time at hogwarts

The shadow of a man, the name of a tree.

The book signing event for Gilderoy Lockhart's first autobiography "Magical Me" was extremely popular. The entire Flourish and Blott Bookstore looked like it was about to be packed. However, wizards continued to gather from around. This was McGonagall. It was the first time that Si saw so many wizards crowded together outside the school and the platform, and most of them were middle-aged wizards. Judging from the scene, Gilderoy Lockhart was a veritable friend of women.

Standing at the outermost edge, they could still hear a wizard working in the bookstore shouting with a loudspeaker spell, "Ladies, please be quiet...don't crowd...get in line...be careful with the books..." However, it was of no use. The excited housewives completely ignored the shouting, but the only good thing was that they restrained themselves from using magic spells to jump in line.

"This is... too exaggerated." Harry and Ron looked at the crowded crowd and sighed subconsciously.

"It makes me feel like I'm in the heart of London," Harry continued.

Magos glanced at the two of them disdainfully, "What does this mean? When I have time, I will take you to China for the Spring Festival and let you see what real 'liveliness' is."

Just when Harry and Ron were attracted by his words, Hermione said with excitement that she could meet Gilderoy Lockhart in person, like a die-hard fan meeting her idol.

The three Magos heard the excitement in her voice and looked at her as if they had discovered a new world. Hermione also noticed her gaffe. Looking at the three friends with strange expressions, she suppressed her excitement and spoke calmly. He added in a tone of voice, "I mean, almost all the books on the book list were written by him! If you have any questions, you can ask him in person."

"But now the question is how can we go in and buy books? Don't wait until his book signing is over. That will have to wait until 04:30." Ron tried to squeeze into a gap in front, and then the next second he It was squeezed out.

"And looking at the scale of this continuous flow, maybe it won't end at 04:30."

"Then what should we do?" Harry stood on tiptoe and looked inside, but he was still too short and couldn't see anything inside. "Why don't you come back tomorrow?"

Hermione hesitated after hearing Harry's suggestion. She really wanted to get a signed book by Gilderoy Lockhart, but she was embarrassed to say that she was a fan of his.

Magos didn't notice Hermione's confusion and shook his head, "Just wait a little longer. Ron's parents should be arriving soon. Let's see what they say."

After he finished speaking, they heard Mrs. Weasley shouting and the uncontrollable excitement in her tone.

"Great, you are already here." She looked up excitedly and looked inside. "We can still see him and get a book signed by him. Come with me." She said hurriedly. He dropped the last sentence and squeezed into the crowd.Magos looked back at Mr. Weasley who looked helpless in a funny way, and then hurriedly followed.

The crowd that Ron had not squeezed in for a second was completely different when Mrs. Weasley was replaced. She was a completely crushing existence. Magos followed her and easily broke through the group of wizards watching the excitement at the outermost edge and entered the bookstore. , and then stood at the end of a queue.

"Let's buy books first, and then come here." Magos said to Harry and the others, looking sideways at the long queue and not knowing when it would be their turn.

Harry and the others nodded and squeezed through the long queues in front of them and easily found the books they needed.They found it right away not because they were lucky, but because they looked at the bookshelf next door and found that the middle of each shelf was filled with Gilderoy Lockhart's books.

"This saves us a lot of time." Ron said in a helpless tone, waving a few books on his hand.

"Should we have him sign his name on every book we buy?"

"You can try to ask for it," Magos shrugged.

"It seems we have to queue up to check out." Harry pointed at a few employees who were busy.

"This is easy to handle, come with me." McGoss led them to one of the clerks and walked directly to him without queuing.

Just when Hermione and the others thought they would be scolded, the clerk finished paying the bill for the person in front of him, smiled and said a few words to Magos, and then helped them settle the bill first.The wizard who was supposed to take his turn looked a little unhappy, but he couldn't say anything to the children. He could only mumble to the clerk. The clerk just smiled and didn't explain that the child had spent thousands of galleons to buy books.

"It turns out you know someone. Fortunately, otherwise I don't know how long we would have to wait."

"Well, let's consider it acquaintance. Let's go and wait for your parents' signature."

It didn't take them long to buy the books, so the Weasleys didn't get very far.They ducked into the middle of them.

The crowd was moving forward slowly, and Magos, who was bored, suddenly thought of Via Dandy who had chased him earlier.

Tracking Harry.He patted Harry on the shoulder.

