The Alchemist of Harry Potter

Chapter 551 Arranged Lockhart

In the middle of the 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 read clearly by candlelight:
Arthur Weasley, Director of the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department at the Ministry of Magic, was fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.

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The enchanted car crashed at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Witchcraft and Wizardry, and one of the school's trustees, Mr. Lucius Malfoy, recently called to demand that Mr. Weasley resign immediately.

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

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

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There was no doubt that Arthur Weasley was in trouble, and he was being targeted by a group of people.

Of course, some of Arthur's actions had a lot to do with angering 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, and 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 let the officials of the Ministry of Magic harass them casually.

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

At present, Arthur's situation is very bad. Although due to some reasons, 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.

No wizard is willing to take over the Office of the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items. The salary of this position 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 worse 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.

That doesn't bode well in the wizarding world.

Moreover, at the end of the note it was written: Something bad might happen.

Bad things?

Dumbledore couldn't judge the truth of these words, but there was no doubt that they were not good things.

"Heard voices 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 put 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 Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and many students came to us to complain about it."

In the past, after Lockhart's writing became famous, 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 had only been at Hogwarts for a month before his true nature was exposed, and everyone had already seen his true colors clearly.

Lockhart was still the same Lockhart who went to Hogwarts more than ten years ago, nothing changed, and they 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 students' 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'll 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.

Watching 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.

Many people said the class was cursed.

In fact, this statement is not wrong.Once or 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 was stealing someone else's work.

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

People who have been cast with a powerful forgetting spell usually find it difficult to return to normal, and 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 professors and students collectively.

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)