I guess you can help me, don't you? Lockhart looked at Ivan expectantly, "You have such strength at a young age, you must have some skills to quickly improve your strength!" ”

"Do talent and hard work count?" Ivan raised an eyebrow and said hesitantly.

When he made those three pieces of magic equipment for Lockhart before, Ivan expected that Lockhart would fall into it after adapting to the rapid increase in strength brought by this prop.

This is also a trap he deliberately set in order to empty Lockhart's wallet...

Unexpectedly, Lockhart not only jumped in, but was not satisfied with this...

Thinking of this, Ivan shook his head and spoke.

"Professor Lockhart, I'm sure you should understand that there's no easy way to become a master magician."

"In such a short period of time, I can't even make a few magic props for you to enhance your strength!" Ivan spread his hands and said that there was nothing he could do.

"So what to do? I've already met with a few Headmasters to show Hogwarts students what a real wizarding duel looks like at the next edition of the Duel Club! Lockhart said in a panic.

Hearing this, Ivan couldn't help but roll his eyes,

Find a duel with the three deans? Are you so capable and courageous and still need my help?

Professor Flitwick is the duel champion, and Snape is also the best fighter, and Professor Sprout may be slightly weaker than the two.

But no matter what, Professor Sprout can also serve as the head of the college, and even if Lockhart uses magic props, he will only be beaten...

As soon as he fights, he can be revealed...

"I told you before, let you keep a low profile!" Ivan said speechlessly.

"This isn't exactly what I proposed... It was Flitwick who came up with it first. Lockhart was a little helpless, he didn't want to agree, but there were too many people at the time, and he really couldn't pull his face to refuse.

Lockhart thought for a while, and suddenly as if he had thought of something, he stared at Ivan with bright eyes, and said coldly for a long time.

"How about you take my place, Hals?"

"It takes at least a month to make the compound decoction!" 伊凡翻着白眼，他当然知道洛哈特打的是什么主意，顿时没好气的说道。

"Plus a thousand Galleons, that's one of the few savings I have—" Lockhart gritted his teeth.

Ivan hesitated, and seeing that he had touched Lockhart's bottom line, he said yes.

"Since that's the case, then it's not impossible for me to play in place of you!."

There weren't many opportunities to fight a few professors in the school for a valid reason in Hogwarts, and even if it wasn't for those golden gallons, Ivan would consider agreeing.

"But didn't you just say that it would take a month to make the compound decoction?" Lockhart wondered, he thought Ivan would find another way to help him.

"Compound decoction is a useful thing, always have a little spare..."Ivan explained casually.

The last time he boiled a large pot of polyjuice potion for the whole mission of exploring Hogwarts, he used it once because he learned Animagus, so there was a lot left.

The corners of Lockhart's mouth twitched involuntarily, so his thousand Galleons were spent in vain?

Lockhart is very distressed, his money is not blown by the wind, but earned by hard work writing books, and using the Oblivion Charm in order to collect all kinds of good story materials has to risk being beaten to death...

But remembering that the wound on his face still showed no signs of healing, and that it still ached faintly, Lockhart swallowed the words that came to his mouth very wisely.

"By the way, Professor Lockhart, I can't guarantee that I'll win—" Ivan took precautions in advance.

Ivan knows his own strength all the more.

Without counting the bloodline magic and the blessing of props, he is at most comparable to an ordinary adult wizard, and there is a significant gap between him and several professors...

"It doesn't matter, you just don't let them out of the water and deliberately let them, I have a lot of confidence in you!" Lockhart patted Ivan on the shoulder and said confidently.

He had personally experienced Ivan's strength, and he had seen many famous wizards who couldn't use such powerful magic!

Ivan's expression was very strange, and he opened his mouth to explain, so that Loha especially had such great hopes for himself.

But thinking that he still needed this strength to deter Lockhart, Ivan could only shut up helplessly.

......

Ivan came out of Lockhart's office with a headache, reflecting on whether he had been pretending to be a little too much in front of Lockhart recently.

So much so that Lockhart thinks that he is a powerful wizard who can "keep his hand" on the three deans of Flitwick, Snape, and Sprout!

"I'm not Dumbledore." Ivan sighed, and the customary way to go to the Room of Requirement,

Walking to the door, Ivan's face suddenly changed.

There was an extra dirty stain on the wall in front of the room of requirement, which didn't look obvious, but Ivan, who had been here many times, could clearly notice the difference...

Has anyone been here?

Ivan's face turned ugly, and he turned back and forth three times in front of the door, opened the door and entered the potions storage room, then rummaged inside.

Because the black mist space displayed by the Horcrux made Ivan vigilant, he temporarily transferred the Horcrux to the potions storage room in the Room of Requirement.

Ivan was very worried that the person who might have entered the Room of Requirement was for the diary!

However, it didn't take long for Ivan to find the black-covered diary from the place where it had been placed.

Confirming that the Horcrux was safe and sound, Ivan breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, guessing who will be here? The Horcrux wasn't lost because the other party didn't find it, or did the other party not come for this at all?

Ivan didn't believe in such a coincidence, looked at the Horcrux in front of him, hesitated for a while, and quickly became firm again.

Can't wait any longer!

Originally, Ivan was still hesitating whether to agree to Tom's proposal to help him regain his vitality, after all, this could have unknown consequences.

Now Ivan has made up his mind that he must learn the snake language as soon as possible, obtain a way to fuse multiple bloodlines, and then destroy the Horcrux immediately!

lest there be another accident!

Thinking of this, Ivan placed the Horcrux diary on the ground, took out a jar from his pocket, and inside was a spider the size of a palm, and then buckled upside down on the cover of the diary.

A faint black mist suddenly floated out of the cover of the diary, and the spider in the jar seemed to sense that something was wrong, and frantically flowed in the jar...