The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

"The environment remains the same, the students are noisy, but the professors have changed. Hogwarts has changed only so much in the past 50 years."

Riddle's voice whispered in Erwin's ear.

After being instilled with magic power by Erwin and able to condense into a phantom, he also naturally possesses the ability to perceive the outside world, and is no longer trapped in the diary. He now shows a rather strong desire to communicate. He babbled all day long in the ear of Erwin, the only listener.

The diary was chained and hung on Erwin's waist, serving as an accessory piece of equipment. It was obviously inappropriate to leave it in the secret room, and Erwin was not at ease putting it in the LeMay cabin.After thinking about it a few times, he felt that it was safest to carry it with him.

After all, Riddle's diary can also be regarded as a piece of equipment. Erwin plans to install a metal sharp point on it, so that it can play other functions besides blocking spells.

As for the danger, Erwin already had an earl-level vampire by his side, and he didn't care about another remnant soul.

At the end of the day, the only feeling was that Riddle was a little too noisy, but Erwin could also hear some interesting content from his words, so he endured it.

I saw Melanie in the Gryffindor common room, she was reading a novel very leisurely, with a half-drunk fruit tea next to her.A ray of sunlight fell through the window, reflecting the light on her fair skin and plating a golden edge on her jet-black hair.

A few boys couldn't move their eyes when they saw this scene.

Erwin didn't have time to talk to her during this period, but it seemed that she was living a comfortable life, and she was very used to and even enjoyed college life.

"A high-level vampire?" Riddle's perception ability is more sensitive than Erwin imagined. He didn't see through Melanie when he possessed Ginny in the secret room. After all, the contact time was very short, but now he directly saw her real body.

"Keeping a vampire in the school? It's such an excellent idea. I don't think your principal didn't know about it, so he acquiesced?" Riddle said with a hint of excitement in his tone, "Vampires are very good material. , especially at this level, her heart can be used to perform a powerful black magic to strengthen your body..."

"I'll consider this proposal, but I'll talk about it later." Erwin responded with his thoughts.

Melanie, who was concentrating on reading, was completely unaware that she had been treated like a fire dragon whose blood had been drawn, and was even more miserable.

Erwin noticed the cover of the novel in her hand.

""Twilight Castle"?" There is a line of small words next to it, "The peerless love between an innocent girl and a vampire prince?"

"Why do you, a vampire, want to read novels about vampires?" Elvin wondered.

"Is there any problem?" Melanie closed the novel, "Doesn't human beings read literary works with human beings as the main characters?"

"Why do I vaguely remember that there is a book with the same name in the Muggle society, which seems to be about a vampire love story, and it was made into a movie." Erwin touched his chin.

"Your memory is correct. It's the same content. It's just that it's much more popular among Muggles than among wizards. It's outrageous. European wizards are more willing to read Lockhart's works."

"Is that so? Could it be that..."

"That's right, this series of novels was written by vampires. In fact, most of the literary works about vampires, starting from the earliest "Dracula", are written by vampires or writers hired by vampires... This is a It is a propaganda method, after all, blood races often have to deal with mortals, we hope that Muggles can eliminate their fear and create a good impression of blood races... The final result is not bad, but wizards are not as easy to fool as Muggles."

"I see." Erwin nodded, indicating that he had learned new knowledge.

There are far fewer novels with werewolves as the protagonists. It seems that the guys who are more inclined to beasts don't have this kind of brains.

In the afternoon, a notice was posted on the bulletin board in the auditorium, the content was to open a dueling club, and the signature of the signature, unsurprisingly, was Gilderoy Lockhart again.

This guy...is he still trying his best to show off?

After reaching a certain level of cooperative relationship with Erwin, Lockhart told Erwin something about himself. He is not a worthless idiot. After all, he graduated from Hogwarts. As for being so ignorant that you can't even use the most basic spells...

What caused his current situation was the voodoo curse that he accidentally triggered when trying to modify the memory of a witch doctor in Africa. This weird voodoo abolished his ability to cast spells, except for the Forget the curse.

Although tragic, it is hard to sympathize, after all, he is essentially to blame.

There is also a line of small words behind the text of the announcement, "Only students under the third grade can participate."

Lockhart still had self-knowledge and knew that senior students were hard to fool.

"Duel Club? Is it to teach these brats fighting skills that are deeper than poking their nostrils with a wand?" Riddle expressed his disdain.

