A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 163 The Wise Pettigrew
"Owen, don't you think Mr. Dumbledore has become a little strange?"

After returning to the common room, Harry put on a pensive posture and said to him solemnly.

"It's really weird." Owen nodded seriously.Not your average oddball.

He took out the Marauder's Map from his pocket and looked at the motionless black dot in the headmaster's office, with the name Dumbledore marked beside it.But that guy was Dumbledore.I don't know what method the other party used to deceive Hogwarts. It should be a very clever disguise method to make the castle recognize his identity as the headmaster. It is not surprising that he can deceive the Marauder's Map.

With such a headmaster at Hogwarts, he always felt that his future was bleak.Well, maybe we can add a sentence to the introduction of Hogwarts in the future: Is this the place with the most Dark Lords in the world?

"The most important thing is, Dumbledore doesn't care about the heir? He wants to leave this matter to me?" After waking up from the hot-blooded state that Dumbledore had placed high hopes on, Harry knew the future I feel like I'm coming back.Is Dumbledore going to quit the job and entrust the safety of the students on him?
Thinking of this, Harry felt that something was wrong. Dumbledore shouldn't be so indifferent to the life and death of the students, and at the same time he felt the pressure doubled. If he didn't handle this matter well, it would really be possible to kill someone.He is still a child, why should he shoulder such a heavy responsibility...

"Yes, and you agreed to him." Owen said with a half-smile that poked his heart out.The original Dumbledore probably arranged for Harry to be clear, let him reveal the truth step by step, and finally uncover the crown.But obviously the new Dumbledore didn't want to go this way, but directly tore up the plan, intending to let Harry grow wildly.

It has to be said that both education methods have their own advantages and disadvantages.The original arrangement allowed Harry to grow into what Dumbledore wanted to see step by step, so that it was not easy to grow crooked, but future achievements may be limited.And free-range education may sharpen a great wizard with a strong heart and magic power, or it may raise and abolish people halfway.

Owen gave Harry a sympathetic look, but thinking of his current situation, he felt a little sympathetic.They are all people who are targeted, they are nothing more than brothers and sisters.

Harry sat there with glazed eyes, as if lost in his soul.After a long time, he said in a light voice: "Owen, what do you think I should do?"

"Don't just promise what you can't do, but since you have taken on this matter, you can't let it go. You can only use all the possible help you can think of, and go all out to get this matter done " Owen smiled meaningfully, "Didn't he say it? Don't let him down. If he is disappointed in you, he will turn his face..."

"No... no way? Dumbledore is not that kind of person!" Harry retorted instinctively, "This must be Dumbledore's test for me, he will not ignore the students in the school, will he?"

"Maybe, but people change." Owen smiled.What's more, the person is no longer the original person. If there is no accident, the current Dumbledore should be called Grindelwald.

He couldn't help but start to lose his mind.He originally thought that Grindelwald was released after negotiating a consensus with Dumbledore. After all, the two were good friends, and it seemed normal for Dumbledore to ask him for help before he died.

But judging from what the other party did after he became Dumbledore, he obviously had his own purpose.This is a much more dangerous character than Voldemort. Even though he has been self-imprisoned for decades and has shown remorse, who knows if he is really willing?As the person who knew him best and feared him the most, would Dumbledore really choose to let him pretend to be himself, inherit his status and fame in the world, and even give him the Deathly Hallows?

Even if an unbreakable oath is made, it is impossible to take into account all aspects, and there are always loopholes to exploit... If Owen were Dumbledore, he would really dare not make such a decision.

"So, this guy didn't run out by himself, did he? That thing is... so interesting." Owen had already imagined that Grindelwald suddenly violently pushed the weak Dumbledore to the ground, and from his The scene where he snatched the Deathly Hallows from his hand, and pretended to be Dumbledore swaggered away from Nurmengard.

"Owen, we..." Harry, who frowned and thought for a while, suddenly looked at him expectantly.

