Chapter 30: Lockhart Teaches You to Doubt Life (Part I)
Who added Salph to the Hogwarts admission list temporarily......
As Brandi walked down the stairs in a trance with his bag, he kept thinking about this sentence in his head.
How strange is this, for those of us who are hungry for magic, 'forced' to go to school? Shouldn't that be a great thing? But what would it take to be boring enough to do something like this... With great power, he also had close contact with himself, except for Professor Dumbledore, Brandi couldn't figure out who else could be.
Professor McGonagall?
No, no, no, just Professor McGonagall's businesslike look? And she shouldn't have known about Salph! I remember I didn't send a letter to Professor McGonagall during the summer vacation......
Poof, it won't be the big boss dad who is hiding behind the scenes. Just thinking about Brandi is just a laugh.
Alert...... Not......
Brandi thought wildly as he walked through the large vegetable patches and bypassed the doors of the first greenhouse—he was surprised to find that he wasn't the only one who didn't make it to the herb class. In the distance, two people were standing at the door of the third greenhouse. Feeling the white light of the white teeth in turn, he subconsciously narrowed his eyes.
Harry and Professor Lockhart? How did they get together?
"Harry, Harry." Lockhart was shaking his head, looking like he hated iron, "I shouldn't have given you a taste of fame in advance, did I?" It seems like you can't stop - you got on the front page of the newspaper with me, and you can't wait to do it again. ”
Brandi heard Harry plead weakly, "Oh-no, Professor, I just-"
"Ha, I don't need to explain, I understand the reason." Lockhart graciously put his arm around Harry's shoulder and said with a smile, "I know it's a natural thing to do - blame me for giving you a taste of sweetness, fame and fortune can get carried away after all - but you're a little too eager, can you calm down?" You have enough time to make a name for yourself in the future, and you can attract attention by yourself as much as you go to school with such a naïve and naïve speeding car. I-"
"Ahem~"
Brandi, who was hiding in the corner, finally couldn't help but cough. The two men in front of the greenhouse quickly turned their heads and saw Brandy. Harry's face turned red for a moment.
"Haha~ Don't forget what I said to you, Harry, hold on, we can be famous." Lockhart didn't seem embarrassed at all, he winked kindly at Harry and walked away from the two of them with square steps...... Harry was left with a smile on his whimsy face, ashamed to hit his head to death.
"Don't take his word for it, Brandy. I didn't really want to be famous. He stammered as he explained.
"Okay, okay, of course I know you don't want to be famous, hurry inside, Professor Sprout will be angry." Brandi amusedly stepped forward and pushed open the door to the greenhouse with Harry.
The style of painting in the third greenhouse is noticeably different, the colors of the plants here are much brighter, which of course, means that most of them are dangerous - a few golden flowers the size of umbrellas hang from the ceiling, exuding a rich floral fragrance. But if you look closer, you'll be horrified to see that in the heart of the flower is a huge wriggling mouthpiece, full of sharp teeth.
In the first herb class, Professor Sprout gave them a difficult problem to repot the mandrake. Of course, before they can do that, they have to know what a mandrake is. This was usually Hermione's job—and sure enough, Hermione raised her hand as soon as the professor asked. Precisely and elegantly added ten points to Gryffindor, and then snorted with his nostrils turned to the sky, pretending to look at Brandy not far away. Parvati sat next to her, snickering as she ate.
It looks like Hermione's anger is going to last a little longer.
After Professor Sprout's demonstration, she began to ask the four of them to form a circle and start the practice. Because Hermione dragged the reluctant Parvati into the Gryffindor girls' circle, Brandi had to form a makeshift team with Harry Ron and a Hufflepuff boy named Justin Finchleigh. It was embarrassing, he knew every one of the three Gryffindors, but Brandi didn't know him.
After a few brief greetings to their respective families, they didn't talk much more, and the mandrake was more difficult than they had imagined. They had to put back on the earmuffs and concentrate on dealing with them. Don't look at Professor Sprout's moves, it seems very simple, but in fact, these ugly and fat clay dolls in the soil know how good she is, so they are more cooperative—when Brandi struggles to pull a mandrake out of the pot, it looks particularly agitated. While playing the accompaniment yelling at the top of his voice, he writhed his body wildly, and stared at him in the face of a set of radio gymnastics, saying that he didn't want to go back to the damp and smelly dragon manure compost.
What do you dislike dung! You're a grasshopper!
When Brandi finally shoved it into a pot after a lot of hard work, he felt like he was going to lose half his life......
