The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 216 Diagon Alley Boxing Match

It's been a week since flying across England in a turquoise Ford, which means Harry Potter has been living at the Burrow for a week.

Everyone here welcomes Harry very much, and Mrs. Weasley will help him mend his socks and add food; Mr. Weasley always has a lot of questions about Muggles, which are transferred to Harry; the shy Ginny and Harry always blushed when they talked, or knocked something over.

Percy always stays alone in his room, and he doesn't know what he's doing, and he only leaves the room when he's eating; there will be explosions in Fred and George's room from time to time, and the two brothers often pull Together, Harry and Ron went to play a game of Quidditch in the paddock in the back hills.

As for Ada, she was busy with work, leaving early and returning late, and Harry had already learned about Ada's situation from Ron.Compared with other people, Ada knew Harry first, but she was the one who spent the shortest time with Harry.

This morning, the weather was fine, and the Hogwarts owl showed up at the Burrow with a new supply list.Harry's letter came along with it, along with Ginny's acceptance letter.

This year's letter seemed to be a little longer than previous years. Ada opened the letter and read it carefully.Looking at her eyebrows frowned, what does the long list of Gilderoy Lockhart's works mean?
Fred finished his list, then craned his neck to look at Harry's, then at Ginny's.

He said, "We're all going to buy Gilderoy Lockhart's book. The new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher must be his admirer, maybe a witch."

Mrs. Weasley looked at her son unkindly, and Fred quickly lowered his head so as not to meet his mother's eyes.

"It increased the sales of Lockhart's books, but it ruined Lockhart's reputation." Ada said, "I really don't know what the new professor thinks."

This kind of behavior of forcing students to buy Gilderoy Lockhart's works is really brain-dead, and forcing Amway often makes people feel bored and disgusting.Regardless of what other people think, can people who can do this kind of thing really be able to teach and educate people by imposing what they like on others?
Perhaps at this moment, the newly appointed professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is complacent about having come up with such an idea, but he never thought about how much he would ruin the popularity of passers-by by doing so.

"Those books aren't cheap," said George, with a quick look at his parents. "Gideroy Lockhart's books are quite expensive..."

Writing a novel is a dead end, but Lockhart turned such a dead end into a road to heaven.His works are not only bestsellers, but also very expensive.

If it is acceptable to buy one or two books, the problem is that every student needs to buy a whole set.This is not a small burden for a poor family, but the Weasley family is even worse, they need to buy five sets.

"Oh, we'll figure it out," said Mrs. Weasley, looking worried. "I think a lot of Ginny's things can be bought second-hand."

Ada put down the list of items, and she said, "My first and second grade school robes, and some other clothes are upstairs. Ginny can choose what she likes to wear."

As she grew taller, Ada changed her clothes almost once a year, and Ginny could take all the clothes she couldn't wear, except those given by Professor McGonagall.

There are children of older brothers (sisters) in the family, and it is very common to wear old clothes of older brothers (sisters), and Ada doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.And almost all of Ada's clothes were bought from Mrs. Malkin. Although they would become second-hand in Ginny's hands, they were better than those from second-hand robe shops.

Ada is not yet capable of leading the Weasleys on the road to prosperity, there is only so much she can do.

Both Ron and Ginny are younger than Ida, so Ida will give Ginny her clothes (Ron can wear them if he wants), buy Ron a wand, and buy things for his younger siblings, that is Ada's return to the Weasleys for taking her in.

A week after receiving the letter from Hogwarts, the Weasleys took everyone to Diagon Alley.It was Wednesday, and Mrs. Weasley woke up all the children early in the morning, had a hasty breakfast, and the family headed to Diagon Alley via the Floo network.

This was Harry's first time traveling by this mode of transportation, and he didn't know whether he had chosen the wrong oven door, or he didn't speak clearly enough, but Harry managed to lose himself.

When they arrived at Diagon Alley, the Weasley family found that Harry was missing, which made everyone anxious, and Mrs. Weasley burst into tears.So everyone went separately to look for the lost Harry, and finally found the lost Harry in front of Gringotts.

