Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

In such an environment, Lecos quickly integrated into it.

If he were to use one sentence to describe these days, Lecos would say: Every member of the Weasley family is talented and interesting to talk to. I love this place!

……

Before we knew it, Hogwarts was about to start.

"Lex, what are you doing?" Harry poked his head in from the door. "It's time to leave. Mr. Weasley asked me to call you!"

"Okay, I understand." Lycos responded casually and stood up from the bed.

He was holding an ordinary little notebook in his hand. The handwriting on the notebook stopped at the sentence "How are you?" written ten days ago, and there was no other content after that.

Two months have passed since Cassandra last replied to a message.

Lycos didn't know what had happened to her. They had clearly agreed to meet at the Vole family, but there was no news from her after that.

"Hurry up, the Ministry of Magic's car is here!" Mr. Weasley shouted from downstairs.

"I'll be right there." Lycos responded and put the notebook back into his snakeskin wallet.

Then, he adjusted his stiff expression slightly in front of the mirror, picked up the luggage that had been prepared long ago, turned around and walked down the crooked stairs, and came to the small courtyard of the burial grounds.

At this time, two old dark green cars were parked in front of the Weasley family's gate.

The driver seemed to be an employee of the Ministry of Magic. He was sitting in the driver's seat, looking around with a serious expression, trying to find any potential danger.

"Didn't the Ministry tell you about Sirius? You don't have to be so careful, do you?" Mr. Weasley said casually as he sat in the passenger seat of the first car and looked at the interior.

He looked a little unconvinced, and it seemed that he wanted to compare which one was better, the Ministry of Magic's modified car or his own modified old Ford Flying Car.

"I've heard that Dumbledore is vouching for Sirius Black." Although the driver said this, his eyes were still wandering around. "But Mr. Crouch disagrees. He believes that Sirius is undoubtedly dangerous."

"Why would he disagree?" Mr. Weasley said angrily. "If Crouch hadn't put Sirius in Azkaban without trial, would there have been such a big misunderstanding?"

The driver didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the two department heads and didn't say anything else.

But his eyes continued to scan outside the car, and he obviously trusted Mr. Barty Crouch, the former Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and now the Director of the Department of International Magical Exchange and Cooperation.

As Lycos reached the cars and was debating which one to get in, Harry rolled down his window and stuck his head out of the back seat of the first car.

"Lex, come here." Harry waved to Lecos.

Lecos nodded slightly, opened the door and sat in the back seat of the first car.

If a wizard wants to modify something, they always seem to think of the Untraceable Extension Charm.

As soon as he got in, Lecos found that the inside of the car was much larger than it looked from the outside. The small back seat could accommodate seven or eight people.

Now, there are six people sitting here: Lecos, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Percy and Ginny. The back seat is still very spacious, and there is even room for one more person to lie sideways on the seat.

"Lex, how's your homework preparation going?" As soon as they got in the car, Hermione couldn't wait to pass Harry and asked Lecos.

"Homework? Why would I need to prepare homework?" Lycos was stunned. "Who would prepare homework during the holidays?"

"But...but..." Hermione was stunned.

She had thought that Lecos, who had chosen all the elective courses, was a good student who loved learning just like her. She had never expected Lecos to say something like "Who would prepare homework if they were serious?"

"But didn't you sign up for all the electives?" Hermione took a long time to articulate her doubts. "The school doesn't offer make-up classes. If you don't study in advance, how will you catch up when you get to Hogwarts?"

"We'll see when the time comes." Lycos shrugged and said nonchalantly, "If it really doesn't work out, I'll just fail the course. If I fail, I won't have to rush through the studies next year."

Hermione was furious, snorted, turned around, and continued reading "Standard Spells: Level 3" by herself.

Lycos curled his lips and was too lazy to continue talking to Hermione.

What he didn't say was that he would have Cassandra's notes anyway, so passing a few exams would be no problem.

However, when he thought of this, Lycos thought of Cassandra's loss of contact and fell silent again... He didn't know whether Cassandra could still board the Hogwarts Express on time.

Maybe, once he got on the train, the little blonde witch would be waiting for him in the compartment like she did before?

……

After everyone was gathered, the two cars from the Ministry of Magic started moving.

Although these two dark green cars look ordinary in appearance, their functions are in no way inferior to the flying car modified by Mr. Weasley.

Whenever a red light comes, it will suddenly rush to the front of the line of cars without attracting the attention of other vehicles; when encountering a traffic jam, it can even squeeze its car in and pass between two rows of cars...

With this operation, they had a smooth journey and arrived at King's Cross Station early.

The driver from the Ministry of Magic helped them find a luggage cart, unloaded the boxes from the trunk, and then drove away.

They were followed by the Aurors stationed at King's Cross Station. They were all in uniform and vaguely protected the Weasley family, Harry and Lekos in the middle.

Soon, a group of people pushed luggage carts and walked towards the railing separating platforms 9 and 10.

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Chapter 200 Cassandra is Missing

Lycos crossed the iron railing between the two platforms and arrived at Platform 9 and 3/4.

