"What, he's his own, are you Gildero!" asked Cyris inexplicably.

"He's the mysterious guest who accompanied me to contain Voldemort!" Lockhart explained to the crowd as he beckoned to Snape, "Dumbledore wasn't killed by him, he was an undercover agent for the Order of the Phoenix in the Death Eaters from beginning to end!"

"How is that possible?" Harry didn't believe it. "And how did the headmaster die?"

"Professor Snape really is his own!" Ginny testified loudly, "he resurrected Professor Lockhart!"

As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Ginny's testimony was certainly convincing, but as soon as she emerged, she caught her mother's attention.

"You damn girl, why did you go to Gildero's side again!" Mrs. Weasley was so angry that she reached out to grab her, but Ginny hid behind him with Lockhart's body as a pillar, and did not let her mother touch her. "Bill, Fred, George, help me catch her!"

Lockhart said that Snape was from the Order of the Phoenix, so he was, and Mrs. Weasley didn't want to think about it, and she and Snape didn't have a deep hatred - she and her sons were now busy catching Ginny, the little traitor from her own family.

Ginny's pretending to cry or some little tricks was completely immunized by the family who had lived with her for more than ten years, and she could only be caught and taken away by her two brothers. Snape lined up and strode into the crowd, now only Syrith with his wand pointed at him, and after a while, the head of the Black family, who felt bored, also lowered his wand.

Snape crouched beside McGonagall for a moment and shook his head.

"How?"

"There's no way around it - the life force is exhausted, it's been too hard for this time. Snape said lamentingly, "I have a potion that will bring out the last life force, but even if I can survive it, my body will collapse......"

"Professor McGonagall!" Harry cried as he knelt beside the venerable old witch.

Madame Pommy shook her head helplessly, stepped aside and began to examine the injured Fleur, who had been hit by the paralyzing spell. The artery in the leg was also cut by the incisation curse, and a lot of blood was shed. She was also "bitten" by the Dementors, and she has not yet come to her senses, but again, she is young and energetic, and her life is not in danger.

All the standing Order of the Phoenix and unharmed students gathered around Professor McGonagall, wanting to accompany the great Vice Chancellor through what could be the last leg of his life.

Lockhart certainly didn't want to see that, but the joy of Hermione's absence was so strong that he couldn't grieve for a moment.

——

Lockhart waited for Snape to feed McGonagall the potions and squeezed his way out of the crowd and walked to the window, the bright sunlight making the former feel a little uncomfortable. He moved a few steps into the shadows.

"How's the Ministry of Magic?"

"Ah, I haven't asked yet—" Lockhart remembered that Hermione's lying motionless on the ground just now really scared him so much that half of his remaining soul was about to fly.

"You—" Snape's face twitched.

"I'll get in touch right away. Lockhart pulled out the note and entered the mana, and after a few seconds, his face changed dramatically: "Scrimgeour's note is almost ineffective, he's seriously injured!"

"What's going on?" Snape tensed.

"Impossible!" Lockhart changed his note to contact the other Aurors, only to make him even more horrified - the big man who was black and strong, the sky was not shocked, and he always gave people a sense of security. How could it be: "Kingsley is dead!"

With trembling hands and a change of contact, Martin finally brought good news: the Ministry of Magic had been occupied, but seven Aurors, including Kingsley, had been killed in the fierce battle, and more than a dozen Squib agents had been killed or wounded.

"Is there any change? You assured me that the battle for the Ministry of Magic would be crushing, why did so many people die?" Snape asked with a frown, not that he felt sorry for the Aurors, but Voldemort wasn't dead. One more friendly soldier dies, and his side has less strength. "A few centaurs have died at Hogwarts!"

Lockhart remembered that he hadn't looked at the centaurs outside the house yet, but he explained first: "Martin told me that the Death Eaters actually got a spare energy supply crystal during the occupation of the Ministry of Magic, although it was a one-time one. Not very powerful...... But it's not something Scrimgeour can deal with......"

——

Ten minutes ago, two or three minutes after the start of the battle of the Ministry of Magic, the pitch-black Ministry of Magic re-lit up with the activation of the backup energy source, and the defense system on the wall also began to charge, although the magic output was obviously insufficient, and the energy was not even enough to activate the Floo Network, but with the counterattack of the Death Eaters, it could easily injure a wizard of Scrimger's level, and the squib was even more one.

