"Headmaster, why are you here?"
Dumbledore, who was looking up at the starry sky, turned to look at the blond boy who was coming.
"Lucas, will you keep our promise?"
"Of course." Lucas nodded.
Professor Snape, who was beside them, narrowed his eyes, and his eyes flicked back and forth between the two.
He didn't expect Lucas to have an agreement with Dumbledore.
Dumbledore said with a solemn expression: "I have some things to deal with recently, and I may not be able to stay at school for the time being."
"But the threat in the school has not disappeared, and I am very worried about Harry's safety."
"I know that child has become estranged from you a lot recently, you have to understand a child's vanity."
Lucas smiled bitterly: "Headmaster, you seem to have forgotten that I am the same age as Harry, and I am just a child as well."
"Really? But I always treat you as an adult like me."
Dumbledore gave Lucas a meaningful look.
"I know that Harry is investigating the Chamber of Secrets recently, and I hope you can help him at a critical moment."
"You know what the monster in the secret room is, and you should also understand its power."
Dumbledore's words were finished when Lucas felt a biting cold feeling coming from behind him.
"It turns out that Mr. Grindelwald already knew what the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is. Could it be that Mr. Grindelwald is the heir mentioned in the Legend?"
"Professor Snape, I think you have misunderstood. The reason why I know is that the Headmaster told me."
He passed down the blame to the old man, he didn't want to have an angry Professor Snape on his case.
The potions professor glanced at Dumbledore coldly, and snorted heavily.
Dumbledore raised his hand and said calmly.
"Lucas, what do you think?"
"I don't think so. Are you planning to wait until everything is over, and then transfer all the credit to Harry the savior Potter like last year?"
After Lucas finished speaking, Dumbledore fell silent, and this is already the best answer.
Seeing him like this, even Professor Snape let out a disdainful laugh.
A few minutes passed before Dumbledore kept talking: "Based on Slytherin's current house points, I think this school year's house cup will be taken away by Slytherin again, it seems that I have to congratulate you both in advance."
"Headmaster, you don't think I really care about that empty trophy, do you? The reason I was so angry last year was because I didn't want everyone's hard work to go to waste."
"And I want to remind you that the current Slytherin House points were earned by everyone. Even without your help, the House Cup will still be ours."
Lucas' rebuttal had just been finished when Professor Snape's whispering voice came from behind.
"Mr. Grindelwald, it seems that our esteemed Headmaster has nothing but sweet and greasy syrup in his brain. Let's not waste our time here."
Lucas followed the advice of his own Head of House. The two turned around and walked towards the door.
"Severus, Lucas, please wait."
"Lucas, I remember that you put forward some additional conditions two months ago, you can't go back and forth like this."
"Oh~ I don't think I'm going back on my word, but now Harry is taking the initiative to face the basilisk. I'm very lucky."
"And the conditions I raised this time are not too much. I just need you to promise that I can enter the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade Village at any time."
Snape looked at the boy beside him in surprise, he didn't expect this cunning boy to make such a simple request.
Dumbledore said without any hesitation: "No problem, I promise you, but not now, in fact, I no longer have the authority of the headmaster."
"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry, not to mention there is Professor Snape to testify, I believe you will not break your promise, Headmaster."
"Of course, what about you? What guarantees can you give me?"
"How about the Unbreakable Vow? Let Professor Snape be the executor."
The other two didn't seem to expect Lucas to be so decisive.
The unbreakable vow is something used between two wizards to make a promise. If one party breaks the vow, it will lead to the death of the party who broke the vow.
"This.…"
"What are you worried about? Could it be that everything you said before was false?"
Seeing Lucas' scrutinizing eyes, Dumbledore nodded immediately: "Okay!"
Lucas held Dumbledore's hand together.
Professor Snape stood between them.
"Will you, Lucas Grindelwald, protect Harry Potter's life during this school year?."
"I will!"
