Hogwarts behind-the-scenes big boss

Lockhart had to run around looking for people to ask questions.

Until the early morning of December 4, 1987, Lockhart knocked on the castle door.

After being picked up by Luke, he went straight to the dining room, where Moriarty was enjoying breakfast.

"Master, I know the reason why the Daily Prophet did not report on the Mutual Aid Foundation."

Lockhart's voice was dry, and Moriarty noticed that his image looked terrible.

He must have not slept well for several days because of this matter. Two big dark circles hung on his face, and the hem of his embroidered coat was full of mud. It was obvious that he was tired from running around these days.

Moriarty poured a glass of milk for Lockhart, "Come on, Lockhart, drink it and speak slowly, put your heart back in your stomach, as long as I am here, no problem will be a problem."

Lockhart drank a glass of milk, his face turned rosy, and he took out a letter.

"Master, you see, Old Foley sent me a letter early in the morning, saying that the mutual aid fund has been boycotted!" Lockhart gritted his teeth and said, "It's Lucius Malfoy! He united with several pure-blood families to boycott your mutual aid fund.

Yes! That treacherous and cunning Death Eater! If you ask me, he should be imprisoned in Azkaban, he is so evil!"

"Haha, don't say that." Moriarty was amused by Lockhart's appearance.

The pure-blood family didn't put any pressure on him. He didn't even read Old Foley's letter. In fact, he figured everything out when he heard the name Lucius Malfoy.

"It's important to figure out who is targeting us behind the scenes. You've done a great job, Lockhart!" Moriarty praised, and then his eyes became sharp: "I've already prepared for the worst—

-If the goblins are behind us, maybe I will try my best to destroy Gringotts first."

Lockhart blinked and said thoughtfully: "So, maybe this attack by the pure-blood family is not a bad thing for the young master. Can we cooperate with the pure-blood family?"

"I love the way you think about things."

Moriarty gave Lockhart another glass of milk, and even clinked glasses with Lockhart.

After drinking the milk, Moriarty cleared his throat: "As for the pure bloods, you need to remember that most of them are immersed in the glory of the past.

Have you forgotten the era of revival you proposed? When the era abandons them, they will not even say goodbye to them.

Unless the pure-blood family makes changes, my relationship with the pure-blood family will only be cooperation."

"I understand, Master," Lockhart said with a serious face, "So what should we do this time?"

"Even if we cooperate, I will not suffer any loss." Moriarty said slowly: "The original intention of me asking you to establish the mutual aid foundation was to dig a hole for the goblins. Since the pure-blood family has emerged, let's let

They lost all Merlin's underpants!"

Moriarty said and left the restaurant. He took Salazar's diary from Salazar's bedroom, pointed to the notes on one page and said to Lockhart: "Did you see it? Go and check it yourself."

Jiaoxiang bought these potion ingredients."

"Wow," Lockhart said in surprise, "You want to refine a potion?"

"Yes, I want to refine the first of the 17 potions left by Salazar's ancestors, and it is also a potion that has never been seen in the magic world, a neutralizing potion!" Moriarty has already prepared Salazar

After memorizing the diary, he introduced it skillfully: "This potion is like a weight, which can balance the tilted scale. It is used for those unbalanced potions, which can not only reduce the dangerous ingredients in the potion, but also

It can also improve the properties of potions.

Ancestor Salazar said that it can even neutralize the bad luck caused by taking Dofu Elixir. However, it is not easy to configure it. Except for those that can be purchased in the world, many raw materials have become extinct. But I think, once

There should be the materials I need in the underground warehouse."

After Moriarty finished speaking, he saw Lockhart, who had already been stunned. "What are you still waiting for?"

Lockhart was startled, shook his head and stumbled away.

"He's really weird today," Moriarty sighed: "You think so, Luke!"

The house elf pretended to make some comments, but he was not happy for long, and soon he was sent by Moriarty to sort out the cauldron.

"Ingo!" Moriarty ordered the goblin who was slowly walking over: "Go to Knockturn Alley and buy vampire eyeballs, werewolf fingernails, dew on the flowers of the little dryads when they bloom for the first time, and change color.

The buckteeth of the corpse eater..."

Many materials were only sold in Knockturn Alley, and Moriarty didn't dare to ask Lockhart to buy them. Ingo the elf was the most suitable candidate.

