Harry Potter’s Defense Professor

"Good idea, get close to the manor first, and I'll see if there is any alarm magic." Lockhart was invisible, and quietly approached the fence with a few people. Completely incomprehensible. "There are traces of magic on the fence, wait a minute."

He leaned against the wall and carefully checked the magic on the wall: "It's just a Muggle exorcism spell, I'll go in and see, you wait for me."

"Be careful," Hermione whispered.

Lockhart nodded, even though she knew she couldn't see her too. After casting a levitation spell on himself, he climbed over the wall with ease. After landing, he didn't dare to move a step. The entire manor was surrounded by Muggle Banishing Charms. It was a little difficult to distinguish whether there was any other alarm magic. He moved forward step by step along the path, carefully sensing the surroundings. changes in magic density.

After walking dozens of steps, I didn't find any traces of alarm magic. I can't go any further. It's too close to the range of the house's Crimson Loyalty Charm. People in the house may look out. , and the Crimson Loyalty Charm has its own alarm function, which is directly connected to the logistics department of the Ministry of Magic.

He quietly backed away, still climbing over the wall at the same spot.

"Where are the people?" The other four were nowhere to be seen.

"This way."

"Walk……"

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After returning to camp, Lockhart described what he had seen to several people: "There is no alarm magic other than the Muggle Repelling Charm and the Faithful Charm."

"It's easy to understand that it's very troublesome to set alarm magic in the yard of your own house. It's usually to scare yourself. You must know that the protection of the Brave Loyalty Charm is almost perfect." Black said, "So tomorrow we can go to squat in Is there a target waiting in the yard?"

"Well, start squatting tomorrow. If the target will come out to take care of the garden or something, just do it." Lockhart said.

"Aren't they going to have servants or something, or house-elves?"

"A house with the Faithful Charm cannot have servants, because an insider must be added inexplicably. It is possible for house-elves, but house-elves are almost immune to Imperius Curse and Veritaserum... these things are aimed at It was developed by a wizard, and it can't be a secrecy keeper, so it can't bring us into the Fierce Loyalty Charm."

"Let's see the situation tomorrow. I don't believe they're all squatting in the house and can't come out!"

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It's a pity that it backfired: the people of the Manjik family really couldn't get out of the house,

Five people were squatting in their yard, and all day long they could only see a tiny house-elf coming out to clean up the huge manor or something... but not a single figure came out of the clearing that was shrouded in the Faithful Charm. .

They were close to getting caught a few times - house-elves are too sensitive to fluctuations in magic.

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"It seems that all their outings are done by the fireplace." Hermione said helplessly, with a hint of lightness. "Let's forget it. We can't go to the Ministry of Magic to assassinate this 'Auror Director'."

"Christmas is a little over a week away, there's no way they won't buy anything, maybe we can squat in Diagon Alley?" Blake tried.

"No way, any wizard gathering place is now their focus area." Albert discouraged, "And to assassinate a high-level Death Eater in Diagon Alley, once anyone passing by is hostile or just wants to get a reward Jin's wizards are entangled, and they will be in crisis."

"Well, I promise not to take pointless adventures again. It's important to avenge the dead, but you should still love the living more." Lockhart nodded. "I'm betting now that they'll go to the nearby muggle city to buy things, whether they're Apparating or flying over with a broom, they'll have to get out of Faithful Charm first, and we'll squat until Christmas, if we don't have a chance , let's honestly find a way to destroy the Horcrux, okay?"

"Okay, I don't care," Black said.

The other three younger ones naturally had no objection. Naturally, they seemed to listen to Lockhart for everything.

Christmas is approaching day by day. The snow was pouring down, and Lockhart suspected that no one would be able to find them even without any protection and concealment spells - the tent was covered with snow, and the whole was half buried under the snow, and woke up every morning. They all worry about whether the tent exit will be blocked by snow.

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It is impossible for five people to squat and guard together. Together, the two children or an adult, with invisibility cloaks, guarded the snow-covered Manjik family manor. Now it's more troublesome to hide your presence: the snow can leave footprints on people who walk by, and they'll have to use a wand to clear the traces, and of course it's best to squat in one place and not move.

In order not to be discovered, they didn't even dare to use the Warming Charm when they were squatting at the Manjik's manor. Everyone wore thick clothes to perform their own tasks.

It is worth mentioning that. Albert, the sunshine boy, seemed to be the least affected by the Horcrux. He kept the Horcrux almost half of the time, and the other four took care of the other half.

The strenuous squatting for several days was not worthless. They finally waited for the moment when the target left the range of the Scarlet Loyalty Charm. Two people in robes appeared out of nowhere from the open space shrouded in the Scarlet Loyalty Charm and stepped on the snow-covered area. on the steps, then Apparated away with a crisp pop.

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The stalker immediately notified the others through a note, and after a while, all five of them gathered in the manor again.

"Where did they Apparate away?"

"Well, over there, there are still a few footprints left." Albert saw the marks sharply: "At the top of the steps, it should be the junction between the Cleavage Loyalty Charm and the ordinary world outside."

That's right, on the top level of the steps, there are a few messy footprints, and further inside they are hidden by the Brave Loyalty Charm.

"Wait for them to come back directly on the steps?" Black asked.

"Just to be on the safe side, I think we should watch it again, they won't necessarily Apparate to the front steps of the house, maybe Apparition to the back door or the side door or something, and if we guess wrong, then they come back When we find our way, the whole operation will fail and we will be in danger." Hermione always liked the safest option.

"What if they don't come out again after they go out this time?" Lockhart asked.

"There are still two days until Christmas, they should be going to buy something unique to the Muggle world..." Albert said, "According to my own family's experience, it is definitely not enough to buy at one time, tomorrow they will definitely Will go out one more time and may consider giving up on the first action."

"Okay, let's do it safely." If it wasn't for him to make the final decision, Lockhart might refute it, but he is the leader now, and he has the right to make decisions, but he can no longer act according to his own ideas. . In his impression, the matter of taking action without discussing it with others has hardly gone smoothly. If he knew what role Barty Jr. was playing in Hogwarts at that time, instead of blindly looking for it, he consulted with Dumbledore and the others, perhaps the entire history would have to be rewritten.

Knowing the plot, but still ended up like this, and even killed a lot of Auror colleagues who should have surrendered after Scrimgeour's death, Daowishi, Gardwin, Joe... He was awakened by violent regret more than once in his sleep .

This must never happen again, no more living friends can die, Blake, Snape, Scrimgeour... not one of them!

"Squat until they come back," Lockhart said firmly.

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——(To be continued.)