The sound of the ice breaking was actually very faint, but because of Harry's unusual behavior, the grounds were very quiet, so everyone heard that faint cracking.
Everyone looked toward the block of ice, and several professors instinctively raised their wands again.
But the very next moment, they froze in the middle of raising them.
Voldemort's figure inside the ice suddenly stretched and swelled, bursting the block apart in an instant. Then his body expanded rapidly like an inflating balloon, becoming an enormous creature in almost the blink of an eye.
"This... this is..." Everyone from Hogwarts stared at the thing before them, dumbfounded.
Voldemort had turned into a dark green giant snake.
A truly giant snake!
Even with most of this enormous reptile's body lying on the ground, its raised portion stood over ten meters tall. Its total length was close to fifty meters, if not quite that long.
A red plume swayed luridly atop its head, and powerful, evil magical fluctuations radiated from its body. Even Norberta, a dragon herself, showed some fear at the sight of such an enormous creature, spreading her wings as the scales on her neck bristled.
"Holy Spirit Barrier!" Professor Flitwick flicked his wand almost immediately, and a gentle golden light enveloped the people beside him. He was not the only one. Professor McGonagall, Lupin, and several other professors cast the same spell.
The reason was simple. Before them stood a basilisk of an unimaginably enormous size!
Even Harry, who had long sensed that something strange would happen, looked incredulous at the sight before him. What the hell was this thing?
A basilisk?
It certainly looked like one, especially with that plume on its head.
*But basilisks-meaning this particular kind, the serpent king basilisk-generally only grew to fifty or sixty feet long, even