After sending three of his assistants in succession, Moriarty walked towards the underground vault and found the most important materials according to the records in Salazar's diary.

Luke brought the crucible, scales, vials, stove and other instruments into the room where Salazar refined the potion nine hundred years ago.

There were more than a dozen crucibles of various sizes and materials. Luke numbered them and placed them one by one on the long table.

Luke was moved by the scene and shed emotional tears: "The young master is really like the old master..."

Moriarty recited every step over and over to prevent mistakes. This was his first time refining a potion.

According to his school year plan, he would try to refine the neutralizing potion and two other magic potions after enrolling in Hogwarts. The pure-blood family's targeting made him advance this plan by nine months!

An hour later, Lockhart was the first to come back. As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't wait to find Moriarty.

"Master? Master? I ask you to allow me to take one minute to tell you an idea, my idea!"

Lockhart ran into the potion room and said out of breath: "When I was still at Hogwarts, I once thought about making a shampoo.

And I did exactly that - I successfully made a new shampoo using the yolks of bird and snake eggs as the main ingredient. I called it Bird and Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo!

It can effectively lock in the luster of hair. I have tried it and it really works.

But the fly in the ointment is that it has certain dangers... For example, the hair will suddenly grow long, then go bald, and then grow longer again!

Of course this is only occasionally, I think it has something to do with the ability of birds and snakes to expand and contract at will..."

Lockhart said a lot, and the room was extremely quiet. He looked at Moriarty expectantly: "So? I thought about it on the way. I think I added a neutralizing agent to the Bird Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo.

Maybe it can neutralize the danger posed by birds and snakes! Master? Do you think my idea is right?"

Moriarty felt as if he was getting to know Lockhart again. He understood why Lockhart was acting strange before.

I remember Gilderoy Lockhart once said in his class that his greatest ambition was to rid the world of evil and sell his own line of hair lotion.

There was a crisp "ding dong" sound in his head, and Moriarty received the system prompt.

"Issuing a mission: to refine a non-dangerous bird, snake, and egg yolk shampoo and give it to Professor Snape! The mission period is one year. The reward is an achievement lottery! If the mission fails, the host will be wiped out!"

Moriarty fell into deep thought. On the surface, this mission was one, but in fact it was two.

The first one is to refine new shampoo.

Even if the system does not issue a task, Moriarty will refine this shampoo. He will let Lockhart break the Potter family's monopoly on shampoo with the new shampoo, and then seize the market with pure-blood families.

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Second, give Professor Snape new shampoo???

Moriarty didn't know what to say about this task. With Snape's character, he would probably accept Lily's shampoo, but even Voldemort wouldn't let him wash his hair!

It seems that this task can only wait until school starts. Moriarty sighed and turned to look at Lockhart.

At this moment, Lockhart was like a student who had just finished an exam, anxiously waiting for the teacher to mark the exam.

"You never disappoint in fashion!" Moriarty praised Lockhart: "No one can come up with such a genius idea! Bird Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo plus neutralizing agent will definitely

It will shock the entire magical world."

"Oh, Master~ Thank you!" Lockhart shed tears silently. He was a little transparent at Hogwarts, but he longed for fame and recognition, but no one could give him a word of praise.

When he thought that the people who once despised him would use the shampoo made from it, Lockhart was even happier than he was when he won the fourth Most Charming Smile Award. For some reason, the first person Lockhart thought of was Severus.

S. Snape.

"I'm going to write to Professor Snape and recommend my shampoo! Haha, that's wonderful."

Lockhart is a man of action, and he was about to write a letter, but Moriarty stopped him: "Wake up, we haven't started refining it yet! Come over and refining the potion with me, you need to refining many copies

Bird Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo ensures that I can freely experiment with the ratio of neutralizing agents.”

If Lockhart were to write a letter to Snape, I'm afraid Moriarty's mission would never be completed, and he would be wiped out by the system that day!

Therefore, Moriarty's tone was very stern. Lockhart quickly put away his triumphant face and hurriedly began to refine the shampoo.

Luke bent over with laughter when he saw this scene, but he was quickly sent by Moriarty to sort out the mountains of materials.

"This is ridiculous." Moriarty looked around the potion room for a few times. Now there was an atmosphere of refining potions, and he gradually entered the state.

