Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"Mr. Davis is actually not wrong, it's just that the duel location he envisioned is on the "stage" instead of "contest with Death Eaters", so he has this idea...Although it is very necessary to improve our duel skills, but What is more important is why we fight, and with whom we fight.

Like me, the reason why I fight against the dark arts is not because I am bored and want to kill myself.It's not because in order to "serve justice", we have to find an "evil" to come out-if we don't figure this out, we will never know the true meaning of magic.

Whether it is black magic or white magic, it is indeed just a tool, but the use of black magic requires the wizard to have evil will or negative emotions to trigger it. The reason why we fight against black magic is, after all, in the fight against human nature the dark side of

I used to think that as long as I traveled around with a magic wand and knocked out all the evil I encountered, I would be victorious, but I found out after a few years that no matter how much I did

, darkness and evil still emerge in endlessly, and it can even be said to be unabated. "

Speaking of this, Lockhart showed a regretful expression, and the expressions of the little wizards also became serious.

"I had to ask myself repeatedly, who is the enemy I'm facing? How can I eliminate the real dark wizard? Until I saw this sentence-"A good system can turn a bad person into a good person, and a good system can turn a bad person into a good person, and a Bad systems can turn good people into bad too'

So if you really want to kill black magic, you have to get rid of it at its root - and I feel like I have a duty to do that.

I hope that everyone can think about it when they go back, what is the "evil" you want to eliminate and fight against, and if you are interested in eradicating black magic from the root, you can often come to me and talk to me in the future." Testimonials

After receiving the notice from the editor to put it on the shelf, Shi cut was stunned for a while, and found that he didn't know what to say.

[Figure. Toshiyaguchi on the shelf]

It is not the first time that the old author has been on the shelves, and it should not be the case, but this time is different from before, because Shijue is a novel written "while playing".

But the results are better than expected, even better than the previous few previous results.

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To be honest, Shijue's current mood is like a fruit farmer who has worked hard to plant more than a dozen trees. When he wants to take a break with a sense of accomplishment, he finds that the dandelions he accidentally blown down have turned into a large field of flowers.

Good things are good things, but I'm just a little confused.

Although this book also has metaphors and places where it intersects with reality, to be honest, there are very few, so few that they can be ignored, but it may be because of this that it lowers the threshold for reading, right?

Thank you for your support!

Let’s talk about the update of this book—it’s been three years and three months since the book was written, and the ten cuts haven’t stopped updating for a day during the serialization period. The update is steady but rarely breaks out, mainly because of the Virgo’s compulsion to keep details The cause of the onset of symptoms is not discussed in detail here.

The more important reason is that Shijue hopes that he can maintain a relatively relaxed but long-term state to write books, and write until he is 60 years old, so one or two days of explosive updates will appear in the long period of 30 years Insignificant.

In addition, Shijiao has to pay attention to his body. Because of the relationship between work and rest, exercise and irregular diet, there are a lot of small problems all over his body. Although the results of the physical examination have not yet come out, it is certain that there must be something wrong with his body. , and the problem is big

, panic is useless.

Therefore, the ten cuts will neither interrupt the update nor eunuchs, but it is unlikely to explode. I will strictly follow the spirit of the chairman and talk about protracted warfare.

Anyway, so many finished books are placed there, the credibility is good, right?

So here is the cheek to ask for a first order. If you feel that the update is too slow, you can consider raising the book, but please give Shijue a first order to motivate, let Shijue know where the upper limit of this book is, so as to better understand Service readers, thank you in advance for your care, thank you!

—A writer who never stops writing 2021-11-04

Chapter 59 Quarrel

While Lockhart was "heart-to-heart" with the top students he had selected, Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, staring intently at an object in front of him, like a statue, and hadn't moved for a long time.

- Snape next to him was a little impatient: "You have been looking at it for half an hour, have you noticed anything new?"

Dumbledore finally trembled as if he had been awakened by Snape, and sighed heavily.

"I'm afraid it is. The longer you look at some things, the more shocking the conclusions you get."

What did Newell see? " Snape was puzzled, "I thought you would call Pomona over and find out, it's something from her academy. "

"That nostalgia doesn't help, Severus, just like I'm asking you where the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets is now, can you answer me?"

Snape stuck.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Dumbledore raised his wand and shattered the golden cup.

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"Shattered!" cried Dumbledore.

I saw a magical light flashing from the tip of the staff, and hitting the golden cup, and then it was swallowed by the cup in an instant, without any waves.

Moreover, after absorbing the magic, the golden cup didn't settle down, but shook quickly, and then split itself into two under Snape's surprised gaze.

Snape didn't react at first, but after only two or three seconds, he watched the two golden cups split himself into four, and then swallowed the magic star on Dumbledore's table instrument, and then split into eight,

sixteen...

