Chapter 83: Gilderoy Lockhart panics
Dumbledore announced and left quickly after giving some orders. Naturally the people around the protagonist would reduce their IQ and believes the rumors and accusations on the protagonist.
The current situation is the best example of this. If Jack did not remind them they would not think of this and let the protagonist solve the entire thing. But now Jack revealed this making things change.
Jack's suggestion did not offend Dumbledore. It is a good suggestion. So no one thought badly about that. Now that the things are revealed the professors asked them to return back to their dorm rooms and they are not allowed to go out without their permission.
While returning Jack met with Colin and got a copy of his photo from him, Because of the excellent deduction of Jack, Colin became a fan of Jack just like he is to Harry. So when Jack asked for a copy of his photo, Colin immediately gave one to Jack.
Jack immediately wrote a letter and sent it to Rita with the explanation of the situation. Immediately on the next morning edition news appeared with big letters that took the wizarding world like storm.
"THE MYSTERY DEATH AT HOGWARDS WAS SOLVED AFTER MANY YEARS BY A SECOND YEAR STUDENT"
There is a photo of Jack being highlighted while the professors of surrounded in the image. There is even Dumbledore in the image. The entire incident is clearly mentioned in the picture along with the stupidity or Ron to accuse Jack for being the initiator.
The article is so good that it instantly became a hit and it even spread to other countries. The name of Jack black became famous because of how quickly he solved the situation that has been a mystery for a long time.
Well it has been 50 years since the last case and it was still unsolved. They did not even try to solve it and let the school run normally. How stupid can someone be to let students stay at a place with mysterious death?
It is a serious safety hazard. If it was in the normal world with a snake in the school that can kill students at any time, will they still let the school run? Of course not, if they did, it is any different than pushing those students to their deaths.
So Jack solving this case is a big thing like a decades old case for the world of wizards. Coupled with his picturesque image and his deduction have made him popular among the young girls.
This did not cause any problem to Dumbledore because he has already informed the ministry of magic and the branch that deals with the magical creatures to search and capture it. They cannot just leave the basilisk like this and they cannot just kill it.
It is a fine specimen with long maturity so it has to be preserved well. The division of the magical creature protection has good ways to capture it and take care of the big creature. Professor Gilderoy Lockhart was shocked and was scared.
Well since he was an adventurous man they decided to make him the person that represents Hogwarts to give support to the team that comes to capture the basilisk. It is natural that he was frightened.
He is a fake adventurer that steals others adventures after all. He really wanted to leave Hogwarts right now. Because the professors live alone he can sneak away secretly. In his place most of the portraits are his image.
Even if he dies in the hands of the basilisk his portrait images would not come out to say anything because of fear. This made him shiver from fear. In the middle of the night he took a big leave of absence and wanted to leave Hogwarts right in the morning tomorrow.
But the sad thing is that he cannot go out and Dumbledore is busy with other things for him to get a chance to speak. On the next day people from the ministry of magic and magical creature protection department arrived.
They have decided to take professor Gilderoy as a confident because he has experienced many adventures. Jack was all smiles looking at the situation in the great hall. Gilderoy smiled which is far worse than crying.
He got the best smile award for 5 times but right now his smile is horrible. It looked more like crying than smiling to Jack. Jack did not care about that and looked at the show from unfolding.
Jack has already told about the façade of Gilderoy to Rita Skeeter. She went to find those victims that got their memories Erased by Gilderoy. When there is a charm that can erase the memories there are charms that can make people remember them.
She is going to do that and blast this bomb right when Jack told her to put on the show. For this the credit was shared between Jack and Rita Skeeter. With the arrangement they both are happy like two foxes making plans.
Even though they are far apart they gave out the same image right now. The students are not sent back to their homes right now. Instead the restrictions are increased just like in the third plot related to the escape of Sirius black and him hunting Harry.
Well Jack is still free to go around. They cannot stop him or track him as he has the authentic invisibility cloak he snatched and replaced with fake one with Harry potter. Also he can sense the basilisk's location making him easier to move around.
The people from the ministry started to track and they will stay at Hogwarts for the time being till they catch the basilisk and take it back. But Jack did not plan for them to catch it as it was a treasure that he wanted to collect. It is a beast that is living for a long time.
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