Hogwarts: Undercover Death Eater Replaces the Dark Lord

Harry was as careless as his godfather. He didn't even think of dealing with the footprints. The Aurors of the Ministry of Magic were well-trained and could easily find the entrance to the secret passage.

"Dobby, take care of these footprints." Lycos looked down at the house-elf beside him.

"Dobby understands, don't worry, Mr. Hayden!" Dobby also lowered his voice and waved behind him.

The dust on the ground automatically floated up and then evenly sprinkled on the place where every footprint was stepped on... Soon, the footprints merged with the surrounding dust, and it was impossible to tell that someone had passed by here.

Seeing this, Lycos squatted down and groped to find a trapdoor on the ground.

The door blended in with the dusty floorboards, and even Honeydukes's owner probably didn't know it existed.

"After you go in, remember to help me clean up the marks on this door." Lycos looked at Dobby.

Dobby nodded, followed Lycos into the dark door, and waved again...

The trapdoor fell lightly back to the ground, and the dust outside was smoothed out again, as if no one had ever been there.

Of course, Lycos, who had already entered the door, naturally could not see this scene.

At this moment, he was walking on a set of broken and irregular stone steps. There might be one or two hundred steps on this set of stone steps, and he couldn't reach the end in a short time.

"Lumos."

Lycos lit his wand, wanting to see how far he had to go.

However, just as he lit his wand, a childish voice suddenly rang out from beneath the stone steps—

"Expelliarmus!"

In an instant, a dazzling red light pierced the darkness.

When Lycos heard the voice of the incantation, he reacted as if by reflex.

Before the wand in his right hand could extinguish the illumination spell, his left hand instantly pulled out another wand, and raised his hand to cast a shorter spell, "Expulso", which arrived first and hit the attacking disarming spell with a bang.

With a loud "boom", the entire secret passage seemed to tremble, and layers of dust fell from the top of the secret passage.

Fortunately, Lycos had heard the voice of the other party when he attacked, and temporarily withdrew some of his strength. Otherwise, the guy who cast the disarming spell might have been blown away by now...

"Harry, it's me." Lycos took back the wand in his left hand and reminded loudly.

"Harry Potter!" Dobby, who was following behind Lycos, also jumped up excitedly. "Dobby didn't expect the great Mr. Potter to be here too. It's great to be following Mr. Hayden!"

"Dobby? Why are you here?" Harry lifted the hood of the invisibility cloak, revealing a head floating in the air.

Then, before he could even wonder why Dobby was here, Harry started asking a series of questions: "Sorry, I didn't realize it was you guys... Is your situation over? How's the situation outside now?"

"It's going to be chaotic out there for a while." Lycos shook his head. "Hopefully, this will buy Sirius some time, so he doesn't get searched shop by shop by shop by the Ministry of Magic."

However, just as he finished speaking, Lecos noticed that Harry's head floating in the air seemed to be hesitant to speak.

"Um, Sirius..." he mumbled.

"What happened to Sirius?" Lycos asked in surprise, "Could it be that he has been captured? Hiss...this guy can't be so cowardly, right?"

"How could I be so cowardly?!" At this moment, another unshaven head emerged from under the invisibility cloak. "You are so reckless, you actually dared to use the flying sand and rock spell in the secret passage!"

Sirius skillfully lifted the invisibility cloak, revealing his tattered clothes and skinny body.

"There are only a few secret passages from the castle to Hogsmeade left now that have collapsed. Be careful not to blow this passage down too... Apart from the one in the Shrieking Shack, this was the secret passage we used most often back then..."

He held onto the rough wall of the secret passage and spoke carelessly.

"Forget it, it's okay if one passage collapses, we can always find another... But I'm afraid that the three of us won't die at Voldemort's hands, but will be buried in the secret passage instead!"

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Chapter 217 Where is Barty Crouch's house?

Lycos looked at Harry, whose head was floating in the air, and then at Sirius, who was leaning against the wall, feeling very puzzled.

"Wait a minute, one of you explain this to me." He raised his hand, interrupting Sirius's frivolous banter. "How did you two get together? Was Harry so quick?"