"Please complete your homework on your own." Before he finished speaking, Owen shattered his attempt with a ruthless expression, "You are the prophesied savior, Harry, I'm just an ordinary passer-by."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and sunk into the space facing the wall, and went to study the advancement of the spell.Recently, he has been thinking about enhancing the power of those basic dueling spells. There are currently two main directions for advancement. One is how to break through the defense of the Iron Armor Curse, and the other is how to deal with rough-skinned and thick-skinned magical animals like basilisks.He has made some progress, but there are still many difficulties to be overcome.

Well, I will ask my dear principal next time, since the other party said that he will answer his doubts, then we must extract the maximum value.

Harry stared blankly at Owen, who seemed to be falling asleep instantly, for a long while, then pulled his hair with a sad face and thought of various ways.By the way, why can Owen fall asleep in seconds?No, why did he get such good grades while sleeping all day?Harry stared blankly at the pile of homework he hadn't started to write, and felt the malice from the world for the first time.

……

In the new semester, the students of Hogwarts found that their headmaster was finally no longer as erratic as before.Although he is still busy and rarely appears outside the auditorium, he always spends two days a week having dinner in the auditorium with all the teachers and students of the school.

It is said that recently he has begun to actively participate in the affairs of the International Federation of Wizards, and even intervene in the decision-making of the Ministry of Magic. It seems that he wants to make his chairman, who is almost only in name, a real name.

After an ordinary dinner, the headmaster stood up and announced that Hogwarts would hold a duel contest, which drew cheers of excitement and anticipation from the students.He told everyone in very provocative words that there are hidden dangers in Hogwarts, and the entire wizarding world has never been so safe. Only by making yourself stronger can you calmly deal with future crises, and you will not face danger in the future. Time can only be slaughtered by others...

The students were discussing enthusiastically, and everyone was eager to try, eager to sign up for the competition immediately. Even the junior wizards who hadn't learned dueling magic couldn't restrain their excitement.

However, the principal's next words poured cold water on the students: "In the next period of time, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart will improve your dueling skills in his class..."

Half the students in the auditorium were screaming and clapping, it was Lockhart fans, and the other half booed, and the enthusiasm in their hearts was extinguished in an instant.

The principal who had just finished his speech was stunned for a moment by the students' reactions, obviously he did not expect such a reaction to his speech.After he was stunned for a moment, he suddenly looked at Lockhart who was beside him, and looked at Lockhart happily waving to the students with heavy eyes.His eyes narrowed slowly, and he sat back after a long time.

Owen didn't care much about the duel contest, he watched the expressions of the professors with interest.It seems that the headmaster's performance was quite successful, even if there were some changes, it was not too out of line and did not arouse too much suspicion.Probably only Professor Snape, who was well aware of Dumbledore's physical condition, looked on with a sullen face and cold eyes, but he has always been like this, and everyone is not surprised.

Harry didn't care about the dueling contest either. He's been worried lately, and his whole body is a little sluggish.He found that Dumbledore really didn't seem to interfere with Voldemort's affairs. He told Dumbledore about the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk before, but the other party just let him handle it by himself...

He thought Hogwarts was over.

After the dinner party, Owen followed the guidance of the Marauder's Map and carried Melet to a wall on the first floor.He glanced at the ordinary wall with deep eyes, and there was a slightly treacherous smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Melet." He put Maolizi lying in his arms on the ground, and winked at her.

Melet raised her head and narrowed her eyes mischievously at him, rubbed his calf affectionately, then jumped out with light steps against the wall, and finally got into a nearby utility room, Parked next to a dirty, cramped corner.There is a hidden mouse hole there.

Owen flicked his empty left hand, and a bottle of light red potion appeared in his palm.He pulled out the wooden cork that blocked the mouth of the bottle, and a faint red smoke came out of the bottle. The strong and choking smell made Owen and Melet sneeze at the same time.

This is a potion that can produce acrid smoke, which is harmless to the human body, but the smoke in too high a concentration can suffocate people.

Owen frowned and guided the smoke with the tip of his wand, then pointed to the mouse hole in the corner.Puffs of red smoke gushed out of the potion bottle, swirling in a single line and slipping into the mouse hole without leaking a single puff into the room.

