Chapter Forty-Seven: Substitute Teaching (Ask for Recommendations!) )
Egger smiled awkwardly and fiddled with the mandrake in his hand.
"What are you cutting the new branches of the poisonous tentacles?" Harry looked at Egg a little strangely.
"The purchase price is very high, the poisonous tentacles are very precious, and the branches they have when they grow teeth cost at least a few Galleons...", Iger muttered quietly, "What is there to learn about mandrakes, the function of this thing can only be put in the hot pot base to remove the fishy smell of meat......"
"How many Galleons?" Ron suddenly looked at the poisonous tentacles behind him with fiery eyes. The herbal medicine class, which I used to hate in the past, suddenly became very interesting.
"yes, most of the money I live on comes from Hogwarts." Egger spread his hands: "Whether it's the Forbidden Forest or a greenhouse or some mess, if you want to, you'll definitely be able to get help at Hogwarts." ”
"What is there in the Forbidden Forest that can make money?" Ron looked at Egg expectantly.
"That's a lot," Egg thought for a moment, "the eggshell of the bird and the snake, the eggshell of that thing is silver, the hair of a unicorn, a ten-Galleon, the venom of the eight-eyed spider, etc., all of them are priceless things." ”
"Hagrid didn't even tell us!" Ron said with some sourness.
"Hagrid doesn't like to trade things from creatures in the Forbidden Forest, and he doesn't know much about it." Egg shook his head: "Except that Hagrid helped me get a lot of tuition and miscellaneous fees before I entered the school, I have been going to the Forbidden Forest to get it by myself for the past year, not to mention, just driving your twin brothers out of the Forbidden Forest is enough for him..."
Ron nodded in a daze, and was about to say something when Professor Sprout's voice rang out.
"Okay, everybody put on their ear packs, and the juvenile mandrake cry is not fatal, but it can keep you in a coma for hours." Professor Sprout motioned for everyone to put on their ear packs: "I don't think you want to be in the hospital on the first day of school." ”
"Egger, don't pull the leaves of the mandrake!" Professor Sprout screamed loudly, but Egger wore an ear bag, pretending not to hear, and quickly grabbed a few pieces and put them in his pocket, and Professor Sprout suddenly looked melancholy.
'Poof' pulled out the mandrake, Egger casually stuffed the crumpled black doll in his hand into the basin on the other side, the black doll's small paws pressed the edge of the pot and wanted to climb out, Iger followed its strength slightly, and stuffed it in again.
Harry and the others on the side followed Egger in a similar way, and I have to say that this was indeed a lot easier, but Professor Sprout was very unhappy, she felt that Egger's movements were too rough, which was not conducive to the growth of plants.
"What good can this thing do when it grows?" That's what Ron said.
"What the hell were you listening to? I answered Professor Sprout's question. Hermione said impatiently, "Mandrakes are an important part of most antidotes, restoring a person who has been deformed or petrified to their original state. ”
"Well, who's going to do what Transfiguration?" Ron muttered.
At the end of a trip to the herbal class, the students were tired and complained about the fatigue of the herbal class, but soon there was an even worse class waiting for them, Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class...
It may be difficult for others, but for Iger and Hermione, it's a grade-winning lesson...
Their homework is to turn a little beetle into a button...
Harry wasted a long time of strength, the beetle quickly dodged the wand in Harry's hand, trying to escape from the table, and Ron on the other side was even more unbearable, trying to hold down the beetle five times, but accidentally pressed the beetle to death, and had no choice but to go to Professor McGonagall to ask for another one, but Professor McGonagall didn't seem to be very happy.
Egg felt that even with his presence, Ron's wand was undamaged, and it seemed to be no different from a broken wand in his hand...
It wasn't until the bell rang for lunch that Harry and Ron breathed a sigh of relief, Harry felt like a wrung out sponge in his brain, and Ron lay limply on the table.
Egg stood up and took Hermione's small hand, and after greeting the two, Shi Shiran walked towards the auditorium.
"I really envy Egger," Ron groaned weakly, "his life is so good. ”
"Don't say that." Harry whispered, "Egger is an orphan, and I think the most important thing for him is family. ”
"Oh... Then I'm willing to trade Percy for Hogwarts castles..."Ron hummed.
