"What, he's his own? Are you Gilderoy!" Sirius asked inexplicably.

"He's the mysterious guest who accompanied me to keep Voldemort at bay!" Lockhart explained to the crowd while waving to Snape, "Dumbledore didn't kill him either, he was an undercover agent of the Order of the Phoenix in the Death Eaters from beginning to end. !"

"How is that possible?" Harry said in disbelief. "How did the principal die?"

"Professor Snape is really his own!" Ginny testified loudly. "He resurrected Professor Lockhart!"

As a member of the Order of the Phoenix, Ginny's testimony was certainly persuasive, but as soon as she emerged, she caught her mother's attention.

"You bastard, why did you go to Gilderoy's side again!" Mrs. Weasley was furious and reached out to grab her. Ginny took Lockhart's body as a pillar and hid behind him, and she refused to let him Mother meets her. "Bill! Fred! George! Help me catch her!"

Lockhart said Snape was a member of the Order of the Phoenix, so he was, Mrs Weasley didn't want to think about it, and she and Snape didn't have a deep hatred - she and her sons were busy catching up with their own family. Little Traitor Ginny.

Ginny's pretending to cry or some little tricks was completely immune to her family who had lived with her for more than ten years, and she could only helplessly be grabbed by her two brothers. Snape lined up the crowd and strode into the crowd. Now, Sirius was the only one left with his wand pointed at him. After a while, the head of the Black family, who felt bored, also put his wand down.

Snape squatted beside Mag to examine it carefully for a while, then shook his head.

"How about it?"

"There's nothing I can do - my life force has been exhausted, it's been too hard this time." Snape said regretfully, "I have a potion that can stimulate the last life force, but even if I can survive it, my body will collapse... …”

"Professor McGonagall!" Harry cried, kneeling beside the venerable old witch.

Madam Pang Li shook her head helplessly, and went to the side to check on the injured Furong. She was hit by the Paralyzing Curse, and the artery in her leg was also cut by the Cutting Curse, causing a lot of blood to flow out. He was also "bited" by a dementor. She hasn't woken up yet, but again, young and energetic, her life is not in danger.

All the standing Order of the Phoenix and the unscathed students gathered around Professor McGonagall, wanting to accompany the great Vice-Chancellor through what might be the last part of his life.

Lockhart certainly didn't want to see that. But the joy brought by Hermione being okay just now was too strong, and he couldn't feel sad for a while.

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Lockhart waited for Snape to feed Mag the potion and squeezed out of the crowd with him, walked to the window, the bright sunlight made the former feel a little uncomfortable, and he took a few steps to the shadows.

"How's the Ministry of Magic?"

"Ah. I haven't asked—" Lockhart remembered that, Hermione was lying motionless on the ground just now, and he was so frightened that only half of his remaining soul was about to fly.

"You—" Snape's face twitched.

"I'll contact you right away." Lockhart took out a note to input magic power, and his face changed after a few seconds: "Scrimgeour's note is almost invalid, he's seriously injured!"

"What's the matter?" Snape became nervous.

"Impossible!" Lockhart exchanged his note to contact other Aurors, and the result made him even more horrified - that black and strong man, who always gave people a sense of security, how could it be? : "Kingsley is dead!"

With trembling hands, typing in magic and another contact, Martin finally brought good news: the Ministry of Magic had been occupied. But seven Aurors, including Kingsley, were killed in the fierce battle, and a dozen Squibs were killed and wounded.

"Is there any change? You assured me that the battle at the Ministry of Magic will be crushing, why do so many people die?" Snape asked with a frown. He didn't feel bad for the Aurors, but Voldemort wasn't dead yet. If an ally dies, his side will lose a point of strength. "How many centaurs died at Hogwarts!"

Lockhart then remembered the centaurs outside the house. He hadn't looked at it yet, but he still explained: "Martin told me that the Death Eaters got a spare power crystal during the occupation of the Ministry of Magic, although it was a one-time use. , it's not very powerful...but it's not something Scrimgeour and the others can deal with..."

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ten minutes ago. Two or three minutes after the battle at the Ministry of Magic began, the dark Ministry of Magic lighted up again with the activation of the backup energy, and the defense system on the wall also began to charge, although the mana output was obviously insufficient. The energy is not even enough to activate the Floo network, but with the counterattacks of the Death Eaters, it can easily hurt a wizard of Scrimgeour's level, and the Squib is one after another.

