On the eve of the Christmas holidays, another petrification incident occurred on the eighth floor, and this time there were two victims.
One was the exclusive ghost of Gryffindor, and the other was Shuxin's classmate, Justin Finch-Fletchley.
That's right, the very other protagonist of the giant black snake incident.
Having escaped the black snake only to be brutally attacked by a giant python, was Justin a snake hunter in his past life?
However, could Medusa target ghosts as well?
Whispers and doubts regarding Shuxin being "Medusa" began to circulate around the school, though no one had any better theories.
Christmas arrived in the blink of an eye. Looking at the driverless carriages, Shuxin truly did not know how to describe the shock she felt inside.
It was an empty carriage, yet the front was suspended in mid-air.
"Ah! I touched a furry tail!" Startled, Shuxin plopped right down onto the carriage seat.
"Is there some invisible animal pulling the carriage in front?" Hannah asked curiously as she slowly groped forward.
"I felt it too. It's a rather bony rear end. Could it be a horse?" Hannah grabbed the tail as well.
"Ow!" Hannah yelped as if she had been lashed by a whip. "That tail hit me!"
The girls all mustered the courage to reach out and feel around. It certainly wasn't plump. Scrawny and skin-and-bones would be a better description.
"What kind of animal is this? Is it a Demiguise?" Shuxin remembered Harry's Invisibility Cloak.
"No, Demiguises walk uprigh…
Chapter 47