Hermione, join me as Minister of Magic!

With the sound of a childish female voice, Lockhart put down the newspaper standing in front of him.

"It turned out to be Miss Granger, what happened?" Lockhart said kindly

ask.

Chapter 15 Leave something behind

Lockhart's sudden appearance startled Hermione.

"Professor Lolo Lockhart!" she almost screamed. "Why are you here?"

"There are some things to discuss with the head students and prefects, so I got into the car." Lockhart pretended to be ignorant, "Are you looking for someone?"

"Yes, it's two of my friends, I couldn't find them in the car." Hermione said anxiously and quickly, "One is Harry Potter and the other is Ron Weasley, you see Passed him, at Florin-Fusco's, when he ordered..."

"I remember him, and I know who Harry is." Lockhart hastily interrupted Hermione's chatter—he didn't remember her being such a talkative person, "So, did they get in the car after all?" No?"

His words stopped Hermione: "oo maybe not."

"'Maybe' no?" Lockhart put an accent on the first word.

"Actually... we don't remember." Hermione felt a little flushed, "Mrs. Weasley and I were busy arranging for Ginny, Fred and George disappeared in the blink of an eye, and I don't know where they went, Percy said Going to a meeting in the prefects box, we thought they were already in the car with the twins...but Fred just said he never saw them and they were too busy talking to Jordan about their summer."

"What an enviable big family." Lockhart understood.

Apparently, whatever went wrong later, Harry Potter still made it to the Burrow, and, along with Ron Weasley, failed to make it to platform 9 3/4.

In other words, even if Harry and Ron couldn't go in because of "that accident", they only need to wait a few more minutes, and after Arthur and Molly come out, they can still explain the situation.

It can only be said that the sense of urgency of not catching the train made their two brains a little too dull, just like when they hear the sound of boiling water on the phone, people will instinctively rush around, even if it actually overflows, it’s not a big deal.

"Don't worry, Dumbledore will not let Ren Yuke be absent alone, Miss Granger." Lockhart comforted her, "At most, I will miss the sorting ceremony."

"That's serious," Hermione murmured.

If Miss Granger is worried, I can help you find it together. After the train stops, I will apparate back to London to check the situation-apparating on a high-speed moving train will easily separate of. ' Lockhart suggested.

"Will this be too much trouble for you, Professor?" Hermione was a little embarrassed.

"It's no trouble at all," said Lockhart. "I'm the only faculty member on this train, and it would be my fault if something like this happened. I'm going to write to Dumbledore and tell him what's going on, and get off the train." Go find them later... Huihui!"

Lockhart suddenly opened the window and yelled out.

— Wu Linhu, who was just twice the size of an ordinary owl, flew in through the window, and immediately saw the snacks Lockhart put on the table, and stepped forward to grab one.

Lockhart scribbled a few lines on the paper, and tied it to his leg

"Take it well, and remember to give it to Dumbledore himself." Lockhart specifically urged.

The owl purred to show that he heard it.

Lockhart asked the owl to bring a letter to Dumbledore just to show his "diligence". In fact, he knew exactly how the two would come to the school.

"I bought too much cake just now. I didn't expect it to be so sweet. I'm almost full after eating only three... Take some back and share with your friends."

After being a good person enough, Lockhart turned his attention back to the newspaper.

But Hermione didn't intend to leave immediately: "Professor Lockhart?"

"Any thing else?"

"Last year, we learned almost nothing in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, so... May I know what we'll be learning this year? I mean... I'd better prepare beforehand so I don't fall behind your lessons. "

Hermione seemed to be enduring some kind of torture, and she overcame a great sense of shame.

Said these words.

Lockhart shook his head: "Don't worry, Miss Granger, I won't fail to keep up. Because I plan to change the teaching method, as long as you memorize the spells in the textbook, you won't fail to keep up.

In addition, I have to say that the book "The Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense" is actually not bad, at least for the first grade, the spark spells, repelling spells, lighting spells and smoke spells in the book are very useful-although I don't know Seeing the utility of the snot spell so well, I intend to continue using this book in my first-year classes this year. "

"But is that 'Practical Restraint from the Dark Arts' going to be used from the second year?" Hermione asked eagerly.

"From the shallower to the deeper, take your time." Lockhart was noncommittal, "That textbook is actually for the fifth and seventh grades, but I think there is nothing wrong with learning something in advance. There are 4th and 6th grades. In my course, I'm going to teach something practical.

"Practical?" Hermione's pupils seemed to dilate a little, like? "

"Teach me a little bit about this, teach me a little bit about that!" Lockhart continued to maintain his mystery, "If you are too inquisitive, you may lose your sense of expectation in advance."