Under the cover of firepower of the weakened defense system, the Ministry of Magic's guards, which had been almost collapsed, gained a foothold and began to counterattack rhythmically. Kingsley was killed by focusing fire just to cover his teammates to recover the seriously injured Scrimgeour.

At this dangerous moment, a brave witch named Eliza Solvia stood up and killed the Death Eaters guarding the backup power supply system with her wand, shutting down the entire system.

Eliza Solvia, has been an ordinary, unremarkable female clerk at the Ministry of Magic for several years, but in fact she is an eyeliner placed by Dumbledore in the Ministry of Magic, a hidden phoenix Society members. Lockhart didn't know her because she had never attended the Society of the Phoenix conference, nor had she been to the headquarters in Grimmauld Place. After Dumbledore's death, she lost contact with the Order of the Phoenix. She had been working diligently for the Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic for the past six months, waiting for the moment when she needed to play a role.

It is conceivable that there will be no shortage of peripheral members of the Order of the Phoenix scattered throughout the United Kingdom. Lockhart never thought to spend time looking for them, but at an unexpected critical moment, the peripheral members came in handy. If it weren't for her, the Aurors would have suffered even more losses, or even wiped out their entire army - if the nuclear bomb failed to destroy the energy supply system at nine o'clock sharp, they could have given up the plan and stick to Hogwarts, but after they attacked, they could A backup power supply emerged, and the attackers had almost no way out.

Lockhart wiped away his cold sweat, and after all the calculations, he didn't get to this point: he once wanted to make a small power supply system for Hogwarts, but once the Order of the Phoenix had no professionals in this area, Second, to make a temporary energy supply system that can be used by a huge building requires too much material.

For various reasons, Lockhart gave up this plan, but he did not expect the Death Eaters to put it into practice - after all, as the official Ministry of Magic, not only talents, but also materials are not lacking!

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"I'm going to see the centaurs now," Lockhart said. "You look around to see if there are any wounded who need help and treatment."

The guards at Hogwarts were in a weak position, but only a few wizards were killed or injured, but the sculptures were completely lost, and the centaurs also lost a lot.

It is not difficult to understand that most of the people involved in the attack are batters. From the perspective of the wizards of the Order of the Phoenix, this is a battle of justice against evil. For the hitters at the Ministry of Magic and even some not-so-evil Death Eaters, it was an attack where "terrorists hijacked school teachers and students to put pressure on the Ministry of Magic". Since it is to rescue the hostages, it will naturally not use a large number of killing and lethal spells, and the casualties will not be serious directly.

When they attacked the wizard, they also had to see if the other party was the Order of the Phoenix or the ordinary teachers and students of the school~lightnovelpub.net~ or even the children of some high-level Death Eater. But casting spells on sculptures and centaurs doesn't need to think so much, and that's why Hermione survived - the lights in the Slytherin lounge were dark, and the Death Eaters rushed in and took her and Abel. Te and several other members of h.a. were treated as ordinary students of the school. For the sake of his children's alumni, he didn't embarrass them after being knocked out.

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Lockhart asked Martin and the others to immediately send the wounded to St. Mungo's, and then figure out a way to control the backup power supply. The super-power system underground in the Department of Mysteries is down and may not be fixed for months. Now, they must take advantage of this unexpected loot and have it provide their own mantelline between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts - My-Know-Who attacks Hogwarts, and Lockhart goes to Hogwarts Ci, otherwise stay at the Ministry of Magic.

Lockhart's orders were quickly implemented, Scrimgeour was seriously injured and unconscious, and even the Aurors subconsciously took his orders for granted. Although he never fought for power, now only he has this prestige and control.

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While walking, he arranged all this, and unknowingly Lockhart had walked out of the gate. In the open space outside the castle, the centaurs were dragging the wounded and the dead back to the Forbidden Forest, and Ma Guoren was standing by and waiting for him.

"It's hard work, thanks to you being here today." Lockhart walked over, no longer arrogant--if the centaurs hadn't come to help, his wife might have been kidnapped.

"We have killed more than a dozen people." Ma Guoren was obviously distressed, "Now I just hope that you don't use us up and forget the previous agreement."

"In Merlin's name," said Lockhart solemnly, "the centaurs will be treated better than agreed."

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——(To be continued.)

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