"I don't think he likes—" Harry flattened, and the two of them looked at each other and laughed maliciously.
At lunch, at the Gryffindor table, Egg muttered quietly, "Are you ready?" Dobby? ”
"It's been arranged, Mr. Egger." Dobby's shrill voice rang in Egger's ears.
A few minutes later, the students saw Lockhart walking in with a big stride and a smile on his face, and Iger sitting silently next to Fred and George munching on a piece of baked potato, about to enjoy a 'show of spitting truth', when he felt a large hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, Egger, you left so early that day." Lockhart greeted Iger with a smile on his face.
The baked potato in Egger's hand was still stuffed in his mouth, and he turned his head expressionlessly holding the potato in his mouth: "Get out!" ”
Lockhart walked away with a smile on his face, as if something embarrassing had never happened...
Egger really had to admire this guy's cheekiness, his sentence was said subconsciously, originally he really didn't plan to open it directly.
Seeing Lockhart sitting in the teacher's seat eating lunch, picking up a cup and taking a sip, I saw Lockhart's eyes gradually become hollow.
Iger glanced at the Weasley twins, who nodded, and immediately happily approached Lockhart's side, and Iger casually dropped a small beetle on the twins' robes.
The beetle was Rita Skeeter, who hurried in after Iger pressed the Egg Hall logo on the twins' arms.
"Hey, Professor Lockhart, we've adored you for a long time!" Fred shouted loudly, trying to attract the attention of the students and professors in the auditorium.
Sure enough, because of the unusual words of the twins, people turned their heads to look at them in surprise.
"Thank you!" Lockhart's eyes were hollow, but he grinned.
"I want to ask you, how did you stop the werewolf and expel the female ghost?" George took an egg roll and handed it to Lockhart's mouth, asking curiously.
"Stop the werewolves? Expelling female ghosts? I didn't do that—" Lockhart's words shook the auditorium like thunder on the ground.
"Silence!!" Iger pressed his throat, and a loud voice made the auditorium quiet again.
"But you've written so many great things in your books?" Fred asked in a playful voice, no one noticed, and at this time, a golden cup in Lockhart's hand disappeared silently, and not far away, Snape raised his eyelids and moved the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Books are children who can deceive," Lockhart's cheerful voice said, "Think about it with your common sense, if it weren't for people to think that I did those things, the book would not have sold well, and readers wouldn't be willing to read the deeds of an ugly old American wizard, even though he had saved a village of werewolves, and it wasn't ugly to put his picture in a book?" He has no taste at all in his clothes... And the witch who banished the female ghost of Wanlun, she has a hairy chin..."
There was an uproar again, and the students looked at Lockhart in disbelief, and a little girl suddenly stood up and looked at Lockhart: "So you put all the things that others do in your own account?" ”
"It's not that simple... I have a lot of work..."Lockhart's eyes were slightly hollow, "Follow up and find out how they did it, and finally I'm going to cast an Oblivion Charm on them, and if there's anything I'm proud of, it's my Oblivion Charm, you know, kid?" ”
As the last sentence fell, Lockhart's medicinal effect finally passed, and the originally smiling expression on his face gradually stiffened with the awakening of his brain, and looking at the angry and disgusted eyes around him, Lockhart's face instantly turned pale.
"I don't think you've got much of a chance to cast the Oblivion Charm you're so proud of... Mr. Lockhart. Snape's voice rang out, and he looked at Lockhart with gloomy eyes, "I must make sure that my students are not harmed by your Oblivion Curse. ”
"I think the guards of Azkaban should have a natural resistance to the Oblivion Charm." Professor McGonagall looked at Lockhart angrily with cloudy eyes, "Actually, I don't think a villain like you can cast a wandless spell, I'm sorry, we have to take your wand!" ”
Lockhart's face gradually turned hideous, and he immediately reached out and pulled out his wand, but someone moved faster than him, and Fred happily waved his wand and knocked him unconscious.
