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"When did Lockhart become so powerful?"

Seeing Lockhart actually having a 50-50 fight with Snape, Cedric was very confused.

Kyle pulled him and his twin brother to the corner of the auditorium.

After putting up a soundproof barrier, Kyle told them his speculation.

"You three, now go find Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout and tell them this speculation."

Kyle stared closely at Lockhart on the duel stage, "I'll watch him personally."

The other three nodded silently, turned and left the auditorium.

On the duel stage, Lockhart and Snape were evenly matched, and neither could do anything to the other.

After blocking Snape's sharp strike, Lockhart took the initiative to take a step back, raised his hands in a French military salute.

"Professor Snape, I think this is enough for the demonstration. Let's let the students fight in groups."

Lockhart did not let the students swarm to start the duel, but called four students to form two teams.

After all, there are only two professors giving guidance here. If there are more people, it will be difficult to handle the situation if it gets out of hand.

Harry and Malfoy were selected and assigned to a group.

Hermione was also called up, and her opponent was Pansy, who had been repaired on the Quidditch pitch not long ago.

When Lockhart announced that the duel had begun, Hermione handed over Pansy's wand almost in a flash and cast a bat-spirit spell on Pansy who fell to the ground.

If Snape hadn't stopped her immediately, the little beaver would have started whipping the corpse.

Something happened on Harry and Malfoy's side.

Draco summoned a snake. He wanted to direct the snake to attack Harry, but unexpectedly Harry made a strange hissing sound from his mouth.

The snake he summoned instantly lost control.

Snape's face changed slightly.

He hurriedly stepped forward, waved his magic wand, and the snake turned into a plume of black smoke and disappeared.

Kyle, who was leaning against the wall, also showed a look of surprise. Snape had speculated before that Harry was a Parseltongue.

But he didn't expect that Harry's identity as a Parseltongue would be exposed in public.

Has no one told Harry that he is a Parseltongue?

…

Due to Harry's unintentional exposure to Parseltongue, the dueling club activities could only be ended in a hurry.

The students coming out of the auditorium were all discussing the huge contrast between Lockhart now and him before, as well as Harry's Parseltongue.

Kyle didn't care much about all this, he had more important things to do now.

Lockhart came out of the auditorium and went straight back to his office.

After the office door closed, Kyle's figure silently walked out of the darkness.

Kyle stared at the closed office door, silently took out the double-sided mirror and prepared to cast the most powerful summoning magic in Hogwarts.

As for Lockhart, as soon as he returned to his office, he impatiently opened the lock on his desk drawer and pulled out an old notebook.

He picked up the quill, dipped it in the ink bottle, and began to write in the empty notebook.

"Although there was an accident in the Duel Club tonight, those little wizards looked at me with admiration again."

The ink shimmered brightly on the paper for a second, then seemed to be sucked into the paper and disappeared without a trace.

The messy scrawled handwriting reappeared on the paper.

"You idiot! I've warned you not to act rashly for the time being. Do you think those two Dumbledores are idiots and can't notice your changes?"

Lockhart hurriedly wrote an answer on the paper, almost knocking over the ink bottle.

"I have been suppressing it for a long time. Help me regain the respect of the students. Isn't gaining fame a condition you agreed to me early on?"

Another line of font appeared on the blank page, "I promised, but what you do now will only make Dumbledore doubt you and send you to Azkaban."

Lockhart's face turned pale, and he obviously realized that something was wrong, "Then what should I do?"

"We have to advance our plans. This time, follow my orders and stop making arbitrary decisions!"

"What are we going to do?"

…

Three minutes later, Kyle and Dumbledore raided Lockhart's office.

Kyle directly blasted the office door to pieces with a blasting spell.

But when he rushed into the dusty office, he found that the office was already empty, with only an open window revealing silent ridicule.

Kyle's face looked a little ugly, "I should have just joined forces with Professor Snape to kill him in the auditorium."

Dumbledore's face was also a little ugly, but half of it was because of Kyle's anger.

Ever since his son killed several blind dark wizards in Knockturn Alley during the summer vacation, Kyle's painting style has been developing rapidly in the direction of the Third Dark Lord.

Now, Kyle kept saying that he was going to kill this or that, and he felt really tired when he heard that.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps in the corridor outside. It was Cedric and the others who came with several professors.

Finding that Lockhart was not in his office, Professor McGonagall looked extremely ugly.

This is the closest they have ever been to the murderer!

Professor Flitwick walked to the window, and a stream of khaki smoke with twinkling stars spurted out from his wand, roughly restoring the scene in the office a few minutes ago.

The smoke condensed into the shadow of Lockhart, who was stepping on the edge of the window.

"Unfortunately, Lockhart escaped."

Dumbledore sighed and was about to let everyone leave, but at this time there was another rush of hurried footsteps outside the corridor.

Snape also came.

"Severus? What happened?" Professor McGonagall noticed that Snape looked extremely gloomy.

"The attack happened again. There is a secret passage leading to the Chamber of Secrets in the Slytherin common room, and the basilisk got in from there."

Dumbledore was stunned, "How are the students doing?"

Snape's face was so gloomy that he seemed to be dripping with water, "A student died. He was attacked in the dormitory."

The expressions of all the professors present suddenly changed. The office suddenly fell into a dead silence, and the atmosphere dropped to freezing point in an instant.

Every wrinkle on Dumbledore's old face was filled with cold anger.

"Gather all the students into the auditorium, the common room is no longer safe."

After saying this, Dumbledore sat on the chair next to him a little tiredly.

The four deans present had their eyelids lowered and silently turned around and left the office that originally belonged to Lockhart.

Kyle waved to Cedric and the others, signaling them to leave first, and then quietly stayed with the old man.

"The person who died this time was a pure-blood student. The impact is very different from the previous attacks, so the Ministry of Magic will definitely take action."

"They will arrive early tomorrow morning at the latest and take Hagrid away."

"If another pure-blood student dies, Hogwarts will be closed..."

Kyle listened quietly without speaking.

"If I guessed correctly, Lockhart and Lucius should be connected in tandem. This is the best time for them to expel me from Hogwarts."

Dumbledore raised his head and stared at Kyle earnestly with a pair of blue eyes.

"I don't understand what Tom's purpose is, but I know that he will only come to the light after I leave Hogwarts..."

"I will grant some of the principal's authority to you and Minerva. By then, you will no longer be restricted by anti-Apparition, and you will also be able to use Hogwarts' own defense power to fight against Tom."

Looking at the old man in front of him, Kyle remained silent.

He knew that Hogwarts Castle was Dumbledore's life's work. Dumbledore had paid too much for this magic school. He couldn't just watch Hogwarts be destroyed at the hands of Tom Riddle.

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Kyle held the old man's hand and said, "During the time you leave Hogwarts, I will do my best to hold off Tom and Lockhart."

Dumbledore smiled slightly and said, "I feel relieved to have you here."