Hermione missed her target, and the huge figure transformed again in mid-air, becoming an extremely long viper.
The viper slithered, dodging the light of the spell, and coiled the three of them together, speaking in a human voice, "Now, let these three little friends who love to laugh, laugh to their hearts' content!"
"Laugh!"
The three little friends didn't dare to move a muscle.
Click.
The sound of the outermost door of the hut opening was heard, and the large snake quickly slithered, scooping up George and Fred to the wall, where countless vines moved and instantly covered them.
Filch held up his wand, its tip glowing with a faint light, as he patrolled the hut. "I'm sure I just heard a sound."
He was a Squib, so of course he couldn't cast spells, this was Anton's suggestion, to give Filch a replica wand 1.0 Lumos version in the first week.
This unexpected arrival made Filch exceptionally happy, and he walked around everywhere, hugging this wand that could emit light.
Even if its brightness was worse than a flashlight.
At the same time, they had also come to an agreement with Filch, he could enter the hut to inspect, and they gave him a spare key, but he couldn't rummage through anything, otherwise he would be attacked by the Elephant-Eating Vine, everyone maintained a delicate balance.
The inspection yielded no results, Filch left looking bewildered, then halfway, he suddenly turned back.
A large, ugly face suddenly appeared before his eyes.
"Bloody hell!" he cried out in alarm, staggering back a few steps, only to realize it was one of those annoying ghosts from the castle.
Then, he walked away, muttering and cursing, he still had to patrol the castle, so that would be all for today, hmm, definitely not because he was scared.
The vines crawled back onto the wall, revealing the figures of five children, all of them holding strange, twisted poses.
Even though Filch was gone, they remained very much unmoved.
The cold, scaly touch made all their hair stand on end.
Only Harry still dared to make hissing snake sounds to provoke the large snake, for a moment, the other four all thought Harry was incredibly brave.
Anton knew that Harry must be saying something to him in Parseltongue.
But he didn't understand it.
He had only used his self-invented 'Bionic Charm' to mimic, to imitate a creature, to simulate its form, he hadn't actually become a snake, he couldn't understand it.
...
...
After the fun and games.
"Anton, you shouldn't let others know you can turn into a werewolf, and especially a snake!" George said with a grave expression.
Fred also agreed, "It goes without saying that werewolves are ostracized, and turning into a snake can easily subject you to criticism, especially since the legend of the Basilisk has always circulated in our school, people will be afraid of you."
Anton looked at them with a smile, realizing they were genuinely concerned for him, and a grin blossomed on his face.
Not bad, he really hadn't misjudged them.
These two were definitely the most suitable partners.
"We're serious," the twins said in unison.
How could Anton not know what they understood?
But he needed to find a way to use his abilities openly.
Being able to transform wasn't something to be ashamed of, in the future, he would also turn into all sorts of animals and even other plant-based potion ingredients.
To let everyone see his research openly and honorably, instead of being like a gutter rat, like some old wizard hiding in the shadows.
Anton had always been such a proud person, if I'm awesome, I want the whole world to know.
For this, the rights I deserve, the respect I deserve, give them all to me!
Of course, the fact that the Color-Changing Wind Bird could make him invisible was something he absolutely couldn't tell others.
In the future, similar life-saving techniques, he wouldn't even let people like the old wizard Lupin know.
"So I invented this." Anton picked up a glass jar from his experiment table, filled with candies wrapped in shiny, colorful paper.
"Snake-Changing Candy." He opened the jar, took out a candy, and handed it to George, glancing at the old wizard, "Everything comes from potions, and everything will return to potions."
No one understood this sentence, only the old wizard looked at him and smiled with gratification.
"Whoa~" George looked at the candy in amazement and passed it to Fred.
"Whoa~" Fred marveled, and passed it to Harry beside him.
"Whoa~" Harry marveled, and passed it to Ron.
"Whoa~" Ron took it, and swallowed it in one gulp.
"!!!" Hermione, who was about to take it, widened her eyes, jerked back, and gasped.
"!!!"
"!!!"
"!!!"
Everyone stared at Ron in shock.
"I... I..." Ron looked at everyone's expressions and panicked too, as he was speaking, his body suddenly trembled violently, and in a short while, he really turned into a snake.
Unlike Anton's behemoth, the snake Ron turned into was only 3 feet long (90 cm).
He slithered around in a panic, but before long, he raised his head and said, "This feels pretty good!"
"Whoa~" George, Fred, Harry, and Hermione exclaimed in unison.
_Only Anton's mouth twitched as he cursed, "Shit!"
He looked at everyone helplessly, "I haven't developed an antidote or a counter-curse yet!"
"..." Everyone looked at each other, "What do we do?"
What could they do, the group tried for a whole night and got nothing, Ron was even crying.
Crying his eyes out.
That miserable look, haha.
Never mind his two brothers, even Harry and Hermione were laughing.
But the happiness belonged to others, Ron only felt the noise.
A river of sorrow flowed upstream.
With the rescue attempt failing, the group had no choice but to rush him to the school infirmary at the crack of dawn, Anton was also very cunning and brought the candy along, intending to give Madam Poppy Pomfrey a reference, and by the way, see how she cured Ron.
The group made a huge commotion, carrying a snake, and soon alerted a large crowd.
Some early-rising students eating breakfast in the Great Hall heard the news and ran over to watch, and some students who reveled in others' misfortune ran to the dormitories to call their friends.
Soon, even the professors arrived.
Anton tearfully told Madam Pomfrey that it was all his fault, and that she must let him help when preparing the antidote, otherwise his conscience wouldn't be clear.
Madam Pomfrey very gently agreed.
This matron of the school infirmary was definitely a hidden master in the school, it was said that she was already at the school when Snape was still a student.
Any minor injuries like broken bones or missing limbs that the young wizards had, they would lie in her infirmary for a few days and be discharged with ease.
Of course, after the antidote was prepared, he was kicked out, only the professors were allowed to stay inside.
After leaving the infirmary, he saw the twins excitedly and animatedly introducing the glass candy jar in their hands to the crowd.
"Everyone, the effect is remarkable! You all saw it, my little brother was the first to enjoy our latest product, the Snake-Changing Candy!"
"This is an epoch-making product!"
All the students looked at the candy in his hand with a mixture of fear and desire.
"..." Anton was suddenly at a loss for words.