Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 88 Harry's Annoyance and the Unicorn's Help
Just when John began to dissect the werewolf in the space and conduct a series of experiments.

Harry felt a little annoyed recently. The request for a photo by Colin was interrupted by John.

Later, he deliberately avoided Colin. For Harry, such a ostentatious autograph photo was not suitable for him.
But when he was talking to Ron and Hermione in the yard one day, Colin caught the opportunity again and pestered him for an autographed photo.

And to make matters worse, Professor Lockhart also showed up.

Harry actually didn't like Professor Lockhart very much. He had been approaching him intentionally or unintentionally in class before, and said some strange things from time to time. In his words, he seemed to be a person who pursued fame.

That's when Lockhart put an arm around his shoulder, preventing him from running away like he had done before.

Afterwards, he greeted Creevey with a smile and said, "Come on, Mr. Creevey, a two-person photo is the best deal, and the two of us will sign for you."

Then Colin picked up the camera clumsily and pressed the shutter in the middle of the afternoon class bell.

"Come on, let's go to class." Lockhart called to the crowd, and then led Harry towards the castle.

Harry was still in his grip then, and he wished he knew a neat Vanishing Charm.

"A word of advice, Harry," said Lockhart fatherly, as they entered the castle through the side door. "I covered you in front of young Creevey, and if he's photographing the two of us, your classmate Then you won't feel that you are too conceited..."

But Lockhart didn't listen to Harry's stammering excuses, and led him down a hallway full of students and up the stairs, who stared at them.

"Listen, it's not wise for you to send out autographed photos at this stage, Harry, and to be honest, it's kind of cocky. Someday, you'll be like me and need to carry a stack of photos everywhere. .”

"But..." He chuckled lightly, and the tone dragged on for a long time: "I don't think you've reached that time yet."

So after that, when Harry saw Gilderoy Lockhart coming down the corridor, he ran away.

And after the photo incident, it was even harder for Colin Creevey to avoid it. This fanatical little fan in the first grade seemed to have memorized Harry's schedule.

For Colin, it seemed like the most exciting thing in the world was saying "How are you, Harry" six or seven times a day and hearing "Hello, Colin" in reply, no matter how tone-deaf Harry's reply was. Helpless and annoyed.

Harry remembered Ron saying, "You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, they'll start a Harry Potter fan club."

He was really afraid of this happening at the time, especially he was even more afraid that Lockhart would hear the term "Harry Potter fan club", which probably would further deepen the other party's mind that he was a vain guy.

What made Harry feel even more uncomfortable was that Snape knew about these things somehow, and the other party would taunt him every time he was in class, which aroused the ridicule of those in Slytherin, especially Malfoy who laughed the loudest.

But thinking of Ron telling himself that Malfoy was knocked out by someone who didn't know who was knocking him out the day the conflict broke out in the bookstore, and he was found only after hiding in the corner of the bookstore for two days, and his mood improved a lot.

I really don't know which hero did the good deed, if possible, Harry would really like to thank the other party.

The hero Harry said he wanted to thank was currently in the laboratory in the space, forcefully removing the jaw of a werewolf, and pouring the potion into the opponent's mouth.

These werewolves captured from the Forbidden Forest were firmly bound by alchemy chains, hung on the walls, and alchemy puppets were used to eat.

Reinstalling the chin on the werewolf, John began to observe the changes in the werewolf.

Soon the potion began to take effect, and the werewolf let out a mournful wail, because of the potion, it caused severe pain in its body.

But John didn't care about these, but concentrated on recording the werewolf's reaction.

Gradually, as if getting used to this pain, the werewolf's wailing gradually weakened, and the hair on his body gradually began to shrink inward, exposing the skin underneath.

However, this change only lasted for a while, and then a large number of pustules began to appear on the skin, until it spread to the whole body.

The werewolf also died in this change.

After dissecting the corpse, John found that the change of the pustule was from the inside out. The reason why the werewolf was so painful before was because the pustules grew on the internal organs and ruptured.

The final cause of death was also that the gaps in the lungs were filled with pustules, and he died of suffocation.

After collecting the experimental data, John pushed the corpse into the magic furnace and burned it up.

John was not discouraged either. For this kind of problem that has been entangled in the wizarding world for thousands of years and countless people want to solve it, John's amount of experimentation is simply not enough, and failure is also a normal thing.

Leaving the space, John checked the time. Today is Saturday. According to the agreed time, he and Hagrid are going to the unicorn territory.

The adult unicorn who was rescued by John found Hagrid, and he didn't know how they communicated.

According to Hagrid's narration in the letter, to put it simply, a little unicorn was seriously injured and the centaur couldn't fix it. The unicorn rescued by John thought of him, so he came to ask Hagrid to ask John to treat him.

Just when John came all the way to Hagrid's hut, he found Harry wearing Quidditch clothes, hiding with Ron and Hermione about twenty steps away from Hagrid's hut.

As for why...

I saw Gilderoy Lockhart in a lavender robe standing in front of Hagrid's door, and said loudly to Hagrid
"It's so easy to do if you know it! If you need any help, just come to me, you know where I am! I'll give you a book I wrote! I'm surprised you don't have one yet , I will sign my name and send it over tonight, okay, goodbye!"

