Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

"Ah, this..." Harry's expression turned a little unnatural, "I haven't started writing yet... Actually, I get bored when I start doing homework, so I haven't started yet."

"Okay, that makes sense," Lycos said.

"So... Lycos, have you finished your homework?" Harry asked hopefully. "If you have, could you give me some pointers?"

"Are you kidding? Why would I do homework?" Lycos said confidently, "I'm still waiting to learn from others!"

He thought it would be better to practice more spells than to do useless homework. So Lycos usually did his holiday homework all night long before school started, studying Cassandra's standard templates.

Harry: "..."

He originally thought that Lecos was so good and should be a top student like Hermione, but he didn't expect that he was just a poor student like him and Ron... No, he can be so good even without doing homework, Lecos should be called the academic genius.

"By the way, Lecos, have you bought your textbooks and school supplies for the new semester?" Harry could only silently change the subject. "We can go to Diagon Alley... I heard that Ron and the others are coming here today, maybe we can run into them."

So Lycos and Harry walked down the stairs to the first floor, passed the bar of the Leaky Cauldron, and came out into the small walled courtyard, which was empty except for a trash can and some weeds.

The Aurors also followed them consciously, hanging behind them at a distance.

"Count three up, then two sideways..."

Lycos hadn't used this passage in a long time. Even when he lived here, he preferred to take shortcuts by jumping out the window. He almost forgot the "password" to pass through here. Only after Harry whispered a reminder did he finally remember...

He took his wand and tapped it on the brick wall.

The next moment, the knocked brick began to shake violently, and a small hole appeared in the middle of the brick wall.

Then, the hole grew larger and larger, and soon a wide archway appeared in front of them, wide enough for two people to pass through side by side, leading to a winding cobblestone street that seemed to have no end in sight.

After not seeing it for a year, Diagon Alley seemed to have not changed much, still looking isolated and unchanging.

Only a few shops have replaced their merchandise with new ones, and the occasional Hogwarts students passing by to buy supplies for the new semester have given this ancient alley some new vitality.

"Lex, I haven't had time to ask you yet," Harry couldn't help but ask as they walked along the winding cobblestone road, "You told me before that Xiaotian..."

"Shh—" Lycos was startled and quickly stopped him from continuing.

He glanced at the Auror behind him with a hidden look, indicating that Harry should not ask this matter in front of others.

The Aurors are keeping a close watch on Sirius. If they knew that Lycos had told Harry about Sirius, I'm afraid Lycos would be arrested by the Ministry of Magic...

Harry had no choice but to hold the question in his throat and nodded somewhat gloomily.

"Just released... a sample broom..."

Just then, a noisy discussion came from the street.

Lycos and the other man subconsciously looked over and found that many people were crowded there watching the fun.

"It seems to be over there at the Quidditch boutique." As soon as Harry mentioned Quidditch, his previous depressed mood instantly dissipated and he excitedly squeezed over there.

Lycos had no choice but to follow.

They squeezed among the excited witches and wizards until they came to a newly erected podium - and on the podium was a broom that was almost the most beautiful broom that Lycos and Harry had ever seen.

"This is the fastest flying broom in the entire wizarding world!" the shop owner was still advertising. "The Irish international team just ordered seven of these beautiful brooms. This product is a favorite at the World Cup!"

Lycos glanced over there, then lost interest and turned his head to look away.

He had never cared about things like flying brooms, after all, he could fly... and Lycos also knew that it was a Firebolt, and Sirius would probably buy one for Harry in the future.

Now, Lekos's target is entirely on the Weasley family.

He was just waiting for Ron Weasley to show up so he could get close to him and then find a chance to capture Ron's pet rat, Scabbers, also known as Peter Pettigrew.

"Forget it, I already have a Nimbus 2000..." After staring at the Firebolt for a long time, Harry finally sighed deeply, "I've never lost on a Nimbus 2000."

After saying that, he forced himself to turn his head and look at the bored Lycos.

"Lex, have you bought your textbooks?"

"Not yet. Do you want to go together?" Lycos pointed in the direction of Flourish and Blotts.

"Let's go." Harry nodded. "I've already been there... but I think I should warn you first - be careful with books when you get to the bookstore. They can bite!"

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Chapter 183: The Monster Book of Monsters

"You mean... "The Monster Book of Monsters"? " Lycos asked casually.

"Huh, you know that book?" Harry's eyes widened in surprise. "Haven't you had time to buy the textbooks for the new semester yet?"

"Oh, I saw it in a book by chance." Lycos said leisurely.

Well, I saw it in a book called Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban...

When he walked to the window of Flourish and Blotts, even though he had prepared himself mentally, Lycos still felt a little frightened.

The bookstore's window usually displayed a book of spells as big as floor tiles, embossed in gold, but now that book was gone, replaced by a large iron cage.

The cage contained hundreds of strangely shaped books.

The covers of these books extend outward, stretching out tentacle-like branches... They use these tentacles to crawl back and forth in the cage, and when the tentacles are combined, they become teeth. When the books open and close, it looks like a big mouth full of fangs.

