Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

"That's easy." Hagrid shrugged, ""I bet a third year could do it. "

"Third grade?" Lockhart frowned. "Isn't it a little bad to let them touch the 3X dangerous level in the third grade? Then what are you going to teach them in the sixth and seventh grades?"

""Of course it is to teach them how to hybridize large creatures. "Hagrid said as a matter of course, "There are so many people helping, of course we have to try a few more new varieties, for example, I have always wanted to try the crossbreeding of fire crabs and manticores..."

Lockhart doesn't know what to say

For a person who keeps pets such as hellhounds and acromanders, which are considered dangerous in the 5X level, fire crabs may really be just toys.

"Wait for that first..." He said with some headache, "Have you read the Ministry of Magic's exam syllabus? The part about magical creatures."

"Glanced a couple of times, but I think that thing is too boring..." Hagrid complained, "Sniff, mink, swallowtail dog, you can leave it alone, to be honest, this kind of thing No need to learn, and I don't want my students to go through two classes without learning anything."

"I'm afraid you overestimated them." Lockhart hurriedly stopped, "Even for the NEWTs exam, the highest level of 4X creatures will be used. If you teach them the poison leopard..."

Hagrid was overjoyed: "Panthera? Good idea, but Scotland doesn't have it. I heard you're going to take people to Africa? I remember there were several in East Africa..."

"Please, Hagrid. It's not worth it!" Lockhart quickly stopped his dangerous thought, "You'd better use creatures with 2X or less for third graders, 3X for fourth and fifth graders, and 4X for sixth and seventh graders. With [-]X, you have to do it step by step."

"I'll do my best," Hagrid agreed nonchalantly. "Now let's talk about it. What are you going to do with the final exam?"

Looking at him like this, Lockhart knew that he didn't take his words to heart at all, but after the words got to this point, he couldn't continue to persuade him.

After all, I am just a "kid" under 30 years old, and Hagrid is more than twice his age, so I really have no position to teach him a lesson.

"My words are very simple. In the first grade, I spent a year teaching them how to escape. The final exam will naturally have to test this...so I hope you can catch a few tree monkeys and let them chase these little ghosts Run in the maze.

As long as they can use the repelling spell and the cloud spell, and always pay attention to the monkey's footsteps, calmly plan their route, and avoid the monkey's siege, they can be safe

Arrive at the end... Don't forget to throw some "treasures" in the maze, let the students search

Collection.

If someone is caught by a monkey once, you can let them go and let them do it again.If you are caught three times, you will be given a failing grade. If you are not caught or only caught once, you can be given a good grade. If you are not caught and can collect all the treasures in the maze, we should give him an excellent grade—you see, It's that simple. "

Hagrid understood: "Just let them use what they usually learn?"

"Yes, that's what the so-called exam is all about."

"What about the second years?" Hagrid asked again.

"The second grade will increase the difficulty appropriately. They already have a little foundation; the magic power is also greater; so I am going to invite a house elf from Hogwarts to catch them."

"House elves? But they all Apparate!" Hagrid was a little surprised, "Students can't avoid it, right?"

"As long as you react quickly, you can dodge it." Lockhart said without hesitation: "The apparition of the house elf will shoot sparks in the air, it's easy to judge, students just need to stop in time after seeing the sparks, use a Flying sand and rocks bounced it away, then ran desperately in the opposite direction, and escaped after avoiding its sight.

You can go to the kitchen and ask. I remember that the house elf who agreed to cooperate with me in the exam is named Agatha. She will know how to behave. "

"What about the third grade?"

"Go to the swamp by the lake, make some fake models of red hats, sink punks, and swamp diggers, mix them with real animals, and see if the students can tell the truth from the fake. Get them out."

"Four…"

Lockhart simply handed over his plan to him: "Take it, and see for yourself! The core of the fourth grade lies in the mastery of spells and the identification of black magic creatures. I am going to introduce

The secret room is arranged as a haunted house, and the students are asked to judge the type of the ghost according to the clues within the specified time, and then choose the appropriate props and spells to deal with them.

