Lupin

"Basilisk?" Snape frowned.

"I remember that a Basilisk doesn't petrify living things. It kills them outright, doesn't it?"

Dumbledore looked at Kane. "Hmm, perhaps we've discovered a new trait of the Basilisk. If you saw it through an optical reflection—say, in a puddle on the ground—you won't die, but you'll be petrified."

After saying that, he placed Mrs Norris on Filch's head.

"I think it's necessary to hold a meeting for the young wizards now. Of course, that will be after we make glasses capable of defending against the Basilisk's eyes." As he spoke, Dumbledore looked at Kane.

"Do you have any ideas?"

Kane certainly had a solution... Although the glasses he had seen in Eternal Realm were all astonishingly ugly and abstract, glasses from the real world could work just as well. It was nothing more than using optical reflection to reduce the damage. A few mirrors put together at a Muggle factory would do the trick.

"I need to make a trip to the Muggle World," Kane suddenly said.

"Hmm... Should I send you to Germany?"

"No need. Just drop me off at any Machine-Processing Factory."

"A Machine-Processing Factory..." Dumbledore sat in his chair, absentmindedly tapping his fingers against his knuckles. Hmm, he really did know a wizard who made a living in that sort of place...

Because he truly couldn't find any decent work in the wizarding world.

"Severus, can you leave now?" Dumbledore suddenly looked at Snape beside him and said faintly.

"Mm." Snape also knew that Dumbledore was probably about to say something impolite, or something he did not want to hear. Leaving now was for the best. Otherwise, he might hear something he would rather not hear...

After Severus left, Dumbledore pulled a map out from beneath his desk. "Let me think. That factory