5 Me, I didn't mean to inquire, I hope you didn't..." Hermione hurriedly pulled the words back.

"It's okay, I believe it's not difficult to remember the spells to be used, the hard part is to apply them." Lockhart glanced out the window: "If I were you, I would hurry up and change into my school robes and comb my hair again. Dressed up and ready for sorting...you see

It's a bit impolite to dress like this and ride in a Thestral carriage. "

He was referring to the Muggle clothes Hermione still wore—the woolen coat, jeans, and a small tumbler.

But Hermione touched her hair automatically - and found it tousled.

She gasped, only to realize that her current image might not be suitable to appear in front of Lockhart.

"You're right." She covered her hair with her hands, raised her arms, and slid backwards towards the door. "I think I should go back and change my clothes."

Lockhart wanted to remind her that it was easy to trip when walking backwards, but the little girl moved so fast that she disappeared in the doorway in the blink of an eye, and it was too late for him to remind her.

After Hermione went out, Lockhart looked at his watch and realized that it was still early.

The Scottish Highlands, where Hogwarts is located, are more than 800 kilometers away from London. It has only been two or three hours, not so fast.The Hogwarts train departs from 0:100 in the morning, and then usually arrives at the destination when night falls, that is to say, the speed of the Hogwarts Express is about [-] kilometers per hour.

Not too bad for a steam-era train

And before it appeared, Hogwarts students needed their own transportation to go to school, and every year a large number of wizards going to school would be noticed by Muggles, and it wouldn't take long to hide it.

So in the end, Altrin Gomper, who was then the Minister of Magic, came up with a bold idea to use trains to send students to school.

She has always been known for appreciating Muggle technology. After she has a good reason, she is of course looking for an opportunity to implement her ideas, and this train is the product.

Although the pure-blood family at the time dismissed this, but under her tough threat of "take the train or don't come to school", the pure-blood family had to submit obediently

Lockhart liked the tough Minister for Magic very much - especially because she could force concessions from pure-blood families.

If I can govern in the future, what can I leave behind... other than a bunch of illegitimate children?Lockhart thought expectantly.

Chapter No.16 A Dedicated Teacher

In the evening, the express train finally arrived at Hogwarts.

Lockhart originally wanted to talk to the people in the castle before leaving, so that he could "coincidence" with Ron and the others when he came out, and save the trouble of apparating, but he saw a person on the platform of the station, Save him this step.

"Ron Weasley and Harry Potter are sitting in a flying car. Judging from the trajectory, it should be heading towards Hogwarts. Let me watch here, and you take the old man to the carriage By the way, the new students will be handed over to Hagrid—the tall gamekeeper," Snape said to Lockhart with a straight face.

"They were seen?" Lockhart asked redundantly.

Snape took out a newspaper from his pocket and threw it to Lockhart in lieu of his own answer.

It has to be said that the media in the Great Empire is so developed that people have nothing to say.Just someone took a photo of the flying car, and within three hours, the news paper, still smelling of ink, had already come out of the printing press and appeared in self-service newspaper boxes in the streets and alleys of the city.

The newspaper that Snape threw over was obviously a Muggle newspaper, because the scenery and people in the photo above did not move, but due to the reporter's superb shooting skills, it still showed the shape of the scrapped car.

"You came here on purpose to greet them, it seems that you care about them very much." Lockhart said a few more words.

Afterwards, he was defeated by Snape's vicious gaze, and hurriedly called the old man to the Thestral's carriage.

Unexpectedly, Lockhart found that he could see thestrals too.

It stands to reason that you can only see this kind of strange sight after you have seen people die in front of you.

Magical creatures, but Lockhart really couldn't remember where he'd seen someone die.

Could it be... even if he died once?

After arranging the students into the carriage, Lockhart did not follow the students to the auditorium, but returned to the station.

Facing Snape's expression that he thought he was superfluous, Lockhart seemed to be unconscious, and leaned forward cheekily.

"What are you doing here?" Snape asked, "I can watch here alone.

"Don't say that, I just think it's more appropriate for me to do some work."

Lockhart was not at all annoyed by Snape's bad attitude, geniuses, some tempers are normal, as long as his existence can earn him Galleons and prestige, then even if he sees him, he will scold him It doesn't matter.

Besides, Snape's attitude was not towards him, Lockhart, he just had a bad attitude towards all the "Professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts" because he couldn't be one himself.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Snape's attitude became even worse.

Although the professors were still in doubt about Lockhart's teaching level at this time, Dumbledore specifically explained to several deans that Lockhart's level may be "not as good as what he said in the book". They were ready to wipe their asses, so Snape kind of guessed a little bit of the real level of the original owner-only the current Lockhart was not the original one.

"Oh? So what exactly is a job that only the famous Lockhart can handle, but a little potions professor can't?" he asked sarcastically.