He looked up and saw the familiar Hogwarts Express, its scarlet steam locomotive puffing smoke over the platform, which was filled with witches and wizards seeing their children off to the train.

After saying hello to the Weasley family and declining the offer to ride in the same carriage, Lycos hurriedly boarded the train.

He first found a carriage close to the entrance of Platform 9 3/4 and stared at the flow of people at the entrance from the window - Lycos was trying to find Cassandra.

It was still early and not everyone on the train had arrived yet. It would be inefficient to search each carriage one by one and it would be more likely that Cassandra would be missed.

……

An hour later, Lycos leaned against the window of the last carriage of the train, his brows tightly furrowed.

After seeing no one at the platform entrance, he waited until the train started moving and searched every carriage of the Hogwarts Express, but there was no sign of Cassandra.

It's unlikely that he'll end up in the same situation as Dobby, being stuck outside the entrance, right?

"What's wrong? Are you worried about something?" A gentle voice sounded in my ears.

Lycos looked up and saw a tall, brown-haired wizard standing next to him with a concerned look on his face.

"Cedric? Why are you here?" Lycos asked.

"I was just doing my routine inspection, and I happened to be in charge of the last few carriages," Cedric said. "I just saw you knocking on the doors of each compartment. Are you looking for something?"

"Oh yes, I almost forgot you're already in fifth year," Lycos said, understandingly. "Given your grades and performance, it's time for you to be elected Hufflepuff's prefect."

"Thanks to Professor Sprout for his support of me." Cedric shook his head and said modestly, "If you need anything, please tell me. I might be able to help."

"Well, I do need your help with something." Lycos nodded decisively. "Did you see Cassandra when you were inspecting the train? She's the Slytherin girl with long blond hair who used to hang out with me."

"Well... I really don't remember." Cedric thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Did you just search every compartment on the train?"

"I think so," Lycos said, "I can't figure out now whether she is deliberately avoiding me or she didn't get on the car at all..."

Hearing that there might be some little wizards who didn't get on the bus, Cedric's expression became serious.

"The lack of people on the train is no small matter. I'll ask the other prefects," he said quickly.

Then, Cedric hurriedly turned around and walked towards the first carriage where the prefects were.

"Will you come with me?" Cedric turned to Lycos and asked before taking action.

"Let's go together, so I can be the first to know the situation." Lycos quickly followed Cedric's steps.

The two walked to the prefects' carriage together and after asking around, they found that no prefect had ever seen Cassandra.

"Could she have just gone to the restroom on the train?" a female prefect asked. "After all, we're just doing a routine inspection, so it's normal that we can't remember everyone."

"Yes, I thought so too." Another prefect also echoed, "We are just roughly confirming the order of the carriage. Who can remember every student's face?"

"That's right. If we didn't already know each other, it's not impossible that we overlooked that girl."

"..."

Soon, the carriage became a mess.

Lycos looked at this scene, his brows furrowed even more.

He knew very well that what these prefects said was not without reason... The prefects' routine inspections were mostly just to confirm whether there were any safety hazards in the carriages and whether any little wizards were doing anything.

It would be too much to ask more than ten male and female class leaders to check whether all the hundreds of young wizards on the train have arrived.

After all, in the original book, second-year Harry and Ron didn't get on the bus, nor were they discovered by the prefects...

"It's not that coincidental, is it?" Cedric said tentatively amid the clamor. "Lex has checked every carriage, and we didn't see that girl when we inspected the train. I don't think it's likely she was on the train."

"What should we do then?" a prefect asked lazily, "Do we have to go all the way to inspect again?"

"Even if they really didn't get on the bus, there's nothing we can do." said another prefect.

Their words were recognized by several prefects, but some responsible prefects also expressed opposition.

They felt that they should at least report it to the conductor of the Hogwarts Express, and then inform Professor McGonagall through the two-way mirror on the train that connected to the Hogwarts Deputy Headmaster's office...

"quiet!"

A serious voice sounded.

Lycos turned around and saw Percy striding into the prefect's carriage... The "Head of Boys" badge on his chest was polished to a shine, and it seemed that he had already cracked the twins' prank of changing it to "Big Head Boy".

Percy walked over to Lycos with his chest puffed out and his head held high.

"What's going on here?" he asked, frowning. "Lex, why are you in the prefect's carriage?"

During the few days he stayed at the Weasleys' house, Lecos and Percy got to know each other. However, because of the use of dark magic, Percy never seemed to like Lecos very much.

"I……"

Without waiting for Lycos to answer, Cedric stepped forward and gave Percy a brief account of Cassandra's situation.

Percy frowned slightly.

"I see." Then, he said with a look of understanding, "I'll tell the conductor about this and have Professor McGonagall prepare... Is there anything else?"

Lycos had no other choice but to nod helplessly.

He turned and walked out of the prefects' compartment.

Just then, it suddenly got dark outside the window.

The train continued to move north without stopping. Outside the window, heavy rain began to fall. The glass was covered with a thick, sticky gray color, which gradually deepened.