Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

In the end, she bought the telescope from us for 280 Galleons, but we only bought it for 98 pounds, nearly 14 times the net profit, and there was no need to pay taxes.

There is also a solar calculator—Professor Victor of Digital Divination said that it is very useful for this subject, and they should be included in the list of student teaching supplies for the coming year, and everyone has one... We will sell each of these calculators 10 Galleons, less than a Nat is a sin.

We plan to sell cars and dresses in the future... It will be much more profitable than mowing the neighbors' lawn during the summer vacation. "

Lockhart was overwhelmed: "What a genius! If all wizards were like you, the wizarding world would have entered modernization long ago, instead of being the same as it is now, no matter what business it is, it still looks like a handicraft workshop."

"If everyone was like us, we wouldn't be making any money, Professor," Finlayh grimaced.

"In any case, this is a revolution." Lockhart was not stingy with his praise, "Exchanging what is needed is the essence of business. I will introduce the Weeseac brothers and the Weasley brothers to you some other day. I believe you will be able to produce a lot of sparks of inspiration."

"Thank you, Professor." Justin Finlieri said hastily.

Sure enough, "loving learning" is beneficial. Not only was he not punished, but he was praised by Lockhart, and he got something to brag about when he went out.

When walking out of the office with the candy, Justin suddenly and mysteriously added:

"Professor, you've been looking for where Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets is, right?" Lockhart was taken aback, "Yes, how did you know?"

"You are a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. Unless the headmaster handles it personally, you will definitely give priority to this matter."

oAlthough there are some misunderstandings in this, it is basically true that Dumbledore is the most

Recently it did put me in charge of maintaining order in part of the school. ' admitted Lockhart.

"Well, there is one thing I want to tell you." Justin Fenrieri lowered his voice, "I very much doubt that Harry Potter is the heir of Slytherin.

Lockhart suddenly felt thunder rolling: "Why do you say that?"

"Because they have been sneaky recently, many of us have seen them go in and out of the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor, and it just so happens that the two recent attacks were found not far from there on the second floor... You said, Three second-year students, what do they go there every day? Maybe there is the entrance to the secret room, I remember you said that the descendants of the Gunter family remodeled the toilet pipes."

Lockhart was amazed that Justin Finlayry's crooked attack was on the right track—the location of the secret room that even the trio of the Saviors hadn't discovered was now casually mentioned by him, even though the reasoning process was very outrageous.

"Maybe one of them fell in love with Moaning Myrtle," Lockhart joked.

"Haha." Justin Fenry was obviously amused, "Of course, I'm just guessing, maybe they have some other secrets out there."

Lockhart decided to excuse Harry and the others.

"Yeah...but I happen to know what they're doing there, they're brewing a potion of potion there," said Lockhart, "if you open one of the compartments in the bathroom, you'll find a small potion Burning with an unquenchable magic fire.

Finlayh did not doubt Lockhart's words.

"I see... oh, I didn't mean to frame anyone, Professor. We Hufflepuffs don't always like to care about other people's business, you know.

"I understand, Justin," Lockhart said gently.

Justin Fenriely breathed a sigh of relief, and then he didn't mention it again.

Lockhart could see that even though Justin Fenriery had doubts about Harry and the others, he didn't really take it seriously, otherwise he wouldn't be hiding in the corridor next to the old bathroom to watch Xiao Huang. book.

But this is really interesting, even Fenlieli found out that the attack site was around the second floor, why couldn't the savior find out?And carelessly put the pot there?

Just as he was thinking, there was another knock on the office door.

"Professor Lockhart! There is another attack, please go and take a look!" The person outside the door shouted.

Lockhart was taken aback—he had already evacuated Justin!Why are there still people being attacked?

But after some understanding, he was relieved: it turned out that the one who was attacked this time was Nearly Headless Nick, just a ghost.

Since it was already impossible to die again, Nick was simply petrified, and could also be restored with a Mandrake potion.

Although I can monitor passing students, I can't remind you of ghosts passing through the wall, which doesn't count. " Dumbledore explained to Snape.

