The next day, Harry was unable to participate in Quidditch training due to a broken arm, and Slytherin took this opportunity to win a victory.
However, in the following days, a rumor began to circulate in Hogwarts:
"Hogwarts has the secret room left by Slytherin. Once the secret room is opened, Slytherin's inheritance will be obtained, and the descendants of Slytherin will also follow one of his members to clean up the Muggles in Hogwarts.
The wizard."
At first, everyone just listened to such rumors as stories and didn't pay much attention to them.
However, Lockhart always talked about the Chamber of Secrets seriously and threatened that he would always unlock the secrets of the Chamber of Secrets.
After Malfoy learned about the Chamber of Secrets, he always stared at Harry slyly, as if he was the heir of Slytherin who opened the Chamber of Secrets.
When students finally asked professors in class, the professors were always vague and unwilling to discuss these matters.
However, the kids at Hogwarts can always find out the secrets hidden in the castle.
Since you can't ask the questions from the professors' mouths, then ask the ghosts in the castle. There will always be ghosts who can answer their questions.
As a result, it finally spread that Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets had been opened decades ago, and a girl had even died as a result.
Lockhart, who always wanted to show off, suggested that in order to improve the combat abilities of the young wizards, he decided to open a dueling club to improve everyone's actual combat abilities.
This is good news for the energetic little wizards, and for the members of the Tarot Club, it is also a stage to show their strength.
I have to say that Teacher Hermione's teaching ability is still very powerful. The members of the Tarot Club have not only made great progress in their magic knowledge and spells, but they have also not fallen behind in practical combat and have made great progress.
When the Duel Club starts, I will be shocked again.
Sure enough, at eight o'clock in the evening on December 18, Lockhart stood on a high platform like a peacock, wearing a bright wizard robe.
Under the stage were a group of little wizards.
There was not only Lockhart on the stage, but also Professor Snape with a gloomy face.
However, Snape didn't seem to like Lockhart very much, and he ignored Lockhart even though he was talking at length. But Lockhart has the kind of personality that even if you ignore me, I won't be embarrassed and can still talk endlessly.
talent.
As long as I'm not embarrassed, someone else will be embarrassed.
Finally, after half an hour of long speech, Lockhart was finally ready to show everyone a duel. He would fight Snape on the stage.
Unfortunately, history is always surprisingly similar. Just like in the original book, Lockhart was trying to pose, and Snape knocked the wand out of Lockhart's hand with a casual "Expelliarmus".
He himself even flew some distance back and lay on the duel platform in a state of embarrassment.
But Lockhart responded quickly, holding back the discomfort and smiling and said:
"Look, I am just demonstrating to you what will happen if you are accidentally hit by your opponent's disarming spell. So in the future, you must be careful about your opponent's disarming spell in duels."
Lockhart's acting skills are worthy of recognition, at least many of the little wizards present believed him.
William couldn't help but lament in his heart, did the young wizards really trust Lockhart? No, it was the young wizards who trusted Hogwarts and Dumbledore.
They believed that Dumbledore would not let an incompetent person become a professor at Hogwarts, and they believed that the best wizarding school in the UK would not let a liar teach.
Unfortunately, this Lockhart is really a liar.
Although everything Dumbledore did was for the overall situation, to cultivate a savior and destroy Voldemort.
However, this approach is unfair to the students of the school.
However, William looked at the stage thoughtfully.
Even if all this is Dumbledore's plan, do the directors of Hogwarts really not know the true identity of Gilderoy Lockhart? Can they tolerate such a person becoming a professor in the school?
Or is it that the directors or pure-blood nobles are behind this?
Let’s see, there has never been a professor in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class who can teach for a long time. Is it really because of the terrible curse of the mysterious man?
In other words, such a curse is not only imposed by the mysterious person, but also by the pure-blood nobles.
The lack of Defense Against the Dark Arts classes makes the students who leave Hogwarts deficient in many things in the magical world. It is difficult to deal with dark wizards and evil magical creatures.
However, these people are all civilian wizards with no background, while those pure-blood nobles have family inheritance. Even if they did not learn real skills in school, they will have real skills after graduation and return home to accept the family inheritance.
Are you ready?
Therefore, William guessed that maybe Voldemort's curse does exist, but it shouldn't be so powerful.
However, the pure-blood nobles took advantage of this and used various methods to prevent the professors of Defense Against Dark Arts from teaching for a long time.
In this way, the fault of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher will make it difficult for civilian wizards to succeed, thus preventing the birth of the next Voldemort.
It’s impossible for those pure-blood nobles not to know that Voldemort’s true identity is Tom Riddle, and that he is a mixed-blood. It’s just that at that time, they needed a strong man with a supreme blood concept to help them maintain their status.
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Similarly, they may not be unaware that Voldemort made Horcruxes. Various indications indicate that at least Lucius Malfoy knew about Horcruxes and that the diary was Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Otherwise, how dare he send the diary to Hogwarts like this.
He knew that after entering Hogwarts, Tom would definitely choose to open the Chamber of Secrets, and then he would be able to take this opportunity to drive Dumbledore out of Hogwarts.
Even if he failed, he could still destroy Voldemort's Horcrux with Dumbledore's help, saving him from being a disaster at home.
In fact, William did not know that this was when Lucius discovered that the soul in the Horcrux was showing signs of awakening, and was even preparing to use Draco Malfoy's life force to resurrect him.
This approach naturally offended Lucius, so Weasley sent the diary to Hogwarts pretending to be a design.
At that time, Tom's resurrection will not endanger Draco's life; Tom's failure will also be eliminated by Dumbledore, which has nothing to do with him. At most, he is just a mistake, and his crime is not worthy of death!
It can be seen from this that none of these pure-blood nobles are simple things.
Including the final release of Dobby, maybe I didn't pay attention at the time, but it was not unreasonable to follow the trend.
In this way, everything can even be blamed on a rebellious house elf. Anyway, Dobby already has thoughts of betrayal. Staying by his side is also a hidden danger. It is better to use it as waste. It may be better if Voldemort comes back in the future.
explain.
Of course, these are no longer within William's consideration. At this time, William and Hermione were watching the duel between Harry and Draco Malfoy.
Speaking of which, Harry's duel was strongly recommended by Lockhart, who was crazy about fame and wanted to convey to everyone that he was the son of destiny and the teacher of Harry Potter, the savior...