A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 163 Wise Pettigrew

"Owen, do you think Mr. Dumbledore has become a little strange?"

After returning to the common room, Harry assumed a thoughtful posture and said to him solemnly.

"It's indeed a bit weird." Owen nodded seriously. It's not an ordinary weird thing.

He took out the Marauder's Map from his pocket and looked at the still little black dot in the principal's office. The name marked next to it was Dumbledore. But it was strange that the guy was Dumbledore. He didn't know what the other party was using.

What method was used to hide it from Hogwarts, so that the castle still recognized his identity as the headmaster? It must be a very clever disguise, and it is not surprising that it can deceive the Marauder's Map.

Having such a headmaster at Hogwarts always makes him feel that his future is not bright. Well, maybe in the future the introduction of Hogwarts can add: This is the place with the most Dark Lords in the world?

"The most important thing is, does Dumbledore not care about the heir's affairs? Does he want to leave this matter to me?" After waking up from the heady state of Dumbledore's high hopes, Harry later found out.

He suddenly came back to his senses. Is Dumbledore going to give up and put the safety of the students entirely on him?

Thinking of this, Harry felt something was wrong. Dumbledore shouldn't be so indifferent to the life and death of his students. At the same time, he felt the pressure doubled. If he couldn't handle this matter well, someone might die. He was still a child. Why?

To shoulder such a heavy responsibility...

"Yes, and you promised him." Owen said with a half-smile that hurt his heart. The original Dumbledore probably arranged for Harry to reveal the truth step by step, and finally found out the truth.

That crown. But obviously the new Dumbledore didn't want to take this path, but directly tore up the plan and planned to let Harry grow wild.

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 would not be easy for him to grow crooked, but his future achievements may be limited.

A free-range education may hone a great wizard with a strong heart and magic power, or it may destroy the person halfway.

Owen looked at Harry with pity, but when he thought about his current situation, he felt that he was in the same boat. They were all being targeted, they were just brothers in trouble.

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

He quickly transformed into Gilderoy Lockhart and put on his clothes. Then he carried Lockhart out of the office and walked along the dark corridor on the third floor.

Owen followed silently, and Melete ran ahead like a nimble little leopard. At the end of the corridor, they saw another mouse hole hidden in the corner of the wall, with thick smoke pouring out.

In the red smoke, one rat after another scrambled out of the hole, running dizzy in the corridor.

After an ordinary dinner, the principal stood up and announced the decision to hold a duel competition in Hogwarts, which attracted cheers of excitement and anticipation from the students. He told everyone with extremely inflammatory words that Hogwarts would hold a duel competition.

There are hidden dangers in the city, and the entire wizarding world has never been very safe. Only by making yourself stronger can you calmly deal with future crises, and you will not have to be slaughtered when facing danger...

"Melete." He put the cat on the ground and winked at her.

Owen pointed his wand at it, smiled happily and said softly: "The soul leaves the body."

It is said that he has recently begun to actively participate in the affairs of the International Confederation of Wizards, and even intervened in the decision-making of the Ministry of Magic. It seems that he wants to make his almost nominal chairman become a real one.

Lockhart, who was in a coma, looked uncomfortable, and his body seemed to be filled with countless scurrying little mice, rolling under his skin. His limbs shortened and thickened, his height became shorter, and his body swelled.

His bright hair lost its color and he became bald - in just a few moments, he looked exactly like Peter Pettigrew.

He soon realized that this was an excellent opportunity for him. Peter Pettigrew, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly appeared in front of him. He could make everyone believe that he had found Peter and saved the other person's life... In this way, he

You can save part of your reputation.

Melete let go of it slightly, then slapped the mouse on the head with her front paws, knocking it unconscious, and then stretched out her other paw to hold it down. She tilted her head slightly, and said with great interest

Staring at the mouse under its paw, it seemed like it had gotten a very fun toy.

In the new semester, the students at Hogwarts found that their principal was no longer as elusive as before. Although he was still busy and rarely appeared outside the auditorium, he always took two days out of his time every week.

Enjoy dinner in the auditorium with all the teachers and students of the school.

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"No...it can't be right? 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, right?"

Owen didn't care much about the duel competition. He observed the expressions of the professors with interest. It seemed that the principal's performance was quite successful. Even if there were some changes, they were not too outrageous and did not arouse too much suspicion. Probably only

Professor Snape, who was well aware of Dumbledore's physical condition, looked on with a gloomy face, but he had always been like this, and everyone was not surprised.

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 was grinning at him, showing a mouthful of

Bright white teeth.

Melet's golden eyes stared sharply at the group of little mice. When she saw one of them, a fat and bald mouse, she rushed over and pinned it to the ground with one paw.

"I know you are very powerful, but uncontrolled abilities can easily cause trouble." Owen comforted softly.

