Chinese students at Hogwarts.

Chapter 173 Fun Man - Lockhart (2 in 1)

Christmas is getting closer and the weather is getting colder and colder. The little wizards put on thick winter robes again, and sometimes they have to go to the classroom through the corridors that are completely exposed to the outside.

In the second week of December, Professor McGonagall came over as usual to collect the list of students who stayed for Christmas.

Due to the many attacks in the school, the number of students who are willing to stay in the school for Christmas is very small, even less than half of previous years.

The Daily Prophet's attacks on the school have become more and more explicit, and the focus is on the school—that is, Dumbledore has yet to come up with a perfect solution and countermeasure.

To be honest, the "Daily Prophet" actually wrote something reasonable, and the lack of measures really made the parents very angry. Zhang Xiao could often see owls dropping letters to Dumbledore - it can only be said that the wizarding world is indeed too small.

Ordinary wizards can write directly to the President of the International Federation of Wizards.

After returning to normal campus life, everything was so calm, as if nothing had happened, but Zhang Xiao always felt that this was the calm before the storm.

Potion class They have already started to learn the 'swelling' potion, which is a potion that can cause swelling on the part of the body that touches the potion, but they don't know where this potion is mainly used.

This class was generally extremely boring, and Professor Snape was still very keen on his little hobby. He shuttled between twenty cauldrons, patrolling back and forth in a cloud of smoke, watching them mix 2 spoons of dried nettles and Add 3 puffer fish eyeballs to the mortar.

Or stand behind Gryffindor's little wizards and stare grimly as they weigh ground powder on copper scales.

As soon as there was a little non-compliance, he immediately criticized the little wizards roughly, and the Slytherin students snickered gleefully.

The Gryffindor students glared at them, and Zhang Xiao found it quite interesting. Now the relationship between the two colleges is just like Malfoy and Harry, not friends, but not enemies either.

It's more like a pair of pure opponents, the kind that compete with each other.

It's just that Professor McGonagall is not so obviously biased like Snape, she always tries to be fair in the classroom.

Seamus, who was alone in the corner in class, did not cause any trouble, which made Snape slightly relieved.

The most boring class is still History of Magic, and Professor Binns is a ghost.In his class, the most exciting thing is when he enters the classroom through the blackboard.

He was so old and wrinkled that many said he did not notice that he was dead.While he was alive, he got up one day to go to class and accidentally left his body in an armchair in front of the fire in the staff lounge.

In this way, she became a ghost, and Zhang Xiao actually had no interest in the history of magic. Listening to Professor Binns' lectures in a dry, hypnotic voice would be more convenient than reading textbooks by herself.

Zhang Xiao learned something new at Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration Club.

"...The biggest difference between Transfiguration and Charm lies in the magnitude of power and clarity of mind."

Professor McGonagall, wearing a high bun and wearing an emerald green lady's wizard robe, sat on a soft sofa. The theme this time was 'comfortable sofa'.

A little Ravenclaw wizard raised her hand. She was sitting on a purple sofa with sponge armrests. It looked a bit retro and old-fashioned to Zhang Xiao, but this is a very popular style recently.
: "Professor, isn't the stronger the strength, the stronger the transformation?"

"Of course. Not" Professor McGonagall shook her head slightly, and she said in a serious tone similar to that in class:

"As we all know, black magic can increase the strength of wizards extremely quickly, and even allow wizards to exert extremely powerful lethality."

The little wizards nodded silently, which is why many wizards obviously just want to explore what black magic is, but they inevitably fall into the abyss in the end.

Because the power increase brought by black magic is too great, people can't stop it, and in the end they can only fall into the abyss and cannot extricate themselves.

Therefore, Hogwarts has almost strictly prohibited black magic. Like Daphne, the black magic school taught at home has nothing to do with it, but it must not be used in Hogwarts.

Professor McGonagall continued:

"But it's not without cost. Black magic can degrade people, and even most dark wizards have lost the ability to use positive magic, including advanced transfiguration, since they embarked on that road of no return.

I started to pay the price, and I could only sink in black magic. Maybe some people can break through this limitation and wake up from black magic, but they can achieve extremely high achievements without learning black magic.

