Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

In the exclamation of Hermione and Ron, the basilisk quickly approached Harry and exposed its fangs. Harry felt that he could even smell the earthy smell in its mouth.

However, at this moment, Harry suddenly found that his body could move again.

Not only was he able to move, but besides the Gryffindor's silver sword, he also had a silver shield on his left hand at some point.

He immediately retracted his head without thinking, and raised the shield with his left hand.

The basilisk's fangs struck heavily on the surface of the silver shield, making a crisp "ding" sound.

Seeing this scene, Voldemort couldn't help but shrink his pupils by two points.

"Athena's silver shield? How do you have this too?"

You must know that although he had judged the type of monster in the secret room based on the records a long time ago, he had been hesitant to enter the secret room because he was worried that the basilisk would be difficult to control.

Voldemort was actually a coward - but few people knew it, because they were intimidated by his outward power and bravado.

It wasn't until a young wizard from a pure-blood family in Slytherin expressed his allegiance to him that he dared to try to open the secret chamber, because this wizard family treasured an ancient silver shield that could purify almost all black magic.

The Slytherin wizard boasted that it was the silver shield given by Athena to the hero Perseus, and that he used its reflected light to locate Medusa and kill her

of.

Although Voldemort didn't believe in this myth, the effect of the shield was just as the wizard said, and almost no spells could work on it, including several of the most ruthless magic known to Voldemort at the time.

He finally accepted the silver shield, and took it to open the Chamber of Secrets.

Although it was later proved that the basilisk was very close to him, and he didn't really need the shield, the silver shield became one of Voldemort's collections, just because it could drive away the relationship between black magic, so Voldemort faintly rejected it. I don't like to use it very much.

It wasn't until the Battle of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, when Voldemort faced Dumbledore (the "Order of the Phoenix" plot), that he had to use this silver shield again

At that time, Dumbledore issued a spell that made Harry "feel creepy" at a glance, Voldemort summoned this silver shield in a hurry, blocked Dumbledore's spell with it, and issued a duang sound bang.

No matter what the other abilities are, judging from the fact that it can block the spells of legendary mages, at least the wizard family in Slytherin has not collected fakes.

Harry also had such a silver shield in his hand, which was really beyond Voldemort's expectation.

It seems that Athena, heroes, Medusa and so on are just one of the stories fabricated by the goblins in order to sell goods. There are still many such silver weapons in the hands of the goblins.

Although Harry didn't know why he was able to move suddenly, and there was such a silver shield in his hand, but the characteristic of the Lion House is that the body moves faster than the brain, so after blocking the attack of the basilisk, he didn't say anything, Raising Gryffindor's silver sword with his right hand was a stab.

Before the basilisk could react, its head was pierced by the indestructible sword.The sword pierced through the gourd and emerged from the top of the head. Even the skull could not escape the fate of being pierced, even if Harry was not very strong.

The basilisk let out a painful roar immediately, but no one except Harry and Voldemort could understand what it shouted.

Tom Riddle quickly raised his wand, trying to use a healing spell to help the basilisk.

But a wand appeared out of nowhere and landed on his pocket.

"Extelepathic!" cried Lockhart.

The cursed Tom Riddle's remnant soul trembled for a moment. Before he could realize anything, the remnant soul flickered violently for a few times like a holographic image with a bad signal, and then disappeared.

Seeing that the spell was successful, Lockhart breathed a sigh of relief.

Since he came in, he has been quietly hiding not far from Riddle's side. Even though Harry's situation is already very bad, he has been holding back from making a move, and finally waited until the basilisk left Riddle's side .

When the other party was undefended, he sneaked up behind the other party, and then used a spell to sneak attack - because Gilderoy Lockhart was so familiar with this job, his body even developed muscle memory.

But compared to those open-mouthed witches and old Armenian wizards, the target of Lockhart's sneak attack is much more prominent.Even if it's just a piece of Voldemort's soul, even if it's just a memory left by him when he was 16 years old, Lockhart still feels great satisfaction from being able to sneak attack successfully.

Fox would not let go of this good opportunity, especially when the basilisk's eyes were pecked blind, its gourd was pierced, and it lost Voldemort's command. instinct.

It beat the falling water snake hard, and pecked at the back of the opponent's neck, looking at the posture, it seemed that it would not stop until it pecked the basilisk into a pulp.

And Lockhart picked up the diary on the ground after Voldemort's remnant soul disappeared.

