Harry Potter and the Old Ones

Upon hearing the answer from "Gilderoy Lockhart", Dumbledore's face suddenly darkened, his eyes gradually became angry and gloomy, the knuckles of the hand holding the Elder Wand turned white, and he trembled slightly——

"Albus!" Professor McGonagall called.

"I'm fine, Minerva." Dumbledore sighed, and then continued to ask: "Who else is there in your organization?"

"Haha." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled, but did not answer.

"Answer my question, Mr. Lockhart," said Dumbledore, "if you want to get out of here alive."

"Haha..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled again, "You and I both know that you are not capable of killing me."

The expressions of Dumbledore and Professor Snape changed, especially Professor Snape, who showed a trace of sullenness.

"So I would like to offer you, the Order of the Phoenix, a deal." Gilderoy Lockhart said with a smile, "Or you can regard him as a request for cooperation between us and your Order."

"Cooperation?" Dumbledore asked, then a hint of sarcasm flashed across his face, "Do you think the Order of the Phoenix is ​​cooperating with you?"

"You want to drag us into your evil plans?" Dumbledore asked.

"If it were me..." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "If it were me, I wouldn't make such an arbitrary judgment before knowing the full story of the incident."

"You mean your organization is not evil?" Professor McGonagall sneered, "This is not a time to tell jokes. You are even taking advantage of children. You are even hurting children! I don't care whether Tiera is Grinder or not. Wo’s artificial life form! He is just a child in my eyes! No one! No one should hurt or use a child like this!"

"Calm down Minerva," Dumbledore advised, "Tell me, what is your organization?"

"I know you call us the 'Secret Party'. Although I like this name very much, but..." Gilderoy Lockhart paused and said, "But I would rather you call us by our official name."

"What name?" Dumbledore asked.

"Hmm..." Gilderoy Lockhart thought for a while and then said:

"Tarot Club."

"Tarot club?" Dumbledore asked, "The tarot card?"

"Yes." Gilderoy Lockhart nodded in response.

"So there are... twenty-two of you?" Dumbledore asked.

"Haha..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled, and then said, "Because there are twenty-two cards, does it mean there are twenty-two members?"

"You have more than this?" Dumbledore asked. "And the Minor Arcana?"

"Haha..." Gilderoy Lockhart smiled and did not answer, but turned to Professor McGonagall:

"We have never forced Tiera to do anything. He is our holy son and our king. To be honest, we deeply regret his loss, but this is something that cannot be helped. This is a necessary sacrifice. "

"Haha, a necessary sacrifice." Dumbledore said mockingly, "It sounds like something Gellert would say."

"Mr. Dumbledore, do you know what Tiera's card is among us?" Gilderoy Lockhart asked with a smile, "Each of us has a card that represents our identity in the Tarot Society. , I am the 'lover' card, I am a parasite, my magic...or the magic I got from the Tarot Society is the magic of flesh and blood...This is also the reason why I have never revealed my magic before. People know..."

"With all due respect." Dumbledore interrupted, "Then tell me, what card does Tiera represent?"

"He's the Hanged Man," Gilderoy Lockhart said, then smiled, "You should all know what that means."

"Self-sacrifice, dedication..." Dumbledore narrowed his eyes and said, "Sacrifice..."

"Is this why you hurt him?" Dumbledore asked. "Is this why you used a child as your tool?"

"We never used him, we never hurt him." Gilderoy Lockhart said. "His pain, everything about him, everything he encountered, were the choices of fate, and they were the key to his becoming a king. The sufferings he must go through on the road, those...are his crown of thorns!"

"This reason is really high-sounding." Professor McGonagall said.

"This is fate." Gilderoy Lockhart said, and then looked at Dumbledore, "I know you want to adopt him, I know you want to adopt Tiera."

Dumbledore suddenly stiffened.

"Please, please adopt him." Gilderoy Lockhart said, "No matter where he is, he is still our Son, and he is still our King."

"Gilderoy Lockhart" suddenly transformed into a wormy aggregation of countless flames.

"No!" Dumbledore shouted, raised the Elder Wand and pointed at the water balloon, and then waved his other hand towards the others——

An invisible force rushed towards the other members of the Order of the Phoenix, pushing them down to the ground.

Just when they lay down, a storm of flames passed almost directly above their heads.

Only Dumbledore stood there. The Elder Wand stretched forward, and an invisible giant shield appeared in front of Dumbledore, briefly blocking the flames, but still——

The giant shield was being burned and eaten away by the flames bit by bit. The entire space seemed to be in an extremely high temperature. Dumbledore's face turned red, and a trace of water mist rose from Dumbledore's body.

But this situation did not last long. The flames quickly converged and gathered in the center of the cave, turning into the appearance of "Gilderoy Lockhart".

"Gilderoy Lockhart" waved his hand, summoned "Crazy Walker" and "Inheritance" into his hand, and then looked at Dumbledore with a smile——

"You see, Mr. Dumbledore," said Gilderoy Lockhart, "you can't kill me, you can't even trap me."

"You can't do anything to me—"

"Avada Kedavra—" A green light flew out from the tip of Snape's staff as he climbed up from the ground, hitting Tiera with lightning speed.

"Gilderoy Lockhart"'s smile suddenly froze, and he fell weakly backward for a distance -

"Aha!" Gilderoy Lockhart stood up straight again. A thick, green worm came out of Gilderoy Lockhart's body and landed on the ground, but was pulled out of Gilderoy Lockhart again. The tentacles sticking out from under the sleeves of the robe were rolled back——

"I said it." Gilderoy Lockhart turned around with a smile and looked at Snape, "I said it, there is no way you can kill me, and there is no way you can tie me up. I am no longer The Gilderoy Lockhart of old."

Dumbledore also looked at Snape.

"It never hurts to try," Snape said with a shrug.

"So, now, Mr. Dumbledore." Gilderoy Lockhart turned around again and looked at Dumbledore, "Cooperate? Or will the first operation after the Order of the Phoenix reunite be in vain."

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