"It's so exciting! I never dreamed that there would be such a plot." Fred and George murmured. They hid in the grass and peered through the gaps.

Dumbledore held Foggy's hand: "Don't worry, Foggy, you'll be fine."

"You promise? Dumbledore?" His face turned dark.

"I promise you, Fudge."

Fudge's expression calmed down and he fell asleep.

Dumbledore withdrew his glowing fingers and turned to look at Kingsley: "We need to take him to the school hospital."

"But Minister Fuji said..."

"The venom of the basilisk needs to be resolved as soon as possible," Dumbledore said.

The man named Kingsley quickly compromised, "It's all yours."

Dumbledore turned to Flitvie, and McGonagall said, "Filius, Minerva, stay here to maintain order and get the snake monster away." The two professors nodded.

Hagrid volunteered to pick up Foggy and Dumbledore, and Kingsley strode towards the school hospital.

Lucius left in the chaos and found his son Draco Malfoy.

"What is the truth in the secret room?" Lucius asked him.

"It was Potter and the others who did it! Dad, Potter is a snake-like accent. It was because of this that he discovered the secret room!" Draco said with an unhappy look on his face.

"Snake man!" Lucius was really surprised. He thought that the diary he threw to the Weasley's youngest daughter was found.

"Has it been found out that who opened the secret room?" Lucius asked vaguely.

"No, not for the time being." Draco glanced at his father in fear and said stammeringly. He did not say anything that he had been temporarily controlled by black magic items.

"Is that true?" Lucius did not notice this little movement, and his expression became unfathomable.

...

Rita Skitter wanted to keep up and film the miserable situation of the Minister of Magic, but she looked at Lohart on the scene again. After weighing the trade-offs, she quickly determined her real goal.

The companions are enemies, so they must mess with him!

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

Lockhart blocked his face at a loss: "Hey, stop! Stop!"

However, Rita Skitter was even more excited to shoot. Her desire to create now is simply overwhelming, but unfortunately, because of some concerns, she did not bring automatic quill pens and parchment.

She glanced at Felix secretly, and he watched it all in silence.

This made Rita Skit feel relieved. It seemed that ‘this’ didn’t care about anyone else. Next time I had the chance to come to Hogwarts, I must be fully prepared.

"Oh my God, Professor McGonagall must be furious." Hermione, hiding behind a huge pavilion, said, Harry and Ron looked at their deformation professor, her face almost twisted.

The situation had developed to the scene where Lockhart rushed over and snatched the camera with Skit, but it seemed that based on physical strength alone, Lockhart was not her opponent. Skit's two-inch-long nails cut more than a dozen scars on his face.

"My handsome face!" Lockhart was about to get mad.

Professor McGonagall had to step forward and separate the two, her lips trembled with anger, "Professor Lockhart, please leave here immediately! As for you..." She looked at Rita Skitter in disgust.

"Oh, don't worry about me, Professor McGonagall." Rita Skitter said with a shameless face. "I wander around casually and haven't returned to school for many years. I really miss it."

"It's up to you." McGonagall didn't care about her for the time being. She cooperated with Professor Flivie and dragged the basilisk away.

Felix looked around and saw Lohart look like an angry bull, he didn't want to get involved. He turned around and walked towards the school hospital.

After a while, Lockhart calmed down completely, and suddenly realized that he was facing an unprecedented crisis. He sorted out his messy hair and said to Rita Skit: "Skit, we need to talk, one-on-one."

The woman looked at him proudly. She took the biggest gain of this time, the magic camera, and handed it to her two assistants, "Look at it, stay away from it."

The two assistants left, and at this moment, only Lockhart and Skit remained in the open space.

Secretly, the twins and the trio each took one side and held their breath.

Rita Skitter glanced at Lockhart with disdain, and she grinned, looking like a winner: "What are you going to talk to me? I think there is no need for this-"

"A famous bestselling author!"

Lockhart's handsome face turned twisted, but he looked around and whispered, "We don't have to make a fuss to this point. I can give you Kim Garron as compensation, as long as you don't mention it."

Rita Skitter glanced at him.

"Two thousand Gallons!" Lockhart said in pain.

No response.

"four thousand!"

"Ten thousand gold gallons! You greedy woman!"

Rita Skitter smiled stiffly, but she still didn't let go. She leaned closer and said, "Lordhart, you can go back and think about it first, and figure out a question, how much is the reputation of a great writer worth."

"——And," she fiddled with her nails, "think about how to cleanse the charges of attacking the Minister of Magic."

"That was just an accident!" Lockhart looked at her gritted teeth, but the woman left with satisfaction.

He held the wand in his hand and wanted to do something several times, but eventually gave up. He returned to his office decadently.

The lively courtyard has returned to peace again.

The twins looked at each other and quietly left tacitly. Behind a pillar, Harry and the other two looked at each other.

"Dirty money deal!" Hermione was filled with righteous indignation.

Ron shrugged: "This is normal. When my father went to check Malfoy Manor, he had already received the news in advance. What do you think is the reason?"

Harry looked at the direction of Lockhart leaving and couldn't help asking, "You guys say, will Lockhart be imprisoned?"

Ron said without hesitation: "It's not good to say, but if I were Forge, I mean, as the Minister of Magic, I can't afford to lose that person."

"Don't you think it's a coincidence?"

"What?"

"Everything that happened today was an accident, right? You know that the Basil monster has been solved. He could have been safe and sound for a whole year, and then wrote a book like "My Year at Hogwarts" and made a big profit of Jin Jialong."

"You mean, the Dark Lord's curse?" Ron reacted.

Hermione blinked, and she said with great interest: "A pretty interesting idea, Harry, maybe the true face of the curse is to amplify the probability of various unexpected events. We can check it."

Ron had a bitter face, "Hermione, don't you think you've been too busy recently? I'll help you calculate, teach, do your homework, guide the magic texts on weekends, correct test papers, learn special deformation techniques, and now you have to study curses..."

Hermione snorted and she asked back: "Don't you think it's a very fulfilling thing to solve puzzles?"

...

On the other side, Rita Skit, who was originally slowly watching the scenery, suddenly turned back after turning the courtyard.

Her eyes kept searching, Lockhart was too fast, she had lost his shadow. But she soon discovered the turning point-
Chapter completed!