"...I wouldn't be surprised at all if they fire you for stealing a car. It depends on how I deal with you then. You probably haven't thought about how your father and I felt when we found out that the car was gone. …”
"I received Dumbledore's letter last night. Your father was so ashamed that he almost died. We worked hard to bring you up, but we didn't expect you to do such a thing. You and Harry almost lost their child." Life……"
"...It's so irritating. Your father will be scrutinized at work. It's all your fault. If you don't behave yourself, we'll take you back right away!"
The sound of shouting the letter made the tableware and food on the entire table tremble. Malfoy's face never stopped looking good. Neville silently blocked his ears. Some students laughed out loud.
Howler, after greeting Ginny, tore himself into pieces.
Ron blushed in shame at first. But gradually his face turned pale. Because he saw a few people not smiling.
George and Fred just glanced at their brother blankly. Then he ate his meal silently. There wasn't even a smile on their face. Ginny even shook her head in disappointment at Ron.
Originally, it was okay for Ron to get into trouble. But they also heard what their mother said in the letter. Mr. Weasley is under review by his employer.
If someone tried harder at this time, they might be able to replace him with Mr. Weislai. Of course, this is not the most deadly. The most fatal ones are of course salary deduction and suspension.
If Mr. Weislai's salary is suspended, then their family will have no choice but to start eating from their family income. After all, Mrs. Weissley cannot support the entire family with her salary alone. Fortunately, now that there are five children at Hogwarts, it doesn't cost much.
But the trouble this caused to their family was real.
He glanced at Ron's pale face. Hermione shook her head slightly: "Did you expect it to be anything else? Ron? Indeed... obviously you two have been forgiven by the Ministry of Magic. Someone has settled the punishment for you."
It may be that Mr. Weasley took all the blame on himself, or it may be that Dumbledore said hello. In short, the two of them can escape the Ministry of Magic.
As soon as these words came out, not only Ron, but also Harry began to feel ashamed.
At this moment, Fred came over and said to Luke: "Luke, I know this is against the rules, but..."
Luke said before Fred could finish, "I'll let Gemma settle your share of the money in advance, and it will be in your hands in a few days."
Fred breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you."
Luke, who was sitting, smiled and lightly punched Fred's arm and said, "There's no need to be so polite between us."
Malfoy said nothing, just looked at Ron with a sarcastic look.
Ron felt that Malfoy might as well say something sarcastic and then the two of them would have a fight. Now like this, if you speak, you are taking the initiative to stir up trouble. So he could only lower his head and avoid looking into Malfoy's eyes.
Malfoy looked at Ron like this and felt that he had opened the door to a new world. Sure enough, Luke was right. Sometimes taking the initiative to ridicule will only get yourself into trouble. And silent ridicule can often make the other party fall into passivity.
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All I can say is...it's not easy to learn well, but it's easy to learn bad things.
The little disturbance at lunch was over.
In the afternoon they faced another challenge.
Defense Against the Dark Arts course...
"I wonder what Professor Lockhart will have to say!"
Hermione has a good habit of previewing textbooks in advance. As a result, she had developed quite a liking for the handsome and omnipotent wizard in the book. And when she thought that such a wizard was now teaching her lessons, she felt sincerely happy.
Luke pursed his lips as he looked at Taylor, who was calm and indifferent to this matter, and Hermione, who was already obviously fond of Lockhart.
To be honest, Quirrell's class last year was also a disaster. But when Tom teaches everyone, he can actually learn some good things. After all, the premise of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course should be to learn black magic, or at least understand black magic.
What Tom taught last year was how to use black magic. Although he has bad intentions, the teachings are quite thorough and the content is quite solid. At the very least it gives students some basic understanding of black magic. Rather than the 'black magic is evil' stereotype.
This makes some freshmen have undue expectations for Defense Against the Dark Arts classes.
You know, after so many years, I don’t even know if there is still a reliable Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, or even someone like Lockhart. That's why Dumbledore, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, was transferred from the Order of the Phoenix.
