A group of people silently walked through the more silent crowd towards Lockhart's office.

Harry and the others followed Dumbledore in frustration, and it was not pleasant to be watched by all the students with surprised and frightened eyes.

As they walked past the students, they were even more bewildered by the slightly dodging figures.

Filch's words are still very lethal.

At least let this group of young wizards who don't know the truth think that Harry and the others are the real culprits behind this bad joke at this time.

Gilderoy Lockhart, the owner of the professor's office in Defense Against the Dark Arts this semester, was probably the most excited of them all, and he walked in the silent line with vigour, following Dumbledore.

He looked so happy!

I don't know if it's because of this prank, or if I found a new inspiration.

As for William, he maintained an attitude of indifference, following the group unhurriedly, right next to Professor Flitwick.

"Don't worry, William. I know this has nothing to do with you. Professor Flitwick whispered comfort to William.

William nodded lightly, anyway, this matter has nothing to do with him at all, he has nothing to worry about.

Within a few minutes, they were in Lockhart's office, and the portraits of Lockhart on the walls that were so vivid on the wall were now losing their lustre.

They hid in a panic, and some of them had curling irons on their heads, which looked so funny.

Dumbledore gently placed the poor cat on the polished table, and he lowered his head to examine it carefully.

This undoubtedly made the atmosphere in the office more solemn, and William noticed that Harry and the others exchanged nervous glances, and then quietly sat down in a few chairs next to them.

The professors all looked at Dumbledore in silence, waiting for the results of his examination.

Except for Lockhart, a living treasure.

As soon as he returned to the office, Lockhart was like a home team, happily giving advice to everyone present.

"It must have been a spell that killed it—probably a Transfiguration Torture Charm.

I've seen people use this spell many times, and it's a shame I wasn't there, I happened to know the spell and could have saved it....... Let's go, let's go. ”

However, after hearing his incomprehensible words, except for Harry, who were even more overwhelmed, Filch buried his head deep in his hands and cried.

The expressions of the other professors did not change, and it was clear that they did not believe Lockhart's nonsense.

What William didn't know was that before the semester began, several headmasters, including Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick, had spoken to Dumbledore after learning that Dumbledore was going to hire Lockhart as a professor in Defence Against the Dark Arts.

They were somewhat unable to understand Dumbledore's thoughts.

"Why did you hire Lockhart as a professor in Defense Against the Dark Arts? What can the students learn from this famous hook? ”

In the Headmaster's office on the eighth floor of the castle, Professor McGonagall asked Dumbledore in confusion.

To make Professor McGonagall, who has always been impartial, say such things, you can imagine how much Lockhart is not treated well by her.

In fact, both Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick were already heads of both houses when Lockhart was still a Hogwarts student.

So they knew very well what kind of person Lockhart was, and they didn't believe a word of the stories in his book.

"Don't be so serious, Minerva." Facing a serious Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore finally took his eyes off the lemon ice cream on the table.

"Would you like a lemon ice cream? It has to be said that Muggles are really imaginative when it comes to desserts. ”

"No, please answer my question, Headmaster Dumbledore." Hearing Dumbledore's words, the corners of Professor McGonagall's mouth twitched slightly.

She had politely accepted Dumbledore's invitation to try this Muggle dessert called lemon ice cream.

I have to say, it wasn't a great experience because it was so sweet!

"I know Gilderoy isn't a good professor, and I know his tricks pretty well."

"Then why are you still there?" Hearing this, Professor McGonagall was even more confused.

"Because you can also learn a lot from a bad teacher, for example, what kind of things not to do, what kind of person not to become.

What we do is not only to teach students knowledge, any magic school will teach these things hidden in books.

More than these, we should pay more attention to the spirit of the students, and a good mind is undoubtedly more important than the magic of the mastery.

That's what I care about the most, and as a professor, Lockhart will show his students how ugly it can be to be opportunistic and arrogant! ”

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"Don't be so arbitrary, Professor Lockhart. I should have been the first to arrive at the scene, and according to my examination, Lady Loris was not dead, and as far as I could tell, it should have been petrified. ”

Looking at Lockhart, who was full of nonsense, William finally couldn't help but interrupt him.

Hearing William's words, several professors raised their heads at the same time, and even Dumbledore looked at William with undisguised surprise.

They find that William is like a bottomless pit, and they don't know when, they will suddenly give them a new surprise.

How old he is, and he actually knows a lot about detecting spells!

"Petrified? How is this possible? Lockhart, who was met with a rebuttal, immediately retorted.

"It's obviously a transfiguration curse, and I encountered a series of attacks in a village that was very similar to this one during my expedition to Ouagadougou.

If you've read my autobiography,"

"All right, Gildero. You take a break with a sip of saliva first. Lockhart could finish his sentence when he was interrupted by Dumbledore.

"Tell me what you think, Mr. Friedrich."

"Yes, Headmaster Dumbledore." William nodded, and then continued to elaborate on his observations.

"My initial judgment from its physical condition is that this stiff state is very similar to that of being petrified, but it is clearly not a petrification charm, as Lady Loris has shown no signs of improving after I used it to unravel.

Immediately after that, I used the Detection of Life and Death Charm and some messy detection charms, but none of them provided any clear hints.

In the end, I used the soul detection spell, and Mrs. Lorris's soul was still intact and in this body, and it gave me the feeling that Mrs. Lorris's soul was trapped in this body.

That's why I judged that it should have been caught in some evil dark magic, probably a petrification spell that was much more evil than the petrification charm. ”