Hogwarts: Where are the Pokémon?

Chapter 196 Lockhart: Malfoy?i laughed

"Restricted section?" Lockhart seemed to be interested, and looked at the three of Harry with playful eyes.

"Don't you know this is against school rules?"

"But, professor, if we get your permission, it's not a violation, is it?" Hermione said hastily.

"Playing tricks with me?" He smiled, disapproving of what the three of them said in his heart.It's just a few brats, can they really find the murderer?Even if they can be found, Lockhart can't let them succeed!
If he hadn't needed to stay in Hogwarts, he would have killed Harry Potter with a Killing Curse!

"Okay, tell me who you suspect, and then let me investigate, and you go back to rest early, and wait for everything to come to light..." Lockhart dismissed them casually.

Seeing this, the three of Harry immediately knew that they had come tonight in vain.

However, Hermione felt that since she couldn't borrow the book, it wasn't impossible to ask Lockhart to investigate Malfoy.

"We suspect Malfoy!" She finally decided to speak out.This startled Harry and Ron.

Lockhart almost laughed when he heard the words Malfoy.Malfoy, does he look like an heir?
"Draco Malfoy? He, no way!
"You still Malfoy?
"It's... a thousand miles away. Malfoy wants to be the heir, so let's go up a bit and come again, ah.

"Draco Malfoy said that he wants to be the heir to the Chamber of Secrets. Does he have the strength? If he goes up, he will be crushed by others, and he will be the heir?" The biblical speech stunned the three of Harry for a moment.

"We say that the heir to the Chamber of Secrets is among the Slytherin students, or in other words, among the dark wizards, who are also very evil!
"For example, the last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a wizard from the Muggle world was killed. At that time, I heard that the entire school was almost closed. Does Malfoy have this ability, right?
"That's a very evil wizard. What can Malfoy do, and become a dark wizard? He must first have the strength to be his heir. He hasn't learned many spells. Look at the spells that Hermione knows. Quite a lot! Isn't it? Multiply the spells that Malfoy knows, can he beat Hermione? He can't! So in the first place, Malfoy doesn't qualify!"

The three of Harry looked at each other, and immediately felt that what Lockhart said made sense.

Although Malfoy is a pure-blood, and his performance is among the best in the same grade, there are still many students who are better than him in the upper grades!How many spells does Malfoy know?Still want to be the heir?

It's not qualified at all, okay, I don't have that qualification!
But having said that, Lockhart still felt that Harry's guess was reasonable.

Thinking about it carefully, he did remember that the Dark Lord gave something to Lucius Malfoy for safekeeping, and he vaguely remembered that it seemed to be related to the Chamber of Secrets.

Could it be Malfoy?

Lockhart couldn't help feeling suspicious.

Malfoy couldn't have opened the Chamber of Secrets on his own, and it didn't make sense if he only had the key to the Chamber of Secrets.

Now that the Malfoy family belongs to Charlene Gold, if there really is such a thing, now that Voldemort has been "killed", will Lucius still hand over such a dangerous thing to his son? ?
Therefore, Lockhart immediately thought that it was very possible that Voldemort himself was controlling Malfoy to open the Chamber of Secrets.

Thinking of this, he wished he could rush to Malfoy's side immediately and find out all the truth.

In fact, he did the same thing!

"Fortunately, Lockhart has a lot of money, and the materials he bought can last a long time." He took out a bottle of compound potion that hadn't been added to anyone's hair, and planned to find a Slytherin the next day The little wizard turns into the other person and asks for the truth.

And after the three of Harry left Lockhart's office, they couldn't help but feel that what the other said was very reasonable.

"And Malfoy's father has already betrayed Voldemort. I heard that their family doesn't seem to hate Muggles so much." Ron thought for a while and said, "Maybe it's really not him."

"Maybe he's really reformed, but he's still not a good man!"

Harry really had to admit that Malfoy's attitude towards Hermione was much better now than before, not only would he not speak insults, but even the contempt in his eyes was gone.But the other party never stopped fighting against him from beginning to end.

But this is the grudge left between them in the past.

"Look, maybe he didn't open the Chamber of Secrets, but I think he must know something?" Harry said immediately.

"Why else would he appear in the corridor on the third floor? Slytherin's dormitory is underground!"

The three of them were walking while talking, but they bumped into Neville who was walking towards him.Harry, who looked a little thin, was immediately bumped by Neville.

"Are you okay, Harry?" Neville just came across from the club, and he was constantly training his two Pokémon.In fact, the level of the croaking frog was already very high. It had been practicing sword swing with Neville before.

The little Kabimon's talent is also good, but it eats a lot and gets hungry easily.

"I'm all right Neville - but you're physically fit enough to be a keeper or a batsman," said Harry.Professor Xia Lin's physical exercise method was really effective for Neville, so much so that Harry even wanted to learn it.

If he could grow taller, maybe Zhang Qiu would take a second look at himself instead of that Cedric!
Harry thought angrily.

"and many more--"

"Neville! You are the professor's student!" Harry hurriedly pulled Neville back as if he had thought of some good idea.

"Yeah, you have a good memory. But apart from me, you are also the professor's student, and everyone is the professor's student." Neville looked at Harry suspiciously, thinking that his roommate's memory was not very good.

"How about I lend you my memory ball, Harry? I haven't used it for a long time." Neville said with concern on his face.

"I don't have a bad memory! I mean, you have the best relationship with Professor Xia Lin! He is almost your teacher, right?"

Neville nodded.

"What do you want to do?"

"You don't mean to—"

Ron and Hermione looked at Harry at the same time.