"Beautiful silent spellcasting, Gryffindor plus twenty points!" Professor Flitwick shouted in a shrill voice, and it seemed that he was also taken lightly by Lockhart's words.
"We will cherish it, salute you, Professor Flitwick!" Fred bowed happily to Professor Flitwick.
"This is the first time we've had extra points since we entered school," George laughed, "It feels really good." ”
After the students were in an uproar over Lockhart's despicable actions, it wasn't long before the Ministry of Magic hurried in with several Aurors to take Lockhart away.
"How can you do that?" After a while, Hermione looked at Egg worriedly: "The Ministry of Magic has strict control over the use of truth elixir, and you will be arrested!" And openly drugged professors, what do you think these professors will think? ”
"Don't worry," Iger grinned, "Fred just filled the unconscious Lockhart with a full bottle of aged whiskey, and everyone would just think he drank too much... And I had communicated with Severus before that, and he thought it was a great idea, and even if I checked out anything, I had told the house-elves in the kitchen to put the blame on Dobby, and as for Dobby, I had just given him half a month's vacation, and he went on vacation, and no wizard could catch a free elf. ”
"The main thing is that I talked to the professors before I did this, and they always thought that bringing Lockhart to justice was the best option, even if it was to spend extra time helping the students with a few Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons..."Iger grinned and said, "Seriously, that guy is really annoying enough, and he was hated by all the professors on the first day he came..."
At night, in Dumbledore's office, Egg was looking at Dumbledore with a grin.
"I thought you'd probably wait until halfway through the semester before you couldn't stand him." Dumbledore chewed on a Bean, "Hmm... Snotty smell... But I didn't expect you to do it on the first day of school. ”
Egg looked at Dumbledore with a strange look in his eyes, "So... Can you taste anything just because you're knowledgeable? ”
Dumbledore blinked, thought for a moment and said, "Life... It's always exciting to try everything..."
"Vomit," Egger retched as he clutched his chest, then decided not to continue the disgusting topic, "I thought you'd be upset if I took him away." ”
"Actually, it's a little, after all, it means that there are no proper Defence Against the Dark Arts professors for students this year." Dumbledore nodded.
"What do you think of me?" Egg looked at Dumbledore with a grin.
"So you're waiting for me here." Dumbledore smiled and nodded, "I approve of your Egger, but I don't know what the parents of those students think. ”
"I think I can handle it." Iger thought for a moment and said.
"I think so." Dumbledore nodded, "You caught that noisy little beetle, didn't you?" ”
"I can't hide anything from you, I need to win over some forces." Egg looked calmly into Dumbledore's eyes.
"That's a good thing, and to be honest I don't want you to be alone like I am." Dumbledore didn't seem to be surprised by Egger's thoughts: "If I had had Voldemort's or Grandwald's strong wrists, I don't think Voldemort would have lasted long." ”
"I'm like they're talking to you—" Egger flattened.
"In my opinion, you are the same kind of person as them, excellent, brilliant, outstanding, and even as ruthless as your wrists." Dumbledore nodded, his eyes under the half-moon lenses looked at Egg's immature face: "The difference is that Egger's position is different, your personality is also different, you are much happier than them, and you value everything around you more, otherwise I would have controlled you when you used Avada to Quirrell, in my current opinion, even if you are kind to others, sometimes a strong hand is as important, this may also be my mistake at the beginning." ”
"Aren't you afraid that I'll become uncontrollable?" Egg pursed his lips, he didn't believe Dumbledore didn't have a back hand at all.
"I wondered if you would become more and more greedy." Dumbledore nodded: "But when I think about it, it seems that there really isn't anything that can attract you anymore, and the only thing you're missing now is power, but you don't seem to have much interest in that thing, eh?" ”
"I don't even bother to write my homework...", Iger flattened his mouth.
"That's right, I don't think you have much interest in paying attention to those political battles..."Dumbledore nodded: "Then, it's up to you, you will substitute for this year's Defence Against the Dark Arts class, but I will only give you one year, and I will have no reason to substitute students next year." ”
"One year is enough." Iger nodded: "So, homework or something..."
"I can't help you with this," Dumbledore said without thinking.
“……”