The magic alarm clock is very reliable, and Lockhart wakes up before six in the morning when it is still dark. He was rarely the first to wake up. Hermione was lying on his side, her body undulating slightly. She liked to sleep like this: put one leg on his thigh to sandwich him, and put one arm around his waist, Put your head under his arm, because then Lockhart can't get away...

He gently lifted Hermione's arms and thighs to the side and rose slightly, but woke her anyway.

"Well... the next day, what time is it?" she asked sleepily.

"You go to sleep again, I'll get up and make some preparations first." Lockhart said while putting on his clothes, "After everyone is up, you can start to pack up and dismantle the tent. Whether it is successful or not, we will won't be coming back."

"Well, I'll get up now." Hermione climbed up on her elbows. "Let's go after breakfast. I'll do it right away." She quickly put a sweater on her head, then put on her coat and jumped. Get out of bed.

"No need, the boiled water from last night is still there, I'll eat a little and go." Lockhart pressed her shoulder and kissed her, "Let's sleep again, it's impossible for Manjik in such a cold day. Going out to buy things in the dark."

Lockhart walked out of the bedroom and ate some bread on the table in the hall with the boiling water from last night. Hermione still insisted on getting up, working on the "kitchen" side of the tent for a while, getting some hot cereal and fried sausages, and only rest assured that Lockhart had to eat it.

After this meal, the next meal may not be until evening. Although Lockhart is helpless, he still eats up the food according to Hermione's wishes. Then, before dawn, we walked to the Manjik family's manor.

Still climbing over the wall in a familiar place to clean up the traces left by stepping on the snow under his feet, Lockhart began to squat quietly: like a patient hunter, staring closely at the patch that was reburied by last night's snowfall steps.

Can't wait for them to come out on the steps, because they can see and feel what's going on outside while they're inside the Faithful Charm, but can't see what's going on inside at all; also can't sneak attack when they come out, because the moment of Apparition This is when people are most vulnerable. Even though he was unprepared for the moment of Apparition, even if he hit the target, he would still be teleported to somewhere unknown by the activated Floo network.

So the plan was to start an ambush after Manjik Apparated out of the house, and attack him or them as soon as the target returned to the apparition and landed...

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Not just Lockhart. No other Auror has the experience of attacking someone protected by the Brave Loyalty Charm - once upon a time... Aurors deal with Death Eaters, except in emergencies, don't they cut off the Floo network, smash through the main entrance, and encounter them. Resisting the one who was directly knocked down, I never imagined that it would be so sneaky today, thinking about the way before winning.

How sad.

The eastern sky was slowly beginning to show red. The sun gradually emerged and left the horizon. It was bright red, like a dazzling agate plate, moving up slowly.

Lockhart hasn't watched the sunrise outside for a long time. He usually wakes up after the sun rises. At this time, he can see the scene as well. The snow had stopped, and the light and rolling clouds in the blue sky looked like a girl's pink dress under the morning sun... He finally came back to his senses and continued to stare at the steps.

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Perhaps because of the good weather, Manjik and his wife also got up earlier than yesterday. We left the house hand in hand at eight o'clock. Lockhart immediately notified the other four with a note, asking them to come over immediately.

More than ten minutes later, the three figures carefully turned over from the wall-the reason why there were three was because Harry was wearing an invisibility cloak and was completely invisible.

"They left so early?" Blake asked softly.

"Well, the two of them, the Manjiks, have both Apparated and left," Lockhart said. "Looks like we made the right bet. They really have to go to the Muggle market to buy something. Now one step. Go quietly one step at a time, remember to remove the traces!"

The five of them applied the levitating technique to themselves, and approached the steps lightly from the corner to the steps, with Hermione staying at the end. Erase even the slightest footprint of five people. It took them ten minutes to move to the bottom of the steps.

"Stand on both sides separately, don't block the way the elf might go down later." Lockhart commanded in a low voice, "Try to conceal your magical aura, don't go up the last step, it will be bad if you encounter the Bold Loyalty Charm. ."

Several people prepared as Lockhart said, and Lockhart and Hermione stood on the left side of the steps. The other three stood on the right side of the steps and stopped talking.

Now, they can only hope that the target will come back early, even if they don't come back until midnight, the five of them can only wait until midnight.

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It's noon... Lockhart's body is stiff from waiting, and he has to move slightly. If he waits until night, will his arms be too stiff to lift?

They just stood outside the edge of a Faithful Loyalty Charm, like standing outside a huge double-sided mirror. I don't know what the people inside are doing, whether they're looking at them, or even whether there are still people inside.

Disillusionment spells are not invisibility spells, they just make the caster blend into the surrounding scene. Although the invisibility spell is completely invisible, it requires that the person or object being cast does not move at all, and the spell will be broken as soon as it moves - the safest way is to assume that someone inside is watching them all the time, and try to move less...

In the afternoon, they can't even look at the magic watch. It's an ambush rather than a wait. They have to keep their nerves tight. The enemy may appear in the next second, or it may not appear in the next hour. This is even more tense than a typical ambush - since the target may only have a second or two to react from the time they Apparate to the moment they wake up and enter the Charm of Faith.

The skinny house-elf came out of the confines of the Faithful Charm again, holding a broom that was disproportionately huge compared to his body, and walked slowly down the steps, looking like he was going to sweep snow .

But it suddenly looked at the position of Hermione next to Lockhart. Among the five, she was the least good at hiding her breath. She was not wearing Harry's invisibility cloak, yet she was noticed by the house elf again!

"Who's there!" cried the house-elf in a shrill voice. "Those who trespass on Manjik's territory will be punished—"

Ignoring the risk of being discovered, Lockhart knocked out the house-elf with his wand. Casting the spell caused the phantom body spell on his body to become extremely unstable, but he could only hope that no one in the Cleavage Loyalty Charm was looking at the steps at this time.

"Harry! Where are you?" Lockhart exclaimed softly, all four of them except Harry were frightened by the sudden situation.

"This way!"

"Hermione, hide under the invisibility cloak in the past!" Lockhart squatted on the ground with his wand against the elf's huge head~lightnovelpub.net~ The best way is of course to kill it, and then expect the target to be loyal The man in the curse came back and got into the trap before discovering something was wrong. But on the one hand, killing the elf in front of Hermione is really inappropriate, and on the other hand, I really don't know when those two guys will come back.

The Imperius Curse has little effect on the house-elves, and now they can only modify its memory first, which is no more difficult for house-elves to deal with than wizards. After squatting and using his wand to modify his memory, Lockhart took a broom and swept away the footprints that Hermione stepped on in his panic, then stuffed it back into its hands, then ducked back to hide his figure, and used a spell to wake up the elf.

The elf rubbed his head and stood up, now in his memory, he fell stunned halfway through sweeping the steps - how could he be so clumsy as a well-trained house elf, he was also confused , Silly stood for a while. He walked back into the range of the Fierce Loyalty Charm. This was a detection mechanism Lockhart deliberately set up in his memory to make it think that there was still something important to do in the house. If after a while the house-elf still comes out and starts shoveling the snow, it means that no one in the house notices anything abnormal, otherwise the ambush can only be cancelled.

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——(To be continued.)