In his mind, Lockhart greeted almost all eighteen generations of Aragog's ancestors, but completely forgot that he himself had always been hiding something secret, and had never thought about such bullshit as "cooperating well".

Speaking of his encounter with Aragog, it was a long time ago.

To be precise, it was the time when he was hit by someone and appeared in the corridor in a panic, covered in dirt.At that time, he was wandering around the campus full of dissatisfaction with the big embarrassment he had caused in the fourth-year Hufflepuff class. As a result, he walked into the Forbidden Forest in annoyance.

If he hadn't seen this forest, Lockhart might not have been able to remember it, but when he stood at the edge of the Forbidden Forest and saw the layers of trees inside, he suddenly recalled what he had seen when he was at Hogwarts. things experienced.

He hasn't entered the Forbidden Forest yet.

In fact, it’s not that he doesn’t want to enter the Forbidden Forest because he is so obsessed with fame. On the contrary, think about it, if he can take a walk in the Forbidden Forest, escape without a trace, and bring out some herbs and the like that can only be found in the Forbidden Forest. Stuff – what an honor would that be?At least for the young wizards at Hogwarts, everyone can definitely feel the heroism of Lockhart.

But unfortunately, he tried several times to sneak into the Forbidden Forest, but all ended in failure.

But now, after returning to his old place, he has become a professor at Hogwarts.

what does that mean?This means that even if he walks into the Forbidden Forest openly, no one will be able to stop him.

Almost in just an instant, Lockhart took steps unexpectedly and walked into the Forbidden Forest.

Back then, he could only rely on tricks to fool people, scraps of medicinal herbs picked up from outside the gamekeeper's hut, rolling on the ground and tearing his own clothes to create a non-existent "Forbidden Forest Journey" ".

And now - he doesn't have to do such a thing anymore.

To be honest, Lockhart would never have such thoughts in normal times. It was just a Forbidden Forest, and he would only feel bored.He has more than a dozen books to prove himself, so why should he foolishly run into a shabby forest?

But recently, he was hung up in a cocoon by the Cornish elf he released. He became the laughing stock of many young wizards and disgraced the entire Hogwarts.

This unknowingly made him feel depressed, and he couldn't help but want to find something to do...

Make amends?

In short, just like that, Lockhart walked into the Forbidden Forest, going deeper and further, until he stepped on a sticky spider web and disturbed the resting Acromantula. group.

There was also the little elephant-sized Aragog who made his liver and gallbladder split and he sat down on the ground in fear.

In the following period, Lockhart praised his intelligence and courage more than once for being able to escape from such a dangerous place and escape by luck; but at that time, Lockhart was really frightened to the point of peeing, and his brain was completely drained. He yelled "Run" crazily, but his legs couldn't move at all, and it was even difficult to lift them up.

After seeing Lockhart, Aragog didn't even say a word of nonsense, and directly ordered his descendants to rush towards Lockhart.He had never shown mercy to humans other than Hagrid.

Eating people is originally the nature of the Acromantula.

However, at this moment, Lockhart suddenly had an idea and offered an extremely attractive price:

As long as Aragog lets him go, as a professor at Hogwarts, he can arrange for the young wizard to come to the Forbidden Forest and deliver delicious meals to the Acromantulas.

In this way, Aragog let him go according to his words, and before driving him away, he warned him not to try to deceive himself, otherwise, he would definitely die quietly in his sleep. die.

For that, never mind if it's a threat or whatever.Of course Lockhart always promised. Even if he had a hundred or a thousand courages, he would never say "no" to Aragog here.

After getting a satisfactory answer, Aragog finally let Lockhart go, and on the next day, he gave Lockhart a big gift - a thin piece of hair at the foot of the bed. Layers of cobwebs.

At this point, Lockhart finally understood that what he said at that time was obviously not just a lie, but must be put into practice.

Although he has never watched "The Departed", Lockhart himself realized a very profound truth:

Come out and mix, always have to pay back.

However, for a long time after that, Lockhart failed to succeed in anything.Aragog's urging was getting closer and closer. One day, when he just woke up in the morning, he saw a huge spider lying on his chest, staring at him coldly.

In order to avoid Aragog's death charm, Lockhart knew that he had to find a way to hide.

At first, he thought of resigning directly. As long as he left Hogwarts, he didn't believe that the big spider named Aragog could still chase him to France.

But at this moment, the little wizard named Hermione Granger in Gryffindor was suddenly cursed, and he happened to run into it.

