Harry Potter’s Defense Professor

Dumbledore brought the members of the Order of the Phoenix into the headmaster's room.

"Severus, didn't Voldemort give you any information?"

"No, he just asked me to pass on news about you as usual, and I didn't know he was here until Hogwarts was attacked." Snape, who had always been calm, was also a little nervous, "It seems that I am here. Totally untrusted."

"I'm not going to discuss whether you are trusted." Dumbledore also had a lot of questions. This time Voldemort came to attack Hogwarts, except for causing a little panic, what else could he do? "Let's discuss what Voldemort wants to do."

"Tonks, is something wrong with the Ministry of Magic?" Lockhart asked uneasily.

"I don't know. They used a powerful magic to block the magic signals in this area. I can't communicate with the Ministry of Magic."

"There's absolutely nothing wrong with the Ministry of Magic," Lupin said, "otherwise it's definitely more than that."

"Do you have any ideas, Hermione?" Dumbledore looked at the always smart Hermione with some hope.

"He's definitely here for a purpose this time. Maybe You-Know-Who is stupid, but not all the Death Eaters under him are brainless people..." Hermione frowned, "But I can't guess what he wants to do. ."

"I think there's a Horcrux hidden at Hogwarts, Headmaster." Lockhart couldn't help it. "He must have found that his Horcrux was destroyed. This time he wants to come and get the Horcrux back, Severus, did any of the Slytherin students leave the lounge during the battle just now?"

"No, if I get the Horcrux back, he can let me go or control a student... There's no need to fight like this."

Lockhart doesn't understand now, but he feels that the safest way to do it now is to get the crown immediately: "You wait for me, and I'll be back when I go."

He stood up and left the headmaster's room and walked straight to Ravenclaw Tower, a Ravenclaw graduate who knew all about Ravenclaw-related things or facilities in the school - such as Ravenclaw's ghost.

"Professor!" Encountering Pandora in the corridor, she ran over and hugged him tightly: "The mysterious man said he broke the Ministry of Magic, is it true, will my grandfather and the others do anything?"

"Honey. Nothing like that," Lockhart gave her a kiss, "your grandpa's coming to rescue us later, until then. You'd better stay in the lounge and don't go anywhere, understand? ?"

"Do not,

I want to stay with you and you will protect me! "

"Pandora. You know, I like that you have always been sensible and obedient, and you have never been impatient, you understand." Lockhart said to her seriously, "Now, listen to me and go back to the lounge, I can't fight. I'm distracted to protect you." He kissed her again: "I love you, okay?"

"Well, I love you too. Be careful!" Pandora never disobeyed Lockhart's request and nodded in agreement.

——

Lockhart took a few turns around Ravenclaw Tower and soon found her in the haunt of Lady Grey. Lady Grey is a slender ghost with waist-length hair and a floor-length robe that Lockhart could swear there was absolutely no ghost in the world more beautiful - but knowing that she is the daughter of Ravenclaw's founder , her beauty is not surprising at all. Ravenclaw is so beautiful and intelligent, it should be surprising that her daughter does not inherit her excellent genes.

She knew Lockhart, who had also been at Hogwarts for seven years, and talked to her a lot. It's just that she ignores it. She looked proudly at Lockhart running towards her to see what the hell was up with him.

"Ms. Gray, I'm having a hard time finding me."

She nodded and said nothing.

"I need you to tell me all about Ravenclaw's crown."

"I thought you were coming to chat with me again. Gilderoy." Her lips twisted into a sneer. She said and turned to leave, "I can't help you."

"and many more!"

Lockhart didn't intend to talk nonsense with him at all. He knew where the crown was, and he just came to ask her out of interest. Lady Gray was beautiful, but she couldn't go on. There is an egg.

"It's urgent," he pretended to be anxious, "that crown is at Hogwarts, isn't it!"

"Yeah, but you'll never find it. You're a Ravenclaw," she said contemptuously, "but you're not smart enough to get it."

Your sister, actually mocking herself: "It's in the responsive room, isn't it!"

The ghost doesn't blush, but her transparent cheeks seem to suddenly become less transparent, and she raises her eyebrows and asks in surprise, "How—how do you know?"

"Thank you!" Lockhart was waiting for his words, he turned and walked to the principal's office, this time it was her turn to pester Lockhart.

