Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

At first, there was sunlight shining through the sky, dimly shining on the lawn through the fog. However, not long after, the fog became so thick that you couldn't see your hand in front of you, and there was only a vast expanse of white in front of you.

"The basilisk's gaze is deadly. This is the only way to pull both of us into an invisible situation." Cassandra whispered to the other three, "But still, be careful, because snakes also have a keen sense of smell!"

Lecos couldn't see Harry and Ron's expressions, but he could feel the solemn atmosphere around them.

Faced with an invisible situation, they should have panicked.

Thinking of this, Lycos sighed deeply.

"Forget it, just go back the way you came." He whispered to Harry and Ron, "His target is me. I will lead him away and won't put you in danger."

In the end, Lycos couldn't ignore the lives of others.

After all, it was he who wanted to use the Horcrux Riddle, and it was he who failed to take good care of the Horcrux diary... In other words, this attack had a lot to do with Lecos.

So Lycos also wanted to solve this matter personally.

"Then what are you going to do?" In the fog, Lecos heard Harry's hesitant voice.

"Don't worry, I have a backup plan," Lycos said. "Leave as soon as possible and don't get in the way!"

Then, he heard several sets of footsteps, gradually moving away...

Lycos relaxed a little and was about to reveal his position.

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt a warm and soft palm on the palm of his left hand.

"Cassandra, you..."

"Let's face it together, okay?" Cassandra's voice sounded in Lycos' ears.

Along with the sound came a gust of moist hot wind, and it was unclear whether it was the dampness of the fog or the heat from the little witch's mouth.

Lycos opened his mouth slightly, then nodded slightly.

"it is good."

Then he suddenly raised his voice: "Tom, aren't you looking for me? I'm right here!"

After saying this, Lycos' whole body tensed up and he maintained the highest level of vigilance.

"I didn't expect you to be so loyal. You let your friends go early and face me alone?" Riddle's voice came from afar in the mist. "Don't worry, I have no interest in them for the time being."

"I just want to know why my future self would trust you so much? You're clearly just a traitor who betrayed the Death Eaters."

Lycos was silent and didn't say anything. He just calculated Riddle's distance based on the location of the sound in his mind.

"You know, Lecos, I've always been confident in my ability to bewitch people." Riddle didn't seem to care whether Lecos answered or not, and continued to talk to himself, "But when it comes to you, I can't bewitch you as I wish..."

"Is innate Occlumency really that miraculous? If I hadn't spent nearly a whole school year with you, I'd probably be like my future self, deceived by you and still trusting you deeply."

"What a shame, what a shame... Such a talented young man like you actually chose to stand against me."

Riddle thought Lekos would remain silent and was about to continue.

However, he didn't expect that Lycos suddenly spoke: "Shouldn't I stand against you?"

"What did you say?" Riddle's puzzled voice came from the fog.

"I say, shouldn't I be standing against you?" Lycos said softly, "For your own benefit, you cooperated with those goblins and condoned them to attack Hogwarts..."

"Tom, are you really worthy of your so-called identity as the heir of Slytherin and the spokesperson for pure-bloods?"

This time it was Riddle's turn to be silent.

"No matter how much Slytherin quarreled with the other three founders, he was still on the side of Hogwarts and was willing to protect the young wizards of Hogwarts," Lycos continued.

"The reason he wanted to purge Muggle-born students was less for the purity of wizarding blood and more for the confidentiality of Hogwarts Castle."

"Tom, do you really understand your ancestors? Do you really think a great magician would be so obsessed with the purity of his bloodline?"

"Shut up!" Riddle's voice sounded a little angry. "Do I understand Slytherin or do you? I tell you, all you said is just your own conjecture!"

"Do you really think so?" Lycos asked, "Isn't everything you said for your own benefit?"

Lykos said as he released Kassandra's hand and put his arm around her slender waist.

As expected, Riddle could no longer tolerate Lycos's questioning and shouted:

"I don't want to waste my time talking to you...get started!"

At the same time, Lycos was already prepared. He put his arms around Cassandra's waist and lifted her up from the lawn.

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Chapter 165 Interlocking Actions

Cassandra was very slim and light, so it was effortless to hold her in my arms, and her waist was very flexible, just like holding a cat.

However, at this moment, Lycos had no time to appreciate the feeling of holding a girl. He had to stabilize the flying magic that carried an extra person, and also be alert to the attacks of Riddle and the basilisk at any time.

"Tergeo."

Riddle's voice came from the thick fog.

Immediately, the fog dissipated at an extremely fast speed, and the castle shrouded in white gauze gradually emerged...

Lycos's mood quickly sank.

"I can't understand. Riddle is just a Horcrux, so how can he use magic?" Lycos rose more than ten feet into the air again, almost parallel to the top of the Astronomy Tower, with a confused look on his face.

