Chapter Twenty-Four: The Relationship Breaks Down
Hearing McGonagall's confusion, Dumbledore looked up.
"Minerva, I don't like him either."
"Then you still ......"
"Have you read Lockhart's book?" Dumbledore took out a copy of Wandering with Werewolves from the bookshelf.
"I've seen it, and the content is really good, especially since he used a high-end magic of 'Restoring the Human Form Charm'."
The Humanoid Restoration Charm is a spell that temporarily transforms a wolf-like werewolf back into a humanoid form, which was one of the few spells that worked before the invention of the Wolf Poison Potion.
"yes, yes, outstanding magical talent." Dumbledore said calmly, "To be honest, I was surprised when I first saw the contents of this book. ”
Professor McGonagall raised an eyebrow, Dumbledore would be surprised by this kind of thing?
"Minerva, I'm really surprised. Because, I happen to know an old Armenian wizard who also used this magic to defeat the Wagga Wagga werewolf. ”
"Perhaps...... Just a coincidence? McGonagall was uncertain.
"I thought so too, what if Lockhart did the same thing? How can I arbitrarily wronged an innocent and outstanding wizard? Dumbledore nodded.
"So I found the old wizard, but he has lost a lot of memories, especially about werewolves."
Professor McGonagall's eyes widened, as if listening to a ridiculous story.
"Since then, I've been keeping an eye on Lockhart, buying all kinds of books on him and learning about his whereabouts."
"As people get older, they know more wizards and hear more obscure stories." Dumbledore's slender fingers slid over the row of bookshelves.
"In his books, I saw more and more stories that I happened to know.
But none of the owners of those stories were Lockhart! ”
After hearing Dumbledore's words, Professor McGonagall couldn't believe it, and she said angrily, "Merlin, this is a fraud, it's a crime, Lockhart should go to Azkaban!" ”
"But we don't have proof." Dumbledore said distressedly.
"So, you're going to let him come to school?"
"Yes, I believe that as long as Lockhart is put into a normal school life, his hoax will be exposed." Dumbledore said seriously.
McGonagall was silent for a moment, then asked, "But what can our students learn from this vain fame seeker?" ”
It's been a whole year, and it's such an important lesson as Defense Against the Dark Arts.
"A lot." Dumbledore said calmly, "Students can learn a lot from a bad teacher: what not to do, what not to be.
I think it's also important to educate students on how to behave. ”
Professor McGonagall nodded thoughtfully.
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Time flew by, and in the last week of the summer holidays, William and the three left one home and returned to two other homes in London.
Before leaving, William cast a large amount of guardian magic around the courtyard.
There are many types of guardian magic: the Muggle Spell, the Peaceful Guard, and the ...... But the most useful thing is the Loyalty Charm.
The Loyalty Spell is an extremely complex spell that uses magic to hide someone's secrets forever in the soul of a living person.
The secret is hidden in the heart of the chosen person, the person who keeps it secret, and therefore it will never be discovered, of course, unless the person who keeps it out of his own accord.
As long as the secret keeper doesn't reveal it, even if the thief sticks his nose to the glass of their living room, he won't see them.
William also cast this spell, he himself is still a secret, and the only people who can enter the house are Hermione, Annie, Dumbledore, and Nicol.
After the summer vacation, William and the three of them will only come back once on Christmas or weekends, and spend most of their time at school.
There is a real need for secrecy here to prevent outsiders from breaking in.
Soon, the summer vacation ended.
Roy drove William and Anne to the station, and the two waited on platform 93/4 for a while before Hermione arrived.
The three of them got into the train together.
They walked down the corridors, looking for empty carriages.
Anne glanced into a box and said, "There's still room in there, it's just Luna." ”
She pulled the door open and walked into the box with Bobo Tea in her arms, followed by William and Hermione.
"Hello, Luna," said Anne, "are you alone here?" ”
Luna nodded and said in a trance, "It seems that this is the case, many students just take a look and leave." ”
Luna holds her wand behind her left ear, and she wears a necklace strung with a butterbeer cork.
In addition, when she read "Singing and Singing", she actually turned the magazine upside down.
It's understandable that people don't dare to come in.
Bobo Tea jumped out of Anne's arms, found the warmest position, and lay down.
Luna looked at them from the upside-down magazine.
"After you're gone, the house is gone." Luna tilted her head.
"That's because I used magic to make it gone." William quickly scribbled an address on parchment.
"Remember, you'll be able to see the house when you go back."
Luna looked down at the piece of paper, and a moment later, the parchment rolled into a small bird, hovering over the carriage, and burning.
At this time, a very beautiful girl with long black and shiny hair was standing at the door of the box.
She was followed by a boy.
- Cho and Cedric.
The two were arguing fiercely about something.
This is not common.
When Autumn spoke, Cedric generally didn't interject.
When the two came in, they didn't sit together, with Cho sitting next to Hermione and Cedric sitting on William's side.
The two of them were arguing fiercely over William and Hermione.
"I think Lockhart would be a good professor, you see what he says......"
"That's what he said!" Cedric exclaimed, "Lockhart is just a useless little white face. ”
Well, the evaluation of "useless little white face" is generally some Gryffindor boys, commenting on Cedric.
And those who say this kind of thing are generally ugly.
When he was in first grade, William heard someone say this about himself, and he lectured him.
"But Dumbledore invited him to teach us......"
"Although I respect the headmaster, but his vision is not good, you look at the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor who has been found for us in the past few years, it is far worse than what William usually teaches us."
"What's wrong with the two of them?" Hermione whispered into William's ear.
"The relationship is broken......"
Before they could finish speaking, the two of them fixed their eyes on William and Hermione.
Hermione and William quickly shut up, huddled in the middle and shivered.
Luna burst out laughing, and she let out a string of maniacal laughs that woke up the bobo tea by the window.
Bobo Tea exploded and jumped on William, hissing.
Luna laughed so hard that the magazine in her hand fell off her lap and onto the floor.
William glanced at the magazine on the floor, noticed something, and reached out to pick it up.
It turned out to be a cartoon of Lockhart with a very exaggerated drawing.
Lockhart was dressed in a lady's robe, and next to him, a witch in the same robe stood, holding a quill and a piece of parchment in her hand.
The caption on the cartoon is: Is it male or female? Lockhart and Rita Skeeter's Big Secret!
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