Under the gaze of everyone, he had to draw his wand - he couldn't tolerate it. In Lockhart's opinion, he had been humiliated enough in the fourth-year Hufflepuff class.And now, this curse is happening before his eyes. If he doesn't even try, then even if he doesn't want to resign, he may not be able to stay at Hogwarts.

So, Lockhart pulled out his wand and spoke a spell that even he himself could not understand, which was definitely original.

Then, he fell into a coma.

After waking up again, Lockhart finally found his exact target. Before Aragog came to the door, he took the initiative to enter the Forbidden Forest again, went to Aragog, and told him that he We will bring at least two senior little wizards here. If we can succeed this time, more little wizards will be sent here later.

At the same time, he also told Aragog that he had been under surveillance, and he managed to escape this time. If he had not sincerely wanted to cooperate, Aragog would never have seen him here.

With his outstanding acting talent and exaggerated shamelessness, Lockhart once again convinced Aragog and returned to the castle with several other kinds of small spiders controlled by Aragog.With the help of the little spider, Professor Snape, who was responsible for monitoring Lockhart, became the person being monitored.From then on, Lockhart also visited the Forbidden Forest from time to time late at night, paving the way for everything that would follow.

until yesterday.

In fact, Lockhart thought very well - he knew very well the consequences of seeking skin from a tiger, and he also knew that he was now under surveillance. If such an incident happened again in the Forbidden Forest and was found to be related to him, he would be There was absolutely no way he could continue to stay at Hogwarts.

Therefore, he wanted to rely on Aragog to kill Moon Fox and Hermione Granger, and then find a way to escape, leave Hogwarts before anything happened, and expose the darkness and terror here.

Yes, dark and scary.

He would say that he had no choice but to take a few young wizards into the Forbidden Forest, and he didn't know why Hogwarts would arrange for young wizards who had not yet graduated and were underage to patrol the Forbidden Forest.Facing the endless Acromantulas, he had already drawn out his wand and tried to resist, but it was still only a drop in the bucket and failed to successfully save the few young wizards, causing them to die from the poisonous fangs of the Acromantulas. Down.

In short, he will try his best to remove himself from this matter, portray himself as someone who resisted heroically but failed to achieve any results, and put all responsibility on the unreasonable system of Hogwarts. above.

Although he could completely foresee it, even if he did this, he would still receive a lot of criticism, and even lose some readers, and it would decline from then on.But compared to the sweetness of revenge, all this is simply nothing.

What’s more, if it works properly…

Who said that a negative trend can’t be considered a trend?

The clown in the circus can also become the top star - the only pity is that the image he has worked hard for many years will inevitably be affected a lot.

As for Aragog, the only one who might have evidence to expose him, Lockhart is sure that as long as someone dies, whether it is Aragog or his descendants, they will be killed by the people at Hogwarts as soon as possible. All slaughtered.

As a result, the beautiful imagination failed to come true in the end, and everything turned out to be empty talk.

All subsequent events must be based on his ability to successfully escape from the Forbidden Forest and leave Hogwarts in time.

But now, although he was not dead, he ran to the school hospital and lay on a familiar bed.

When he woke up, the world was still the same, with the same monotonous white ceiling, which seemed to have foreshadowed his future - he was bound to accept several rounds of rigorous questioning, and he was stunned by all of them after he passed out. We can only adapt accordingly.

The only good news was that it had been a while, but he didn't hear the voices of those little wizards in the school hospital.

It is estimated that they all should have died in the mouth of the Acromantula.

It seems that life will not always be full of unsatisfactory things, right?

A happy smile finally spread out from the corner of Lockhart's eyes, but the next moment, his eyes, which were almost narrowing when he smiled, suddenly became huge.

"Ahem, hello, Professor Lockhart."

this voice!Such a powerful voice!

Tears filled Lockhart's eyes for a moment——

Not because of emotion, but because of despair.

Feeling the change in Lockhart's mood, Moon almost burst into laughter. He didn't expect that such a pleasant thing could happen just by taking a casual look after lunch.

Think of it as giving yourself a little relaxing condiment.

Moon walked slowly to Lockhart's bedside, leaned down, and quietly looked at Lockhart's still handsome face, "What a pity, Professor Lockhart, not only am I not dead, but I am still alive and well. "

"Not just me, but also Gal, Harry, Hermione... everyone you wish to die is now alive and well, doing their own thing."

