Dumbledore sat in the chair, looked at Snape in front of him, stroked his beard, and asked gently.

"Don't let me know which dark wizard did this. If I catch him, I will make him know what it means to live a life worse than death."

Hearing Dumbledore's question, Snape cursed viciously.

He was in a terrible mood.

Received a notification from the goblin this morning.

Last night, the Fiendfyre at Gringotts caused damage to many vaults, and his vault was one of them.

Some of the items inside were damaged to varying degrees.

Now he wished he could cut the dark wizard who sneaked into Gringotts last night into pieces.

Of course, the same goes for the goblins in Gringotts.

This group of goblins, claiming it was an accident, did not intend to compensate him for his losses.

This made Snape very angry.

Dumbledore did not react when he heard Snape's curse. He collected all the information about what happened in Gringotts at the first time.

Of course I know about Snape.

Then.....

"Do you know where the source of the Fiendfyre is?" asked Dumbledore.

"Principal, just tell me where you are. There's no need to beat around the bush." ​​Snape, who was in a bad mood, said calmly.

“If you know who was the person who sneaked into the Dark Wizard last night, tell me and I will make him regret coming into this world.”

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Snape, the Aurors are responsible for arresting people."

"However, I believe you will never guess the source of the fierce fire."

Looking at Snape's frown, he looked somewhat dissatisfied.

Dumbledore said seriously, "It is the Bellatrix vault."

"Bella?" Snape muttered to himself, confused and surprised.

"Yes, that's her." Dumbledore nodded slightly.

Looking at Snape who was lost in thought, Dumbledore suddenly asked, "Snape, no one from the pure-blood family has contacted you recently."

Snape pondered Dumbledore's question for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "No, I haven't been in touch recently."

Then he couldn't help but ask, "Principal, are you saying that this matter is related to the Dark Lord?"

Dumbledore did not answer, but asked an unrelated question: "Has Lockhart behaved in any unusual way recently? You went to the auction with him yesterday, right?"

"Yes, so what? Lockhart has been fine lately." Snape replied dissatisfiedly: "Headmaster, don't change the subject. Tell me, is the matter of Fiendfyre related to the Dark Lord?"

In response to Snape's question, Dumbledore sighed and said slowly: "Bella is the Dark Lord's man and his most loyal subordinate."

"You know what I saw in her vault?"

Then, without waiting for Snape to ask, he said regretfully, "The looted vault, the replica of the Hufflepuff Cup, and this Fiendfyre."

"Obviously, this is definitely related to the Dark Lord."

Having said that, Dumbledore stopped answering, and Snape seemed to be thinking about something, full of confusion.

Is this action an action by the Dark Lord, or an action targeting the Dark Lord?

If it was the Dark Lord's action, then doesn't it mean that the Dark Lord will take action recently?

But this is not certain, because he has not received any relevant news.

And if it is an action against the Dark Lord, then who, or which force, dares to attack the Dark Lord.

After thinking for a while, Snape shook his head slightly. The amount of information was too little to make an effective judgment.

"Headmaster, what do you think?" Snape, who couldn't think of an answer, asked Dumbledore directly: "Do you think it was done by the Dark Lord, or by some other force?"

"I'm not sure either." Dumbledore hesitated, "But I'm more inclined to believe that there are other forces targeting the Dark Lord."

"After all, these traps were completely triggered. If they were the Dark Lord's men, they wouldn't be so stupid."

At the end, Dumbledore was a little hesitant.

Because as far as he knew, there were quite a few idiots among the Death Eaters.

Especially when faced with so much treasure, given their greed, it is possible that they would trigger the trap.

However, in the end, it is likely that other forces have done more.

"Other unknown forces?" Snape muttered to himself. For some reason, Lockhart's figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

A large amount of wealth, unknown magical materials, mysterious magic, large-scale purchase of potions, purchase of house-elves...

It would make more sense if it was owned by a mysterious force.

Shaking his head slightly, Snape suppressed his suspicions in his heart, because he had no evidence to prove what he was thinking.

And he and Lockhart worked so closely together...

Thinking of Lockhart's latest large order and the large amount of unknown magical materials, Snape did not delve into it any further.

Just target the Dark Lord. He wishes the Dark Lord would be besieged by all wizards.

Although he was on Dumbledore's side, he was just a cooperator and not his servant.

Afterwards, Snape chatted with Dumbledore for a while and then said goodbye.

Dumbledore looked at Snape's departing figure, then retracted his gaze and rubbed his temple in distress.

The reason why he mentioned Lockhart just now was because the goblin provided him with a piece of information.

