Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

Lockhart had isolated himself from Voldemort's bewitching, and had barely struggled psychologically.

For him, Voldemort is not compelling, even if the opponent is stronger.

For a person in the 0th century, Voldemort's compulsion has long been lost in the voice of "Harry Potter is daddy! Ihehehe!"

Not to mention that Voldemort actually talked about politics with him, and a terrorist actually wanted to teach politics to a big civil servant who passed the civil service examination and went through various selections. This is too ridiculous.

When you are not good at a certain thing, if you want to maintain your composure, you have to remain mysterious and avoid speaking in areas where others are good at, otherwise the three sentences will be seen as they are, and you will not be able to maintain your composure.

Sorry, compared to Dumbledore, you are really naive.

So Lockhart chose to hand over the diary and continue to gain favorability in front of the savior

Just as Lockhart thought, Harry and the others inflicted inhumane torture on that diary.

In fact, Lockhart felt that when Ron took his fangs and slammed into the diary, it was over, especially when Tom Riddle yelled "it's not over yet, let's see" when.

Well, a very villainous statement.

But Harry and Ron didn't think so, and when Ron stabbed it out of ink, Harry quickly joined the battle with Gryffindor's sword in his hand.

Magical ink sprayed out like blood, while Harry and Ron seemed to have turned into murderers, and they were cruel and inhumane to the diary.

Cutting, chopping, and chopping turned it into pieces of waste paper.They didn't stop until Lockhart yelled at them that Ginny was responding.

Of course, Lockhart put his concern for the students first. After Ginny woke up, he immediately sat beside her to comfort her, and even stuffed a box of cream balls.

After Hermione's memory recovered, in order to cover up herself, she has been taking care of Ginny there, occasionally sneaking a peek at Lockhart's side, and hesitated to speak a few times.

Harry and Ron didn't notice, they were too busy trying to comfort the buzzing Ginny, and Harry even cracked a couple of poor jokes in an attempt to amuse her.

If he knew that this was his future wife, maybe he would choose to rearrange the wording.

Seeing the friends busy sharing the joy of victory, Lockhart came to the corpse of the basilisk, ready to collect the spoils.

"You guys rest for a while, and I will take you up together after I finish disposing of its corpse... Hey, Fox, shut up!"

Dumbledore's phoenix was nipping at the basilisk's neck, as if tasting the snake's flesh.Since the basilisk was pierced by the sword, the basilisk has been pressed down by the table and can only be slaughtered by it. When Lockhart came to check it, it had already passed away.

After hearing Lockhart's stop, Fawkes raised his head and looked at Lockhart unhappily, which probably means that he won't stop if you don't give him an explanation.

Lockhart walked over quickly, and took out a pair of spare gloves from his bag - because the pair he was holding was given to Myrtle as a reward.

Then he took out a few more bottles and pointed the mouth of the bottle at the poison gland above the basilisk's teeth.

"I hope to collect a little more... This thing is very useful."

Lockhart noticed when he was attacked last time that although the basilisk's venom can corrode organic matter, floor tiles and glass, the gold jewelry has not been corroded, indicating that it

It is not a strong oxide like aqua regia.

In addition, Gryffindor's silver sword can also absorb it. Lockhart guessed that the snake venom should be something similar to hydrofluoric acid, so he got a few Teflon potion bottles from the Muggles. , trying to pretend to go.

Sure enough, when the bottle touched the snake venom, it was not dissolved or deformed.

Because of the sword and the phoenix, the venom glands of the basilisk were already damaged, and a lot of venom had flowed out. Lockhart tried his best to collect it, but in the end he only collected less than three vials.

Well, if only it were a male snake, Lockhart thought unwillingly.

Because this basilisk does not have a scarlet crest, it should still be a female snake with less venom. If it is a male snake, the venom sac will be more developed

After comforting Ginny, Harry and the four of them finally noticed Lockhart's side

"What are you doing?" Ron asked curiously.

"The venom of the basilisk. Because there have been no traces of basilisks in Britain for more than 400 years, this thing can't be bought even if you have money. Such a small bottle is worth at least 500 Galleons. If you collect three bottles, I can return some points Blood... Oh, I almost forgot, give me back the silver shield, the goblins blackmailed me for 3000 Galleons."

Only then did Harry know how the silver shield appeared on him. "Thank you, Professor." He handed over the shield and sword.