"To be precise, it was actually Sirius who found this place himself..." Harry raised his hands and said weakly, "I didn't even have time to get out of the secret passage."

"Yes, after all, I felt that hiding from the Aurors wasn't a solution," Sirius agreed. "So I thought of the other secret passages from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade, and tried a common one."

"It just so happened that those Aurors and Dementors were led away for some reason, so my journey was relatively smooth. I just didn't expect to run into Harry..."

"But that's strange," Lycos glanced at Sirius, "Why is there only Harry's footprints in the cellar of Honeydukes?"

"I'm not stupid," said Sirius. "Who knows if those footprints might be Aurors? I have to be careful not to leave any traces, so as not to attract their attention."

"I think you're just stupid," Lycos sneered. "If you had taken care of your tracks in the Shrieking Shack at all times, at least cleaned up the dog's paw prints... how could the Ministry of Magic possibly suspect an Animagus?"

At this moment, Harry took a hesitant step forward.

"Lex, it's not Sirius' fault," Harry said thoughtfully. "Sirius just told me the whole story... He's been hounded by the Aurors the whole time and hasn't had time to deal with any traces of the Shrieking Shack."

"How could this happen?" Lycos frowned. "He was staying quietly in the Shrieking Shack. How could he have been discovered by those Aurors?"

"No, those Aurors have found a way to deal with Sirius." Harry's face was not very good, and he even looked a little guilty. "In fact, it was because of me that Sirius had to show up..."

After hearing Harry's explanation, Lecos became even more confused.

"But haven't you been staying in Hogwarts Castle?" he asked in great confusion.

"No, it's because..."

Before Harry could finish, Sirius shook his head at him.

"Don't feel guilty, Harry. It was my fault for not being able to tell the difference clearly." Sirius sighed. "The Ministry of Magic must have used Polyjuice Potion. They've had people disguise themselves as Harry several times..."

"Once, I saw Harry being chased by several Dementors, so I followed him and used the Patronus Charm to drive them away... But that 'Harry' turned around and cursed me... Fortunately, I realized something was wrong in time and kept my eyes open, otherwise I might have been caught."

"Later, the Ministry of Magic used Polyjuice Potion several times, transforming into Harry to lure me out... I couldn't bet on whether it was the real Harry, so they gradually figured out my whereabouts."

Sirius glanced at Harry and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Actually, when I came to this secret passage and found Harry there, I almost suspected that this was also a fake Harry..."

"But this invisibility cloak can't be faked. James and I have explored countless secret passages and experienced countless adventures wearing it... I am too familiar with this piece of clothing on Harry."

Lycos looked at the two of them and nodded slightly.

"I see." He said slowly after thinking for a while, "That is to say, the Ministry of Magic has discovered your activities during this period. And just this morning, they were completely sure that you were temporarily staying in the Shrieking Shack, so they sent a large number of Dementors to hunt you down."

"That's right, they came too quickly. I didn't have time to deal with those footprints." Sirius said bitterly, "I said I should just kill that treacherous Peter and then I should just leave the country..."

"No, Sirius, you can't think like that!" Harry immediately retorted, "Dumbledore is still working on this matter. He will find a way to clear your name!"

"But those idlers in the Ministry of Magic don't want to let me go!" Sirius raised his voice. "They just want to cover up their mistakes and maintain the authority of the so-called Ministry of Magic, even at the cost of using a child..."

"And I suspect they went to the Dursleys' to collect my hair!" Harry shouted. "Because the Ministry of Magic can't reach inside Hogwarts, they break the law knowingly and don't even care about the Statute of Secrecy!"

The two of them grew angrier and angrier as they talked, and Sirius was almost ready to curse all the officials in the Ministry of Magic to their very last eighteen generations...

Harry wasn't one to curse, but the resentment in his eyes was almost overflowing.

"The question now is... who came up with this despicable plan?" Lycos sat on a stone step, rubbing his brow. "I don't think Scrimgeour would be the one to come up with such a vicious plan..."

