Adopting Norbert

Refining a Spell Template through alchemy and changing class to an Arcanist had become Li Wei's foremost goal.

From then on, he would work toward achieving that priority.

When Li Wei and Hermione returned to the Great Hall before they had even gone their separate ways, they heard cheers erupting from the long tables of Gryffindor and Hufflepuff:

"Great! The Mandrakes are finally about to mature!"

"Finch-Fletchley and Weasley can be saved!"

"What Heir of the Chamber of Secrets? After only two attacks, he was too scared to make another move!"

"Who will brew the potion to cure petrification? Professor Snape?"

The Weasley Twins of Gryffindor were especially excited, wrapping Ron in a hug. Poor Ron was nearly squashed into a sandwich filling!

Only then did Li Wei and Hermione learn that in a few days, when the Easter holiday arrived, the Mandrakes growing in the greenhouses would be fully mature!

Once the Mandrakes matured and the potion to cure petrification was brewed, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Percy Weasley could be cured of their petrification!

Even though the so-called Heir of the Chamber of Secrets had yet to be brought to justice.

Once the victims were cured and questioned for information, would the day they caught the Heir of the Chamber of Secrets really be far away?

The more Li Wei thought about it, the funnier it seemed:

When Tom Riddle's Horcrux diary arrived at the school at the start of second year in the latter half of the year.

Would Little Tom be utterly dumbfounded when he found the Chamber of Secrets empty and the Basilisk nowhere to be seen?

Perhaps Little Tom would even look speechlessly to the heavens and ask: Where's the Basilisk? Where's my huge Basilisk?

There were no classes on Tuesday afternoon, so Li Wei and