Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"This is a very serious accusation, but I intend to admit it." Dumbledore sighed. "If you don't want to, I will have to go to Bill Weasley. I remember he was in the Egyptian branch of Gringotts." Cursebreaker."

Snape had a thought: "Why bother looking far away, besides, a small employee employed by Gringotts may not have any mobility."

"So, your suggestion is... oh, I see who you're talking about, thank you, Severus."

Chapter 41 Quarrel?

The good weather in the Scottish Highlands usually only lasts until September, when October, the weather here will start to change.Either sunny or cloudy or rainy or windy, all kinds of weather take turns to mount the horse, and the speed of God's face changing is just like the mood of a girl.

After being stimulated by Slytherin's seven Nimbus 2001, the Gryffindor team stepped up their training. Although the weather outside was very bad, and it even rained continuously for a week, Harry still had to get up early and stay late.

Hermione Granger finished her homework early, and then stared in a daze at the Gryffindor team who were practicing in the distance outside the window.

Of course she has troubles, otherwise she wouldn't be so preoccupied.

And the source of her troubles was Lockhart.

I think she mustered up her courage and practiced in front of the mirror several times before she put away the dozen or so questions she had summed up during this time, and was ready to go to Lockhart's office to "seek answers"

It's just that she didn't go at the right time - there were people in Lockhart's office at the time, so Hermione could only lean against the wall outside the office door, waiting for the visiting guests to come out.

However, this castle was built around the 10th century AD. At that time, British construction technology was influenced by Byzantium, and stone buildings had just appeared. The building materials were still at the level of a single material, and they were not very soundproof.

Moreover, during the construction, the architect took into account the fact that all the people living inside would be able to use magic, and did not give much thought to the sound insulation problem, otherwise Lockhart would not be disturbed by the noise of the wind and rain at night so that he could not sleep.

A few words from the office floated out through the crack of the wooden door, and Hermione, who was guarding the door, listened attentively.

"…No no no, this is ridiculous, Severus. I can't do something that violates my principles, it would seriously damage my credibility." It was Lockhart's voice.

And the other voice, Hermione, is also very familiar—of course, if there is a professor who finds fault with Gryffindor College every day, and always says "the answer is correct, so Gryffindor will deduct [-] points", then you will not forget him the sound of.

"No way, in life, we sometimes do things we don't want to do, as long as it is really necessary." Snape said.

"But you're asking me to blackmail them."

"Coercion? I didn't say that. If you can get things by more clever means, I believe you will get a higher evaluation from him."

"Damn it! You didn't even tell me what it was, and you didn't even give me a plausible reason! Just because of a 'maybe', I'm going to destroy my long-established reputation! ' Professor Lockhart's voice sounded annoyed.

"It is true, but this is obviously not an issue we can participate in the discussion." Snape's tone also contained deep resentment: "This is him, even if he doesn't tell us anything, we must follow what he said Do it...I'm used to it."

Afterwards, the office fell into a long silence, and Hermione outside the door didn't even dare to take a breath, so she could only continue listening with breathless concentration.

After a long time, Lockhart's voice came from the office again.

"If I want to do this, I'm afraid I will pay a very high price... Don't I get any compensation?"

Snape replied quickly: "You can make a list from now on and list all your requirements on it. Believe me, he is also very interested in what your purpose of coming to Hogwarts is."

"Oh? I thought he knew it already, but I showed him the wind from seven or eight different angles."

He thought he knew, but now he wasn't sure.

"It seems that my acting skills are really bad."

"He's almost twice our age combined."

After these few words were finished, there was a sound of chairs rubbing against the floor and people walking around in the office. It seemed that the conversation had finally come to an end.

Taking advantage of the chaos in the room, Hermione hurriedly left the door and hid under a movable staircase.After she finished going down this level, the movable staircase creaked and twisted to another step, which happened to stagger her position.

Snape came out of Lockhart's office, looked around and then went down the stairs on the other side, but found no sign of Hermione.