"Yes, Scrimgeour is certainly not that kind of person. But the Ministry of Magic is full of people like him!" Sirius gritted his teeth and said, "When I was surrounded earlier, I overheard that the order to use Harry to lure me out was issued directly from the Minister of Magic's office..."

"It seems to be saying that this is an order from the Senior Deputy Minister of Magic?"

When he heard the title of "Senior Deputy Minister", Lycos was stunned.

If we say that the Minister of Magic changed no less than three times throughout the original book, then the Senior Deputy Minister has hardly changed, and is represented by one person from beginning to end.

Dolores Umbridge.

The pink toad who is extremely famous both in the original book and in the real magical world.

"If it's that Umbridge, I don't think it's surprising..." Lycos rubbed his temple with a headache. "No matter how vicious the plan is, it's not too much."

"How do you know so much about the Ministry of Magic..." Sirius glanced at Lycos, but didn't think much about it. He then muttered indignantly, "I remember now, it's this disgusting woman!"

"It was she who drafted the anti-werewolf bill a while ago, making it almost impossible for Remus to find a job. If Dumbledore hadn't remembered him and given him the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Remus would have died..."

"But no matter how disgusting Umbridge is, it would be difficult to restore your reputation if you were to confront her." Lycos looked at Sirius and said softly, "I'm afraid Dumbledore is also worried about this."

"How many times have I told you this? Reputation doesn't matter!" Sirius sneered. "If Dumbledore can't solve this, I'll sneak into the Ministry and kill Peter myself..."

"Don't forget, your Animagus form is already unsafe," Lycos interrupted him immediately, "let alone trying to sneak into a place like the Ministry of Magic. Do you think they would let a big dog break into their office?"

"I can borrow James's invisibility cloak..." Sirius obviously wanted to argue.

Lycos put his hands on Harry's shoulders to stop him from making any sound.

"Let's not talk about whether Harry will agree to lend it to you. Even if he agrees, can you easily sneak into the Ministry of Magic with it?" Lycos asked, "Moody's magic eye alone can easily penetrate the invisibility cloak..."

"Wait, how do you even know about old Moody's magic eye?" Sirius interrupted him suspiciously.

Lycos's tone paused.

Being with two big brutes like Harry and Sirius, I accidentally got too excited and said things I shouldn't have said...

"Ahem..." Lycos coughed twice, his mind spinning rapidly, "Regulus mentioned something to me, and I just happened to remember it..."

After that, he quickly changed the subject: "Well, time is limited, and I have other things to deal with... Harry, take Sirius back to the castle to take shelter first. It would be best to hand him over directly to Dumbledore or Professor McGonagall..."

Lycos looked at Dobby again, "Dobby, take me to another place."

"Dobby is happy to serve Mr. Hayden!" Dobby, who had not spoken for a long time, jumped out excitedly.

As he said this, he grabbed Lycos's arm.

"Wait, where are you going?" Sirius quickly took two steps forward and grabbed Lycos's other arm. "It's a mess outside now. You'll be in danger if you go alone!"

"I know my limits," Lycos said softly. "I might have caused a big mess by trying to lure those Aurors away this time... There has to be a solution to this problem."

"What on earth have you done..." Sirius's face gradually darkened.

"Nothing." Lycos shook his head, then broke free from Sirius's hand and looked at Dobby: "Let's go to Malfoy Manor."

The next moment, with a crisp "bang", Dobby and Lycos disappeared from the secret passage under Honeydukes' cellar.

Lycos's departure also took away the only light, which was the wand in his hand that was holding the illumination spell... The passage instantly fell into darkness, until Harry lit his wand, and some light was restored in the secret passage.

In the dim light of the wand's illumination spell, Harry and Sirius looked at each other.

However, they also knew that time was running out, so they didn't hesitate any longer and turned to walk towards the other side of Honeydukes' cellar, which was the direction of Hogwarts Castle...

"Dissendium."

Sirius asked Harry for a map to the living quarters, and after confirming that there was no one in the corridor, he skillfully tapped the exit with his wand and chanted the Splitting Spell.

Two people walked out from the hunched one-eyed witch statue, wearing invisibility cloaks, and walked towards the principal's office.