Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 551 Arranged Lockhart

  Late at night, the storm became more and more unscrupulous.

  The lights in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts were still on, and Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, flipping through the latest issue of "Transfiguration Today" by candlelight.

  Beside the desk, a copy of the "Daily Prophet" was randomly spread out, and the contents of the newspaper could be seen clearly by candlelight:

   Arthur Weasley, Director of the Investigative Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department at the Ministry of Magic, was fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.

  …

   A car that was enchanted was crashed at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Mr. Lucius Malfoy, a director of the school, recently called to ask Mr. Weasley to resign immediately.

   "Mr. Weasley has ruined the reputation of the Ministry of Magic," Malfoy told my newspaper reporter.

  …

  Mr. Weasley didn't respond to my reporter, but his wife told the reporter to leave or she would release her family's ghouls to bite them.

  …

   There is no doubt that Arthur Weasley is in trouble, he has been targeted by a group of people.

  Of course, some of Arthur's actions have a lot to do with annoying the pure-blood wizards headed by Malfoy.

   To be honest, the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office is not highly regarded in the Ministry of Magic. Arthur's ability to obtain a search warrant is suspicious in itself.

   You must know that pure-blood wizards occupy important positions in the Ministry of Magic, and it is impossible for them to allow officials of the Ministry of Magic to harass them casually.

  The matter of the search warrant was obviously deliberately pushed by someone behind the scenes.

  Currently, Arthur's situation is very bad. Although for some reason, he has not been expelled from the Ministry of Magic for the time being, the suspension review is still going on.

Many wizards who did not deal with Arthur hoped that Arthur Weasley would be expelled from the Ministry of Magic to prevent the passage of the "Muggle Protection Act" drafted by him. Many pure-blood wizards thought they were offended by this law up.

  Just now, Dumbledore wrote a letter to Fudge, convincing the other party to let Arthur stay in the Ministry of Magic as the director of the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items Office on the grounds of agreeing to temporarily delay the passage of the "Muggle Protection Act".

   In fact, Fudge is also having a headache about this matter.

   No wizard is willing to take over the Office of the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items. The salary of this position is average, the treatment is not high, and it is very busy. It also needs to deal with Muggles frequently. The most important thing is that there are only two wizards in this position.

  Probably only eccentrics like Arthur would like such a job.

   What makes Dumbledore more upset is actually another thing.

  This morning, Dumbledore received a note from Anderson, which stated something that Dumbledore was extremely concerned about.

  Harry Potter can hear voices that ordinary people cannot hear.

   This does not bode well in the wizarding world.

   And, at the end of the note, it said: Something bad might happen.

Bad things?

  Dumbledore was unable to judge whether these words were true or false, but there was no doubt that it was not a good thing.

   "Heard a voice that others can't hear, something bad happened?" When Dumbledore was trying to connect the two things, there was a knock on the door outside the room.

  Dumbledore put down the magazine, stood up suspiciously, walked over to open the door, and found that it was Professor McGonagall.

  Professor McGonagall puts a document on his desk.

   "Anything else?" Dumbledore saw that Professor McGonagall seemed to have something to say.

   "I don't know if you have paid attention to Professor Lockhart." Professor McGonagall had a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone, "He made a mess of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and many students came to us to complain about it."

  Before, after Lockhart became famous for his writing, the professors at Hogwarts felt that they might have misunderstood him, thinking that he was contributing to the fight against the dark arts.

   As a result, Lockhart has only been in Hogwarts for a month, and his true nature has been exposed, and everyone has seen his true colors clearly.

   Lockhart is still the same Lockhart who went to Hogwarts more than ten years ago, nothing has changed, and they have never missed him at all.

"I know it's hard to find a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, but what Professor Lockhart has done is really unacceptable." Professor McGonagall reminded, "In almost all classes, he reads the contents of the book to the students , Let the students go on stage to perform the scene at that time, I really can't imagine what students can learn from this vain peddler."

   "You can learn a lot from a bad teacher." Dumbledore said calmly, "Don't do anything, don't be a person."

  Professor McGonagall was silent. She felt that what Professor Dumbledore said was indeed reasonable, but this would need to be exchanged for a semester of Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The price is a bit high.

"I don't think you want someone like Lockhart to appear among your students." Dumbledore smiled, "Besides, I really can't find a more suitable candidate for a while. Minerva , you should also know that since Quirrell's death, no one wants to come to Hogwarts to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, its reputation is too bad."

   "Well, I will tell everyone what you mean." Professor McGonagall sighed and left the principal's office. He actually knew that Dumbledore could always find a way to convince himself.

  Looking at the back of Professor McGonagall leaving, Dumbledore fell into a brief silence. No Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has been teaching for more than a year since he rejected Voldemort.

   A lot of people say this class is cursed.

  Actually, this statement is not wrong. Once, twice can be an accident... but fifty times can't be an accident.

As for what Lockhart did, Dumbledore actually knew about it a long time ago. After reading some familiar content in Lockhart's book, he deliberately took the time to visit his former friends and noticed the other party's After forgetfulness and confusion, he realized that this was the aftereffect of being cast with a powerful forgetting spell.

   Lockhart is stealing someone else's work.

  Dumbledore did not bother to expose the deceit of this internationally renowned writer, even if Lockhart was finally exposed, it would not make much sense.

  People who have been cast with a powerful forgetting spell usually find it difficult to return to normal. Breaking the forgetting spell will only make everything worse.

  Of course, Dumbledore didn't intend to just let Lockhart go. He had already thought of a way to expose the other party's deception.

  That's right, as long as Lockhart is placed in an ordinary school life, his deception will gradually be exposed.

   Back then, when Lockhart was studying at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was already the headmaster of the school. He really knew this student who was hated by the professor and the students all too well.

Therefore, Dumbledore tried his best to invite Lockhart to be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. It just so happened that it was difficult to find a professor for this course every year, and Dumbledore believed that the curse of Defense Against the Dark Arts could also make Lockhart suffer. .

  Facts have proved that this trick is really effective, and everyone has gradually seen what kind of person Lockhart is.

  (end of this chapter)