"That's right, since Lockhart doesn't want to give us a note, the only person who can give us a note is Professor Xia Lin!"

"But what about Professor Lupine?" Hermione asked rhetorically.

"He would never let me take any chances." Harry shook his head. "Remember? Only Professor Charlin never treated us like children. That was the case last year when Voldemort tried to steal the Philosopher's Stone. Now, if Let's talk it out with him, and he might be willing to give us a little help."

"I think it's kind of ridiculous..." Ron wasn't very confident about it.

But Harry said again, "What if Neville and I go to beg him together? I believe he will agree. We are wizards, and we are also Pokémon trainers! Being strong or weak has nothing to do with age!"

"Sorry, what are you talking about?" Neville interrupted.

"I don't want to bother the professor with strange things. The professor is good enough to me." Neville said with a troubled face.

"Listen Neville, we're going to find the real murderer," Harry said seriously.

"You mean the heir to the Chamber of Secrets?"

"That's right!" Harry was delighted that Neville was willing to admit the existence of the Chamber of Secrets.

In fact, because of the fact that there are two powerful wizards in the school, many students put things behind them after a short first panic.What about the heir of Slytherin?
There are the strongest wizards ever and the strongest wizards in the school. Even the heir of Slytherin must not dare to do anything.

Petrifying a cat is already the limit, where as 50 years ago, it directly took away a poor innocent life.

So, a lot of people thought it was just a prank, petrifying Filch's nasty cat, good for everyone.Fred and George even said that this is killing harm for the people!

But now that Filch has a visiting rat, it makes night travel more difficult.

j Even if it wasn't a prank, the heir of Slytherin would not dare to do anything anymore, and everyone would like to believe that he would just disappear.Some people even said that if the successor released the monster in the secret room, he must compete with him with Pokémon!
"The professor did say that the chamber of secrets has been opened." Neville nodded, "The monster inside is very scary and has strong magic power. If the special defense of the Pokémon is not enough, it may be killed. You need to investigate This? It's too dangerous!"

"But if we don't investigate, we will never know who the murderer is! Do you want to watch people die in the school?" Harry said excitedly.

Hearing this, Neville's emotions were also mobilized.

"Well, what you say makes sense. In this case, I can help you." He said, "But I have one condition——"

"what?"

"Take me with you!" Neville said firmly.

In this regard, the three of Harry agreed without much thought.

Unlike Neville in the original book, the current Neville is not the idiot who has a bad memory and can screw up everything.His strength is also very strong, whether it is a spell or a Pokémon, I am afraid it can come in handy.

"It will be easier if you join."

Harry explained their plan in detail.

"We suspected Malfoy, but now that we think about it, he may not be the murderer. But he may also know some information." Harry said, "Hermione plans to refine the compound potion, and then sneak into Slytherin to find information! But the formula is in the Restricted section, so we need a note from the professor."

Neville showed a suddenly realized expression: "I see, I said why the professor gave me a note with his name written on it today, I think he may have guessed that you plan to go to the restricted section."

Hearing this, the three of Harry immediately beamed with joy.

"I knew the professor would help us!"

"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and go to the library!" Hermione seemed happier than anyone else, grabbed the note Neville took out and rushed to the fourth floor.Ron suspected that she simply wanted to read.

Finally, under Mrs. Pince's suspicious eyes, Hermione got the "Powerful Potion" as she wished.

"This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen," said Hermione as they browsed through the recipe. "Lacewings, leeches, sapweed, and two-eared grass," she murmured, pointing one by one with her fingers. Looking at the ingredients list, "these are easy to get, they are in the student locker, we can get them ourselves. Ouch, look, there is also a powdered bicorn horn- don't know where to find... . . . a piece of snake skin from an African tree snake - that's hard to come by - and, of course, something from the man we're trying to transform."

"I'm sorry," said Ron sharply, "what do you mean? What's a little thing about the man we're trying to make? I wouldn't drink it if it had Crabbe's toenails in it..."

Hermione didn't seem to hear him, and continued: "We don't have to worry about it yet, the little things are put in last..."

Ron turned to Harry speechlessly, and Harry had another doubt.

"Do you have any idea how much we're going to steal, Hermione? Snakeskin shards of African tree snakes, that's definitely not in the student lockers. What are we going to do? Break into Snape's private storage room? I don't know." Is this an idea…”

"How could we steal something from Professor Snape?" Neville also said absurdly, "He will definitely release that big-mouthed bat to bite us!"

Hermione snapped the book shut.

"Well, if you're scared and want to run away, that's fine," she said.There were two bright blushes on her cheeks, and her eyes were brighter than usual. "You know, I don't want to break school rules. I think threatening a Muggle-born is worse than concocting a complicated potion. But if you don't want to find out if Malfoy did it, I'm going to Find Ms. Pince and give her the book back..."

"I never imagined that one day I'd see you trying to persuade us to break the school rules," said Ron. "Well, let's do it. But no toenails, okay?"

"How long does it take to prepare this potion?" Harry asked, when Hermione's mood improved and she opened the book again.

"It's like this. The sap grass needs to be picked on the day of the full moon, and the lacewings need to be boiled for 20 days... I think, if all the ingredients can be obtained, it will be almost a month."

"One month?" Ron said, "By then, Malfoy might have knocked out half the Muggles in the school!" Hermione's eyes narrowed, and Ron hurriedly added : "But this is the best solution we can think of, let's step up our actions."

"Wait, it's not necessarily the best." Neville suddenly remembered something.

"-- Ditto!"

(End of this chapter)