"For example, put on a kind smile, comfort the students who are still in shock, and let them go back to the auditorium for dinner." Lockhart countered.

Snape: "..."

He really couldn't do this. It was no less difficult for Snape, who had a stern personality, to show a "kind smile" than to ask Voldemort to dance a pole dance[Note].

But he quickly thought of something else: "I don't think the two students who violated one hundred school rules need to be comforted. After receiving them, they should be taken to the principal's office immediately to discuss how to expel them."

"Really? Although there will be punishments, I think there should be a distance between them." Lockhart raised a different opinion.

"That's just your idea." Snape didn't budge.

Lockhart smiled and did not continue to discuss the topic.

He knew that Snape was just talking, no matter how much he hated Harry Potter and his father, but for Lily Evans' sake, he would do his best to take care of them child.

Don't you think he ran out of school alone to pick him up out of concern?

Thinking of how in the original book, after confirming the safety of Harry and Ron, Snape followed behind secretly until he showed up in the auditorium and threatened to fire them, Lockhart felt sorry for the poor man. Deeply worthless.

Thinking of this, he took out the cake bought in the car and two bottles of mead made by Rosmerta from the pocket he had cast the expansion spell on.

"It seems that the two little guys will arrive very late. Although it is still summer, it is still very cold here at night...Professor Snape, how about a glass of mead? I happen to have something to ask you."

Snape was obviously not very good at accepting other people's kindness. When he saw Lockhart handing over the wine, he originally wanted to decline, but after hearing that he had something to ask himself, he took the bottle smoothly.

Because this is an addition to the transaction, not a free one.And after the chill evening wind from the Scottish Highlands, he really wanted a drink.

Of course, the former is more important - think about it one by one, just because Harry Potter

Grandpa made magic shampoo, so Snape hated James Potter and didn't want to use Muggle shampoo, so he would rather not wash his hair, making his hair greasy, really a gentleman Don't drink the water from the stolen spring.

"We don't communicate much, and there's only so much you can do with me...Let me guess—guess, maybe the Muggles are trying to smear that mixture of lizard blood and bentymans secretions on their faces again? "

Snape stared at the bottle for a while, convinced that there should be no poison in it, and then took a gulp.

"This is only a part, and it is said that only those wizards from Muggle families will buy it, and the market is only so big. Although I do have plans to ship to Muggles on a large scale, it will have to wait for me to become After the Minister of Magic." Lockhart said bluntly.

Snape squinted at him: "Minister of Magic? You?"

"Yeah, after finishing this year, I'm going to work in the Ministry of Magic... I remember when I was in school, I said that I wanted to be the youngest Minister of Magic in history."

"Yeah, you also said that you'd make a Philosopher's Stone before you graduated and captain England to the Quidditch World Cup. Even though you had just graduated when I came to Hogwarts, I've also heard Get over it," Snape added sarcastically.

"Ahem..." Lockhart was a little embarrassed, "Do your best or don't do it", this is my motto.I think I may not have the talent for Quidditch and alchemy, but for the Minister of Magic, I didn't give up. "

"What does that have to do with me?" Snape took another sip of his wine.

"Because I'm half-Muggle, so the pure-blood family is definitely not willing to support me. I need your help to let these old stubborn people make money from Muggles, so that I will be less hindered when I reform."

"I'm not interested in money," said Snape, "if it wasn't for buying magic

Medicine stuff, I don't even want to get out of the castle. "

"But you won't refuse honors, will you? If it can become a "business card" for the wizarding world to export to Muggles, I think a second class of the Order of Merlin will never escape. If possible, a first class It's not negotiable either. "

"Let's wait until you become the first." Snape would not believe him so easily

"Okay, Professor Snape is indeed as rumored...In that case, I would like to ask you to help configure something first, and I will pay for it. You will not refuse this, right?

After drinking Lockhart's wine, Snape felt that he shouldn't be so unreasonable: "Tell me, if you can avoid dealing with those profiteers, who's money is not earned?"

"I want a potion that can change color at will, and has certain magic resistance and adhesion." Lockhart made a request.

"It's not difficult, but what do you want to use it for?"

"Make contact lenses that can change color. The Muggles call this "color contact lenses". I want to try it at Hogwarts first, and distribute it to the students as prizes. said Lockhart

Boring - that was Snape's first reaction

He was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered another thing.

"You mean, contact lenses? The thing that sits in front of the eyes?"

"Yeah, in addition to being able to change colors freely, it's best to be able to resist the strong winds of the Quidditch pitch, as well as those little curses during duels, such as the Eye Sickness Curse. I don't want students to hurt their eyes during class. Although even With only one brain alive, Madam Pomfrey could have put the person back together, but the one who caused the accident may end my teaching career early," Lockhart said.