allendalepharm Chapter 110 You've finally taken the bait.
Chapter 110 You've finally taken the bait.
Chapter 110 You've finally taken the bait.
Lockhart wanted to act immediately once he made a decision. This wasn't some kind of "strong execution ability," but rather an overwhelming desire that he couldn't suppress, just like how he didn't need anyone to urge him to play games or watch short videos in his previous life.
Magic was simply a source of enjoyment for him.
When magic enters every aspect of life, every little thing in life begins to have fun.
This is the greatest significance of his journey to the magical world; he lives in happiness every moment.
Magic is really interesting.
He was determined to change some of his strategies. Ever since he realized that Voldemort's creation of Horcruxes had become uncontrollable and unpredictable, he felt that he had to seize some initiative.
Whether facing Voldemort or Dumbledore.
Yes, and Dumbledore too.
Old Deng is a really good person. He is a great wizard because he is so ridiculously powerful compared to other wizards, yet he is always full of kindness and warmth towards the world, and even full of self-restraint.
But Dumbledore is also a political being with his own clear path, and Lockhart cannot guarantee that he will completely follow Dumbledore's path in the future.
He should be the free wind in the forest, the spring flowing freely in the mountain stream, yearning for magic and happiness, and should not be caught up in inexplicable political narratives like Voldemort or Dumbledore.
Having a Horcrux from Voldemort would give him a lot of leverage in the future.
Late at night, the moonlight hid behind the clouds and became dim. Snape, who had been sitting by the window all night in the cold wind, could finally relax his brow and fall into the deepest sleep after being drunk.
Lockhart had Boggart transform into his likeness and pretend to be asleep in another corner, while he himself donned a red cloak.
He quietly left the office.
He didn't go far; he stood at the corner of the seventh-floor staircase in the castle, hidden in his cloak, and quietly opened "Carlo's Bedtime Stories and Fairy Tales," waiting patiently to read.
He knew that a figure would appear soon.
After all, he knew Tom all too well. He remembered Ginny's return from her adventure with the professor's party after so many days, the increasingly powerful Patronus Charm that made him feel like he was losing control, and the attack by Voldemort's dark wizards and werewolves.
He will definitely be tempted to check whether his trump card, the "Basilisk," is reliable.
Certainly.
And it was around this time.
Sure enough, Lockhart didn't have to wait long before Ginny, in her ghostly state, reappeared at the top of the stairs.
Unsteady, disoriented, yet constantly moving, as if sleepwalking.
As she walked, she suddenly disappeared as she passed the corner of the stairs, vanishing without a trace.
Ginny had no idea that she had stepped into Professor Lockhart's red cloak, or even into a fairy tale book; she only felt as if she were walking down a staircase.
But no matter how you climb this staircase, it seems endless, one section after another, as if there's no end in sight.
"Sigh~"
At the top of the stairs, Lockhart sighed. While he had the idea of subtly influencing Tom's plans by having Ginny join his dueling club, he was also genuinely and earnestly teaching Ginny how to resist the corrupting influence of dark magic.
But clearly, Ginny wasn't particularly talented in this area.
Those who, like Snape, possess both a talent for dark magic and a talent for defense against it, are destined for great suffering.
However, someone like Ginny, who is only gifted in dark magic, could easily become a Bella-like figure if she is not careful. After experiencing a major life crisis, she could easily have her mind completely consumed by dark magic.
She could only pray that life wouldn't lead her down the path of a dark wizard, and that fate would always favor her, sparing her from major setbacks that would corrupt her, allowing her to have everything smoothly from childhood to adulthood, just like in the original story.
Lockhart was out of ideas.
They've taught her everything they need to, but Ginny simply can't resist Tom's influence. If it were Harry or Hermione, they probably would have broken free from the vortex long ago.
"Let me help you forget all of this. This is not an adventure you can handle."
Lockhart slowly drew his wand and gently waved it at Ginny's retreating figure.
"Forget everything, and all is emptiness!"
As the silver light shone, in the hazy light, Ginny's reflection in the shadow on the wall beside the stairs suddenly revealed the shadow of a huge, burly werewolf. The dark shadow bared its fangs and claws, lowered its head, and began to bite at her.
The werewolf was so greedy and vicious that it tore off a part of her shadow, along with strands of broken silver threads, and swallowed it whole.
Her life was robbed; she would completely lose everything Tom had influenced her with, including his talent for Parsleyan speech and his talent for dark magic.
It's unknown whether she will continue to be as adept and enthusiastic about using spells like the Bat Spirit Spell as she was in the original story. After all, the brilliance with which she cast this spell was so remarkable that even Professor Horace Slughorn, who had seen many elite wizards, was full of praise for it.
But in any case, Ginny has completely moved on from the adventure in the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin.
She was supposed to play the role of "princess" in the adventure, but she was bewitched by an evil witch and went astray (Tom), then was captured by a dragon and put in mortal danger (Basilisk), and was taken to the castle (Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets), waiting for the hero to rescue her (Harry).
The plundering of life is so full of evil.
Lockhart didn't see this as a forceful arrangement made for Ginny's own good. He had never liked the kind of parental arrangement that involved deciding other people's fates and arbitrarily pointing fingers and judging right and wrong in other people's lives. He was simply making his own choice.
The choice was that he needed Tom's diary Horcrux, and it was a Horcrux that Dumbledore couldn't know about for the time being.
It's that simple.
He gently opened the fairy tale book, watching Ginny step out from the pages, out from his red cloak, and habitually continue down the stairs, finally waking with a startled cry, frantically running towards her Gryffindor dormitory.