It was a few minutes before she went back upstairs and knocked on Lockhart's office

Lockhart received her very warmly, not only praised that her knowledge was comparable to that of a fourth grader, but also stuffed her pockets with candy before she left.

It's just that Hermione always felt that he seemed to be out of shape, and he was a little restless.

When copying homework time in the evening, Hermione told her two friends about what happened in the afternoon.

"Oh look, he couldn't even answer a few of the questions I asked: obviously out of shape," Hermione said to Ron and Harry.

Ron and Harry nodded again and again, agreeing with Hermione's opinion.

None of them thought that a "master against the dark arts" would be unable to answer a question from a second year student, so Lockhart must have been out of shape.

"What the hell did Snape tell him to do?" Harry asked curiously.

"Don't know, but it sounds embarrassing." Hermione frowned, "He said 'it's going to cost a lot'"

"Oh!" Harry and Ron Qiqi said with emotion.

Although because of the Sorcerer's Stone incident in the first grade, the current Harry doesn't think Snape is a bad guy, but it's hard for them to feel good about him when he faces a person who deducts points from Gryffindor every day. What a favor.

"It seems that there have been many similar transactions between Lockhart and Snape." Ron said enthusiastically with a look called "gossip", "Maybe he still has something to do in Snape." What do you think, Napna, Harry?"

Harry stole a glance at Hermione's suddenly sharp eyes, and he felt that even for the sake of Transfiguration work, he had to think carefully about his words.

Thinking for three seconds more now will save you three hours of homework in the future.

"It sounds like Snape is unilaterally threatening, and that thing can only be done by Professor Lockhart. Moreover, Professor Lockhart came to Honolulu because he wanted "the man" in Snape's mouth." Gwartz, I teach..." He tried to choose words that would not irritate Hermione.

But Ron obviously didn't wink as much as Harry: "So, what's the matter? Is it asking for money?"

"Money? Don't be kidding."

"I'm not kidding, my mother wrote to Percy last time to ask about Lockhart, Fred and I went to inquire, and they told me that Lockhart got a lot of money recently. He heard it from Honeydukes boss Ambrosio Froome when he went to Hogsmeade."

Hermione stood up suddenly, and her face was very determined.

"No, this matter must not be left alone! We have to find out what exactly Snape used to blackmail Professor Lockhart, and who is behind Snape." Almost the sum of our ages Twice that of ', the mastermind must be over 100 years old, maybe even 00 years old. "

"Why do you say that?" Ron asked in surprise.

Professor Nepe and Harry's father are at the same level, which means that he must be in his 30s this year, and Professor Lockhart's birthday is January 1964, 1, so this year is 26...why do you think of me like that? "Hermione puzzled.

"You actually go out of your way to remember his birthday." Ron said in an unbelievable tone.

Chapter 42 and Dumbledore's Deal

Gilderoy Lockhart was ignorant of his students' small calculations, but the group of children did guess one thing correctly-that is, he was really in a difficult situation now.

The task Snape gave Lockhart was not complicated—Dumbledore wanted to enter the Lestrange house's underground vault, and verified whether what Voldemort gave Bella was what he guessed.

Considering that Bellatrix Lestrange is still serving his sentence in Azkaban: no one can raise an objection; so it should not be very difficult from this point of view.

But the crux of the problem lies with the goblins, they will never allow Dumbledore to enter their vault.

No bank in any of the capitalist countries on the Muggle side would allow outsiders to view their customers' lockers and deposits.Even if that client has been proven to be a criminal.

Even if the government, public security, and courts want to check, they still need to follow a very strict process to apply, and there is still a high probability that they may be rejected.

The reason is actually very simple. The job of a bank is to manage the deposit and circulation of money. In other words, "capital is my father", so whoever has capital is the father of the bank.

The reason why grandpa is willing to keep the money with his grandson is because these grandsons are quite obedient. No matter who comes to him for money, he can keep his property secret and safe.

