Hearing "Gildello Lockhart"'s answer, Dumbledore's face sank instantly, his eyes gradually became angry and gloomy, the knuckles of the hand holding the elder wand turned white, and trembled slightly——

"Albus!" said Professor McGonagall.

"I'm fine, Minerva." Dumbledore sighed, then continued: "Who else is there in your organization?"

"Haha." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled, but did not answer.

"Answer my question! Mr. Lockhart," said Dumbledore, "if you want to get out of here alive."

"Haha..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled again, "You and I both know that you have no ability to kill me."

The expressions of Dumbledore and Professor Snape changed, especially Professor Snape, a sullen look appeared on his face.

"So I want to offer you a deal to the Order of the Phoenix," Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile, "or you can see him as a request for cooperation between us and your Order of the Phoenix."

"Cooperation?" Dumbledore asked, and then a trace of sarcasm flashed across his face, "Do you think the Society of the Phoenix is ​​cooperating with you?"

"You want to drag us into your evil plans?" Dumbledore asked.

"If it were me..." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "If it were me, I wouldn't make such an arbitrary judgment before knowing the full picture."

"You mean your organization is not evil?" Professor McGonagall sneered, "This is not a joke, you even use children, you even hurt children! I don't care whether Tierra is Grinder or not. Wo's artificial life form! He is a child in my eyes! No one! No one should hurt and use a child like this!"

"Calm down Minerva," Dumbledore advised. "Tell me, what is your organization?"

"I know you call us the 'Secret Party', although I like this name very much, but..." Gilderoy Lockhart paused and said, "But I prefer you to call us our official name."

"What name?" Dumbledore asked.

"Well..." Gilderoy Lockhart said after thinking about it:

"Tarot Club."

"The Tarot Club?" Dumbledore asked. "The Tarot of the Tarot?"

"Yes." Gilderoy Lockhart nodded and responded.

"So you have... twenty-two people?" Dumbledore asked.

"Hehe..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled, and then said, "Because there are twenty-two cards, there are twenty-two members?"

"You have more than this?" asked Dumbledore. "And the Little Arcana?"

"Haha..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled and did not answer, but turned to Professor McGonagall:

"We have never forced Tiera to do anything, he is our Son, our King, and seriously, we deeply regret his loss, but it is impossible, it is a necessary sacrifice. "

"Hehe, a necessary sacrifice," Dumbledore said sarcastically, "It sounds like something Gellert would say."

"Mr. Dumbledore, do you know what Tiera's card is in us?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked with a smile, "Each of us has a card that represents our identity in the Tarot Club. , I'm the 'lover' card, I'm a parasite, my magic... or the magic I get from the Tarot Club is flesh and blood magic... This is why I never revealed my magic before, People know..."

"With all due respect," Dumbledore interrupted, "then tell me, what card does Tierra represent?"

"He's 'The Hanged Man,'" Gilderoy Lockhart said, before smiling. "You should all know what that means."

"Self-sacrifice, dedication..." Dumbledore squinted and said, "The victim..."

"Is that why you hurt him?" Dumbledore asked. "Is that why you used a child as your tool?"

"We never took advantage of him, we never hurt him," Gilderoy Lockhart said. "His pain, everything about him, everything that happened to him was the choice of fate, the one that made him king. The hardships that must be experienced on the road, those... are his crown of thorns!"

"This reason is quite high-sounding," said Professor McGonagall.

"It's fate," Gilderoy Lockhart said, then looking at Dumbledore, "I know you want to adopt him, I know you want to adopt Tiera."

Dumbledore's body froze suddenly.

"Please," said Gilderoy Lockhart. "He is still our Son, and he is still our King."

"Gilder Lockhart" suddenly turned into a mass of worms made up of countless flames.

"No!" cried Dumbledore, raising his Elder Wand and pointing at the water polo, then waving his other hand at the others—

An invisible force rushed towards the other members of the Order of the Phoenix, pushing them to the ground.

Just as they were just lying down, a storm of flames almost swept past their heads.

Only Dumbledore was standing there. The Elder Wand stretched forward, and an invisible giant shield appeared in front of Dumbledore, briefly blocking the flames, but still——

The giant shield was being burned and eaten away by flames little by little. The entire space seemed to be in an extremely high temperature. Dumbledore's face was flushed, and a trace of water mist rose from Dumbledore.

But this situation did not last long, the flames quickly subsided, gathered in the center of the cave, and became the appearance of "Gidero Lockhart".

"Gidero Lockhart" waved his hand, called Crazy Walker and Inheritance into his hands, then smiled and looked at Dumbledore——

"Look, Mr. Dumbledore," said Gilderoy Lockhart. "You can't kill me, you can't even trap me."

"You can't do anything to me—"

"Avada's life--" A green light flew out from the tip of Snape's staff, which climbed up from the ground~lightnovelpub.net~ and hit Tiera with lightning speed.

The smile of "Gildello Lockhart" suddenly froze, and after falling back for a while feebly——

"Aha!" Gilderoy Lockhart stood up again. A thick, green worm emerged from Gilderoy Lockhart's body and landed on the ground, but was removed from Gilderoy Lockhart again. The tentacles sticking out from under the sleeves were rolled back—

"I said it." Gilderoy Lockhart turned around with a smile and looked at Snape, "I said it, there is no way you can kill me, and there is no way you can bind me, I am no longer The old Gilderoy Lockhart."

Dumbledore also looked at Snape.

"There's no harm in trying," Snape said with a shrug.

"So, now, Mr. Dumbledore." Gilderoy Lockhart turned again and looked at Dumbledore. "Cooperation? Or let the first operation after the reunion of the Order of the Phoenix fail."