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What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite colour; what are his secret ambitions; and his greatest achievement to date?
No... What about the werewolf that was promised?
What about zombies, snowmen, and vampires? !
Harry read all the questions patiently, and finally came to the conclusion that... this is simply an inexplicable test paper!
However, out of respect for the new teacher's first class, Harry finally made a few random strokes, and took it for granted.
As for Ron, Seamus and others, their eyes almost flew out of their sockets~
But Hermione was writing furiously at this moment, and there was even a gleam of excitement called excitement in her eyes.
Harry could tell at a glance that this girl must have answered all of Lockhart's secret ambitions...
"I would like to commend Miss Granger for knowing that my secret ambition is to rid the world of evil and sell my own line of hair conditioners, what a wonderful girl! I'll give Miss Granger a hundred Points, plus ten points for Ravenclaw!"
Seeing Hermione's trembling hand raised to accept the praise, Harry rolled his eyes helplessly.
Lockhart's ambition is also related to hair care, this girl remembers it so clearly~
"Next, let's get down to business."
Not mentioning Harry's defamation, Lockhart took out a cloth-covered cage from under the podium, put it on the podium, and then began to play tricks.
"Now, I'm going to teach you how to resist the most evil thing the magic world has ever known! But don't worry, as long as I'm here, you won't suffer any harm~"
Because he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Lockhart's gourd, the atmosphere in the room gradually became solemn.
But Harry felt a little baffled, because to him, the sound of magic in the cage had nothing to do with danger at all.
"Come and meet...the Cornish elf just caught!!"
Lockhart suddenly lifted the cover, and the atmosphere in the room was completely frozen.
The students of the Eagle Academy looked at each other, and the students of the Lion Academy laughed secretly. The same thought arose in everyone's mind at this moment...
"That's it?"
Harry had the same reaction at the moment. After all, he only had a fight with the mermaid yesterday, so the gap today is a bit too big.
A bunch of pixies who are only eight inches tall and pose no threat other than screaming and pulling their ears?
Their combat power is not even as good as Peeves, so it is shameless to say that they are the most evil?
"Well, let's see how you deal with them!"
Lockhart shouted loudly and opened the cage door, and the whole class exploded in an instant.
Facts have proved that the second-grade students are still a bit high-sighted, and when the group of elves started to play tricks in the room, the first reaction of these students was not to raise their wands, but to crawl under the table with their heads in their arms .
Neville, who didn't have time to react, was even almost caught by the elf's ears. Fortunately, Ron beside him was good enough to use Lockhart's book to shoot the troublesome little guy away.
"Hurry up and get them together, it's just a group of elves!" Lockhart yelled at the students while waving his wand at the elves in mid-air, "Peschipixi Pesternomi!"
Lockhart chanted a meaningless spell, which naturally had no effect. The enraged elf grabbed his wand and threw it out of the window. After that, the black defense professor hurriedly hid in the classroom under the table.
"Please, someone hurry up and get rid of them?! Catch a little elf, and I will reward his academy with ten points!!"
Have extra points?
Hearing what Lockhart said, Hermione's eyes lit up.
If you want to talk about extra points, then I will not hide my clumsiness~
But just as she was about to make a move, Harry raised his hand to stop her.
This farce has continued until now, and Harry is already feeling a little annoyed, so he wants to do it himself... er, it should be aloud.
"Give me all the honesty!"
With a loud curse, all the elves were frightened and froze in place at the same time.
"Go back to the cage now, or I'll be rude!"
"Squeak!" *N
Feeling the aura of several terrifying creatures gathered on Harry's body, all the elves were terrified and rushed into the cage.
"Wait a minute!" Harry angrily stopped the elves from pushing and shoving, "Line up one by one, so that I don't have to check the numbers~"
With an order, the elves lined up in a row in horror, and then went back one by one.
"Great!"
"Thank goodness~"
When Harry closed the cage, the whole classroom began to burst into enthusiastic cheers, while Gilderoy Lockhart, who was hiding in embarrassment, had already dropped his jaw in shock.