Erwin ignored him, he could see that Lockhart was going to make a fool of himself again.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided to take a look at this club.

The lower grade students are quite excited about this, because in their opinion, they will finally learn something more interesting than reciting the floating spell on feathers and loosening soil for magic plants. Of course, the more reason is that there are only They could still be bluffed by Lockhart.

Lockhart chose the most spacious classroom in the castle as the location of the club. The seats had already been piled up on both sides, and a large gold-plated stage was installed in the center of the classroom, which looked quite grand.

Almost all the students in the school below the third grade arrived, and the classroom was noisy.

Lockhart appeared, with his trademark smile, "Come around, come around! Can everyone see me? Well, here's the thing, Professor Dumbledore allowed me to start this club to teach you some The means of self-defense, of course, time is limited and I can't teach much, I recommend you to buy my related books..."

From his rhetoric to promote his book, it can be known that Professor Dumbledore has finally returned to Hogwarts.

"Mainly because of the attack that happened some time ago, as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, I have the responsibility to improve your ability to deal with danger." Lockhart has always been very good at rhetoric, "Professor Snape is my assistant. , next we will demonstrate the battle between wizards..."

Snape was wearing his black robe that has never changed for thousands of years, and his face was rather ugly. Erwin could directly guess what he was thinking. In Snape's eyes, this situation is like accompanying a fool with a group of children Play house.

To hell with being in a good mood.

Snape and Lockhart stood on either side of the stage, then turned to face each other and bowed.Lockhart's etiquette is in place, and he seems to think that he has gained an advantage by doing so.

Then they each make preparations to cast spells.

Obviously this is a process for fair duels between wizards. It has a sense of the times, and it is very similar to Muggle duels with guns... Well, yes, enemies who will attack little wizards will also abide by such duel regulations, so It is necessary to demonstrate it again.

In fact, to put it bluntly, Lockhart's desire to perform is too strong.

"As you can see, we are in a duel. After three seconds, we will cast spells at the same time. Of course, we don't really want to hurt each other..."

Obviously Snape didn't agree with him.

Did this guy think that Snape would really show mercy?Or is it not shameful to be hit by the other party's spell on this occasion?Erwin in the audience shook his head, and suddenly said, "Professor, you lost something."

"What?" Lockhart was taken aback, but his reaction was quick, "Well, that's right, it was indeed what I lost."

Erwin handed him a ring, which Lockhart put on right away, cooperatively.

"So, let's start now..." He turned around, and just as he finished speaking, Snape's spell came.

"Except your weapons!"

Because it was a demonstration, Snape yelled out, but the speed of casting spells could not be described as amazing.

Of course Lockhart couldn't react, and even if he did, he couldn't do much with his abilities.So he just held his wand.

However, what he didn't expect was that he wasn't sent flying, and there was a scorching sensation from the ring, and an invisible barrier instantly unfolded and disappeared in front of him, canceling out the disarming spell just now.

Luoha is particularly bad, but his acting skills are top-notch. Although he didn't immediately understand what happened, he coughed a few times in a pretentious manner, "Fighting is not always about attacking. It's good to expect the enemy to take the lead in defending." Choice. That's fine, Severus, a little demonstration like this is enough for us, and we don't really have to fight in front of the students."

Professor Snape didn't respond, he looked at Lockhart sharply, and then glanced at Erwin.

On the contrary, quite a few little girls really screamed for Lockhart. Obviously, this effortless performance brought back a lot of points for his previous foolishness.

Lockhart continued to respond to his fans with a bright smile, but after that, he was a little out of his mind. When he saw that Erwin was about to leave, he even ignored the duel club he organized, and casually found an excuse and threw it to Snape was in charge.

"Mr. Frost!" After chasing out of the classroom, he sincerely shouted to Erwin: "This ring..."

"If you need it, you can keep it, but I want to remind you that it itself consumes your magic power." Erwin said lightly.

It was just an armor ring, except for Erwin, a freak who didn't have to worry about mana recovery at all, and only Lockhart, a guy who had no mana but was hard to use, valued it.

"I said, as long as we maintain a cooperative relationship, I will not treat you badly." Erwin continued.

"Is there anything else I can do for you?" Lockhart asked sensibly.

"This is a new batch of medicinal materials needed." Erwin handed him a list.