It's useless to sneak attack this piece of soul directly, because the 16-year-old Voldemort's body is that diary, even if it is broken up, it will only damage some vitality, and if you want to sneak attack, you can only sneak attack that diary.

He had been looking for where Tom Riddle had put the diary just now, and even secretly checked Ginny's pocket while they were having a good fight, but he couldn't find it.

It wasn't until the end that he confirmed that, just as the lich likes to keep the phylactery in his dimensional bag, the current Tom Riddle also hides it in his spirit body's pocket.

Because when Ron and Harry released area-of-effect magic several times, Tom Riddle would subconsciously block his pocket.

Oh, young man.

No matter who it is, it seems that Lockhart suddenly appeared at this time. Even Harry forgot that he was still fighting the basilisk for a moment, so that the sword in his hand was taken off his hand, and was killed by the snake. The monster took it out.

It doesn't matter though, because it's over now.

Looking at the basilisk still struggling, Lockhart casually put the diary in his pocket, and lazily tapped it with his wand.

The basilisk that lost its eyes can still find people by smell, and he doesn't want to capsize in the gutter.

"The table is called!"

He summoned the long table of Slytherin in the Hogwarts auditorium with a summoning spell, and pressed it on the basilisk.

No way, who let him only have part of the authority of his own office and auditorium, his own desk is not so heavy.And if the people in the Snake Court knew that their table was crushed by a snake, they would probably be grateful to themselves, right?

Then he turned to the stunned trio.

"The journey is over, kids! You have violated at least 100 school rules on this trip. If you hurry up and apologize to the principal, you might still be able to stay in school."

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It wasn't until Fox pecked at the head of the basilisk and Lockhart lowered his head to examine the body of the basilisk that the three saviors woke up like a dream.

"Professor Lockhart? Is that you?" Harry asked cautiously.

"Of course it's me." Lockhart didn't turn his head. "I'm the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"You...how did you appear here?"

"Something happened to a student at school, of course I want to come and see... Or, do you think I can't see the hole the size of the bathroom?"

Harry looked a little embarrassed: "That's not what I meant..."

While the two of them were talking, Ron had already made two steps in three steps to see how his sister was doing, while Hermione was touching her temple, looking a little confused

Lockhart knew that his Oblivion Curse should have been triggered, so Hermione must have remembered something.

The flood of information that suddenly flooded into her head should keep Hermione quiet for a while, and Lockhart felt that it would be better to wait for her to figure out the situation before apologizing himself.

The most urgent task now is the last step—letting Harry destroy the diary with his own hands.

This step was not difficult. When Ron went to check on Ginny and found that her condition was still getting worse, it became a very simple task for Harry to destroy the diary.

Next, as long as you tell them yourself that destroying this diary can restore Ginny's vitality, then I believe that Harry and Ron will use this Gryffindor sword that has quenched the basilisk venom to cut the diary into pieces The crushing effect that the paper machine can't reach.

Just when Lockhart was about to hand over the diary to Harry, deep in his heart

But there was a voice.

"Wait a minute! You may not know it, but now you have a better choice than handing over the diary. It will become your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

The voice was of course Tom Riddle's.

Lockhart was amazed by the vitality of this diary—even though he had imprisoned this piece of soul with his own magic power, this piece of soul could still talk to himself through his own magic resonance.

"Oh? Mr. Riddle, what do you want to say to me?"

"That little girl wrote a lot in the diary, and I know a lot because of it. In addition to my current situation, I also learned about your past. You want power, right?"

Probably because he knew the time was tight, so Tom Riddle didn't talk about those idle things, but directly cut into the topic.

"Ah, power!" Lockhart sighed, "That's a good thing. With it, wealth and status are at your fingertips. The best resources in society will always be open to you, and you can even build order and manipulate the fate of others. It's not a problem, everyone needs to look up to me... Tell me, who doesn't want power?"

As soon as Riddle heard the joke, his tone became a little hasty:

"Then you should know that Dumbledore can't give you these. On the contrary, he will try his best to prevent you from getting them, and his followers are the same."

Lockhart actually agreed with his opinion: "You are right, he will only help you to a certain extent, but as long as you cross that line, how much Dumbledore once supported you, and how much he will suppress you by then Just as big—if not harder."

Han Jin can say that you are now facing an excellent opportunity. "Riddle's voice was full of delusion," "Think about it, you are a big hero now, no one will suspect that you are involved in the death of that little girl, you just need to go back and tell the principal, you

They won't blame you for being late and failing to save that little girl's life, they'll just think it was excusable. "

"Well...but what good does it do me?" Lockhart asked calmly.

