Master Druid at Hogwarts

Chapter 181 Dog

Professor McGonagall quietly left the auditorium and went straight to the principal's office.

Although there is no need to worry about Fish, but she still wants to talk to Dumbledore about Lockhart's lack of real talent. She doesn't think that bad old man will fail to see Lockhart's real level.

"Minerva?" Dumbledore, who was flipping through the letters at his desk, saw the menacing Professor McGonagall, and immediately guessed her purpose, but he still smiled and asked pretendingly: "The preparations for the start of school are complete. gone?"

"Not yet," Professor McGonagall shook his head, and said with a serious face, "I came to see you for other things, Albus."

Dumbledore put down the letter in his hand, spread his palm and made a "please" gesture to her.

"What's the matter with Gilderoy Lockhart? Don't tell me you can't see, he's an ignorant liar."

Professor McGonagall raised his tone, put his hands on the desk, leaned forward slightly, stared at Dumbledore sternly and questioned.

However, Dumbledore snapped his fingers calmly, and a chair automatically slid behind Professor McGonagall, then he slowly poured a cup of hot tea and pushed it in front of Professor McGonagall.

"Don't worry, Minerva, sit down and talk slowly."

Professor McGonagall sat down as promised, but instead of touching the cup of hot tea in front of him, he folded his hands and continued to stare at Dumbledore aggressively.

Dumbledore didn't care too much, he smiled, took a sip from his teacup, and then said: "Of course I know that Lockhart's name is not true, I even know that the stories in his book, It's actually the deeds of other powerful wizards, but..."

Speaking of this, he shook his head helplessly, and seemed to sigh indisputably: "In addition to the articles, Gildero obviously learned the Oblivion Curse well, even Redagast and Ota are both Recruited."

"Then you still recruited him?" Professor McGonagall raised his brows, his expression even more angry.

"Because I think that as long as Lockhart is brought into normal school life, his deceit will be exposed, especially in the presence of Fish."

Dumbledore blinked and said playfully.

"But this is a waste of a year for the students. They can't learn any useful knowledge from Lockhart at all."

Compared with debunking Lockhart, Professor McGonagall is more concerned about the education of the students.

"No way, it is too difficult for Hogwarts to hire a qualified Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Dumbledore shrugged and complained.

"I will find a way to find an excellent professor next year to make up for this year's loss... In addition, students can't learn everything, at least they can understand from a bad teacher what not to do , Don’t be what kind of person.”

Dumbledore cared more about the character of the students than the actual spells, which was also influenced by the two Dark Lords.

"Also, if you read Lockhart's book, you will find that there are still some useful things in it."

Now it was Professor McGonagall's turn to sigh, and she said with a little annoyance: "Yes, I read them and read them to Fish as a bedtime story, so this little guy always thinks Lockhart is a formidable wizard..."

But when talking about this matter, Professor McGonagall remembered Fisher's performance in the auditorium before, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up.

"Oh? It seems that poor Gildero can't hide it for too long."

Dumbledore stroked his beard, both happy and sad. If Lockhart was exposed too quickly, wouldn't he have to find a new professor to take on him?
If it's only for a short period of time, Snape, Flitwick, and even Professor McGonagall can take over temporarily, but if the time is too long, it can't be done. Voldemort's curse is still a bit troublesome.

Thinking of this, the expression on Dumbledore's face was no longer as calm as before, and there was a trace of distress.

Leaving aside the respective troubles of the two headmasters, in the auditorium, Fish and Lockhart got along very happily.

Fish likes the messy stories in Lockhart's mouth very much. Although the little cat with strong combat ability has noticed some loopholes in these stories, the fairy tales he usually listens to are similar, so he also I don't care too much.

And Lockhart was even more satisfied. For him with a strong vanity, he would be very happy as long as someone paid attention, not to mention he was keenly aware of Fisher's specialness.

In addition to that special affinity and cat ears and cat tails, the professors, including the gloomy Snape, dote on the little boy, and he even has his own house-elf in the school!