The potion in the potion bottle was getting less and less, and the smoke completely penetrated the mouse hole like a long snake. Owen opened the Marauder's Map and saw the small black dot marked with Pettigrew Peter moving quickly inside the wall.

Owen followed silently, and Melet ran ahead like an agile little leopard.At the end of this corridor, they saw thick red smoke gushing out of another mouse hole hidden in the corner, one mouse after another scrambled to squeeze out of the hole, and rampaged in a dizzy manner in the corridor .

Melet's golden eyes stared sharply at the group of little mice. After seeing one of the bald and fat mice, he rushed over and pressed it to the ground with one paw.

"Squeak!" The mouse that was held down struggled frantically, screaming in horror, and turned its head to bite her paw.

Melet let go of it slightly, and then slapped the mouse's head with its front paw one after another, and after it was blinded, stretched out the other paw to hold it down.She tilted her head slightly, staring at the mouse under her paw with great interest, as if she got a very interesting toy.

"Okay, Melet, stop playing." Owen stopped with a smile.He looked down at the trembling mouse, which seemed to have lost its ability to resist, but its small eyes were moving restlessly.

Owen pointed at it with his wand, and said softly with a smile: "The soul is out of the body."

The rat's trembling body instantly calmed down, and its roving eyes became calm.Under Owen's order, it began to deform. The mouse's head became the head of a bald man, and its limbs quickly became thicker and elongated...

Melet arched up and jumped aside, shook her paw in disgust, and walked gracefully to Owen's feet, watching curiously as the fat, playful mouse turned into a short, chubby man.Hey, it's so strange, can a human become a mouse?So what changed in Owen?
Peter Pettigrew respectfully stood where the mouse was just now, with his hands hanging naturally on his sides, quietly waiting for Owen's order.

"Sure enough, the Imperius Curse is better..." Owen muttered in a low voice, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.His next plan needs to use Peter Pettigrew, and he is too lazy to talk to this guy, so why not just use the Imperius Curse.

"Give me one of your hairs," he ordered.

Peter Pettigrew didn't hesitate to pluck a strand of hair from the top of his head, not caring about the fact that the top of his head was getting a bit balder.Owen looked at the gray and oily hair with disgust, took out a bottle of potion from his pocket, and asked the other party to throw his hair into it.

The black viscous potion gurgled as if it was boiling, foamed vigorously, and finally turned into a gray-black color like mouse fur.This is a bottle of compound soup.

"Here." Owen handed the Polyjuice Potion to Peter Pettigrew.

He raised the corner of his mouth excitedly, and said playfully, "How can you thank me, Professor Peter? In order to allow you to obtain a convenient status so that you can continue to serve the Dark Lord, I have worked hard."

……

The hour hand slowly pointed to nine o'clock in the evening. Gilderoy Lockhart was sitting in his office, signing his name on a stack of photos.In the photo, he himself grinned at him, showing a mouthful of bright white teeth.

"Bang bang bang..." There was a sudden knock on the office door.

He rubbed his eyes, looked up at the time, wondering who would come to him at this time.

"Come in." He adjusted the expression on his face and showed what he thought was the most charming smile.

The door was opened, and a dirty short man stood outside, he walked in silently, and closed the door behind him.

"Peter, you're back! Oh, I thought something happened to you, you don't know how worried I am..." Lockhart stood up suddenly, and wiped away the tears that didn't exist at the corners of his eyes excitedly.In fact, he has never been very fond of Peter Pettigrew, and he is extremely jealous of the other party's status as the first-class Medal of Merlin, but he is willing to build a good relationship with him.

He soon realizes that this is a wonderful opportunity for him. Peter Pettigrew, who has been missing for a long time, suddenly appears in front of him. He can make everyone believe that he found Peter and saved his life... You can save some of your reputation.

Thinking of this, the expression on Lockhart's face became so warm and friendly that he didn't notice the wand that Peter Pettigrew held in his hand at all.