"Chenghui, Professor Lockhart," Harry looked condescendingly at someone lying on the ground, "There are fourteen elves in total, you should give Ravenclaw points~"
(PS The mermaid bracelet is of course an important prop related to the Goblet of Fire, but this thing... In short, whoever enters the water as a warrior will wear it on his hand, so I will spoil so much first~)
Chapter 120 You can chat calmly with the principal
"Oh my god... just now it was really choking~"
After the farce-like Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Ron wiped the sweat from his brow with lingering fear, "But Harry still has the ability, I don't know, you can make those difficult elves so obedient~"
"It's their nature to bully the weak and fear the strong, and they will obey creatures stronger than themselves. If you have dealt with magical animals for a long time, you can do similar things." Harry said indifferently.
"Are you sure?" Ron curled his lips noncommittally, "According to what you said, Lockhart has been dealing with magical animals for a long time, isn't he scared by the elves and hid under the table?"
"He wanted to give us some opportunities to practice!" Hermione retorted eagerly, and Ron's slander of her idol obviously made her quite dissatisfied.
"Hmph, waving his wand in vain, saying 'You nasty elf, don't bother me', I don't think he can cast even basic spells~"
Ron imitated Lockhart's accent and waved his wand, and at the end he performed a panicked expression when the elf snatched the wand from him.
His behavior, of course, aroused Hermione's anger even more.
"Let's all take a step back, the matter is over!" Of course, Harry couldn't let the dispute worsen, so he immediately stopped the two who had started to smell like gunpowder.
But he suddenly took Hermione's book away, took out the class schedule she had put in the book, and replaced it with his own class schedule.
And this kind of behavior also made Ron and Neville on the side clearly see that Hermione actually circled all Lockhart's classes with heart-shaped patterns.
"You can use mine first, but don't scribble on it. I have something to do, so I'm leaving first."
After saying goodbye to the three of them briefly, Harry turned and left the corridor without even thinking about going to lunch with them.
"What does he mean?" Hermione complained a little unhappy.
"What else can it mean, I'm jealous~" Ron said with his hands behind his head, looking indifferent.
"Ron Weasley, as we said last year, don't make fun of my relationship with Harry!" Hermione warned angrily.
"Siblings? Ask Neville, does he think you two are like siblings~" Ron tilted his mouth nonchalantly.
"It's not like." Neville, who was suddenly cueed, replied honestly.
"you?"
Now, it was Hermione's turn to be at a loss for words.
The headmaster's office of Hogwarts is located on the eighth floor, but to get there, you first need to go to the corridor on the third floor, and sign with the stone giant beast guarding the door there, and then you are allowed to enter the spiral staircase that climbs up.
So Harry, who was too troublesome, chose to find a place where there was no one to transform into an Animagus, and then flew up and knocked on the window.
dong dong dong~
When he heard the crisp sound coming from the window, Dumbledore, who was reading a book, waved his hand and opened the window to let Harry into the room.
"A very perfect Animagus transformation." Seeing that Harry had easily returned to his human form, Dumbledore applauded without hesitation, "You know, Harry... When Newt told me, you When I became an Animagus during the holidays, I couldn't believe my ears. You know, it took your father James three full years to achieve the same degree of transformation, but you only need less than Two months."
"Mr. Principal, if you continue to boast like that, I can't help being proud." Harry said with a smile, "Also, I have to ask you to forgive me for coming here~"
"It's okay, I welcome you to come and chat with me often." Dumbledore also smiled kindly, "Harry, you are a very amazing child, every time I talk to you, I get a new inspiration. "
"Then eat and chat? But I only have biscuits here." While talking, Harry took out two bags of snack biscuits from his pocket.
"It's much better than a pile of cockroaches, at least the biscuits are sure to be chocolate-flavored~" Comparing the black 'cockroaches' that kept rolling in the fruit bowl beside him, Dumbledore felt that the lunch Harry brought was already very good.
This was one of the rare times when Harry could chat peacefully with Dumbledore. The old and the young were knocking on biscuits, chatting about some things in study and life, and the atmosphere was quite happy.
Even Dumbledore's phoenix seemed to be attracted by their conversation, and jumped up and down, asked Harry for a biscuit and pecked it.
"Fawkes seems to appreciate you too," Dumbledore sighed a little upon seeing this, "Newt is right, you really are easy to win the favor of magical animals."
