HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 80 - The Sword of Gryffindor.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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"Does Mr. Snape need to know where there are powerful creatures so that you can fight?!" Dobby's father looked at him frightened by this sentence.

"Yes... Needs to know where to find someone strong to face." Snape spoke in a calm and determined tone.

His last days were just researching magical creatures, looking at how he could level up, while spending his time in the forbidden section.

They only had time until the end of the year, so he had to act quickly on what he could. "I only know the Juggernaut of the forbidden forest... along with that witch and the Acromantulas..." Snape told the elf in front of him, before continuing.

"But I heard some important things in the old books about creatures... I heard there is a basilisk in this castle..." Snape said as the elf immediately shuddered hearing this.

"Mr. Snape wants to fight the basilisk?! That's madness, it's madness!!" He began to exclaim, while Dobby at his side began to tremble, neither of them knew the basilisk, but everyone knew what a giant magic-immune snake was.

"That's my problem. What I want to know if you know any way I find this being... in this castle." Severus asked.

"We don't know..." The elf, although thinking it madness, still answered him sincerely. "We just know we have to be careful with the huge basilisk... all the older elves tell the new ones, and they do it from generation to generation... they say that this monster has lived for a thousand years!!" Dobby's father said.

"1000 years... then it must be very powerful..." Severus seemed satisfied with this, thinking about the xp he could accumulate with it. "Is there nothing you don't know about this creature?" Snape asked wanting to know, after all the book he read about it, being a creature of Salazar himself who brought it to Hogwarts, was hidden somewhere, but it didn't say about its location.

"We don't know much, Mr. Snape," the elf began to speak, with a hesitating tone. After all, he believed that Severus was getting involved with something very dangerous and that he could die. The elf, despite sometimes fearing Snape, liked him. Even being scary at times, the man still respected them and treated them well, saving his son and keeping him even in the castle.

"All the elves say to keep away from the girls' bathroom on the 2nd floor," continued the elf. "They say that incidents occurred many years ago there, where a girl was killed. All the rumors say she was petrified by a basilisk and the ghost of the girl is still there, known as Moaning Myrtle.... Please, Mr. Snape, don't go there," the elf pleaded.

His son also joined his father. "Master Snape, this could be dangerous, you should not go there," Dobby implored.

Snape just nodded ignoring their requests. "I understand," he murmured. "Alright, thank you for all the information you've passed on to me. Now, I need to go to the alchemy and potions class," Severus said, leaving the precise room and headed to his potions class, arriving while the students were still filling the empty chairs with Professor Slughorn waiting for all the students to arrive to start the class.

As usual, Gilderoy Lockhart of Ravenclaw watched him, but Snape ignored him, while calmly waiting for the class to begin. The person who came to his side this time was Clarissa.

"Hello, Severus..." She approached, calling him by his first name. Something that was already common and she had asked for his help with some potions, after all she wanted to specialize as much in Herbology, which was the main specialty of her family as potions, as she had been doing this whole year and needed to pass the final exams.