Noticing the expressions on the students' faces beside him, Professor Fontana felt a little embarrassed too.
After all, they had come along on the Magical Congress's trip, and the Magical Congress had covered all their expenses. Speaking ill of them behind their backs was a little inappropriate.
He immediately hurried to change the subject. "Ahem, Headmistress Stuart, can you tell how Professor Flitwick killed this thousand-year-old basilisk? I've been looking for ages, but I still have no idea."
"Yes, I do have a little theory, though I'm not particularly certain," the radiantly beautiful Headmistress Stuart said with a smile and a nod.
She was already stunningly beautiful, and her smile was like summer flowers bursting into bloom.
Quite a few of the wizards watching nearby had already been stealing glances at her, and now they were utterly transfixed.
But wizards had stronger minds and greater mental resolve than ordinary people, so their distraction lasted only a moment. Then, realizing how foolish they had looked, most hurried away in embarrassment.
Stuart seemed accustomed to such reactions from others and paid them little mind. She simply began explaining her theory at an unhurried pace. Extending a slender, delicate finger, she pointed at the two magical eyes beside them and said:
"These two magical eyes gave me the idea. To remove them so intact without damaging the area around the basilisk's eyes in the slightest...
"I suspect Professor Flitwick may have used extremely precise enlarging and shrinking charms. He enlarged the basilisk's skull and outer skin, but left its brain structures, including its eyes, unchanged.
"After that, he removed the basilisk's eyeballs, then went in through the eye sockets and removed its brain. As for whether he removed any other internal organs, I don't know.
"Look closely at the eyes of this basilisk.