Lockhart straightened his clothes, pushed the door open and walked out...... Brandi walked in front of him with a low brow and a pleasing expression.

"What's wrong, Gildero!"

He hadn't taken a few steps when there was the sound of hurried footsteps in the hallway, and two professors Harry they didn't know were running anxiously from there, one of them was nearly seventy years old, and his face was covered in incantations. The old wizard walked tremblingly and briskly, shouting loudly. "Is it a monster attacking again?"

"Uh...... Ah, I mean, no. ”

They looked at Lockhart in amazement, who looked like he had been fished out of the water, covered in cold sweat.

"I just experimented with a spell in my office, and its destructive power and side effects were far beyond my imagination...... But don't worry, this shouldn't be bad news, a powerful spell will at least give me more certainty in the fight against the basilisk for a while. ”

"It's okay, it's okay...... Hogwarts can't stand it anymore - what did you just say? The old wizard breathed a sigh of relief, and he babbled slowly, wiping the sweat from his head. But halfway through his words, he suddenly realized something. "What did you say you were going to fight against? Basilisk?! ”

"Yes, Mr. Celterburn...... Isn't that obvious enough? You're a professor in the Magical Creature Protection class, I thought you should know. As he spoke, Lockhart seemed to begin to get carried away again, but suddenly his body trembled, and the folds of laughter on his face quickly disappeared, and he became more haggard than before.

"Basilisk...... yes, basilisk! How did I not think of it. Celt Byrne patted his head in annoyance, tears streaming down his cheeks. I should have found out the clue...... The children could have avoided this sin, but what did I do...... I'm not a qualified magical creature protection professor at all! ”

"Shhh Not...... It's not your fault, Mr. Celterburn. Lockhart felt as if he had been hit hard, gritting his teeth and bouncing words out one by one.

"Don't comfort me Gildero, I'm about the same age, maybe it's my right to go back to my old house in Buckinghamshire and enjoy life with the rest of my little mischievous." Celt Byrne laughed self-deprecatingly, and he looked at Lockhart with guilt. "Yes, you're good...... I'm sorry I always blamed you, I always thought you were talking big and tricking us, but I didn't expect you to really know anything about the secret room. So—" His eyes looked at Brandi, who was cowering beside Lockhart, "what's going on with him?" ”

"Ah...... A mischievous trickster. Lockhart had a smirk on his face.

"He looked like he was going to sneak up on my door and scare me with two hard fireworks, but my spell seemed to scare him first. When I found him at the door, the mischievous kid was about to cry - cough! Forehead...... Anyway, I think it's safer to send him back to Gryffindor Tower first. Minerva and they're not in the castle after all, and I'll be going to the Chamber of Secrets in a moment to deal with the horror - it might not be very safe in the castle by then. ”

I don't know if the side effects of the spell just now were too great, and Lockhart's sweat flowed more.

"It's really a little devil who doesn't know the height of the sky, and he dares to run out and play pranks at such a time." The other professor looked at Brandi angrily, "Seeing his gloomy face, he must be holding a grudge against you, Gildero." Once you've dealt with the basilisk, you should teach him a lesson. ”

Oh, yes...... I said so much bad things about him, how could he not hold a grudge against me.

Feeling the two wands on his waist, Lockhart's face grew more and more embarrassed.

"Alright, Victor, that's all for later. Can you do me a favor? The noise just now may be unsettling to the students - maybe you can help me go to the Hufflepuff and Slytherin common rooms and let them know...... Well, let's just say that their beloved Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is at war with the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets, so don't worry. Lockhart said.

"It's a great honor, Gildero. Honestly...... I should really apologize. The professor, Victor, gave him an apologetic look, "You have more courage than I thought, and whether you come back safe or unharmed, you will be a hero of Hogwarts." ”

With that, the two wizards nodded at him and walked downstairs.

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"Naughty little friend...... Kindness? As soon as they left, Brandi's face collapsed, and he squinted at Lockhart with an expressionless face. I didn't know we had this in our script. Also, you're too ostentatious! You've just dismissed a professor! Look at his loveless appearance...... I guess I'll have to resign from the school tomorrow! ”

The self-confidence that had just been pretended to be immediately weakened. Lockhart looked like an angry little tear pack at the moment. "Don't do that, Barton. I just accidentally said it...... You know, there's no way I'm going to change that way of speaking anytime soon. ”

"Forget it...... We don't have time to tell you about that right now. Brandy's head drooped, and he followed Lockhart listlessly, "We're going to go to the sixth floor first, where I've got a little stuff hidden, and when you get it, you'll need to pretend to take me back to Professor McGonagall, and go down to the third floor, Myrtle's bathroom." If you meet someone on the road, you follow what you just said – I find you're really good at it. ”

"But you have to make sure I don't have to go into the secret room when I get there!" Lockhart's face turned pale, and he was so nervous that he wouldn't even walk. "Actually, I'm not very skilled in other spells, except for the Forgetting Charm, which I'm good at."