For the sixth grade exam, I will ask Professor McGonagall to borrow a few giant statue chess pieces, and surround them at high speed from all directions-the students' magic power will definitely not be able to break them, so I can only use invisibility or apparition to escape the encirclement. "

"So this is step by step." Hagrid finally understood.

"Yeah, I can't just teach them the Dark Arts in first year," Lockhart said.

Chapter 130 Eight Final Confrontation

After arranging the final exams, Lockhart's time at Hogwarts has entered the final countdown.

Regarding this place that many students regarded as home, it would be a lie for Lockhart to say that he has no affection for it, not to mention that he has obtained almost everything he wanted here, except love.

But unfortunately, his stage is not here.

When everyone is a kid, they tend to like some superhero, or someone who spent billions of dollars to build themselves a steel suit or a high-tech batsuit, and think that's cool.

But when they grow up, they will realize how nonsense it is.

Because if they use this tens of thousands of family assets to influence politics, they can build a lot of factories, hire psychologists, improve the treatment of the police, or train congressmen who obey their orders, so that they can find jobs for many people, and the crime rate will drop. The magnitude is definitely much stronger than spending millions of dollars in technological equipment loss every day to combat one or two criminals.

Similarly, it is useless to simply be a "hero" if you want to fight against black magic, make a name for yourself, or even make a name for yourself in history.

And Lockhart also firmly believes that all the unreasonable things that happen in this world are ultimately caused by political problems, and political means must be used to solve them, rather than expecting the appearance of a hunk from the sky.

It's like California, where tens of thousands of robberies occur every year, so that there are not enough prisons. Even if all the superheroes become real, it can't save it. Even Captain America can only sigh.

California has neither a solution to race nor a solution to "political justice"

In the end, there was no way to improve the economy, so in the end, the regulation that "robbery worth less than $950 is not considered robbery" was hastily introduced to save police resources.

Therefore, today’s magical reality of zero-dollar purchases everywhere, while police officers performing official duties are sent to court for prosecution is fundamentally due to the fact that various interest groups have too much influence on the state legislature. It is a political + economic issue. , rather than a simple security issue.

Political issues like this should be resolved politically.It is a misallocation of social resources and very irresponsible to shift the responsibility that should be borne by politicians to heroes.

From a certain point of view, if the world needs heroes instead of general mobilization to save, the world should be destroyed.

Just when Lockhart was full of ambition and wanted to show off his talents, an article on "The Quibbler" caught him off guard.

"Heroes Against the Dark Arts?Or the next demon king who conspired with the Death Eaters? "

In line with the consistent style of "The Quibbler", this news can be said to be the ultimate in "surprise victory" and "groundless association".

This article exclusively discloses a shocking news, that is, Gilderoy Lockhart, a famous explorer, anti-dark arts fighter, best-selling author, and professor of defense against the dark arts at Hogwarts, Visited Azkaban Prison at the end of October last year.

The object he visited in prison was not a poor person who had been wronged, or was imprisoned due to accident or carelessness, but a notorious Death Eater.

According to insiders at the Ministry of Magic, Lockhart bribed Azkaban's guardian dementors with "a piece of soul", so that the dementors agreed to let him into prison.

And after entering the prison, he went straight to the side where the Death Eaters were held, and came out after dawdling for more than two hours. As for who was visiting, until today we

It is unknown.

Considering that after Lockhart came out of Azkaban, he suddenly announced in the newspaper that he had found clues to the secret room, and finally found the black magic item left by that person and Slytherin's secret room.We at The Quibbler have reason to think that Lockhart got some key information from the Death Eaters, and it's quite possible that he got more than one Dark Artifact from Hogwarts.