"You'd better not get your hopes too high, Hermione."
"There's something wrong with Lockhart," Luke told Hermione candidly. "There's something wrong with Lockhart. There's something wrong with his story and with himself."
After hearing Luke's words, Hermione did not refute, but frowned: "Question..."
If someone else had said this, while Hermione would definitely not believe it, she might even label that person as 'jealous'. But now that the person who said this was Luke, she had to think about it carefully.
Luke said nothing. In fact, what I just said was too much.
"Let's go, after taking this class, you will know."
There is no need to say anything. As long as this person takes this class, as long as this person still has sense, he will see the truth about Lockhart clearly.
But when they were about to arrive at the classroom, they saw a crowd gathering in the corridor. , Malfoy's nature has not changed, and he will still taunt Harry when he does something. Calling these two people friends doesn't mean they are close friends. Calling him an enemy does not count as hatred.
A very awkward relationship.
"Is that Harry? Malfoy looking for trouble with him?"
Taylor frowned. Harry and her had a pretty good relationship, and she knew that Harry had a place in Luke's plans, and that friends played a greater role than enemies. So she would take care of Harry from time to time. Not out of his heart, just for Luke's sake.
"Maybe something unconventional happened to Harry." Hermione had already concluded some rules. As long as Harry did something that broke the rules, Malfoy would either be friendly or mock him unkindly. Appearing at the right time to interrupt Harry's embarrassment or good mood.
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As the three people approached, they heard a little boy who looked like he was in first grade and was holding a camera shouting at Malfoy: "I think you are just jealous!"
Malfoy was stunned when he heard this.
"Jealous? Jealous that you asked him for a photo?"
Malfoy really looked like he was taunting him wildly, but Harry couldn't help it and was already staring at him with ferocious eyes. So he could only say relatively gently: "Not everyone is like you, kid."
Luke smiled, he was quite satisfied with the effect of the changes he had made. What Malfoy said in the original book was much more unpleasant.
"Autographed photo?! Who is talking about autographed photo!"
Gilderoy Lockhart strode toward them, his turquoise robes flowing behind him.
Luke took a deep breath and silently hid behind Taylor, but Taylor was much shorter than him, so he could only turn his back.
Lockhart hooked Harry's shoulders: "We meet again! Harry!"
Harry looked embarrassed and was at a loss for a moment. Both Malfoy and Ron felt something was wrong when they saw this. Ron tried to pull Harry forward, wondering if he could pull Harry out of Lockhart's arms.
Malfoy silently took two steps back. He didn't want to have anything to do with such a sensationalist. I don't know what happened to Harry. He didn't have something like this to bother him.
"Come on, Mr. Creevey," Lockhart greeted Creevey with a smile. "It's a great deal to take a photo together. The two of us will sign it for you."
So a moment later, Colin had a signed photo of Harry and Lockhart. Of course, Harry's name was signed by Lockhart.
Afterwards, Harry was carried to the classroom by Lockhart.
Harry looked around desperately, trying to find someone who could help him escape from the clutches of the devil.
He saw Luke's back, but Luke didn't turn his head to look at him, obviously not wanting to get involved.
Just like Malfoy thought. In their eyes, being involved with Lockhart was too low a price.
Hermione looked at Lockhart's back as he left with Harry between his arms, and then looked at Luke's movements, which were clearly avoiding the other's sight. Suddenly I understood what Luke meant.
"There seems to be something wrong with him."
Taylor was more direct: "Such a flamboyant person is not much like the person in the book."
Luke didn't speak, just walked forward silently. All I read in books and movies are other people's stories, but when such a thing really happens to me, I understand what embarrassment is.
As they approached the classroom, they saw Lockhart.
When Lockhart saw Luke, his eyes visibly brightened.
"Oh! Mr. Gunter! I've heard of him for a long time!"