"That is to say, right now, there are at least four people in Hogwarts who can prove what you did. At the very least, we can all charge you with attempted murder."

"So, I wonder, are you ready for trial?"

Moon bent his fingers and tapped twice on the railing at the head of Lockhart's hospital bed. He looked away from Lockhart's eyes mixed with despair and hatred, and then chuckled, "Photographer" The ghost monster will like you very much, Mr. Lockhart, I hope you can maintain your optimism and not be affected by me."

"Goodbye."

The footsteps were getting farther and farther, but to Lockhart's ears, the sound was clearly the countdown before his death...

Chapter 84 A gift to more people·Part [-]

The third Quidditch match of this term will be held in the third week of February - this is very good news for both Cedric and Harry.Because this means that they have enough time to participate in team training to avoid overturning due to poor coordination on the field.

Of course, to be precise, the main factor of this good news is not that "the competition will not be held until the third week", but that the handsome Mr. Lockhart has been admitted to the school hospital, and the punishment of confinement on them has disappeared. .

This incident not only makes Cedric and Harry very happy, it is also a major benefit for more young wizards at Hogwarts.After all, everyone thought that this year's semifinals competition was going to "collapse in the middle". There was no way. If all four people in Munn's dormitory were locked up, then the remaining people would definitely not be in much mood to go. They are already preparing for competition-related matters. The work of the school newspaper office alone is enough for them to keep busy.

Anyway, Lockhart is in the hospital and everyone is happy.

Except for Lockhart himself.

But the question is, who cares?Most of the people in Hogwarts are too lazy to pay attention to him now. The only two people who pay attention to him are Albus Dumbledore and Moon Fawkes.And these two people have the same focus on him:

It's good to live.

…………

On Friday morning, the little wizards at Hogwarts suddenly received a temporary extra edition of the school newspaper - this is not a common thing. Throughout the past few years since the establishment of the school newspaper, unless some extremely special Otherwise, the school newspaper will always maintain the rhythm of one issue per week, with few changes.

Many young wizards feel that this school newspaper is probably related to Gilderoy Lockhart who was suddenly hospitalized.Some people even started applauding before seeing the school newspaper, feeling that Moon was finally willing to publicly expose Lockhart's true face in the "Hogwarts School Newspaper", which is now one of the most credible newspapers.

Harry himself is one of them.

However, when everyone opened the newspaper, they finally discovered that the content in this temporary supplement not only had nothing to do with Lockhart's hospitalization, it did not even mention Lockhart's name at all, let alone. It does not write about current affairs or news, but commemorates the past from beginning to end - those who worked hard to fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters when Voldemort rose to power from beginning to end, and even sacrificed their lives for it.

Fabian Prewett and Gideon Prewett, these brothers died under the siege of five Death Eaters; Caradoc Dearborn, until today, no one has been able to find him Corpses; Dorcas Meadows, a powerful witch who eventually died tragically under the wand of Voldemort himself; Benji Fenwick, only a few of his remains were found...

Each of them has their own section. Some people are commemorating them, some people have written eulogies for them, and some people have taken out letters sent to them when they were alive.For example, the brothers Fabian and Gideon - they are also Mrs. Weasley's brothers. After receiving Moon's letter, Mrs. Weasley sent Moon a dirty letter. That was the last letter Mrs. Weasley sent to her two brothers before they died.

In that letter, Mrs. Weasley warned them over and over again to be careful, more careful, cautious, more cautious, and her full concern was permeated in every word of the letter.But in the end, both of them passed away unfortunately.

Moon hesitated for a long time, but finally did not take a photo of the letter and put it in the school newspaper - although Mrs. Weasley rarely mentioned her two deceased brothers, whenever she mentioned it, her The words are still full of nostalgia.And that piece of letter paper was already covered with deep and shallow tears.

Of course, not only Mrs. Weasley, Moon also contacted many people. He specifically found Professor Dumbledore and asked for a list. He searched through it and found many people related to these heroes. And sent letters to them one by one.Interestingly, even though Moon had to contact so many people at the same time, he still finalized the draft much faster than Sirius.

The main reason why he had to contact so many people was that he didn't think it was a good idea to publish a separate issue of the school newspaper dedicated to James Potter and Lily Potter.

Harry needs a gift, but at the same time there are many people who are looking forward to this gift - the heroes should get the honors they deserve, and since the fall of Voldemort, everyone has really sent flowers and gifts to these heroes. There was too little applause.

