Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 266 Oath?

"What do you want the world tree to do!" McGuffin asked loudly.

In the last quarter of an hour, the golden scales stagnated.

No more leaning.

Les Finley said with a livid face.

"Do you have to fight against me?"

he threatened. "If you knew, I wouldn't let you go!"

McGuffin ignored it.

While Les Finley was silent, the scale gradually began to tip back.

"You forced me!"

So he began to tell the reason why he wanted to get the world tree.

"The legendary World Tree can change the talents of wizards, turn Muggles into wizards, and allow wizards to break through the boundaries of magic."

"Can create something out of nothing, resurrect, create life, immortality, almost infinite powerful magic power...just like the gods in Muggle mythology...the legendary ancient wizards are omnipotent!"

Les Finlay stared at the MacGuffin viciously, and repeated.

"McGuffin!"

"here you go!"

"Good job, ah!"

There were veins all over the back of his hand, and he almost crushed the wand in his hand.

The golden scales began to tilt in McGuffin's way again.

So McGuffin immediately switched to another question.

"Les Finley! What's your next plan!"

Les Finley's expression became even uglier now.

He understood why when he left the mysterious man, that guy scoffed at the idea that he thought he could easily handle this little wizard.

Les Finley spat hard, and the droplets fell straight from their feet into the underground classroom below.

Can't go on like this.

Fortunately, the golden scale, as a magic item of the [Asymmetric Unbreakable Oath] contract, naturally has the function of biasing the caster.

He took out his wand again, pointed at the golden scales and said, "Fair replacement!"

The two sides of the golden scale immediately returned to their original state and no longer tilted.

Les Finley stared at McGuffin and asked viciously, "McGuffin Albert, why do you want to learn [Occlumency] before entering school?"

McGuffin immediately realized that he and Les Finley were in a rule swap.

Now he must tell his secret.

Fuck!
Seeing the balance began to tilt again.

McGuffin could only say helplessly.

"I have memories of my previous life! After knowing the general situation of the wizarding world and Dumbledore being a master of Legilimency, I must protect this secret!"

A force appeared in McGuffin's brain, or another consciousness forced him to only tell the truth.

He opened his mouth several times, so he had to choose the "truth" and try to speak out every word with an edited fact.

McGuffin thought of the ambiguities in Les Finley's previous words, and realized that this guy must have concealed something to mislead him.

"Ha, ha ha ha ha!"

"So it is, so it is!"

"Everything is explained!"

Les Finley sneered coldly, "I said why the first time we met, I always felt that you were different from the Weasley kid next to you, and there was a feeling of incongruity."

"And not long after, I learned from that old fool Ollivander that you actually learned [Occlumency]."

"——This kind of magic can only be learned through the stimulation of life and death."

"In this way, everything makes sense. Why are you afraid that your secrets will be exposed? Why did you learn [Occlumency] so quickly... After all, there is no experience that stimulates the brain more than your own life and death, right?"

"It's right to be so fearful! If there are wizards who know that there are living violations... all the magic theorems and magic boundaries exist... I'm afraid the entire wizarding world will go crazy!"

"Even Dumbledore can't bear this temptation! You are a living proof!"

Les Finley became more and more excited, even a little crazy.

He swung his wand directly, canceling the witchcraft of that golden scale.

"You are a proof... proof that people can bring the dead back to life! The legend of the ancient eastern country is true, and there really is magic that allows people to find memories of previous lives."

"The human soul can really be resurrected in a completely different way!"

"The reincarnation that can keep people's memories, this is the real eternal life!"

"It's not like Nicole Flamel who boils the elixir of life with a magic stone. Although he can live forever, he can only watch his body slowly decay. There is no joy in living!"

"What kind of immortality is that!"

"And you proved that the magic theories we know today are completely wrong...Those things in legends and myths may be true!"

Les Finley came over, patted McGuffin on the shoulder vigorously, regardless of McGuffin's wary look.

"Do you want to reach a real [Unbreakable Vow]! McGuffin!"

he suggested.

"As long as you help me find [World Tree]... I will share everything with you."