That's called genius. "

Most dark wizards can't use advanced transfiguration?Zhang Xiao was a little surprised, and hurriedly wrote down this information. He only remembered that dark wizards seemed unable to use the Patronus Charm, but Snape could.

Barty Crouch Jr. can also use the powerful Transfiguration Charm, which turns Malfoy into a ferret.

Is this what Professor McGonagall was talking about?
Well, the two of them seem to be really geniuses.

At the end of the day's class, Zhang Xiao lay on his soft bed and looked at Qingluan who was sleeping not far away. During this time, his father found time to contact him twice.

He was too busy there, beating this one today and that one tomorrow, anyway, it was Zhang Chengdao who went up to beat people as long as his mother didn't want people to escape.

He seemed very happy to hear his tone, and probably asked about Qingluan's situation, and told Zhang Xiao that Qingluan might have been over-consumed before, and now he can only repair it slowly, or send it back to Longhu Mountain.

After all, clearing the mind and stabilizing the mind are Qingluan's innate supernatural powers. Sister Niao is just a blue bird with Qingluan's blood. It is indeed exhausting to forcefully use the talent for so long, and needs to recover slowly.

I can only let her fall asleep slowly.

Zhang Xiao made a very comfortable nest for Senior Qingluan, and put it next to his pillow. The little wizards in Slytherin also cared very much about this divine bird who could give them small fruits.

There are often little wizards who eagerly ask Zhang Xiao if 'bs' is ready, or spontaneously weave some garlands and send them over.

Even Malfoy secretly checked how the Phoenix should be treated when it was sick. Unfortunately, the Phoenix is ​​too mysterious a creature. Currently, only the Dumbledore family owns a Phoenix in the wizarding world.

It's worth mentioning that Zhang Xiao finally figured out why that old Fox bird hadn't appeared recently—it was preparing for Nirvana, and it had been in an extremely weak state throughout the year.

Coincidentally, both Qingluan and Phoenix are weak.
Zhang Xiao gently moved Qingluan's nest to his side, and stroked its soft feathers.

Malfoy in the next bed sighed suddenly, clattered the schedule and said:
"Zhang, it's unlucky. Lockhart has another class tomorrow. You said that the candy I bought developed by the Weasley brothers can make you vomit. Can you skip class?"

Lockhart's class?
Thinking of the exaggerated stage play and the extremely embarrassing dialogue, Zhang Xiao could only be thankful that he slept in a coma for several days and skipped a few classes.

Crabbe and Goyle stretched out their heads from their beds and asked in horror, "Draco, is that candy still available? I want it too."

"You don't need to speak lines every time, you just need to take a wooden stick, isn't it difficult?" Malfoy put away the schedule and asked doubtfully.

Gore shook his head quickly, his chubby face was already pale: "Recently, I have been dreaming that I am a troll. After waking up, I can't shake off that horrible feeling, it's terrible.

Draco, you can't imagine how terrible that feeling is. "

Crabbe nodded in agreement with a grimace.

Zhang Xiao and Rimalfoy looked at each other, Brother Yan took out a large can of vomit gummies and handed it over: "Give it to you, I think you need it more."

The two chubby guys were moved to tears. While thanking Malfoy, they took out a lot of candies and stuffed them into the pockets of their robes, in case they forgot to take them tomorrow.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Xiao couldn't help but sigh a little, seeing how forced these children were.

Whether you like it or not, the next day will always come as scheduled, and it's the turn of the little wizards of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class to have breakfast in the dining room with their heads down.

Pessimistically communicate the next course:

"Boy, what's the show for today? Or Swimming with the Ghouls, the two of them sitting in the boat and reciting the excerpts from the wizard's sonnets to the ghouls?"

"No no no, I heard from Ernie that they had started "Holiday with Hags" the other day"

The faces of the little wizards were almost pale, and Zhang Xiao became numb listening to their discussion, it was really acting~!Lockhart is still obsessive-compulsive, even if his emotions and actions are not in place, he will insist on starting over.

Who is not afraid?
Malfoy holds a glass of milk, his hands trembling a little, because he will definitely play the role of Lockhart's admirer, which runs through almost all of his books, which means no matter which one he plays.

He will be sadly selected to play this role, and he is similar to Blaise Zabini, who has the same excellent appearance.