So Lockhart quickly realized that if he had such a small fan, the attention he would receive in school would definitely be very high, plus the famous Harry Potter...

Thinking of the attention he might receive after school started, Lockhart trembled slightly with excitement.

Although the story was very interesting, Fish obviously couldn't sit still for too long. After listening to the story of "Lockhart's Battle of Voldebat", he stood up from his seat and stretched his arms high.

"I'm going to play with my friends in the Forbidden Forest. Professor Gildero wants to meow together?" ω

"Forbidden, Forbidden Forest?"

Lockhart's expression changed slightly, and he asked hesitantly.

"Yes, meow, Fisch has met a lot of friends in it, meow!" (●ΦωΦ●)
At this moment, Lockhart recalled, his limited memory in Hogwarts' protection of magical beasts class-the only safe magical creatures like Bowtruckles and Nifflers on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest, Fish said "Friends" probably refer to them, right?

After all, no matter what, Fish was just a young wizard who had just entered the second grade, how could he go deep into the Forbidden Forest?
Thinking of this, Lockhart felt like he was doing it again.

So he laughed and said, "The Forbidden Forest? Of course, I always liked to go in and play with the magical animals in it when I was a student."

He brushed the curly blond hair on his forehead, showing his shining white teeth, "If I wasn't worried about Professor McGonagall getting angry, I could still take you for a walk deep in the Forbidden Forest."

Fish nodded with deep sympathy, and seriously echoed with a sullen face: "Minerva really likes to be angry too much, meow."

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Having found a "common language" again, Fish and Lockhart felt even happier. They laughed together for a while before leaving the auditorium together and coming to the vicinity of Hagrid's caretaker's cabin.

However, Hagrid was not in his hut at this time. As the person in charge of picking up and dropping off new students, he also had a lot of things to prepare, so after lunch, he headed for the Hogsmeade village train early. platform.

"Wang!"

Yaya was not taken away by Hagrid. After smelling Fish, it immediately came up to him and kept wagging its tail.

"This is Yaya, and my good friend Meow."

Fish introduced to Lockhart on the side, which made him feel more at ease.

It wasn't even a magical animal, it was just an ordinary dog, so he had nothing to worry about.

"Where's Lu Wei?"

After Fish finished the introduction, he lowered his head and asked Yaya again. They are both dogs, and the relationship between the two of them is quite good. This makes Yaya, who was originally timid, dare to go to the Forbidden Forest without Hagrid now. Risa is happy.

"Wang! Wang Wang!"

Yaya barked a few times, and then ran into the woods.

"Let's go, I'll take you to meet Lu Wei again. It's also Hagrid's dog, but it's a bit bigger, so it usually stays in the Forbidden Forest, meow."

Fish followed Fang into the woods and explained to Lockhart.

Lockhart, who still didn't know anything about what was going to happen next, continued to brag as he followed into the woods: "Speaking of big dogs, then I have to say that I met them in the South American rainforest. That, that, that..."

He couldn't continue speaking suddenly, because a huge black shadow suddenly blocked his sight.

Lockhart turned his neck stiffly, looked up, his hands and feet were cold for a moment.

In front of him, stood a huge black three-headed dog. Its three heads were baring its mouth fiercely at this time, and the wet saliva slipped from the blade-like fangs and dripped onto the bushes below. There was a crackling sound on the leaves.

With his mind blank, Lockhart spat out the last word in a daze.

"……dog."

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　On HP's official website, Rowling wrote that Dumbledore was one of the two wizards who knew Lockhart who erased his memory, and knew their deeds, so he knew Lockhart was a liar from the beginning.

　　The specific names of the two wizards were not mentioned, so I borrowed two names from The Lord of the Rings and Ghosts.

　　In addition, the question about Professor McGonagall and the reasons for Dumbledore's answer (to expose Lockhart and let students learn from it) were also written by Rowling on the website, and I have slightly expanded it.

　　Although I think these two reasons are quite nonsense, but the official said so... Maybe it is also a cultural difference, anyway, I can't understand it. ┑(￣Д￣)┍

　　
　
(End of this chapter)