After speaking, he strode towards the castle, which is where John was.

John could clearly see the anger on Hagrid's face, but the kind giant still resisted the urge to punch Lockhart in the face, and could only close the hut angrily after hearing Lockhart's narcissistic remarks Door.

Lockhart walked towards the castle with a smile on his face, but soon when he saw John, the expression on his face froze, and his originally confident pace slowed down.

Especially when he saw the half-smile expression on John's face, his heart beat even more.

He has always felt that this student is very evil, and every time he sees his expression, he always has the illusion that the other party knows everything about his past.

If he could pretend not to see John in the castle, but now there are only the two of them on this road, they have always maintained the image of a good teacher, and now he is not allowed to ignore John's existence.

"Ah! Student Williams, hello, are you here to see Hagrid?" Lockhart tried not to meet John's eyes and said.

John smiled and said, "Yes, Professor Lockhart, Hagrid has an appointment with me."

"That's it, then go quickly, I won't delay your work."

After speaking, Lockhart hurriedly walked around John, and quickly disappeared from his sight.

The movement here was naturally noticed by Harry and the others. After confirming that Lockhart had completely disappeared, Harry and the others came out of their hiding place and came to John.

Only then did John notice that Hermione's eyes were red and she looked depressed, while Ron's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and Harry's clothes were messy and his face was bruised
I only found out after asking Harry that it was because Malfoy brought the Slytherin group to smash the scene during the Quidditch training before.

And Malfoy donated a batch of Nimbus 2001 to the Slytherin team, and became the team's Seeker just like Harry.

Naturally, when Gryffindor and Slytherin get together, there is bound to be conflict.

Hermione said something fair, but Malfoy still said the word "Mudblood" to Hermione, and Ron, who was so angry, immediately attacked Malfoy.

At that time, Ron took out his wand, cast magic and hit Malfoy, and the other party began to spit out slugs continuously.

But such a move completely ignited the conflict, and Ron was directly beaten by the Slytherin Quidditch team.

Seeing their younger brother being beaten, the Weasley twins were naturally unwilling, and began to help Ron fight back. In the end, the stadium fell into a big scuffle. It was Professor Hooch who appeared in time to stop the battle.

Because he was the one who was greeted with emphasis, Ron was beaten badly. Harry thought that Hagrid had medicine for healing, so they brought Ron here.

John didn't say much about this, followed them to the door of Hagrid's cabin, and knocked on the door.

Hagrid came out immediately, looking angry, but when he saw them outside the door, he immediately smiled.

"I was just thinking about when you guys will come! Come in, come in, I thought it was Professor Lockhart who came back."

Harry and Hermione helped Ron across the threshold into the cottage, where there was a king-size bed in one corner and a fire crackling merrily in the other.

After explaining his purpose, Hagrid took out two bottles of healing potions from the cabinet and handed them to Harry. Then Hagrid sat next to John and said in a low voice:
"Om, the little unicorn was seriously injured, and now it's just suppressing the injury. This time, Aragog's child really went too far. I clearly told her not to attack the unicorn. of."

"Hagrid, as I said, there are too many eight-eyed spiders in the Forbidden Forest. If Aragog is dead, they will attack other creatures sooner or later without restraint. This attack also shows that Aragog can't control the spiders. group."

John looked at Hagrid helplessly, and continued, "They need to be cleaned regularly."

"But..." Hagrid hesitated.

"Hagrid!" John's tone became tough, "You can't guarantee that they won't attack other little wizards. You have to clean them up. This is also your duty as the guard of the Forbidden Forest."

Hagrid remained silent, and in the end he didn't answer John's question directly, but got up silently to prepare refreshments for Harry and the others.

Harry and the others didn't hear the communication just now, not because Hagrid lowered his voice. After all, even if Hagrid lowered his voice, in the narrow space of his hut, no matter how small his voice was, he would still be heard.

It was John who used a small alchemy prop to restrict their voices from being transmitted. This was originally used to guard against Rita's illegal Animagus in the future, but he didn't expect to use it here first.

Hagrid prepared the tea, and Harry and the others had already given the medicine and were playing with Fang.

"What did Lockhart come to you for, Hagrid?" Harry asked, scratching Fang's ear.

Hearing Harry's inquiry, the anger in Hagrid's heart rose again, making him temporarily forget his sorrow.

"Taught me how to keep a water-ghost from a well, like I didn't know. And bragged about how he exorcised female ghosts. If one of them was true, I'd eat the teapot."

said Hagrid angrily, taking a half-plucked rooster from the well-scrubbed table and setting it on the teapot.

It wasn't Hagrid at all to criticize the teachers at Hogwarts, and Harry looked at him in surprise.

Hermione said in a slightly higher tone than usual, "I think you're being a little unfair, Professor Dumbledore obviously thinks he's the most suitable candidate..."

"The only one," said Hagrid, serving them a plate of treacle toffee.

"I mean the only one. It's very difficult to find a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher these days. People don't want to do it. They think it's an unlucky job. No one does it for long." Hagrid sat down and handed the teacup to John. said
(End of this chapter)