Chapter 76 Deserted Christmas

So far, though none of the chamber basilisk's attacks have actually killed anyone, their impact has been more than one sensation at a time.

It was Filch's cat who was attacked for the first time. Although everyone said it was a pity, they were probably happy to see it happen.

The second time the student was attacked was a first-year student. Although the student was attacked is a bad omen, the students can also use "Muggle-born students will be attacked" and "first-year students have no resistance" to comfort Own.

But this time it was a ghost—even though the ghost's killing ability was not very strong, everyone had to admit that the ghost was also a very difficult weapon to deal with.

Because there are not many spells that can work on them, especially 100% of the magic that acts on the entity will not take effect, and the effect of the magic on the nervous consciousness is also halved. Only some extremely powerful black magic can harm a person. ghost.

But Nearly Headless Nick seemed no different from the cat and the first grader in front of the attacker, all of them were suddenly petrified with a shocked expression on their faces, and they didn't even have time to react.

The students finally realized the seriousness of the problem—this attacker might not be easy to deal with.

If the attacker's magic level could instantly petrify a ghost, it wouldn't take much longer to defeat a seventh grader by the same means.

-At that time, the students began to panic-in addition to exploring Slytherin's secret room, the most popular move was to buy amulets for parents.

Where there is a market, there will be merchants. In addition to Eddie, the famous Ravenclaw profiteer, the Weasley brothers of Gryffindor have also joined the battlefield. I don’t know where they got it from

—A large number of amulets are sold in public.

Even the young wizards of the "Muggle Gang" asked their families to help them buy a lot of amulets from the Muggle world, such as Saturn decorations, blue ribbons, scarab pendants, etc., and the sales were actually pretty good .It's a pity that no one bought the cross, and the batch fell into their own hands.

Because of witch hunts in the Middle Ages, wizards had a deep aversion to crosses, so it was generally believed that crosses were unlucky, so how could someone buy crosses as amulets?

Neville Longbottom bought a large number of things such as amethyst and matchmaker's tail, which cost him a lot of pocket money.

The wind of amulets intensified, and Lockhart had to go out to conduct science popularization with the little wizards.

He told them that everyone should not believe in the metaphysics of amulets, but should rely on scientific principles and hope for reliable magic.

Instead of buying so many useless things, he might as well put on the contact lenses he prepared for the Dueling Club, and wear a dragonskin cloak with a stiff collar, so that his chances of survival will be greater.

As a result, after he said this, the little wizards became more comfortable.

Gilderoy Lockhart, the top master of black magic confrontation, actually thinks that everyone needs to go out fully armed?

Lockhart didn't know why he was passed on like this because he didn't want to see the little wizards spending money carelessly, and they casually sarcastically said a few words about the amulets. His original words obviously didn't mean that.

But the resulting panic effect is that before the Christmas holiday, almost all students have booked train tickets for the Hogwarts special train, so that the special train that was originally planned to carry only 3 carriages had to be temporarily changed to 6 carriages.

Harry Potter naturally stayed at Hogwarts, if possible, he would

He never wanted to go back to Number 4 Privet Drive again, and Ron and Hermione stayed with him.

Snape saw this clearly: "The Polyjuice Potion is almost ready, and whatever their goal is, they'll be doing it in a few days."

Percy also stayed, claiming that it was for the sake of running the Dueling Club during the holidays, and to survive with the school when it was in danger.

But Lockhart knew that Percy had forgotten his wife before he got married.He was going to spend the Christmas holidays with his girlfriend Penello, so he didn't want to go home.

As a teacher at Hogwarts, Lockhart would of course have to stay at school, but he planned to use the two days to do some private work, such as going out to discuss new books and investment matters.

Of course, you still have to attend the Christmas Eve party. Even Trelawney, a socially phobic person, has to attend the Christmas party. There is no reason for Lockhart not to attend.

Because he had already returned home for Thanksgiving, Lockhart didn't go back specifically, but just sent back his Christmas presents and greeting cards, and told his parents about opening a new book.

