Chapter 98! A Snake's Shadow in the Dead of Night! The Other Side of Eris!

There were no classes on Tuesday afternoon, and Dudley still headed for the library.

In the library, Dudley studied alchemy books on his own for about four hours.

Then he got up and left, heading for the school infirmary, which was also on the second floor of the castle.

Using his identity as a teaching assistant and under the pretext of evaluating healing potions, he bought two bottles of Skele - Gro, three bottles of Sarcasm - Bane, four bottles of regular antidote, three tubes of sedatives, and a bottle of Pepper - Up Potion at a low price from the school nurse, Madam Pomfrey.

These were all prepared for Peter Pettigrew, who was almost pushed to his limit.

It wasn't a long - term solution to always use the Muggle's powerful hormone - based drugs.

In the evening, Dudley went to Hagrid's place again and picked up several large pieces of wand - making wood that Hagrid had sawed from The Forbidden Forest.

Hagrid told him that Professor Kettleburn, who had only one and a half limbs left (one arm and half a leg), voluntarily went to the dragon shed in his free time to help him check the condition of two old fire dragons.

The two fire dragons were still full of vitality, and their physical functions showed signs of recovery. After spending more time in close - contact care, they might really lay dragon eggs.

At night, after dinner in the Great Hall and returning to the dormitory, Dudley had a good night's sleep.

Ron got up three times to check and didn't see Dudley leave. Discontented, he went back to sleep and temporarily abandoned the idea of a night patrol.

In the second half of the night, Dudley secretly got up. Without waking Harry, he went to the Room of Requirement alone.

First, he treated the almost unrecognizable Peter Pettigrew with various healing potions. Then he plunged into the project of making a special wand with Harry's hair.

Dudley, who was acting methodically as planned, didn't know that Professor Eris, whom he had largely stopped suspecting, didn't rest quietly after returning to her office at night, just like him.

...

In the dead of night, inside the office of the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Eris Hunter used magic to seal the office door and lit the candles. By the light, she walked to the corner and took out a suitcase.

She pointed her wand at the constellation pattern engraved on the suitcase three times, and a hidden zipper immediately appeared.

She stretched out her fair and slender hand, unzipped it, and took out a beautifully decorated narrow - necked glass bottle. The bottle was filled with silver - white light and full of memory threads.

Eris carefully opened the memory bottle and used her wand to guide the memory threads in the bottle, stuffing them all back into her mind one by one.

A moment later, Professor Eris's temperament changed slightly. Originally gentle, beautiful, and amiable, now there was a hint of coquettishness and strangeness.

Snake Summons!

After digesting the pre - extracted and hidden memories, Eris pointed her wand at an empty space in the room and recited the incantation.

A strange python about five or six meters long immediately emerged from the tip of her wand.

If Dudley and Harry were here, they would definitely recognize the origin of this python.

On June 23rd this year, Dudley's birthday, the Dursleys went to the zoo.

In the reptile house, Harry inadvertently used the inborn endowment of Parseltongue inherited from Voldemort's soul fragment and struck up a conversation with a Brazilian python inside the display window.

The python pitifully expressed its longing for its hometown, and Harry, experiencing a magic power eruption, decided to help it.

The thick glass disappeared as if affected by the Vanishing Spell, setting the python free.

Using Parseltongue, he ordered the python not to harm anyone, and then let the Brazilian python escape on its own.

Unexpectedly, this unlucky python was summoned by Eris late at night before it could escape the clutches of fate.

Moreover, looking at the python's head now, it was no longer just an ordinary python.

"Master!"

After Eris released the strange python, she put away her wand, bowed submissively to the python, and called out an extremely embarrassing title.

"Hey... How did things go? Have you found out where The Philosopher's Stone is?"

A deformed and hideous human face protruded from the back of the Brazilian python's head. It opened the split mouth under the snake scales, stuck out a long, thin, forked tongue, and spoke in an extremely cold tone.

"Master, there are already some leads!" Eris said in an obsequious tone. "Earlier tonight, Dumbledore privately gathered several of us professors and plans to build a maze in The Forbidden Forest next week for senior students to improve their practical combat abilities.

At that time, he'll need us professors to help set up the checkpoints.

He'll also place some reward items in the maze, and The Philosopher's Stone is the top prize at the deepest part of the maze."

"Hey..."

The main soul of Voldemort that had parasitized the Brazilian python let out another cold voice. "You must get The Philosopher's Stone for me as soon as possible! I urgently need Elixir of Immortality to replenish my vitality!

Also, get me some unicorn blood within three days!"

Hearing this, Eris showed an embarrassed expression. "Master! The Forbidden Forest is huge, and I have to teach classes and deal with those troublesome professors and students every day. I might not have enough time..."

"I don't want to hear excuses! I just want results!"

Voldemort's main soul turned its red eyes that had grown under the snake scales and stared directly at Eris. Black magic smoke started to billow from the snake's body. It looked extremely terrifying. "If I can't drink unicorn blood in three days, I'll have to parasitize you!"

Eris's delicate body trembled, and she quickly replied, "I'll definitely complete the task you've assigned! But..."

"But what?"

Voldemort's main soul's look became even more unfriendly.

"But as far as I know, if unicorn blood isn't voluntarily given, it will contain a powerful curse. Drinking it isn't worth it, Master!"

Eris quickly expressed her loyalty, looking as if she was considerate of Voldemort.

"Hiss Hahaha!" Voldemort's main soul wriggled the snake's body of the Brazilian python and let out a wild and sinister laugh. "The unicorn blood is for this python to drink. What does it matter to me?

I only want the vitality in the unicorn blood! As for the curse, let the snake bear it!"

Eris's heart sank. She really didn't expect that this second - generation Dark Lord had so many strange schemes. It seemed that the unpleasant task of getting unicorn blood was unavoidable for her.

"Is there anything else?"

I'm going back! That old bastard Dumbledore. I don't know what got into him recently. He went completely crazy and killed most of my loyal subordinates!

This is his territory. I have to be more careful before I regain my perfect body!"

As Voldemort's main soul angrily grumbled, he was about to poke out the python's head and touch the tip of Eris's wand to return to a secluded forest where he was temporarily staying.

He had modified Eris's wand with dark magic and given it a special function similar to that of a Portkey.

"Master! I may have found the reason for Dumbledore's drastic change."

Eris's words made the snake body in which Voldemort's main soul was parasitized temporarily stop its movement.

"Hurry up!"