The mastermind behind Hogwarts

Chapter 320 Night Meeting with Lockhart

Late at night, in a classroom on the third floor of Hogwarts, Moriarty and Lockhart were discussing confidential matters.

The fact that the Magic Institute and Durmstrang came to Hogwarts was beyond everyone's imagination.

As soon as the news spread, Moriarty immediately arranged to meet with Lockhart to ask him what was going on with this contact person for the joint education program whom he had personally appointed.

Lockhart looked puzzled, then spread his hands and explained helplessly, "Young master, I have never been in contact with the magic institute, and this Japanese school has never had any history of contact with Hogwarts."

This time, the Institute of Magic directly sent diplomatic messages to Minister Fudge, completely bypassing us. We...we were kept in the dark.

"I know about this."

Moriarty gave a heavy snort.

Now that the pure-blood families are on good terms with him, and the diplomatic message from the Magic Institute has just been delivered to Fudge's office desk, a pure-blood family has already sent a message to him.

As soon as Fudge took the stage, a magic school in Asia came up to him to express its goodwill, and Fudge certainly wouldn't refuse!

Moreover, Fudge's statement was quite high-sounding: when Moriarty formulated the joint education plan, his intention was to unite all eleven magic schools in the wizarding world.

Isn't the Magic Institute one of the eleven magic schools?

The inclusion of the Magic Institute is of great significance for the global promotion of the United Education Program.

The letter from the pure-blood family recorded all of this in detail.

This is why Moriarty was angry; Fudge was being cunning and indirectly making things difficult for himself!

This dishonest minister needs to be taught a lesson.

He had said that he wanted to unite all eleven magic schools in the magic world.

But sandwiches have to be eaten one by one, and eleven magic schools have to unite one by one!

It was only natural for Moriarty to unite with Ilfamoni and Beauxbatons. How much groundwork did Moriarty lay in the early stages? They all had intricate connections with Hogwarts and with Moriarty himself.

Even Durmstrang had a certain degree of friendship with Hogwarts.

The purpose of his proposed joint education plan was to first unite several schools in Europe and America, and then unite other magic schools.

Now that the magic institute has emerged, it could very well lead to a bad start for the grand scheme of joint education, or even cause it to collapse!

Moriarty's trip to Japan made him feel even more that the magical world of Japan was a deep pool, and he didn't want to get involved in it right now.

It wasn't that Moriarty was afraid of Japan and the Magic Institute, but rather that once the mystery of the prophecy of immortality was unveiled and its full picture was understood, the true identity of the Japanese BOSS would naturally be exposed.

Instead of the current situation, where the Japanese boss and the magic institute are lurking in the shadows—Moriarty suspects that the magic institute has already been infiltrated by the Japanese boss.

Otherwise, why would the magic institute choose this time to come to Hogwarts?

And there must be a mole in Hogwarts!

Otherwise, how would the Magic Institute know that Ilvermorny and Beauxbatons had arrived at Hogwarts?

Moriarty narrowed his eyes. If things continued this way, with more and more people at Hogwarts, the School of Magic might very well try to infiltrate the waters.

In the blink of an eye, Moriarty had thought of many things. Lockhart noticed Moriarty's expression and remained silent until Moriarty's expression softened before carefully speaking.

"As for Durmstrang... well, Durmstrang's headmaster, Karkaroff, is a fence-sitter. After he heard that the School of Magic was also coming to Hogwarts, he wrote letters to many people, including Fudge, Professor Dumbledore, and me. My letter to you, young master, has very likely already reached Slytherin Castle."

Moriarty knew what was going on from Lockhart's sarcastic tone.

Karkaroff was originally a Death Eater.

Voldemort escaped punishment after his death by betraying the Death Eaters; he was a fence-sitter.

Moriarty met Karkaroff at the European Wizarding Duel Tournament two years ago; the latter was just the vice principal then, but has since been promoted.

Karkaroff, now the headmaster, naturally devoted even more attention to Durmstrang, which was originally ranked alongside Hogwarts and Beauxbatons as one of the three most prestigious magic schools in Europe.