Lockhart took the shield, but pushed the sword back: "This silver sword is not mine, it is Godric Gryffindor's legacy, and you will return it to the principal yourself later."

"Principal? Dumbledore." Harry was a little surprised, "He also knows that I'm here

inside? "

There are no members of the Dumbledore family left, no one can control this guy..." Lockhart pointed to Fox, "There is a legend in Dumbledore's family - when any Dumbledore is in desperate situation, he will There will be a phoenix coming to him, why, only the members of their family know. "

Facing the eyes of the three little wizards, Fox smacked his lips, noncommittal to what Lockhart said.

"That's great," said Ron enviously. "There's only one ghoul in my house, and I don't even know what it can do besides knocking on the water pipe."

Harry, on the other hand, keenly noticed the "desperate situation" in Lockhart's words.

Who is it that once drove wizards like Dumbledore to a corner?

But before Harry could think for long, Lockhart started to greet him and Ron.

"Harry, Ron, and Hermione, all three of you are here to help! After all these are done, I will not forget your share!"

As he spoke, he took out three more pairs of gloves and handed them to them one by one.

Harry took the gloves, a little curious: "Isn't the venom already collected? What else are you going to do?"

Lockhart quickly replied: "We'll take out the remaining fangs, maybe they will be useful sometime. The snake gall is also taken out, Professor Snape will be interested. The snake skin Also try to be as complete as possible——oh, Fox, you really can spoil things—Wizeac is preparing to produce snakeskin wallets recently, and is buying snakeskin everywhere! Let’s say that this piece of skin will cost him 100 Galleons... "

Hearing that he was also involved, Ron happily joined the harvesting army.

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After spending a little time, several people packed up the basilisk.

Since several of them were not very proficient in skinning techniques, in order to completely peel off the skin of each snake, Lockhart borrowed the Gryffindor sword in Harry's hand and cut open the midline of the basilisk's abdomen.

If the students at Hogwarts knew that Lockhart did this to the snake with the sword of Gryffindor, he would be loved by all Gryffindors, and hated by Slytherins.

Snake skin, snake gall, and snake heart are all good things.Although Lockhart doesn't know how to use it, I believe someone will.

Looking at the environment around the secret room, Lockhart suddenly had another idea.

"I'm going to apply to Dumbledore. The Duelist Club finals will be held in the Chamber of Secrets in a month's time. It's really a great atmosphere here."

Harry and Ron agreed: "Good idea."

After dawdling for a long time, they returned to the entrance below the secret room under Fox's impatient gaze.

- The bird's two feet were obviously not enough for everyone to grasp. After Harry and Ron grabbed Ginny's two hands from left and right, they had a difficult time.

"This is a phoenix, not an owl that can be seen everywhere. It can afford all of us." Lockhart said, "If Hermione, you can catch..."

"Professor, can you carry me up? I'm really tired now." Hermione said suddenly.

Lockhart's expression froze for a moment, and finally he reluctantly agreed.

He grabbed Fawkes by one leg and carried Hermione on his back, while Ron

Ginny was carried on his back like a model, grabbed the other leg, and Harry grabbed its tail feathers alone.

The ability of the Phoenix to carry people is really not covered. Dumbledore can apparate and many other ways of moving, but he is still used to moving with the Phoenix. much better.

While Harry and Ron were yelling, Lockhart secretly asked Hermione on his back.

"Memory recovered?"

"Of course, it's only been two weeks," Hermione replied quickly.

I don't know if it's because of the phoenix fire, but her face is flushed red

"Don't tell them yet." Lockhart had to make amends, "When they find out, or when Dumbledore tells them."

"It may take a long time. The two of them don't like to think very much, unless it is a critical moment... Is there a confidentiality fee? Lockhart?"

While this is a welcome improvement, please call me Professor outside, thank you. "Lockhart tried to regain the professor's dignity.

The downside of having Hermione's memory restored was that she was also recalling a time when he had been soft-hearted - something he felt he owed to the students.

Although the matter of the secret room is over, there are still things to do in the future.

""The Duelist Club still has activities this week? ' she asked again.

"Yes, but I hope the club activities can end one month before your final exam."

"Great," said Hermione happily.

It seemed she was concerned that Lockhart's club was only temporary, especially now that the basilisk had been taken out.

Seeing that several people came back from the secret room intact, Ghost Myrtle was surprised and disappointed.

"None of you died! I thought at least one of you would stay with me!" she said regretfully to them.

