Chapter 64: Master Fisherman
Professor Lockhart is attacked by a monster in the chamber and is seriously injured and unconscious.
The news spread quickly through the school as if he had grown legs, and many Lockhart fans ran to the school hospital to visit him.
"Professor Lockhart is petrified, and it is inconvenient for too many people to visit him for the time being."
Ms. Pomfrey had only let in a few students, and their faces turned white when they came out.
"The professor is really petrified."
"It's horrible, his face is still swollen."
"What's the monster in the secret room?"
The students chattered and discussed, and Draco excitedly wrote a letter to his father.
When Lucius saw the news, he immediately became energetic.
This year he placed his diary in Ginny's cauldron in order to borrow Ginny's hand to open the secret room.
Lucius didn't think that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets could stir up any trouble in front of Dumbledore, but as long as the monster killed a few students, he could take the opportunity to convene a board meeting and sign a no-confidence motion against Dumbledore.
As long as Dumbledore is kicked out of Hogwarts, he has the confidence to push a puppet of his own to take control of Hogwarts.
He had been waiting since the day school started, and after such a long time, there was finally the first attack, and the victim was the famous Gildero. Lockhart.
At his behest, the Daily Prophet reported on Lockhart's glorious deeds in a series of articles to counter the horror of the monsters in the Slytherin chambers.
In just a few days, Hogwarts became terrified.
"It's not enough." Kano read the article in the Daily Prophet at breakfast, struggling to hold back a smile.
"What else are we going to do?" Harry asked excitedly.
"Now, I need Hermione's cooperation."
Soon, another message came.
Muggle wizard Hermione. Granger was admitted to the school hospital, where Ms. Pomfrey insisted she just had a bad cold.
"Ghosts will believe! Granger must have died at the hands of the Chamber of Secrets. ”
"Whoever made her a Mudblood, the monsters in the Chamber of Secrets will cleanse them."
Of course, it was the Slytherin students who would say such things, and they were discussing excitedly, while the other houses were gloomy.
The Daily Prophet sent someone to interview her, but this time Ms. Pomfrey held the door firmly and did not let anyone in.
"It's just a bad cold! Nothing to look at, and it has nothing to do with the secret room or something! "Madam Pomfrey crossed her back to stop all the probes and unceremoniously kicked them out of the school hospital.
Even Harry and Ron, who were pleading outside the door, were forbidden to visit.
Now everyone is even more convinced that Granger has been killed by monsters, and now Madam Pomfrey is just holding on to Dumbledore's orders.
"I'm just dead?"
Hermione, sitting on the hospital bed, angrily bit off the head of the chocolate frog, and Miss Pomfrey was helpless.
"Dumbledore gave me orders directly, but I really just said you had a bad cold. God knows how those kids thought you were dead. ”
"Yes, yes, I think everyone's school life is too dull, and there is too little homework."
Kano nodded his head from the sidelines.
"It's all your idea! If it weren't for thanking you for exposing Lockhart, I wouldn't have feigned illness! Hermione looked at Kano as if she didn't care about herself.
Kano smiled and dodged the half of the chocolate frog Hermione tossed, lifted the curtain next door, and took out his wand and cast another petrification spell on Lockhart.
"How long is he going to lie like this?" Ms. Pomfrey asked.
She didn't have a good interest in Lockhart, and when Kano told her what had happened that day, she was even more disgusted to look at Lockhart.
Now she desperately wants to get Lockhart out of the school hospital.
"Before Christmas, he'll be able to go to Azkaban's room." Kano replied.
Dumbledore was already gathering evidence of Lockhart's abduction, and when the plan was over, he would hand it over to the Ministry of Magic.
Lockhart's bedside was lined with a whole box of fan condolence letters, but Kano saw several official letters from the publishing house and Gringotts.
Lockhart, who wants to be a fan of pomp and circumstance, but has recently seen a sharp decline in his income from book sales, should be in a financial crisis. When he wakes up, everything he's built on lies will crumble, and then he'll really be a pauper.
Maybe those rich women fans of his will support him with some Garons? There's always someone who covets his body, isn't it?
The days after he left Azkaban should have been a lot of fun.
Lucius certainly got the news of Hermione's hospitalization, but he still held back his excitement and waited for the most crucial signal.
Finally, Draco sent a letter with an owl.
Ron. Weasley ran to the door of the Slytherin common room and asked in a panic who had seen his sister Ginny.
After Malfoy's investigation, Ginny was really not at Hogwarts, and even the twins and Percy couldn't find her, and they were mad in a hurry.
Lucius slapped the table, the excitement in his eyes could no longer be suppressed.
He immediately requested an emergency meeting of the Hogwarts Board of Trustees.
The Hogwarts Board of Trustees is made up of twelve trustees, all of whom are backed by ancient families and must contribute a large amount of money to Hogwarts each year.
Lucius was one of them, and he had recently coerced and lured seven of them into his camp. Now he was ambitious and wanted to kick Dumbledore off the Headmaster's throne.
"I don't think Dumbledore was able to keep Hogwarts safe, there have already been professors and students who have been harmed by the Chamber of Secrets."
Lucius stood at the round table and spoke in a solemn manner, and most of the school trustees looked at him like hell.
"For the safety of Muggle wizards, I think Hogwarts should be shut down immediately, Dumbledore removed, and a new headmaster elected."
He took out the documents he had already prepared, and the few school directors who had not been bribed by him suspected that it was April Fool's Day.
"Malfoy, the professor you're talking about, he's just under the petrification spell, and Miss Granger, really, she's just hospitalized with a bad cold."
An old gentleman with heavy glasses peeked out from above the lenses and looked at Lucius.
"The monsters of the Chamber of Secrets are nonsense."
"No, it's already there, and it's hurting people!" Lucius said categorically, "Ginny. Weasley is the pure-blood who opened the Chamber of Secrets, and she's gone. ”
"How can you be so sure?"
"That's because he's the one who directs it all."
A voice rang out, and Kano walked into the venue, dressed in a formal wizard's robe for a social setting.
He put the dark magic object that could confuse the mind in Ginny. Weasley's luggage, in order to manipulate her into opening the secret room. Kano looked at Lucius, whose face was ugly, "So as soon as he heard that Ginny was missing, he thought that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened by her." ”
"Nonsense!" Lucius sneered, "Why don't you explain Lockhart and Granger's affairs?" ”
"Lockhart attacked me and I was forced to take him down in self-defense. The Ministry of Magic will find out. ”
"Granger really just had a bad cold."
Kano took out his two-way mirror, and the school directors looked at Granger, who was reading a book in the hospital room, and nodded their heads.
"There's no way Ms. Pomfrey could go against her own professional code." They whispered discussions.
"That Ginny. What's going on with Weasley? Lucius asked, gritting his teeth, and he found himself in the pit.
"She's a first-year wizard and a little homesick." Dumbledore's voice rang out, "I gave her leave, are you going to the Weasley's house?" ”
The school board was in an uproar, and everyone could see that Lucius had been pitted by Dumbledore and Carno.