The magic alarm clock was so reliable that Lockhart woke up before six in the morning, when it was still dark. He was the first to wake up, Hermione was lying on his side, her body heaving slightly, she liked to sleep like this: one leg resting on his lap and holding him, one hand around his waist, and her head buried in his armpit, because then Lockhart couldn't run......

He gently lifted Hermione's arms and thighs to the side, and got up slightly, but still woke her up.

"Hmm...... What time is it the next day?" she asked sleepily.

"You can sleep again, I'll get up and get some preparations. Lockhart said as he got dressed, "Later, when everyone is up, you can start packing up and tearing down the tent, and we won't be coming back whether it succeeds or not." ”

"Well, I'll get up now. Hermione climbed up with her elbow propped up, "Let's finish breakfast and go, I'll do it right away." She quickly slipped a sweater over her head, then threw on her coat and jumped out of bed.

"No need, the boiling water from last night is still there, I'll eat a little and leave. Lockhart pressed her shoulder and kissed her, "Let's sleep again, it's impossible for Manjik to go out shopping in the dark on such a cold day." ”

Lockhart walked out of the bedroom and ate some bread on the table in the hall with the boiling water from last night. Hermione insisted on getting out of bed and worked the "kitchen" side of the tent, getting some hot cereal and fried sausages that Lockhart had to eat to be reassured.

After eating this meal and the next meal I am afraid that it will not be until the evening, Lockhart although helpless, still eats up the food according to Hermione's wishes. Then, before dawn, hike to Manjik's manor.

Still climbing over the fence in a familiar place, clearing the trail of stamped snow from under his feet, Lockhart began to crouch quietly: like a patient hunter, staring closely at the steps that had been buried again by the snowfall of the previous night.

You can't wait for them to come out on the steps, because they can see and feel what's going on outside inside the Loyalty Mantra. From the outside, however, they can't see what's going on inside, and they can't sneak up when they come out, because the moment the phantom manifests is the moment when people are most vulnerable, and the moment the phantom shifts is defenseless, but even if it hits the target, he will still be teleported to the middle of nowhere.

So the plan was to start an ambush after Manjik's Phantasm went out, and attack him or them the moment the target returned to the ground......

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Not just Lockhart, but no other Auror had the experience of attacking someone protected by the Damid Loyalty Curse - once upon a time...... When dealing with the Death Eaters, except for emergencies, didn't the Aurors cut off the Floo network, slashed through the main entrance, and were directly knocked down when they encountered resistance. I didn't expect to be so sneaky today, thinking about the way before I win.

It's sad.

The eastern sky began to slowly reveal red, and the sun gradually rose and left the horizon, red, as if it were a dazzling agate disk, slowly moving upward.

It's been a long time since Lockhart has been outside to watch the sunrise, and he usually gets up after dawn, and he can see the scenery at this time. The snow has stopped, and the clouds in the blue sky are like a girl's pink skirt in the morning glow...... It took him a long time to come to his senses. Keep staring at the steps.

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Perhaps because of the good weather, Manjik and his wife also got up earlier than yesterday and left home hand in hand at eight o'clock. Lockhart immediately notified the other four with a note telling them to come over immediately.

Ten minutes later. Three figures cautiously flipped over the wall - three because Harry was completely invisible in his cloak of invisibility.

"They left so early?" Blake asked softly.

"Yes, two people. It was supposed to be Manjik and his wife, both apparitions and left. "Looks like we got the bet right." They really have to go to the Muggle market to buy something, now it's creeping over step by step, remember to remove the traces!"

All five of them gave themselves levitation, approaching the steps from the corner of the wall to the steps, and Hermione stayed at the end, erasing even the slightest footprint from the five of them. It took them more than ten minutes to move to the bottom of the steps.

"Stand on both sides separately and don't get in the way that the elves may have to go when they come down. Lockhart commanded in a low voice, "Try to hide your magical aura, don't go up the last step and run into the Loyalty Charm." ”

Several of them prepared as Lockhart said, with Lockhart and Hermione standing on the left side of the steps, and the other three standing on the right side of the steps, no longer talking.

Now, they can only hope that the target will return sooner, even if they don't come back until midnight, the five of them can only obediently wait until midnight.

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It's noon...... Lockhart had already waited until his body was stiff and had to move slightly, if he waited until the evening, would his arms be too stiff to lift?

They stood woodenly outside the edge of a Brave Loyalty Spell, like they were standing outside a giant two-way mirror. I don't know what the people inside are doing, if they're watching them, or even if there's anyone inside.

The Transfiguration Charm is not an invisibility charm, it simply allows the caster to blend into the surrounding scene. Although the invisibility spell is completely invisible, it requires that the person or thing being cast do not move at all, and the law will be broken when it moves-the safest way is to assume that someone inside is watching them all the time, and strive to move less......

In the afternoon, they can't even look at the magic watch, it's an ambush and not waiting, they have to keep their nerves on their nerves, the enemy may appear in the next second, or they may not appear in the next hour. It's even more tense than a normal ambush - because the target may only have a second or two to react from the apparition to the time they come to their senses and enter the Loyalty Charm.

The skinny house-elf stepped out of the range of the Loyalty Charm again, took a broom that was unusually large compared to his body, and walked slowly down the steps, as if to clear the snow.

But it suddenly looked at where Hermione was beside Lockhart, she was the least good at concealment of the five, and she was not wearing Harry's invisibility cloak, but she was actually noticed by the house-elves again!

"Who's there!" the house-elf cried out in a shrill voice, "Anyone who trespasses on the Manjik family's territory will be subjected to-"

Lockhart didn't care about the risk of being discovered, and directly knocked the house-elf unconscious with his wand. The spell caused the illusion spell on his body to become extremely unstable, but it could only be hoped that no one in the Brave Loyalty Spell was looking up the steps at this time.

"Harry, where are you?" Lockhart exclaimed softly as the four men except Harry were frightened by the sudden situation.

"This way!"

"Hermione, hide under the Cloak of Invisibility in the past!" Lockhart crouched on the ground and held his wand against the elf's massive head, the best thing to do was to kill it, and then expect the target to come back and get into the trap before the person in the Loyalty Charm notices that something is wrong. But firstly, it was really inappropriate to kill the elves in front of Hermione, and secondly, I really didn't know when those two guys would come back.

The Imperius Curse has a relatively small effect on house-elves, and now it can only modify its memories first, and house-elves are no more difficult to deal with than wizards in this regard. Squatting and using his wand to revise his memory, Lockhart used a broom to sweep away Hermione's footprints in her panic, then shoved them back into her hand, then ducked back to the side and disappeared, waking the elf with a spell.

The elf touched its head and stood up, and now in its memory, it had fallen unconscious halfway through sweeping the stairs - how could it be so clumsy as a well-trained house-elf, and it was also confused, and stood stupidly for a while. Walked back into the realm of the Loyalty Charm, a detection mechanism that Lockhart had deliberately set up in his memory to make him think that there was something important to do in the house. If, after a while, the house-elf still comes out again as if nothing happened, then it means that no one in the house noticed anything unusual, otherwise the ambush would have to be canceled.

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――(To be continued......)