It's almost Christmas break, so there are a lot of parchments with messages on the bulletin board. These are all messages from students.
After Ted finished his morning practice that day, he and Neville went to the auditorium to have breakfast, and saw Luna gluing parchment paper to the bulletin board.
"Huh? Did you lose something too?" Ted asked curiously.
Generally, stickers are posted here, such as lost and found notices, found property notices, and pet finding notices.
As a result, Ted took a look and saw that the good guy had a foot-long piece of parchment with a long strip of item names.
"You lost so much stuff?" Ted asked.
Luna blinked, looked at the notice board, and said softly: "Everyone always makes fun of me and puts my things away. It's going to be a holiday, so I have to ask them to return my things."
Luna's expression was calm, but Ted and Neville's expressions were not so good.
This is fucking bullying!
"Is the first-year girls' dormitory so evil? I understand. I will ask them for you and ask them to return their things to you."
Ted later asked Hermione to help find out the whole story.
It turns out that Luna is often the butt of jokes among her classmates because of her eccentric behavior. People call her Crazy Girl Lovegood behind her back.
Her classmates always stole her things, such as her strange butterbeer bottle cork necklace and carrot-like Zeppelin earrings...
In short, she became the object of everyone's teasing and ridicule.
So, she is a Ravenclaw, but her best friend is Ginny from Gryffindor.
Human beings are social creatures, so they will always be hostile to individuals who are independent, and they will isolate or even bully individuals in the name of the collective. This is a sign of a lack of tolerance.
…
In the Ravenclaw common room, there was a group of about twenty first-, second- and third-year Ravenclaw students.
Ted stood in front of the bust of Lady Ravenclaw, his face a little serious.
"I didn't expect to hear such a thing in the Eagle Academy where we pursue wisdom. I always thought it would only happen among the Slytherin group of guys who engage in opposition and division... This is shameful campus bullying!"
"Look at those financial criminals who took advantage of the law and those in Azkaban. More than 80% of them came from our Eagle Academy. And most of them were sent in by wizards from our Academy! Using rules and tricks There are loopholes in the rules and you think you are smart.”
"We pursue wisdom and admire knowledge, but I think that now that we are standing in front of the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw, we should seriously reflect on whether we really have extraordinary wisdom..."
"If we can't even accept and tolerate the classmates we live with day and night. I think we have not only deviated from the path of Ms. Ravenclaw, but also humiliated the school of Hogwarts!"
Ted talked for about ten minutes, and everyone present knew what happened.
Several first-year girls were already on the verge of tears.
When freshmen enter school, they suddenly come into an unfamiliar environment, and there is indeed a tendency to cling to groups.
And the performance of this behavior also includes xenophobia.
A maverick girl like Luna is usually the target of exclusion. Freshmen use this xenophobic behavior to cling together.
Ted is already vaguely a leader of this generation of students and has a high prestige. Therefore, this internal meeting of the lower grades of Yingyuan was quite successful.
Afterward, Ted comforted Luna: "Many wizards are not wise enough, even those who are assigned to Ravenclaw..."
Such as Quirrell, such as Lockhart, such as the beetle reporter Skeeter... they are all Ravenclaw graduates.
"Don't pay too much attention to these, they are just a little embellishment in a long life. Everyone should live their own life, right?"
The little girl blushed, nodded in understanding, and thanked Ted.
Her things had been returned by her naughty classmates, and two of them had apologized.
Hermione looked at her carefully: "You are quite good at comforting people!"
Ted: Don't you know me yet?
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It's mid-December and the weather is getting colder. The weather has been bad these days, it's gray and it's going to snow at any time.
Ted and the others all put on thick winter robes and scarves and gloves.
Harley has given up on night walks. After all, the invisibility cloak doesn't protect against the cold.
But Jerry still finds time to do it every night. He can be called a Hogwarts night walker.
At breakfast that day, Jerry said to his friends a little strangely: "I was in the main tower last night and found a lot of spiders crawling out of the window cracks. It's going to snow in this winter. It's so hard to climb out." Aren’t you looking for death?”
Hermione looked at Ted curiously: "Don't spiders need to hibernate?"
Ted nodded: "Yes, spider species that do not need hibernation cannot survive the winter at all. A strange phenomenon..."
"Hey!" Ron shouted with a look of pain, "Can we not mention the spider? I can't even eat the food." He took a bite of the chicken leg, one third of which was enough.
"Okay~"
Ted knew that this might be because the basilisk was active and alerted the spiders in the castle.
They even go against their nature and would rather die in the cold than stay in the castle. It is indeed a natural enemy!
It is said that if you look at a basilisk, you will die, and the spider has eight eyes and no eyelids, so it cannot close its eyes or turn its head. So the basilisk became the spider's natural enemy.
It's somewhat outrageous, but it's understandable in the magic world.
No one mentioned the spider thing again, because at eight o'clock tonight, Professor Lockhart's dueling club held its first public event.
All interested little wizards can participate.
Lockhart asked Dumbledore directly for instructions to hold a dueling club in the Great Hall.
What a big scene!
Today, although it is still morning, Lockhart has already started to dress up in his office. He has chosen seven or eight sets of wizard robes and keeps changing them, as well as the bow ties he wears, his hairstyle, and the perfume he uses...
He also keeps practicing his smile in front of the mirror. Highlight a major.