In other words, as long as the bank is forced by external pressure—no matter where the pressure comes from, even public power—to disclose the customer’s deposit information to others, the rest of the customers will immediately deposit their money in other banks. because your bank

It's not safe anymore!

Therefore, for banks, "reputation is life" is not just talk, it is really more important than life.

In the same way, although Gringotts is the only bank in the wizarding world, the goblins of Gringotts may lack theoretical literacy compared to Muggle professional financiers, but their professionalism is more than that No less.

Lockhart knew with his toes that no matter how good his relationship with Ragnol was, they would not allow him to enter the vault.

In the original book, Harry and the others cast the Imperius Curse, one of the three unforgivable curses, before finally entering the underground vault.And because of "not being cruel enough", they only used a half-hearted Imperius Curse, and finally had to promise Griphook to exchange Gryffindor's sword for this right.

Not to mention that Dumbledore didn't want to startle the snake.

In Lockhart's view, most of Voldemort's Horcruxes were destroyed and he was to blame.

As Dumbledore said, if Voldemort had told Lucius and Bella from the beginning that what he gave them was a piece of his own soul, they would not have dared to treat these two Horcruxes so slowly that one was used. Come to blame political enemies, and the other was thrown into the underground vault to pile up ashes.

He wanted to pretend to show his trust in his subordinates, but at the same time he didn't trust anyone, so he gave Dumbledore a chance to break, and Dumbledore probably knew more about Voldemort than himself.

Similarly, Voldemort is also a good player to manipulate people's desires, so that even Dumbledore couldn't stand the temptation of the Resurrection Stone, and let himself fall under the death curse.

He wasn't pure anymore after all - every time he recalled that he might have killed his sister Ariana, Dumbledore knew he was no longer entitled to kill Voldemort.

It is precisely because of such self-knowledge that Dumbledore turned to hope to cultivate an upright, kind, pure-hearted, caring and indomitable savior, and let this "pure" person defeat him.

Before the savior was trained, Dumbledore would not take the risk of letting the Death Eaters know his purpose.On the contrary, as long as it is conducive to cultivating a savior, he is willing to do it, even at the cost of his own life and some "relatively not so important" people.

Otherwise, Voldemort is the Dark Lord and Dumbledore is the White Lord.

If Lockhart took someone to press Bella to ask about the whereabouts of the thing, it would be emphasizing the importance of the thing to Bella.Not to mention whether Bella would bite her tongue and kill herself on the spot to avoid being dosed with Veritaserum, the rest of the Death Eaters would also find out the fact that Dumbledore was looking for something, and it was related to the Dark Lord related.

Gotta figure out a way.

Although Lockhart had already taken this matter into his heart, he still took his time and had no intention of doing it right away.Not to mention that he needs a certain amount of preparation time, even in face, he doesn't want to appear too urgent.

Well, when Dumbledore told you to search the treasury, you immediately went there, what is this?Premeditated?Still can't wait?Even if things are really done, his character will probably be a big question mark in Dumbledore's heart.

So this Monday morning, he still went to teach the students as usual.

"morning everyone!"

"Good morning, Professor Lockhart!" the sixth grade students replied in unison.

"I believe that everyone has enjoyed a pleasant weekend, and then please calm down and re-enter the learning environment.

What I am going to talk about today is very important. It involves the issue of "positioning" in group combat. I hope everyone will take good notes...Mr. Percy Weasley, please stay after class today, I have something to tell you .”

Percy obviously didn't expect to be called, but he nodded to show he heard.

Lockhart ignored those curious classmates and began to talk about the class.

"The biggest difference between team battles and 1-on-1 duels is that a wizard is likely to be exposed to the sight of multiple wizards at the same time, and thus be targeted. I think you should be very clear that if you are hit by a stun spell If it can be recovered with the stun spell, then if it is hit by more than two stun spells at the same time, the person concerned can only be sent to St. Mungo for first aid.

