Magic Garden

Over the next two days at Beauxbatons, Skylar freely toured every corner of the school—as a distinguished guest personally invited by Headmistress Maxime, the entire Beauxbatons castle was open to him.

This included a secret chamber accessible through a hidden door in the headmistress's office.

To Skylar's surprise, the chamber actually housed a tamed adult Cockatrice.

A Cockatrice was a monster with the upper body of a rooster and the lower body of a half-dragon, half-serpent. It possessed dragon claws and a dragon tail, though its skin was covered in green snake scales. A close relative of the Basilisk, it was also an exceptionally ferocious and dangerous creature. In the original Triwizard Tournament of 1972, it had been a rampaging Cockatrice that injured the headmasters of all three magical schools as they attempted to subdue it. The aftermath led to the Triwizard Tournament being suspended, not resuming until 1994.

It seemed that, despite how noble, elegant, rational, and composed she usually behaved, her partial Giant blood meant that deep down, she shared Hagrid's fondness for fierce, violent, dangerous beasts.

Such an opportunity was rare, so Skylar naturally took the chance to collect quite a few precious materials from the Cockatrice—its comb, wing feathers, blood, venom sac, snake scales, and more.

Beyond indulging Maxime's love of raising dangerous beasts, the Cockatrice was also there to guard the treasures accumulated in the secret chamber by generations of headmasters. The variety of those treasures was endless.

Skylar naturally did not stand on ceremony with Maxime and picked out several treasures he fancied. One was an exquisitely crafted miniature horse statue, no larger than half a palm. According to Maxime—

This treasure was called the Horse-Command Tally. With it, one could tame and command any equine Fantastic Beast, including Abraxans, Aethons, Granians, and Thestrals.