The school dinner ended with an embarrassingly sneering joke told by Dumbledore, and the young wizards dispersed until the end, when they failed to figure out the purpose of Amosta's return to school, and it was expected that in the first week of school, there would be a massive detective campaign in the school.

Amosta had left before the young wizards, and he hadn't forgotten that he hadn't come to Hogwarts for a vacation, and his mission had officially begun when all the young wizards had gathered in the Great Hall.

For the rest of the day, until he found the secret room, he would probably have to live a life of day and night, sleeping during the day and working at night, which would be a very hard time.

In the surveillance room, Amosta sits in a chair, keeping an eye on the images that are gradually filling people's heads, focusing on the lonely young wizards, observing whether their behavior is unreasonable, and of course, Professor Lockhart is also one of the objects of his attention.

The Chamber of Secrets didn't appear sooner or later, but it was opened when Lockhart was a professor at Defense Against the Dark Arts, which he couldn't help but suspect.

After dinner, under the leadership of the prefect, most of the young wizards from the various academies returned to their respective common rooms, but there were also about a dozen or so young wizards who sneaked out without anyone noticing.

More than half of them were Gryffindor students.

Harry and Ron went to the school hospital, and the Weasley brothers, taking advantage of the parade Filch's inattention, scurried into the passage leading to the Hufflepuff common room on the ground floor, paused in front of a painting of fruit hanging on the stone wall, and then jumped inside.

Amosta also saw Penelo Crivat, who had walked into the Ravenclaw common room, but had turned back a little later, and almost around the same time, Percy Weasley had also left the Gryffindor common room, and it was expected that another fierce kiss would take place somewhere in the castle.

With the exception of Professor McGonagall and Professor Lockhart, who returned to their offices after dinner to work overtime, the rest of the professors remained mostly in the staff quarters, and Headmaster Dumbledore turned to the ceiling thirty feet away and winked his blue eyes playfully as if to say hello before entering his office.

Amosta pouted, looking away from the screen.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened, everything was normal, and this result did not exceed Amosta's expectations, unless it was particularly lucky, otherwise I could not expect to achieve something in ten days and half a month.

The flames in the intricately patterned fireplace were blazing, and Amosta leaned back in his chair with a cup of bitter hot tea, his gaze swept over the wall from time to time, his expression calm.

About half an hour later, the screen was still active and turned from a ghost to a ghost, and Amosta saw Peeves smirking into a long-abandoned bathroom on the second floor with a funny round hat, and soon the door of the bathroom began to seep water into the hallway outside.

As soon as the long night had fallen, Amosta was already bored, so he went to his desk and grabbed a copy of the "Magic Basic Model and Structural Optimization" he was compiling, and flipped through it for inspiration.

Suddenly, there was movement in the surveillance screen in the lower right corner, and Professor Lockhart changed into a fuchsia robe and walked out with a few books in his hand, he was smiling and personable, looking at the direction of travel, it seemed to be his monitoring room.

Both of his offices were on the ground floor, and within two minutes, Professor Lockhart was outside his office.

Tuk Tuk ---

The knock on the door sounded, Amosta waved his wand, a huge black curtain obscured the wall, and the stool under his ass jumped back to his desk with a tap-dancing pace, straightening himself up and returning to normal.

"Professor Lockhart?" Amosta, who opened the door, showed just the right amount of surprise, "What are you doing?" ”

Amosta, who brought Lockhart into the office with no idea, poured him a cup of tea, but Lockhart didn't seem to want to drink it.

"--- is actually so,"

Lockhart was ready to make his intentions clear, but when he found a copy of Wandering with Werewolves on Amosta's bookshelf, the smile on his face was simply too bright.

"It's my mistake, it's my mistake, Amosta, I should have thought of it, but I didn't realize it," he winked at the slightly confused Amosta, "a cunningly crazy admirer, right, in a way that I didn't expect!" ”

"I'm sorry, Professor Lockhart, but maybe I'm too sluggish for me to understand what you're trying to say..."

"There's no need to hide it, Amosta, to go to great lengths to get into Hogwarts, right?"

Lockhart smiled happily, "Professor McGonagall told me that the Board of Trustees sent an investigator to track down the Chamber of Secrets..., and I think you must have spent a lot of money to get this done!" ”

Amosta looked at the bookshelf in the direction of Lockhart's gaze and blinked,

"If you're referring to the book "Wandering with Werewolves", yes, I had a bit of an unpleasant encounter with a group of werewolves, and in order to deepen my understanding of them, I found a few of the most famous..."

"Aha, it's finally exposed, isn't it!"

Lockhart seemed to have finally grasped Amosta's handle,

"It's like Miss Granger in the second year, she knows me well, yes, yes, a lot of people talk about that book and are amazed by how calm and resolute I showed when I was stuck in a phone booth by a werewolf, but you're different, Amosta, you want to learn how I got rid of my old suspicions with werewolves, right?"

An hour later, Lockhart left Amosta's office contentedly, and stood in front of the door, he said to Amosta in a low voice,

"Don't worry about not being able to explain to the board, Amosta, the secret room attack is not going to happen, as for the reason, you must know the reason, right?" Lockhart winked at Amosta again, "Because I'm right here!" ”

Amosta watched Professor Lockhart walk away, closing the door and standing at his desk, staring at Lockhart's gift --- a full set of hardcover autographed books.

"Ho, that's a funny guy!" Amosta burst into laughter.

Back at Hogwarts, Amosta and Professor Snape had talked about suspicious people in the school, and when Gilderoy Lockhart was mentioned, Snape's tone was full of disdain and ridicule, but he didn't think Lockhart would have a problem, and Amosta was quite puzzling at the time.

"Still, as a household name in the wizarding world, I'm at least a friendly wizard."