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Cloaked in invisibility, Lockhart walked through the familiar Hogwarts campus, it was the end of the last class of the morning, and there were waves of students walking by, Ginny should be among them, Lockhart carefully avoided people.

The word "school" derives from the Greek word for "skhole", i.e. leisure time - because in ancient Greece only the wealthy and high-status burghers had leisure time to enjoy the pleasure of study and research.

But now, these children, who are supposed to enjoy the joy of learning, are full of sadness.

Not only were they taught that Muggles were garbage on a daily basis, but they also learned everything from magical and interesting practical magic and astronomy to magic and arithmetic, which was narrowed down to attack and damaging spells with the dark arts at its core, and the use of classmates as test subjects. Not to mention the strict and brutal management of Hogwarts under the Death Eaters. If you don't know, you might mistake it for a Dark Wizard military academy that trains wizards to become Muggle exterminators.

But it was all about to end, and Lockhart walked cautiously against the wall.

McGonagall greeted her with a sad face as she returned to the common room, and she looked even older. Lockhart's first instinct was to hide her aura, as a wizard of McGonagall's level could spot herself in the cloak of invisibility with a little care, and it wouldn't be good if she showed something unusual and was discovered by the Death Eaters. But after the two passed by, he had another idea: according to the previous plan, he would tell her the secret about Snape on the last day before the month-end operation, but now that he was here, maybe it would save some effort to call her over to discuss it?

He sneaked up to the door of the Headmaster's office, and under the invisibility cloak, he contacted Snape and McGonagall, respectively, and asked for a new entry token. And asked the latter to come to the principal's office to meet him.

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Snape sat quietly behind the Headmaster's desk, with several pieces of paper written on them with the names of the students who had recently made mistakes and the Death Eater professors' suggested course of action. If Lockhart reads it, he will find that most of the above are trivial, and most of the students who made mistakes are members of H.A.

"Almost?" Snape put down his pen, knowing that this might be the last batch of papers of the same type he had reviewed.

"Well, McGonagall will be here later. Lockhart nodded at him, then sat down in a chair to the side, "Get ready to say something to her." ”

"Say what. I'm not a traitor to the Order of the Phoenix, I'm a great double agent?" Snape sneered, "I'm here to avenge myself, unlike all of you who are self-sacrificing heroes." I just want to know what your grand plan is to destroy the Dark Lord's Horcruxes and even kill him while reclaiming the Ministry?"

"Let's talk about McGonagall here—"

As soon as Lockhart finished speaking, McGonagall hurried into the headmaster's office, where she had just passed by Lockhart, and was not far away. After receiving the news on the note, he immediately rushed over, for fear that Lockhart would have a fight with Snape and even had already fought.

But upon entering the door, she was immediately startled by the scene in the headmaster's office: Lockhart was relaxed in his chair, and Snape sat quietly behind his desk. With their hands resting on the table, neither of them holding a wand, the atmosphere was as harmonious as if the two were discussing what to eat for lunch.

Her first instinct was that Lockhart and Snape were both Death Eaters, and the former was lurking in the Order of the Phoenix. A big plan that looks like a big plan against the Death Eaters is actually preparing to wipe out all of the Order of the Phoenix and the Aurors!

The second reaction was - now that they were going to start with themselves, she had to get the word out!

McGonagall quickly drew her wand and cast an iron charm on herself. He quickly glanced around the Headmaster's office and retreated towards the door, but no other wizards were in sight, and no spells were flying towards him.

"Professor McGonagall, don't be nervous. Lockhart smiled at her and said, "Come in and talk about what to do with the mystery man." ”

"Gildero, you-" McGonagall looked at Lockhart warily, if these two wizards were going to deal with her, she would never have left this room easily, "what the hell is going on with him, have you already used the Imperius Curse to control him?"

"A normal Imperius Curse, I can break free in a matter of seconds. Snape said coldly, "But in fact I've never been struck by an enemy's Imperius Curse. ”

"Professor McGonagall, Severus is an undercover agent for the Order of the Phoenix for the Death Eaters—"

"That's what we thought!" McGonagall didn't know who to point her wand at, "Gildero, when you were in school, I said I would teach you the Animagus transformation and let you come to my house, what did I treat you to eat that time?"

"I didn't go to your house, I was busy paying to help other students write essays, and I thought that Animagus transformation was a useless skill. Lockhart explained softly, "Dumbledore's murder by Severus was just a ploy - he was seriously injured and didn't live long to help him win the trust of the mysterious man." ”

"This—" McGonagall thought for a moment, calming down: the chances of Lockhart being a Death Eater were almost nil, but she couldn't accept that Snape hadn't betrayed either.

"Hermione and Ginny know about Severus, and you can ask them for confirmation. Lockhart continued, "Two girls can prove that Seaver resurrected me. ”

"Resurrection?" asked McGonagall in surprise, "that means the rumors of your death are true, not that you were seriously injured or hidden?"

"Professor McGonagall, worthy of being the head of Gryffindor, I suspect that Harry has always been taught by you to be whimsical...... But I don't want to tell you in detail about the process of my resurrection now, but I'll talk about it later when I have time...... Severus didn't control me. ”

"I don't have much other way to take a stand, you can choose to believe and sit down now, or just stand in the doorway with your wand in your hand and listen to us, Minerva. Snape didn't care, "But please don't run out and yell, the other Death Eaters at the school are genuine." ”

"Okay, then you say. McGonagall still didn't dare to relax her nerves.

"On the first of May, we will attack the Ministry of Magic, you already know that. With a wave of Lockhart's hand, a chair flew up to Professor McGonagall, but she didn't sit down. "On the night of April 30th, I asked you to help Harry get rid of Severus, and capture the other Death Eaters, using them to bring in reinforcements from the Ministry of Magic - have you ever wondered why I contacted you with a note that I insisted that you get rid of Severus instead of killing or capturing him?"

"I thought you were worried that I wasn't his match. McGonagall said, "Isn't-"

"After you get rid of him, he'll go with me to another place to deal with the mystery man. Lockhart said, "The main reason I'm telling you now is that I'm worried that the other Order of the Phoenix, especially Harry, will be too excited to see him by then, and it won't be good if he accidentally injures Severus—"

"Snort-" Snape laughed dismissively, "Thank you for your concern, Gildero." But even if Potter and his godfather had teamed up against me, I would have been able to get out with a hair's head. ”

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――(To be continued......)