"Well, that's about it... no more analysis or intelligence."
The goblin Gallywix wiped his sweat, looked at Dumbledore cautiously, and said cautiously.
Different from the gentle old wizard in the past, this old man now seemed to be exuding some kind of energy that was difficult to look at directly. What made Gallywix even more nervous was that, not far away from Dumbledore, there was someone leaning on him.
A more terrifying and dangerous Dark Lord.
If the two had chosen cooperation instead of hostility decades ago, the wizarding world might have surrendered to their throne.
"Huh, it sounds like the situation is quite serious——"
Dumbledore let out a breath, turned his head and looked at the old devil next to him, his voice was somewhat relaxed.
"It seems that after Elena comes back, we have to discuss it carefully and discuss how to deal with it. After all, there are so many Aurors and werewolves involved..."
"Are you so sure that Elena will be back soon?"
Grindelwald grinned and looked at Dumbledore with a half-smile.
"Don't forget, that child is the protagonist living in a fairy tale."
"Idealism and objectivity are not opposite things, old man. Elena may seem willful, but she knows exactly what she wants."
Dumbledore glanced at Grindelwald, shook his head unmoved, and said with a gentle smile.
"In terms of rationality and plan execution, she is no less than you and me - that child has her own code of conduct. To be more precise, she is calmer than most people in the world and sticks to the bottom line of principles and ideals.
You know better than me what a Christian is like."
"With what she knows now, she can easily conclude that the werewolves don't need her to save them."
Dumbledore put down the parchment reports in his hands, folded them carefully on the podium, and spoke unhurriedly.
"Without the subsequent inferences and Auror's movements, this is just a 'false alarm' triggered out of a fuss."
"but……"
"We won't know what happens after the 'but' until she 'rescues' Lockhart, right?"
Dumbledore adjusted his half-moon glasses, said calmly, and tapped his fingers on the reports.
"As the chief wizard of the International Confederation of Wizards, I will negotiate with the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic in various countries before dawn. They can arrest those werewolves who are in a weak stage, but they cannot carry out killings - just like the British Ministry of Magic, this is
We discussed the response method before."
"Of course, if she plans to sabotage the Auror plan and shelter the werewolves after hearing this news on her return, I will respect her -"
"You're lying! You think I'm a mindless fool like Newt? Albus."
Grindelwald sneered and interrupted Dumbledore unceremoniously.
"Wait until they come back? Not to mention the white-haired road idiot, not even Lockhart can find the location of those werewolves again."
"What's more, the moon is about to rise. You shouldn't forget that today is the full moon, right? After the werewolves turned into wolves, they scattered and it was impossible to get back together to receive shelter. And at that time, the great, just, and kind-hearted werewolves
Professor Dumbledore would naturally say: "
A trace of sarcasm flashed across Grindelwald's face, and he imitated Dumbledore's voice at the top of his voice.
"Oh, yes, maybe we should do something, but there's nothing we can do now."
"Maybe this is life, sometimes things like this happen."
Dumbledore spread his hands and looked at Grindelwald helplessly, with a strange light shining in his blue eyes.
"If Mr. 'Tower' agrees with Mr. 'The Hanged Man''s approach and wants to be the savior to save werewolves, then go ahead - but out of decades of old friends, I have to remind you, that kid
You must be in a bad mood now. Oh, you seem to have said this?"
"No, I just want to maintain fairness - in the game, or in life, I think you have to at least abide by the rules."
Grindelwald shrugged his shoulders and leaned against the podium without any intention of moving.
He glanced at the dark forest not far away, turned his head and looked at Dumbledore again, and said seriously.
"From the perspective of information efficiency, I think Miss Fool has the right to synchronize the information she should know as soon as possible. In this fair and just situation, the choice she makes can be considered objective and not influenced by you and me.
Interfering, right? It’s not difficult to send a message, right?"
"A message? Normally it might not be too difficult, but..."
Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and shook his head with regret.
"Not to mention that Fawkes is still in the distant village of Quibble, the Phoenix alarm is too eye-catching - there are not many phoenixes in the magic world."
"Well, don't worry, I don't intend to send a phoenix to deliver a message to the irritable little Veela."
Grindelwald replied easily and took out his tarot cards from his pocket.
"Times have changed, Albus. This is much easier to use than the Phoenix."
The old man took out his magic wand and tapped twice on the exclusive tarot card handmade by Nico Flamel.
"In the name of the 'Tower', urgently initiate a remote meeting of the Great Arcana Council——"
…………
A little earlier, minutes before Grindelwald drew his wand.
Armenian forest, the temporary settlement of werewolves, that quiet forest glade.
Just as the werewolves were trying to digest the information in the conversation between the "mysterious girl" and Lockhart, many people suddenly felt an unexplained heart palpitations. They subconsciously followed the source of the heart palpitations and saw that the
At some point, magic words began to appear around the mysterious girl.
Even if they don't understand what it is, they feel like every cell in their body is screaming about the danger involved.
Valkyrie is engraved with a large number of magical runes. When they are opened one by one, even a blind person can feel the oppression.
However, compared to Lockhart, the pressure felt by the surrounding audience was not even one-tenth.
"I've finished answering your questions, Mr. Lockhart," Elena said. "Now, it's your turn to help me answer some of my little questions."
Elena took out a small bottle of clear liquid from the breastplate storage compartment - this is Professor Slughorn's most powerful truth serum. It may not be as effective as Professor Snape's, but it is definitely the same.
It is considered one of the best master-level magic potions in the field of potions today.
