Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

"It seems quite lively here?"

Lycos had a faint smile on his face and walked to the Gryffindor table as if unintentionally, going straight to the two twins with iconic red hair.

Fred and George held a piece of parchment and a large cowhide bag in their hands respectively. The bags made a crisp sound as they shook their arms.

The two of them were secretly setting up a gambling game in the auditorium while the professor was not around.

"I've been waiting for you, Slytherin guys!" Fred saw Lecos and came up to him happily.

"We're making a bet to see which house will win the Quidditch Cup this academic year," George shouted excitedly. "Want to try it? Aren't you always confident in your team?"

Lycos looked back and forth between the two with interest, then shifted his gaze to the parchment in Fred's hand.

"I can bet with you once, but...how can you guarantee that you won't cheat and steal my money?" He took out two gold coins that he had just squeezed from Draco from his pocket and turned them in his palm like walnuts.

Even though Fred and George had organized many gambling games, most of them were small-scale ones. It was rare to see someone like Lycos betting with gold galleons.

Their eyes lit up, and they thought that the rich Slytherin dog owners were just rich.

"Mr. Slytherin, you should be a freshman, right? It's normal that you haven't heard of us." George showed a confident smile.

Fred followed up immediately: "But if you have heard of our name, you should know that our gambling is a symbol of credibility!"

"As the Hogwarts Pranksters, we promise you that we will never play tricks on you about this kind of thing!"

They both said in unison, their movements and expressions identical almost as if they were looking in a mirror.

"Words are not enough. How are you going to prove that you are the so-called King of Hogwarts Pranks?" asked Lycos.

"How do you want us to prove it?" Fred came over and held one of Lekos's shoulders.

"How about we perform a prank on you right now, so you can see what's going on?" George held Lycos's other shoulder. "It just so happens that we just bought enough dung bombs not long ago."

"Do you dare to play pranks anywhere?" Lycos began to set a trap for them.

"Except for Professor McGonagall's office and the Headmaster's office, of course." Fred shook his head.

Then George added, "That's another price!"

Lycos laughed.

"In that case, let me see your results in the library at nine o'clock tomorrow morning!"

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Chapter 37: Unreasonable Black Magic Talent

As soon as Madam Pince disappeared from behind the large bookshelf, Lycos couldn't wait to open the "Book of Spells" in his hand and turn to the page about the Expelling Spell...

He really wanted to try and see if he could perform the Slug Curse as easily as when he learned it.

The Book of Spells reads:

The Banishing Spell is classified as a curse, used to produce violent explosions and strong impacts, and to cause isolation damage and control effects. Its power is enough to break the ground or walls and smash the objects hit into the walls or into the ground.

"Its spell is... 'Expulso'."

Lycos looked at the words projected from the book and muttered to himself.

From the description of this spell, it can be seen that the definition of curse in the magical world where Lycos lives is not as evil, dark and tyrannical as he has always imagined.

Black magic in a broad sense does not only include evil spells such as the Unforgivable Curses, but also includes other magic based on malicious emotions such as jealousy and anger.

Although the Exorcism Spell is not intended to kill or torture, it is indeed a magic used to harm others and is naturally classified as black magic.

However, it is somewhat strange that the Bombardment Spell is not classified as a Dark Magic spell.

Maybe it's because the Banishing Spell is meant to work on people, while the Exploding Spell is meant to work on buildings...

At the same time, just like the previous water-making spell, a concrete image appeared in front of Lecos.

The wand in the image moved slightly, accompanied by a steady "Expulso" -

A blue light flashed by and disappeared into the pages of the book.

“I don’t see any effect…”

Lycos muttered, and followed the movements in the video to pick up his own wand:

"Expulso!"

A blue light, much brighter than the previous spell demonstration, burst out, extremely dazzling, and disappeared in a flash.

The wand bounced away as if out of control, and the blue light landed squarely on the yellowed pages of the Book of Spells, pushing it out of Lycos's hand and dropping it to the ground with a "pa".

The book lay there open, the words on the pages blown away by the banishing spell, leaving a large blank space in the middle, as if the calm surface of the Black Lake was suddenly hit by a meteorite and a vortex was formed.

"Hiss... what happened to the promise that I could digest all the magic recorded in the book?"

Lycos stared at the scene with wide eyes, thinking that he was in trouble.

Wouldn't Madam Pince kill him if he ruined a book after reading it for just a few minutes?

Fortunately, when Lycos picked up the Book of Spells, he found that the words on it were still slowly recovering, just like the whirlpool in the lake will eventually calm down...

He closed the book and breathed a sigh of relief.

While the book was being repaired, Lycos briefly summarized his magical talent.

