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I will, as will as of this chapter become apparent, not always post in chronological order. This is simply because I post chapters as I write them. If chapters are closely related, or more importantly are based on each other, I will do my best to publish them directly after each other, I will do with the chapter following this one.


"Think, Ron, think! Use that brain of yours," Harry gave Ron an exasperated look. "Where is Hermione when I need her? In the hospital wing, petrified, that's where! Fan-bloody-tastic!" he mumbled under his breath. In a louder voice he said, "Ron it's a basilisk. As in a fifty foot monster whose look alone will kill you, never mind its poisonous fangs.

Ron stared at Harry in open confusion, not used to Harry being logical with him – he usually left it to Hermione to explain things to Ron. "But, Ginny… We can't just leave her!"

"Of course not, but we need to think this through," Harry said simply. "It says – on the note Hermione had in her hand – that 'the basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it'. I met Hagrid just before Christmas on his way to tell Dumbledore that someone had been killing the school's roosters, so there currently aren't any on the school premises."

"How will we get a hold of a rooster if there's none at the school?" even though Ron's voice still was frantic, he was able to draw a somewhat logical conclusion from Harry's statement. "It's not like we can go to Hogsmeade and borrow one!"

"True, we can however transfigure one."

"Transfigure?" Ron sounded uncertain, and now much calmer. "I don't remember us learning how to transfigure a rooster."

"We have, in fact, not learned how to transfigure a rooster. I have, however, spent enough time in the library with Hermione by now to know where the books on inanimate to animate transfiguration are," with that he took hold of Ron's arm and rushed, dragging Ron after him, to the library to look for just such a book. Relatively quickly, Harry had spent far too much time in the library with Hermione, they found what they were searching for. Luckily, despite them not having learned how to do it yet, it was a simple first year level transfiguration and Harry mastered it within minutes. After which they rushed to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.