"Fantastic animals, like humans, have their own thoughts and feelings. As long as they are treated with heart, they will give sincere feedback."
Harry stroked Phoenix Fox's neck a few times, and then cut to the point to indicate the purpose of today's visit: "Mr. Headmaster, can you introduce Gilderoy Lockhart to me?"
"As expected, you have already seen it," Dumbledore nodded slightly, "Lockhart is indeed not a good teacher, but if I talk to you about the absurd things he did when he was in school, it will be tantamount to being behind his back." speak ill of him."
"If you say that, then I understand~" Harry shrugged helplessly, "But I still want to know, what is the point of you letting such a flashy idiot be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts?"
"Harry, I don't deny that Lockhart is indeed a vain guy, but he can also learn a lot from such a bad teacher. At least with him as a comparison, students should know what not to do, and What kind of person do you not want to be in the future?"
Speaking of this, Dumbledore paused, and a urchin-like smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Furthermore, it is really difficult to find someone who is willing to teach black defense courses now, and it took me a lot of money." It took a lot of tongue-in-cheek, even throwing out your fame to lure him, before he finally agreed to teach."
"Mr. Principal, you should give me half of his salary!" Harry protested pretending to be angry.
Old Deng really knows how to do business, and he actually thought of using his fame to lure Lockhart into a trap!
No wonder this guy has been pestering me since the beginning of school. He wants to use his light to further increase his popularity.
"Mr. Principal, let me ask you bluntly...how are the wizards whose experience was stolen by Lockhart?"
Harry was sure that the experiences described in Lockhart's book must be true, because if it was just fantasy, it would be impossible to be so professional.
But these experiences are definitely not Lockhart's own, they can only be stolen by him!
"Most of them have a good life, but because they have forgotten these experiences, there is no way to expose Lockhart's deception."
"I see." Harry nodded gratefully to Dumbledore, but his face gradually became serious, "Mr. Principal, thank you for being willing to tell me this, but I actually have another question when I come to you today..."
"Parseltongue...is it related to Voldemort?"
(ps A little interpretation, Lockhart's spell 'Pesskipiksi Pesternomi', English is 'Peskipiksi Pesternomi!'.
If you disassemble it and make some reasonable transformations according to the pronunciation, 'peski' can be transformed into 'pesky', which means annoying and annoying; the next 'piksi' can be transformed into 'pixie', which means small Elf; and the 'pester' in the second half means annoying and disturbing, and the last words are 'no' and 'me', so there is no need to say more about the meaning.
So this hilarious mantra, which is actually pronounced 'Pesky pixie pester no me', actually means 'Pesky pixie pester no me, don't bother me! ', above~)
Chapter 120 You can ignore it as a demon in class
After having a biscuit lunch with Dumbledore, Harry's mood improved a lot, and even for the first time in the afternoon, he listened with great interest to the boring History of Magic course taught by Binns.
Dumbledore's behavior style has indeed changed. Although he still retains his bad taste of being a riddler, he is willing to actively throw out clues for things he cares about.
For example, Parseltongue, Dumbledore explained it to Harry in detail.
This is a language that is rare among humans to communicate with snake-like creatures, and is usually genetically acquired.
And just as Harry had predicted, Voldemort was a Parseltongue.
In addition, almost all Parseltongues are descended from Salazar Slytherin.
Of course, Harry was pretty sure he wasn't, because if he was really of Slytherin blood, he wouldn't have been a problem student in the complex of the four houses before.
Therefore, being able to speak Parseltongue must have something to do with Voldemort.
And this should be the reason why Scamander stuffed himself with a lot of magical animals.
He guessed his possible connection with Voldemort through Parseltongue, worried that he would be in danger again in the future, so he sent a box of 'cute' as bodyguards.
However, Harry didn't need to worry too much about the Parseltongue and Voldemort issues, because that guy Voldemort didn't know where he was now.
What he really wants to plot against now is Gilderoy Lockhart.
Using the Forgetting Curse to steal other people's achievements, and packaging people to bluff and deceive, his behavior is not just as simple as trying to gain fame, but a serious crime!
Especially since he still wanted to rub off on his own popularity, and more importantly, he actually fooled Hermione, how could Harry let him go so easily?