"Harry, when you were in Knockturn Alley earlier, did Via Dandy run directly in front of you?"

"Yeah, luckily it ran out at that time, otherwise I wouldn't know how to get out. What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Magos looked at the little guy with its little head exposed, and asked in his mind how it determined Harry's position. However, although the little guy had grown a lot, it had only just hatched less than two months ago. As a young beast, even after so many years of suffering, what he has grown is only his will and not his wisdom, so he did not get any answers to his questions except for a call to get close to him.

"Little guy, you can't just grow meat, your brain also needs to keep up. Go back and buy some walnuts to supplement your growth."

Gradually, they finally arrived, and standing here they could already see Gilderoy Lockhart.He sat behind a long table lined with books, signed by several ornate peacock quills.The wall behind him is covered with large photos of him. The faces in the photos are all blinking at the crowd, smiling, showing dazzling white teeth.And he himself wore a robe as blue as the forget-me-not flower, which matched his blue eyes, and a pointed wizard hat was playfully tilted on his curly hair.

"He looks even more handsome than in the photo." McGoss thought Mrs. Weasley's eyes were about to sparkle.But having said that, this guy's looks are indeed good enough, two levels higher than the actor in the movie. No wonder he is so popular with thousands of women. Looking at his face, Magos understood deeply. , since you can rely on your face to make a living, why do you need strength...

Autograph sales in the magical world are indeed much more high-end than in the real world. At least he doesn't have to cramp his hand to write his name. He just has to look at the few women in front of him with a smile who might have been beauties 30 or [-] years ago.

To be honest, Magos still admired him for this. He couldn't see any impatience or disdain in his eyes, but only sincerity and joy.McGoss didn't think he could do what he did if his identities were exchanged.He should enjoy being worshiped so much that it doesn't matter to him what the person worshiping him looks like.

And Magos also discovered his best skill of forgetting spell.He was just taking pictures. Not far in front of him was a short male wizard holding a big black camera and jumping back and forth to take pictures.Each time the flash flashed blindingly, streams of purple smoke spewed out of the camera.And every time at this time, Magos found that he could always give the camera a perfect smile just right. Even if the camera was on his side at the time, he seemed to be able to predict the future.If the camera happens to take a picture of his back, he will make slight adjustments to his body. Even if you can't see his back, you can guess that the photo will definitely be as good as a photo.Taking pictures of him was definitely the easiest for the camera operator.It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the angle, it will give you the perfect angle the moment you press it.

Harry was also very curious about him. It was the first time for him to see such a star-like wizard, and he leaned out to look at him.

The strange thing is that Magos seemed to have noticed nothing after observing him for so long, but he noticed it less than ten seconds after Harry's head emerged, and quickly stood up from the chair and walked towards them.The people in front consciously gave way.

"This is not Harry Potter." Gilderoy Lockhart came over, grabbed Harry's arm, and pulled him forward, and the audience burst into applause.Harry was a little embarrassed by the crowd of onlookers, but he still allowed himself to smile.He held his hand and let the photographer take the picture.The short male wizard pressed the shutter frantically, and thick smoke drifted out from the camera, blocking the view of the wizard behind him.

Magos saw that Harry was trying to break away from Gilderoy Lockhart's hand, but failed, and then he loudly announced that he would be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. There was another loud bang around him. of applause and cheers.

Thanks to Harry, they all didn't have to queue, and although it was almost their turn, Lockhart was the first to sign autographs for them, and he also gave Harry an entire set of his books.

Harry walked out of the bookstore with Magos and the others in a daze, and then gave all the books in the set to Ginny.

"Why is he so..." Harry glanced back at the bookstore before finishing.

"It's a celebrity effect. His reputation will increase even more if he gets you involved."

"Professor Lockhart just likes Harry." Hermione was a little dissatisfied with Magos's slander.

"Forget it, I'd rather not have this kind of like. McGoss, you are also a celebrity, why didn't he hold you back?"

"I'm not a celebrity. In his eyes, I guess I just got lucky and made headlines a few times."

"Magos!" Hermione shouted angrily. "Professor Lockhart will not be that kind of person, and he will be our professor soon. You should give him the respect you deserve. He is not possessed by a mysterious person."

"Okay, okay." Magos made a surrender expression, and when she looked away, she made a face like Harry and the others, causing them to laugh, and Harry's unhappiness just now dissipated.