Harry Potter: Who cares about belated motherly love?

With a sense of foreboding, I turned around and found Lockhart standing there with a disgusting smile.

"Teacher?! We just...!!!" Harry was about to explain, but Hermione was a little flustered because she was caught by the teacher and was facing Lockhart, and Harry and I couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

It's terrible...!!!

It's so unlucky to be caught by this guy.

"Ms. Weasley, this is so disappointing. You are one of the most talented girls in your grade, yet you left your bed and wandered around the school in the middle of the night!"

Lockhart exaggerated his helplessness, but I could see a malicious gleam in his eyes.

At that moment, I felt a deep helplessness.

It's so unlucky to let this guy find the opportunity!!!

I felt even more uneasy because Lockhart had singled me out for criticism, even though Harry and Hermione were there.

"Oh, no need to explain! We can talk slowly in my office. Miss Weasley, you are the mastermind, right? Harry and Miss Granger, go back to your dormitory. I will find out the situation from Miss Weasley."

Lockhart said as he reached towards me and I quickly hid behind Harry.

Harry noticed something was wrong with Lockhart and stepped in front of me, pushing his hand away.

"Please wait a moment, teacher! I was the one who suggested this, just scold me..."

Harry's words touched me so much that I almost cried. It was great that he didn't shirk his responsibilities. If he was the kind of person who only cared about himself, I would never be friends with him.

Surprisingly, even Hermione, who had always admired Lockhart, refuted him.

"Why do you say Ronnie is the mastermind? We are together, and we should bear any punishment together!"

Hermione frowned, looking at Lockhart with a far more stern look than the usual gleam of admiration that shone through her eyes.

Hermione was a very smart person, she must have sensed something was wrong.

Just when I was about to fall into gratitude towards my friend, the reality of the predicament did not change.

"No, no, Miss Granger, I know Miss Weasley's situation very well. She just released her dragon and was feeling lonely, so she took you out for a walk. It's a little adventure."

Lockhart spoke these absurd words with such confidence that I almost felt disgusted and wanted to praise his eloquence.

He didn't care about the facts at all, he just cared about the opportunity to take me away.

What mattered to him was that "he had finally found an excuse to punish Ronnie Weasley".

Lockhart ignored the obviously abnormal hole behind us, which could only mean one thing - he just wanted to get me away as soon as possible.

"Well, let's go. Harry and Hermione, take care of this hole."

“!? Let me go……!!!”

Lockhart approached quickly, pushed Harry away, and grabbed my wrist. I struggled desperately.

"Calm down, Miss Weasley. Let's go to my office and talk this over."

"Do not touch me……!!!"

Lockhart's crooked smile chilled my whole body. I realized that if he took me away, the consequences would be disastrous, so I struggled hard and twisted my body violently.

"?!"

Suddenly, my foot slipped and I lost my balance.

——It turned out that during the struggle with Lockhart, we had unknowingly approached the entrance to the "Chamber of Secrets".

After a brief feeling of weightlessness, I fell with gravity and fell into the hole with Lockhart.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--!!!"

"RONNIE!!!!"

As Harry and Hermione shouted, I slid into the darkness with Lockhart.