"Dizzy." Before he could react, a stun spell hit him.He lost consciousness instantly.

Peter Pettigrew walked to him with a gloomy expression, picked up a pair of scissors on the desk, and clicked and cut Lockhart's wavy blond hair into bumps.He gathered Lockhart's hair, opened his mouth, and poured the bottle of Polyjuice Potion into it.

Lockhart, who was in a coma, showed an uncomfortable expression, as if countless rampant little mice had swarmed into his body, rolling under his skin.His limbs shortened and grew thicker, his height became shorter and his figure swelled, his brilliant hair lost its luster, and he was bald—in just a moment, he became exactly like Peter Pettigrew.

Peter Pettigrew took off Lockhart's clothes, then took off his dirty clothes and put them on him.He took another bottle of Polyjuice Potion from his pocket, threw a strand of Lockhart's hair into it, and poured down the glass of the fluorescent green potion with no expression on his face.

He quickly changed into Gilderoy Lockhart's appearance, and changed into the other's clothes, then carried Lockhart out of the office and walked along the dark corridor on the third floor.

At the same time, Owen wore silver plain glasses on his face, maintained the invisibility of the disillusionment spell, and watched with a smile as the basilisk emerged from the water pipe at the entrance of the secret room.

"Follow my instructions." He climbed onto the body of the basilisk, stroking the cold and smooth hard scales, hissing.

The basilisk crawled along the corridor at a leisurely pace, passed through the long corridor silently, and climbed up the empty stairs to the third floor.A portrait of a unicorn hung above the landing, kicking its hooves uneasily, staring down at them with bright black eyes with long eyelashes.

Owen took out a pair of huge strap-on glasses and put them on the basilisk's head, the indestructible glass lenses blocked in front of the basilisk's bulbous eyes.

"I don't like it, it's uncomfortable..." the basilisk said hoarsely, shaking its head repellingly, trying to shake off the special pair of glasses.

"Just wear it for a while, lest you stare at people." Owen patted its head with a smile.As annoying as Lockhart is, it's not a crime to die for, is it?

"This is my best ability..." Sensing some kind of disgust from Owen, the Basilisk said aggrievedly.

"I know, you are very powerful. But uncontrollable abilities are prone to chaos." Owen comforted softly.

While talking, they came to a corridor deep in the third floor, and saw "Gidero Lockhart" dragging "Peter Pettigrew" walking in front.

"Resuscitate quickly." After receiving Owen's instructions, "Lockhart" raised his wand and chanted a revival spell, then quickly dodged into the classroom next to him.

"Peter Pettigrew" slowly woke up from the coma, and suddenly jumped up from the ground.He hissed lightly and shook his painful head, cursed angrily, then began to look around, and just as he turned his head, he met the bright yellow eyes of the basilisk.

There was a look of extreme horror on his face, and then he was frozen at this moment.He fell to the ground with a bang, and turned into a gray and white stone statue, a stone statue with the face of Peter Pettigrew.

Owen told the basilisk to go back to the secret room, then jumped off it and entered the next classroom.Peter Pettigrew, transformed into Lockhart, is waiting for him inside.

"Forget everything." Owen pointed at him with his wand, earnestly weaving false memories for the other party.After a while, he retracted his wand, walked away from the vicinity quickly, and then canceled the control of the Imperius Curse.

Peter Pettigrew, who stayed in the classroom, opened his eyes in a daze, and after a while, he remembered what he had done.

In order to continue serving the Dark Lord, he attacked Lockhart, using Polyjuice Potion to transform into his likeness.Just as he was about to deal with the opponent, he happened to find a passing basilisk. He had an idea, added his own hair into the polyjuice potion, poured it into Lockhart, and let the opponent be petrified...

In this way, Lockhart will always maintain that appearance during the petrification period. People will only think that Peter Pettigrew has been petrified. Who would doubt that the current Lockhart is the real Peter Pettigrew?

Peter snickered, feeling that his idea was too wise.

He cautiously looked out of the corridor, walked briskly past the petrified figure, and entered Lockhart's office.

(End of this chapter)