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

"Sure enough, the Imperius Curse works better..." Owen murmured in a low voice, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised. His next plan needed to use Peter Pettigrew, and he was too lazy to talk to this guy, so he might as well just use the Imperius Curse.

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The dark, viscous potion made a beeping sound as if it were boiling, foaming vigorously, and finally turned into a gray-black color like mouse fur. This was a bottle of polyjuice potion.

"Give me a piece of your hair." he ordered.

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

He raised the corners of his mouth with interest and said playfully: "How do you want to thank me, Professor Peter? In order to give you a convenient identity so that you can continue to serve the Dark Lord, I have good intentions."

Harry didn't care about the duel competition. He had been worried recently and felt a little depressed. He found that Dumbledore seemed to really not interfere with Voldemort's affairs. He had told Dumbledore about the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk before.

But the other party just let him handle it by himself...

"Just wear it for a while, so you don't stare at people to death." Owen smiled and patted his head. Although Lockhart is very annoying, he is not worthy of death, right?

He couldn't help but start to get distracted. He originally thought that Grindelwald was released after reaching a consensus with Dumbledore through negotiation. After all, the two were good friends, and it seemed normal for Dumbledore to ask him for help before his death.

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"Peter Pettigrew" slowly woke up from his coma and jumped up from the ground. He shook his painful head with a slight hiss, cursed angrily, and then began to look around. As soon as he turned his head, he was facing

The basilisk's bright yellow eyes were as bright as lightbulbs.

He thought Hogwarts was going to end.

The rat's trembling body calmed down instantly, and its eyes that were wandering around became calm. Under Owen's command, it began to transform. The rat's head turned into the head of a bald man, and its limbs quickly became thicker and elongated.

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

"Owen, let's..." Harry, who had frowned and thought for a while, suddenly looked at him expectantly.

Owen told the basilisk to go back to the secret room, then jumped off it and entered the nearby classroom. Peter Pettigrew, who had become Lockhart, was waiting for him inside.

"Everything is forgotten." Owen pointed his wand at him and carefully weaved false memories for the other party. After a while, he took back the wand, quickly left the area, and then canceled the Imperius Curse.

control.

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This is a potion that can produce choking smoke, which is harmless to the human body, but too high a concentration of smoke can cause suffocation.

Peter Pettigrew, who was left in the classroom, opened his eyes in confusion. After being in a daze for a while, he finally remembered what he had done.

"Follow my instructions." He climbed onto the basilisk's body, stroking the cold, smooth and hard scales, and hissed in his mouth.

"Squeak!" The mouse that was held down struggled wildly, screamed in terror, and turned around to bite her paw.

Even if he makes an unbreakable oath, it is impossible to take into account every aspect, there will always be loopholes to exploit... If Owen were Dumbledore, he really wouldn't dare to make such a decision.

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

Well, I'll ask my dear principal next time. Since the other party said he would answer his questions, then he should squeeze out the maximum value.

"Take it." Owen handed the polyjuice potion to Peter Pettigrew.

At the same time, Owen wore silver flat glasses on his face, maintained the invisibility state of the Disillusionment Curse, and watched with a smile as the basilisk emerged from the water pipe at the entrance to the secret room.

But judging from what the other party did after becoming Dumbledore, it is clear that he has his own purpose. This is a character much more dangerous than Voldemort. Even though he has been self-imprisoned for decades and has shown remorse,

But who can know whether he is really willing in his heart? As the person who knows him best and fears him the most, Dumbledore would really choose to let him dress up as himself, inherit his status and reputation in the world, and even risk death.

Are the sacred vessels also given to him?

Peter Pettigrew walked up to him with a gloomy expression, picked up a pair of scissors on the desk, and cut Lockhart's wavy blond hair into pits. He collected Lockhart's hair and then stretched it out.

He poured the bottle of polyjuice potion into the other party's mouth.

"Don't casually promise things you can't do, but since you have taken on this matter, you can't rely on it. You can only use all the possible help you can think of and go all out to get this thing done.

." Owen smiled meaningfully, "Didn't he say that? Don't let him down. If he is disappointed with you, he will fall out..."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and sank into the space facing the wall to study the advanced steps of the spells. Recently, he has been thinking about enhancing the power of the basic dueling spells. Currently, there are two main advanced steps.

The first direction is how to break through the defense of the Iron Armor Curse, and the second is how to deal with rough-skinned magical animals such as basilisks. He has made some progress, but there are still many difficulties that need to be overcome.

After the dinner, Owen followed the guidance of the Marauder's Map and carried Melete to a wall on the first floor. He looked deeply at the ordinary wall with a strange smile on his lips.