The process of refining neutralizing potions is not dangerous. Salazar's original intention in developing it was to eliminate the dangers of most potions. When dozens of lethally toxic raw materials are added to the No. 1 gold crucible, a "

"Gurgling" bubble sound.

Moriarty slowly simmered the No. 2 gold crucible. After baking for thirty minutes, he needed to pour the ingredients in the No. 1 gold crucible into the No. 2 gold crucible to squeeze out the essence of those dangerous ingredients.

This is not an easy task, and perhaps just as there is no real fairness in the world, Salazar's formula eliminates the possible disasters caused by dangerous ingredients, but cannot eliminate the unpleasant smell they bring.

The buck teeth of the discolored ghoul exuded a hot stench, which made the master and two servants in the potion room almost spit out their breakfast.

"Luke, control the temperature of the fire to 44.43 degrees!" Moriarty covered his mouth and nose and said to the house elf: "It won't work beyond one degree! The dew from the little tree elf will react with the black dragon's saliva."

At this time, Moriarty regretted not learning fire elemental magic. The magic potion was closely related to the magic fire used to refine the potion, just like a pair of twin brothers.

With the magic power of the fire element, his control over slow fire and fire will undoubtedly be more delicate, instead of having Luke assist him like now.

This made Moriarty determined to learn more about potions, and this was not the only thing that tested him.

The recipe left by Salazar was very complicated. Moriarty had to remember the time when each ingredient was added to the No. 1 gold crucible, and then pour them into the No. 2 gold crucible in the order on the recipe to squeeze out the white essence.

"Lockhart, bring me the scale. I want to make sure that the weight of the essence cannot exceed 610 grams!"

Sequence, temperature, weight, Moriarty overcame one difficulty after another, and finally reached the final step.

time.

Moriarty poured the essence into an ordinary crucible and stirred it. This stirring lasted fourteen hours and seventeen minutes!

Lockhart looked at Moriarty with admiration. There was an automatic stirring crucible that could stir automatically, but Moriarty insisted on stirring with his own hands!

"The speed and force of the automatic stirring of the crucible are different from the speed and force of the stirring of the ancestors of Salazar. I cannot ignore any detail because of the hard work.

Lockhart, you have to remember that we sell the shampoo, and we must ensure that every step is the same as that of ancestor Salazar."

Moriarty said this, and Lockhart was inspired after hearing this, and decided not to rest, but to seize the time to refine a few more copies of the Bird and Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo.

Luke shed tears of excitement and relief again, closed the door and silently exited. He could have a good rest, at least he didn't have to prepare lunch and dinner.

Fourteen hours and seventeen minutes later, Moriarty finally finished stirring and the neutralizing potion was completed!

Moriarty let out a sigh of relief, put down the spoon, and sat down on the armchair, his arms hanging down weakly.

He was so tired. Even after fighting against four dark wizards, Moriarty was not very tired.

Lockhart had already collapsed on the carpet. He had refined more than ten copies of Bird and Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo, and had been waiting for Moriarty.

He mumbled feebly: "Master, I would rather fight four dark wizards again, cross another avalanche, than refine magic potion again!

When I was in school, my grades in Potions were not very good, and I had quite a bit of dissatisfaction with Professor Snape, that old bat.

Now that I think about it, I really admire him, those potion masters - I don’t know how they persevered, they... are so good!"

Lockhart covered his forehead and eyes with his hands. He was very famous, but he did not have the strength to match his fame.

"Come on, get up Lockhart, we still have to finish the last step! After today, your Bird Snake Egg Yolk Shampoo will be on the market!"

Moriarty stood up from the chair with difficulty. He looked out the window. It was already around one o'clock in the morning. Regarding Lockhart's feelings, he knew that any words of comfort would not have much effect on this poor man.

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Moriarty can only continue to explore in the magical sky, lead Lockhart to appreciate the charm of magic, change him, and shape him.

The next thing is much simpler. The neutralizing agent perfectly eliminates the random expansion and contraction of the bird and snake. The bird and snake egg yolk shampoo is no longer mutable and dangerous.

Lockhart seemed to be resurrected with full blood. He rushed into the bathroom with freshly made shampoo and happily washed his hair with his own shampoo.