Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 14 Lockhart's Lesson

Lockhart's first lesson happened to be with the second-year Gryffindors on the afternoon of the first day of school.

The class bell rang, and the students chatted and entered the classroom. When all the students arrived, Lockhart flew directly into the classroom, suspended in mid-air.

His levitation spell has become more and more proficient, and now he can cast spells silently and without a staff.

The unique way of appearance quickly paid off, and under Lockhart's watchful eyes, the group of noisy lion cubs quickly quieted down.

"Before the class, I have to tell a story to tell you the importance of this class." Lockhart continued, "Once upon a time there was a little wizard who didn't learn Defense Against the Dark Arts properly."

After a pause, Lockhart heard the clear breathing in the classroom, and continued to say in a low and terrifying voice: "Then he died!"

The young wizards in the audience were too frightened by Lockhart's serious tone at the beginning, but when they heard the ending, they couldn't help laughing.

"You may all think I'm joking." Lockhart continued, "But I'm not. Look at the Daily Prophet. How many wizards die of various accidents every year?"

"Fenrir Greyback, the notorious king of werewolves, is still at large. More than ten wizards are bitten or even killed by him every year!"

"The banshee in the lake, the ghoul in the mud, every kind of monster may kill you!"

"Not to mention those evil dark wizards, I don't know how many wizards were killed by the mysterious man and his Death Eaters more than ten years ago!"

"In addition, you are not allowed to mention the name of the mysterious person. This name has been cursed, but anyone who mentions this name will definitely be known to him."

"Too many people who resisted him have been found and tortured to death for this reason. I don't want any of you to be next."

"Too many people died from various reasons, but as long as you learn Defense Against the Dark Arts well, you can avoid all of this."

"I will teach you how to discover and resist all kinds of evil magical creatures, and how to protect yourself when facing dark wizards. As long as you are willing to study hard."

"There was a wizard who didn't learn Defense Against the Dark Arts properly, and then he died! I don't want you to take it as a joke or a story, you should treat it as a motto."

Lockhart said his admonition in the most serious tone as he flew around in mid-air in the classroom.

Looking at the few young wizards below who dare not make a sound, Lockhart knew that his goal had been achieved.

Professor McGonagall told him before the class that the most important thing in the first class is to win the respect and establish authority of the students, and gave an example of transforming himself into a cat.

Now Lockhart was doing the same with his own Levitation Charms and Speech Admonitions.

After speaking, Lockhart scanned the audience and continued: "The seriousness just now is to let you understand the importance of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and it does not mean that I am a serious person by nature.

"If you have any questions about the class, I'd be happy to answer them, and now you can ask."

Hermione was the quickest to raise her hand.

"Very well, Miss Granger, ask your question, please note that you can only ask academic questions."

"Professor Lockhart, I want to know how you fly, did you use the levitation spell?" Hermione raised her own question, which has been bothering her for more than half a month.

She has tried again and again, and read many books, but still can't get the answer.

"Your question is very good. First of all, I can tell you that I did use the levitation spell to fly. You can guess from the principle."

Then Lockhart continued to ask: "Who can tell me the principle of the levitation spell?"

It was Hermione who raised her hand first: "The essence of the levitation spell is to use magic power to lift heavy objects, so wizards cannot use the levitation spell to lift themselves, or cooperate with others to lift each other."

"A textbook-like answer, five points for Gryffindor!" Lockhart first praised Hermione Granger, and then began to explain.

"First of all, I want to correct one of your cognitive mistakes. People cannot lift themselves up. This is inaccurate."

"Miss Granger, please stand on the podium."

"Very well, that's it, Miss Granger, please tell me, why can a person stand?"

Hermione seemed thoughtful, but wasn't sure yet.

"Okay, you go down first, let's take a look." Lockhart floated down from the air, then supported the desk with both hands, turned over, and stood upside down on the desk.

"Look again, why can I stand on my head?"

"Because you supported yourself with your hands!" The voices of several young wizards came through from the audience
"Great answer, another way of saying this is that I lifted myself up with both hands!"

Lockhart canceled the handstand and began to stand on the lectern and continued: "So when I stand on the lectern, do I also think that I use my own feet and legs to lift myself?"

"Yes!" It was the chorus of all the little wizards who answered Lockhart this time.

"So that means you think there is a loophole in the statement that a man cannot lift himself up, right?"

"Yes!" Another unanimous answer.

"Okay, let's try another thing again? Anyone wanna come up and do me a little favor?"

This time Harry was the first to raise his hand.

"Very well, Mr. Potter, come up and give me a hard push."

Harry went up to the long desk and pushed Lockhart vigorously, but due to the difference in strength and weight between the two, not only did Harry not push Lockhart, but his feet kept sliding backwards.

"Okay, Mr. Potter, let's go down."

After adding points, Lockhart continued to say to the little wizard in the audience: "I believe you have also seen that Harry wanted to push me, but because our weight gap is too large, not only could he not push me, but instead Start sliding yourself."

"With this phenomenon in mind, how to use the floating spell to make yourself fly, I allow you to discuss freely."

After about five minutes, Hermione Granger raised her hand.

Lockhart pointed out her name, and instead of answering the question directly, she released a levitation spell.

"Wingardim Leviosa!" After finishing the spell, Hermione began to rise slowly, and her body gradually floated up, about one meter above the ground. After about three or four seconds, she lost her balance and fell down , Ron, quick-eyed and quick-handed, caught her.

"Excellent levitation spell, Miss Granger, I hope you can tell everyone how you did it."

Hermione thought about it for a few seconds before she began to speak: "First of all, I discovered from Professor Lockhart's handstand that people can lift themselves by touching the ground."

"Then Harry wanted to push Professor Lockhart, but pushed himself. It made me realize that if you want to push something much heavier than yourself, you can only push yourself."

"So I started to try. I used the Levitation Charm downwards on the ground, trying to lift the whole earth with the Levitation Charm. Sure enough, the earth lifted me up in turn, and I flew up!" Hermione finished her speech, He began to look at Lockhart expectantly. "

"Great explanation and practice! I want to add twenty points to Gryffindor!" After speaking, Lockhart took the lead in applauding Hermione, and the other little wizards also began to applaud enthusiastically.

Lockhart adopts the education model of Socrates questioning + inspiration, instead of giving the answer directly, but constantly asking and guiding to assist thinking, so that students can think and come up with the answer by themselves.

So far it seems to be working fine.

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(End of this chapter)