Late at night, the storm grew more and more unscrupulous.

The lights were still on in the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, flipping through the latest issue of Transfiguration Today by candlelight.

At the desk, a copy of the Daily Prophet was spread out at random, and the contents of the newspaper could be read by candlelight:

Arthur Weasley, director of the Department of Magic investigating the misuse of Muggle objects, was fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.

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A member of the school's director, Mr. Lucius Malfoy, recently called Mr. Lucius Malfoy to demand Mr. Weasley's immediate resignation.

"Mr. Weasley has ruined the reputation of the Ministry of Magic," Malfoy told this reporter.

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Mr. Weasley did not reply to our reporter, but his wife told the reporter to leave or she would let her ghouls out to bite them.

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There is no doubt that Arthur Weasley is in trouble, he is being targeted by a group of people.

Of course, some of Arthur's actions annoyed the pure-blood wizards led by Malfoy a lot.

To be honest, the Office for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Objects was not highly regarded in the Ministry of Magic, and Arthur's ability to obtain a search warrant was itself suspicious.

Pure-blood wizards hold important positions in the Ministry of Magic, and they can't let the officials of the Ministry of Magic harass them casually.

The search warrant was clearly deliberately pushed behind the back.

At the moment, Arthur is in a bad situation, although for some reason, he has not been expelled from the Ministry of Magic for the time being, but the suspension review is still ongoing.

Many wizards who disagreed with Arthur wanted Arthur Weasley to be expelled from the Ministry of Magic in order to prevent the Muggle Protection Act he drafted from passing bills, and many pure-blood wizards felt offended by it.

Just now, Dumbledore wrote a letter to Fudge, convincing Arthur to keep Arthur in the Ministry of Magic as director of the Office for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Objects, on the pretext that he had agreed to delay the passage of the Muggle Protection Act for the time being.

In fact, Fudge is also having a headache about it.

No wizard wanted to take over the Office for the Prohibition of the Misuse of Muggle Items, a position that was mediocre, poorly paid, and extremely busy, requiring constant dealing with Muggles, most importantly only two wizards in the position.

Probably only a weirdo like Arthur would like this kind of work.

What made Dumbledore more upset was something else.

This morning, Dumbledore received a note from Anderson about something that was extremely important to Dumbledore.

Harry Potter could hear sounds that ordinary people couldn't hear.

This does not bode well in the wizarding world.

Moreover, at the end of the note, it was written: something bad may happen.

The bad thing?

Dumbledore couldn't tell if these words were true or false, but they were undoubtedly not a good thing.

"Something bad is happening when you hear someone else can't hear it?" Dumbledore was trying to connect the two events when there was a knock on the door outside the room.

Dumbledore put down the magazine, stood up in confusion, and walked over to open the door, only to find it Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall placed a document on her desk.

"What else?" Dumbledore saw that Professor McGonagall seemed to have something to say.

"I don't know if you've paid attention to Professor Lockhart. Professor McGonagall said with a hint of displeasure, "He made a mess of Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and many students came to us to complain about it. ”

In the past, after Lockhart became famous for writing books, the professors at Hogwarts felt that they might have mistaken him and thought that he was contributing to the fight against the dark arts.

As a result, Lockhart has only been at Hogwarts for a month, and his true nature is revealed, and everyone has already seen his true colors.

Lockhart is still the same Lockhart who went to Hogwarts more than ten years ago, and he hasn't changed at all, and they have never missed him at all.

"I know Defense Against the Dark Arts professors are hard to find, but what Professor Lockhart does is hard to disagree with. Professor McGonagall reminded, "In almost all of his classes, he was reading the contents of the book to the students, and having the students act out the scene on stage, and I could hardly imagine what the students could learn from this vain fame seeker." ”

"There's a lot to learn from a bad teacher. Dumbledore said calmly, "Don't do anything, don't be anyone." ”

Professor McGonagall was silent, she felt that what Professor Dumbledore said did have some point, but it would cost the students a semester of Defence Against the Dark Arts in exchange for it.

"I don't think you want a presence like Lockhart among your students. Dumbledore smiled, "Besides, I really can't find a suitable person for a while." Minerva, you should also know that since Quirrell's death, no one has wanted to come to Hogwarts as a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and its reputation is terrible. ”

"Well, I'll tell you what you mean. Professor McGonagall sighed and left the Headmaster's office, knowing that Dumbledore would always find a way to convince himself.

Looking at Professor McGonagall's departing back, Dumbledore fell into a brief silence. Since he rejected Voldemort, no Defence Against the Dark Arts professor has been able to teach for more than a year.

Many people say that the class is cursed.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with such a statement. Once or twice can be accidental...... But fifty times can't be an accident.

As for what Lockhart did, Dumbledore actually knew about it for a long time, and after seeing some familiar content from Lockhart's books, he deliberately took the time to visit his former friends, and after noticing the forgetfulness and confusion of the other party, he realized that this was the sequelae of being cast a powerful amnesia charm.

Lockhart is stealing someone else's work.

Dumbledore didn't bother to debunk the internationally renowned writer's deception, and even if he did, it wouldn't make much sense to debunk Lockhart in the end.

People who have been cast a strong Oblivion Charm usually have a hard time getting back to normal, and breaking the Oblivion Charm will only make things worse.

Of course, Dumbledore didn't intend to let Lockhart go like that, he had already thought of a way to debunk the other party's deception.

That's right, as long as Lockhart is put into a normal school life, his scam will gradually be exposed.

Lockhart was already the headmaster of Hogwarts when Lockhart was a schoolmaster, and he knew the student who was hated by the professors and students all too well.

That's why Dumbledore tried his best to invite Lockhart to be the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, which happened to be difficult to find a professor for this course every year, and Dumbledore believed that the curse of Defence Against the Dark Arts could also make Lockhart suffer a little.

It turned out to be a very effective move, and everyone was getting to see what kind of person Lockhart was.