Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 7 Parseltongue

Two days later, Tiera received a reply, this time from a glossy grey owl that flew in, dropped the letter, and flew away.

"Dear Mr. Wu,

We are delighted to receive your reply and warmly welcome you to join us. We are confident that you will have an unforgettable and joyful seven years at Hogwarts.

We have already made arrangements for what you have described. Our lovely hunting grounds keeper, Rubis Hagrid, will arrive at your old town attic on the evening of July 31st or the early morning of August 1st to take you to the wonderful wizarding world. Perhaps a young wizard of your age will accompany you.

Respectfully submitted by Vice Principal Minerva McGonagall
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
P.S.: Mr. Hagrid is a tall but kind-hearted, furry gentleman. Please don't be afraid, and I wish you a pleasant time together.

Hagrid? Could the young wizard traveling with him be Harry Potter?

Yes, that should be true. On July 31, 1991, Harry Potter's eleventh birthday, Hagrid would bring Harry a cake and, incidentally, punish his Dursley cousin who had been bullying him.

Hagrid would then take Harry to the Leaky Cauldron in London, through the back wall of the pub to Diagon Alley to buy magical items and retrieve the Philosopher's Stone stored in Gringotts.

The Philosopher's Stone... Tiera remembered the unfinished Philosopher's Stone Merlin left in the library, wondering if there was any difference between the two.

"But there are still two months... I need to prepare properly... The first four years were all close calls, but nothing is absolute. The most dangerous year is the second year, hmm... Basilisk, mirror, rooster, realgar. If possible, it would be even better if I could buy incendiary bombs, sulfur bombs, and smoke bombs." Tiera silently calculated. Voldemort in the first year was alright, close calls but no real danger, and Dumbledore was watching over him. No matter what, Voldemort would not let him harm a newly enrolled Muggle wizard. But the Basilisk was a different story. It indiscriminately slaughtered Muggles. Although none of them died in the original story, it didn't mean he was as lucky as them.

“Thank you, Merlin,” Tierra said sincerely.

The day Tyrell received her Hogwarts acceptance letter, she returned to the library and copied down the contents of the Hyppol tablets that Merlin had collected.

Because it was written on clay tablets, the content was not much. It only described the learning methods of the Parseltongue, the techniques for raising Basilisks, and some imperfect magic and curses created during Hybol's experiments.

Another half of the mud tablet was so broken and worn that Tiera couldn't decipher the information on it, and even Merlin's notes didn't record this part, only that it was some kind of large-scale magical ritual.

Learning Parsley requires not only certain magical skills and language talent, but also the aid of potions.

His magical skills and linguistic talent go without saying, given that he was blessed with the knowledge of the great race of Yith. He can read any language he comes across.

The pronunciation of Parsleyan is based on a variant of ancient Greek. After touching the Hypopol Slab, Tiera had learned ancient Greek, although not yet fluently, but enough to learn Parsleyan.

The remaining one is a potion called Hydra Poison.

Hydra poison, as its name suggests, is a poison, but not fatal. It's a byproduct of Hydra's research into blood curses, only transforming the user into a humanoid beast within twenty-four hours. However, if taken with the gallbladder of the magical creature Scorpiontail, the poison will only render the user mute for several months. After a few months, with proper learning and practice, they can master the basics of Parseltongue. Most of the herbal ingredients in Hydra poison can be found in Merlin's garden, as he confirmed during his two days of climbing out of the pyramid. Even the missing Desert Thorn Flower, Fairy Wings, Ghost Swan Pupae, African Tree Serpent Leather, and crucial parts like the Feathered Serpent's Silver Shell should be available at ordinary potion shops.

The dusty, hardcover magic textbook that Merlin had collected had already been read through by Tiera, and after reading the Hybol Tablet, she read it again. She saw these ingredients in familiar potion recipes such as Living Hell Potion, Polyjuice Potion, and Animagus Potions, so they probably weren't anything particularly precious.

The only problem is the gallbladder of the scorpion snake. In the 1645 edition of the Illustrated Compendium of Wonders, this snake was hunted to the brink of extinction because of the remarkable and powerful detoxifying effect of its gallbladder. I wonder if it still exists after all these years.

It would be best if you could learn the snake accent, but if you can't...

If Tiera can't learn it, he'll have to consider the items he listed earlier.

The realgar mirror and rooster are self-explanatory.

Smoke bombs can block the basilisk's vision, allowing it to escape at the same time. According to the movie's setting, the basilisk's sense of smell doesn't seem to be very good, so as long as its vision is blocked, its chances of escaping increase significantly.

Incendiary bombs can generate high temperatures instantly. According to the description on the Hybolt Slab, in addition to being afraid of attacks, the basilisk was also afraid of fire in its infancy. However, as it grew older, the basilisk became less sensitive to fire. Tiera guessed that this might be because as the basilisk's scales thickened, the temperature of ordinary flames had difficulty penetrating the thick leather armor to affect its nervous system.

But incendiary bombs are different. Thermite can reach a temperature of 3,000 degrees Celsius in an instant, enough to melt steel. Not to mention the flesh-and-blood basilisk. Even if it is not fatal because it is a magical creature, it can still cause some obstacles to the basilisk, giving it time to escape.

Thermite incendiary bombs are not difficult to assemble. Tiera herself even tried them a few times. Of course, not to hit people, but to ignite aluminum powder and iron oxide with a match in the laboratory, in response to the school's policy of popularizing chemistry experiments to high school and junior high school students around the university.

Iron dioxide, aluminum powder, and magnesium strips for ignition are placed in a glass bottle. However, it is difficult to control the ignition time when using magnesium strips for ignition.

Therefore, a basic sulfur bomb needs to be used, which is a mixture of sulfur, saltpeter, and carbon powder, and a wet towel soaked in accelerant is used as a fuse.

Tie them together, and if you encounter a basilisk, light them together and throw them at it; the resulting heat will melt metal.

Although Tiera can now be considered a wizard, with the addition of the Cursed Worm spell, she has considerable self-defense capabilities compared to her peers.

But Tierra, being a science student in his previous life, still habitually uses a technological mindset to solve problems.

Or rather, when faced with unknown dangers, Tiera only feels safe when she has the power of technology in her hands.

These are concepts accumulated over decades in previous lives, and cannot be changed by mastering a few magic spells in a short period of time.

(End of this chapter)