Kid, I'm sorry to say your adventure is over. Now it's my turn.
He turned his gaze back to the fairy tale book, which contained a Hogwarts, young wizards and professors, Ginny, the Chamber of Secrets, and everything he remembered about Hogwarts.
Tom inside the Horcrux of the diary wouldn't notice anything wrong, because it was also constructed based on all his memories of Hogwarts.
This is the first step in Dumbledore's description of the "hairy heart of the wizard"—locking the heart in a box.
The second step is for the dark forces to quietly erode the heart.
Time passed quietly, and Hogwarts in the fairy tale book ushered in the second day. As the sun rose and set, Ginny, back in her dormitory, opened her diary again and told Mr. Diary everything that had happened that day.
Lockhart sat on Ginny's bed in her dorm room, reached out and pulled a very girly pink quill pen from the table, dipped it in ink, and began writing earnestly in his diary.
"Professor Lockhart has asked us to help him organize the manuscripts of his books again. How annoying! I just want to spend more time with Harry and don't want to do such troublesome things."
The writing quickly disappeared from the pages of the diary, but after a while, a string of letters reappeared.
"About the book he taught you to learn the Patronus Charm? Right? He's obviously happy to brag about that!"
Yo-shh~
Tom, are you taking my pulse too?
Lockhart chuckled. While he was pondering Tom's behavioral logic, Tom was also pondering his own, and quite accurately at that.
"no!"
He chuckled to himself, writing in the book, "It should be a biography, about the great villain Voldemort. The title is 'Voldemort the Mysterious Man: A Pureblood Supremacist with a Muggle Father?'"
Before he finished writing, all the ink on the page disappeared, leaving only a series of exclamation marks.
Tom was utterly shocked!
How dare he!!!
Lockhart ignored his shock, and in fact, Ginny wouldn't have either. She was a rather self-centered little witch who usually didn't care about other people's topics that were unimportant to her and focused more on her own expression.
He continued writing.
"I never imagined that Voldemort had a Muggle father, and that he was seduced by his mother with a love potion—"
Ginny's perspective is clearly different from others, and her writing is full of longing.
"His mother must have loved his father very much and tried her best to keep her husband by her side, but she couldn't help but feel pity and let go of the restraint. As a result, all she got was her husband's determination to leave her."
"His mother did not use aphrodisiacs to bring her husband back. Instead, she chose death in despair. She held on until she gave birth to her child at the orphanage gate before dying, all for the sake of her child."
What kind of bullshit love potion is this?!
The ink on the book vanished instantly, leaving only Tom's angry roar.
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Why blame everything on this poor woman! To speculate about people's hearts with such malice! Ha, I get it. Just because Voldemort's enemies Muggles invaded the wizards' living space and failed, those people maliciously imagine that Muggles must be the victims and that wizards, who possess magic, must be the ones in control. Right? Everyone is always so self-righteous!
She simply dressed herself up and used some "beauty potion" that you little witches all love to use.
Is it wrong for a woman to dress up a little so that the man she loves will look at her more often?
That man, obsessed with her beauty, lost her father and brother, cutting off her source of income and making it impossible for her to afford the witch's beauty potions, ultimately causing her to lose her beauty. So, disregarding her pregnancy, that man callously abandoned her!
Is that right?
The truth of the matter meant nothing to Lockhart.
What he cared about was the emotion expressed in Tom's writing. The deepest emotions in a wizard's heart are always related to magic, and that intense emotion so clearly told him how much he cared about his mother.
Little Tom, I've got you! He picked up his pen again. "Merlin's beard, it's like this! She was a great woman, a great mother! I must plead with Professor Lockhart to stop writing this book; it's an insult to a poor woman!"
Tom fell silent; he clearly knew that Ginny's influence wasn't enough to make the professor abandon the idea.
"The book you just mentioned about his experience teaching us the Patronus Charm, right? Maybe that idea will get him all focused on that. He's always wanted everyone to know he's Harry Potter's professor!"
! ! ! !
Tom responded again, clearly realizing that this was a turning point.
"Yes, this would benefit him far more than writing about Voldemort's private affairs. Voldemort is not someone to be trifled with, and this would be a much better idea for him to gain the limelight."
"Right, this is a good idea, isn't it?" The pink quill pen scribbled rapidly as 'Ginny' began to explain her troubles. "But I don't really know much about the Patronus Charm. I might need something that can move him. Can you teach me the Patronus Charm?"
Tom fell silent again, and after a long while, he replied, "I haven't paid attention to this magic before. Its application is too narrow; it's not worth my precious time."
"Merlin's Beard, you've clearly missed one of the most wondrous spells. Professor Lockhart said the Patronus Charm's power comes from the goodness in our hearts; it can even allow us to see our deceased loved ones!"
Ginny enthusiastically promoted the Patronus Charm to Tom, even citing Voldemort, the Dark Lord, as an example, saying that Voldemort would definitely use this magic to see his mother.
"His mother loves him so much. If he loves his mother too, he'll surely be able to see her by casting the Patronus Charm! Merlin's beard, that's just so romantic!"
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Tom exclaimed three times in a row, and finally couldn't help but ask, "Tell me the spell and the hand gestures, and all the key points about this magic!"
Okay~
My dear little Tom!
You've finally taken the bait!
Lockhart, standing before his diary, wore a satisfied smile.
He waved his wand, and suddenly, wisps of silver mist swirled around the diary, just as Little Tom had influenced Ginny's mind before, gradually eroding Tom's spirit within the diary.
Little Tom, Professor Lockhart's mini-lesson is now online! Let me give you a private lesson on love and the Patronus Charm.