"With the help of World Tree and you, I will truly find a way beyond the boundaries of magic!"

"We're going to change the whole magical world, no, the whole human world...the two of us will be 'King of Kings'...gods!"

Les Finley's attitude is almost a 180-degree turn in seconds.

MacGuffin's eyes were fixed on Les Finley's almost mad face.

And he looked at the McGuffin with an 'inspection' on his face, his eyes glowed, as if he saw some rare treasure.

Excited and ecstatic.

McGuffin knew he couldn't refuse the offer now.

Although [Unbreakable Oath], as long as there are loopholes in the original revision, there are tens of thousands of ways to avoid its regulations and restrictions when it is implemented.

What's even more coquettish is the [Unbreakable Vow] signed by Snape and Narcissa in the original book.

All the goals have been achieved, but they are all in Dumbledore's arrangement.

This in turn prompted the Death Eaters and Voldemort to trust Snape.

McGuffin guessed—and for Les Finley, he must have thought so too.

As I expected, once McGuffin's own secret is revealed, there is a high probability that he will face this situation.

— Les Finley must have thought of him as some kind of research subject.

It's just that from the original one-time use of experimental materials, it has become a kind of reusable guinea pig.

McGuffin has no other choice now, if he doesn't agree to come down immediately.

I'm afraid this guy will become angry from embarrassment and shoot immediately.

As far as McGuffin is concerned, he and Les Finley will eventually have a fight.

But, not now!
"Of course, Les Finley, I can make an [Unbreakable Vow]!"

McGuffin thought for a moment, and then said softly, "But I don't know this magic, and there is no third wizard here as a witness!"

"No need! I don't think you want to let other second people know your secret!"

Les Finlay was relieved to see that McGuffin agreed.

He summoned the golden scale floating in the air again, but this time a flame quill and a sheepskin scroll appeared on the scales on both sides.

"You need to get out your wand, just follow me!" said Les Finley.

At Les Finley's command, the McGuffin drew his wand and pointed it directly at him.

The tips of their wands pointed together, pointing to the golden scales.

Les Finley spoke.

"McGuffin Albert, are you willing to help Les Finley find the hidden World Tree information here?"

"I will!" said the MacGuffin.

A thin, blinding tongue of flame shot from the wand and rushed towards the golden scales, which began to burn, surrounded by a layer of translucent flame.

Then the flame quill and the parchment on the weighing pans on both sides floated in front of the McGuffins at the same time.

Open it slowly, and automatically write the oath that the two of you just said on it.

"Les Finley!"

"McGuffin!"

"Are you willing to keep each other's secrets, no matter what happens, don't reveal it to anyone?" McGuffin and Les Finley asked each other at the same time, and answered at the same time.

"I am willing!"

"I do!"

The writing of the flames burned on the sheepskin scroll little by little, leaving black scorched and mottled marks.

"Finally,... MacGuffin! Are you willing to share your secrets with Les Finley selflessly?"

Les Finley's eyes were like hungry wolves, emitting a faint green light, extremely greedy.

A moment of silence.

——They didn't discuss this just now.

When McGuffin discussed with Les Finley just now, he reconfirmed that the other party did not intend to abide by the agreement at all.

This can be seen from the fact that he has not proposed protective clauses.

This [Unbreakable Vow] spell is just to appease and use oneself temporarily, and its effectiveness is not even as good as a piece of toilet paper.

And the sudden 'attack' proves this even more.

The tongues of fire from the wands of the two tightly surrounded the two of them, entwining the golden scales.

"I do!" McGuffin said anyway.

Because he doesn't intend to abide by this funnel-like oath anymore.

Fuck this guy whenever he gets a chance!
After McGuffin finished speaking, Lesfin raised his wand vigorously, and the tongue of fire connected to the tip of the two wands broke instantly.

The parchment and the flame quill instantly appeared on the weighing pans on both sides, and disappeared again.

Then countless thin, glowing red illusory metal wire chains spewed out from the weighing pans on both sides, inserted into the chests of the two of them at once, and bound two illusory transparent hearts very quickly, and tied them to the original weighing pans on both sides.