As for Harry's own gift, Moon made other arrangements.

Therefore, Moon changed the theme of this temporary supplement to the school newspaper from "Memorial of the Potters" to "Memorial of the heroes who gave their all to fight against Voldemort."However, on the advice of Professor Dumbledore, he did not mention those members of the Order of the Phoenix who were still alive in the newspaper.

In addition, although Moon recalled every fallen hero in the newspaper, there was still the most content about the Potters and the Longbottoms - not that they were more worthy of writing, but because of the information Moon collected about them. These two couples have the most content.

As soon as this school newspaper appeared, it quickly immersed all the little wizards who received the newspaper - even those adult wizards who ordered the "Hogwarts School Newspaper". Perhaps because of this, many people are obsessed with it. Unexpectedly, some of the young wizards on several long tables shed tears with complicated meanings, and a few even left the auditorium alone holding newspapers.

In fact, there are many, very many people who shed tears, but most of them were moved by the deeds of these heroes, so they cried with emotion.But several little wizards like the Weasley family, especially Ginny, cried more because they saw the letter they had never seen before.

Most of them had never thought that their mother, who was always nagging and caring about this and that, and did not even allow them to use magic at home, and who would gossip for a long time whenever their father came back late, could actually There is still such a sad knot hidden in my heart.And it was after reading this letter that they finally began to understand that some of Mrs. Weasley's daily actions had reasons.

No matter who you are, after being burdened with such a thing, it is inevitable that you will have some obsessions.

Harry was crying too, but very restrainedly, as if he was afraid he would appear weak by crying at the long table.So he just wiped the corners of his eyes with the edges of his fingers again and again, and then repeatedly immersed himself in the memories of his father and mother.

He secretly turned his head and glanced at Sirius and Remus at the teachers' table - because he noticed that many of the contents were contributed by them.However, for the first time, neither of them looked at Harry or anyone at this time, but looked at the school newspaper in their hands with heavy expressions.

For most little wizards, those lost heroes are just a few names and deeds; even for more special little wizards like Harry and Ron, brothers like James, Lily, and Prewett Many of these blood relatives actually have no relevant memories in their minds.

But for Sirius, Remus, and even Professor McGonagall, everything was completely different, because those who passed away were all their former comrades-in-arms, people they had fought for their common ideals.

Even after such a long time, when seeing these names, seeing those once-familiar faces, and those words spoken to them, who wouldn't have some memories and heaviness in their hearts?

The first little wizard to leave the auditorium was Neville. When he saw the photos of his parents and the long-ago letter that Professor Dumbledore sent to his parents, he lowered his head and took the school newspaper and walked out silently. Then, what was unexpected was that not long after, Percy also took the school newspaper and left his classmates.

Moon happened to witness the scene of the two people leaving, but he didn't say anything, nor did he try to chase them out to comfort them - whether it was Neville or Percy, no matter why they left the auditorium, Moon felt that, At this moment, what they need most is not some comfort, but to be alone quietly for a while.

Just as Moon thought, after walking out of the auditorium, Neville did not return to the common room. Instead, he walked out of the castle in silence alone. He went to the greenhouse and then found a corner where no one could see him and sat down. , a person read the contents of the newspaper repeatedly.

His parents are the only people in this newspaper who are still alive, but no one would think that living like them is lucky - no, not only unlucky, but also extremely cruel.

Whether it is for themselves or their other relatives: Old Lady Longbottom, Neville...

In fact, it's not that Neville has never seen photos of his parents when they were healthy, but the feeling was completely different.When a picture of the couple appeared in the newspapers, accompanied by many people writing words of remembrance, Neville was clearly aware of the difference between the two.

One is placed on the cabinet, commemorated only by those who bear their pain;

One, was placed in the newspaper and commemorated by all those they had ever protected.

It feels different because the meaning is completely different.

Neville fingered the words on the newspaper, and for the first time he felt that all this was not so uncomfortable and resisting, and he just wanted to escape.

Although he said that, in fact, he was crying much more embarrassingly than Harry who was sitting in the auditorium.

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Naturally, Sirius and Remus were not the only professors who saw the school newspaper.

Professor McGonagall was originally dealing with school affairs, and even after receiving the newspaper, she had no intention of reading it immediately - although she was also a little curious as to why Moon suddenly published another temporary issue, but in comparison, Obviously, dealing with school affairs has a higher priority.

But when she accidentally glanced at a photo on it, her huge curiosity instantly made her unintentional to work.

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