"Will you, Albus Dumbledore, hand over the Gryffindor sword to me, and agree to give me the right to enter and leave the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade village at will after I have completed my part of the deal?."
"I will!"
As the vow was made, the magic of the two entangled each other around their wrists.
Lucas could feel a magic power that didn't belong to him slowly flowing in his wrist.
"Lucas, I will leave Harry's safety in your hands."
After Dumbledore finished speaking, he Apparated and left.
It seems he must be in a hurry to find a way to solve his troubles.
Professor Snape gave Lucas a cold look, turned and walked towards the castle.
Due to walking too fast his black wizard robe floated up again. In this dark environment, he looked more like a dementor.
Going back to his dorm, Lucas once again cast a spell on the door.
When he walked out of the void, he had already appeared in the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
Through his long explorations he had already covered most of the Forbidden Forest.
At this moment, only the last area in the depths remained.
If he's not wrong, this should be the territory of the werewolves.
[Ding, the host has obtained a new achievement: Werewolf Territory: Reward: 100 achievement points.]
[Detected that the host has completed a new achievement: explore the Forbidden Forest; reward: 3000 achievement points.]
The Forbidden Forest is truly a treasure, Lucas couldn't even remember how many achievement points he had earned here.
Finally completing the exploration achievement, he was actually a little bit reluctant.
But there was not much time left for him to be reluctant.
Accompanied by a slight sound of footsteps, more than thirty wizards came out from the depths.
Except for the night of the full moon, werewolves are no different from ordinary wizards.
The only difference they have, is probably that they like to eat their steaks raw.
"You are not welcome here, little wizard."
The werewolf at the head looked to be about fifty years old. Judging from his position, he seems to be the leader of this group of werewolves.
"Hello everyone, my name is Lucas Grindelwald, a second year student at Hogwarts."
"I'm here this time to discuss a business with you."
After Lucas finished speaking, several bottles of wolfsbane potion appeared in his hand.
There was a commotion among the wolves, because the lure of wolfsbane potion for werewolves is huge.
However, the leading middle-aged man is still very prestigious.
With just a glance from him, the rioting crowd became quiet.
"What business do you want to talk about?"
Seeing the vigilant look in the middle-aged man's eyes, Lucas gave an appreciative look.
"It's nothing, I just hope that you can do things for me in the future. If you agree, I promise to give you a full dose of Wolfsbane potion every month."
"Little child, who do you think you are? It's ridiculous to want us to be loyal to you!"
Accompanied by a roar from the middle-aged man.
The werewolves behind him showed an extremely ferocious smile.
"It seems that I still need to do this!"
After Lucas finished speaking, he waved his wand, and the fire shield was successfully cast, making the blue fire surround himself and the werewolves.
Not giving the middle-aged man time to react.
He raised his wand and pointed at the few werewolves on the farthest edge.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The green death beam hit a werewolf who let out a miserable howl.
Immediately afterwards, the Killing Curse split into three strands, killing another three people close to that werewolf.
This is the Killing Curse developed by Salazar Slytherin, he actually turned the killing curse of a single attack into a group attack.
"What now? Surrender? Or die?"
The werewolves hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered their heads.
[Detected that the host has obtained a new achievement: conquering werewolves; rewards: 500 achievement points, "1000 unique tricks for dog training". "Nine Lessons Required for Raising Dogs"]
Seeing rewards Lucas wants to ask the system, is this serious?
If he really took out these two books, these werewolves might turn on him immediately even if they have to die.
Looking at the werewolves staring at him, Lucas gave the middle-aged man the Wolfsbane potion brewed by Professor Snape and bought from outside.
In the process, he also learned the other party's name.
Andrew Holmes was once a Common wizard, but one day he was accidentally bitten by a werewolf.
Then he hid in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts and has been here for decades.
"Now I have a task for you, do you know the centaur tribe in the Forbidden Forest?"
Andrew nodded: "Of course I know them, those four-legged guys are always nosy."
