Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

Under the disagreement, Lockhart started to make a move—and this time he really made a move.

hand.

If he made a move last time, he would definitely be unreasonable to confront the Ministry of Magic, but this time he is defending the authority of the Ministry of Magic. Even if he stabs it, the higher-ups can't say anything, but encourage him to do it. Well done.

Instead of using his half-baked Patronus Charm, Lockhart used the type of magic he was best at.

"Expathic_Ttalus 1o" Lockhart called.

Without saying a word, he blocked all the communication of the dementors' consciousness. He didn't believe that these dementors could be more powerful than Voldemort.

Dementors are all blind, even using the blindness curse on them is useless, even if their sense of smell is cut off, they can still accurately find each other's location through the emotional fluctuations of the surrounding life.

That being the case, directly isolating their perception of emotions should be a more effective means.

Lockhart wasn't sure if it would work on them, but it was the best he could think of to deal with the dementors.

Fortunately, the magic does work.

After he used this magic, there was a commotion among the dementors.

"What did you do?!" the dementor leader growled uneasily.

Lockhart could feel that its thinking was desperately sending out fluctuations, but it still couldn't get any feedback.

This magic turned them into "blind people" one by one. After losing their perception, they couldn't even feel the toy they had kept for several days—the family of mice in the mouse hole in the corner of the train station.

"Punishment." Lockhart replied, "You should be very clear about what the Ministry of Magic's mission for you is, and pretending to be stupid will not help you solve your current predicament.

In desperation, the dementor's language ability seems to have recovered a lot: "We are working for you! How dare you treat me like this!"

"Yes, and then?" Lockhart asked back.

Dementor: ?

"Let's just talk about it here." Lockhart magnified his malice a little more, Fal and these guys are nothing but a bunch of trash begging for mercy in front of wizards, we keep you just to deal with it Something we don't want to touch, you know?What we give you is yours, and what we don't give you, you can't take it, you have crossed the line. "

If Lockhart hadn't cut off all the perceptions of the dementors, the dementors would not have spoken to Lockhart so sternly, but the fact is that this official of the Ministry of Magic subdued thirty of them alone, and they Not sure if Lockhart could have done more.

At least it wasn't all bluff.

The little leader of the dementors decided to give in for the time being:

"Loyalty should be rewarded... wizards...we have not violated your rules??

Hearing that the dementors were subdued, Lockhart was determined. He was really worried that the dementors would scurry around like flies. In that case, his control range would need to be expanded accordingly, and the scene would inevitably get out of control.

"But you have undoubtedly misplaced your position." Lockhart showed steadfastness, "We took pity on you, allowed you to survive, sent food to your little island with nothing, and brought you Come out... We do so much because you will be obedient, not to make you obedient and obedient."

"We...follow the rules...but next time...you need to be more specific in your order," the Dementor replied.

After it said this, it was actually equivalent to acquiescing to a fact—that is,

It is within the general siege of Hoghold, Lockhart's status is stronger than theirs

"Very well, this is a good start." Lockhart revoked his perception blockade, "As long as you can follow the rules as you promised, the Ministry of Magic will give you what you want."

After the negotiation, Lockhart opened the door of the station, wanting to go to Hogwarts to explain the "accident" just now.

But immediately outside the door he saw someone who saved him the trouble of going to Hogwarts to explain.

Good luck! A middle-aged man in a shabby robe said to Lockhart, "My name is Remus Lupine. Originally, I wanted to see if there was anything else I could do to help, but now it seems unnecessary. "

"Lupine?" Lockhart looked over subconsciously.

Sure enough, the half-parted hairstyle with a lot of white hair, the gray eyes, the slightly haggard face, and the robe that was definitely not decent, all of them confirmed the identity of the visitor: "Jie The leader of the Thief quartet, the werewolf Remus Lupine.

"Hello, Senior Lupine, I'm Gilderoy Lockhart, do you recognize me?" Lockhart showed a hearty smile, "I remember when you were a prefect, I caused you a lot of trouble .”

The four robbers were all born in 960, four grades older than Lockhart. When Lupine became a prefect in 1975, Lockhart had just entered school.When Lupine and the others graduated, Hermione had just been born, and Lockhart was still in the third grade.

Lupine didn't expect Lockhart to have such a good memory, but since the other party was willing to get close, Lupine, who had been coldly looked at by others because of his identity as a werewolf, would naturally not make any intentional moves to distance himself.

"It's not me that's troublesome, but your prefect Quirk." Lupine said mockingly, "I can't even manage my companions well... If I can manage them well, now

Maybe you don't have to be so motivating.

After all, Sirius Black is also one of the band of robbers. Lupine said this to some extent in the sense of being clear. Black's "betrayal" was actually a big blow to him.

Thinking of the big black dog in his house, Lockhart solemnly promised: "Don't worry, we will never let him cause any trouble."

