The Occult Warlock of Hogwarts

Chapter 144 Lockhart’s Changes

Subsequent developments disappointed DeWitt.

The Christmas holiday is over and there is no movement.

Emma Grossman is out of the hospital, no news.

Lockhart's Duel Club has been held for the tenth time, but there is still no movement.

The only change in Hogwarts is that Lockhart's lectures are much better. He no longer asks students to act, but sincerely teaches a lot of knowledge in class, which changes most professors' views on him.

There is one exception - Snape, who still likes to fight against Lockhart.

At the beginning of February, in the second-year Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Lockhart couldn't hold himself back. Before class, he did not ask the students to open the fancy textbooks with his own photos printed on them. Instead, he smiled and said, yes, I don't know why.

At that time, his smile no longer showed teeth, and said: "Today we talk about dangerous animals in the magical world. Everyone, the threats to the magical world no longer come from wizards, nor do they come from Muggles. The most common threats are those

Fantastic Beasts."

"For example, centaurs," Lockhart gave an example: "For example, goblins, such as...house elves."

"We wizards want to grant human rights to the centaurs, but they are willing to be classified as animals. However, every species has its part in self-destruction, and wizards are no exception. We should understand, so should we forgive them? No!

Rejecting our goodwill means that they may choose to be hostile to us at some point, and they must be enslaved to make people feel at ease."

Noticing that some students' expressions changed, some students were thoughtful, and some students agreed, Lockhart changed the subject and said: "This view... is recognized by some wizards. I just put my

I’ll tell you what I know.”

"Back to the topic, let's start with the Ministry of Magic's rating of magical animals - those officials divided the animals into five levels, and each higher level from low to high risk has an extra 'x'. Of course, this

This classification method does not include all animals. You should listen to more details in the future Care of Magical Creatures class."

Lockhart picked up his wand and waved it. The chalk jumped to the blackboard and he wrote a long list of nouns - starting with dragon, then chimera, basilisk, acromantula, long-horned water snake, earth-hovering bat, and human head.

Manticore, poisonous leopard, five-legged monster, cat leopard, werewolf.

Starting from the first lesson, we talked about dragons. The second lesson talked about Chimaira. By the third lesson, Lockhart thought the time was right. He thought it was time to put out the bait.

So let’s start talking about the basilisk.

After talking about the habits and abilities of the basilisk, Lockhart mysteriously glanced at the students under the podium and said: "About the basilisk, there is another secret related to Hogwarts. Who knows?"

No one knows.

"That's not okay," Lockhart pretended to be angry, but actually said proudly: "When I was lecturing to the Slytherin students, some of them knew about it."

After waiting, admiring the strong expressions of the Gryffindors below, Lockhart smiled slightly and said, "Then let me tell you - it's the Chamber of Secrets."

The students held their breath, never listening to Lockhart's words so carefully as at this moment.

"That is the treasure house left by Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, waiting for the real heir of Slytherin to open..."

All the students looked at Harry.

Lockhart was dissatisfied with this: "Shouldn't you listen to me carefully and look at me? Why are you all going to see Harry?"

Hermione felt something was wrong, and she was happy to explain to Lockhart, but Dewitt grabbed her hand and said: "Don't speak, just watch quietly."

If a question arises in class but Hermione doesn't speak, other students will wonder if their question is wrong. So after a brief period of strange silence, Lockhart confirmed that he was the center of attention again and said:

"But there are also rumors that Slytherin left a monster to guard the Chamber of Secrets. This rumor also involves the differences between the founders. I can't go into more details. In short, the one guarding the Chamber of Secrets is a basilisk. If you want to get the treasures in the Chamber of Secrets, you have to defeat it.

Basilisk, either use your identity as heir to control the basilisk, class is over!"

Noticing DeWitt's abnormality, Hermione said in an inexplicable expectant tone after class: "Do you know something?"

"Yes," DeWitt replied: "I know everything there is to know."

"Would you like to talk to me?"

After some hesitation, DeWitt said concisely and concisely: "The basilisk is now in my hands."

Hermione blinked and laughed: "If what Lockhart said is true, Slytherin's basilisk has lived for thousands of years - you tell me it is in your hands... Oops, stop talking.

A monster tens of meters long..."

DeWitt did not smile, and Hermione's smile gradually disappeared. She asked seriously: "Are you serious?"

"The box of the Invisible Stretch Charm," DeWitt said: "The basilisk is lying in it now."

"I suggest...of course it's just a suggestion," Hermione said: "You should tell Professor Dumbledore."

"That's not secretive enough, and it's hard to explain - how can I tell Dumbledore that I control a basilisk?" DeWitt said frankly: "If you think about it, its two eyeballs can be petrified. With such a good thing, I

Useful."

Hermione said sadly: "I'm afraid of danger. Since the basilisk is real, then the Chamber of Secrets is probably real too. The basilisk is so dangerous... Oh, you are always so confident."

DeWitt just kept his mouth shut. He still had a lot of things that he didn't tell Hermione. Facing such a little girl who believed in him, hiding secrets was something that made people feel guilty, and there were even more unspeakable things.

This kind of thing would become more and more difficult to bring up as time passed - how could he tell Hermione that he was not as good as she thought? In the end, he decided to leave the choice to Hermione, and soon, Hermione

There will be a chance to know everything.

After the news of the Chamber of Secrets spread throughout Hogwarts, all the students, especially Slytherin, secretly worked hard to find the location of the Chamber of Secrets. Especially when Harry revealed his ability to speak Parseltongue.

The students of Slytherin House have to do something to prove their legitimacy.

All kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky. Except for Professor McGonagall who said in class that no more talk about the Chamber of Secrets is allowed, no other professors care about it. Dumbledore is still elusive, and no one knows what he is doing.

The turmoil intensified until one day, a news suddenly spread in the castle, suddenly involving a very unlucky person - Hagrid, and Hagrid could no longer safely perform his duties.
The reason was that a Slytherin student asked for help from his family and found out about the Chamber of Secrets. He learned that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened fifty years ago and that someone had died because of it.