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Chapter 585 Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts
Studying Horcruxes is not an easy task, so Zhou Ming made adequate preparations for this. He chose a location that was convenient for him to study, and also had all kinds of protective measures in place.

However, there is no rush for this kind of thing, because they still have to go about their daily lives, attend classes and study.

Not long after school started, Zhou Ming personally experienced Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

This man's name is Gerald Lockhart. He is quite handsome, a kind of elegant uncle, and has a very good reputation.

For example, he claims to be an internationally renowned person and writer, a recipient of the Order of Merlin, third degree, an honorary member of the Anti-Dark Magic League, and has won the Wizard Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times. He has written many books that are all the rage in the wizarding world.

Therefore, he has a lot of fans, including men, women, young and old, and the number is extremely impressive.

However, Zhou Ming knew that this guy was just a show-off. Apart from a pretty good spell of forgetfulness, he had almost no other magic to show off.

It's ridiculous that this guy is a graduate of Ravenclaw and can be considered Zhou Ming's senior. He is a complete disgrace to Ravenclaw.

As for his works, such as "Gilderoy Lockhart Teaches You How to Get Rid of Household Pests", "Gilderoy Lockhart Series", "Breaking with the Female Ghost", "Traveling with Ghouls", "Holidays with Hags", "Traveling with Trolls", "Traveling with Vampires", "Wandering with Werewolves", "A Year with the Tibetan Yeti" and "The Magical Me", etc., almost all of them are information stolen from others.

Because he is proficient in the spell of forgetfulness, he always tricks various information from the victims, directly erases their memories, and then takes the content and related credit for himself.

In general, this person is one of the few professors in the history of Hogwarts who is only a professor in name only, worthy of being recorded in "Hogwarts: A Dark History".

What? You ask where to buy this book? Haha, easy, Zhou Ming sells it here. He is now considering whether to use his spare time to write a book to record these embarrassing people and events in Hogwarts. I believe there must be many people who are willing to read it.

Don't think this is a smear campaign against Hogwarts. In fact, the vast majority of students who graduate from Hogwarts are more receptive to self-deprecating dry humor.

Moreover, these so-called dark histories are not really meant to discredit the school. At most, they may involve Dumbledore's own misjudgment of people. Old man Dumbledore should not care about it. Apart from that, other similar content is completely irrelevant.

In short, this is just Zhou Ming's idea, and he hasn't yet decided whether to implement it.

Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was more of a farce than a class.

Before, when Hermione and the others were in class, he brought out a group of elves, but the elves went berserk on the spot and he was completely unable to stop them. In the end, it was Hermione who stepped in to control the elves. In fact, since then, many students have been disenchanted by him.

However, the students from the two colleges who had not yet attended classes at the time were reluctant to believe it after hearing about it.

But when Zhou Ming's Ravenclaw college attended the other party's first class, he saw several red hats in the classroom.

This is a troublesome little creature that looks like a goblin.

Usually, their traces can be found wherever there is a large amount of blood splattered.

These guys like to lurk in castle dungeons and trenches in battlefield ruins, waiting to attack those who are lost or passers-by who don't know where to go.

Although they can be easily driven away with spells or charms, they are still very dangerous to lone Muggles or even less powerful wizards, as they will try to beat Muggles or wizards to death with clubs in the dark of night.

This creature is very common in Northern Europe, and there are quite a few of them here too.

In addition to this, there is another very important point, that is, these little guys have very bad tempers and like to make sharp noises, which makes them quite scary.

So when Lockhart loosened the rope that tied the red hats, one of the red hats jumped onto the desk of the student closest to it and was about to pounce on the other party with its fangs and claws.

The student was startled and dodged backwards, but there was another desk behind him. He knocked over the desk and rolled into a ball with the student behind him.

At this moment, the whole classroom was in chaos. The students screamed and wanted to run outside, but unfortunately everyone was crowded together and in the end no one could escape.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here, I can protect you!"

Lockhart, who had not learned any lesson at all, raised his wand and shouted, then pointed it at the red hat.

"Collapse!"

A red spell shot towards the red hat.

In the end, it was not known whether Lockhart's hand was crooked or not, but the spell did not hit the red hat accurately, but instead shot towards Hannah Abbott who was not far away.

The Iron-hatted King of Hogwarts was completely stunned. He watched the spell getting closer and closer to him and even forgot to dodge.

Fortunately, Zhou Ming was still around.

He suddenly took a step forward, and a faint red light appeared on the tip of his wand. Before the sleeping spell could reach Hannah, he raised his hand and used his wand to block it. Then he swung his arm, and the sleeping spell seemed to be absorbed by the wand, and followed his arm to draw a big circle in the air.

Finally, as Zhou Ming shook his hand lightly, the sleeping spell released by Lockhart, which was attached to the top of the spell, was reversed and shot towards the red hat again.

Naturally, Red Hat could not escape the curse. This ugly little monster screamed, jumped on the spot, then fell to the ground with a plop and fell into a deep sleep.

The classroom was silent. The students all stared at Zhou Ming blankly, and Lockhart subconsciously opened his mouth.

However, he reacted quickly. Before the students could react, he clapped his hands first.

"That's right, classmates, did you see it? This is the student I taught! Your name is..."

"Zhou Ming."

"Yes, Zhou! It's because of my class that he has such strength. So classmates, I just want to give you a little surprise. You are still too timid. It's just a red hat and no weapons. You don't need to run at all."

Lockhart said with one hand on his hips.