"Why does he still have the face to stay in school? If I were him, he would have resigned and left in shame!"

Malfoy broke out suddenly, he put the milk heavily on the table, wishing he could rush to the front of the classroom and cast a curse on Lockhart, who was talking loudly while ignoring the disgusting eyes of other professors.

Regarding Malfoy's question, Zhang Xiao has no good solution. The only one who can fire the professor is Dumbledore. Maybe it's because there is really no suitable candidate for this class. Anyway, Dumbledore just acquiesced that Lockhart was messing around. .

After breakfast, the little wizards shuffled towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom with extremely sad expressions as if they were going to a funeral.

When the class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly to silence everyone.

Today he was wearing a shiny wizard robe, the sunlight outside the window shone on him, and the reflected sunlight almost blinded the little wizards.

But there was an advantage too - at least they didn't have to look at Lockhart's disgusting smile.

As if he didn't notice the low pressure of the little wizards, Lockhart turned around and said in an enthusiastic tone:

"After a long semester, you have learned a lot about dangerous dark creatures from my books.

Also learned how to fend off them--I don't mean learning my perfect smile to fend off Wan Lun's female ghost. "

Lockhart had just the right amount of his 'award winning' smile.

The little wizards almost spat out.

Hermione buried her head in her arms and whispered with an unbelievable expression:
"My God! He. I can't stand it. How did I find him attractive before?"

Ron shrugged: "Hermione, maybe you need a pair of glasses as much as Harry."

Obviously, there are quite a few people who are similar to Hermione, and they are all loyal fans of Lockhart in the past.

After all, is it a shameless person who can plagiarize other people's experience, Lockhart continued his performance as if he hadn't seen anything:

"However, I'm sorry to tell everyone that I'm afraid I will have to say goodbye to the study of my works for a while."

The little wizards suddenly raised their heads in surprise, looked at Lockhart expectantly, and asked if what he said was true.

In the back of the classroom, Crabbe and Goyle had peeled off a small pile of vomit sugar and swallowed it.

Hearing Lockhart's words, he raised his head in astonishment, looked at each other for a while, his face suddenly became terrified, and he yelled, trying to spit out the swallowed candy by clasping his throat like crazy.

It's a pity that this action seems to speed up the effect of vomiting candies. Malfoy heard the continuous vomiting of the two people behind him, and said in a low voice with a bit of guilt:
"Am I—shouldn't be giving them so much?"

Zhang Xiao sighed, and he specifically asked the two of them to wait until the performance was confirmed before eating, after all, not every scene required them to play a troll.

If it's playing with Ghouls, the designated 'ghoul' is Ron.

Because Crabbe and Goyle's vomiting was too lethal, it caused a small commotion for a while, and after it finally calmed down, a little half of the class time had passed.

Lockhart flicked his blond hair, which was a little wilted from cleaning up the vomit of the two of them (it was cleaned up by Hermione), and tried his best to maintain a smile:

"Okay, okay, a little episode, I can only regret that the two students are about to miss a wonderful class."

The young wizards were indifferent to Lockhart's wheezing speech, like a wolf coming, which Lockhart said every time he replaced his own book for the play.

"Although my book has already included most of the dangerous dark creatures, there are still some that you may have never come into contact with—"

Lockhart mysteriously pulled out a blackboard, which was covered by a white curtain, so he couldn't see what was written on the blackboard.

The little wizards finally got a little interested, stretching their necks to see what new ideas Lockhart came up with.

Lockhart was obviously satisfied with everyone's reactions. He remembered Tom's advice to him and became more confident.

Holding a corner of the curtain, Lockhart turned around abruptly, lifted the curtain, and said loudly:

"Next, let's walk into another mysterious world—to meet more terrifying and darker monsters!"

The little wizards coaxed them to stand up, looking at the pictures on the blackboard, chattering and discussing.

Zhang Xiao gasped, and almost stared out her eyes.

It never occurred to him that the picture on the blackboard was something he was very familiar with!

No, Lockhart, why did you draw the zombies in "Mr. Zombie" on the blackboard?

Is this the brain circuit of Leziren?

Zhang Xiao couldn't understand, but was greatly shocked!

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