Surprised, Snape quickly took out his wand, trying to dispel the magic—because he did know this magic, if he left it alone, the magic items in the entire office and even the school might be swallowed by it.

But before he could do it, Dumbledore had already done it.

"Finite!" he called, drawing out his elder wand, into the cup.

Following Dumbledore's incantation, red magic flames spewed out from the tip of the Elder Wand, and then turned into a dragon-shaped ring of fire that enveloped the proliferating golden cup, burning the split fake golden cup.

And the body of the golden cup trembled for a while, then settled down again, and stayed in place motionless, looking harmless to humans and animals, as if it had never done anything

Snape breathed a sigh of relief.

"You also know this magic, right? At least we can now be sure that the remnant soul on this golden cup is definitely not Helga Hufflepuff's own." Dumbledore's faint voice came.

"What does that mean?" Snape asked.

"This represents confirmation of my worst fears... Well, I'm afraid we'll have to inform Pomona a little later, as I'm not sure I can guarantee it will be returned to Hufflepuff in good condition."

Originally Dumbledore was still hesitating whether to tell Snape his conjecture, he really didn't want to tell Snape this, it was never old Deng's style to put secrets in one basket.

But this thing was found by Snape and the others, and it would be a bit bad if they kept it from him.

Moreover, it was Bella who told Snape herself at the time, "He (Voldemort) can

Sensing the "golden cup", it took a long time for Snape to find out what it was.

Forget it, tell him the truth about some Horcruxes.

Sure enough, when Dumbledore told his conjecture about the "Horcrux", Snape was shocked.

"You mean, more than one... But this magic is indeed his magic! I will not admit it, only... only a few people will use it."

"Yes, it seems that Voldemort does not respect this historic souvenir more than we do." Dumbledore stared at the gold cup and said with emotion.

Snape quickly stood up from his chair.

"We've got to go to that Weasley girl right away and ask her where she's hiding the diary!" he shouted at Dumbledore.

But Dumbledore shook his head: "Don't worry... Now that we have determined who has the thing, the next question is how to use it. After all, we still don't know where Slytherin's chamber is. Also, how to use it?" A student can have the means to destroy this Horcrux... I am afraid this will become our long-term topic."

"Are you still going to do it?" Snape asked in disbelief.

"Never intended to stop," Dumbledore said flatly.

I warn you... no, you should know how dangerous this is without my warning. "

"Thank goodness you're still teaching at Hogwarts."

Snape was furious.

"It's no use talking nice things, I've had enough, Dumbledore! I've figured it out, I can't fix anything! But you can't fix anything either! You haven't done anything you promised, but I But you have to be responsible for every whim of yours!

Dumbledore also stood up: "Severus, in this matter, I think I need to explain..."

Xing Shu what can be explained!You don't need to explain to me, anyway, no matter what you say, I will do it!I admit that I made a wrong decision at the beginning, but I will naturally take responsibility for myself and continue to fulfill that commitment.But no matter what you say, as long as a student has an accident, I will immediately use my method to solve the problem!I do what I say! ",

With that said, Snape walked away.

After Snape walked out of the office angrily, Dumbledore sighed, sat back in his seat, and began to observe the Horcrux.

It's just that although his eyes were fixed on the Horcrux, he was thinking about other things in his mind.

In the eyes of a master of magic like him, although it is very troublesome to eliminate the soul in the golden cup, it is only a troublesome level, and it is not an unsolvable problem

The truly unsolvable problems are always only in the human mind.

Obviously, Snape strongly opposed Dumbledore's plan to continue to test the Savior, and claimed that as long as there was an accident, he would destroy the diary immediately, which made Dumbledore regret telling him about the Horcrux.

Another point is also a headache for Dumbledore—that is, Gilderoy Lockhart, who also managed the plan to defraud the Horcrux, how should he deal with it?

How much does he know?Will this become a hidden danger in the future?These are all unknowns.

Thinking of this, Dumbledore began to call people.

"Lingkull!"

Following Dumbledore's summons, a house-elf appeared in his office.

"I am willing to serve you, dear principal, what orders do you have?"

"Send me a letter to the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and tell him that I want to have a meal with him tonight and talk about it by the way."

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Chapter 60 Hooked

Dumbledore's message was delivered quickly, and the house elves at Hogwarts understood the rules. They didn't barge in when he was having club activities, but waited at the door until he came out to see off the guests.

These dueling top students enjoyed a very pleasant weekend gathering with their favorite desserts, drinks, conversations and friends, and some of them had a feeling that they had just attended a "big fan meeting" The sense of pleasure went out one by one and some blew.

Considering that they were still young, Lockhart didn't plan to talk to them about any big reasons, but chatted with them about some light-hearted topics—anyway, there would be plenty of time in the future, and it was nothing for the political club to inspect members The level of ideological quality.

Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, Lockhart sent them out one by one.

