Hogwarts: Where the Pokémon Are - #196 - Chapter 196 Lockhart: Malfoy? I laughed when I heard it

“Restricted Book Zone?” Lockhart seemed to be interested and looked at the three Harrys with a playful look.

“Don’t you know this is against school rules?”

“But, Professor, if we get your permission, it’s not a violation, right?” Hermione said quickly.

“Are you trying to be clever with me?” He smiled, but he didn’t agree with what the three of them said. It’s just a few kiddies, can they really find the murderer? Even if they could be found, Lockhart couldn’t let them succeed!

If he hadn’t still needed to stay at Hogwarts, he would have killed Harry Potter with a Killing Curse!

“Okay, tell me who you suspect, and then let me investigate. You can go back and rest early, and wait for everything to come to light…” Lockhart dismissed them casually.

Seeing this, Harry and the other three immediately knew that their visit tonight was in vain.

However, Hermione felt that since she couldn’t borrow the book, it wasn’t impossible to ask Lockhart to investigate Malfoy.

“We suspect Malfoy!” She finally decided to tell everything. This startled Harry and Ron.

Lockhart almost laughed when he heard the words Malfoy. Malfoy, does he look like an heir?

“Draco Malfoy? He, impossible!

“You still Malfoy?

“This… is a thousand miles away. Malfoy wants to be the heir. Let’s evolve a little further, ah.

“Draco Malfoy said he wanted to be the heir to the Chamber of Secrets. Does he have the strength to become the heir without being directly crushed by others?” Lockhart made a disgraceful speech to the three young wizards. His speech was like a Bible, and Harry and the three of them were stunned for a moment.

“We say that the heir to the Chamber of Secrets is among the Slytherin students, or in other words, among the dark wizards, who are also very evil!

“For example, the last time the Chamber of Secrets was opened, a wizard from the Muggle world was killed. At that time, I heard that the entire school was almost closed. Does Malfoy have this ability, right?

“That is a very evil wizard. What can Malfoy do and become a dark wizard? He must first have the strength to be the heir. He has not learned many spells. Look at the spells that Hermione knows. Quite a lot! Right? Multiply Malfoy’s spells by two, can he compare to Hermione? He can’t! So first of all, Malfoy doesn’t have that qualification!”

The three of them looked at each other and immediately felt that what Lockhart said made sense.

Although Malfoy is a pureblood and is among the best in his grade, there are many students in the upper grades who are better than him! How many spells does Malfoy know? Still want to be an heir?

You’re not qualified at all. You don’t have that qualification!

But having said that, Lockhart still felt that Harry’s guess was reasonable.

Thinking about it carefully, he did remember that the Dark Lord gave something to Lucius Malfoy for safekeeping, and he vaguely remembered that it seemed to be related to the Chamber of Secrets.

Could it be that it was really Malfoy?

Lockhart was suspicious.

It would be impossible for Malfoy to open the Chamber of Secrets on his own, and it wouldn’t make sense if he just had the key to the Chamber of Secrets.

Now that the Malfoy family belongs to Charlene Gold, if there really is such a thing, now that Voldemort has been “killed”, will Lucius still hand over such a dangerous thing to his son? ?

Therefore, Lockhart immediately thought that it was very possible that Voldemort himself was controlling Malfoy to open the Chamber of Secrets.

Thinking of this, he wanted to rush to Malfoy immediately and reveal all the truth.

In fact, he did the same thing!

“Fortunately, Lockhart has a lot of money, and the materials he bought can be used for a long time.” He took out a bottle of compound potion that had not been added with anyone’s hair, and planned to find a Slytherin the next day. The little wizard turns into the other person and asks for the truth.

After the three Harrys left Lockhart’s office, they couldn’t help but feel that what the other party said made sense.

“And Malfoy’s father has betrayed Voldemort. I heard that his family doesn’t seem to hate Muggles that much anymore.” Ron thought for a moment and said, “Maybe it’s not him after all.”

“Maybe he has really changed his ways, but he is still not a good person!”

Harry did have to admit that Malfoy’s attitude towards Hermione was much better now than before. Not only did he not verbally insult her, but there was no contempt in his eyes anymore. But the other party never stopped fighting against him from beginning to end.

But this is the grudge left between them in the past.

“Look, maybe he didn’t open the Chamber of Secrets, but I think he must know something?” Harry said immediately.

“Why else would he appear in the corridor on the third floor? Slytherin’s dormitory is underground!”

The three of them were talking and walking, but they didn’t expect to bump into Neville who was walking towards them. Harry, who looked a bit thin, was immediately hit by Neville.

“Are you okay Harry?” Neville had just come from the club. He was constantly training his two Pokémon. In fact, the frog’s level was already very high, and it had been practicing sword swinging with Neville.

The little Kirby’s talent is also good, but it eats a lot and gets hungry easily.

“I’m fine Neville – but your physique is perfectly qualified to be a goalkeeper or a batsman,” Harry said. Professor Xia Lin’s physical training method was really effective for Neville, so much so that Harry almost wanted to learn it.

If he could grow taller, maybe Zhang Qiu would look at himself more instead of that Cedric!

Harry thought angrily.

“etc–“

“Neville! You are the professor’s student!” Harry seemed to have thought of some good idea and quickly grabbed Neville.

“Yes, you have a good memory. But except for me, you are also the professor’s student. Everyone is the professor’s student.” Neville looked at Harry in confusion, thinking that his roommate’s memory was also not very good.

“How about I lend you my memory ball, Harry? I haven’t used it for a long time.” Neville said with concern on his face.

“I don’t have a bad memory! I mean, you have the best relationship with Professor Xia Lin! He is almost your teacher, right?”

Neville nodded.

“What do you want to do?”

