Chapter 155: Potter and Lockhart
An afternoon with Gilderoy Lockhart was hard for Harry to describe, the writer was very warm with kids, but only if you could stand the fiery stares of his fans, which was honestly the hardest for Harry.
The future new professor invited the children to dessert and talked about his adventures, except for Draco, who seemed more concerned because of Wang Yi, only Hermione and the Weasley twin brothers were a little interested, but their little sister and Sakura didn't care much, and the former was obviously more interested in Harry.
Harry's own impression of Gildero is not bad for the time being, but he doesn't know if it's family inheritance, he vaguely thinks that he should stay away from Gildero, but there is not enough reason.
After an afternoon of writing, Ron and Harry almost jumped up and cheered when Gildelow finally sent them to the Leaky Cauldron, but for the professor's sake.
The next few days were calm, until the last day of the holiday, Wang Yi went to Malfoy Manor to take his little nephew Sakura and Harry to the train station with his sister and brother-in-law, until Harry got on the train without any accidents.
Of course, a rebellious house-elf named Dobby could not have used those little tricks in front of his master, so Harry was glad that he had unwittingly avoided the punishment he should have suffered.
During the sorting ceremony, the Weasleys' youngest daughter unsurprisingly enters Gryffindor, and Ron introduces Ginny to Harry for the second time, and the little girl always blushes easily in Harry's presence.
Dumbledore introduced the new teacher to everyone after dinner, Gilderoy Lockhart, as a rare literary worker in the wizarding world, a well-known writer, Gilderoy received a lot of applause, which Wang Yi was much worse than his younger brother, and he still remembered his pitiful applause last year.
(The man behind the scenes should always be hidden from people's consciousness)
Wang Yi comforted himself......
The next afternoon, after two physically and physically grueling herbology classes in the morning, followed by a mentally painful Transfiguration class, the young wizards ushered in the much-anticipated Defence Against the Dark Arts class for the reason: Gilderoy Lockhart.
The enthusiasm of young witches for Gildelow was unimaginable, for example, when Hermione, who was only twelve, circled all of her Defence Against the Dark Arts lessons in the shape of a heart, and of course Ron was glared at by the little girl for telling this fact.
During the break after lunch, Harry met his first enthusiastic fan, a Gryffindor boy named Colin Creevey, and then the enthusiastic Mr. Colin tried to ask Harry for an autographed photo, but was seen by the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, so naturally, he got an autographed photo of Gilderoy and Harry Potter.
"You guys go first, go to class over there." Lockhart shouted at the crowd.
He and Harry walked towards the castle, and although Gilderoy must have meant well, Harry still wished that he could utter a spell that would make him disappear immediately, but Lockhart was still at his side.
"I have a word for you, Harry," Lockhart said with concern as he walked through the side door into the castle.
"I helped you a lot...... Little Creevey took me on too, and your classmates won't think you're in the limelight......" Lockhart ignored Harry's stammering explanation and led him down a hallway up the stairs, where many students stared at them.
"I mean, it's not wise for you to post autographed photos at this stage...... Honestly, it feels like a bit arrogant, Harry. This should be done when the conditions are right, and like me, you have to take a bunch of photos with you everywhere, and you can use them at any time, but ......," he smirked, "I don't think you're there yet." They came to Lockhart's classroom, and he finally let Harry go.
The rest of the students walked into the classroom noisily, Ron and Hermione sitting on Harry's side, Draco and Sakura on the other.
"You can fry an egg on your face!" Ron said, "You'll have to bless Ginny from running into Colin, or they'll be going to start a club of Harry Potter worshippers." ”
"Say no more!" Harry was upset, and the last thing he wanted was for Lockhart to hear something like "Harry Potter Admirers Club".
Once the class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat to silence the group, took a step forward, picked up Walking with the Trolls from Neville's desk in the first row, and held the book up, showing everyone the portrait of him smiling and winking on the cover.
"I," Gilderoy said, pointing to the cover and winking, "Gilderoy Lockhart, Lord Merlin, 3rd Order, Honorary Member of the League Against the Dark Arts, and winner of the Wizarding Weekly Most Powerful Smile Award five times in a row...... Originally, I didn't want to mention this, I didn't rely on a smile to exorcise Wanlun's female ghost. He waited for them to burst into laughter, but only a few laughed softly.
"I think you've bought a set of my books...... This is good. Today I'm going to give you a quiz, don't worry, this quiz is just to see how much you have read and how much you have understood......"
After handing out the quiz papers, he went back to the front of the class and said, "You have 30 minutes to answer the questions, okay, now - start"
Harry looked at his scroll, which read:
1. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?
2. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest wish?
3. What do you think is Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest achievement?
Almost all of them are of this type, there are three sheets of paper in total, and the last question is:
64, What is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday? What would he most like to receive as a gift?
Half an hour later, Lockhart put away the paper and flipped through it in class.
"Tsk, tsk...... Few of you remember my favorite color as lilac. I mentioned this in "The Year I Was with the Tibetan Yeti". Also, you'll have to read Weekend with Werewolves, as I've made it clear in Chapter 12 that my birthday wish is for those who know magic and those who don't live in harmony, but I won't say no to a big bottle of Ogden's fiery old whiskey! ”
He winked at them again, Ron looked at Lockhart in disbelief, and Seamus Finigan and Dean Thomas, who were sitting in front, couldn't help but laugh secretly. Hermione, on the other hand, listened intently to Lockhart, ready to hear him mention her name.
“…… But Hermione Granger knew that my greatest wish was to sweep away the evil of the world and successfully promote my hair care potion line...... Not bad! Actually......" he flipped through her papers, "perfect marks!" Who is Hermione Granger? ”
Hermione blushed and raised her hand.
"Very good!" Lockhart laughed and said, "Very well done!" Ten points to Gryffindor! Alright, let's get down to business......" He bent down under his desk and lifted out a large cage covered with a cloth.
"Now...... I have to warn everyone! My job is to educate you about the most vicious creatures in the world of witchcraft, so that you can be prepared for the future. Now I'm showing you probably the scariest thing you've ever seen. But don't be afraid, as long as I'm here, nothing will go wrong. I ask everyone to remain calm and not panic. ”……
"Oh, it's terrible!"
After class, Ron complains that they had just taken a group of vile elves back to their cages under Gildero's instructions.
"Don't talk nonsense, Ron," Hermione argued, "he's just letting us practice and get hands-on experience!" ”
"But I didn't learn anything other than not to let them out of the cage."
Harry and Draco agreed with this, but Sakura didn't speak, because she saw in Gilderoy Lockhart's eyes something that shouldn't exist in theory: smugness.
A person who messes things up doesn't feel complacent, so everything that happened before was done deliberately by the new professor.
However, Sakura did not say this discovery, after all, the biggest "victims" of this class are the only five of them who can be considered as targets in addition to the whole class, and Wang Yi once said that Lockhart has a very "close" relationship with Harry's father, so it is self-evident who caused them to suffer this disaster.
"I can't believe my uncle is good friends with him!"
Draco shouted.
"So this time it was just an accident!" Hermione argued, "Professor Black is a very popular teacher among the senior students, and Professor Lockhart is his friend, and those who are capable must be able to be around them, and he was personally invited by Dumbledore to be a teacher!" ”
"Quirrell was also able to become a teacher only after Dumbledore personally accepted it."
Ron whispered, but no one paid attention to him—
The network is not powerful, and it has been said for a long time.