Many heads-up players will drop to a higher level after entering team battles. This is because they think that team battles are the same as heads-up battles, and all problems need to be solved by themselves-but this kind of thinking is a big mistake.

That's why we need to move and cooperate. Remember, the position you step out of should never be exposed to the attack range of the opponent's two wizards at the same time. It is also the reason why many wizards who don't look very good in 1v1 can shine in team battles.

Let me give another negative example—I know that there is a famous Auror named Alastor Moody. Before he was injured, he was known as the strongest Auror. In the battle to hunt down the dark wizard and fight him one-on-one , he has never missed a shot and is known as "the man who filled half of Azkaban".

But it's a pity that his team battle awareness is a bit poor, and he often makes the mistake of focusing on one thing and neglecting another, and is easily distracted by accidents on his own side. He was injured several times because of similar situations. is a pity.

So today our class will go to the dock by the lake, let's play a game of hide and seek - first we will group by college, and then I will implement

Cloud and Mist Curse, give everyone time to find a place to hide.After hiding, you have to find the location of the other college's students without moving, and record it, and finally leave it to me to judge.

如果一个人可以找到5个对手的位置而自己只被3个人找到,那他就赢得了5-3二2分，反之则是负分，最后以学院所有人整体分数之和为总成绩。

The winning side will each get a pocket panoramic binoculars, which you can use to watch the Quidditch match.The loser should each collect a pound of Mamba, and bring it back to Madam Pomfrey.The weather has been bad recently, and everyone has been suffering from ailments. I think she will use it. "

Chapter 43 Best Assistant - Percy Weasley

This unique positioning training lasted less than 20 minutes, and it came to an end in the defeat of the Gryffindor sixth grade side.

Because all of them were found out without any omission, and only 6 people were found in Yingyuan, so the result is obvious.

But the little lions were not convinced.

"They cheated!" Oliver Wood yelled angrily. "They used a sound transmission spell! If anyone finds out about one of us, it means they all have found out."

Lockhart made a helpless gesture: "Sorry, Mr. Wood, this does not violate the rules I set at the beginning. And if it is a fight with a dark wizard, it is a way to use the sound transmission spell to inform each other and the other party's position." It's a smart thing to do, and I encourage you to do it."

The students of the Eagle Academy came to Lockhart to receive their prizes with smiles on their faces, and at the same time comforted the little lions with high EQ.

"Sorry, Wood, but we really want this viewing telescope... When you play against Slytherin, we will go to cheer for you." Penelope Crivat comforted him.

Seeing that Percy's girlfriend said the same, Wood could only admit it.

Percy Wesley stayed after class and asked Lockhart what he wanted from him.

"I went to several deans on the weekend and asked them who wanted to work in the Ministry of Magic after graduation. Professor McGonagall recommended you to me."

Percy was a little sensitive: "It's not a definite fact yet. Although I have contacted several seniors who have graduated, the final decision of what department I can be assigned to is probably the seventh grade test scores."

"Don't be so serious." Lockhart said to him with a smile, "I'm just talking to you to meet my future colleagues. I've been in contact with colleagues from the Ministry of Magic this summer. Ci will go after leaving the job."

"Are you going too?" Percy was a little surprised, "I thought you were going to show off at Hogwarts."

"That's true, but I can't resist the You-Know-Who's curse." Lockhart admitted to him frankly.

"So

"So I have to find a way out early, accumulate my contacts and reputation as much as possible, and then get a better starting point in the Ministry of Magic, otherwise I will start to follow the rules after entering the Ministry of Magic, and then I want to do something to gain reputation Things need to be done according to the rules... You know, we are all the same kind of people." Lockhart winked at him.

Percy Weasley felt a sense of confidant—this is how adults think!

Compared with Professor Lockhart, my brothers and even my father are really disgraceful-everything is up to my own temper, neither obeying authority, nor thinking much about the future of myself and my family. Think like them.

"Very pragmatic goals," agreed Percy, "but what can I do for you?"