After that, the golden scales quickly disappeared.

Only two people with different plans were left standing in the empty sky above the old classroom.

……

"Hagrid! Where's your entrance?"

"Where's the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]?" Snape asked coldly.

In the women's bathroom on the second floor, the entrance behind the original sink has disappeared.

Everything has returned to its original state and looks the same as before.

Hagrid froze, bewildered.

"I... I clearly saw that McGuffin used Parseltongue to open the entrance to the [Chamber of Secrets]."

He walked over and lay down there looking for the faucet that was ridiculously small for him... He seemed to want to force himself to pull up the sink to see if he could reveal the entrance of the [Chamber of Secrets].

Snape was getting worse.

The worries in my heart seemed to come true.

So, he hurried to the outside of the corridor, past the spiral staircase, and asked the portraits if he had seen Lockhart and Harry.

Get the answer as he expected.

--never seen it.

"Professor Gilderoy Lockhart clearly said that he would... send Harry and the others back!"

Hagrid still couldn't figure it out. In his opinion, although Gilderoy was cowardly and cowardly, he was very happy, and in short he was very annoying, but the trivial matter of sending Harry and the others back to the common room can still be done.

Even Snape thought that flamboyant guy couldn't possibly be a criminal, he might be a bragging, bragging scammer, but he couldn't be a terrorist attacking criminal at all.

Besides, this guy has been famous for a long time, and there is nothing particularly suspicious about it.

It has nothing to do with the dark wizards.

unless……

He was not Gilderoy Lockhart.

A flash of inspiration flashed in Snape's mind, and he suddenly recalled the potion ingredients he had lost not long ago.

Among them... the African snake skin is the main material of [Compound Decoction].

—Who is this guy?
- Has Harry been taken to the [Chamber of Secrets]?
—and... where is the real Gilderoy Lockhart now?

……

The real Gerald Lockhart is in the deepest part of the Forbidden Forest.

Behind him a towering giant tree rose from the ground, as high as a hill, like a building with dozens of floors.

The tree trunk has to run around for a few minutes before it can make a full circle.

The branches of the giant tree are bent and drooping, and it looks like a willow tree.

Although it is winter, the leaves are green and lush, in stark contrast to the yellow and black branches in the surrounding Forbidden Forest.

But even the tiniest branches that hang down from the canopy... are tens of centimeters in diameter.

Each leaf is almost the size of a washbasin, two fingers thick, falling from it can almost kill a person.

Moreover, the willow tree catalyzed by the curse and witchcraft almost turned into some kind of bloody and efficient killing weapon.

The mummified carcasses of eight-eyed spiders hang from every hanging branch.

Depending on the situation, it turns out that all the predators in the Forbidden Forest have turned into puppets of this strange plant.

The bodies of these spider puppets were inserted by several blood-red vines that didn't fit in, like puppets manipulating strings, their movements were stiff and strange.

They kept walking within a radius of several hundred meters, hunting other animals, and had to tie up those struggling prey and pull them under the giant tree.

after that,

The ground, the sky,... Flesh vines that suddenly appeared in all directions inserted into the fresh flesh... until they were sucked dry, forming new puppets.

Or hang on those branches.

In a radius of tens of meters around this huge willow tree, not only these animals, but even insects and plants have dried up, lost water, and become mummified.

It turns to ashes at the slightest touch.

All the ground was paved with a thick layer of dust.

And the only living beings here, other than that weird willow tree and Lockhart, were the three little wizards in black robes in front of him.

One of the girls had red hair like flames.

They are Ginny Weasley, Luna, and Colin Creevey.

The three little wizards lay on the ground, unconscious, surrounded by eight-eyed spider puppets.

The centaurs were hurrying with the Ministry of Magic Aurors and Dumbledore.

Farther away in this clearing, the centaurs formed a small team to drive away the panicked little animals!
Draw this place as a restricted area.

Finally, Dumbledore and the others came here.

I saw the little wizard,

And very big guy style,

— Bald Gilderoy Lockhart!
(End of this chapter)