A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 87 Is everything a curse?
"It's so exciting! I never dreamed of such a plot." Fred and George muttered, they took a detour and hid in the grass, spying on the movement here through the gap.

Dumbledore shook Fudge's hand: "Don't worry, Fudge, you will be fine."

"You promise? Dumbledore?" Half of his face turned black.

"I promise you, Fudge."

Fudge's expression softened, and he fell asleep.

Dumbledore withdrew his glowing fingers and turned to look at Kingsley: "We need to send him to the school hospital."

"But, Minister Fudge, he said..."

"The basilisk's poison needs to be dealt with quickly," said Dumbledore.

The man named Kingsley quickly compromised, "Everything is up to you."

Dumbledore turned to Flitwick and McGonagall and said, "Filius, Minerva, you stay here, maintain order, and get the basilisk away." The two professors nodded.

Hagrid volunteered to pick up Fudge, and strode towards the school hospital with Dumbledore and Kingsley.

Lucius took advantage of the chaos and left, he found his son Draco Malfoy.

"What's the truth about the Chamber of Secrets?" Lucius asked him.

"It was Potter and the others who did it! Dad, Potter is a Parseltongue, and that's why he discovered the secret room!" Draco said with a displeased face.

"Parseltongue!" Lucius was really surprised. He thought that the diary he threw to the Weasley family's youngest daughter was found.

"Have you found out who opened the secret room?" Lucius asked vaguely.

"No, not yet." Draco stammered, glancing at his father fearfully.He didn't reveal that he was briefly possessed by a dark magic item.

"Really?" Lucius didn't notice this little movement, and his expression became unpredictable.

……

Rita Skeeter wanted to follow up to film the tragedy of the Minister of Magic, but she looked at Lockhart at the scene again. After some weighing, she quickly determined the real target.

The colleague is an enemy, we must engage him!
"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

Lockhart covered his face in bewilderment: "Hey, stop! Stop!"

Rita Skeeter, however, took more action. Her creative urge is now in full swing, but unfortunately, because of scruples, she did not bring the automatic quill and parchment.

She stole a glance at Felix, who watched all this in silence.

This reassures Rita Skeeter that 'this one' doesn't seem to care about anyone else.Next time you have the opportunity to come to Hogwarts, you must be fully prepared.

"My God, Professor McGonagall must be pissed," said Hermione, who was hiding behind a huge courtyard pillar, and Harry and Ron looked at their Transfiguration professor, her face was about to contort out of shape.

The situation has developed to the point where Lockhart rushes over to snatch the camera with Skeeter, but Lockhart seems to be no match for her based on physical strength. Several scars.

"My handsome face!" Lockhart was going crazy.

Professor McGonagall had to step forward to separate the two, her lips were trembling with anger, "Professor Lockhart, please get out of here immediately! As for you..." She looked at Rita Skeeter in disgust.

"Oh, you don't have to worry about me, Professor McGonagall." Rita Skeeter said cheekily, "I just wandered around. I haven't been back to school for many years. I really miss it."

"It's up to you." McGonagall temporarily ignored her, and she cooperated with Professor Flitwick to drag the basilisk away.

Felix looked left and right, Lockhart looked like an angry bull, and he didn't want to get involved.He turned and walked towards the direction of the school hospital.

After a while, Lockhart calmed down completely. He suddenly realized that he was facing an unprecedented crisis. He tidied up his messy hair and said to Rita Skeeter: "Skeeter, we need to talk. , one-on-one."

The woman gave him a haughty look. She took the biggest achievement this time - the magic camera, and handed it to her two assistants, "Look at it, stay away."

The two assistants left, and at this moment, only Lockhart and Skeeter were apparently left in the open space.

In the dark, the twins and the trio took sides, holding their breath.

Rita Skeeter glanced at Lockhart disdainfully, she grinned in a victorious manner: "What do you want to talk to me about? I think there's no need for that—"

"A famous best-selling author!"

Lockhart's handsome face became distorted, but he looked around and said in a low voice: "We don't need to get into this situation, I can give you Galleon as compensation, as long as you don't say anything about it .”

Rita Skeeter glanced at him.

"Two thousand Galleons!" Lockhart said bitterly.

no respond.

"four thousand!"

"Ten thousand Galleons! You greedy woman!"

Rita Skeeter showed a stiff smile, but she still didn't let go, she leaned closer and said: "Lockhart, you can go back and think about it first, and want to understand a question, how much is the reputation of a great writer worth?" .”

"—and," she fiddled with her nails, "think about how to get rid of the charge of attacking the Minister of Magic."

"It was just an accident!" Lockhart gritted his teeth and looked at her, but the woman had left satisfied.

Holding the wand in his hand, he tried to do something a few times, but finally gave up.He returned to his office dejectedly.

The lively courtyard regained its calm.

The twins looked at each other and left quietly in tacit understanding.Behind a pillar, the three of Harry looked at each other.

"Dirty money deals!" Hermione was filled with righteous indignation.

Ron shrugged: "This is normal. When my father went to check Malfoy Manor, he had already received the news in advance. What do you think it is because of?"

Harry looked at the direction Lockhart was leaving, and couldn't help but ask, "Do you think Lockhart will be imprisoned?"

Ron said without thinking, "It's hard to say, but if I were Fudge, I mean, as Minister for Magic, I can't afford to lose that man."

"Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

"what?"

"Everything that happened today was an accident, wasn't it? Knowing that the basilisk had been dealt with, he could have spent a whole year hanging out safe and sound, and then wrote a book like 'My Year at Hogwarts' book, and earn a lot of Galleons."

"You mean, the curse of the mysterious man?" Ron reacted.

Hermione blinked, and she said with great interest: "Quite an interesting idea, Harry, maybe the true face of the curse is to magnify the probability of various accidents. We can look it up."

Ron grimaced, "Hermione, don't you think you've been too busy recently? I'll do the math for you, attend classes, do homework, rune instruction on weekends, correct test papers, learn special transfiguration, and now you have to study curse……"

Hermione snorted, and she asked back, "Don't you think that solving each puzzle is a very fulfilling thing?"

……

On the other side, Rita Skeeter, who was originally looking at the scenery slowly, suddenly turned back the same way after turning around the courtyard.

Her eyes searched, and Lockhart was so fast that she had lost sight of him.But she soon found a turning point——

"Hey, you three! Stop, little wizards."

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(End of this chapter)