As for how the follow-up events will develop, we don't know, but if our worst fears become true, then "Three Generations of Dark Lord" Lockhart is likely to plan an escape from Azkaban, so that That man's men gathered under his banner...

Seeing this, Lockhart put down the weekly magazine.

To be honest, it was a little troublesome for him to be disclosed.

First of all, the news in this article is actually true news, whether Lockhart went to visit the prison or found the secret room, it is true.Even the "dementors were bribed with a piece of soul" and "more than one dark magic item was found from Hogwarts" are true.

As a person familiar with the plot, it is impossible for Lockhart not to go to the Room of Requirement.

He got Ravenclaw's diadem from the Room of Requirement, and bribed with Voldemort's soul in the diadem as "food", so that the dementor opened the prison door for him.Then he tricked Bella and helped Dumbledore get Hufflepuff's Gold Cup 5, which can be said to be multiple in one fell swoop.

When he was doing the above things, he didn't even tell Dumbledore, and he did it secretly by himself. In the spirit of pragmatism, Dumbledore didn't ask him how he persuaded the dementors.

But now, these things are coming to light, and it is likely to have a very bad impact on Lockhart.

When the news in the newspaper is true news, and the logical theory can be justified

When talking about it, it will become very troublesome to get rid of this suspicion.

More importantly, as someone who has read the original book, Lockhart knows that Sirius Black will escape from prison soon.

He has always wondered, even if Sirius is an Animagus and can turn into a black dog, but how he opened the prison door, how he slipped out of the gate of Azkaban by bypassing many guards, and How to find the right direction and escape from the prison by swimming.

To do all of this requires careful thinking and careful planning, and neither of these things can be done by the "reckless" Sirius, let alone he has been knocked out of his mind by the dementors.

Now it seems that he was able to escape from the prison because of another secret.

Lockhart felt that he had vaguely touched something, but he had no proof.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door of his office, and the sound was very urgent.

After opening the door, Lockhart found that it was Draco Malfoy who came.

"Lockhart...Professor." Malfoy seemed a bit out of breath. "My dad's owl came...he asked me to tell you...he didn't do it."

Of course Lockhart understood what he was talking about.

"Tell your father for me, just say I know, I don't believe he did it

Chapter 130 IX Leaving the Castle

The Malfoy family is indeed a powerful political scumbag. As soon as the news came out, their family realized the possible bad consequences of this article.

And Lockhart's loud assurance seemed to reassure Draco Malfoy: "Thank you very much, Professor, my father said he would definitely find out who did this."

Lockhart put on a relaxed look: "Then thank your father for me, our big plan has just begun, and I really don't have much energy to pay attention to such small things."

The reason why Lockhart said it was a trivial matter was because this news was posted on "The Quibbler", and almost no one would take it seriously. People who would take the news in this magazine seriously must have something wrong with their brains. It is impossible for the person in question to cause any substantial damage to Lockhart.

In order to show his sincerity, Lockhart conjured up a pot of tiger skin chrysanthemum, which symbolizes cooperation, and asked Xiaolong to take it back to his father. I believe his father will understand what Lockhart meant.

After sending Malfoy away, Lockhart thought carefully again.

Since it wasn't Malfoy and the others who did it, and Fudge had just had a tacit peace with himself, it meant that someone from the Ministry of Magic should have made his own claim.

Strange, when have I offended anyone?he is puzzled

But it just so happens that if he resigns now, he can be regarded as a famous teacher.

So he wrote an announcement statement and published it on the "Daily Prophet", stating that he could not accept some people's groundless speculation and accusations, and decided to resign from Hogwarts' Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Afterwards, he formally handed over his resignation letter to Dumbledore, expressing his willingness to leave within half a month.

Because everyone had already discussed it, Dumbledore was not surprised, and he didn't seem to take the words of "The Quibbler" seriously.

