Chapter 131 The mysterious forces targeting Voldemort

PS: This is Chapter 128. There is a problem with the coding software. I just found that the chapter names are messed up and cannot be modified for the time being. Please forgive me.

Hogwarts, Headmaster's Office.

"Snape, how much do you know about what happened at Gringotts last night?"

Dumbledore sat on the chair, looked at Snape in front of him, touched his beard, and asked gently.

"Don't let me know which dark wizard did it. Let me catch him. I have to let him know what life is worse than death."

Upon hearing Dumbledore's question, Snape cursed fiercely.

He was in a terrible mood.

I received a notification from the goblin this morning.

The fierce fire in Gringotts last night caused damage to many vaults, and his vault was one of them.

Some items inside were damaged to varying degrees.

Now, he wanted to kill the dark wizard who sneaked into Gringotts last night with a thousand knives.

Of course, the same goes for the goblins of Gringotts.

These goblins, citing an accident as an excuse, did not intend to compensate him for his losses.

This made Snape very angry.

Dumbledore didn't react much when he heard Snape's curse. He immediately collected all the information about what happened at Gringotts.

Of course he knew about Snape.

Then

"Do you know where the fire comes from?" Dumbledore asked.

"Headmaster, just tell me where it is without going around in circles." Snape, who was in a bad mood, said calmly.

"If you know who infiltrated the Dark Wizard last night, tell me and I will make him regret coming into this world."

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Snape, there are Aurors to arrest people."

"However, I believe you can't guess the source of the fierce fire."

Looking at Snape's frown, he looked dissatisfied.

Dumbledore said with a serious face: "It's the Bellatrix vault."

"Bella?" Snape muttered, confused.

"Yes, that's her." Dumbledore nodded slightly.

Looking at Snape who was deep in thought, Dumbledore suddenly asked: "Snape, no one from the pure-blood family has been looking for you recently."

Regarding Dumbledore's question, Snape pondered for a moment, then slowly shook his head and said, "No, there has been no contact recently."

Then he couldn't help but ask: "Principal, are you saying that this matter has something to do with the Dark Lord?"

Dumbledore did not answer, but asked an irrelevant question: "Has Lockhart behaved strangely recently? You went to the auction with him yesterday, right?"

"Yes, what's wrong? Everything has been normal in Lockhart recently." Snape replied dissatisfied: "Headmaster, don't change the subject. Tell me, is Li Huo's matter related to the Dark Lord?"

Facing Snape's question, Dumbledore sighed and said slowly: "Bella is the Dark Lord's person and his most loyal subordinate."

"Do you know what I saw in her vault?"

Saying that, without waiting for Snape to ask questions, he regretfully said: "The looted treasury, the replica of the Hufflepuff Gold Cup, plus this fierce fire."

"Obviously, this definitely has something to do with the Dark Lord."

At this point, Dumbledore stopped answering, and Snape seemed to be thinking about something, full of confusion.

Is this action an action by the Dark Lord, or an action directed at the Dark Lord?

If it is the action of the Dark Lord, doesn't it mean that the Dark Lord will make some moves recently.

But that's not possible, because he hasn't received any relevant news.

And if it is an action against the Dark Lord, then who, or which force, dares to attack the Dark Lord.

After thinking for a while, Snape shook his head slightly. The amount of information was too little to make an effective judgment.

"Headmaster, what do you think?" Snape, who couldn't think of an answer, asked Dumbledore directly: "Do you think it was done by the Dark Lord, or was it done by other forces?"

"I'm not sure." Dumbledore hesitated: "However, I am more inclined to think that there are other forces targeting the Dark Lord."

"After all, these traps have all been triggered. If they are the Dark Lord's people, they shouldn't be so stupid."

At the end, Dumbledore also hesitated.

Because as far as he knew, there were quite a few idiots among the Death Eaters.

Especially when faced with so much treasure, it is impossible for them to trigger the trap with their greed.

However, after all, it is other forces that may do greater things.

"Other unknown forces?" Snape murmured to himself. For some reason, Lockhart suddenly appeared in his mind.

A lot of wealth, unknown magic materials, mysterious magic, buying potions in large quantities, buying house elves

It would be more reasonable to say that a mysterious force owns it.

Shaking his head slightly, Snape suppressed the suspicion in his heart, because he had no evidence to prove what he was thinking.

And I work so closely with Lockhart

When he thought of Lockhart's latest large order and the large amount of unknown magical materials, Snape did not study it in detail.

Just target the Dark Lord. He wished that the Dark Lord would be besieged by all the wizards.

Although he was on Dumbledore's side, he was only cooperating and not his servant.

Afterwards, Snape chatted with Dumbledore for a few words and then said goodbye.

Dumbledore looked at Snape's leaving figure, then withdrew his gaze and rubbed his temples in distress.

The reason why he mentioned Lockhart just now was because the goblins provided him with a piece of news.

It was Lockhart who took away all the treasures from his vault on the day the fire burned. This was such a coincidence.

That was why he asked Snape if Lockhart was attending the auction with him.

If it was because participating in the auction would cost a lot of gold galleons, this reason would make sense.

Wednesday night, Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

Click!

With the slight sound of the door opening, Harry walked out of the office and walked briskly towards the Gryffindor lounge.

Harry was in a nervous mood when he arrived at Lockhart's office on Sunday.

However, as he walked out of the office, his attitude suddenly changed, and after some exchanges with Professor Lockhart.

He has been thinking about how to translate the evil language "Parseltongue" for the past few days. He even thought that he was making a contribution to the entire wizarding world.

When I think about it, Professor Lockhart said that he will write a research paper on Parseltongue in a while, and his name will also be written on the paper, and it will also be published in the top journals in the wizarding world.

Harry felt very excited and excited.

suddenly!

Meow!

Harry, who had just reached the top of the stairs, suddenly spotted a small figure. Taking a closer look, it was Filch's pet cat, Mrs. Norris.

"Students over there, stop!"

Along with the cat's meow, a figure holding an oil lamp suddenly appeared.

"Filch, this is my application slip. I just went to Professor Lockhart's office."

Harry held up the note in his hand proudly.

He had often heard from Ron that Filch liked to catch little wizards traveling at night and punish them by wiping trophies and mopping floors.

However, this time he was not traveling at night. To be precise, with the note in his hand, Filch had no reason to arrest him.

"oh"

Seeing the note in Harry's hand, Filch sighed with regret.

"Let's go back to the lounge quickly. Don't let me catch you in the future." Filch said viciously.

Harry obviously didn't care about Filch's attitude.

However, when he thought of Professor Lockhart's previous instructions, Harry thought about it and said to Filch in front of him.

"Filch, just now Professor Lockhart said that if I meet you, you should go find him."

"Because Professor Lockhart said that he has an experiment that, if successful, may allow you to gain certain magical abilities."