Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

Lycos didn't realize it until he stood on the podium. After Lockhart's practical teaching method failed, he figured out a new teaching method, allowing students to personally experience the experiences in those best-selling books -

That's the show!

Lycos was dressed up as a vampire, stiffly, with a pair of cheap wings behind him, and he felt terrible.

"Can I refuse to perform?" he asked.

"No, no, no, you are the best little wizard I personally selected..." Lockhart said, "Your temperament is perfect for playing a vampire, just like me."

As he spoke, he announced it again in the class, fearing that Lycos would run away:

"Now I will play the protagonist of the story, and Lycos will play the vampire... We will present a complete story for everyone!"

Draco: "..."

Forget it, just treat it as a drama class and play with him.

Luckily, before crossing over, Lycos was already an English major at university, and had already taken a drama performance class. This allowed him to let go of himself and forget what shame was...

Lycos forced a smile on his face and began to get into character, playing the vampire in "Traveling with Vampires".

Actually, if you insist, acting is not without its benefits.

Because Lockhart's best-selling books are all true stories and experiences, which he adapted by erasing the memories of other wizards... These stories really contain techniques for defense against the dark arts.

So it’s pretty good to act like this.

……

Chapter 133: Fountain of Good Luck

Before this, Lycos had never thought that a guy like him who was too lazy to even buy the Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks would become Lockhart's favorite student.

Of course, perhaps he couldn't be called the favorite student of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but rather the favorite student of the Drama Performance class...

"Lex, you did really well in today's class!"

When the melodious bell rang for the end of get out of class, Lockhart, standing on the podium, gave a lingering smile and gave Lecos a thumbs up.

"You've already portrayed the essence of my legendary deeds to the best of seven points. If you could pay a little more attention to detail, perhaps you could perfectly recreate 'Traveling with Vampires'!"

"That's all thanks to your teachings." Lycos chuckled softly, saying politely, "I've benefited a lot from the lessons during this period."

It took more than a month for Lockhart to finally lead a group of young wizards to act out the plot of the book "Sailing with Vampires" from beginning to end, with himself as the protagonist.

The most important supporting role, the vampire, is played by Lecos.

The rest of the little wizards were also assigned some minor roles, and some little wizards without roles had to hold props and act as background boards...

In short, no one can be idle.

Near the podium where a space had been cleared, the other little wizards who were called up to play supporting roles all had awkward and self-conscious expressions on their faces.

They were very impressed by the fact that Lycos could deliver such awkward lines so vividly, and even share the same stage with Lockhart, who was flamboyant to the core...

Although this acting class seemed quite awkward, Lecos was not lying. He had indeed gained a lot of knowledge about Defense Against the Dark Arts in the past month since school started.

After all, Lockhart's books were based on the real memories of other outstanding wizards, and he could naturally learn something from the performances about how they dealt with danger.

"Lex, don't you feel embarrassed?" A little wizard came over and asked quietly beside Lecos.

In class, Draco stood at the podium holding a bunch of water plants, pretending they were plants from the Rhine River... The moment the bell rang, he immediately threw the water plants aside, fearing that others would see him like this.

"Relax, there's nothing embarrassing about this." Lycos chuckled. "Lockhart is the seventh-year Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He must have led everyone in a performance of 'Sailing with Vampires'..."

"Since we've all performed before, we're all starting from the same starting line. No one should laugh at anyone else."

"But you're different!" Draco retorted.

"We can just lift a small prop and it's considered a performance, but you still have to memorize the lines, do the movements, and even improvise with Lockhart... Don't you feel embarrassed?"

Lycos took off the fake wings hanging on his back and threw them aside.

"It's okay. It's just role-playing, isn't it? Why do you think it's such a big deal?" He asked in surprise, "Isn't there a profession in the wizarding world that specializes in drama?"

"Yes." A strand of glittering golden hair suddenly appeared beside Lycos. "There is a magical and dramatic academy in England, and Professor Herbert Beery teaches there."

"Professor Herbert Beery?" Lacos was a little confused. He had never heard of this name.

"He's Professor Sprout's predecessor in Herbology," Cassandra added. "He's always loved drama and even started a drama club at Hogwarts..."

"However, due to an accident, the club was completely closed down, and he chose to retire."

"How do you know so much?" Lycos looked at her in surprise. "That must have been going on for decades before Professor Sprout joined the company, right?"

"Didn't I tell you?" Cassandra smiled faintly, "I'm quite interested in flowers and plants, so I've also learned a little more about herbal medicine."

"So... what kind of accident caused the previous principal to shut down the drama club?" Lycos asked, somewhat puzzled. "How could a drama performance be dangerous?"

"Ahem!" Following a loud cough, an unshaven, rugged-looking old man walked in and waved to Lycos and the others, "Class is dismissed! Stop discussing this kind of thing here!"

He looked very strange, with rough scars all over his body. Three of his limbs were fitted with wooden prosthetic arms and legs, leaving only one arm and half a leg intact.

After the old man drove away Lycos and the others, he walked up the stairs in front of the classroom with his only intact arm and a crutch, and walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

Lycos and his friends left the classroom and looked at each other in the corridor.

"Isn't that Professor Kettleburn, who teaches Care of Magical Creatures? What is he looking for Lockhart for?" Draco asked.

