Harry Potter and the Great Old Ones

Chapter 147 Attack Incident
In the days that followed, just as Tierra had predicted, Gilderoy Lockhart, unable to find an opportunity to target other students, had to turn to Tom Riddle for help.

Tom Riddle was forced to cover up one lie with another, and he would never tell Gilderoy Lockhart, a well-known adult wizard, about the Basilisk.

This is one of Tom Riddle's backup plans to counter Gidrow Lockhart.

Therefore, when Gilderoy Lockhart went mad and tried to harm children from wizarding families, Tom Riddle stopped him in time and had to make up a potion recipe for Gilderoy Lockhart.

According to Tom Riddle, it was a potion that could prolong the time Raphael Movendi's head remained in Gilderoy Lockhart's body. It was actually just a regular tonic formula, but what was presented to Gilderoy Lockhart by the "Inheritor" was a version of the Tomdler's potion with enhanced side effects.

After drinking the potion, Gilderoy Lockhart's mood clearly improved, and he stopped focusing solely on the Muggle students, instead intensifying his analysis of the ritual magic.

But the attack still happened as planned.

The second person on Tierra's list, Colin Clive, was found by his roommate one morning in early February lying stiff and peacefully in his bed.

Like Tiera, Colinclive was also petrified, suffering the same petrification curse as Tiera.

Colin was then carried to the school hospital by Professor McGonagall and senior student Percy, and Tierra gained another patient.

While Madam Pomfrey and Professor McGonagall were examining Colin Clive, Tyrell, sitting in the underground Slytherin Chamber, used the tentacles of a worm to roll up a basilisk fang and put it into her own body. Tyrell then rolled up an opal ring from the silver plate in front of her and stuffed it into her own body.

Then a wriggling sound came from inside Tiera's body.

The opal ring was expelled from Tiera's body again and fell to the ground—

It contains no dark magic or curses.

Tiera, using the body of a "parasite," doesn't need to sleep or rest, but she still needs to eat—

It wasn't ordinary food, but all sorts of dark magic curses, poisons, and diseases.

In the center of Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, besides a red sofa, there was an old wooden table with silver cutlery that was clearly not a set.

A huge bookshelf, filled with rows of books on black magic and rituals.
A storage cabinet filled with dark magic items; this is Tiera's refrigerator.

There were also messy papers scattered on the wooden table, covered with symbols and formulas.

These were all brought out by Tyella from the Room of Requirement, and with Dobby's help, they were moved to the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin using the two Invisible Extension Boxes.

Tierra settled here and planned to turn it into her own little study room.

The homemade rotary steamer that was originally placed here had long been put away by Tiera. The day before she petrified herself, Tiera used the extract of Typhon flowers to complete the construction of the sixth layer of mental walls.

In other words, Tiera now has almost nothing to refine; it's all about the analysis of rituals and magic.

Therefore, while Gilderoy Lockhart was diligently studying the rituals, Tiera was also intensively absorbing the knowledge from the Necronomicon—

The evolution of dark magic, the anchor of dark magic, and the rituals, magic, and ancient seals related to the Outer Gods in the Necronomicon.

Following the attack on Colin Clive, professors tightened their supervision of students, making it even less likely that Gilderoy Lockhart would target Muggle-born students.

But the attack still happened—in a Charms class at the end of February, Justin Finley, who was practicing the Flash Charm with his wand, suddenly felt something soft and limp on his leg. When he reached out to touch it—

Justin Finley froze on the spot.

Five minutes later, Justin Finley was carried into the school hospital, and Tierra gained another patient.

Justin Finley's petrification in full view of everyone caused great panic among the Hogwarts teachers and students. Even Dumbledore couldn't understand how Justin Finley had been petrified.

The entire Hogwarts was immediately placed under curfew, and all students had to be escorted to and from get out of class by the headmaster of their house.

It was only then that Hermione Granger finally understood the true meaning of the Tierra List—

“The order of the names on the list is the order in which they were attacked!” Hermione almost cried. “Look! Tyella wrote his own name first, and then he was attacked that same day!”

“Then Colin,” Harry continued, “and then Justin… and then…”

"And then there's me..." Hermione hugged Harry and cried, "What...what should I do? I wish Tyrell could be here...sob."

“I hope so too…” Harry said, patting Hermione on the shoulder.

However, the attack did not occur as Hermione had predicted over the next month, which relieved her somewhat.

Until after the Easter holidays, until Hermione had chosen her third-year courses—

Hermione was petrified.

She sat blankly in the last row of the library until Mrs. Pince reminded her to leave when the library closed, only then did she realize that Hermione had been petrified.

After that, the attacks became increasingly rampant, with incidents even occurring where two students were attacked on the same day. Soon, only five of the twenty-six names on the Tierra list were still able to walk freely in Hogwarts.

Lucius Malfoy, with his keen political acumen, wanted to follow the original story and use the serious attack at Hogwarts to coerce and bribe members of the school's board of trustees into joining forces to impeach Dumbledore and expel him from Hogwarts.

However, Tiera learned of this beforehand and stopped it—

The venom that Tierra licked on Lucius Malfoy's face during their first meeting had already formed a cursed worm inside him.

A cursed worm that was born entirely from Tiera.

This allowed Tyella to learn about Lucius Malfoy's thoughts to some extent.

So before Lucius Malfoy could take any action, Tyella wrote a roaring letter in Voldemort's voice, ordering Lucius to find a way to keep Dumbledore trapped in Hogwarts, absolutely not allowing Dumbledore to leave Hogwarts, and to force Lucius Malfoy to believe her through the burning sensation of the Dark Lord's mark.

Lucius Malfoy was forced to abandon his original impeachment plan and instead send an investigation team composed of Ministry of Magic officials and Aurors to the school.

He personally followed up on the matter, spending his days either chatting with Dumbledore or creating endless trouble and obstacles for Dumbledore's work at Hogwarts through "case discussion meetings" and pointless nitpicking.

Under the combined influence of Tierra and Tom Riddle, Gilderoy Lockhart finally completed all the preparations for the ceremony—

(End of this chapter)