The Ministry of Magic guards, who had been almost crumbling, gained a foothold under the cover of the weakened defense system and began to fight back rhythmically, and Kingsley was killed by the fire in order to cover his teammates to recover the badly injured Scrimgeur.

In this moment of danger, a brave witch named Eliza Solvia stepped forward and used her wand to kill the Death Eaters guarding the backup energy supply system, shutting down the entire system.

Eliza Solvia, for several years was just an ordinary, inconspicuous female clerk in the Ministry of Magic, but in fact she was a hidden member of the Order of the Phoenix that Dumbledore had planted in the Ministry. Since she had never attended a meeting of the Order of the Phoenix or been to the headquarters in Grimaud Square, Lockhart did not know her. After Dumbledore's death, she lost contact with the Order of the Phoenix. She had been working diligently for the Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic for most of the year, waiting for the moment when she needed to play her role.

It is conceivable that there will definitely be no shortage of peripheral members of the Order of the Phoenix scattered throughout the United Kingdom, and Lockhart did not think of spending time looking for them, but at an unexpected critical moment, the peripheral members actually came in handy. If it weren't for her, the Aurors would probably have suffered even more losses, or even annihilation - if the nuclear bomb hadn't destroyed the energy supply system at nine o'clock, they could have abandoned their plans to hold on to Hogwarts, but after attacking it, a backup energy supply would have popped up, and the attackers would have almost no way out.

Lockhart wiped a cold sweat and didn't get to this point: he once wanted to make a small energy supply system for Hogwarts, but first, there were no professionals in this field on the Order of the Phoenix, and second, it would take too many materials to make a temporary energy supply system that could be used for a huge building.

For various reasons, Lockhart gave up on this plan, but he didn't expect the Death Eaters to put it into practice - after all, the Ministry of Magic, as an official, not only has talents, but also supplies!

——

"I'm going to see the centaurs now," Lockhart said, "and you look around for any wounded who need help and treatment." ”

The Hogwarts guards were on the weaker side, but only a few wizards were killed or wounded, but the sculptures were lost, and the centaurs were also lost.

It's not hard to understand that most of the attackers involved in the attack were strikers, and from the perspective of the wizards of the Order of the Phoenix, it was a battle of good against evil. And for the Ministry's attackers and even some Death Eaters who are not evil, this is an attack of "terrorists hijacking school teachers and students to put pressure on the Ministry of Magic". Since it is to rescue hostages, it is natural that a large number of lethal and lethal spells will not be used, and the casualties will not be serious directly.

They attack wizards, and they also have to see if they are ordinary teachers and students of the Order of the Phoenix, or the school, or even the children of some high-ranking Death Eaters. But casting spells on sculptures and centaurs didn't have to be thought about so much, and that was why Hermione survived - the Slytherin common room was darkly lit, and the Death Eaters rushed in and treated her, Albert, and several other members of the H.A. as regular school students. For the sake of their own children's alumni, they didn't embarrass them after they were knocked unconscious.

——

Lockhart told Martin to send the wounded to St. Mungo's immediately, and then find a way to control the backup energy supply. The super power supply system beneath the Department of Mysteries has been paralyzed, and it may not be repaired for months. Now, they had to take advantage of the unexpected loot and get it to provide a fireplace line between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts that only their own could use - the mystery man attacked Hogwarts, and Lockhart went to Hogwarts, and the other way around, he stayed at the Ministry of Magic.

Lockhart's orders were quickly carried out, and Scrimgeour was seriously injured and unconscious, and even the Aurors subconsciously took his orders for granted. Although he never fought for power, he is now the only one who has this prestige and control.

——

As he walked, he arranged all this, and before he knew it, Lockhart had already walked out of the gate, and in the open space outside the castle, the centaurs were dragging the wounded and dead back to the Forbidden Forest, and Ma Guoren was standing aside waiting for him.

"Thank you for your hard work today. Lockhart walked over, no longer arrogant—if the centaur hadn't come to his aid, his wife might have been taken captive.

"We killed a dozen people. Ma Guoren was obviously distressed, "Now I just hope that you don't use us up and forget about the previous agreement." ”

"In Merlin's name," Lockhart said solemnly, "the centaurs will be treated better than agreed." ”

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——(To be continued......)