Hogwarts: Me? Fight Voldemort?

The wall hadn't been breached. Through the moonlight streaming in through the window, Jimmy saw a monster with a bull's head, an ape's face, a bear's back, and goat's hooves. It was ragged, its foul-smelling hair matted together, so ugly and abstract that it didn't seem like a normal creature.

He uttered words that sounded like he wanted to devour someone, peeking out from between his bared fangs, and his breath smelled like he hadn't brushed his teeth in dozens of days.

On that monkey-like face was an expression of rage and hatred, all the wrinkles converging in one direction, squeezing out those messy, fine, sharp teeth.

I've found you!

After days of traveling, Lockhart finally met Jimmy, and only one crazy thought filled his mind: kill him!

Let Jimmy experience the despair he felt back then!

"Professor Lockhart?" Jimmy clicked his tongue, looking at Lockhart's current inhuman appearance. "Did you sacrifice your soul to some demon?"

Lockhart is now like a Frankenstein's monster, with all the elements except for the lack of wings. Could it be that a demon was sealed in an ancient magical ruin?

"Roar!" The only response he received was Lockhart's massive claws slashing down.

Jimmy, ever vigilant, jumped around and then sprinted towards the girls' restroom on the second floor.

During the conversation, he cast a silent slide spell on the floor beneath his feet.

Lockhart stepped on it with his goat hoof, doing a split, and his claw missed its mark.

Lockhart roared angrily as he scrambled to his feet, his body sprawling on the ground as he frantically pawed at the earth with the sharpness of his claws.

This posture made him look even less human, and Jimmy quickened his pace when he turned around and saw it.

Fortunately, the staircase he chose was close to the girls' restroom. He sprinted less than twenty meters before turning around and diving into the restroom. Lockhart, on the other hand, couldn't stop and stretched out his claws to grab the door frame of the restroom.

"I'm going to kill you!!!"

The door frame was cracked by the immense force, and Lockhart rushed into the bathroom like a maddened beast.

He couldn't tell if it was a trap or not. When he saw Jimmy jump into the large hole in the middle of the sink, he jumped in without thinking.

Jimmy, who had jumped into the hole, slid between the huge pipe walls, then turned back and yelled at Lockhart, "Lockhart! You bastard! I kindly helped you run the Gilderoy Lockhart hair care line, and instead of being grateful, you actually tried to kill me?!"

"You stole my recipe, you got me thrown into Azkaban! I'm going to kill you!"

Lockhart, in his beast form, had no brains for hurling insults; all he muttered were clumsy imitations of the Great Western King, nothing but killing.

"You know in your heart who plagiarized whom. You're a criminal, so where do you get the nerve to accuse me of plagiarizing your formula? Your garbage shampoo, even if you had another twenty years, you still wouldn't be able to improve it into a premium shampoo like the one in my shop!"

Jimmy didn't care whether he could understand or not; he was determined to trample all his pride underfoot and deliver the ultimate insult!

Chapter 160 Can we really help?

In the corner of the girls' restroom above the pipe, Hermione, Harry, Ron, and Neville lifted their Invisibility Cloaks and peered into the dark hole.

Jimmy's cursing and Lockhart's roars echoed from the deep underground cave. At first, the sounds were relatively clear as they traveled through the pipes, but they gradually faded away.

The four of them had witnessed the entire process of Jimmy and Lockhart jumping into the pipe. Unlike the brainless Lockhart, they were not blind to such an obvious seduction.

This makes Jimmy's purpose clear: he lured Lockhart down there to deal with him.

"Should we go in?" Hermione, who was lying by the cave entrance, was torn.

If Jimmy had planned everything, their reckless entry and disruption would not only endanger him, but also others.

Now she was undecided and looked at the others.

At this stage, Harry, Ron, and Neville are all reckless and impulsive.

Ron said, "Why not? We're here to help Jimmy, aren't we?"

"What if Jimmy is in danger down there?" Neville asked.

Although Harry hadn't thought that far ahead, he knew he wasn't as smart as Hermione, so he asked, "Is there a problem?"

Hermione covered her forehead, sighed, and voiced her concerns.

Upon hearing this, all three frowned, at a loss for what to do.

Just then, a girl's voice came from the doorway.

“Harry? Hermione? I just heard Jimmy’s voice coming this way…”

The group was startled and turned around to see, by the faint moonlight, a girl with blonde hair and a large papaya-shaped head.

“Malfoy…” Harry was still a little unaccustomed to Draco’s change, so he nodded and said no more.

Draco was slightly saddened to see that Harry still didn't seem interested in her, but she was more worried about Jimmy than anything else.

Knowing she wasn't in Gryffindor and Hermione couldn't take her with her, she listened for any sounds outside the Slytherin common room.

Jimmy's howl was heard throughout half the castle, and she rushed over immediately.

Jimmy was his beloved friend and family member; he was the one who opened his eyes to the world. Draco, the young girl, could not possibly stand by and watch Jimmy be murdered.

She took small, quick steps to the edge of the large pit next to the washbasin and stood there like the others, peering inside.

“He took Lockhart inside, and we’re wondering whether we should go down,” Hermione repeated her concerns to Draco.

This was indeed a big problem, and while they were still struggling with it, Neville had already stood up.