It was Lockhart who took away all the treasures in his vault on the day the Fiendfyre burned. This was such a coincidence.

That was why he asked Snape if Lockhart was attending the auction with him.

If it is because participating in the auction requires spending a large amount of gold galleons, this reason is also reasonable.

.............

Wednesday night, Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

click!

With the sound of a door opening, Harry walked out of the office and headed briskly towards the Gryffindor common room.

Harry was feeling uneasy when he arrived at Lockhart's office on Sunday.

However, as he walked out of the office, his attitude suddenly changed after a conversation with Professor Lockhart.

He had been thinking about how to translate the evil language "Parseltongue" these days, and he even thought he was making a contribution to the entire wizarding world.

When he thought of Professor Lockhart saying that he would write a research paper on Parseltongue in a while, his name would be written on the paper, and it would be published in the top journal in the wizarding world.

Harry felt very excited.

suddenly!

Meow!

Harry, who had just reached the stairs, suddenly spotted a small figure. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was Filch's pet cat, Mrs. Norris.

"Students over there, stop!"

Along with the cat's cry, a figure holding an oil lamp suddenly appeared.

"Filch, this is my application. I just went to Professor Lockhart's office."

Harry raised the note in his hand with some pride.

He had heard Ron say many times that Filch liked to catch little wizards who wandered around at night and punished them by making them clean trophies and mop the floor.

However, this time, he was not wandering at night. To be precise, with the note in his hand, Filch had no reason to arrest him.

"oh....."

Seeing the note in Harry's hand, Filch let out a long tone with some regret.

"Let's go, go back to the common room quickly, and don't give me the chance to catch you again." Filch said viciously.

Harry obviously didn't care about Filch's attitude.

But when he thought of Professor Lockhart's previous instructions, Harry thought about it and said to Filch in front of him.

"Filch, Professor Lockhart just said that if I meet you, I want you to go find him."

"Because... Professor Lockhart said that he has an experiment that, if successful, might allow you to gain certain magical abilities."

Chapter 132 Hey! I got it! I got magic...

Lockhart's office.

At this moment, Lockhart was sitting in front of the table, looking at the dark green book in front of him that was emitting a large amount of magical fluctuations, with a faint smile on his face.

On the cover of the book, two emerald green pythons are constantly swimming on the cover, sometimes separating, sometimes intertwining, forming a strange beauty.

In the middle of the cover, there is a group of conspicuous words written - Parseltongue Codex!

This book is a magical item specially made by Lockhart.

This was an idea that came to him after his last communication with Harry in Parseltongue, so he took advantage of his free time these few days to refine it.

The biggest function of this magical book item is to record the pronunciation of the snake-tongued man.

At the same time, as long as the magic power is activated, one can release one's own meaning through Parseltongue and achieve the purpose of controlling magical creatures such as snakes.

Very simple and quite convenient.

Just now, I worked with Harry to study Parseltongue, and after some testing, I found that the effect was quite good.

This naturally made him feel a little excited, because he did not forget that Hogwarts had a Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

There is a basilisk in the secret room, and its lethality is quite strong.

If he could control this basilisk, there would be no doubt that he would have a powerful fighting force.

After studying Parseltongue, Lockhart taught Harry some new magic based on runes as originally planned.

He decided to try his best to train Harry into a representative of the new magic system.

With Harry's reputation as a savior, he can definitely resolve a lot of problems.

Moreover, he just didn't believe that Dumbledore could stand on the opposite side when Harry Potter was on his side - this was the person he valued the most!

Although it was a bit like kidnapping, he felt that Dumbledore was very useful since he agreed to join his research.

Well, Lockhart believed that Dumbledore's decision to join the research on the new magic system, which was originally hesitant, was not unrelated to Harry.

So he prepared to put in more effort and tie Dumbledore completely into his carriage.

suddenly!

Bang bang bang!

"Professor Lockhart, I'm Filch. I just heard from Harry Potter that you were looking for me."

There was a knock on the door, and Filch's hoarse and trembling voice reached Lockhart's ears.

what!

Lockhart uttered a sigh.

So fast?

He had just casually given Harry a small task, the most important thing was to promote to him the magic of the new magic system - lowering the learning threshold and allowing Squibs to master magic.

Take this opportunity to attract Harry to indulge in the new magic system.

He had expected to go to Filch himself, but he found himself there.

Thinking about this, Lockhart replied gently: "Come in, Filch, the door is not locked."

click!

The office door opened, and a somewhat hunched figure appeared in front of Lockhart.

He was holding a brown cat, Mrs. Norris, in his arms, and an oil lamp in his hand.

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