Remember, Davis, and you little boys too.Girls won't fall in love with you just because you bring her breakfast and treat her well, they will only be attracted to you, understand?absorb!Simply relying on the so-called tenderness and being nice to her and expecting her to fall in love with you is pure cheating, because everyone can give her those things.Rather than being an obedient puppy, it is better to work hard to improve yourself..."

After sending the students away, Lockhart discovered that there was actually a house elf at the door of his office.

"Is something wrong?" he asked.

"The principal invited you to his office for dinner." Lingkull replied respectfully, "If you don't make it difficult, please allow me to ask for a reply message."

"...Of course, please tell the principal, I must go... What is the password of the principal's office?"

Chilled lemon juice. ’ replied Linkul.

Although the headmaster's invitation was a bit abrupt, Lockhart was not surprised: because there are a lot of facts that happened today, it would be strange if the headmaster didn't talk to himself.

He carefully recalled what happened today, and smoothed it out as he recalled, so as to figure out how much he had revealed.

Because Dumbledore was in a hurry, Lockhart had to give up the idea of ​​hanging Dumbledore until Christmas, but chose to do it this weekend.

Just this morning, he and Snape came to Azkaban Prison, trying to find out what exactly Voldemort had given Bella, and the headmaster followed them all the way with the invisibility technique.

Under Lockhart's careful arrangement, Snape and Lockhart performed a wonderful show in front of Bella.If this was in the Muggle film and television industry, Lockhart felt that his performance could even win an Oscar gold award-of course, it may still be worse than the acting skills of the President of the United States.

A few days ago, according to the agreement with Lockhart, Lucius Malfoy visited Bellatrix hypocritically, saying that he had recently discovered the Dark Lord's traces, but he could not be found. Bella wondered if the Dark Lord had ever given her something to find him, so he could use it to find the Dark Lord and bring him back to life.

But Bella wouldn't believe it—out of all the Death Eaters, she least believed in the Malfoys, because they were famous scumbags.

For so many years, there are many old Death Eaters who have come to Azkaban to see Bella, but Lucius has never been here, and those companions have also told Bella about Lucius' escape from punishment.

From Bella's point of view, Lucius himself had neither tried to find the Dark Lord nor rescued his former accomplice from Azkaban after escaping from the punishment, but now he is shy to talk to himself Said she was going to find the Dark Lord... Ha, it really sucked her

Do you think it's a two-year-old/" child?

After spending so many years with the dementors in Azkaban, Bella no longer has any hope and trust in her heart, and all that is left is paranoia and fanaticism. If the curse could take effect, she would have put the Malfoy family The curse is dead.

Malfoy took a hard nail, but he didn't get angry. He just expressed regret to Snape and Lockhart after the prison visit that he tried his best, but Bella didn't trust him, so he couldn't do anything.

Lockhart knew this well, and Malfoy didn't want to take any responsibility, so he went to Bella in such a "careless" way. Bella's refusal gave him an excuse to shirk his responsibility.

But fortunately, he didn't expect Malfoy to do anything. All he needed was for Lucius to reveal to Bella that he had "discovered the Dark Lord's trace", so as to plant a wedge in their itinerary.

And Lockhart and Snape waited for Lucius to go to Azkaban for a few days before they went to Azkaban to "visit" and brought a lot of food and wine for them. Be loyal to the Death Eaters.

The dementor guards in Azkaban had initially disapproved of their visits, but after Lockhart told them that alcohol could bring a little happiness to their prisoners, the dementors agreed to their approach.

In front of the Death Eaters like Bella, Lockhart dressed himself up as an extremely admirer of the Dark Lord—opening his mouth on pure blood theory, but shutting his mouth to purify Muggles, and said that the gang of "self-willing and depraved half-bloods should all be punished." Punishment to hard labor, Muggle family backgrounds must be forced to receive education in the black arts", and made a full posture.

Snape, on the other hand, showed his usual standard—he told Bella that Lockhart was a downline he developed by chance a few years ago, and that this downline had been traveling around the world, claiming to be tirelessly He has been searching for the Dark Lord, and it seems to have some results recently.

As to whether the man was trustworthy or not, Snape said he was equally unsure.I hope Bella doesn't trust Lockhart completely, and asks her to be more cautious.

If Snape assured Lockhart that there was nothing wrong with it, Bella might still be skeptical, because she also didn't think Snape was loyal enough—or she thought that all the Death Eaters who weren't in prison were not loyal enough. .

But after hearing what Snape said, she actually believed Lockhart a little bit—Snape, a coward, even found out about his master's traces, and was still afraid of doing anything here, even if it was just a possibility, and he had to Risking the possibility of being put in prison, what is there to hesitate about?

This is how people are. Psychologically speaking, as long as a danger is warned, it is easier for people to ignore it.

Like putting up warning signs in accident-prone areas to show how many accidents have occurred there, doing so will do little to reduce the accident rate.Because the driver will feel more careless because he feels "already reminded".