"Yes, yes...... You've asked me a few times! As long as you wait for us at the entrance—you'd better not run," Brandi glared at him fiercely. "I'll write to the Daily Prophet to expose you."

They walked slowly upstairs, with Brandi and Lockhart leading the way, carrying the things he had just stolen from Filch's office. Harry, on the other hand, followed Lockhart with Ron in the Cloak of Invisibility, and the two wands never left his waist.

The atmosphere inside the castle was indeed much more solemn than before the explosion, and in the short four flights of stairs, they encountered three waves of professors in succession, and a ghost—each time, Lockhart had to repeat the lies he had just told to Celtic Byrne and Victor, and he was very blunt at first, but as the number of times increased, he lied almost without blinking his eyes. It seems that he is about to take this lie as true.

Finally, after dealing with the interrogation of a noblewoman's ghost, they reached the staircase on the sixth floor.

"You wait here for me." Brandi glanced around, the ghost had just come down from the sixth floor, and wouldn't be returning for a while. So he pointed to the stone wall and transformed it into a rotating door of light. "I'm going to take it out, Ron, don't scream for a moment, it's a bit big."

"Look down on me?" Ron's disdainful voice came out of the air. "Am I such a timid person? So to tell you! Even if you carry a spider, I won't- ahhh ”

His voice suddenly muffled, and Harry covered his mouth with the palm of his hand. There were a few ripples in the air, and Ron struggled excitedly inside the invisibility cloak. After a long time, he finally escaped from Harry's clutches.

"Spider, spider!" Before he even had time to gasp, he was like he was going to spit out the air in his lungs, and he struggled to spit out such a word. "And it's so big—it's good not to be alive."

"That's why I told you not to get so excited......" Brandi said nonchalantly as he commanded the eight-eyed spider to slowly float up the ceiling. And, you're looking at Ron wrong, it's just petrified - this spider is indeed alive. ”

After a brief moment of silence, a long sigh erupted from the void, followed by Harry's helpless voice.

"Look at what you've done, Brandy. Ron was stunned by you......"

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Now, it's time for them to take the final step.

The four of them walked slowly with different mixed feelings—by this time, Lockhart had no heart to lie to cover up his unusual behavior, and so much had happened in one night that he was almost completely numb.

Moreover, there was a spider the size of a horse with eight legs spread over his head. It's too hard to stay in a brightly lit hallway. However, to their surprise, as they walked, they saw a highly myopic professor hurrying past them, and seemed to take the black behemoth in the sky as a pattern on the ceiling.

So, they made their way to the dimly lit corridor on the third floor, where the words were written...... Got into the long-abandoned lavatory.

"Huh? Blondie! You've come to see me? ”

The weeping Myrtle was sitting on the tank of one of the innermost toilets, and when she saw Brandy, she rushed over, and the unrestrained momentum stumbled Lockhart so much.

"Well, sort of...... Myrtle. Brandi said perfunctorily, scrutinizing the dilapidated rooms they had been to many times, searching carefully in each compartment. I'll ask you a question, Myrtle. Words as a ghost...... You should be able to walk through walls and floors. ”

Myrtle nodded excitedly. "Of course, but I prefer to be run around in the water, which at least makes me feel like I'm ...... I-"

She seemed to be starting to care about her dead again, and Brandi noticed with a headache that she was flattening her mouth and looking like she was about to cry.

"Well, well, the ghost is not ashamed. It's better to say that I envy your ability to go to heaven and earth! "I want to ask, you've been in this place for so long, you must have figured out the inside of the bathroom—have you noticed an extraordinarily thick hose in the walls or in the floor?" ”

Brandi turned to look at Myrtle, then held out her hand and gestured. "There should be an adult wizard who can easily stand at the height of the pipe."

"Water pipes?" Myrtle was successfully distracted and she stopped sobbing. "There's a lot of water pipes here, and it's probably not as thick as you say—but there's a place in the bathroom that I can't get close to, and it's probably as big as you say."

"Where is it?!" Brandi looked at Myrtle excitedly and said eagerly.

Helping Brandi seems to make Myrtle very happy. With a sharp grin, she flew to the top of the pool not far away. Then the god mysteriously stretched out his hand and touched the pool. Almost immediately, she was bounced high into the ceiling by some invisible force.

"See? That's it. ”

The myrtle, who only showed the lower half of her body, was sandwiched on the ceiling and said happily.