Immediately afterwards, Elena waved her right hand and used the magic wand hidden in it to summon a small ball of water.
She carefully poured three drops of potion into the clear water, and then manipulated the small water ball to float to Gilderoy Lockhart's mouth.
"Drink it - or, hurry up and tell me what else you want..."
"Your question, um... it should be very ladylike, right?"
Lockhart smiled bitterly and drank the small ball of liquid that floated over without hesitation.
As the person in charge of the black wizard, he certainly knew that the intelligence personnel had lost contact, especially the steps after being captured. The results of this trial directly meant in what capacity he would be subject to subsequent investigations, and the way he handled it was
Much simpler - just execute them on the spot.
Elena glanced at Lockhart's throat and asked calmly and softly.
"Where did your last sexual intercourse take place?"
"Onboard the Hyperion."
Lockhart's cheeks trembled a few times and he whispered, the remaining bitter smile making him look a little funny.
"Well, don't worry, I won't ask too many questions about that - not interested."
Elena raised her eyebrows noncommittally and continued in a gentle tone, "When you were still studying at Hogwarts, you received so many love letters on Valentine's Day one year that breakfast had to be terminated early that day. Just say
Name the senders of three of the letters.”
Lockhart took a deep, trembling breath, and then spoke in a flat, emotionless tone.
"What I said is true. I'm not resisting the Veritaserum because..."
After the three names were read out, Lockhart's voice returned to its original ups and downs in tone, and he explained anxiously.
"Well, I know, those eight hundred Valentine's Day cards were all sent by you yourself."
Before Lockhart could finish speaking, Elena nodded calmly, without the slightest hint of surprise or surprise.
A certain wizard has some secrets that they "think" only they know, but Elena's "sight" can transcend all the fog to capture the content, especially for "important figures" like Lockhart. This is also
One of the things she relies on to test whether the truth serum is actually effective.
However, in the eyes of Gilderoy Lockhart, this suddenly became a bit scary.
"Wait, this is impossible! I didn't tell anyone about this, why would you-"
"Hogwarts knows everything..."
Elena smiled enigmatically and continued to ask without explanation.
"What happened after the werewolves 'kidnapped' you from Aghasheyan's house? Why didn't you just evacuate?"
Following the girl's question, Lockhart's confusion and panic had not had time to dissipate. He took another deep breath and his voice returned to the same flat tone as before. He continued speaking in a tone without any ups and downs, as if he was suddenly switched.
Channel radio.
"There are very few organized werewolf operations in Europe, and I wanted to see what was going on."
"On the other hand, I owe Aghashyan a lot - since the problem lies in the book I wrote, it should be solved by me. Ordinary wizards can't deal with Muggles holding guns. That's because they don't know how to deal with it."
I know the principle. As long as the magic wand is still in my hand, I can escape from their 'hijacking' at any time. With a little effort and time, it won't be too difficult to defeat them... I can also recruit members."
"It's just that when I arrived here, I found that there were more werewolf wizards here than I thought - they were very likely to use magical means to extract the secrets from my mind. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to withstand the torture, so...
…I directly destroyed the Major Arcana emblem to call for help.”
"Then how did they torture you? What did you tell them?" Elena asked.
"The Cruciatus Curse," Lockhart said, shaking unconsciously. "At first they were beaten, and some people suggested burning them, but in the end they chose to use magic to deal with magic. I told them that there is indeed a way to turn a werewolf into a werewolf.
There is a way to return people, but in exchange, they must go to Gringotts and pay a 500 gold Galleons treatment deposit. Of course, the contents written in my book are all lies."
"Treatment... deposit? 500 gold galleons? This amount of money is not even a fraction of the cost of treatment. Why?"
So far, there is only one successful way for a werewolf to turn back into a human being: using the magic stone to completely reshape the body and regain a new life.
The cost of each use of the Magic Stone cannot be calculated in gold galleons.
As one of the Major Arcana, Gilderoy Lockhart naturally knows this - he is the core technical advisor responsible for the soul link.
Lockhart's eyelids twitched violently, and he still answered in that monotonous voice without any emotion.
"If they don't pay the gold galleons, then their status is not much different from 'that container'. But if they pay the consultation fee, then they are the patients of destiny. Even if the consultation fee is extremely expensive, at least they will be patient from beginning to end.
Treated like a 'patient'..."
"Wait, stop, that's not what I asked you just now."
Elena said innocently, her eyes hidden behind the magic halo looked deeply at Lockhart.
"I mean, the first moment you saw the werewolf wizard, you could have run away. And then you should have had many opportunities to leave. But you chose to stay here and gamble with your own life - gamble
Will we arrive in time? Why do you do this? Why do you tell so many lies to save a group of werewolves who have nothing to do with you and even try their best to torture you? Why? "
"No reason, because...this is what I want to do."
Gilderoy Lockhart's eyelids trembled, and he took another deep breath.
"I have never done anything admirable since I was a child. Almost all my honors and achievements are exaggerated and false."
"No matter what people think of me, I know that I am actually an ordinary wizard."
"Whether it's the novel or the work I participated in later, those were all choices made by other noble people... You are the crucial heroes and protagonists of the story that affect the future of the world. I just put them
The person who appears.
"But this time it's different. I think I've got an opportunity - I think this is my opportunity."
"Perhaps, I can rely on my own wisdom and my growth during this period to perfectly solve the werewolf problem in the magic world."
"At that time, I will use this to prove my identity as the Major Arcana, and see the admiration and admiration in your eyes..."