But now Hogwarts has brought in Beauxbatons and Ilfamoni, seemingly poised to isolate Durmstrang.

The involvement of the Magic Institute became the final wand that broke Karkaroff. With Asian wizards arriving, Durmstrang's refusal to participate would be tantamount to isolating himself.

After careful consideration, Durmstrang was actually the least threatening to him.

Does Durmstrang have any well-known professors? No.

There was only one student, Krum, but he was completely defeated by him twice and was utterly vulnerable.

If it were Demstrand with Grindelwald, he might have had to put in a lot more effort; now, Demstrand only has a reputation.

Lockhart, observing the situation, said casually, "Given your relationship with Miss Fleur, I presume Beauxbatons pose no threat."

Moriarty shook his head. "The pure-blood families of France both fear and hate me. I recognized several pure-bloods among the student representatives from Beauxbatons. Just watch, they will definitely target me."

Thinking of this, Moriarty's lips curled into a cold smile.

"Speaking of Furong... she'd probably suffer if she were caught in the middle." Thinking of Furong, his cold smile turned into tenderness.

However, Beauxbatons is not a magic academy; Beauxbatons is led by Headmistress Maxim herself.

Interestingly, the professors leading the delegations from these schools were remarkably consistent, all sending their own principals.

Mrs. Maxim of Beauxbatons, Mr. Dawn of Ifamony, and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Professor Karkaroff will be leading the team in Durmstrang.

So, will the magic institute also send out a principal?

Moriarty immediately instructed Lockhart to report to him as soon as he had any news from the Magic Institute.

Lockhart patted his chest and assured everyone that he could obtain firsthand information from the Magic Institute because he was going to write a novel based on the Five Schools League.

This wasn't the first time Lockhart had done this job—using the guise of gathering material for his novel to collect intelligence.

The specific details of the five-school league haven't been finalized yet. Lockhart asked with a worried look, "Young Master, do you have any good ideas? The three principals and more than twenty professors have been discussing it for a long time but still haven't come up with anything. I'm so worried."

Moriarty thought about it and realized that it made sense. They had invited people, but they couldn't produce anything. This was the first joint educational event, and they couldn't afford to mess it up.

"Here's what we'll do: I'll go to Hogsmeade on Saturday and have them prepare some things. We'll finalize the details of the Five Schools League before the weekend ends."

The "they" Moriarty was referring to were naturally the pure-blood families and the Ministry of Magic.

Third-year students have the right to go to Hogwarts on Saturdays, provided they have their guardian's consent.

Although Moriarty has no parents, who can control him? If you want to find Moriarty's parents, Moriarty will take you to Slytherin's grave.

After settling these matters, Moriarty cast a Disillusionment Charm on Lockhart, sending him back to his office. He didn't forget to cast one on himself as well.

The two walked out of the classroom and heard Filch's angry shouts. Lockhart laughed loudly, "It's the Weasley twins and George! They come out every night to torment old Filch!"

A burst of laughter carried further and further away, seemingly coming upstairs.

Moriarty recognized them too, "It's Soldaya and Cedric."

Even the pure-bloods of the Selwyn family are going out at night with the twins; the second-year night-out group is growing bigger and bigger.

"Huh, why do I hear an American accent?" Lockhart listened for a while and noticed something was off, after all, American English and British English are different.

Moriarty twitched his lips. "I guess the twins have corrupted Iphamoni's students."

"Hahaha," Lockhart laughed heartily, "Now even if old Filch has alchemical tools, he won't be able to catch the twins. Master, shall I go take a look? Don't let those kids go too far."

Are you going to see the children?

He's clearly trying to show off again.

I'm too embarrassed to point it out to you.

Seeing Lockhart's playful mood, Moriarty waved his hand and let him go. He then walked towards the corridor.

As he reached the floating stairs, Moriarty caught a glimpse of a furtive dark figure darting into the first-floor corridor.

The children who wander around at night are so naughty.

Moriarty shrugged.

(End of this chapter)