By the end of the lesson, they were all covered in sweat, with a sore back, and covered in mud. Hermione finally stopped holding on to her stubborn little temper, and they supported each other with grumbling, walked back to the castle to take a shower, and then hurried to the transfiguration class.
Last year, the Transfiguration class was definitely the most embarrassing for Brandy, as he would never have been able to complete a normal Transfiguration. But now that he's got a shotgun and Professor McGonagall is under the tutelage of Professor McGonagall, he's been able to turn a beetle into a button, despite the difficulty of the class.
But he was obviously not the best, and after not seeing each other for a summer vacation, the change of Parvati, a silly girl, could be described as reborn.
Her transfiguration talent was already outstanding, but it was because of the limitations of her magic power, but because she was lazy - and now it has been solved by the awakening potion and the attention from Professor McGonagall, this Parvati's transfiguration can really be described as invincible - of course, her face is also invincible, when Professor McGonagall held up Parvati's delicately textured handicraft-like clasp to show everyone what excellent transformation is, Parvati actually lit up her two rows of small white teeth, Eyebrow winks at the three Brandi in the corner. Ron was carrying the wand he had barely wrapped in duct tape after it had been broken when he overturned, and she was so angry that her teeth were tickling.
"Stupid...... Useless things......" he banged on the table in frustration. In the corner of the table, his beetle had been turned into a palm-sized thing by the crackling wand, spitting out green liquid.
"I don't think even if your wand were good, it wouldn't be as good as Parvati." Harry looked enviously at Parvati's conjured buttons and said casually. "At that level, I guess I can get excellent in the O.W.L."
"By the way, Brandi, when did you take us to the treasure house, she drank the potion there to make such a noticeable progress, didn't she?" Ron said eagerly.
"Uh...... I think it's all from Professor McGonagall's summer homework......" Brandi scratched her head in embarrassment, "I drank a bottle too, but I don't feel like anything has changed except that it's delicious...... Of course, if you insist, we can find a weekend night to sneak out quietly, and you and Ron should have no problem squeezing into the invisibility cloak. ”
At lunchtime, Brandi finally met up with Salph - she seemed to have arrived a little earlier than herself, so she had just waited at the Gryffindor table, which made a different color appear in the middle of the golden red. The moment she saw Brandy, Sylph jumped up from her seat, screamed "whoa", and threw herself over and grabbed his robe, staring at him with big bright eyes as if Brandi would disappear without paying attention.
"Brandy, got you!"
Parvati, who had been sneakily following behind her, blew up all of a sudden, and was about to come up to reason with Salph, but she obviously didn't succeed, and was soon dragged down by Harry Ron and Hermione, who were full of black lines.
It was evident that Self did not seem to be a very gregarious girl, as could be seen from the fact that she had been sitting alone on the Gryffindor bench for so long. And it was also confirmed in the chat with her...... Speaking of which, this has something to do with Luna, Sharf is so cute, how could her classmates not go up to talk to her.
But the problem is that the crazy guy named Luna next to her, every time she goes up to chat with her no more than three words, she will be diverted into an unpredictable direction by Luna's strange brain circuits - in the end, it will always become a conversation with classmates who are stunned to watch, and Luna and Salph are talking about double comedy with a strange logic that does not match the preamble, so she and Luna have been completely divided into the ranks of weirdos after just taking out a Defence Against the Dark Arts class in one night.
"Now, Brandi, are the usual Defence Against the Dark Arts classes so weird?" Speaking of the first lesson, Sharf gently tugged at Brandy's sleeve.
"Weird?" Brandy, who was still worried about Self's communication problems, made her question a little confused, "You mean Professor Lockhart's class?" What's the matter, does he have any novel way of teaching? ”
Salph frowned bitterly, as if it was a very difficult thing to evaluate his teaching, and it was a long time before she raised her head and said in an uncertain tone. "I guess it's ...... Let's start teaching with a different kind of practice. ”
Practice!
Brandi was overjoyed, and when he learned from Percy that Defence Against the Dark Arts was actually a hands-on course, he had been expecting the new professor to give him a taste of what it was like to fight a Dark Wizard...... Last year, Quirrell's performance was really mediocre, except for a practical teaching session with him in the Forbidden Forest.
"This is fantastic, Sharf! Worthy of writing so many books, I'll have to go back to my dorm and get my notebook in a moment - oh yes, come with me if you have time? I have something for you. ”
He remembered that Dumbledore had mentioned that Salph wasn't on the wizarding list. Then her magical talent may not be very good, so that her sister will not be teased for her magic spells and shapeshifting achievements, Brandi thinks about what is hidden in the depths of her box and makes up her mind.