The draft of his new book was sent back with the gift—Lockhart's mother was often his first reader, so no one could know what kind of content witches liked better than Lockhart's mother. In this regard, he will attach great importance to the opinions of his mother's readers.

After going to the owl house to send presents to family, Lockhart began to prepare Christmas presents for colleagues and students.

Of course, gifts from the principal, several deans and colleagues are indispensable. In addition, he must take care of the students who participated in the Dueling Club and the few students he brought out from Muggle families.Considering that he will have to build a good relationship with his boss in the future, Lockhart has to send something to Peasegood.

Of course it’s easy to send things to the boss, just throw away a bottle of expensive wine and send them away.

Colleagues need him to pay a little more attention to match his interests

For example, he gave Professor McGonagall a keychain in the shape of a Quaffle, gave Snape a mechanical automatic balance with gas cylinders that could weigh gas, and Professor Sprout got a Muggle Michelin gourmet recipes, as for Flitwick, the old dean, Lockhart lost a magic music box that can play 7 songs

The same goes for the headmaster, of course Lockhart would not send a bunch of woolen socks to Dumbledore foolishly. People say that the "socks" they want actually refer to family affection. Giving socks to Dumbledore as a gift, I'm afraid the old bee will just roll his eyes.

So Lockhart chose a wind-up record player for Dumbledore, and attached a vinyl record of Mark Knopfler's "GingHme (Coming Home)".

If it is already difficult to choose a gift for adults, then it is even more troublesome for little wizards, because they care about the uniqueness of their gifts. If they just throw a bunch of candies and cookies like everyone else, they will undoubtedly feel that they are affected ignore.

Lockhart had to take advantage of Wednesday to go to Diagon Alley and Harrods to buy gifts for his students, and finally got all the goods before the evening.

It's not easy being a heartthrob, Lockhart sighed.

Chapter 77Christmas Gifts

Compared with previous years, the owls at Hogwarts are much more relaxed this year, because those who should go home have already returned home yesterday, so they don't need them to deliver gifts to little wizards.

But this also means that their chances of earning "extra money" are gone. No one uses them to deliver letters. If they want to eat, they can only catch mice by themselves.

Just as they were grinding their claws and preparing to kill the field mice in the farmland next to Hogwarts, their savior appeared.

"Tsk... so many little wizards have returned home this year."

Lockhart appeared in the owl house carrying a large bag of presents.

While the owls were waiting, he took out a large pile of chicken and fed the owls to their fullest.

Since Hagrid had been working as the supervisor of the Dueling Club on Wednesday nights, it was inevitable that the farm was a bit slack. As a result, all the roosters in the chicken coop died inexplicably.

In his annoyance, Hagrid wanted to dispose of these chicken carcasses—because chickens killed by weasels or sable martens (in his opinion) were not edible, and he had to pay for them himself These chickens at Hogwarts.

Lockhart knew that Voldemort had killed these roosters in advance in order to avoid the Basilisk being inexplicably disturbed again. No matter who was the guard, it was useless, and Hagrid was a bit wronged.

So he excused that Hagrid's problem was caused by being a referee, so he bought these dead chickens cheaply and fed them to the owls.

Watching the owls chomping at the chicken, Lockhart wished he could save the world

The Lord's action can be quicker.

Regardless of the original book, it seems that no one died from being attacked by a basilisk, not even a cat lost its life, and the overall level is still at the level of children's literature, but these roosters are intentionally or unintentionally ignored by some people.In detail, all the lives Voldemort killed in the book "The Chamber of Secrets" were these roosters.

how?Is the life of a rooster not life, but that of cats and dogs?After eating and drinking, the owls stretched out their legs in satisfaction, allowing Lockhart to tie presents to their legs one by one, and went straight to their destination.

Unlike the wizards who went home, the students who remained at Hogwarts received gifts directly from Lockhart, which the house-elves delivered to their pillows at night.

After Lockhart delivered the things, he returned to his room and had a good night's sleep. When he woke up the next day, he found that his bed had already been piled up like a mountain.

It seems that not only do you give out more, but you also receive a lot.

