Wade froze for a moment, then suddenly understood. "Could the venom in Mr. Weasley's body... be King Cobra venom?"
He remembered that on the night Voldemort returned, when he and Harry had seen the infant Voldemort at the monastery, a black King Cobra had been coiled around his high-backed chair.
Later, when the melee began, Wade had still been a child, and his foremost concern had been staying alive. He had not noticed when that black snake disappeared.
As for Voldemort's original pet, Nagini...
Unfortunately, Wade had long since burned it to ashes.
"That's right."
Dumbledore relaxed slightly, leaning back in his chair as he nodded. "Arthur was found too late... Without a targeted antidote, even if he survived this time, he would likely have suffered irreversible long-term damage."
Hearing this, Wade let out a soft breath of relief. He felt fortunate too.
Phoenix tears were already the Wizarding World's most powerful healing relic, but they were not all-powerful—they could not heal the Longbottom couple's shattered minds, nor could they make Moody's lost eye grow back.
A King Cobra could release a massive amount of venom in a single bite, enough to kill twenty or thirty adults. Its neurotoxin could completely paralyze its prey's respiratory system within a short time, while its cardiotoxin would worsen circulatory collapse.
The longer the delay, the more severe the damage the venom inflicted on the human body. Even Phoenix tears could not simply erase all the harm completely.
Therefore, Arthur Weasley's recovery must have had another contributor Dumbledore had not mentioned. That would be Severus Snape, who had made the antidote.
These thoughts flashed through Wade's mind in an instant, and he asked, "Professor, did you call me here because there's something you need me to do?"
Dumbledore removed his glasses and wiped them,