Chapter 271: Confident Lockhart
Fred and George didn't even eat, grabbed a few slices of bread and left the table.
Looks like they were trying to get the letter out before class.
Harry, Ron, and Neville looked at each other in confusion, and to be honest, they still hadn't figured out what was going on.
However, they didn't have time to think about it anymore, as Professor McGonagall handed out the class schedule along Gryffind's desk.
"Kyle, you happen to be here."
After handing the last timetable to Neville, she said, "Professor Sprout has something to ask you for, so if you've finished breakfast, come with me." ”
"Okay professor."
Kyle took the last sip of lemonade and got up and followed Professor McGonagall out of the auditorium.
If he was not mistaken, Professor Sprout was supposed to be talking about a time turner.
After all, the first class of the new school year is about to start, and there should be news.
And before coming to the cafeteria, he had already got his class schedule from the common room.
The first lesson in the third grade is the protection of magical creatures, as well as arithmetic divination...... The time of these two classes is exactly the same, both are 9 o'clock in the morning.
……
After leaving the dining room, Professor McGonagall did not go to the upstairs office, but took Kyle out of the castle and on the other side of the field.
Professor Sprout was there to treat the beater......
Yesterday he had been struck hard by two reckless fellows, the poor little fellow had broken several branches, and Professor Sprout was making special potions and bandages to wrap up the broken places.
Kyle notices that the beating willow is not stationary, it is still moving...... A passing owl was nearly pulled out of mid-air.
Fortunately, the owl was small and quick enough to react, so it escaped, leaving a feather on the ground and scolding and flying away.
Apparently, Professor Sprout didn't press the scar at the root.
But the beating willow had no intention of attacking her, and allowed her to toss back and forth between her branches.
And it's not just Professor Sprout, another professor is here.
Gilderoy Lockhart.
He stood ten meters away from the beating willow and shouted:
"If I were a man, I wouldn't do that...... It's too much trouble. ”
"Oh...... You're in too much trouble, Pomona, I happen to know a spell that works perfectly with those broken branches. ”
"That's right, that's it, I wanted to teach you this spell just now, but I didn't expect you to do it too!"
Lockhart chattered below, and Professor Sprout's face grew ugly.
If Lockhart hadn't been standing too far away, she would have wanted Beater Willow to give this guy a warm hug.
It's annoying!
At this time, Professor McGonagall also took Kyle to the neighborhood.
"Oh, Minerva, it's a pleasure to see you." Lockhart leaned in.
"Me too, Professor Lockhart." Professor McGonagall replied perfunctorily, then shouted in the direction of the beating willow:
"Pomona, are you done? I brought Kyle here. ”
"And the last one." Professor Sprout glanced back, his hands moving much faster.
"Wait, are you the youngest Sir Merlin Order in history?"
Lockhart looked at Kyle as if he had discovered some new world.
"Yes, Professor Lockhart." Kyle nodded.
"We should have seen it before, remember, at the Blotted Bookstore, you came to buy my books." Lockhart said with a smile, his big white teeth glistening in the sun.
"It's just that you were too shy at the time and hiding."
Professor McGonagall glanced sideways.
A man who dared to face the dark wizard alone, faced a tough werewolf, and forced his way into the forbidden land with a three-headed dog...... Will you be shy?
Professor McGonagall couldn't do anything to connect Kyle with Shy, which was ridiculous, and she preferred to believe that Fred and George were a good couple.
But she quickly remembered a copy of the Daily Prophet she had seen the other day, and the picture of Harry at a loss.
If she guessed correctly, Kyle should have been there at the time, but he ran away early and wasn't caught taking a photo together.
The corners of Professor McGonagall's mouth twitched slightly, as if she was smiling.
It's just that Lockhart didn't notice this.
"I'm also a Sir Merlin Medal winner, and I've met werewolves."
He reached out and patted Kyle on the shoulder:
"You're lucky to have achieved the same level of achievement as me at a young age."
"Kyle's Medal of the Order of the Merlin has nothing to do with luck."
Professor Sprout walked over and said nonchalantly, "He's saved an entire floor of patients." ”
"yes, of course, it's commendable." Lockhart straightened his gold-rimmed top hat.
"In fact, I've saved a lot of people on my journey, but I've never mentioned them."
"yes, I didn't mention it, but it's all written in the book." Kyle sneered.
Although no one accosted him, Lockhart did not feel embarrassed at all and continued to say to Kyle:
"I think you've read my book Wandering with Werewolves before, where I detailed fifteen ways to deal with werewolves."
"Professor, aren't there seventeen?"
Kyle blinked, "Did you forget?" ”
"Seventeen......" Lockhart paused, but the expression on his face did not change in the slightest.
"Of course not, it's just that two ways are too risky, and I don't recommend it to ordinary wizards...... Looks like you're really reading my book, very good, which college are you from? ”
"Hufflepuff."
"So...... Hufflepuff plus ten. Lockhart said happily: "You will definitely be able to become an internationally renowned great wizard in the future, just like me and me."
Sure, you've already achieved something, and while that's not quite as good as winning five consecutive Wizarding Weekly Most Charming Smile awards, it's just the beginning.
I was much more ordinary than you when I was thirteen. ”
Professor McGonagall listened to the latest twitch in the back, grinding her teeth.
Wizarding Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award, more than the Merlin Sir Medal of Merlin?
How did he say it?
That kind of thing, even if it was upside down and gave her a large sum of Galleons, she would have to think about whether to take it.
It's a shame to let your old friends see it, and they'll probably think that Hogwarts can't afford to pay it.
At this moment, a group of people walked out of the castle, including Harry, Hermione, and Ron...... Their first session was a herbal class and they needed to go to the greenhouse.
"I have to go." Lockhart patted Kyle on the shoulder again.
"By the way, although I was instructing Professor Sprout on how to heal the wounds of the beating willow, I don't want you to think that I am better than her in herbology, I just happened to see a few of these strange plants during my travels......"
"And where did you meet you, Professor?"
Kyle suddenly asked, "I've always wanted to raise a man-beating willow, but neither Headmaster Dumbledore nor Professor Sprout agreed that I would dig it up, so if it's in the wild, it should be fine." ”
"It's a far away place...... Lockhart thought for a moment and said, "and you may be disappointed, the beating willows there are also someone else's private property, and they take it very seriously." ”
(End of chapter)