Most of the gifts from students from wizarding families are handmade products, such as magic musical instruments, handmade chocolates, etc., while the gifts from Muggle families are more wine, accessories, pipes, etc. Although the gifts are not expensive, they are not expensive for a person. For teachers, these things are really precious.

Harry gave Lockhart an automatic razor, and I don't know when he bought it; while Ron's was a little simpler, and he gave Lockhart a pair of explosive cards with The pattern seems to be drawn by myself; the Weasley twins have a new product they just researched - the Weasley fireworks box with twenty bursts; Cedric gave Lockhart a trekking pole with The unwearable silver head is said to be able to restrain vampires.

Compared with these boys' gifts, Hermione's gift is more thoughtful-a lilac purple, hand-woven scarf, and the decorative beads on the corner of the scarf are stuffed with soothing herbs, girls can be seen from the meticulous

In addition to the students, several familiar professors also gave Lockhart something -

Professor McGonagall gave Lockhart a whole order of magic paper, and Lockhart recognized at a glance that it was a special paper plane used to deliver messages within the Ministry of Magic. As long as you write a message and recipient, it will automatically fly to Destination, faster and cleaner than the Owl.

If it weren't for the fact that they are all disposable and more easily intercepted than owls, it would have replaced owls as a special communication tool among wizards long ago.

What Professor Flitwick gave was a magic scroll, which recorded a magic called "Eagle's Radiance" with a moving picture. The effect was to make the caster look more radiant and charming.

Lockhart decided to use this magic when he ran for office

Although Snape usually speaks with a good gun, the gift he gave was really unambiguous, and it can even be said to be the most expensive gift Lockhart received today.

It was a small vial of clear, turquoise potion—extreme enhancer.

As the name suggests, the general enhancer can only increase the physical strength of the drinker, while the intelligence enhancer can make the drinker's thinking extremely clear, and will never be confused

Although the potency of the two can not be considered weak, but compared with the ultimate enhancer, they can only be regarded as pale in comparison, /" pale.

It can make a wizard's magic power reach the intensity of the magic power burst in a short time, and after drinking it can permanently increase a part of the magic power limit of the wizard, and the side effect is only that the body is weak within one hour after the effect of the medicine has passed, which is very precious , Money can't buy it.

This favor is too great.Lockhart thought.

In addition to these acquaintances, there were also a large group of witches whom Lockhart didn't know at all, who also sent gifts. These gifts were various, and there were even a few pieces of underwear among them, and it looked like they had been worn.

To this, Lockhart responded by throwing them all into the fire in the fireplace, so that at least they could be used as waste.

Others belonged to business partners, such as Whits Harder Books, whose gift was a newspaper.

It was a copy of the "Daily Prophet" on the 24th, and the sixth page on it used a full half of the page to promote Lockhart's new book, saying that the famous Gilderoy Lockhart even in Hogwarts Teacher Ci is still taking risks. He is currently looking for the legendary Slytherin's secret room, and has already grasped some important clues. He will write it in a new book after the investigation is clear. Please look forward to m

The reason why they came up with this newspaper was to let Lockhart see the sincerity and strength of the publishing house, and tie this powerful author firmly to their company.

Sure enough, Lockhart was very satisfied when he saw the newspaper—let's send a book to them as well!

However, Gilderoy Lockhart was not the only one who saw this newspaper, even some young wizards at Hogwarts noticed it.

In the Gryffindor lounge, Hermione, who was reading a newspaper, suddenly let out a scream.

"What's the matter? Hermione?" Harry and Ron, who were playing chess, asked hastily.

"Look at this advertisement! It says that Professor Lockhart has found clues to the Chamber of Secrets and is going to reveal the answer to all readers next year!" Hermione pointed to the advertisement in the "Daily Prophet".

Harry and Ron's attention was drawn in an instant.

""Really? Harry asked curiously, "If the professor already has the location of the Chamber of Secrets, why didn't he just grab the heir of Slytherin?" "

"Who knows, maybe he's just bragging...don't stare at me like that, Hermione, people who write books have to exaggerate, don't they...I mean, even though he's Lockhart, but...but