Chapter 170 Six Lupine's Real Problem

In fact, Lupine still has an impression of Lockhart, or even if he wants to forget this kind of problem, it is difficult for students.

It’s like a class reunion ten years after graduation. Basically, everyone can remember only the best students in the class, or the worst students who often cause trouble. You can’t even remember the students who don’t have any characteristics. Who is he.

And Lockhart is such a problem student—but no one in his age group will forget that he replaced all the curtains in the auditorium with banners with his name on them.

Although this is considered notorious, at least notoriety is also famous. The old classmates of the year thought of him as soon as they saw him again. In a sense, this is also the reason why Lockhart's book was able to sell well in the first place. Everyone They all want to see how that flower peacock became a master of fighting against black magic back then.

When they met again at this time, Lupine couldn't help feeling a little bit about the impermanence of the world.

The problematic student back then has become an internationally renowned wizard with a bright future, while my good student of this standard back then was beaten by everyone because of his status as a werewolf. What happened to this person...how should I start?

Lupine knew very well that the reason why Dumbledore hired him as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts was probably because he hoped that he could have another fight with Sirius Black.After all, among the three people who know Sirius Black best in this world, only Lupine is alive now (Dumbledore didn't know that Peter was also alive at this time)

But even though he knew Dumbledore's purpose, Lupine was still very grateful to Dumbledore for giving him a job.

This time he has been desperate and penniless for a long time. I'm afraid there will be a little more

In terms of income, he will starve to death in some unknown place.Even if he can only teach for one year, with the savings of this year, he may be able to live for a few more years.

Lupine's miserable situation is also the status quo of all werewolves, vampires and other humanoid creatures in human society. Compared with Lupine, other people may be even more miserable, because they have not received systematic magic education.

Of the armies that Voldemort would muster later, only the werewolves could be said to be the product of the White Wizards' own making.Because of their excessive discrimination against werewolves, almost all werewolves sided with the Death Eaters in the end.

Either accept the werewolves, or kill them all, and the final result will not be worse than it is now.

Lockhart will not look down on Lupine because of his downfall. On the contrary, Lupine is one of the few people in "HP" that Lockhart can respect.

It may not be difficult to be kind in a tolerant environment, but it is too rare to find people who are kind in an environment full of discrimination, exclusion and hostility, let alone people who are knowledgeable, fearless and loyal.

So he was very friendly to Lupine, and even invited him to sit in Hogsmeade, but Lupine refused on the grounds that he wanted to attend the school dinner.

When he was leaving, Lockhart was moved when he saw Lupine wearing a torn robe.

Ding Ye asked, have you ever thought about working abroad in the future?You also know that you can only teach this course of defense for at most one year, and the domestic environment is really too unfriendly to you. "

Lupine stopped: "How?"

"The new oil wells in Nigeria need a general manager to watch over there, we have to deal with the local wizards...they're full of Animagus over there, so it's no big deal if they turn into wolves, don't you You will be discriminated against there, and the Aurors should visit from time to time, and the safety is also..." Lockhart threw out an olive

olive branch.

Lupine made a decision with little thought: "No problem, it just so happens that I don't have a family and can travel for a long time."

"Great, those who go on business trips abroad enjoy an additional 150% salary subsidy. In addition, the general manager also enjoys a commission of [-]/[-] of the monthly output of the oil well... You go back to the castle first. I will treat you to a drink next weekend. Let's talk about it in detail." Let's talk about it."

Seeing Hagrid in the distance coming to greet the first-year students to board the boat, Lockhart quickly stopped talking.

Lupine glanced back at the students and realized that it was time for him to leave. "That's fine." He said, "Then bother you."

Just as Lupine turned around, his peripheral vision caught something.

— A huge black shadow disappeared in a flash, and got into the bushes next to the station.There was a subtle change in the focus of Lupine's pupils—did I misread just now?

"What's wrong?" Lockhart asked him.

"It's nothing." Lupine shook his head. "I seem to have seen it just now... It must be that I was too hungry and had hallucinations! Seriously, I can't wait to go to Hogwarts to have a good meal, The last time I ate it was more than 20 years ago."

Lupine glossed over the incident lightly, but Lockhart knew exactly what he saw.

Just now, the big black dog that Sirius Black turned into ran over unknowingly, and leaned towards the train stealthily.

For this reason, Lockhart had to increase his voice, and stopped Lupine: Finally, Sirius noticed this side and escaped in time, but because of the slow movement, Lupine saw a little bit.

That's why Lockhart specifically asked Lupine again, asking him what he saw, but

Lupine hadn't said anything to Lockhart just now.

Lupine obviously had many opportunities to reveal to the Ministry of Magic or Dumbledore that Black could transform, but he never did so. In his own words, he was "too cowardly to tell Dumbledore that he had betrayed over his trust"

Lockhart believed this to be the case, because he had only talked with Lupine for a few minutes before he discovered that this person was a typical "low self-esteem personality", and he was only one step away from a "pleaser personality".

