Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

He first nodded politely to Lockhart, then waved to Draco and took him away from the place where many people gathered.

"You don't look very well. What happened?" Lycos asked at a hidden corner of the corridor.

"I..." Draco opened his mouth, but no words came out for a long time.

Lycos didn't rush him. He folded his arms, leaned on the railing in the corner of the corridor, and looked at him quietly.

Draco organized his words for a long time. After a while, he finally bit his lip and said with some trembling:

"Dobby just found me and said something happened at home."

"Don't be impatient, tell me slowly." Lycos's eyes narrowed. "What happened?"

He had just suspected that the name ending with "oy" was Malfoy, and immediately Draco said that something happened at home. He felt that it should not be such a coincidence... It is very likely that the harsh Misserbo was talking about was really the Malfoy family.

"I don't know what to say..." Draco shook his head.

It is normal for a young master who has been doing well for more than ten years to lose his composure for a while when he encounters such a big change for the first time.

"Forget it..." Lycos sighed, "Is Dobby still here? Let him tell me directly what happened."

"Yes, it's banging its head against the wall in the dormitory right now," Draco said. "It feels it hasn't protected the Malfoy family well, and is trying to find a way to punish itself..."

Lycos nodded and walked decisively towards the stairs at the end of the corridor.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go."

He walked for a while and found that no one was following him. He turned around and looked at Draco who was standing there and waved.

……

"Dobby... Dobby is an incompetent elf!"

In the Slytherin quad dormitory, a house-elf kept crying and banged its head against the fireplace from time to time.

"Dobby stayed at Hogwarts all the time and forgot to protect his master's safety... Dobby is bad... bad Dobby..."

This was the scene that Lecos saw when he walked into the dormitory.

"Dobby, explain to me in detail what happened." He walked quickly to the fireplace, grabbed the elf who was about to rush into the fireplace again, and asked.

Dobby struggled and tried to continue banging his swollen head against the fireplace, but he could not break free from Lycos's hand.

"Stop bumping!" Draco yelled as he followed in. "Tell me everything you know!"

Draco's eyes were red and he was obviously not in a good mood.

"Okay... okay, little master." Dobby wiped the tears from his eyes as big as tennis balls and said tremblingly.

"Dobby just discovered today, when he was returning from Hogwarts... that he couldn't Apparate back to the manor. This had never happened before. Even at Hogwarts, Dobby could still get in..."

"So Dobby Apparated to a location near the manor, and then tried to walk into the manor from somewhere else... When Dobby got to the manor, he found that although the place looked fine on the surface, Dobby looked particularly suspicious!"

When Dobby said this, tears could not help but flow down his eyes.

"There used to be a lot of peacocks walking around in Malfoy Manor, as well as other beautiful little animals... They were all taken care of by Dobby himself, but when he went there this time, he didn't find any trace of them at all."

"Because of this incident, Dobby was a little more cautious and sprinkled the peacocks' favorite feed outside the manor..."

Draco seemed a little impatient after hearing this: "Get to the point, Dobby!"

"Yes... yes, that's the point." Dobby shook his head sadly. "Logically speaking, the peacocks will definitely come out of the manor as soon as they smell the special feed prepared by the magical animal experts. They are actually very greedy."

"But Dobby waited for a long time, but the peacocks showed no sign of coming out... and the host and hostess never cared about the peacocks, so it's impossible for them to be taken away... This, this can only mean that they are being controlled by someone, or they are dead..."

Lycos frowned slowly.

"Isn't it a bit hasty to judge like this? Could they just be taking a nap?" Although he had already determined that something had happened in the Malfoy family, he needed more concrete evidence.

"No, because the owners have long since strictly regulated the peacocks' daily routines, allowing them to be viewed during the day or used to entertain guests, reflecting the nobility of the manor." Dobby shook his head and said, "Their daily routines have always been very stable."

Dobby seemed to see that Lycos was still unconvinced, so he paused and then continued:

"Master Wizard, you may not know that the various animals in Malfoy Manor have strictly regulated activity times to prevent them from interfering with the lives of their owners."

Lycos glanced back at Draco.

As a result, Draco looked as if it was a matter of course, and was surprised why his roommate had such a strange expression.

Well, an ignorant orphan can't compare to the young master.

Lycos no longer cared about how Draco and his family lived. Instead, he turned his gaze to Dobby again and asked seriously, "So you didn't go into the manor to investigate yourself, right?"

"Yes, Dobby didn't dare to enter the manor..." Dobby started crying again, "Dobby is a cowardly elf..."

Lycos rubbed his brows, feeling helpless about the house-elf's occasional emotional breakdowns.

"Can you please finish what you are saying before you cry?" Draco couldn't stand it anymore and shouted.

Dobby stopped sobbing immediately.

"Although Dobby didn't enter the manor, he did make a test outside the manor." He said tremblingly, "Dobby used a blasting curse to make a loud noise, hoping to attract the attention of others in the manor..."

"Then...then Dobby saw three goblins walking out of the manor together!"

"You mean...fairy?!" Lycos's spirits suddenly perked up.

