Before they could figure out how to deal with the Horcruxes, there seemed to be nothing to hurry, and the four of them walked slowly up the hill like an outing.

"Yes, that's it. Lockhart saw the door number.

丨――Editor-in-Chief of "Singing and Singing": X Lovegood - 丨

丨――Please pick a bunch of mistletoe by yourself――――丨

丨――――――― Don't touch the airship Li ――――――丨

Hermione walked at the front, creaking open the courtyard door, and the winding path was overgrown with all sorts of strange plants, a bush full of small orange radish fruits that Luna sometimes wore as earrings, and they saw the pimple vines, hurried away from the dead roots, and two wind-bent old begonia trees stood guard on either side of the front door, their leaves had fallen but still hung with small red fruits and a canopy of mistletoe with white beads. A small owl with a slightly flattened head, somewhat like an eagle's head, peeped at them from a branch.

"I'm going to knock on the door. Hermione stepped up the steps, raised her hand and knocked on the door a few times, "Is anyone there?"

In less than ten seconds, the door opened, and Xenophilius Lovegood stood barefoot, dressed in what looked like a long, stained nightgown, and his long, marshmallow-like white hair was dirty and messy.

Poor guy who doesn't have a woman in the house, Lockhart shook his head.

"What is it? who are you, what are you going to do?" he said in a confused voice, looking at Hermione and then at Harry, his gaze resting on him for a moment, then at Lockhart.

"Mr. Lockhart! The man panicked all of a sudden, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"Before I enter the house, I need to explain that I am the real Gilderoy Lockhart, and that the one who is now the head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic is an impostor to use my prestige and influence. Lockhart knew from his expression that he must be the kind of person who was deceived, so he could only quickly identify himself. "I met you at the Weasleys' wedding in the summer when your daughter was bitten by a goblin. Remember, you can see the three people who came with me. ”

"Hello, Mr. Lovegood," Hermione said, holding out her hand, "I'm Hermione Granger, and you saw me at the Weasleys' wedding a few months ago, when I was with Professor Lockhart. ”

Xenophilius shook her hand lightly, then let go.

"Cyris Black. Blake also reached out and shook his hand in a friendly way.

After all four of them shook hands with him, they entered the house of Xenophilius, and it felt strange that Lockhart had entered the kitchen house for the first time at the main entrance. The room is standard round. It feels like being in a giant pepper shaker. Everything is curved to match the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboard, and are all painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colors.

Lockhart seemed to be able to imagine the scene of Luna lying on these things and drawing, what kind of family and what kind of people came out of it.

In the center of the room, a cast-iron spiral staircase led upstairs, and from upstairs there was the sound of clatters and ping-pong, presumably the sound of a printing press.

"The Ministry of Magic is a fake, I guessed it a long time ago!" said Xenophilius with some pride, but looked very uncomfortable. "Please go upstairs, there is a place to sit on it. ”

The room above seems to be both a living room and a workshop, so it's even more messy than the kitchen. It's a bit like the memorable labyrinth that the Room of Requirement turned into at one time, piled up with things hidden for centuries. It's just that this one is much smaller, and it's a standard round shape. There are piles of books and papers on every surface. Delicate animal models hung from the ceiling, and Lockhart couldn't recognize them all, all flapping their wings or moving their mouths.

It was a wooden guy who made those noises. There are many gears that turn by magic. It looked like a monster that had been crossed between a workbench and a bunch of old shelves, spitting out copies of "Singing Counterparts".

"What the hell is going on, the Ministry of Magic has been weird lately!" Xenophilius removed the contents from several chairs. Sit down for four people. "Was Dumbledore killed by that fake Mr. Lockhart, and what about Snape?"

"Snape was a shameful traitor, he used Professor Dumbledore's trust to sneak up and kill him!" Harry said hatefully.

"Ahh

"It's the Death Eaters who control the Ministry of Magic now, sir. Lockhart said: "The forces of justice are suffering severe blows and persecution at this time, and we need the support of public opinion." ”

"I know they must be talking nonsense when they say that Dumbledore and Harry Potter are Dark wizards!" Xenophilius nodded, "My magazine has been calling for support for Harry and against the Ministry of Magic......"

Lockhart saw a month-old "Singing Against Tune" on the table, picked it up and looked at it, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine seemed to be very nervous and stared at him. Lockhart opened the magazine suspiciously.

Yes, the magazine was urging everyone to support Harry Potter and not believe the lies of the Ministry of Magic, much to Lockhart's satisfaction, and he continued to read.

Hermione exclaimed softly, "Mr. Lovegood—what's that?"

She pointed to a large, gray spiral-shaped horn, somewhat similar to that of a unicorn, which was perched against the wall and protruded several feet into the room.

"That's the horn of a scimitar-horned snorer. Xenoflius said.

"No!" said Hermione.

"Hermione," Harry whispered awkwardly, "now is not the time—"

"But Harry, it's a poison horn! it's a B-class trade item, and it's extremely dangerous to keep at home!" Hermione said eagerly, quickly looking at Lockhart, "Gildero, you come and tell them what it is." ”

Lockhart looked up from the magazine and looked at what was on the wall: "Ah, yes, sir, why did you put such a thing in your house?"

"This is the horn of the scimitar-horned snorer," said Xenophilius very clearly, with a stubborn expression on his face, "a shy, very magical creature, its horns—"

"Mr. Lovegood, I recognize the groove in the root, it is indeed the horn of a poisonous horn, it is too dangerous-I don't know where you got it-" Hermione shifted her chair, as if trying to move a little further away from the horn, "It was mentioned in 'The Monster and Its Origin'! Mr. Lovegood, you must get rid of it immediately, don't you know that it will explode at the slightest touch?"

"Bought it," said Xenophilius stubbornly, "yesterday from a lovely young wizard who knew that Luna loved the wonderful scimitar snorer, and I wanted to surprise her with Christmas." ”

Black still chose to trust Hermione, nervously adding a guardian charm to Harry, then Hermione and himself.

"Don't be nervous. Lockhart was not ready to argue about this, he reluctantly drew his wand and pointed it at the corner of the wall, using a magical barrier to cut off contact with the outside world. Then he put away his wand and flipped through the magazines in his hand......

"Rufus Scrimgeour bit me and turned me into a vampire, so that's why I didn't behave like anything to kill Dumbledore?" Lockhart almost laughed, "Sir, your imagination is even more outrageous and strange than the truth." "This kind of brain hole, no wonder he immediately believed it as soon as he explained it, and his way of thinking is different from ordinary people.

"Well, because that lockhart from the Ministry of Magic is really a bit weird, that's why I guessed like this......" was exposed by the person concerned in person, and Rao was a little embarrassed by his thick skin, "It's not aimed at you." ”

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――(To be continued......)