basilisk

Harry and Hermione cast a couple of spells, but they all bounced off the Basilisk's scales.

Only Snape managed to leave a wound on its body, and strands of black blood splattered the floor. The Basilisk swung its tail, crushing the walls of the common room.

The huge sounds of the fight woke up all the Gryffindors, students ran out of their dormitory, and the expression on their faces turned to panic.

"Oh my god!" said Colin as he wiped his eyes, he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, then he had a brilliant idea, he turned around and ran to the dormitory to grab his camera.

"What's going on, what's going on here?" asked Percy as he came out of his bedroom.

In the next second, his eyes almost popped out of his head, he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him, there was a giant snake in the living room going crazy. Percy's reaction was quick, he subconsciously unsheathed his wand.

A red light hit the basilisk but was bounced off.

The continued attacks made the basilisk go a little crazy, it wanted to rip these people to shreds, but before it could, Snape's magic hit it again, shaking it backwards.

In the other corner of the common room, Ivan, Harry and Hermione were attacking Ron, who was under Tom Riddle's control, and casting spells at each other from time to time.

Riddle looked a little uncomfortable, but not exhausted.

Riddle did his best to dodge the spells flying at him, and if he couldn't, he met them with his wand, which was split in two, throwing a spark that instantly disabled the spells of the three boys in front of him.

Ivan narrowed his eyes.

After Ivan cast a "Desmaius" quickly and recited a new, more powerful spell, the magic quickly gathered, the spell felt very oppressive, and the wand produced a pale blue light.

"How hilarious, you want to use the dark magic I taught you to attack me, I'll admit I despise you, Dirtyblood! I would love to keep playing with you if it wasn't for this wand," Tom said as he looked at Ivan.

Suddenly he turned around and said a few words to the basilisk.

When the basilisk heard Ron's words, it ignored its struggle with Snape and moved violently and quickly towards Ivan. Its mouth opened wide, and it was big enough to swallow Ivan whole, the basilisk's fangs were like silver swords, thin, light and with venom dripping from them.

It charged blindly towards them and Ivan had to stop its enchantment, and Hermione was behind it with a face pale with fear.

They both dodged hastily, but it was too late, the basilisk was too fast.

Without thinking, Ivan turned around and hugged Hermione tightly, turning his back towards the basilisk, and managed to fall to the ground with the girl in his arms trembling.

The next second, Harry, who was standing to the side, also rushed screaming, with a wooden seat in his hand, which he threw viciously at the basilisk.

But it was to no avail, the basilisk's speed did not slow down at all.

Just when Ivan and Hermione thought they were going to be swallowed by the basilisk, Snape appeared in front of them.

His face was grim, the light produced by his wand grew stronger.

¡¡¡¡¡Auge!!!!!!!

Snape was slammed against the wall, then slipped to the floor, he was oozing blood from his head, he was knocked unconscious!

Riddle looked contemptuously at the limp Snape on the floor and said, "That's finally settled, so now...."

From the way the basilisk was moving, Ivan could tell that the curse he had put on his eyes was fading.

"Damn, the teachers must be on their way, hold on a little longer...", this thought flashed through Ivan's mind, or maybe he could use that thing he had done the other day, and maybe he could take care of the basilisk.

Without the basilisk, it would be more likely that Tom Riddle would fall since from the previous fight, Ivan realized that Tom was manipulating the magic produced by the broken wand to cast powerful magic, but the wand was at its limit.

Apparently, Tom had realized that he didn't have much time left, so he ordered the basilisk to kill Ivan.

Just as Tom Riddle spoke with a hissing sound, a red-haired girl came running down from the stairs, it was Ginny!

Ginny looked at Ron and said, "Ron, what are you doing?"

She looked pale and had a scared expression, but her eyes were full of determination. Still wearing her pink pajamas, she grabbed her wand and cast a red-colored spell at the snake.

Her spell interrupted the conversation between Riddle and the basilisk, the basilisk dodged the spell and slithered forward with its mouth open, trying to swallow Ginny.

Harry and Hermione screamed in horror, "No!"

Ivan rushed forward to cast a spell, but to no avail.

They tried to save her but Ginny was too close to the basilisk.

Just as everyone was closing their eyes and not daring to look, Ron suddenly came to and rescued Ginny.

Ron seemed to be back to normal, tears were falling from his eyes uncontrollably as he said, "Run, go, I'll stall him. It's my fault for trusting that guy, I shouldn't have...."

Ron's pale face turned to one of pain, Tom seemed to be regaining control.

Soon, Tom Riddle regained control of Ron's body and with a look of disgust on his face, he threw Ginny, who was in his arms, aside viciously and said, "He took control unexpectedly, but he's too weak, his body doesn't have much life left. It's time to end this ridiculous charade, I will represent Salazar Slytherin, I will purify Hogwarts of all the dirty bloods and the friends of this body will die as well."

Ivan held up a music box, it was a magical tool he finished a few days ago that records sounds and said, "Unfortunately, you don't stand a chance, Tom!"

He opened the box and suddenly there was the sound of a rooster inside.

The basilisk's gigantic body shook violently at the sound.

Terrified and eager to escape, the basilisk stopped listening to Tom Riddle's commands and struggled to quickly slither toward the sink.

Tom screamed loudly and climbed onto the basilisk's body, "No! You dirty blood! You will regret this, this boy's body will forever remain in the chamber."

Harry, hearing Tom's words, shouted, "You can't take Ron."

As the basilisk was trying to get away from them, Harry grabbed Ron's body, Ivan paused for a moment before grabbing Harry.

The next second, like a race car, they were whisked out of the common room and disappeared into the dark pipes of the bathroom as everyone in the common room looked on in amazement.