The back-to-school dinner ended with an embarrassing joke told by Dumbledore. The young wizards dispersed in twos and threes. Until the end, they failed to understand Amosta's purpose of returning to school. It can be expected that the start of school In the first week, a vigorous detective campaign will be launched in the school.
Amosta had already left before the little wizards. He had not forgotten that he did not come back to Hogwarts for a vacation. When all the little wizards gathered neatly in the great hall, his mission It officially started.
For the next time, until he finds the secret room, he will probably have to live a life of reverse day and night, sleeping during the day and working at night. This will be a very hard life.
In the surveillance room, Amosta sat on a chair and stared at the picture that was gradually filling up with people. His focus was on the little wizards who were living alone, observing whether their behavior was contrary to common sense. Of course, Loha Professor Te is also one of the people he pays attention to.
The Chamber of Secrets appeared sooner or later, but it happened to be opened when Lockhart was appointed as Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, which he couldn't help but doubt.
After dinner, under the leadership of their prefects, most of the young wizards from each college returned to their respective common rooms. However, there were about a dozen young wizards who sneaked out while everyone was not paying attention.
Among them, more than half are Gryffindor students.
Harry and Ron went to the school hospital. The Weasley brothers took advantage of the patrolling Filch to not pay attention and ran into the passage leading to the underground Hufflepuff common room. They stopped in front of a pair of stone hangings. In front of the fruit oil painting on the wall, I did some manipulations and then jumped in.
Amosta also saw Penelope Crevat who walked into the Ravenclaw lounge, but turned back after a while. At almost the same time, Percy Weasley also left Gryffin. There are many lounges, and it can be expected that there will be another passionate kiss somewhere in the castle.
Except for Professor McGonagall and Professor Lockhart, who returned to the office to work overtime after dinner, the rest of the professors basically stayed in the faculty dormitories. Before entering his office, President Dumbledore turned and faced the corridor thirty feet away. The smallpox winked his blue eyes playfully, as if to say hello.
Amosta pouted and looked away from the screen.
Nothing unusual happened, everything was normal, and the result did not exceed Amosta's expectations. Unless you were very lucky, you couldn't expect to gain something in ten days and a half.
The flames were burning in the beautifully carved fireplace. Amosta leaned back on the chair holding a cup of bitter hot tea, his eyes scanning the entire wall from time to time, his expression calm.
About half an hour later, the person who was still active on the monitor screen turned into a ghost. Amosta saw Peeves wearing a funny round hat and burst into a bathroom that had been abandoned for many years on the second floor. After a while, water began to leak from the doorway of the bathroom into the corridor outside.
The long night had just arrived, and Amosta was already feeling bored. He went to his desk and took out a copy of "Basic Models and Structural Optimization of Magic" that he was compiling, and flipped through it to find inspiration.
Suddenly, there was movement in the surveillance screen in the lower right corner. Professor Lockhart changed into a purple robe and walked out with a few books under his arm. He was smiling and elegant. Looking at the direction he was heading, it seemed that he was in his surveillance room. .
Their offices were on the first floor, and within two minutes, Professor Lockhart appeared outside his office.
Tuk Tuk ---
The moment there was a knock on the door, Amosta waved his wand, and a huge black curtain covered the wall. The stool under his butt jumped back to the desk with a tap dance pace, straightened itself and returned to normal.
"Professor Lockhart?" Amosta opened the door and showed just the right amount of surprise, "What do you do for a living?"
Amosta brought the unknown Lockhart into the office and poured him a cup of tea, but Lockhart seemed to have no intention of drinking it.
"---That's actually true,"
Lockhart was ready to explain his purpose, but when he found a copy of "Wandering with Werewolves" on Amosta's bookshelf, the smile on his face was simply too bright.
"It was my mistake, Amosta, I should have thought of it earlier, but I didn't realize it," he winked at Amosta who was a little confused, "a cunning and crazy admirer , right, it’s really a way that I didn’t expect!”
"I'm sorry, Professor Lockhart, maybe I'm too slow to understand what you're trying to say..."
"There's no need to hide it anymore, Amosta, you went to all the trouble to get into Hogwarts just to get to me, right?"
Lockhart smiled happily, "Professor McGonagall told me that the school board sent an investigator to track down the Chamber of Secrets..., I think you must have spent a lot of money to accomplish this!"
Amosta followed the direction of Lockhart's gaze and looked at the bookshelf, blinking.
"If you are referring to the book "Wandering with Werewolves", it's like this. I had some unpleasantness with a group of werewolves. In order to deepen my understanding of them, I found a few of the most famous books..."
"Aha, it's finally exposed, isn't it?"
Lockhart seemed to have finally caught Amosta's hand.
"Just like the second-year Miss Granger, she knows everything about me, right? Yes, yes. When many people talk about that book, they are amazed by my calm and decisive performance when being blocked by a werewolf in a phone booth, but You're different, Amosta, you want to learn how I reconciled the past with the werewolf, right?"
An hour later, Lockhart left Amosta's office with satisfaction. Standing in front of the door, he lowered his voice and said to Amosta,
"Don't worry about not being able to explain it to the board of directors, Amosta, the secret room attack will not happen again. As for the reason, you must know the reason, right?" Lockhart winked at Amosta again, "Because I will it's here!"
Amosta watched Professor Lockhart go away. He closed the door and stood in front of his desk, staring at the gift Lockhart gave him - a set of signed hardcover books.
"Hey, what a funny guy!" Amosta suddenly laughed.
Back at Hogwarts at night, Amosta and Professor Snape had talked about suspicious people in the school. When Gilderoy Lockhart was mentioned, the disdain and ridicule in Snape's tone was palpable. But he just didn't think Lockhart would have a problem, and Amosta was quite puzzled at the time.
"However, as a well-known star writer in the magical world, at least he is a very friendly wizard."
