Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 177 The Lockhart Tales
After leaving the bookstore, Professor McGonagall took Fish to eat ice cream as promised, and then she did not leave in a hurry, but continued to walk in Diagon Alley with Fish.

Although Gringotts' high-speed minecart and Lockhart affected his mood, overall, Professor McGonagall was very happy today.

Because the fact that Fish has grown taller is of great significance to Professor McGonagall. It not only solved a major hidden danger in her heart, but also gave her a sense of accomplishment in raising the cub.

So Professor McGonagall, who is in a good mood, plans to take Fish outside to play for a while today.

Fico didn't know what Professor McGonagall was thinking, he just happily followed Professor McGonagall as he wandered around the shops in Diagon Alley, bought a lot of snacks and ate them along the way.

They even went to the Yila Owl Shop and the Hopping and Playing Magic Joke Shop, which they had been reluctant to take him to last time.

But now Fish has lost interest in predating owls, and the magic toys that Professor McGonagall has been worried about, Fish is not very interested.

Although he was indeed attracted by the crackling fireworks and strange props at the beginning, but once the novelty wore off, Fish became bored, compared to a toy like the Golden Snitch that would flee erratically Fisher was even more interested.

The only thing that made Fish a little unhappy was probably that he couldn't eat the Chinese food made by Comey because he was outside.

So after walking around for a while in the afternoon, Fish offered to go back. He didn't want to miss dinner.

Back home, Fish, who had been playing all day, directly turned into a kitten, found a trophy, got into it, and began to sleep soundly.

After discovering that Fish likes to sleep with trophies, Professor McGonagall has searched out all the trophies she had obtained before, and put them in every corner of the house, using them as cat litters for Fish.

And when Professor McGonagall put the bought textbooks into Fisher's room, he had a sudden whim, took out one of Lockhart's seven books, took it and sat beside Fisher, and carefully read it. up.

Although in Professor McGonagall's impression, Gilderoy Lockhart was a troublesome guy when he was a student. Although he doesn't like to play pranks like the twins, he will make troubles comparable to Fisher in order to gain attention. The movement of grabbing the sorting hat at the opening ceremony.

For example, he once carved his name in 20-foot-long letters on the Quidditch pitch, and once projected his likeness into the sky like the Dark Mark.

What impressed Professor McGonagall most was that he sent himself [-] Valentine's Day cards on a certain Valentine's Day, which forced the cancellation of breakfast that day because a lot of owl droppings and feathers fell into the porridge .

And among these unlucky porridges, one bowl belonged to Professor McGonagall, which caused her to never drink porridge—it was originally one of her favorite breakfasts.

If it's just that, that's all. Gryffindor has never lacked troublemakers. Even if Lockhart is Ravenclaw, Professor McGonagall will not treat Lockhart differently because of this.

What really made Professor McGonagall hate Lockhart was his attitude towards learning.

As a Ravenclaw, Lockhart's talent is actually not bad, but the purpose of his study is to gain attention for himself and satisfy his inexplicable vanity.

So when he found that the result of his serious study was only similar to that of other students, Lockhart stopped working hard and tried his best to do something that attracted attention.

This made Professor McGonagall, who is devoted to education and has a traditional and staid personality, very dissatisfied with him. After discovering that the other party refused to change after repeated admonitions, Professor McGonagall began to hate Lockhart like other professors.

But since Dumbledore chose him as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and Professor McGonagall has more or less heard about his situation over the past few years, so she intends to put aside her prejudice and confirm him through the book written by Lockhart. Current situation.

After opening the book "Wandering with Werewolves", Professor McGonagall straightened his glasses on the bridge of his nose and read the contents word by word.

As she had remembered, the book was filled with Lockhart's bragging about himself, which he was still so fond of showing off.

But apart from these uncomfortable content, the descriptions of werewolves in the book, as well as some countermeasures, are very accurate.

This surprised Professor McGonagall. In her impression, Lockhart did not have the strength and calmness in the book.

"Could it be that Lockhart finally stopped wasting his talent?"

Professor McGonagall muttered softly, but she couldn't believe it in her heart. After all, she hadn't changed in school for so many years, but it got worse. She didn't think Lockhart would change much after graduation.

Besides, it can also be seen from the content of the book that he is still the vain Lockhart now, but the content about the werewolf is true and credible...

Professor McGonagall pinched the bridge of his nose, and decided to read all the other six books before making a conclusion.

Although the six books seem like a lot, and it seems that it will take several days to read, in fact, removing the self-proclaimed content in the book and the travel experience that has nothing to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts, the things described in each book are not counted. Too many, not even half of what the first-grade book "The Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense" was worth.

Just some of the little tricks in dealing with dangerous magical creatures, but they are very practical and distinctive.

This made Professor McGonagall very puzzled.

Judging from the contents of these seven books, Lockhart indeed has real materials. It is no wonder that the Ministry of Magic awarded him the Order of Merlin Third Class, and the Defense Against the Dark Arts League recruited him as an honorary member.

Judging from Lockhart's performance in the book alone, he is indeed qualified.

But this kind of Lockhart is very different from the ignorant and famous guy in Professor McGonagall's impression, so now she has a very strange sense of separation from Lockhart.

"Maybe I have too much prejudice against Lockhart..."

Professor McGonagall closed the book and readjusted his evaluation of Lockhart in his mind.

And there is one thing to say, compared to other textbooks, Lockhart's writing is more attractive, it is no wonder that the price is so high but it is still selling well... After all, there is a lack of entertainment in the wizarding world, and storybooks can be regarded as a relatively popular industry up.

"what?"

Professor McGonagall suddenly discovered another use for these books—it could be read to Fish as a storybook.

Fish didn't like studying because the content in the textbooks was too boring, but Lockhart's books were full of fun, and Fish could learn a lot of practical content from listening to the stories.

The only thing to be careful of is not to let Fisher be spoiled by the boastful content.

But this is easy to solve. Anyway, Fisher basically doesn't know how to read this kind of book that is full of words. She just needs to delete those contents when she reads.

Thinking about it this way, Professor McGonagall suddenly felt that... these books by Lockhart were quite worth buying.

Although the price is a bit expensive, but it does have something to say, coupled with Lockhart's good writing style and reputation, as well as the thrilling storyline, Five Galleons can't be said to be worth the money, but it is also within the acceptable range.

"Fish."

Professor McGonagall woke up the kitten who was sleeping soundly in the trophy.

"Meow?" (=Φω=)
The sleepy-eyed kitten poked its head out of the trophy and looked at Professor McGonagall.

"Listen to a story?"

Professor McGonagall shook Lockhart's book in his hand.

"Meow!" (=ω=)

Fish immediately jumped out of the trophy and landed on Professor McGonagall's lap, raised a pair of triangular ears, and looked up at her expectantly.

Professor McGonagall smiled, opened the book in his hand, and slowly read the content that had been deleted by himself.

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　Regarding Lockhart's book, I think there is still something real. After all, the actual protagonist is not Lockhart, but those wizards who have been cast by him with the Forgetting Curse. worthy of scrutiny.

　　Otherwise, he wouldn't have been awarded the Order of Merlin and become a member of the Dark Defense League just because he wrote a few books.

　　Even if the people in the Ministry of Magic may not have enough eyesight, the people in the Dark Defense League are experienced wizards, and it is unlikely that they will be fooled by a few useless storybooks, so there must be some substance in the books.

　　It’s just that Lockhart himself may not be aware of the knowledge in it, and he is too busy to brag and attract attention. Otherwise, he only needs to follow the script in the original book and don’t make any fools. The chances of overturning the car are actually quite low.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)