"I'm going down!" He said like a soldier resolutely carrying out a wrong order. "I can't leave Jimmy alone. If he encounters danger inside, and I don't help him because I'm worried about ruining his plans, I'll regret it even more! I'm going down!"

Having said that, Neville jumped down without a second thought, giving no one a chance to think or object, and resolutely disappeared into the dark cave where nothing could be seen.

Harry stood up as well, his eyes blazing with determination as he looked at Hermione. "Neville is right, we can't just sit here and do nothing!"

After saying that, he resolutely jumped down.

The third was Ron. He hesitated a bit before jumping, his legs were trembling, but he still jumped.

Draco couldn't just watch Jimmy take the risk, especially since Harry had gone down too. "I'm going down too..."

"Why do you all think I'm too scared to go down!" Hermione jumped down before Draco, grinding her teeth in annoyance. The boys seemed to be underestimating her.

Did you say those things to question my relationship with Jimmy?

Shortly after falling, the group clung to the pipe wall and slid down the curve for about fifty or sixty meters before finally landing at a sewer junction where the ground was littered with rodent skeletons.

Neville had already approached the only cave entrance, and from where the torches were burning, he could faintly hear Jimmy and Lockhart talking.

Harry and Ron, brushing the dust off themselves, put their index fingers to their lips at the two who followed them, then crept stealthily behind Neville toward the direction of the sound.

We passed through a cave-like area and crossed an open, circular steel gate to enter the drainage pipes.

In a short while, the light and sound coming from ahead became clearer.

“I discovered you were targeting me during my first week of school. I’m curious what you got at Göbekli Tepe?” That was Jimmy’s voice.

"You must not have read any of my books. Is this the arrogance of a genius?!"

Another sound, like muffled thunder, echoed from the hall beneath the pipes; it was Lockhart's.

Neville heard Jimmy's voice and was about to run out to help when Hermione, who was rushing over, pulled him back in time, whispering, "Wait, let's put on the invisibility cloak and help Jimmy when he's in danger!"

Leaving aside the fact that they jumped down, why did they run straight out here? Couldn't they have observed the situation first?

Fortunately, Harry didn't carelessly discard their family's treasures. Upon hearing Hermione's words, he immediately took out the Invisibility Cloak and covered everyone's heads.

The five then carefully walked to the pipe, exposing only their upper bodies, and looked into the real Chamber of Secrets of Slytherin.

The secret chamber is very large, decorated in a dark and damp style that suits snakes. On both sides of the stone wall are two rows of huge dark green snake head sculptures, and in the middle is a brick and stone path about eight meters wide.

The road stretched all the way to the end, where there was a semi-circular space with a stone face that looked a bit like an old monkey embedded in the stone wall.

That was a statue of Slytherin, one of the four founders of Hogwarts, looking down at Jimmy and Lockhart, who were facing off before him, like a giant.

Jimmy, whom Hermione and the others were concerned about, stood under the statue, talking to Lockhart, who had regained his senses, to buy time.

How did Lockhart regain his sanity?

This was all caused by Jimmy's curse; when he ran into the secret chamber, he turned back and cast a Muggle-Changing Curse on Lockhart.

Good news, the curse has worked!

The bad news is that Lockhart's mind has returned to normal, but his body is still in that monstrous form.

This means Jimmy is really going to fight a berserker with both strength and agility at A rank.

Jimmy certainly wouldn't go head-to-head with Lockhart, abandoning all his preparations and fighting like a brute.

He's not that stupid.

Now that Lockhart has regained his senses, let's stall for time and wait for Hagrid to bring the professor to the rescue.

Freed from the effects of magic, Lockhart's intelligence returned to its former glory, and he grinned maliciously on his monkey-like face. "Heh heh, you can't imagine what power I gained there! It's all because of you!"

"What does this have to do with me!" Jimmy, a seasoned nonstick pan, denied it without even thinking.

After all, Lockhart was still at school doing nothing when he wrote the book, so it's really something to spew nonsense with your mouth!

Lockhart then entered the villain's usual explanation mode: "Because of your Memory Charm, I had to travel all over the world for three months to fill in the blanks in the memories of those I had cast the Forget Charm on."

And that's why I gained my current power at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey... None of this would have happened if it weren't for you..."

Chapter 161 The Blocked Road

"Then you should thank me even more! Although you are now horribly ugly, you have gained power!"

Jimmy, calculating that the time was almost up, began to unleash his full power, "Voldemort has even abandoned all sense of shame for power, turning into a noseless octopus, you..."

puff...

Jimmy and Lockhart both looked in confusion toward the pipe leading to the secret room, as if they had just heard someone laughing.

But there was nothing there, and even with his Golden Eyes Spell, Jimmy couldn't find anything unusual.

The five people hiding behind the pipe wall covered their mouths tightly, not daring to look up.

Just then, a rumbling vibration and Hagrid's shouts suddenly came from behind the pipe.

"Jimmy! Please, please, nothing bad will happen!"

Upon hearing Hagrid's voice, Lockhart instantly realized he had fallen into a trap, his reason clouded by anger: "Cunning Blaine!"

Its massive body slammed into the ground, crashing into Jimmy like a truck.

With lightning-fast reflexes, Jimmy pulled a handful of pebbles from his pocket and threw them at Lockhart. With a wave of his wand, the pebbles transformed into sharp barbed wire.

This is the most inhumane application of shapeshifting that Jimmy could think of.