Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

Draco doubtfully opened the letter Hogwarts sent him and looked at the list of textbooks required for the second year.

"'Breaking with a Ghost Girl', 'Walking with Ghouls', 'Walking with Trolls'..." Draco opened his mouth in disbelief. "No, why? Why do we have to buy a bunch of Lockhart novels as Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks?"

Before he could finish his words, the fat lady next to him became unhappy again.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Mr. Lockhart's books are the essence of Defense Against the Dark Arts. You can learn so much from them!" she shouted. "I think you just don't know how to appreciate your blessings!"

Draco shut his mouth.

He also seemed to realize that it was pointless to communicate with this group of fanatical fans.

Lycos also fell silent and followed the team silently, looking at the wizards around him, trying to find the purpose of his visit to Flourish and Blotts.

That's right, he obviously didn't come to Flourish and Blotts to buy books by the great liar Gilderoy Lockhart, but to continue a plan of his own...

Suddenly, Lycos's eyes lit up.

He saw a group of red-haired little wizards who were almost at the front of the line.

Among them was a red-haired, shy little witch standing behind two tall red-haired twins, holding a brand new little cauldron in her arms...

"Ladies, be quiet...no crowds...mind the books..."

A tired-looking wizard stood at the door of the bookstore and kept persuading the fanatical aunts.

However, his persuasion was of no use at all, as the crowd continued to rush into the bookstore vigorously...

Gradually, as the team moved forward, Lycos and Draco also saw Gilderoy Lockhart in the store.

A young, blond wizard sat behind a desk, surrounded by large pictures of himself, all of whose faces winked at the crowd, flashing dazzling white teeth.

Gilderoy Lockhart wore a blue robe the same color as the forget-me-nots, which matched his blue eyes perfectly. His pointed wizard hat was playfully tilted on his curly hair, creating a shape that just framed his profile.

A grumpy little man held up a large black camera and jumped back and forth taking pictures.

It seems the photographer stepped on a red-haired customer and a minor conflict occurred.

Before Lycos and Draco could react, they saw Gilderoy Lockhart smile excitedly and drag a young wizard from the crowd onto the stage.

"Am I seeing right? Isn't that Potter?" Draco's mouth twitched.

"Yes, you read that right." Lycos nodded and turned to look at Draco. "By the way, Draco, should you go and cause trouble for Potter next?"

Lycos put on a provocative smile, waiting for Draco to go up and cause trouble...

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Chapter 108 A fight broke out in the street

"Am I that kind of person?" Draco felt a little embarrassed.

He had indeed wanted to be sarcastic in front of Harry, but when Lecos asked this, he gave up the idea of ​​looking for trouble.

"You're that kind of person," Lycos commented seriously. "Think about it, when have you ever met Potter and been able to resist provoking him? The key is that you often get humiliated and I have to come to your rescue..."

"Disappointed? I'd be embarrassed in front of Potter?" Draco jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "Lex, aren't you looking down on me?"

"Then prove it to me!" Lycos smiled provocatively again. "If you don't get humiliated this time, I'll take back what I said."

"Okay, just wait!"

Draco stamped his foot angrily and strode towards Harry Potter, who was being dragged by Lockhart and taking pictures on the platform in front.

Looking at his actions, Lycos nodded with satisfaction.

I can only say that the eldest son of the Malfoy family is still too naive. He will be fooled by any provocation and willingly be used as a gun...

"When young Harry walked into Flourish and Blotts today, he simply wanted to buy a copy of my autobiography... and I was willing to give it to him for free on the spot, to this young man who has made such an outstanding contribution to the wizarding world!"

On the stage, Lockhart was still delivering a passionate speech.

There were continuous flashes of light and rounds of applause from the audience.

"...but he doesn't know that," Lockhart continued, pressing his palm lightly, and shaking Harry with his other hand from time to time, causing his round-framed glasses to slide down to the tip of his nose.

"He will soon get something far more valuable than my humble book, 'The Magic Me'—in fact, he and his classmates will get a real, magical me!"

"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely pleased and proud to announce—"

"This September, I will become the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

The crowd began to scream in surprise and applaud and cheer excitedly.

It seemed that none of them had expected that such a master of Defense Against the Dark Arts who had written countless best-selling books and was awarded the Third Class Order of Merlin would choose to teach at Hogwarts.

As we all know, Hogwarts hasn't had a formal Defense Against the Dark Arts class for many years. The young wizards' Defense Against the Dark Arts class is saved!

In the crowd, only Lycos smacked his lips, feeling that Lockhart was really not afraid of death.

He knew that so many previous Defense Against the Dark Arts professors had met with bad endings, but in order to improve his own reputation, he refused to believe in evil and wanted to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts for a year...

After another long day of taking photos and being interviewed, Harry was finally able to leave the guest of honor table at the book signing event. In his hands was a huge stack of Lockhart's complete works, so heavy that he was a little shaky when he walked.

He finally managed to get out of the spotlight, to the wall, and pour the book Lockhart had just given him into Ginny's brand new cauldron.