Unfortunately, now even a fool could see that something was wrong with him.

It's hard to say about other colleges, but it's definitely like this for students in Ravenclaw. Originally, Ravenclaw was the college with the least number of Lockhart's fans, but after what happened today, the students started looking at him as if he were an idiot.

"Haha, I know you're still scared. I understand, so I won't make things difficult for you. Today's class ends here. You can continue with your self-study and recall what I taught you today. These are all valuable experiences I have summed up over the years."

Lockhart himself was a little overwhelmed and quickly asked the students to leave the classroom and return to the common rooms of their respective colleges to study.

The students returned to their seats without saying a word, picked up the books that had fallen to the ground, and left the classroom silently. Outside in the corridor, Zhou Ming was surrounded by his classmates before he left.

"Zhou, what was that technique just now? Where did you learn it from?"

Someone immediately asked.

Compared to Lockhart's poor and disappointing performance, Zhou Ming's action just now seemed dazzling. Everyone knew that Zhou Ming had good academic performance and should be quite strong, but they did not have any practical courses in the first grade, so no one knew how Zhou Ming was.

But everyone saw what happened just now. The technique of controlling and rebounding a spell that had already been launched was unheard of and unseen before. The Hufflepuff students were fine, but the Ravenclaw students were so curious that they were about to explode.

“I read it in a book.”

Zhou Ming replied.

This is actually not something you can find in books. Books only contain techniques for blocking spells and rebounding spells. Zhou Ming, based on his past experience, modified and merged the two spells to come up with a brand new technique. Through the commonality of magic power, he can use the same spell in a triggering manner to connect the already released spells together and then perform secondary manipulation.

The difficulty of this technique lies in how to control the magic power and maintain it in a stable state. To be honest, it is very difficult to do so. One must have extremely strong magic control abilities.

This is obviously not something that a group of students can do, but it might be possible if it were given to professors from various colleges.

Zhou Ming honestly told everyone the difficulty of this technique, but this did not affect everyone's enthusiasm. They hoped that Zhou Ming could teach them this technique.

And it's not just Ravenclaw students, many Hufflepuff students also have the urge to learn.

"Okay, but I can't guarantee that you will learn it."

"No problem, as long as you are willing to teach. It's our problem if you can't learn it."

A Ravenclaw student said.

Ravenclaw students are generally smart, so they are more conceited. I don’t know if it will be a serious blow to their self-confidence when they can’t learn it no matter what. I just hope they can bear it when the time comes.

Zhou Ming thought silently.

The other students left quickly, and after everyone left, Hannah, who had been waiting nearby, suddenly came over.

"Zhou, thank you for what you did just now."

she whispered.

She was so frightened at that moment that she forgot to even run away, let alone fight back.

If Zhou Ming had not intervened, she would probably have fallen asleep by now and embarrassed herself greatly.

"It doesn't matter. We are all classmates. It's only right for us to help each other."

Zhou Ming smiled and didn't care about it.

He wasn't trying to be cool on purpose; he had actually subconsciously blocked the spell, and it was just a matter of convenience.

After experiencing such an incident, Lockhart's reputation among the second-year students of the four major colleges plummeted.

In fact, it's not just the second grade, because as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Lockhart has to face students from all over the school. After more and more students have taken the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class in the new school year, Lockhart's reputation in the entire school has taken a big dive.

Although he still has a small group of die-hard fans who defend him to everyone they meet, in the minds of most students, Lockhart is no different from the Joker.

For everyone taking his class, having fun was more important than learning knowledge. Zhou Ming didn't have the mindset to have fun, so he would review his own lessons during class. He didn't bother to listen to a word Lockhart said.

Interestingly, Lockhart was completely indifferent to his behavior. He would ask other students to listen carefully in class, or at least listen to him bragging about his past experiences. But whenever he saw Zhou Ming reading a book without even looking up, he would pass his eyes directly over Zhou Ming, as if he was completely blind, without even stopping for a second.

The reason for this situation is very simple, because Lockhart knows that he is probably no match for this student.

As the saying goes, one knows his own business best. No one knows his own level better than himself.

To say that he only knew one spell, that would be an exaggeration and too derogatory. As an adult wizard, and a former Ravenclaw, he naturally knew quite a few spells.

It's just that since graduation he was busy making money and finding ways to become famous, he had neglected training for a long time and was unfamiliar with most of the spells.

Perhaps concentrated intensive training for a period of time could help him regain some of his former strength, but he obviously didn't have the time or the motivation.

Before, he was still worried that the student sitting opposite him would embarrass him in class after finding out his true identity.

He was ready to use his power as a professor to suppress the other party by force.

As a result, seeing that the other party was just reading silently and completely ignoring him, Lockhart not only did not feel any dissatisfaction, but he breathed a long sigh of relief and felt very fortunate.

As long as the other party doesn't cause trouble for him, he would have to be crazy to take the initiative to cause trouble for the other party.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone lived in peace?

So Lockhart completely let Zhou Ming go. He could do whatever he wanted in his class. Even if Zhou Ming simply skipped class, he would not say anything, let alone deduct points or punish him.

That's just making things difficult for yourself.

Seeing that Lockhart was so tactful, Zhou Ming felt quite satisfied. The slight thought that he had in mind to continue to torment the other party also disappeared.

In this way, time passes day by day.

Soon, Halloween was approaching. Before Halloween, Zhou Ming made all the preparations, and then called Cynthia and Hermione together to prepare to start the first study on the Ravenclaw's crown.

(End of this chapter)