Ron laughed dryly: "Maybe we should leave Tom Riddle to you, you are the same kind of creatures."

Hearing this, Lockhart sighed deeply.

"What?" Ron asked sensitively.

"I think my Defense Against the Dark Arts class should pay a little more attention to theory... Tom Riddle's is a "spirit", while Myrtle, like the bloody Barrow, is a "ghost", and Peeves is" Sao Ling', in addition to the ghosts I expelled: and "Revenant", "Nightmare", "Demon"..."

"What's the difference?" Harry asked.

Because they were worried about how they would be treated when they met the headmaster, Ron and Harry were also looking for something to say.

"The difference is huge! If you use the wrong exorcism method because you didn't figure out the type, then the enraged evil spirits may suddenly appear behind you, and then stretch out their hands to cover your eyes..."

For the occasion, Moaning Myrtle flew over Harry's head and stretched her arms over Harry's shoulders, trying to take off his glasses.

Seeing this, Lockhart used a spell casually.

Io soul worm. ’ Lockhart conjured a transparent caterpillar in the air.

When Myrtle saw the caterpillar, she screamed in fright and jumped back into her own toilet, splashing a lot of water.

Satisfied to see Myrtle flee, Lockhart withdrew the caterpillar.

"As you can see, the ghost can leave handwriting, and you will feel the biting cold when you pass through its body. When you move quickly, you can see its spirit ball, so as long as you use the spirit ball that can pass through the spirit body and attack them stuff, it gets scared away

Ron curled his lips: "It turns out that after becoming a ghost, I will be afraid of caterpillars. I would rather go to reincarnation directly."

Hearing the word "reincarnation", Harry raised his eyebrows, but Hermione was a little surprised.

Although the wizards also believed in Protestantism in a strict sense, after entering the wizarding world, Christianity also learned to "do as the Romans do", mixing in a lot of elements of Celtic Druidism.

In addition, there are also followers of pure Druidism, such as Umbridge, the perverted pink toad.

The core doctrine of the Druids is that people will be reincarnated after death. As long as the soul remains intact, they will be able to reincarnate into a new body. That's why the magic of making Horcruxes was rejected by wizards in the first place.

Hermione had read a lot of books about the introduction to the wizarding world in the first grade, so she knew some things taught by druids, but Harry, a half-breed from an ancient family, didn't know about it.

She keenly noticed that Lockhart seemed to be trying to tell them some important information again—he had said several seemingly useless "gossips" before, but in the end she used them all.

So she interrupted Ron.

"Listen, Ron, I'm interested... So, what are the characteristics of Tom Riddle's 'spirit'? "

Lockhart marveled at her sharpness, but he wasn't sure if Hermione had noticed

what.

Strictly speaking, "soul" belongs to living beings, that is, souls without death, so if you use the method of dealing with undead to burn holy wood, there will definitely be problems... But it is not without weaknesses, that is, no matter how vicious it is, There must also be a 'body', and the spirit usually cannot be too far away from the body," he told them.

Looking at Hermione's serious look, Harry seemed to have sensed something.But before he could think about it, he found that the three of them had arrived in front of the principal's office.

"Cold lemonade!" cried Lockhart.

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In the office, the three saviors found that the Weasleys had already been waiting there, and they and the principal were not the only ones in the office.

After seeing Ginny, the couple quickly stepped forward and hugged them.

"What happened?" Mrs. Weasley asked Ron eagerly: "The wall clock rang just now, and I saw that the hands of both of you suddenly pointed to "extreme danger."

Harry and Ron hurried to explain - mainly to excuse Ginny.

In fact, they don't need to say so much, they just need to tell everyone in the room that the culprit is the dark magic item left by Voldemort, then nothing will happen.

The couple was relieved to be back safely, but not everyone else in the office.

For example, Lucius Malfoy, he didn't even hide his disappointment, as if he was extremely sorry that the two Weasley children didn't die accidentally.

The other man was far more tactful.

"Look, Lucius!" Cornelius Fudge had a smile all over his face, "I just said, Dumbledore can solve all problems! You don't worry too much!"

Then he turned to Dumbledore: "The previous 12 school managers jointly wrote a letter asking me to remove you. I told them that there must be something wrong, but Mr. Malfoy insisted on seeing you, so I just... "

"Thank you, Hizaka," interrupted Dumbledore. "What a touching trust."