Chapter 426: Headlines Again
Maybe the savior is just different from other wizards, maybe the pressure of being regarded as a savior has forced him to become a good wizard, or maybe the strong desire to prove himself ** and the Aurors' complete training have made Harry an excellent and ready Auror who can take charge of himself...... Of course, it could also be the "fact" that Voldemort had been defeated, so that the knotted Slughorn was no longer so afraid of him......
Overall, it took only three days for Harry Potter to complete his first solo mission: to find the elusive Hogwarts Potions professor and convince him to come to the Ministry of Magic to join Lockhart's team of wizards to "deal with the former Dark Lord".
Now, the Ministry of Magic controlled by Lockhart has formed a law enforcement team with more than 50 Aurors (including 16 who have not obtained Auror certificates), more than 100 strikers, and several powerful foreign wizards......
But the target of this powerful law enforcement team has not been heard.
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The Floo Network had been connected for a week, and Lockhart had managed to assemble such a team of wizards, but he had not waited for Voldemort's whereabouts, and he couldn't help but become anxious.
For every day of delay, there is more danger...... Unlike the "deal with the former Dark Lord" that he had been preaching to others, the real enemy might not be as strong as Grindelwald, but it was more likely that there would be more than one......
Lockhart couldn't sit still at all when he thought that a new resurrected person was likely to be acquiring a new body at every moment.
He also asked some other European countries to send excellent wizards to "hunt down Grindelwald", but unfortunately, according to the clues of the use of Floo.com, the hiding place of "Voldemort" is likely to be in France, so Germany sent a team of wizards to France, and the French Ministry of Magic was even more nervous......
Lockhart naturally had a hard time talking at the moment, and he also thought about asking for more help from Chinese wizards...... But after pretending to chat with Zhang Jianshuo about the situation in the Chinese wizarding world, he still gave up this plan: there are only three wizards of Zhang Jianshuo's generation, and there is already a strong senior brother. The remaining two are not as good as Zhang Jianshuo, Lockhart asked himself that he didn't have the same face to invite all the people, and Zhang Jianshuo had already patted his chest to promise that he could deal with that Grindelwald...... If you tell him that Voldemort might be working on the resurrection, not only will he not be able to bring in a new helper, but he will also scare the two Chinese away.
Even if he invited two more, if he had been asked for a philosopher's stone by the old businessman, where would he get so much uncursed unicorn blood?
Unicorns are creatures with long estrus intervals and pregnancy cycles, and the number is extremely small, and it is even more difficult to find, and there are less than 100 of them under the surveillance and protection of wizards and centaurs...... None of them are pregnant yet.
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Rumors soon spread throughout the British wizarding world about Lockhart's engagement to the young lady of the Fudge family. If you don't count the several marriages made during the Death Eaters' reign, Lockhart was the first to be engaged to a second girl while he had a wife...... Once again, he made the headlines.
When Lockhart was younger, he racked his brains to make headlines in order to increase the sales of his books, but unfortunately he never succeeded...... But after teaching at Hogwarts, he was almost killed by a death curse at the end of his first school year to save Ginny - the first time he made headlines.
The following year, Peter was caught and Blake's rehabilitation made headlines again.
In the third year, catch Barty Jr. Uncovering Voldemort's conspiracy made headlines for the third time......
After that, his involvement grew bigger and bigger, and the need for secrecy became more and more necessary. On the contrary, it can't be known.
By the time he made the headlines again for replacing Hermione as the hero of the encirclement of the Dementors, he was already in the middle of the game......
When he made headlines again after a year, he had even stolen his identity by Barty Jr., and Gilderoy Lockhart himself planned a terrorist attack "impersonating Gilderoy Lockhart". Hunted down by the Aurors and killed...... By this time, "Toutiao" had changed from a goal he once fought, to a sad and terrifying thing.
Back in the headlines as yourself. He was already the Minister of Magic, and headlining became a boring daily task for him, and he went from a young man who loved to be in the limelight, to a headliner-numb and difficult to think of the limelight, the "hero who defeated the mystery man", "the White Lord", "the boss of all British wizards" (because he paid English wizards, and most wizards didn't bother to know where the money came from, only that Lockhart gave them them), and each title was enough to make him make headlines at least once.
Of course, this time he was engaged to Pandora and made headlines, and he was scolded again: he changed the marriage law and became the first wizard to marry two wives, even a blind person can guess that there must be something wrong with it, and the rumors that "the White Devil changed the law for the sake of a girl" began to spread - men scoffed at it, and women thought it was romantic.
This rumor has a huge negative impact on the career of a Minister of Magic, but Lockhart doesn't care: 1. This rumor is true. 2. Even if there is no negative news, Lockhart will create some negative news, and then let Scrimgeour oust him from power and retire himself.
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But the day after the engagement, Lockhart made headlines again, which was completely unexpected.
Jasmine Weasley, wife of Arthur Weasley, Director of the Department of Magical Accidents and Disasters and Director of the Division for the Prohibition of Magical Abuse, and a known member of the Order of the Phoenix, reported under her real name that Gilderoy Lockhart, the current Minister of Magic, had used an aphrodisiac on his daughter, Ginevia Weasley.
The Weasleys had moved back to the Burrow a few days earlier, so Lockhart had no idea what was going on to cause Jasmine to be so furious, as if she was going to have trouble with herself.
So, a few days later, St. Mungo's Potions and Plant Poison Division welcomed a second wizard who needed to test for aphrodisiacs: a beautiful red-haired girl was brought in by her family for a blood test, and the Minister of Magic went from being a victim to a poisoner in this case...... If the aphrodisiac is detected in the girl's blood, then I am afraid that the Minister of Magic will be replaced immediately.
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But it turned out that Ginny was not hit with the aphrodisiac.
The undying Mrs. Weasley took Ginny to the Spell Damage Section to check if she was under the influence of the Imperius Charm or a special psychosuggestive spell, but the results showed that her daughter was not only conscious, but also an Occlumency Master - if the control spells used on her by other wizards were strong enough to control her, the symptoms would be obvious, and if the spells used were not strong enough to affect an Occlumclumcist.
Mrs. Weasley reluctantly dropped the charges against Lockhart and brought her daughter home...... Lockhart wasn't involved in the whole thing, and didn't reach out to Arthur Weasley until it was all over to ask what was going on.
Arthur reluctantly tells him that after Ginny heard the news of Pandora and Lockhart's engagement, she clamored at home to marry him, and the mother and daughter had a complete quarrel, so Jasmine would go to the Ministry of Magic to report him...... I really can't persuade him.
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โโ(To be continued......)