"That's good. Your first task is to wipe out all of them. Can you do it?"
He didn't need to hear the answer, the bloodthirsty smiles of the werewolves had already answered him.
Centaurs, these natural fortune tellers, are too troublesome to keep alive!
Not long after Lucas left, the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest suffered a catastrophe.
Overnight, all the centaurs were slaughtered.
After the acromantulas extermination, the centaurs followed their example and also became extinct.
In the blink of an eye, the night passed and the students in the castle didn't know that so many things happened last night.
They still didn't know that their headmaster, Dumbledore, had been fired.
…
The students who were having a delicious breakfast received a newspaper from an owl.
This time, the Daily Prophet was extraordinarily generous; it seems that a newspaper was sent to all students for free.
"Look, the murderer has been caught, it was Hagrid and his acromantula!"
"Merlin's beard, this spider is really big!"
"But Hagrid doesn't look like a bad guy, why would he do such a thing?"
"No matter what, as long as the Chamber of Secrets was not really opened."
"But why haven't the Aurors left the castle yet?"
Hearing someone ask this question, the noisy students all became quiet.
Yeah, why are the Aurors still in school now that the danger is gone?
Before they figured it out, another flock of owls flew in.
This time they brought other newspapers or magazines such as "The Witch's Weekly" and "The Complete Book of Broomsticks".
Rita Skeeter's article this time was not published in the "Daily Prophet", because even if she wanted to publish it, she had no chance.
But a magazine like Witch Weekly is perfectly fine.
Rita's pen is still strong.
Plus there are pictures of the Ministry of Magic hunting spiders and capturing Hagrid as evidence.
Setting off the questions she raised more impartially.
[First of all, although the acromantula is poisonous, it cannot petrificate people.
If the murderer who attacked the students was an acromantula, why does it only petrify students and not hurt them at all?]
This question has been supported by many people.
Rita also criticized the actions of the Ministry of Magic in the report.
Saying she thinks they are just using scapegoats to deceive the majority of wizards.
At the end of the article, she complained about Dumbledore's expulsion.
Saying that now that Hogwarts is without Dumbledore's protection, there will be no safety at all.
It has to be said, Rita's pen is really powerful.
Just a few articles and she actually passed on the dissatisfaction of many parents towards Dumbledore to the Ministry of Magic.
After all, it was the Ministry of Magic that finally dealt with the incident, and it was also the Ministry of Magic who had lied to everyone.
Lucas looked at the article and nodded in satisfaction.
As for Minister Fudge, he was afraid that he must not be so happy at the moment.
Indeed, Fudge has already dropped all the things that can be smashed in the office at this moment.
"This poisonous woman, I must have her arrested!"
Time passed, and February started without knowing it.
The name Rita Skeeter has been making a splash these days.
Not only did the sales of "Witch Weekly" skyrocket.
It also made Fudge have to fire some people in order to shirk responsibility and divert the anger of the wizards.
Vinda Rosier received a commission from Lucas.
Soon some of their own people were arranged to work in the Ministry of Magic.
Although they are all idlers, Lucas does not dislike them.
Food has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road has to be walked step by step.
When Voldemort returns the year after next, he is confident that he will be able to take down the entire Ministry in one fell swoop.
"Lucas, have you heard? That guy Lockhart is going to do something again, it seems that he said he is trying to boost morale."
Hearing Hermione's words, Lucas immediately thought of Valentine's Day, and letting out a long sigh, he prayed that Lockhart wouldn't bother him that day.
At this time he saw Ginny Weasley.
After not paying attention to her for a while, Ginny's face has become very pale.
Looking at the way she walks slowly and weakly, Lucas knew that this was a sign of too much vitality being absorbed.
If this continues, Ginny Weasley will pass out due to the lack of vitality.
That means, the drama of the year is about to begin and the young version of the Dark Lord, Tom Marvolo Riddle is about to appear.
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