Everyone paled. A basilisk in Hogwarts? What was an animal like this doing in a school full of children? And what did this man mean to transfer such a dangerous animal to another country? It should be killed. Lucius continued, when he had seen their faces: "We can’t kill it, because we would kill a familiar of the heirs of Slytherin and we would be responsible for it. And everyone knows, what the sentence is for killing someone’s familiar." The members nodded. This was their only option. By sending it away, everyone would have a benefit. The animal would have a better home and the children were much safer and nothing would happen.