Chapter 249 Sorry, I Lied to You!

"Hiss~ (Talk to me, Slytherin - the greatest of the Hogwarts Four!)"

Lockhart spit out snake words from his mouth, but after waiting for a long time, he didn't see any movement from the Slytherin statue behind him. His heart suddenly sank, and he tried again without giving up.

"Are you calling that basilisk? Since I have been in the Chamber of Secrets, do you think I can let it live to this day?" Ivan said with a sneer. He once again closed the distance with Lockhart and continued to speak.

"It seems that Tom has hidden a lot of things from you. I guess he didn't tell you. Remember to close your eyes when calling the basilisk, right?"

Within three meters of each other, as Ivan finished speaking, his black eyes instantly turned into orange vertical snake eyes.

Before Lockhart could figure out what Ivan's words meant, his mind went blank. Ivan's eyes were like whirlpools, swallowing up his thoughts and soul.

"Expelliarmus!"

With Ivan's shout, Lockhart regained consciousness, but the next moment he felt as if his body had been hit by a bull, rolling all the way and hitting the Slytherin stone sculpture behind him.

The wand came out of his hand, spinning in the air, and finally fell into Ivan's hand.

Ivan reached out and took Lockhart's wand, and glanced at the magic scale in the status bar. It was about one tenth less.

Ivan sighed. The wizard's resistance to magic was indeed much stronger than that of ordinary creatures.

He had only activated Snake Eyes for less than a second. The purpose was not to stare Lockhart to death, but to put Lockhart in a stalemate and unable to activate the protective cloak. He then used magic to disintegrate the opponent's resistance.

After all, the protective cloak is a magic item that he made with his own hands using many precious materials. It would take a lot of time to break through it normally.

Only by taking things by surprise can one strike determine the outcome and save the consumption of magic power.

Ivan walked towards Lockhart step by step,

Lockhart, who was knocked into the statue, tried to get up in horror, but found that his body was extremely heavy, as if filled with lead. He raised his right hand with difficulty, and was stepped on by a foot.

"Tell me, where is Tom Riddle now?" Ivan stepped on Lockhart's right hand, tore off several pieces of his magic equipment, and pressed his wand against Lockhart's cheek, his gaze extremely cold.

"I don't know," Lockhart said in horror as he looked at the flickering light at the top of Ivan's wand.

"Do you want to try the taste of piercing one's bones?" Although Ivan didn't know this spell, it didn't stop him from using it to threaten Lockhart.

Lockhart was naturally very aware of the Cruciatus Curse, one of the three unforgivable curses. When Ivan talked about it, he immediately got excited and racked his brains to think about where Tom Riddle would go.

"He must be looking for something on the eighth floor of the castle! He told me before that it would be a hindrance for you to go there often, and he hoped I could find a way to lure you away," Lockhart said suddenly.

Ivan's heart sank, and he had a very bad feeling.

Tom probably wants to go to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor, and what he's looking for is probably the second Horcrux, Ravenclaw's diadem!

Because of the previous attack, he did not dare to go to the Room of Requirement during this period, which was exactly what the other party wanted.

"So you brought that Ravenclaw girl to the eighth floor? Then framed me?" Thinking of this, Ivan was furious, and his black eyes turned into orange vertical pupils.

Lockhart looked at each other for a moment and felt like he was going to die, but the next moment Ivan's eyes returned to their original state, and he retorted hastily. "No, I didn't do this! It was that diary that controlled me!"

Lockhart quickly explained to Ivan.

After getting the diary, Tom Riddle taught him a lot of magic knowledge and asked him to help him regain his strength. In return, Tom Riddle would help him become a true magic master.

Lockhart was still hesitant and did not agree.

But the next day, he lost consciousness while experimenting with a magic. When he woke up, he only vaguely remembered what he said to a girl who admired him, and then what he did on the eighth floor.

When he arrived on the eighth floor, he found that the other person had fallen into a pool of blood. Lockhart could see that it was his handwriting on the wall, which was why he hurriedly destroyed the wall.

After that, Lockhart fell into panic. He was afraid that someone would trace him as the attacker.

That's why he followed Tom Riddle's suggestion and handed the Horcrux to another of his admirers to clear himself of suspicion.

"Tom Riddle promised me that he would not kill anyone, so I handed the Horcrux to that Slytherin girl. You can't kill me, otherwise you will be imprisoned in Azkaban!" Lockhart said tremblingly.

"Then they have to find it here and find your body!" Ivan said mockingly.

Lockhart felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, but fortunately, Ivan spoke up again. "But you're lucky, I won't kill you this time."

Ivan looked at the relieved Lockhart coldly. He needed someone to take responsibility for these attacks. A living Lockhart was naturally better than a dead one.

But Lockhart knew a lot of things he shouldn't have known, such as his conversations with Tom Riddle

Looking at Ivan's increasingly dangerous gaze, Lockhart swallowed hard. He vaguely thought of something and said in horror. "Hals, when I taught you the Forgetting Curse, you promised me that you would never use it on me again."

"Sorry, I lied to you!" Ivan waved the wand mercilessly.

"Everything is forgotten!"

The milky-white cursed light suddenly hit Lockhart, who had no power to resist. His body trembled violently, and then he passed out.

Ivan added a coma spell to him, confirming that he would not wake up within a few hours, and then prepared to go to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor, hoping that Tom had not found what he wanted by this time.

But just as he turned around, Ivan stopped. From a distance, he saw a familiar figure walking in the corridor of the secret room.

It was a handsome boy about sixteen years old, with a nasty smile on his lips.

What made Ivan most uneasy was that compared to the last time they met, Tom Riddle had something simple and crown-like on his forehead, with the gorgeous sapphires shining brightly in the dark secret room.

That is the second Horcrux, Ravenclaw's diadem!

(PS: Why Tom was able to obtain this Horcrux and how he knew it was a Horcrux will be explained later)

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