Harry was standing with Hagrid and Hermione, he didn't make it to Diagon Alley, but appeared in Knockturn Alley, and met Draco Malfoy and his father.

The boys other than Percy envied Harry because they wanted to go to Knockturn Alley too, but Mr. and Mrs. Weasley wouldn't allow them to.

An hour later, a large family showed up at Lihen Bookstore, where Gilderoy Lockhart was having his new book signing.After taking a photo with Harry, he announced in a high-profile manner that he would be the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts in September.

After hearing this news, Ada's face darkened visibly to the naked eye.It's wrong and impolite to judge people by their appearance, but Lockhart's first impression on Ada was really bad.

Ada wanted to go home now and burn all her blue clothes on fire, because Lockhart was wearing a forget-me-not floral blue robe.Because of Lockhart, Ada felt that she might be allergic to blue now.

Seeing that fart look and that smile with white teeth, Ada felt a little nauseous.She wanted to ask how such a disgusting smile won the "Wizard Weekly" Most Charming Smile Award?

Most of the people in the crowd waiting in line for Lockhart's signature were middle-aged witches, and a small number of young witches.This is probably the power of mother fans and girlfriend fans. They worked together to send such a "charming" Lockhart to "Wizard Weekly".

There are hardly any men in the team, after all, male mothers are not popular yet.

"I think his smile looks like an idiot." Fred said, "Why would Dumbledore look for him, isn't he afraid that the school will be full of such idiots in a year's time?"

The recruitment of Defense Against the Dark Arts has always been a difficult problem. The speed of consuming one professor per academic year is indeed too fast, and it is normal to not be able to recruit the ones you like.

Ada wondered why the school couldn't drop the course, or change its name.It is better to re-open a similar course if it doesn't work, than to let this course half-dead.

"Although I think he looks like an idiot," George said, "but it's best not to let mom hear that, or you'll really lose your other half of your ass."

"I hope he can be as talented as he wrote in his book." Ada sighed, "After Quirrell, if there is another teacher who misleads his children, I'm afraid I can't help cursing him."

Just when the three of them were dissatisfied with their future teacher, chaos broke out in Lihen Bookstore, the bookshelves were pushed down, and the customers who came to buy books also retreated in panic to prevent themselves from being affected.

Separated from the crowd, Ada and the twins saw Mr. Weasley and Lucius Malfoy rolling into a ball on the ground.Once again eating melons and eating melons, Ada felt that she might not be worthy of eating melons.

Fred and George yelled, "Hit him, Daddy! Right hook, yes, that's it!"

At the same time, the twins looked at Draco Malfoy maliciously. If Mr. Malfoy and the brothers were the same age, he should be the same as his father by now.

The first Diagon Alley No Rules Boxing Match officially kicked off. The red side was the somewhat bald red-haired Arthur Weasley, and the other side was the white peacock-like Lucius Malfoy.

Both middle-aged men forgot their identities as wizards and chose to solve the problem in the most primitive way.The adrenaline-pumping duo punched each other hard and picked up thick spell books scattered on the ground.

Gradually, the Weasley player who was on the go all day gained the upper hand, and the pampered player Malfoy was very annoyed by the continuous losses.

This irregular boxing match did not last long, and the tall and burly referee Hagrid separated the two wrangling fighters.

The two old-hearted fighters were both injured, but overall, Weasley won the no-rules boxing match by taking the lead in points, but unfortunately no gold belt was awarded to him.

The unwilling Malfoy player stared at everyone viciously, and even Ada got a look of contempt.

If Malfoy said "I'll be back" when he walked out of the bookstore, the villain's aura would rise, and his eyes were really harmless.

Mrs. Weasley complained that her husband shouldn't fight in front of the children, while cleaning the corner of her husband's broken mouth.Mr. Weasley let his wife scold him without saying a word, as if he already knew he was wrong.

Fred and George were very excited. The two of them gave their father a thumbs up from where their mother could not see.And Mr. Weasley also secretly winked at his twin sons while his wife was not paying attention.

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