In the middle of the night, there was a sudden cry, and Lockhart was startled, "Where did the cry come from?" ”

"I guess there's something going on out there." When Li Yang spoke, the person had already run out of the office.

He naturally thinks of Tom Riddle.

As a teacher, Lockhart is not far behind.

A corridor leading to the Gryffindor House was filled with students who had also heard the news, all in a circle.

"What happened?" As soon as Lockhart arrived, he squeezed through the crowd, went inside, and began to inquire as if he were the principal.

Li Yang followed Lockhart's back and easily entered the crowd.

There were only six of them.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Filch, and the last one is the dead.

If Li Yang remembers correctly, it should be called Ed, a Gryffindor student, I don't remember the specific grade, anyway, it's not the same grade as him.

It doesn't matter, what matters is the cause of death.

How did he die?

Who killed it?

Li Yang originally thought it was Tom Riddle, but unlike the original book, there was no blood on the walls around him, saying anything like opening a secret room.

There was not a single wound on Ed's body, and the cause of death was not visible at all.

"It's Harry, they."

Filch took a bite of it, grabbed Harry by the neck, and carried it to Lockhart, "Professor Lockhart, it must be them, when I came, I happened to see a few of them next to the corpses." ”

"Not us!"

Harry and the others hurriedly argued, and Harry even broke free from Filch's hand and shouted at Lockhart and all the students around him.

"We just happened to be passing by."

"Passing by? You don't sleep in the dormitory at night, sneaking around here to pass by? Filch didn't believe it at all and retorted.

"We were left behind by Professor Lockhart..."

"Oh yes, they were left in the office by me, just got back."

Hearing this, Lockhart's attention turned from the sound of Ed's corpse, and when he heard the words of Harry and the others, he remembered this stubble, and said a fair word for Harry and the others.

Filch had nothing more to say.

"The principal is not there, let the students go back first, and wait for the principal to come back......" Professor McGonagall hurried over, and after understanding the situation, she asked the prefects of each house to bring back the students of each college and control the scene.

Following.

The sun is shining.

But in the hearts of all teachers and students, it seems to be covered with a shadow.

"You juniors, it's just a dead person, what a fuss, when I went to the Ministry of Magic for an internship in the summer, I participated in the capture of dark wizards, and at that time I was a big die." There are senior students who brag about themselves.

This made the younger students even more worried, afraid that one day they would be like Ed by the unknown killer.

Even the teacher who gave the lecture was worried.

Except for one person.

Lockhart stood on the podium, maintaining his trademark smile, "Good morning, everyone, from your young faces, I see fear, you don't have to, you know that you are now in my Gilderoy Lockhart's class, under my protection, you will not be in any danger, after all, I am a third-class ...... of the Merlin Regiment"

"Here we go again." Ron muttered quietly.

Many of the students were a little speechless.

Until Lockhart threw out a new topic, "In view of what happened last night, there may be unknown dangers lurking on campus, and I feel that it is necessary to improve everyone's ability to protect themselves, so I specially proposed to the school to establish a dueling club to exercise the actual combat ability of all students, and the school has agreed." ”

Before the students could do anything, Lockhart himself was excited, waving his fists, "Children, you will be very honored to be a participant in the first dueling club under my leadership, in the history of Hogwarts, not only me, but also your name, come with me." ”

Lockhart led the students to a specially furnished classroom.

The tables, chairs and benches were all removed, and they were empty, except for a one-meter-high rectangular platform in the middle, and all the students gathered around the edge of the stage.

Lockhart jumped onto the platform with a "rubbing" step.

The eyes of the students naturally focused on him.

It's not all in the limelight, but it's a well-deserved focus.

Lockhart felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart, and then sighed, "It's a pity that Professor Snape is not here, otherwise, you would have seen what a powerful wizard like me is like when he fights." ”

Snape isn't there?

Li Yang secretly felt strange.

Dumbledore isn't there, Snape isn't there, what's wrong?

Is Hogwarts going yellow?

Does it have something to do with Ed's death last night?

Probably not, Dumbledore wasn't there before Eddard died......

"Now, let me see, who wants to be the first warrior in a duel? Li Yang, yes, it's you. Lockhart's words interrupted Li Yang's thoughts.

Li Yang raised his head in some astonishment.

He didn't expect that there was something of his own here.

In the original book, it wasn't Harry and Malfoy.

"Come on, don't be shy." Lockhart smiled and beckoned to Li Yang.

Li Yang reluctantly stepped onto the stage.

"And your opponent is ......" Lockhart's gaze swept over the students in the audience one by one, looking for the object of the duel with Li Yang.

"I'll come."

Without waiting for Lockhart to be elected, someone volunteered to take the stage.

Seeing this person, Li Yang couldn't help but shake his head.

Why is it him again?

Lockhart was glad that some students could respond positively to him, and waved his hand, "Great, it seems that Malfoy is the real warrior, so what are the two young players waiting for?" Let's get started, oh yes, don't forget to salute, nothing is more important than a wizard's cultivation. ”

Lockhart said as he stepped back to the edge of the table.

Li Yang and Malfoy each held their wands, stood in the center of the platform, saluted, and then turned around and walked towards both sides of the platform.

Before he could reach the end, Malfoy suddenly turned his head, looked at Li Yang's defenseless back, and couldn't help but smile.

He had waited too long for such an opportunity.

During this year's holidays, he begged his father to teach him several powerful magics, and now, he can finally vent the evil breath that he held in his heart last year!

"Except for your weapons."

A red light shot out from Malfoy's wand and shot at Li Yang's back.

"I haven't shouted to start yet, Malfoy!" Lockhart, who was about to shout the beginning, shouted angrily.

"Didn't you already shout about it just now?" Malfoy said triumphantly.

He didn't care if Lockhart was angry or not, he had already seen that Lockhart was a paper tiger.

"It's despicable!"

"Li Yang, be careful."

…… Harry and the others, who had a good relationship with Li Yang, shouted angrily.

Malfoy was not ashamed, but looked at Harry and the others provocatively, considering whether to use the reason for the duel after Li Yang to teach Harry and the others a lesson.

"Armor protection." A faint voice sounded.

Li Yang seemed to be wearing a layer of invisible armor on his body, and the stun spell hit him, but he was blocked by the iron armor spell and had no effect.

Turn around.

Look at Malfoy.

Malfoy didn't expect that the sneak attack from behind would also miss, and he subconsciously panicked.

This panic was hit by the red light emitted by Li Yang's wand.

"Except for your weapons."

It's also a disarming spell.

The wand flew out of Malfoy's hand, slid through a parabola, and fell off the stage.

"My wand." Malfoy hurriedly jumped off the stage.

Not only to retrieve the wand, but also because he didn't dare to stay on the stage anymore, wouldn't he want to become Li Yang's live target without the wand?

And when he finds the wand, he finds it under the feet of a man.

"Longbottom, you don't have eyes! Get rid of your stinky feet! Malfoy pushed Neville away and picked up his wand, only to find a crack in the middle.

I don't know if it was knocked on the ground when he fell, or if he was stepped on by Neville.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Anyway, Neville was still as submissive as before, apologizing and bowing his head away.

Finally, he looked up at Li Yang on the stage.

Li Yang noticed that Neville's face was strangely rosy, faintly excited.

That expression reminded Li Yang of when he was eight years old, when he first had the courage to peek at the pornographic pictures......