"Yes, goblins!" Dobby nodded affirmatively. "They're not like the goblins working at Gringotts. They don't wear uniforms... They're all wearing armor or combat uniforms, which don't look like they're from this era."

"Since three goblins have walked out of the manor, Dobby believes that there must be more than three goblins in the manor... Dobby is definitely unable to defeat them, so he can only come to the young master for help..."

After saying this, Dobby sat down on the ground as if he was weak, covering his face with his hands, his thin shoulders twitching constantly.

"But I just received a letter from my father this morning," Draco said somewhat puzzledly. "He didn't say anything unusual in the letter. He even told me to practice Quidditch well and try to win a Quidditch Cup for Slytherin..."

"Let me see the letter." Lycos' eyes moved.

Draco frantically rummaged around on the bed for a while, then pulled out a crumpled piece of parchment from under the quilt.

"Look, this is it." He handed the parchment to Lycos. "This is what my father wrote. I will never mistake it."

Lycos took the letter and studied the sentences carefully.

If it was true as Dobby said, that something happened at Malfoy Manor and it was controlled by a group of goblins... then Lucius Malfoy would not have had the chance to write to Draco.

unless……

Unless the goblins were afraid that the attack on Malfoy Manor would be exposed, they forced Lucius Malfoy to write to his son to prevent Draco from becoming suspicious because he hadn't received any letters from home in a long time.

Thinking of this, Lecos's eyes suddenly fixed.

He was attracted by one sentence in the letter -

"Draco, if you encounter anything strange, go find Professor Snape and hang out more... You know, I gave him a lot of precious potion ingredients. He will protect you."

It seemed like just a casual request, nothing surprising.

But...something strange happened?

What could be so strange about Hogwarts?

No, from Lucius's perspective, very abnormal and strange things did happen in Hogwarts Castle.

Because he put Voldemort's Horcrux diary into Hogwarts, and he knew that the purpose of the diary was to open the Chamber of Secrets and eliminate impure bloodlines!

If we think about it from this perspective, Draco should soon discover something strange happening in the castle...

If Draco had been obedient enough and followed the instructions in the letter to find Snape, and mentioned the friendship between Lucius and Snape... Snape, who was also a core Death Eater, would easily have thought that this strange thing was related to Lucius.

Then Snape is likely to go to Malfoy Manor and ask Lucius for details about the Chamber of Secrets.

Others may not understand it well enough, but Lucius, who is also a core Death Eater, must be very clear about Snape's fighting ability. He believes that Snape can get rid of the goblins in Malfoy Manor by himself.

In this case, things are connected!

Lucius Malfoy didn't expect his son's intelligence to be able to understand anything from the letter. He could only hope that he would be obedient and lead Snape to Malfoy Manor.

However, due to Lycos's interception, Tom Riddle in the diary did not release the basilisk, so those strange things did not happen in Hogwarts...

Fortunately, there is a variable here.

That is Dobby. In order to "rescue" Harry Potter from the castle, Dobby came to Hogwarts Castle whenever he was free and did not stay in Malfoy Manor all the time.

Because of this, the goblins didn't completely control Malfoy Manor, and missed a house-elf, so the flaw was discovered...

"Okay, stop crying, Dobby." Lycos patted Dobby's head. "Perhaps it's a great achievement that you didn't stay in Malfoy Manor."

"Wha...what?" Dobby looked up blankly.

"You didn't stay in Malfoy Manor and weren't caught by the goblins. You gave the Malfoy family a living force to pass on messages." Lycos said, "Isn't that enough? Draco and the others have to thank you."

"Is that really the case?" Dobby was stunned for a moment and turned his gaze to Draco.

Draco said nothing, just nodded silently.

As a result... Dobby cried even harder.

"Dobby... Dobby has been forgiven by his young master." His big tears soaked a large area of ​​the carpet. "Dobby is so touched..."

Looking at the elf crying again, Lycos was completely speechless and turned around and left the dormitory.

Draco followed closely behind.

"Lex, what should we do next?" he asked in a panic, completely at a loss.

"Of course we're going to find the professor." Lycos glanced at him. "A bunch of goblins have taken over Malfoy Manor for some reason. Do you think we can solve this problem just by the two of us?"

"Let's go. If we move quickly enough, Dumbledore shouldn't have left Lockhart's office yet."

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Chapter 146 Goblin Rebellion

When Lecos and Draco hurried back to the third floor of the castle and arrived at Lockhart's office, Dumbledore had just come out of the office and was chatting with Lockhart, who had been waiting outside the door for half a day.

Lockhart's smile looked a little forced, and it was unclear what he heard from Dumbledore.

"Professor Dumbledore, we have something very important to tell you!"

Lycos interrupted their conversation and ran up to them quickly, and Draco followed him breathlessly.

Dumbledore was startled and looked at Lycos with an inquiring look.

"Professor, we may have to go back to the office..." Lecos glanced at Lockhart secretly, then turned to Dumbledore and said, "This matter is not suitable to be discussed outside."

"I see." Dumbledore nodded and turned back to the Defense Against the Dark Arts office he had just left. "Gilderoy, I'm afraid we'll have to borrow your office again."