Care of Magical Creatures is an elective course that can only be taken in the third year, so second-year students Lecos and Draco are not familiar with the professor.

"I'm not sure." Lycos shook his head. "Maybe he hasn't realized Lockhart's true identity yet and wants this Defense Against the Dark Arts expert to help him a little."

"The thing is, if he wants Lockhart's help, then he should just help. Why did he kick us out of the classroom?" Draco said indignantly. "We're far away from Lockhart's office door. How did we bother him?"

"Because the closure of the drama club is related to Professor Kettleburn." Cassandra turned her head and glanced at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

After fighting side by side with Lecos on the first day of school, she seemed to like laughing more and more... In front of Lecos, her previous cold and aloof temperament disappeared almost completely, and she didn't know why.

"Regarding Professor Kettleburn..." Lycos seemed to suddenly remember something. "Cassandra, are you referring to the incident during the performance of 'The Fountain of Good Luck'?"

Cassandra's lips curled slightly and she nodded with interest.

"Then I understand. The closure of the drama club made sense." Lycos shook his head. "The impact of that accident was too great."

"Wait... what are you talking about?"

Draco looked from Lycos to Cassandra and felt like he didn't understand anything.

He felt that he suddenly understood Crabbe and Goyle's feelings... His mind was a mess and he could only smile foolishly and agree.

"Don't you know? Professor Kettleburn was given sixty-two detentions during his time at the school," Lycos said. "The most serious of these was the incident during the performance of 'The Fountain of Good Luck'."

"I seem to have some impression..." Draco was stunned.

"I remember hearing Hagrid tell me about it last year - at that time, Kettleburn was responsible for providing a giant 'earthworm' for the pantomime, so he got a fire ash snake and used the expansion spell to make the fire ash snake many times larger..."

"Then, the ash snake suddenly exploded on the stage, filling the entire auditorium with smoke and debris from the stage set... Furthermore, the ash snake laid many giant snake eggs at the foot of the set, which eventually set the auditorium floor on fire."

"It seemed like there were quite a few casualties. Even the professor who was hosting the drama performance was injured in the chaos."

Lycos read out the tragic history of Hogwarts.

"Well, the professor who was hosting the drama performance at the time was Professor Herbert Beery." Cassandra nodded. "After that incident, Professor Beery planned to retire."

Draco thought about that image and shuddered.

"So, the reason we haven't been exposed to theatrical performances is because of Professor Kettleburn?" he asked.

"That's understandable," Lycos said. "No wonder you found the performance awkward. It turns out you've never seen a drama club before..."

As he said this, Lycos suddenly thought of something.

In his first year, in order to protect Snape from getting information about the three-headed dog Fluffy from Hagrid, he asked Voldemort to get him a fire ash snake to get close to Hagrid.

It was also at that time that Hagrid told the story of the love-hate relationship between Professor Kettleburn and the Fire Gray Snake.

But it was also that time that Lycos saw with his own eyes that for Voldemort, who was proficient in Parseltongue and skilled in using magical fire, cultivating a fire ash snake was as easy as breathing.

It seems that the play "The Fountain of Good Luck" was performed more than 60 years ago?

Lycos's eyebrows suddenly frowned together.

Could it be that……

……

After finishing the morning classes, Lycos rushed to the eighth floor of the main tower and entered the Room of Requirement without even having time to eat.

As soon as he entered the Room of Requirement, he opened Tom Riddle's diary.

"Were you present at the incident at the Fountain of Good Luck over sixty years ago?"

Lycos dipped the ink and quickly wrote a line on the page of the diary.

"I know what you want to ask." Tom Riddle's handwriting quickly emerged from the paper. "Yes, I did it. There's nothing wrong with admitting it."

He really did it...

Lycos's brows were tightly furrowed.

"Would you mind telling me why you did that?" he continued writing. "I don't think you're the type to do things just to cause trouble... What was your purpose at the time?"

"Lex, I'm not as lucky as you. I didn't learn all the black magic skills before entering school." Riddle also wrote, "I didn't know anything at the time. I could only use magic by instinct..."

"You're also a Slytherin from an orphanage, so you should understand how I feel... Slytherins are extremely xenophobic and worship bloodlines. Of course, they don't like outsiders like me from the Muggle world."

"So you detonated the Fire Ash Snake to harm those who bullied you?" asked Lycos.

"No, I didn't intend to let them get hurt. That's too low-class." Tom Riddle's handwriting became sharp. "I just used that fire ash snake to tell them that I'm not someone to be trifled with!"

Lycos fell silent.

From Tom Riddle's perspective, he was indeed a victim, bullied by the pure-bloods of Slytherin, and could only retaliate in his own way...

However, from the perspective of the young wizards, they were watching a performance in the auditorium, but suddenly encountered a serious explosion. Some were injured, some were frightened... They would never forgive the culprit of this incident.

Lycos was curious.

What is the difference between the motivation for detonating the Fire Ash Snake and the idea of ​​releasing the Basilisk?

"Detonating the Fire Ash Snake was for self-preservation, and releasing the Basilisk was to carry on Slytherin's will."

This is what Riddle said to Lycos in his diary.

As if noticing Lycos's doubts, Riddle continued to write the following sentence in the notebook: