Chapter 159: Embarrassing Lockhart!
The next day, having breakfast in the Great Hall, Astoria came to Harry again.
Everyone else wondered who she was, but no one came up to ask.
While they were drinking porridge, hundreds of owls flew in, threw letters and parcels in, causing a disturbance, and went out again.
Neville, the little fat man, received a lot of things he forgot to bring with him when he started school. He always forgets things, and it still hasn't changed at all.
Harry can help Neville change his personality, but he has a poor memory, so he can't help it, it's a hardware problem.
Professor McGonagall walked along the table and handed out the class schedule for the semester to each student.
Hermione holds a slice of fragrant bread in one hand while reading the book Traveling on a Ship with a Vampire.
"I find these stories really fascinating. "She was totally committed.
Harry doesn't deny how compelling these stories are.
Otherwise, Lockhart would not have become a celebrity with these adventurous books.
Professor McGonagall walked over to Harry, looked at Astoria twice, said nothing, and handed her the first-year class schedule.
When Professor McGonagall was gone, Astoria stuck out her tongue, "Aunt Minerva looks scary. ”
Harry looked surprised, "What do you call her?"
Astoria was puzzled and said, "Aunt Minerva. ”
"You guys, how did this relationship come about?"
"Oh, you say this, my mother made me shout that. I met her at my eleventh birthday party, along with the white-bearded old man yesterday. Astoria said happily.
Halisparta.
How do you feel that Astoria's family is so good, the little princess in the family can invite Dumbledore for her birthday.
Dumbledore wasn't that cheap, his status was really powerful, and he had many names on him: Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, former Transfiguration teacher, Order of Merlin, First Class, founder and secrecy of the Order of the Phoenix, president of the International Confederation of Wizards, and the Wizengamot Wizard High Court), he has been nominated by the Minister for Magic several times and is widely regarded as the greatest wizard of his time.
Some of these are official and some are unofficial.
If the wizarding world is compared to a country, Dumbledore's position is equivalent to that of a member of the Standing Committee, and he also serves as the Minister of Education.
So, not everyone can invite Dumbledore to their home for a birthday party for their children.
However, Dumbledore had little real power.
One is that Dumbledore himself is tired of things that are tied to ambition and power, and the other is that the Ministry of Magic will not want to have another person who can dictate to them.
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If you think about it, the Malfoys are a member of the Hogwarts Board, and maybe so are the Astoria families.
Harry was shocked, isn't this the plot that often appears in Wanwan's novels: the male (female) father is the chairman of a top college, and he shouts at every turn: "Today the school is on vacation, because my father is the chairman." Then he teased the proud heroine (the cold male protagonist), and finally the rich man finally became a family member and began to roll the sheets non-stop.
Harry asked a little confused, "Astoria, do you still lack a son-in-law?"
From this sentence, we can see how low the protagonist's lower limit is, but he is usually deceived by his pretended indifferent appearance.
"Poof, ahem. Hermione was frightened by Harry's shamelessness, choked on it, and quickly took a sip of water, but she choked even harder, and her face was about to turn red.
Harry shouted an inexplicable spell that sounded a lot like "I'm going to eat sweet potatoes", and Hermione was back to normal.
This "sweet potato" spell is specifically designed to solve choking.
As for why there was such a boring and spell, Harry also wanted to know.
Can't you invent some earth-destroying magic?
Harry looked at Hermione unhappily and looked at his face, no one would be happy if they were spit on.
Hmmm, it's tickling on the side of his mouth, Harry licked it meaningfully, swallowed it, it was sweet, it tasted good......
"You go to die!"
Hermione's face flushed as she stood up and yelled, her chairs knocked over.
"Brother, why is Sister Hermione angry?" Astoria carefully wiped Harry's face clean.
"Probably, because I robbed her of her food. Harry said solemnly.
A bunch of people around the "plop ......" didn't sit down in their chairs and fell to the ground.
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The two men walked out of the auditorium, and a faint voice came.
"Brother, what is a son-in-law?"
"It's someone who can make you happy, tell you stories, eat with you, protect you, and sleep with you. ”
"It's like in a song"
"Spring and you walk among the blooming flowers
Watch the stars and wink with you on summer nights
Autumn dusk with you wandering in the golden wheat fields
Winter snowflakes fly with you warmer
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"Brother, I want you to be my son-in-law. ”
“...... It's your mother's son-in-law. "Sweating ̄^ ̄ ゚
"Oh......"
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Harry's first class of the new semester was Potions, with his Hufflepuff classmates.
Together, they walked through the castle, past the vegetable patch, and to the greenhouse, where many magical plants were cultivated.
The Potions class was taught by Professor Sprout, and Harry had done Professor Sprout a small favor. (See Chapter xxx for details)
In front of the greenhouse, the students were waiting.
Sprout came from the lawn, her face gloomy, and she walked very fast, as if a wild boar was chasing her behind her.
Harry looked with interest at the personable man behind him, Lockhart.
Professor Sprout was arguably the gentlest of teachers, and she dealt with plants the most, and she was often covered in dirt and leaves, so she was very patient.
Even Neville, who was uncomfortable for a day without getting into trouble, Sprout never got angry.
It really takes some talent to be able to easily make her angry like this.
Lockhart greeted his classmates with a spring breeze on his face, and proudly showed off what he had just done: "The most precious plant in the school, the beating willow, was injured by some wild beasts that ran out of the forbidden forest, I once encountered a few beating willows when I was traveling, and I happened to know a little about how to treat the beating willow, so I helped Professor Sprout, but I don't want you to think that my knowledge of herbology is more abundant than hers......
Hermione was still angry with Harry, she stiffened her bun face, and suddenly interrupted Lockhart: "I'm sorry Professor, as far as I know, there are only three beating willows left in the world, and one hundred and seventy years ago, the International Society for the Protection of Magical Plants gave two of them to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and they kept one for themselves. I wonder where you came across a couple of beating willows while traveling?"
Harry really looked at Lockhart's face very unpleasantly, and he was full of spring breeze all the time, and he was happy.
He should really have the word "spring breeze" written on his face, so that he would really be "full of spring breeze".
The smile is false, hypocritical.
I really want to punch two punches up, destroy it, and see if he can still laugh.
Anyway, now he doesn't laugh so naturally.
Harry winked at Hermione, "Well done".
Hermione pretended not to see it.
Harry was hurt inside, too.
Lockhart glanced at a little girl who was speaking, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and put on a false smile: "What is written in the book is not entirely credible, do you know how big the world is? Do you know how many places I have traveled and seen many things? Some plants that have long been thought to be extinct by wizards may be growing freely in the wild." ”
He felt that this remark was unmistakable, which not only pointed out the girl's small vision, but also said that she had the real right to speak, and also implied a certain philosophy. I was secretly proud in my heart and liked it.
Sure enough, some of the skeptical glances that had just been looked at disappeared.
Hermione didn't give up, and sneered: "Really? Then do you know why the International Magical Plant Conservation Society gave two beating willows to the Academy of Magic? They were short on manpower, so they sent out two. Since the discovery of the man-beating willow more than 1,000 years ago, its population has been decreasing, and the wild ones have died early. ”
Lockhart was dumbfounded and was about to continue.
Professor Sprout opened the greenhouse door: "Go to the third greenhouse, now start the class." ”
And so everybody jumped in.
Lockhart's eyes lit up when he suddenly saw Harry, and he was about to go to talk to him, but Harry had already slipped in.
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Professor Sprout was clearly in a good mood, and she even praised Hermione for her knowledge of herbalism at the beginning, adding five points to Gryffindor.
Harry was carrying the "Screaming Flower" transplant while thinking about beating the willow.
In the original book, Harry and Ron had to drive a flying car to Hogwarts because of Dobby's obstruction, and accidentally injured the beater.
Although none of this happened now, the beating willow was still injured, could this be the constraining nature of the legendary world line?
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