Professor McGonagall died after a few days and nights of fighting the Grim Reaper at St. Mungo's. In this regard, the Order of the Phoenix did not even have time to give her a solemn funeral. It was only possible to say a simple goodbye and bury it in the wizard's cemetery.

Snape's Headmaster's office hung a portrait of McGonagall a few days after it had been hung on the wall. She was the second headmistress in Hogwarts history, and the shortest-serving one - from the time Snape was "kicked out" to the time she was seriously injured and sent to St. Mungo, she was busy preparing for the siege of the Death Eaters, and she didn't even enjoy the privilege of changing the entry code to the Headmaster's office once.

What little affection Lockhart had built up for the Death Eaters because Hermione was unharmed evaporated with McGonagall's death. Lockhart doesn't want to do anything right now other than take out all the Death Eaters in the world to avenge her and Moody.

Now that all the addresses of the Death Eaters Manor that had been protected by the Cruelty Loyalty Curse were known, all Lockhart had to do now was to search from house to house to see if they knew the whereabouts of the Golden Cup. If you encounter the Dark Lord, immediately notify the people of the Transportation Division, use the backup energy supply to connect to the Floo network, and let reinforcements come in.

The first to welcome Lockhart was the Travers family, whose address was less than fifty miles from the Ministry of Magic, and after the Loyalty Charm failed, the manor, though still invisible, could be forcibly located.

Not to mention, like the Rejiman family, the entire manor is so big that the Concealment Charm can't hide the yard and walls. Lockhart floated above the manor, casting a powerful Hidden Spell on the ground towards what should have been the house.

A flash of bright light shattered, and the Concealment Spell that shrouded the house shattered like a soap bubble, revealing the buildings within...... The huge house felt like there were only a few people living in it, and it looked like the old, weak, sick and disabled had taken refuge in the countryside or some other safe place.

Floo net does not work. Lockhart didn't have to worry about the people in the room running away, so he broke down the door in a hurry.

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A spell came at him, and Lockhart waved his hand to block it, knocking his opponent's wand away with a disarming charm, and a paralyzing charm restrained him.

"How dare you resist......" Lockhart was a little surprised, and walked up to a man who was numb and collapsed on the ground.

Another wave of magic power hit the side. A modest spell flew up the stairs, and a second later the caster was also subdued by Lockhart, a young wizard he didn't know, probably not his student, or he hadn't attended Hogwarts.

"Don't hurt my child!" Travers struggled, "I surrender, I'll go back to the Ministry of Magic with you......"

"Do you know where the Dark Lord's Horcrux, Huffpuff's Gold Cup, is?" Lockhart didn't answer at all, and asked directly the question he was most concerned about. "If you can help me find this thing, I'll spare you from dying. ”

"I don't know. I don't know, I've never heard of it!" the middle-aged man said in horror, "but I can help identify others, and I'm willing to take everything I know—our mole in the Ministry of Magic at the time, and ......"

"Severus has told me this, and it's no secret. Lockhart said disdainfully.

The principle of presumption of innocence was ineffective in this terrible English wizarding civil war, and all those who were suspected were examined by the gods and the elixir, and those who refused to be examined were directly arrested as Death Eaters. There was no need for Death Eaters to be tainted witnesses.

Lockhart put his wand on Travers' head and began to remind.

This guy has practiced some Occlumency. But Lockhart unceremoniously broke through this layer of protection in his brain, and with the help of the Elder's wand, the breakthrough and memory reading were very easy.

"Let him go, we surrender and confess!" Another middle-aged woman rushed out of the room, oppressed by the intruder's powerful momentum. She didn't dare to resist at all, and stood more than ten meters away screaming in fear.

"Members of the Travers family involved in the Death Eaters violently resisted arrest and were shot dead on the spot. Lockhart stood up in exasperation, gave Mrs. Travers a cold look, and pronounced his death sentence.

"No—" A flash of green light flashed. Travers was out of breath. By the way, her wife is also a Death Eater, so let's go to hell to accompany her husband!

"You demon, I'm going to kill you!" "I want to kill you!" his parents were killed in front of his eyes, and little Travers shouted frantically, "You wait, in ten or twenty years, I will definitely have the strength to kill you!"

The young wizard's face was distorted by hatred, and the scene caused Lockhart's mania to spiral out of control.

"Yes, ambitious...... When is the time for retribution, it is best to cut the grass and eradicate the roots!" Lockhart raised his wand and aimed it at him: "I'm sorry, I'm cowardly, I won't wait for you for ten or twenty years!"

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A few minutes later, Lockhart wiped his mouth and left the place, informing the aftermath of the Ministry of Magic to deal with it.

