Chapter twenty-four: Shit...(Insert Intelligent Tagline Here...)

"Emo was petrified!" Andrew put a protective arm around Andy, as though just his arm was going to fight off everything.

McGonagall nodded grimly,

"Yes she was...And she had this book with her...and this spoon for some reason..." she held up one of Mione's books and a tablespoon, "Now, children I want you in bed imediately! It's too dangerous out here!"

"Professor, can we please have the book?" Andrew asked looking at ther book with interest.

Professor McGonagall seemed suspious, especially since Andrew had hardly ever opened a book in his life, but sher handed it over all the same,

"Now off to bed!"

Without having to be told again, Andrew, Andy, Barry and Lemo continued their limping journey back to the Gryffindor tower. For a while they just walked in silence as Andrew read the book. The only noise was the sound of the turning pages. When suddenly Andrew gasped,

"Emo! She figured it out! She figured it out! - Mione actually did...But Emo realised Mione had!"

"Huh?" the other said blinking in confusion.

"The monster in the chamber! It's a Basilisk!" Andrew shoved the paper under Andy's nose, "This is one of the book Mione got out of the library, the day she got petrified!"

The Basilisk

Closely related to the armadillo family, though still a snake, it's a horrible beast. It's large amber eyes can kill anything that meets it's gaze...

"That's why all the plants are dying around the castle!" Lemo exclaimed as Andy muttered,

"Good Riddance..."

"Hang on! Mione must have it wrong! No ones died!" Barry said.

"That's 'cause no one met it's gaze!" Andrew was becoming unnervingly excited.

"Emo had a tablespoon to see round corners! Louie and Mrs. Norris...They had the water that Lemo and I were cleaning up. Cescille had her make-up mirror...Seamus he...saw the reflection in the double doors! Mione...Wait how come Mione didn't die?" Andy scrunched her face up, trying to make her brain function.

The group walked in silence.

"SHE READS!" Lemo cried triumphantly.

"Yes. Yes she does Lemo..." Barry said putting an arm around her.

"WITH GLASSES! You know when the light strikes your glasses at the right angle Barry, and you can see behind you..." Lemo explained.

It all dawned on the others faces and they all nodded.

The snake is large in size and often needs to shed it's skin...

"Wait a second, wouldn't someone had to have notice a bloody huge snake roaming around petrifying people?"

"Mione's answered that for us..." Andrew said hitting the bottom of the book with his hand. In Mione's tidy handwritting it said; Pipes. Then below it in Lemo's not-so-tidy handwritting it said; Eww...Smelly!

Everyone turned and looked at Lemo,

"Hey! I popped into see her, bathroom break..."

Spiders flee before it. The cry of a rooster is fatal to the Basilisk.

Lemo and Andy began cracking up. Barry looked at them in amazement,

"Mione's just been pretrified and you guys and killing your fucking selves laughing!"

"The deadly cock!" Lemo spluttered as Andrew and Barry muttered to each other how immature girls were...