Deep in Gringotts, Bellatrix's vault.
In the center of the vault, Lockhart's soul quietly emerged. He looked at piles of gold galleons, as well as various books, cloaks, boots, and other items that emitted a large amount of magic fluctuations placed around him. When he thought about these things all belonging to him, Lockhart's heart grew hot.
What a haul!
Sure enough, in terms of short-term profits, there is no better way to do business than to buy for zero dollars.
Then, Lockhart inspected the treasures in the vault like a master, or in other words, he was looking for his target this time - the Hufflepuff Cup. Before, he had followed the goblins to explore information about magic firearms. After entering the tightly guarded room, he thought he could get some important information, but only saw the goblins studying alchemy items, and the space bags they escorted were also filled with various magic materials.
The value was quite high, but there was no 'hot information' that Lockhart wanted to hear. He watched what item the goblin was studying from the side. The result was the magic gun he had seen before, but instead of refining it, they were studying how to increase its power. After that, there was a series of failed magic experiments by the goblin alchemist master.
Lockhart was a little speechless when he saw this. It did not mean that the alchemy level of these masters was low. After all, it was normal for experiments to fail. Lockhart was speechless because he couldn't get any valuable information at all, it was just a waste of time. Even getting the magic gun refining process would have been a gain for him. Unfortunately, all he gained was a series of failures.
It would be nice if he was in his true form now, but it's a pity that he's only in a soul state and can't cast many spells. The most important thing is that there are many goblin guards. Otherwise, if he caught a goblin alchemy master and provided a set of Imperius Curse services, he could probably get a lot of interesting information.
In the end, Lockhart left with a look of regret, preparing to make a zero-dollar purchase as planned. As Lockhart walked around the entire vault, he easily saw the Hufflepuff Cup in the corner. However, he did not forget that in the original plot, Voldemort cast a series of curses and traps on the Hufflepuff Cup, so it was not an easy touch.
Remembering the current scene, he turned around and left, flying towards the direction of his own body.
Back at Lockhart's vault, his body was leaning against the silver-white wall, and the house-elf Coffy was on full alert, as if an enemy might appear at any time. Not far away, the goblin Nott, who had been cast with the Imperius Curse, stood in a daze, his body swaying slightly.
Lockhart saw this scene and nodded slightly. Sure enough, house-elves who have been trained for thousands of years are reliable. Then, he no longer cared about Coffy being on full alert and flew directly back to his physical body.
Buzz!
The moment his soul returned to his body, Lockhart felt the cold atmosphere brought to his body by the walls and floor. He slowly opened his eyes, looked at Coffy in front of him, and said gently, "Coffy, there is no need to be wary anymore."
"Master, you are alive!" Coffy exclaimed loudly when he saw Lockhart moving behind him, his tone full of surprise.
When Lockhart heard the word 'alive,' his head suddenly filled with black lines. But he didn't say anything. He waved and said calmly, "Coffy, if you don't know how to speak, don't speak. Next, I have something else for you to do."
With that said, Lockhart ignored the somewhat frustrated Coffy and directly opened a portal to the goblin apartment. After sending the goblin back and releasing the Imperius Curse, he casually used Obliviate to deal with the other party's memory. Lockhart then opened a portal to Bellatrix's vault.
Entering it with Coffy, for the second time, a large number of treasures piled up came into view. Although the shock it brought was far less than the first time, it still made Lockhart's heart warm.
Then, "Revelio!" "Revelio!" "Revelio!"
Lockhart waved his wand and cast the Revelio Spell one after another, and a large area of milky white light covered the entire vault. In Lockhart's eyes, the entire vault was filled with pale white mist. However, there were a small number of places that showed traces of gray-black and deep red, which happened to be the corner where Lockhart found the Hufflepuff Cup.
Seeing this, Lockhart nodded slightly, confirming that there was a magic trap in that place. Then, looking at Coffy next to him, he handed him a space extension bag and ordered, "Coffy, take the space extension bag. Put away all the gold galleons in the vault. Be careful, don't touch anything in that place."
"Okay, Master!" Hearing Lockhart's order, Coffy came out of the space extension bag and replied loudly. Then, Coffy opened the space extension bag, skillfully used magic, waved his arms, cast a floating spell, and controlled the gold galleons to float into the space extension bag.
At this moment, Lockhart glanced at it and didn't care too much. Now, he went to the Hufflepuff Cup, waved his wand, released various detection spells, and analyzed the magic traps in front of him. As the various spells brought feedback, it became clear that Lockhart understood the composition of the magical traps.
The first and most obvious one is the replication spell. As long as anyone touches Hufflepuff's cup, the golden cup will be copied in large quantities, completely confusing the judgment of the thief. If the replication spell doesn't work, immediately afterward, there are a large number of black magic combination traps such as the Fire Curse, the Black Eclipse Curse, and so on. If the holder is not careful, after being hit by a large amount of black magic, they will be left half-disabled even if they are not dead.
Even if the holder escapes this magic trap, according to Lockhart's analysis, there should be a very secret positioning spell in the Hufflepuff Cup. It is convenient for Voldemort to discover the location of Hufflepuff's cup and get his Horcrux back in time.
Tsk tsk tsk, if he really didn't pay attention and ended up being chased by Voldemort, then something really interesting would happen. Seeing this series of meticulous magic traps, Lockhart felt a little troubled, but he didn't feel particularly troubled.
Turning around, he saw that most of the gold galleons had been collected. Then, starting from the vicinity of the Hufflepuff Cup, various magic items began to be collected. There was no need to test the gold galleons collected by Coffy. After all, there was nothing wrong with them. He needed to personally handle magic books and magic items to prevent mistakes.
With a wave of his wand, a large number of magic books floated before his eyes. Lockhart quickly scanned the book titles, selected the rarer books, and put them aside. Other books were placed in the space extension bag. The same goes for magic items.
Soon, as Lockhart teamed up with Coffy to collect, the treasury that was originally filled with a lot of wealth soon became destitute. Only the silver-white walls were left, reflecting Lockhart and Coffy.
After sorting everything out, Lockhart patted the space extension bag in his hand with satisfaction, a bright smile on his face. Then, he focused his attention on the Hufflepuff Cup.
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