"Your intelligence amazes me, Gilderoy..." Ms. Gray rarely praised people or even took the initiative to speak. She drifted with Lockhart's pace: "I stole the crown from my mother."

"Oh, none of your business, you rest." This time it was Lockhart's turn to ignore her.

"I stole the crown," Helena Ravenclaw whispered again. "I wanted to make myself smarter and more famous than my mother. I ran away with the crown."

"Oh."

"Then my mother became ill - very ill. She was desperate to see me again, despite my unfilial deeds. She sent a man to me. He loved me for a long time, but I Rejected him. My mother knew the man wouldn't give up until he found me."

"Ms. Gray, you don't have to tell me what's going on, I'll destroy that thing!" Although it was a pleasure to chat with an iceberg beauty, Lockhart was not in that mood right now.

"I believe you can do it, Gilderoy, why didn't you show your amazing intelligence during your student days?" Ms. Gray was annoyed at his attitude: "Otherwise I would have asked for your help long ago."

Amazing wisdom, your sister, now that you are useless, go back to Ravenclaw Tower and stay.

"I later hid that crown in a hollow tree." Ms. Gray insisted, and continued to chase him through a wall: "In a forest in Albania. A desolate place I thought my mother couldn't reach."

"And then you foolishly broke the news to You-Know-Who and let him defile Ravenclaw's relics, didn't you!"

"You! How do you know everything, this is not wisdom, you are a prophet! How did you do it?"

"Well, you're not the only one who was deceived by his rhetoric." Lockhart arrived at the principal's office, but she didn't expect Ms. Gray to follow him.

"Mr. Headmaster, Ms. Grey told me that Ravenclaw's crown is hidden in the Room of Requirement!"

——

"I see." Dumbledore stood in front of the door of the Response Room, and after chatting with Lady Ravenclaw for a while, he figured out the cause and effect: "Many years ago, Voldemort once returned to Hogwarts and asked I asked for the position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and I turned him down."

"Then he cursed the position!" Harry understood.

Hermione suddenly remembered that it might be the curse. She borrowed her hand and almost killed Lockhart several times. She grabbed Lockhart's hand guiltily and turned to look at him.

Lockhart understood what she was thinking, and smiled and shook his head at her. Hermione had given herself up for herself, and she had nothing to apologize for.

"Yes, but what I didn't expect was that when he returned to Hogwarts, he might have hidden a Horcrux here by the way." Dumbledore shook his head with emotion, and opened the Room of Requirement through his mind: "But I don't Understand why he used this savage and stupid method to retrieve the Horcrux, wouldn't it be safer to send a Slytherin student to take it secretly."

As soon as they crossed the threshold, they understood why they couldn't just send someone to take it. The room was the size of a church, and the surrounding scenery looked like a city. Those high walls were made up of the things hidden by thousands of long-dead students.

The vanishing cabinet that was smashed by Dumbledore last time was still there.

"How shall we find it?"

"A torch for the Requirement Room," Lockhart suggested, "and a fiery fire."

"In that case, I don't know if the defensive magic of the Requirement Room can protect the rest of Hogwarts." Dumbledore shook his head. "And it is certain that the Requirement Room will no longer exist."

"Then, Harry..." Lockhart looked at Harry. "Now I ask you to lift Occlumency and feel where the Horcrux is."

Dumbledore glanced at Lockhart in surprise, but said nothing.

"Unlock Occlumency?" Harry said in surprise. "Okay, I'll try..."

Harry closed his eyes, Lockhart's training with him was quite successful, and his talent and learning ability were already very strong, but now it feels a bit strange to lift the Occlumency, and stood quietly for a while: "I feel Here, there is something in this room that communicates with my soul."

"Is that okay?" Hermione looked at Harry uneasily.

As if possessed by something, Harry began to walk around the room of necessity, approaching the Horcrux, and a bunch of Order of the Phoenix quietly followed him, daring not to disturb him in the slightest.

They walked slowly down a passage, surrounded by all kinds of garbage - bottles, hats, boxes, chairs, books, weapons, brooms, bats...

Lockhart suddenly felt a little useless. He stayed at Hogwarts for seven years and didn't know that Hogwarts had a room on request! No wonder he was destined to be an ordinary person, while Voldemort and Harry were the Dark Lord and the Savior.

"Somewhere around here," Harry murmured, "just... just... I feel it, in this pile of stuff!"

"Harry is awesome!" Tonks praised.

——(To be continued.)