Such people are actually quite common, especially when a child grows up in an environment of "parents and comparative education" when he is young, it is easy for him to develop this kind of low self-esteem personality when he grows up.

Modern psychology believes that people's self-awareness and personality are derived from interactions with others.In the early stages of life, the way and evaluation of those around us will gradually internalize into a voice in our heart that dominates our view of ourselves.

Probably because of his werewolf ancestry, Lupine suffered too much discrimination and unfair treatment when he was young, so that he subconsciously agreed with these views, always feeling "I don't deserve it"

Starting from "I shouldn't have friends", to "I'm not trustworthy", to "I can't make a career", and even "I don't deserve to have love", Lupine grew up in this kind of People who have survived psychological torment.

It is precisely because of this that the friendship between the robbers, Dumbledore's trust in him, and Tonks' love for him, in Lupine's view, are not what he deserves. Afraid to expose Black to Dumbledore, it is estimated that there is a high probability that it is true

The tragedies in this world often come from the distortion of people's personality and cognition, and because of the magical relationship of wizards, a person can influence more environments than Muggles by virtue of his personality and cognition, so what happens in the wizarding world There are more tragedies,

Bigger.

Changing customs is not an easy job, and there is still a lot of work waiting for Lockhart.

Chapter 170 The Second Project

—After rushing back to the Screaming Shack, Sirius Black felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

He never expected that Remus Lupine would appear here.

Lockhart's obliviousness to his black dog form had taught him the fact that the Ministry of Magic had hitherto been unaware that he was an Animagus capable of transforming into a black dog at will.

In Black's view, it must be because James Potter is dead, Peter Pettigrew has never dared to expose it because of his transformation into a mouse, and Remus Lupine, the only one who knew about it, is likely to be Already dead, so the fact that he was an Animagus didn't come to light.

But when he found Lupine at the station, Sirius was naturally taken aback—the fact that he could turn into a black dog might be able to hide it from the dementors, the Ministry of Magic, and maybe without anyone reminding him. Dumbledore, but he knew very well that he couldn't hide it from Lupine.

Just as he had seen Lupine transformed into a werewolf dozens of times, Lupine had seen him transformed into a black dog countless times, and it was impossible for him not to recognize himself.

So after finding Lupine, Black immediately got into the bushes, so he didn't hit him directly.

Lupine is actually at Hogwarts, and this is going to be troublesome...

Although he didn't know why Lupine never exposed himself even though he was alive, Black didn't dare to be careless, because he knew that as long as Lupine found out that he had broken into Hogwarts, even if he had any difficulties, he would definitely report to Dumbledore directly. informer.

You must avoid him... Only by avoiding him and entering Hogwarts can you kill that insidious, dirty mouse.

I have to... wait!

Sirius Black suddenly remembered something else, something just as crucial.

—If Lupine could recognize himself, wouldn't he recognize Peter Pettigrew?

Impossible, as long as Lupine sees Peter Pettigrew, then he will definitely recognize the mouse, just like himself.

If he meets Peter, Lupine may not be able to react, but Peter will definitely be scared away, so how can he catch it?

Oops!

Sirius Black didn't worry about his own safety at all. In his opinion, the worst thing was that his soul was sucked away by the dementors. This way, it was all over, and he didn't have to live in such pain.

But he is very worried that Peter Pettigrew will escape because of this. If Peter escapes, the motivation to support him to swim back to England from the middle of the North Sea along the ocean current will disappear.

How to do?

——Thinking of this, Blake scratched his head.

Dobby looked at the wild dog brought back by the owner strangely and turned around restlessly, no matter how he tried to calm him down, it was useless.

"Be quiet, if the master sees you come in with another paw of dirt, he may throw you out, and you won't have supper," Dobby warned it.

But Blake didn't have the time to think about dinner. What he was most worried about was that Peter Pettigrew would run away.

Probably not...Students generally don't bring pets with them in class, so Lupine is different

He will see it right away, and as long as he is not in a hurry to show up, then with Peter's nature, he will continue to hide in the "safest" Hogwarts.

If he didn't hide in Hogwarts, he could only eat and sleep in the wild, how could it be as safe as being in school?He didn't know where Voldemort was anyway, and he had nowhere to go.

Knowing Peter Pettigrew, Black slowly calmed down

Anyway, after so many years, he is not in a hurry to get revenge at this moment, the flame of revenge will not be extinguished with time, it will only burn more and more.

It seems that for a while now, I have to behave a little better, go out as little as possible, and never startle the snake, it is best to let the world think that I have escaped.

Wait until you find out the exact location of Peter Pettigrew and find out the security measures, then find a suitable time to enter the Gryffindor lounge, and kill him.Of course, it would be better to get another wand...