“You don’t mean to–“

Ron and Hermione looked at Harry at the same time.

“Yes, since Lockhart is unwilling to approve the note for us, the only person who can approve the note for us is Professor Xia Lin!”

“But, where is Professor Lupin?” Hermione asked.

“He will never let me take risks.” Harry shook his head, “Remember? Only Professor Charlene never treats us as children. This was the case last year when Voldemort wanted to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone. Now, if If we make it clear to him, then he may be willing to give us a little help.”

“I think it’s a bit ridiculous…” Ron wasn’t very confident about this.

But Harry said again, “What if Neville and I went to beg him together? I believe he would be willing to agree. We are wizards and Pokémon trainers! Strength and weakness have nothing to do with age!”

“Sorry, what are you talking about?” Neville interrupted.

“I don’t want to trouble the professor because of strange things. The professor is usually good enough to me.” Neville said with a troubled face.

“Listen Neville, we need to find the real murderer.” Harry said seriously.

“You mean the heir to the Chamber of Secrets?”

“Yes!” Harry was very happy that Neville was willing to admit the existence of the Chamber of Secrets.

In fact, because there are two powerful wizards in the school, many students forget about the matter after a brief first panic. What about the heir of Slytherin?

There are some of the strongest wizards in the past and the strongest wizards in the school now. Even the heir of Slytherin must not dare to do anything.

Petrifying a cat is already the limit, unlike fifty years ago when it directly took away a poor innocent life.

So, many people thought it was just a prank, petrifying Filch’s pesky cat, to everyone’s benefit. Fred and George even said that this was to eliminate harm for the people!

But now that Filch has a visiting rat, it makes night travel more difficult.

jEven if it wasn’t a prank, the heir of Slytherin probably wouldn’t dare to do anything more. Everyone was willing to believe that he would just disappear. Some even said that if the successor released the monsters in the secret room, they would definitely use Pokémon to compete with him!

“The professor did say that the secret room has been opened.” Neville nodded, “The monster inside is very scary and has strong magic power. If the Pokémon’s special defense is not enough, it may be killed. You have to investigate. This? It’s too dangerous!”

“But if we don’t investigate, we will never know who the murderer is! Are you going to watch people in the school die?” Harry said excitedly.

Hearing this, Neville’s emotions were also aroused.

“Okay, what you said makes sense. In this case, I can help you.” He said, “But I have a condition -“

“What?”

“Take me with you!” Neville said firmly.

To this, the three Harrys agreed without much thought.

Unlike the original Neville, the current Neville is not the idiot with a poor memory who can mess up everything. He is also very powerful, whether it is magic spells or Pokémon, he can probably come in handy.

“It’ll be easier with you on board.”

Harry explained their plan.

“We had suspected Malfoy, but now that we think about it, he may not be the murderer. But he may also know some information.” Harry said, “Hermione plans to refine the compound potion, and then sneak into Slytherin to find out the information! But the formula is It’s a restricted area, so we need a note from the professor to approve it.”

Neville showed an expression of sudden realization: “I know, why did the professor give me a piece of paper with his name on it today? I think he might have guessed that you were planning to go to the restricted book area.”

Hearing this, Harry and the other three immediately beamed with joy.

“I knew the professor would help us!”

“Then what are you waiting for? Go to the library quickly!” Hermione seemed happier than anyone else. She grabbed the note that Neville took out and rushed to the fourth floor. Ron suspected that she simply wanted to read.

Finally, under Mrs. Pince’s suspicious eyes, Hermione got the “Powerful Potion” as she wished.

“This is the most complicated potion I’ve ever seen,” Hermione said as they went through the recipe. “Lacewings, leeches, sapweed and amphora,” she murmured, pointing one by one. Looking at the ingredient list, “These are easy to get. They are in the students’ storage cabinets. We can get them ourselves. Oh, look, there are also bicorn horns ground into powder – I don’t know where to find them… …a scrap of skin from an African tree snake—that’s hard to come by, too—and, of course, a little something from the person we want to transform into.”

“I’m sorry,” said Ron sharply, “what do you mean by that? What do you mean a little bit of the person we want to change? I will never drink it if Crabbe’s toenails are in it…”

Hermione didn’t seem to hear what he said, and continued: “We don’t have to worry about it yet, those things will be put in at the end…”

Ron turned to Harry speechlessly, and Harry had another doubt.

“Do you have any idea how much we’re going to steal, Hermione? Pieces of African tree snake skin that are definitely not in the student lockers. What are we going to do? Break into Snape’s personal storage room? I don’t know. Is this an idea…”

“How can we go to Professor Snape and steal something?” Neville said absurdly, “He will definitely release that big-mouthed bat to bite us!”

Hermione snapped the book shut.

“Well, if you get scared and want to run away, that’s okay,” she said. There were two bright blushes on her cheeks, and her eyes were brighter than usual. “You know, I don’t want to break school rules. I think threatening Muggle-borns is much worse than brewing a complicated potion. But if you don’t want to find out if it was Malfoy, I’m going to do it now Find Ms. Pings and return the book to her…”

“I never thought that one day I would see you trying to persuade us to break school rules.” Ron said, “Okay, do it. But don’t keep your toenails, okay?”

“How long does it take to prepare this potion?” Harry asked, when Hermione’s mood improved and she opened the book again.

“That’s right, the sap must be picked on the day of the full moon, and the lacewings need to be harvested for twenty days… I think if we can get all the ingredients, a month will be enough.”

“A month?” Ron said, “By then, Malfoy may have knocked down half of the Muggles in the school!” Hermione’s eyes narrowed, and Ron quickly added as she was about to get angry again. : “But this is the best plan we can think of, so let’s step up our action.”

“Wait, it’s not necessarily the best.” Neville suddenly remembered something.

“——Variety Monster!”