Travers only knew that the Dark Lord had made Horcruxes, but he didn't know anything about how many, what it was, and where it was. But he had the Mark of the Dark Devil, the kind of person Lockhart had sworn to kill. And his wife was not a good man, and even participated in the battle that wiped out the Aurors, and now she was only forced to succumb to the threat to her life.

The most standard course of action is, of course, to arrest them, try them, and then justifiably execute them or to prison them for life.

But now that Voldemort hasn't been killed, if he dodges and doesn't fight, Lockhart really can't do anything at all. Even if he fights in a dignified manner, Lockhart is not at all sure that he will be able to kill him - these core Death Eaters, if they don't die at this time, are time bombs, when will the Dark Lord use some kind of evil black magic to make his strength skyrocket, and he wants to do a vote, as long as he robs them from prison and rescues them, and then ascends to the top...... It's another bloody storm.

Britain has been the country with the most wizards in Europe since the end of World War II, and is proud of it...... But if these wizards themselves are not aligned, it is better to have less!

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New hatred, old hatred, and for the sake of safety, Lockhart ruthlessly killed all Travers and his wife, but then he was provoked by a cruel word from the two Death Eaters and killed a young boy and a girl who was no more than twelve or thirteen years old......

By the time he came to his senses, the Travers family of four was all dead.

How could this be? Except for the idea of sucking blood, now he couldn't even control the urge to kill? Lockhart thought to himself, how could he make himself like the Dark Lord?

(No, the Ministry of Magic has captured and imprisoned enough people now, almost outnumbering the Aurors and Strikers, and I can't put any more pressure on them.) And the two that had just been killed were the children of the Death Eaters...... It may be innocent, but if you don't want to be like the villains of all classic revenge stories - to be victorious and ready to enjoy life, only to face revenge from the descendants of enemies in the shadows, you have to cut the grass to the roots!)

But maybe some Death Eaters really didn't want to fight Voldemort anymore?

(Hmph, if there is no existence of his own, which of those Death Eaters is not happily waiting to enjoy a superior life? How many of those Death Eater families, when Voldemort was first killed more than ten years ago, also sincerely surrendered and repented? But after the Dark Lord made a comeback, didn't he follow this guy again to make trouble? These people from the big pure-blood family are cheap!)

Lockhart seemed to have two voices arguing in his head on his way to his next target, and he made a bunch of excuses for his murderous acts, but found that he couldn't fully convince himself, and after a while, the curse seemed to be triggered again: it was like a steel needle exploded in his head, and the skull was shattered, and the severe pain caused him to lose consciousness and autonomy for a while, and he almost fell off the air.

Barely recovering, Lockhart was furious by his gaffe: Don't think nonsense! During the rise of the Dark Lord, how many Muggles in Britain were made into corpses by them? If it were based on the principle of equality between wizards and Muggles, it would not be enough to kill all those in prison! Not to mention that when Moody died, he had already sworn that if he wanted to kill all the Death Eaters in Britain, then just do it, revenge does not need a reason!

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Kill all the Death Eaters and cut down the grass to the roots!

Lockhart's eyes were red, and he killed all the dozen or so people up and down the Nott family, but he still didn't get the whereabouts of the Golden Cup.

After killing this pass, he found the key, as long as he followed his desires, killed if he wanted to, and sucked blood if he wanted to suck blood, then the curse seemed to not exist, and there would be no loss of control or headache at all.

Lockhart himself knew that this was a bit of a bad situation, but fortunately it didn't happen when he was with his own people, and when Snape's Philosopher's Stone was made, he would consider removing the curse.

No, not yet, Voldemort is not dead, he cleared the curse with the Philosopher's Stone, who will deal with him?

Let's not think about this for now.

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When he reached the third place, he was actually ambushed - five veteran Death Eaters were waiting for him in the house of the Yaxley family with a dozen minions, as if to cover the departure of the old and the young. These were all Death Eaters who had escaped and regrouped after the failed siege of Hogwarts, including Yaxley, apparently trying to fight to see if they could kill Lockhart.

It's a pity that the Dark Lord apparently didn't tell them how strong Lockhart was, let alone show up to fight. This time, Lockhart also enjoyed the experience of fighting some of the best wizards. In the face of the huge chasm of magical affinity, more than a dozen wizards were completely unable to reach the quantity and overpower the quality, all of them with the mark of the black devil were killed, only a few fled in different directions on broomsticks, and Lockhart did not bother to chase them all one by one.

There was a female Death Eater he didn't kill, not because she was pretty, but because she was Lockhart's elementary school sister named Vivian Clark, two years below him, and the relationship was still good at the time.

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[Asking for all kinds of tickets!]

——(To be continued......)