He has only above-average talent when it comes to learning serious magic. With a little effort, he might be able to get an excellent grade in the final exam, but he is still a world away from the likes of Voldemort and Dumbledore.

He seemed to have put all his extra talents into the dark arts.

No matter whether it is evil magic recognized by the wizarding world, even if it is just a mischievous slug curse, as long as it has the word "Curse" at the end, he can do it in one go.

Just by watching it once, Lycos can cast those curses perfectly...

In fact, Lecos already had some guesses about his talent in black magic, and in the two weeks since school started, he had gradually figured out some of his own levels.

But he never thought that his talent for dark magic could be so unreasonable!

In this case, there is a lot of room for maneuver...

Lycos walked quickly to the entrance of the restricted area of ​​the library and stuck his head out to look at the scene outside.

The commotion just now seemed to be over.

The outside of the library was in a mess, with all kinds of books scattered all over the floor. Traces of dung bombs were found all over the library, mostly on the chairs and desks, but just avoiding all the books.

The Weasley brothers have always been very tactful when it comes to pranks and will not cause too much damage.

The stinky smell of dung bombs filled my nose. Only a very small number of students were still staying around. They looked to be fifth and seventh graders.

Students in these two years have the most homework in the school because they will be taking both Ordinary and Advanced Wizarding Level exams next year.

Madam Pince and the twins, Fred and George, were also missing.

I don't know whether Madam Pince caught the two naughty kids and sent them to Professor McGonagall's office; or the two naughty kids managed to escape, and Madam Pince is chasing them angrily...

But in Lekos's opinion, Fred and George could not escape.

Regardless of whether Madam Pince could catch them or not, the professors would immediately cast their suspicions on the two habitual offenders.

Under these conditions, no matter how good Fred and George's disguise was, Professor McGonagall only needed to cast a retracing spell in the library to see all the details of the prank scene...

After a second of silence for the twins, Lycos turned around and walked back to the restricted area.

He walked quickly, following his memory of when he came here, searching for the bookshelf he needed one by one.

Soon, Lycos stood in front of two large bookshelves.

The light here seems to be dimmer than in other areas. The surroundings are gloomy. Dark books are crowded on the bookshelves, and some books are even locked in iron cages made of special materials.

From time to time, groans, screams, and roars emanated from these books, adding a somewhat eerie atmosphere to the area.

This is the restricted area within the restricted area——

A repository for books on black magic.

Ever since Lycos discovered his identity as a Death Eater, he has completely lost his sense of security and has been living in anxiety.

Although he could use the powerful, evil and notorious Killing Curse, facing wizards who were much stronger than him in terms of spell-casting experience, magic level and spell-casting speed, the Killing Curse, which required him to recite the entire spell before casting, was obviously not safe.

What's more, if he is discovered by the Ministry of Magic for using the Unforgivable Curse, he will be sentenced to life imprisonment in Azkaban!

Lycos didn't want to be accompanied by Dementors all day long, and end up becoming mentally ill and dying of depression.

Therefore, he really needed a practical protective magic to defend against attacks from others.

The most suitable one should have been armor to protect himself, but Lecos, who had mediocre talent in other types of magic, was unable to master it in the short term.

It was also because of this that he turned his attention to black magic.

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Chapter 38 Fire Shield Protection

"Fifteenth Century Fiery Flame, The Screaming Book, The Spread of Dark Magic..."

Lycos took out the books in front of him one by one and looked through their catalogs, but he couldn't find any books that met his requirements.

Although they are all books related to black magic, most wizards have long been afraid of the dark magic and stay away from this taboo knowledge.

Therefore, there are few books on dark magic included in Hogwarts that directly teach people how to use dark magic.

Most of them are about the development of one or more kinds of black magic, talking about the spread of black magic, or putting a small evil curse in the book to scare the readers, which is boring and uninteresting.

For example, when Lycos opened the "Screaming Book" he had just taken out, a human face suddenly popped out from the pages and screamed loudly at him, which scared him.

Lycos numbly put a book back on the shelf and let out a long sigh.

Considering that Madam Pince might be back at any moment, he had no way of resting and could only speed up his reading, his eyes quickly scanning the names on the spines.

At this moment, Lycos suddenly saw a large blood-red tome leaning against one end of the bookshelf.

A dark aura emanated from it, and the other books stayed away from it, as if they were afraid of being contaminated by it.

"The Most Toxic Magic? This book seems interesting."

Lycos noted its original location, then reached out and took the blood-red tome off the bookshelf.

Just as he opened the cover of "The Most Poisonous Magic", a puff of black smoke suddenly gushed out from the title page, and a chill instantly touched his brow.

Lycos blinked and felt like a little person howling in his head.