Harry Potter’s Defense Professor

"There are a lot of wizards out there?" Hermione looked nervous. "I didn't find anything."

"They haven't been trained by Aurors, obviously." Lockhart shook his head slightly, "Even if you don't sense their magical power fluctuations, you can spot them just by observation: standing on the side of the road, seemingly bored but looking carefully. Everyone who passes by, I guess they also have Muggle Confusion Charms and Exorcism Charms on them. As long as you look at them or walk past them, you will immediately reveal your wizarding identity, because Muggles can't see them and take the initiative at the same time. stay away from them."

"Then what to do..." Hermione's hands trembled, "Let's go back the same way immediately."

"No, I think we should take a detour and go in there." Lockhart felt a little irritable, and now he had to sneak into an English town, and he was suffocated to death. "You wait for me here, I'll go take a look."

"No! Let's go... What do you hope to see? If there are so many wizards outside, the meeting point must be exposed. At most, you will see other people arrested!" Hermione grabbed his hand, " And I don't think anyone who can get out will be foolish enough to rush in..."

"It's fine if you don't listen to me, and you'll take care of me!" Lockhart shook her hand away.

"But your idea is wrong, how can I not care!" Hermione insisted on holding him.

The owner noticed the movement of the two and looked up. Lockhart resisted his anger and took a bag to eat: "First, get some food and drink in case you need it."

"Oh..." Hermione responded and began to take the food from the shelf. "Don't take the risk, Gilderoy..."

Lockhart shook his head and tried to calm down. He has always been a more rational person and should not be unable to control his emotions. Could it be that Moody's death affected him too much?

"Checkout!" Lockhart said to the store owner, and Lockhart stopped her when she saw Hermione take out a few miserable pieces of change from her pocket. He came out with a few thousand pounds, not even Hermione's pocket money.

"Okay, listen to you, let's go shopping around the town. Maybe we will meet someone who has the same idea." After paying the money, Lockhart took a deep breath, suppressed the urge to be silly, and listened to Hermione's advice. .

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The two walked cautiously across the street along the same path and returned to the woods from which they had come. to be frank. After Hermione left the store, she showed a lot of flaws because she was too nervous. Fortunately, the vigilance and observation skills of the batters were too poor.

"How to confirm the identity of the person found." The two searched along the periphery of the town,

"What if the other party also drinks the compound decoction and then hides from others?"

"Then you shouldn't continue drinking, and it's better to make some marks on the trees along the way. Are there any marks that only Aurors can recognize."

"Really." Lockhart nodded, and it was useful to bring someone with a quick mind, "but the other party doesn't know how many Aurors have been caught... Well, I don't think they are smart enough to ask them to be arrested. Things people mark."

"For safety's sake, don't use magic to mark it." Hermione took a folding knife from her beaded pouch. "So even if someone from the Ministry of Magic saw it, they would think it was Muggle carving."

"Very thoughtful, Hermione." Lockhart nodded, took the knife, and began to inscribe on the tree next to him: α, G.L.. "The letters in front are Aurors, and the letters in the back are my initials."

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The two then continued to wander around the town on the outskirts, carving his mark on trees from time to time. It was a rough time, and they circled Keith twice without finding any survivors. During the period, Hermione went to a wizard family to get the Daily Prophet. The above has reported a large number of recent policy changes at the Ministry of Magic. Of course, the biggest recent event is that the Ministry of Magic successfully carried out an encirclement and suppression of "renegade wizards". Twenty-seven Aurors were captured or killed at the cost of over fifty strikers...

Twenty-seven! This data made Lockhart even more wanting to give up his persistence. He believed that now he should go to avenge Moody first, and then find the scattered Aurors along the way. But Hermione insisted on waiting here until Harry and the others.

They quarreled from time to time during the day, and each time Lockhart suppressed his anger with reason, but it was still very unpleasant. Although the two of them slept together at night, Lockhart never had any sexual interest. Sleeping with the person she loves and not being intimate... Hermione is getting more and more frustrated.

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Fortunately, the days of getting closer to despair didn't last long, and their markers finally came in handy, after wandering around Keith for four days. They finally saw the other Auror marks beneath Lockhart's mark: Alpha, L.S., H.P., S.B., with a long string of incomprehensible lowercase letters.

"It's Harry!" Hermione screamed. "He's with Sirius, they're all right!"

Lockhart finally breathed a sigh of relief: "And Scrimgeour, he's fine." The Auror leader is still alive, at least not everything has to be done by himself, and there are individuals who can discuss the next step. .

Harry and the other three were together, and it was impossible not to mention his name once, but the deluminator had been quiet for the past few days, and now it seemed that it could only receive a call from a lover.

After discovering the other survivors, Lockhart's mood improved a lot. At Hermione's suggestion, they changed the direction of searching around Keith from clockwise to counterclockwise, in order to meet a few other people.

Finally, at noon the next day, they met another group of people.

"Harry!" Hermione happily ran over to hug Harry, but was stopped by Lockhart.

Scrimgeour also stopped Harry, drew his wand and pointed at Lockhart: "Why would you use the experiences of other Aurors to write your new book?"

"You let me steal it." Lockhart put down his wand.

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"How did you get out? I saw the mysterious man attacking you." After confirming their identities, several people gathered together with confidence, and Lockhart couldn't help but ask, "What about the others? The newspaper said there were twenty Seven didn't escape, so there should be about ten more."

"Alastor... he used a Forbidden spell on You-Know-Who like Dumbledore before he died, and unfortunately missed," said Scrimgeour calmly, "but there was a lot of movement, and I took the opportunity to escape."

Not a single one of the Forbidden Spells made a big move. It seemed that Moody died very tragically.

"As for the others...you have to know, twenty-seven refers to those who caught or left dead bodies at the scene, and some of them were hit during the forcible Apparition and fell to the place where they Apparated." Scrimgeour said calmly, "I'm only expecting seven or eight guys to come out intact and think about coming around here."

Scrimgeour seemed very calm. This calmness was different from the calmness that Lockhart pretended to be. It was not the numbness and confusion in the face of a crushing situation, but the tenacity and calmness of spirit and soul, which showed that Lockhart was incomparable. Tolerance and psychological quality: Scrimgeour has been an Auror for more than ten years and Auror Supervisor for more than twenty years. Unlike Lockhart's participation in Auror operations, it has always been smooth sailing. For him, this is not his first. This time he suffered a fiasco and sacrifice in the face of a powerful enemy - as long as he did not die and the war continued, it is estimated that it will not be the last time.

——(To be continued.)