This is the tragedy of "The Quibbler" - in order to compete for the market, they published so many nonsense news that when they told the truth, others took it as a joke. I am afraid that before the savior published that news, " The Quibbler will serve as a Joker for a long time.

But this also shows that the person who published this news has no formal channels, so they can only use "quibbler"?

After completing the handover procedures, Lockhart followed the outline of his class in a spirit of professionalism, and finished the rest of the lecture in a week.

Most of the students also learned about this from various channels. Although they were a little bit reluctant, because this was already confirmed news, they could only send their blessings regretfully.

As for the things in his office, most of Lockhart didn't plan to take them away: firstly, there was no place to put them in the house in London, and secondly, to leave some things for the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, so as to show that he was not Cheapskate.

But the fine wine in his wine cellar and the smuggled flying carpet map, Lockhart has to keep them, because this kind of thing is not something that can be bought with money

During the nine months at Hogwarts, he had accomplished all the goals he had planned: to survive, improve his strength, and obtain the initial political resources through Hogwarts.

Although there were some small episodes in the middle, it was still very successful overall.In the future, as long as the Duelist Club and the Student Union continue to operate, his faction will continue to grow, and one day he will be able to reap fruitful results.

Reality.

As for Fudge, let him be happy for a while.

— A week later, the dull reaction of the wizarding world also confirmed Lockhart's idea, that is, no one in the wizarding world cared about "The Quibbler" at all, and the guy who put his own plot behind it failed at all.

On the last weekend before leaving, Lockhart convened the last club event, and in front of everyone, gave Percy the auditorium authority symbolizing the Dueling Club.

"After I leave, I'll leave it to you here. After that, Mr. Diggory should also be able to take on this responsibility, and then Miss Granger..."

Although this student union should be "democratic", Lockhart, like Zhuge Liang, opened his mouth and decided on both "Jiang Wan" and "Fei Yi" as successors.And he's obviously not just talking about the dueling club, but the power of the student council president

Percy knew that the source of his authority basically relied on Lockhart, so he should not violate Lockhart's "last wish". The only thing that worried him was whether Slytherin would "make trouble" after Lockhart left. ", stealing the highest power of the student union.

In this regard, Lockhart advised him to relax.

"As long as Dumbledore is alive, there's no way they'll be in charge," he said.Percy was right when he thought about it, and he was relieved.

"I'll take a step first, and after another year, we'll all be in the Ministry of Magic." Lockhart patted him on the shoulder and said.

Unlike others who were still worried about the power operation in the "post-Lockhart era", among the last students left in the club, only Hermione was really sad about Lockhart's departure.

"Can't you change your teaching job?" she begged. "Actually, we can completely bypass that curse. For example, we only need to add another one."

Self-defense' or "Duel" courses will be taught by you, and the original Defense Against the Dark Arts class will be replaced by a new professor every six months."

"I don't think the curse left by that person will play this kind of word game. If it is so easy to get around, Dumbledore will not be helpless against it." Lockhart shrugged: "Okay, don't I'm crying, silly girl. It's not life and death, if there are no accidents, we will have time to see each other in the future."

Hermione was not the only one who felt sad about Lockhart's departure. The students of Hogwarts gathered spontaneously and held a small farewell party for Lockhart.Even though Fred and George stole food from the kitchen at this farewell party, Lockhart enjoyed it.

Even if these students may not all stand on the same front as me in the future, the friendship between teachers and students that once lived together is not fake.The more rational people are, the more they know the value of this kind of true feelings.

"You will make it difficult for me to do this." He said with a half-true smile, "Professor Kettleborn has been teaching longer, and you should send at least two people to greet him."

"We will! Professor, another drink?" Fred passed a glass of pumpkin juice.

After the farewell party was ended lively, Lockhart walked out of the castle with his suitcase, saying goodbye to the castle that he had "worked with" for more than nine months.

Not to mention, this castle really feels like home after living in it for a long time. No wonder Harry Potter and Voldemort regard it as their home.