Makeup department?what!Don't you know that there is only one person who can give you great power?The real power that can ignore all objections is power! Only the ultimate black magic can make everyone fear, as the "King" said, "If love and fear cannot be combined, the latter is better'"

"But I don't see any connection between being able to save you and that person who can't even mention the name." Lockhart tried hard to make the voice in his heart look disinterested.

"As long as you go find him and give him this diary that contains his memory. You will get what you want. You don't even understand the importance of this diary to him... Ah, I almost forgot Tell you, my name—”

In Lockhart's mind, a line of text suddenly appeared like this:

Tmo Marvlo Riddle

Subsequently, the letter i was moved to the front and became capitalized, as was the L in le, and his surname was reorganized, eventually becoming IamLrdVldemrt (I am Lord Voldemort).

"Voldemort is my future, and I am Voldemort's past... Think about it, if you return this diary to him, what kind of power and honor will you gain when he regains power?"

Seeing that Lockhart didn't speak, Riddle felt that he was about to succeed, so he aggravated his tone, telling Lockhart to make up his mind immediately.

"Does this still require thinking and weighing? The two sides of the balance are completely unequal things! It's time to make a decision, whether to spend your whole life as the puppet and sounding board of that old bee, or to sit in a high position and become the one under that person." The existence of more than ten thousand people. You just need to deal with them, and then take leave to go out with a diary

But his words were interrupted by Lockhart.

"Ah, sorry, the reason I didn't speak just now was because I suddenly thought of something."

Voldemort didn't expect Lockhart to desert, but for the safety of his own soul: he still had to be patient and continue to support Lockhart.

"What is it?" he asked.

"An old meme, I remember seeing it on the forum before... You see, your name can still be grouped like this one by one"

Lockhart broke up the phrase "1amLrdVldemrt55 in his mind, and turned it into aTmoMarvloRiddle".

Afterwards, he took out the M and " in the middle of Marvl, put them in the front, and changed them into Mr (Mr), put Tm in the back, and finally broke up and reorganized all the back parts, and finally became a new line. Character.

——aMrTm, adildlver (Mr. Tom, a fake dick lover)”

Just like a KTV private room where the electricity suddenly cut off, Tom Riddle suddenly lost his voice.

After a long time, his voice reappeared in Lockhart's mind: "It seems that you are determined to be my enemy, right? I never thought that you would be so courageous?"

"courage?"

"Yeah, you should know that when he learned you destroyed his diary, he

What kind of things will I do to you in the future?Believe me, death is definitely not the best thing for you

ending.

"Yo! Did you start to make threats? It seems that you are just a fool." Lockhart said mockingly, "Did you forget the postscript of "On Kings"?"

half? "If a king wants to be feared, he should do what he says, and if he cannot be loved or loved, he should not be hated. Do you understand, Mr. Tom?"

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Riddle's voice was full of irritation.

"If your eloquence and political common sense were better, I might do it, but your performance just now disappointed me. It's like... how should I put it... A primary school student said to a graduate student who studies the Riemann curve, after I learn the four arithmetic operations , I will teach you how to make missiles."

But Riddle obviously couldn't listen, and besides, he didn't know what the Riemann curve was

"Don't think you've won, it's not over yet, sooner or later you'll pay for it!" he growled.

"Shut up, Mr. fake penis lover." Lockhart retorted, "Also, let me teach you the most basic common sense of politics. I don't think you are so stupid that you don't even understand this truth."

Riddle didn't reply, it seems that he has given up his plan to continue talking with Lockhart.

But Lockhart had to say it anyway.

"What do you mean by "under one person, over ten thousand people"?" "How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch'? In the process of chasing supreme power, no one except yourself can get involved... unless that person is your wife, understand, little Tom?"

After all, he intensified the strength of the mind block, and pressed the other party's consciousness back into the diary.

Consciously returning to the outside, Lockhart found that although the two had been talking in their minds for a long time, it seemed that only a few seconds had passed outside.

After pretending to check Ginny's situation, Lockhart took out Riddle's diary and handed it to the trio.

"It looks like we'll have to destroy the diary to get Miss Weasley back

Waking up, her life force was sucked away by it. "

"I'm coming!" Ron immediately leaned forward, "What should we do?" Lockhart pointed to the corpse of the basilisk over there.

"Choose materials nearby... Gryffindor's sword, basilisk's fangs, or directly dissolve with venom, which one do you choose?"

Harry and Ron said in unison: "Come again!"

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