Now Lockhart is contented with a little bit of nervousness, and he is very excited, and he feels like he is the one who is better than me.
Lockhart: Do you dare to gesticulate with me? !
At around seven o'clock in the evening, dinner was over.
Many little wizards stayed in the auditorium, waiting for the show to begin.
Although Lockhart is a bit of a hip person, school life is really boring.
Little wizards lack entertainment methods. Now that there is such a large-scale reality show that they can participate in, even if they feel uncomfortable, they cannot let it go.
Just watch the fun, that's what everyone has in common.
It was almost eight o'clock, and there were a lot of people in the auditorium. It looked like there were about a hundred people.
This is already the number of students in four grades.
For example, the fifth and sixth grade seniors were more academically focused and more disdainful of Lockhart, so not many came.
As the time approached, the little wizards became restless, whispering to each other, laughing and cursing.
At this time, the auditorium door opened.
Lockhart, who was wearing a purple robe with a shaved head, took the lead and strode in. He opened his arms as he walked, and his bangs on his forehead were blown by the breeze, which was very exciting.
The little wizards were about to laugh or applaud. Then he saw Snape following behind him, walking silently and not moving much in his robes, just like the one who floated in.
The expression on Snape's face was as if he had just eaten a giant monster alive, disgusted and disgusted.
"Ha! Hello, classmates~ I am your dear Professor Lockhart!" Lockhart opened his hands wide and made a neat pos.
"Some bad things have happened recently. So Dumbledore entrusted me to start a duel club to teach you a little extra knowledge. So that you can be like me and be able to calmly protect yourself in any situation~ "
That kind of specially elongated voice, with its yin and yang fluctuations, is like singing an opera. He had been practicing in the office for who knows how long.
He looked as if he was alone and defeated, and Dumbledore had to personally visit the thatched cottage to ask him to come out.
Lockhart ripped off his expensive robe and threw it towards the girls in the crowd.
"Then~ let's begin!"
Lockhart: Damn it, I'm getting excited!
Following his voice, the long tables in the auditorium suddenly came together and turned into an extra-long, wide platform with a layer of carpet covering it.
This scene is still very cool. Lockhart had the house elves rehearse it five or six times.
Lockhart jumped onto the platform, at least his movements were relatively agile.
"Now, let me introduce my assistant—Professor Snape." He stretched out his hand and motioned to Snape.
But Snape still had the same gloomy expression as he slowly walked onto the platform.
He crossed his arms across his chest, still holding his wand in his hand, and a black robe shrouded his surroundings like a dark cloud.
Lockhart didn't care and continued his performance: "Professor Snape generously agreed to help me give you a demonstration. Of course, I will never hurt him~" Lockhart grinned like a grin.
Ted and the others below the stage felt as if they had eaten chili peppers, their faces were so red that they couldn't hold it in anymore.
Neville lowered his head in embarrassment. He was embarrassed for Lockhart, and his feet were already digging through the floor.
Harry sneered at Lockhart and whispered: "Although Snape is not that good, at the level of a peacock, I doubt he will die on the stage!"
The Gryffindor boxing champion felt that this round was best for both victory and death. She was thoroughly annoyed by the peacock.
Ted smiled and said, "Didn't Professor Lockhart say that he would never hurt Snape, which shows that his understanding of himself is still very accurate."
Hermione snickered at this.
Ron muttered with an ugly look on his face: "It's best to die together!"
Jerry patted Ron's shoulder hard and suppressed a smile: "Good brother, these words touched my heart."
Soon, the two of them started.
First, he walked away with his back to both parties, then turned around and raised his wand in salute.
After all, this is a duel, so it needs to be a little aristocratic, look good, and have some serious style.
If it was a life and death battle, it would be natural to strike first. It's best to attack by surprise, poison if you can, and arrange a dump truck to kill him in advance if you can. Just implement the concept of unlimited fighting!
The two distanced themselves, took a stance, and raised their wands.
"1~"
"2~"
"3~"
"Expelliarmus~" Snape's spell was too fast to be heard, as if it was completed in a flash.
Lockhart probably didn't even react, because his body posture didn't change before he was hit.
The whole person flew upside down for three to four meters, fell to the platform with a "plop", and stared at the sky with dull eyes...
Fortunately, the carpet is thick, otherwise it would be easy to fall to death~
His wand had flown high into the air and dropped into the crowd. Ron lowered his head to look for it. If he wanted to find it, he would just kick it off!
The scene was very quiet for a while, and some distracted little wizards didn't even see what happened, and the duel was over.
He was still a good student who wanted to teach the professor. He leaned close to Lockhart and called softly: "Professor? Professor Lockhart?"
Professor Lockhart, are you alive?
"Uh~" Lockhart gasped and groaned, as if he had come to his senses.
He pretended to be cool, but actually struggled to sit up: "Ah! I just gave you a wrong example. You must be careful about being attacked like me in the future. If I am serious..."
At this time, he saw Snape's eyes and the wand stretched out in his hand - whenever a fart popped out of his mouth, he would fight again!
Lockhart quickly shut up: "Now, let you experience it for yourself and start the duel!" He quickly slipped off the platform.
Everyone looked at each other: Huh? Why are we being asked to duel, and you didn’t teach me anything? Are you here to poop? !
(End of chapter)
