Chapter 118 Confession

"In that case, Professor Lockhart, can you prove it?" Mike continued to stimulate Lockhart, "I heard that the Patronus Charm is an extremely complex and difficult spell. In ancient times, whether one can release a Patronus with a complete entity or whether one can become an important basis for high-level officials of the Wizengamot and the Ministry of Magic. I think as a well-known and respected white wizard, you should also be able to release the Patronus Charm, right?"

Lockhart hesitated for a long time and couldn't say anything. The expression on his face became more and more ugly, and he was about to explode.

Seeing Lockhart's expression, Mike knew that the fire was almost ready, so he decided to add more strength.

"Professor Lockhart, you are also the winner of the Order of Merlin, the third class. I originally thought you should be a powerful wizard." Mike said, "But why did I hear that the reason you won this medal is because you improved the Oblivion Charm, which greatly reduced the side effects of the Oblivion Charm?"

Lockhart's face turned pale when he heard this, and he was stunned. He didn't even notice that the juice in his hand accidentally dripped on his body.

"You know everything! Did they tell you?" Lockhart said blankly.

Mike did not respond, but gave Lockhart an unfathomable smile.

"How could they do this? They swore to me! They swore to keep a secret for me!" Lockhart screamed hysterically.

Lockhart's emotions were out of control at this time. Seeing this, Mike pulled Franklin aside and quickly retreated. He moved his wand slightly, and the armor protection spell covered the two of them.

"Calm down, professor!" Mike shouted.

Lockhart had already picked up his wand at this time, but seeing Mike's vigilant look, and seeing the house elves around him all gathered around with nervous faces, he silently put away his wand again.

"Tell me what you want! As long as you can keep a secret, I will satisfy you!" Lockhart gritted his teeth and said, "You damn vampires! Everyone wants to exploit me! Dumbledore is like this, and now you are the same!"

Seeing his reaction, Mike knew in his heart that the unlucky Lockhart was indeed caught by Dumbledore and tricked into Hogwarts. Seeing that Lockhart's reaction did not seem to be fake, Mike also ruled out Lockhart's suspicion. So he put on a bright smile again and said:

"Professor, you misunderstood, I am not threatening you..."

"Huh? Then you are deliberately using this matter to humiliate me?" Lockhart interrupted before Mike finished speaking. He had tolerated Mike for a long time today. Mike

's smile froze on his face. He didn't expect that Lockhart, a graceful and sincere man, would actually be so irritating.

"Then you can think of me as threatening you!" Mike's face darkened. "I can accept your interview, and you can write that novel, but I must be the protagonist. Moreover, you must show me the manuscript you wrote. If there is anything that makes me dissatisfied, you know the consequences."

It is not known whether it is because they have completely torn their faces apart that Lockhart's attitude has obviously become arrogant. He leaned back and crossed his legs. Lockhart said: "I can promise you, but we must sign a contract to prevent you from using this matter to threaten me again! Use the contract magic used exclusively by Gringotts!" Mike

has also heard of this kind of contract, which is often used in business contracts in the wizarding world and has a very strong effect. In addition to being backfired by powerful magic, those who violate the contract will be completely blacklisted by Gringotts as untrustworthy persons, and will definitely be unable to move forward in the wizarding world in the future. But Mike also had a doubt in his heart, and asked:

"Wait a minute, if you have that kind of thing, why are you still worried about 'them' leaking the secret?"

Lockhart's face turned red again when he heard this, and he shouted angrily: "Are you playing dumb again, you damn kid? The contract is useless to wizards of Dumbledore's level! Well, stop talking, come and sign the contract. And that black boy also has to sign a contract with me, make sure he won't spread what happened today!"

After confirming that Lockhart was not the heir, Mike had lost interest in him and just wanted to leave this place quickly, so he decisively agreed.

Lockhart couldn't wait to take out two pieces of parchment from the bag of traceless extension spells he carried with him, and wrote the contract with his gorgeous peacock feather pen. One was handed to Mike, and the other was thrown in front of Franklin.

Mike looked at the contract, which described in great detail that Lockhart was a liar and memory thief, and also wrote that Mike had to keep this secret for Lockhart and the rights he should enjoy.

After carefully inspecting the entire parchment and finding no other patterns or other hidden clauses that might be written in the language of other races, Mike signed his name at the signature.

Compared to Mike, the contract given to Franklin was much simpler. Franklin signed it early and wanted to secretly look at the contents of the contract in Mike's hand, but was stopped by Lockhart's slap.

Franklin stepped back to avoid the slap, turned back and glared at Lockhart. He was very dissatisfied with Lockhart's current attitude. Unexpectedly, Lockhart also became tough and glared back.

The two stared at each other for a long time, until Mike signed his name, Lockhart snatched it away, snorted coldly, and left the kitchen.

Franklin looked at Lockhart's figure going away, and said indignantly to Mike who was packing up and preparing to leave: "He is too arrogant. Although I don't know what handle you have on him, I think you shouldn't let him go!"

Mike looked at Franklin in surprise, and saw that his face full of indignation was still childish. Then he realized that he was still a 12-year-old child, so he said to him earnestly:

"Franklin, we are not street vendors. We will go up and kill him if he is a little disrespectful to us. Have a better mentality. He suffered a great loss under our coercion, and we can't allow him to be arrogant?"

After saying that, Mike took the lead and left his seat. Seeing this, Franklin hurriedly followed.

At this time, there were still many delicious dishes on the table that had not been touched, which made the house elves very uneasy. They thought that they did not do well and let the guests not enjoy themselves. One of the most extreme house elves probably learned it from the foot basin chicken and had already put a knife on his belly and prepared to commit suicide by cutting open his stomach.

For this reason, Mike had to stop and appease the house elves, explaining to them that it was because they were not hungry and not because the food was not delicious, and promised to come again next time. Only then did the two of them get away.

Rogers had originally arranged for Mike to go to Quidditch training this afternoon, but there were too many troubles today, and Mike was no longer in the mood to train.

Walking quickly towards the Ravenclaw Tower with Franklin, Mike missed his sofa chair very much.