Harry Potter’s Defense Professor

"Protect my back." Lockhart extinguished the fluorescent flashes, pointed his wand to the side of the dark passage, and suddenly thought of Dumbledore. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he shouted loudly, "Burning flames!"

He cast the spell with all his strength, and a thick fire dragon flew out from the tip of the Elder's wand and roared toward the other end of the aisle, the flames illuminating Lockhart's face. The heat heated the air in the closed annular space, and the hot air was forced by Lockhart's spell, blowing the flames further away from Lockhart in the aisle.

This walkway is a circle - after dozens of seconds, this fire dragon with high temperature and pressure rushed towards Lockhart's back from the other direction of Lockhart's spell, and Scrimgeour was ready to deal with it, the first floor The Iron Armor insulates the impact of the air heated by the flames, and a water film keeps the heat out.

Now the entire passage is filled with flames, and the two of them seem to be in a bubble in the lava. Fortunately, this is just an ordinary flame. Without the support of magic, nothing can burn, and it will soon be extinguished. At this time, all the wall tiles have been lit up by this range of magic, and the large-scale magic hidden in it has been activated, and a dazzling white light filled Lockhart's entire field of vision. Everything was teleported away.

The vertigo that was stronger than ten Apparitions in a row gradually dissipated, and Lockhart found himself lying on the ground. Scrimgeour's Occlumency was a little better than he had learned. He had sat up propped up, staring coldly. on the ceiling.

"Merlin's ****, this is the legendary forced long-distance teleportation, without the help of the Floo network!" Lockhart said in surprise, "It's a magical experience, just the magic method and the energy consumed by this hand, let me I believe I really cannot destroy the energy supply system."

He fought back the discomfort. Getting up and sitting like Scrimgeour, they were now in a large Hogwarts-like lobby, compared to the size. Even more astonishing is the height - at first glance you can't tell how high the ceiling is.

It couldn't be behind a wall as they had guessed - because the circular passage couldn't enclose such a high and large space. Perhaps as the legend goes, this is very deep underground. This ensures that the energy supply system is not accidentally destroyed by Muggles.

The first thing that catches the eye is a dazzling installation in the middle of this large room, about the height of a person, with blue light shining from the whole body, surrounded by a frame made of unknown materials to protect it. At the same time, there are a large number of pipes running up from this frame, all the way to the ceiling above the head, it is also bright, but because the brightness of the installation below is too high. It is almost impossible to see that the pillar formed by this pipeline exists.

Thinking with my toes, I knew that this was the pipes for drawing magic power, and their upward extension confirmed the conjecture of the wizarding world that this room was deep under the Ministry of Magic.

Looking overhead along the line, Lockhart understood why Scrimgeour had been staring at the ceiling—seconds later,

The symptoms of temporary night blindness and phantoms in his vision subsided by the energy supply device, he saw a dome like the sky of another world.

It was a ceiling composed of a large number of pipelines. The pipelines were thick and thin, all of which were light blue, centered on the sky above the intermediate device, and radiated to the surroundings like a huge blue chrysanthemum. In this radial pipeline, about one-third of the thick pipelines are continuously glowing, and it is these continuously glowing pipelines that illuminate this large room. obviously. It's these constantly glowing power lines that continue to provide magic for the Ministry of Magic's floo network or protective magic, lights and other facilities.

And there are some thin pipes that flicker from time to time, which should belong to those magics that are used intermittently, such as the long-distance connection between Aurors and the like. The whole pattern has a magical quality that attracts people to keep watching... Fortunately, both of them are closed-brain teachers.

The structure of the entire energy supply room can be summed up: a huge room. A large glowing tree-like object in the middle supports the ceiling, the trunk and branches are also glowing, and a dazzling and huge glowing crystal is inlaid at the root of the tree.

"Uh—" Lockhart stood up with difficulty, walked under the big tree, and protected his eyes with a layer of light filtering. Quietly looked at the big blue crystal-like thing inlaid in the frame.

"This is the source of energy for the entire Ministry of Magic..." Scrimgeour also came over at this time, introducing to Lockhart what he knew. "It is unknown how this piece came from or who made it. It has been used for more than two hundred years without seeing its energy depletion. It is said to be a magical crystal that has the ability to automatically collect free magic elements within a certain range - that is, Said, as long as the speed of consuming mana is less than the speed at which it absorbs mana. It is an inexhaustible magic crystal. Of course, there is another way of saying it. It fell from the sky and is a gift from God. The function of continuously extracting energy..."

"No matter which statement is true, for us, it can't be destroyed." Lockhart said, took out his wand and attacked the device. When it was about to hit the crystal, it was surrounded by A protective layer emerging from the frame blocked it.

"No, as far as my attack just now, I think this thing can be destroyed, as long as there are dozens or hundreds of wizards..."

"What you just attacked is the frame that supports it. The function of this frame is to fix the line that transmits energy, not to protect the energy supply device." Lockhart pointed to the large blue crystal surrounded by the frame and said: "The core thing There should be another layer of protection, powered directly by itself, and when attacked, it will cut off the energy supply to the outside world and give priority to protecting itself - I dare say, even after the end of the world, this crystal will be intact continue to exist.”

"Then how do we—"

"What we're going to destroy is the external frame, not the power supply system itself. Even if we had the ability to destroy it, I wouldn't do it." Scrimgeour seemed to know what Lockhart was going to ask. "Because if we destroy this thing, then our harm to the wizarding world will be far greater than our contribution, then our war against the mysterious man will really become a rebellion against the magical world. And if we really do this If things are destroyed, the resulting movement may spread to half of Britain, and we will kill more Muggles than soldiers died in World War II."

"Well, well, then think about how to destroy these power lines." Lockhart pouted, "If we still have forty Aurors, there is still a possibility..."

"We can't infiltrate forty people at once." Scrimgeour stroked the stubble on his chin, "If we have the ability, we can directly infiltrate everyone, and then directly occupy the Ministry of Magic and rely on the defense of the Ministry of Magic. Magic is enough to fight against the mysterious man... and forty people may not be enough, although the defensive magic on the frame is not strong, it has the same level of protection as the ordinary red-hearted loyalty spell."

"Damn, I'll try again!" Lockhart raised the elder's wand in disbelief, wanting to test how strong the frame's protection was, "Broken!"

The magic power was poured into the Elder Wand, and an amazingly powerful piercing spell was shot towards the outermost protective layer of the energy supply device. The moment it was blocked, a dazzling white light burst out - and then triggered the strongest defense on it. intrusion mechanism.

The entire device has a full second of time to cut off the external energy supply, and convert this part of the energy into energy for counterattack. A surging mental shock erupts from the device, instantly knocking out all life in this room.

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where is this?

Lockhart got up from the ground in a daze. He had just fallen off the swing and fell into the sand pit. A girl hurried over and helped him up.

"Does it hurt?"

"It hurts!" Lockhart yelled. "You're pushing too hard!"

"Sorry, rub it for you, I won't do it next time." Kristen Lockhart said with a smile, rubbing his butt. "Okay, now it's your turn to push me, hurry up..."

Kristen sat happily on the swing, looking at him expectantly, Lockhart reluctantly walked behind her sister and started pushing her on the swing...

"Why are you heavier than me, girl!"

"I'm one year older than you, what's the point!" Christine urged angrily, "Stop talking nonsense, use some force..."

Lockhart obediently increased the force in his hands and swung her sister into the air, and she giggled happily...

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——(To be continued)