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

Owen frowned and guided the smoke with the tip of his wand, and then pointed at the mouse hole in the corner. Large streams of red smoke surged out of the potion bottle, swirling into a line.

The mouse hole did not leak a single ray in the room.

"So, this guy didn't run out on his own, right? That thing is... so interesting." Owen had already figured out that Grindelwald suddenly jumped up and pushed the weak Dumbledore to the ground, and from him

The scene where he snatched the Deathly Hallows from his hand, then dressed as Dumbledore and swaggered away from Nurmengard.

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

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Harry stared blankly at Owen who seemed to have fallen asleep instantly for a long time, and then tugged at his hair with a frown on his face, thinking of various ways. Speaking of which, why could Owen fall asleep instantly? No, why did he get such good grades despite sleeping all day? Haha

Li Li looked at the pile of homework that he had not yet started to write, and for the first time he felt the malice from the world.

"Maybe, but people change." Owen smiled. What's more, people are no longer the same people. If nothing else, the current Dumbledore should be called Grindelwald.

The basilisk crawled along the corridor unhurriedly, quietly passed through the long corridor, and climbed up the empty stairs to the third floor. A portrait of a unicorn hanging above the stairway kicked uneasily.

He was beating his hooves and looking down at them with his bright black eyes with long eyelashes.

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

Peter Pettigrew pulled a strand of hair off the top of his head without hesitation, not caring that his head had become balder. Owen looked at the gray and greasy hair with disgust and took out a bottle from his pocket.

Magic potion, let the other person throw their hair into it.

Owen flicked his free left hand, and a bottle of light red potion appeared in his palm. He pulled out the wooden stopper blocking the mouth of the bottle, and a faint red smoke emerged from the bottle, which was strong and choking.

The smell made Owen and Melete sneeze at the same time.

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

Peter Pettigrew took off Lockhart's clothes, then took off his own dirty clothes and put them on him. He took out another bottle of Polyjuice Potion from his pocket and threw a Lockhart into it.

hair, and expressionlessly drank the cup of potion that turned into fluorescent green.

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

Half of the students in the auditorium were screaming and applauding, those were Lockhart fans, while the other half booed, and their enthusiasm was instantly extinguished.

Melete raised her head and narrowed her eyes mischievously at him, rubbed the back of his calf affectionately, then jumped out against the wall with light steps, and finally got into a nearby utility room.

Stopped next to a dirty narrow corner. There was a hidden mouse hole there.

Thinking of this, the expression on Lockhart's face became more enthusiastic and kind, so much so that he completely ignored the wand held in Peter Pettigrew's hand.

"I don't like it, it's uncomfortable..." the basilisk said hoarsely, shaking its head in rejection, trying to throw off the special glasses.

The principal who had just finished speaking was confused for a moment by the students' reaction. He obviously did not expect that his speech would receive such a reaction. After he was stunned for a moment, he suddenly looked at Lockhart beside him, his eyes

He stared at the other party happily waving to the students. His eyes slowly narrowed, and he sat back after a long time.

The students were talking enthusiastically, and everyone was eager to try and sign up for the competition immediately. Even the younger wizards who had not learned duel magic could not restrain their excitement.

"Please complete your homework on your own." Before he could finish his words, Owen crushed his attempt with a cold face, "You are the prophesied savior, Harry, I am just an ordinary passerby."

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

A look of extreme horror appeared on his face, and he froze at this moment. He fell to the ground with a "bang" and turned into a gray-white stone statue, a stone statue with the face of Peter Pettigrew.

Owen took out a pair of huge glasses with straps and put them on the basilisk's head. The glass lenses cast an indestructible spell were blocked in front of the basilisk's bulb-like eyes.

Melete arched her body and jumped to the side, shook her paws in disgust, and came to Owen's feet with elegant cat steps. She watched curiously as this funny fat mouse turned into a chubby short man. Hey,

It’s so strange, can a human be transformed into a mouse? Then what happened to Owen?

Peter Pettigrew stood respectfully where the mouse had just been, with his hands hanging naturally at his sides, quietly waiting for Owen's order.

"Peter, you're back! Oh, I thought something happened to you, you don't know how worried I am..." Lockhart stood up with a sudden movement, wiping the non-existent tears from his eyes with excitement.

In fact, he had never been very fond of Peter Pettigrew, and his status as a first-class Medal of Merlin made him extremely jealous, but he was willing to have a good relationship with him.

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

In order to continue to serve the Dark Lord, he attacked Lockhart and used Polyjuice Potion to transform into the opponent. Just when he was about to kill the opponent, he happened to spot a basilisk passing by. He had an idea and added a layer of hair to his hair.

Entered the polyjuice potion, poured it into Lockhart, and then made him petrified...

In this way, Lockhart will remain that way during the petrification period, and 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 so wise.

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

(End of chapter)