Lockhart came up and wanted to shake Luke's hand. The smile on his face was just too enthusiastic.
Taylor glanced at the other party, a trace of surprise flashed across his face.
Luke looked at Lockhart who was coming towards him, knowing that this incident was inevitable after all, so he gestured to the two girls behind him. Hermione and Tyler saw this gesture and left first.
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Luke, with a reserved and distant expression on his face, smiled and said to Lockhart, "Professor Lockhart, your writing is very good."
Lockhart's writing is really great. The story, which was already full of ups and downs, was obviously more touching under his description.
"Haha! It's pretty good, isn't it!" Lockhart showed what he thought was the most friendly smile, "I think you will like it."
Luke briefly chatted with Lockhart and then quickly found an opportunity to escape.
While he was chatting, Malfoy quickly slipped past him. Although he is not a famous person, Lockhart may not take the initiative to chat with him. But it’s better to be on the safe side.
Returning to his seat, Luke let out a long sigh of relief.
"What was he talking to you about?"
Taylor asked curiously. Hermione also looked over in confusion.
Luke thought back to the useless nonsense he and Lockhart had talked about.
"Want money."
Luke finally said these two words.
What else could a man like Lockhart do with him? They must be beating around the bush to get his money. Damn it, even those nobles didn't dare to attack Luke after they knew he was not easy to mess with.
Lockhart, on the other hand, still thinks that Luke will be fooled by him. This really made Luke feel surprised and helpless at the same time.
He couldn't even figure out why.
Does he seem to be that easy to fool? What next book can two people co-write? The main thing is that Luke can provide the money. Judging from the price, Lockhart probably really wanted to give Luke a chance to co-author a book with him.
Of course, Luke provided the money, Lockhart provided the writing, and some unknown hapless person provided the story.
The problem is, the price Lockhart offered. To put it bluntly, Luke felt that he could hire 20 gloves to kill Lockhart's dog.
How could he open his mouth?
"Be careful. Lockhart's Occlumency is very strong. I can't see what he is thinking, not at all. And I doubt he will use Legilimency."
Tyler quickly warned Luke. Hermione also nodded and said: "I can also feel a little fluctuation of memory magic. It's not just Occlumency and Legilimency. There may be others."
Since the last school year, she has focused most of her contacts on the study and research of memory magic, and has initially touched the threshold of memory magic formulas.
She was confident that if she was given another period of time, she would be able to complete the analysis of the magic formula for the 'Forgotten' spell.
And Luke once told her that after she completed the analysis of this thing, he would give her a big gift.
Luke nodded. He knew very well that Lockhart was the only magic that this guy was good at. Forgetting everything is probably the magic he is most skilled at. Occlumency should do the same. This is also confirmed by Taylor's words.
After them, students arrived one after another. Everyone is looking forward to what kind of unique class Lockhart, the famous magic master, will bring to them.
After the class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly to silence everyone. He reached for Neville Longbottom's "Walking with Trolls" and held it in his hand, showing the photo of himself winking on the cover.
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"I," he pointed to his photo and winked, "Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin 3rd Class, honorary member of the Defense League against the Dark Arts, five-time winner of the Wizarding Weekly Most Charming Smile Award ——But I don’t talk about that, I don’t drive away all the female ghosts by smiling!”
Some students smiled knowingly, obviously they knew what Lockhart was talking about.
But there are very few, only a few people.
Next, he distributed small test papers that he made to everyone.
"I'll give you thirty minutes. Now—start!"
Luke looked at the test paper in his hand.
1.What is Gilderoy Lockhart’s favorite color?
2. What is Gilderoy Lockhart’s secret ambition?
3. What do you think is Gilderoy Lockhart’s greatest achievement to date?
And so on, there are three pages, and the last question is:
4. When is Gilderoy Lockhart’s birthday? What would be his ideal birthday gift?
Then, Luke threw the test paper aside directly.
He felt that the first blank paper in his wizard learning career was about to be born.