Harry said to her vaguely: "These are for you, I will buy some for myself later..."

He didn't really want to use the book signed by Lockhart; it made him feel uncomfortable.

However, before Harry could explain the reason to Ginny, Draco, who had finally seized the opportunity to stir up trouble, walked over first with a mocking smile on his face:

"You must really like this, Potter?"

As soon as Draco saw how popular Harry Potter was, he felt unhappy, and his words were sour, as if he had just eaten a whole lemon.

"The famous Harry Potter," Malfoy said with a sly curl of his lip, "so famous that even his entry into a bookshop has to be front-page news."

"Don't talk nonsense, he doesn't want that!" The little red-haired witch stood next to Harry and glared at Draco.

Draco became even more excited when he saw Ginny.

"Oh, Potter, you got a girlfriend!" Malfoy drawled teasingly. "So you can hide behind women, right?"

Ginny's face flushed red, turning the same color as her hair.

At this time, Ron and Hermione also noticed something was wrong and squeezed through the crowd... Each of them was holding a large stack of Lockhart's books.

"Oh, what bad luck, you're here too," Ron looked at Draco with an expression of extreme disgust on his face. "You must be surprised to see Harry at the guest of honor table at the book signing, huh?"

"A little bit, but I was even more surprised... to see you in Flourish and Blotts, Weasley," Draco retorted. "I bet your parents are going to starve for the next month just to buy all that stuff."

This sentence directly hit Ron's soft spot... This set of books by Lockhart is really too expensive!

As the poorest pure-blood family, the Weasleys had little spare money. And with Ginny having to go to school this year, it was naturally difficult for them to afford these books as they had to support five children at once.

The bigger problem was that most of Lockhart's books had been released in the past two years, so there weren't any cheap second-hand books to buy. He had to buy them all first-hand at Flourish and Blotts...

Ron flushed, threw the book into his cauldron, and started to rush towards Draco.

Harry and Hermione grabbed his clothes tightly from behind to prevent him and Draco from fighting in public.

"Ron!" Mr. Weasley saw that the situation here was a little bad, and squeezed over with the red-haired twins, "What are you doing? Everyone here is crazy. Don't stay here, let's get out quickly..."

At this moment, Lycos, who had been watching the show with great interest, suddenly had his eyes light up.

He saw a wizard with long light blond hair draped over his shoulders and holding a cane walk up to Draco.

"Oh, isn't this Arthur Weasley?" The wizard with long light blond hair raised his chin, put his hand on Draco's shoulder, and had the same sneer on his lips as Draco.

It was "my dad" that Draco mentioned from time to time - Lucius Malfoy.

"What a coincidence, Lucius." Mr. Weasley nodded coldly.

"I hear you've been very busy with your official duties lately..." Mr. Malfoy drawled. "So many searches... I suppose they've paid you overtime?"

Lucius Malfoy was also very resentful.

Because there are many dark magic products in his house, many of which are related to Voldemort... and the Ministry of Magic has recently started a large-scale search of these contraband, and the one leading this large-scale search is Arthur Weasley in front of him.

For this reason, Lucius Malfoy had to temporarily sell many of the dark magic products in his home to prevent the Ministry of Magic from discovering any flaws during a raid.

Coincidentally, the most important purpose of Lycos's trip was to obtain one of the black magic products...

"Come, let me see if your life has improved..."

As Lucius spoke, he reached into Ginny's cauldron and pulled out a tattered, second-hand copy of "The Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" from among the shiny new Lockhart books.

"Unfortunately, it seems not."

He curled up the corners of his mouth and clicked his tongue twice.

"You say... what's the point of being a scumbag among pure-blood wizards if you can't even get a good reward?"

Mr. Weasley's face turned even redder than Ron and Ginny's when he was mocked about his financial situation.

"We have very different views on what constitutes wizarding scum, Malfoy," he said coldly, suppressing his anger.

"Yeah……?"

As Lucius spoke, his light grey eyes turned to the side and his gaze fell on the Grangers who were looking anxious beside them - they were Hermione Granger's parents, who were accompanying their daughter to buy school supplies for the new semester.

"Look at the friends you've made, Weasley... I thought your family had fallen as low as it could go."

With a "clang", Ginny's cauldron flew out.

Mr. Weasley lunged at Lucius Malfoy, knocking him into a bookshelf and sending dozens of thick spell books crashing down on top of them.

Fred and George, who were watching the fun, cheered their father up loudly:

"Beat him up, Dad!"

Draco watched his father and Mr. Weasley tussling, and instantly panicked, moving closer to Lex.

"Lycos, what should we do?" he asked in panic. "They have more people than us!"

"Is this what you meant by not getting humiliated?" Lycos spread his hands towards Draco. "No, it seems you're not wrong... It's just that this time it's not you who gets humiliated, it's your father..."

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Chapter 109 Hello, Tom Riddle

"You still have time to make sarcastic remarks? Think of a solution!"

Draco bit his lip nervously, walking back and forth beside Lycos, glancing at the horrific scene in the crowd from time to time.