"If you can't figure it out, forget it." Cassandra buried her face in Lycos's ear and whispered, "Remember not to look down. Just stay in place and don't fall. Leave the rest to me..."

Then, she hooked her left hand around Lycos' neck to help relieve the weight on his arm, and pointed the wand downwards with her right hand.

“Fumos.”

As Cassandra chanted the smokescreen spell, a thicker cloud of smoke enveloped Lycos and the other man, almost solidifying into substance.

Compared to the previous fog spell "Nebulus", the smoke spell "Fumos" has a somewhat similar effect, but it is a true defensive spell.

In comparison, Mist is more like an extension of a weather spell, which can quickly generate a foggy scene over a large area; while Smoke produces a more condensed smoke screen around the caster.

This smoke screen has a certain defensive effect and will not be easily blown away by other magic.

At this time, the smokescreen spell is just right to be used here.

Lycos relaxed a little.

After all, the basilisk has no wings, so it is impossible for it to fly up from the ground and reach the top of the astronomical tower to attack the two of them.

Then, the only person they would have to face was Tom Riddle, a Horcrux who didn't know how to cast spells...

"You give me surprises one after another, Lycos."

Tom Riddle's voice suddenly rang out, and this time his voice was very close, almost appearing next to Lycos.

"In my memory, I have an idea of ​​your flying method... Let me think about it. It must be my future self who perfected this method of flying and taught it to you, right?"

Lycos's eyes suddenly focused and he turned his head to look to the side.

The next moment, a tall boy with black hair walked in lightly from the smoke, with a strange smile on his lips and a wand in his hand that he was playing with gently.

His outline remained vague and eerily blurred, as if Lycos were looking at him through a foggy window...

However, compared to his previous state, Riddle's face now became clearer. Although he still emitted a strange, misty glow around him, the solidity of his body was getting closer to that of a normal person.

However, Lecos's first concern was not Riddle's condition, but the top of his head.

On top of the black hair, there was a rusty crown.

Although the rust on the crown makes it look very old, the blue gem in the center of the crown is still shining, emitting a breathtaking light.

That is……

"I finally know who took the Ravenclaw Diadem." Lycos gritted his teeth. "It seems you've been suspicious of me for a long time, right?"

"To be honest, I did trust you at the beginning, just like my future self... but I don't want to pin my hopes of success on others." Riddle said leisurely, playing with the wand in his hand.

"I don't understand why my future self would trust you so much. Judging by your behavior...did he even tell you where the crown is?"

"You know, even finding this crown took a lot of effort!"

Riddle obviously couldn't understand why his future self would tell the twelve-year-old wizard about something as important as the Horcrux one after another.

Of course, he could not have imagined that Voldemort had not actually told Lycos the location of the Horcrux Crown, but that Lycos was familiar with the plot and already knew the location of every Horcrux...

"Also, I have one more thing to correct." Riddle raised a finger. "It's no longer Ravenclaw's diadem. Her daughter gave it to me a long time ago."

"Oh, just brag." Lycos laughed out loud, "Don't think I don't know that you lied to Ms. Grey and told her that you would bring back her mother's crown..."

"Yet you have defiled this sacred crown, transforming it into a work of dark magic!"

The smile on Riddle's face slowly faded.

"You even know this?" he shouted coldly, "I really underestimated you, Lycos..."

"She trusted you so much, but you not only failed her, but even drove the basilisk to petrify her..." Lycos said slowly, "Don't you feel the slightest bit of guilt?"

"Tsk, what is guilt?" Riddle sneered. "What's the use of guilt? Can it make someone a great wizard? In this magical world, strength is everything!"

He looked at the wand in his hand and suddenly slowed down his speech: "Helena did help me a lot. I didn't want to harm her... but who would have thought that she would actually try to expose my plan!"

"Tell me, Lycos, can I not attack her?"

Riddle suddenly stopped playing with his wand and looked deeply at Lycos in front of him.

But Lycos fell into deep thought.

He frowned, thinking about the events of this school year.

According to the information just revealed by Riddle, it seems that all the clues can be strung together -

Tom Riddle, who was in the Horcrux diary, did not know when he gained enough power to leave the diary and wander around Hogwarts Castle as a memory.

His strange memory form, emitting a misty glow, can be seen at a glance as not a living person...but this form has some similarities with a ghost.

Nearly Headless Nick once told Lycos that the rumor about the Chamber of Secrets first spread among the ghost community...

It is conceivable that Riddle had already quietly infiltrated the ghost group earlier in this school year and secretly spread the rumor about Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

As it happens, this year marks the 500th anniversary of Nearly Headless Nick's death, and he has invited many familiar and unfamiliar ghost friends to Hogwarts to join in the fun, so there are quite a few new faces here.

Riddle can naturally join the ghost group with a new identity.

Of course, with his strange appearance, it would be best for him to find a ghost with enough say in the Hogwarts ghost group to vouch for him, otherwise he would likely be suspected by other ghosts.