From the rough but uniquely beautiful green cover, you can vaguely see a line of large golden characters - "The Monster Book of Monsters".

The books were locked together, wrestling furiously, biting and fighting with a belligerent attitude, with broken pages flying everywhere. Lycos couldn't help but feel sorry for Flourish and Blotts...

With so many books destroyed by infighting, the loss is quite significant.

When Lycos and the other man walked into the bookstore, the anxious manager of Flourish and Blotts hurried over to them.

"Hogwarts?" he asked quickly. "Are you here to buy new books?"

"Yes," said Harry, opening the list of books he had received from Hogwarts, "I need—"

"Please move aside." The manager covered his forehead with a headache, then pushed Harry aside impatiently.

He frowned, put on a pair of thick gloves, picked up a thick, knotty cane, and walked towards the iron cage containing the "Monster Book of Monsters".

"Wait a minute," said Harry quickly, "I already have this book."

"Already have it?" The manager's face lit up with relief as he took off his thick gloves. "Thanks, Merlin! I've already been bitten by these monster books five times this morning!"

However, just as he was about to put the gloves back, Lycos coughed twice.

"Ahem..." Lycos said sympathetically, "Although he has this book, I don't have it yet..."

"You also chose this course?" The manager's expression fell again.

Lycos gave a harmless smile and nodded silently.

The manager sighed and put his thick gloves back on.

However, at this moment, a loud tearing sound suddenly came from the cage. Two copies of "The Monster Book of Monsters" grabbed the third one and tore it apart together, and the fragments of pages flew all over the cage.

"Stop! Stop!" cried the manager in agony, thrusting his cane between the bars and striking the books apart.

"I'm never going to stock any more of those books, ever! They're such a mess! We've had two hundred copies of 'Invisible Books of Invisibility' before, the ones that would turn invisible all of a sudden..."

The manager was obviously on the verge of collapse, and his voice became trembling.

"I thought nothing could be worse than invisible books—those were expensive and a hassle, but they were better than these monsters. At least they didn't cause any damage!"

Lycos and Harry stood there in silence, watching with sympathy as the manager vented his emotions.

However, after a long time, the bookstore manager still hadn't recovered.

Lycos was getting a little impatient, so he didn't bother to pay attention to the miserable bookstore manager. He reached into the iron cage and grabbed a copy of "The Monster Book of Monsters".

"Wait! Lecos, what are you doing?" Harry was startled by Lecos's actions, "Be careful these books will bite you!"

He was afraid that these monster books would rush over and bite off Lycos's hand...

However, Harry was shocked to find that when Lecos's hand reached into the cage, the books, which had been irritable as if they had bipolar disorder, began to tremble and kept retreating with their tentacles, as if they were avoiding Lecos's hand.

At this time, the bookstore manager also recovered.

When he saw Lycos's actions and the performance of those books, his spirit, which had just recovered, became dull again.

"This... How is this possible?" The manager muttered in a daze, "Isn't it possible that I haven't woken up yet?"

Lycos didn't care about that. He aimed at the area in the cage with the most "Monster Books of Monsters" and grabbed one of the intact books with his quick eyes and hands.

No one noticed that before grabbing the book, the imperceptible black flame wrapped around Lycos's hand quietly dissipated without burning the cover of the book.

The moment the flames faded, the manic books began to riot again.

The book in Lycos's hand was obviously no exception. It began to struggle constantly, opening and closing, trying to bite Lycos's hand into its "mouth".

"Let me think...it seems like I need to sort out these books." Lycos recalled the vague impression of the original work in his mind.

He held the book he was about to bite, following Hagrid's method, and then slid his index finger down the spine—

The next moment, the book stopped moving. The whole book trembled slightly, and the pages turned over consciously, lying quietly in Lycos's hand.

"It's really useful." Lycos nodded with satisfaction and closed the book.

To be on the safe side, he wrapped a piece of string around the book before stuffing it into his snakeskin wallet.

"Wait, what did you just do?" The manager didn't even see what Lekos did. He only saw the book lying quietly in Lekos's hands. "Merlin! This is the first time I've seen someone open this book!"

"It's not difficult, actually. You just need to master the technique." Lycos shrugged. "I heard from others that if you rub the spine of a book hard, it will calm down."

"Is this true?" the manager said excitedly. "Thank you so much! You've been a great help!"

He really wanted to put on his gloves and read every copy of the "Monster Books of Monsters" right away, but his logic told him that he should first serve the customers in front of him.

So, the manager, with a professional and grateful heart, said to Lycos, "You've really helped us a lot. How about this? I'll pay for all your meals today, okay?"

"Are you sure?" Lycos raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, we do business with integrity!" the manager assured, patting his chest.

Lycos nodded.

Then he quietly took out his book list and handed it to the bookstore manager.

The manager took the list of books, and his originally excited expression gradually cooled down - he saw that the list clearly recorded the textbooks for each subject.

"You... signed up for all the elective courses?" The manager's mouth twitched.

If it weren't for the Hogwarts book list as evidence, the bookstore manager would probably suspect that Lecos had heard that he was going to pay, so he deliberately bought all the books...

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