Hogwarts: I am Harry's eldest cousin

And she was really grateful to Dudley and Hermione. She knew very well what kind of personality Neville had a year ago.

He's a little man now.

After arranging the rooms for Dudley and Hermione and telling Neville to study hard with them, Ms. Augusta left, leaving the young people to communicate on their own.

She is the head of the Longbottom family and has a lot of things to do.

In this way, Dudley and Hermione settled down in the Longbottom old house.

Life has returned to what it was before: exercise, practice, and study, a simple routine.

However, Hermione also had an additional question to ask Ms. Augusta, and Dudley had an additional direction to look for alchemy + magic costume modification.

Madam Augusta was a very powerful wizard, on par with Professor McGonagall of Hogwarts Gryffindor College. Her superb Transfiguration skill in particular simply astounded Hermione.

Unfortunately, compared to her Transfiguration spell, Ms. Augusta is much inferior in terms of spells. This is because she failed the OWLs spells class and has a prejudice against the spells class, thinking that this course is not worth learning.

Although the Longbottom family had no great figures in their ancestors, the family heritage had never been broken, and they had preserved many rare copies of magic books. Although they could not directly enhance strength, many of them gave Dudley great inspiration.

Many days passed peacefully like this.

These few days have given Dudley two new decorations.

A ring with a red gem (Philosopher's Stone), and a ring with a blue gem (Magic Crystal).

"If I had eight more rings, I might be able to cosplay a Marvel villain."

Dudley said.

Until three owls broke the peace, bringing the requirements for the second year textbooks at Hogwarts.

“Breaking Up with a Female Ghost, Traveling with Ghouls, Vacationing with Hags, Traveling with Trolls, Traveling on a Boat with Vampires, Wandering with Werewolves, and A Year with the XZ Snowman.”

"Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook? A set of seven novels?"

Hermione looked at the list of books on the parchment with a strange expression. The most eye-catching one was the textbook for Defense Against the Dark Arts. The number of books required for this subject was almost as many as those for all other subjects combined.

Moreover, these are not formal Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks, but novels.

When it comes to novels, none of them are as good as those written by Dudley.

Hermione has read Dudley's "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Dragonlance Chronicles" more than once, and has become a loyal manuscript collector, coming to Dudley from time to time to ask for the next plot.

"It seems that our second-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is this guy named Lockhart."

Dudley tapped the name Lockhart on the parchment with his knuckles.

All ten novels were written by the same person. If the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is not this Lockhart, then he can only be a fanatic of his novels.

After hearing this, Hermione uttered a wail: "I hope it won't be like Quirrell last year, learning nothing."

Maybe it's more than just learning nothing, Dudley muttered to himself.

Of all the subjects last year, the one she was most dissatisfied with was Chiloé. She felt completely bored in his class.

The only thing I learned was how to deal with giant monsters.

How can I help Dudley if I can't learn anything?

Hermione took out a pen and began to write and draw on the parchment.

She planned to buy related Defense Against the Dark Arts books and study on her own based on her previous Defense Against the Dark Arts textbooks.

When she was in Oxford Dragon Primary School, she used this method to study when she encountered teachers who were not good at teaching.

Obviously she had given up all hope on Professor Lockhart.

It’s true, Hermione.

Chapter 116 Brother: Father, you are so shameful

It was Floo again, and Dudley and the others arrived at Diagon Alley through the fireplace of the Longbottom mansion.

Although you can buy things from other places, Diagon Alley is always the place with the most supplies for Hogwarts school.

Because it was just a simple purchase of school items, Ms. Augusta did not come along.

Most of the items needed for second grade are the same as last year, so if you already have them, you don’t need to buy again.

It’s just that I need to buy new textbooks because I have already finished the first grade.

The books in Flourish and Blotts are always the most complete except for the rare ones, and you can buy almost all the books except the banned ones.

However, today's Flourish and Blotts Bookstore was particularly crowded.

There was a large crowd outside the door, and a huge banner was hung upstairs:

Gilderoy Lockhart will be signing and selling copies of his autobiography, The Magical Me, today from 12:30pm to 4:30pm

"Lockhart?"

Neville muttered the name, then turned to look at Dudley and said in a dry voice: "Brother D, I have a bad feeling."

Dudley nodded, confirming his guess: "I think your hunch is correct. It looks like he will be our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."

Sure enough, as Dudley finished speaking, an extremely excited male voice was heard from inside Flourish and Blotts.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am extremely pleased and proud to announce that this September, I will be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"

Neville: Shit!

Hermione: 'Luckily I had a plan B.'

Thinking of this, Hermione silently glanced at the other two books on her list, "Dark Forces: A Guide to Counterattack" and "Magic Defense in Action".

"Look, it's Potter, Harry Potter!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and then the three of them saw a man dressed like a peacock, hugging poor Harry and taking pictures.

Under the flash lights, Harry had a stern face and didn't look happy at all.

Harry felt that he had been really unlucky since he left Dudley. He had been living well at the Weasley Burrow. Although the house was not big or luxurious, it was very comfortable to live in. Mrs. Weasley's cooking skills were also good, second only to Dudley.

As a result, a ghost thing suddenly appeared, talking nonsense, saying that it was punishing him and preventing him from entering school. He disagreed, and the thing disappeared. Then a series of strange accidents occurred in the Burrow, and the key was that he was there every time.

I finally waited until the agreed time to buy the book, but ended up encountering some signing event and was forced to come here to take photos.

He doesn't like being famous, although he is indeed a celebrity in the wizarding world.

"Hey, what are you doing here? Give it back to me."

The frustrated shout caught Harry's attention.

Then he saw Dudley, who was holding up a large black camera, and a short man next to him was trying to take the camera away from him.

Unfortunately, even if he jumped, he couldn't reach Dudley's shoulders.

"This is for the Daily Prophet, you know? The Daily Prophet!"

After several failed attempts, the shorter man glared at Dudley angrily.

"So?" Dudley said. He did not give in just because the other party brought up the Daily Prophet. Instead, he was even more unwilling to accept it. "I think even the Daily Prophet should get other people's consent before filming. Harry doesn't like you taking pictures of him."

The Prophet Publishing House, which had previously refused to publish Dudley's novel, was owned by the Daily Prophet, a third-rate trash newspaper with little vision.

"You're not Mr. Potter, how do you know?"

He roared, trying to push Dudley away, but ended up falling flat on his face.

"Brother D." Harry shouted excitedly, and then suddenly remembered Lockhart beside him.

This is their new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Mrs. Weasley said he is very capable, so it would be best if they could avoid offending him.

Contrary to Harry's expectations, Lockhart was not angry, but even happier.

"Hey, look who I found!"

Lockhart's eyes lit up when he saw Dudley: "Mr. Jerry, the author of Dragonlance Chronicles."

He loosened his arms around Harry and moved closer to Dudley while introducing him with exaggerated yet natural body movements.

"It narrowly beat my new work, The Magical Me, and won the title of the most popular novel."

Lockhart's brazen words aroused Hermione's dissatisfaction.

She is a big fan of Dudley's novels.

That's not just a slight advantage, it's clearly an all-round crushing, okay?

Dudley was not surprised that Lockhart knew him.

After all, this guy has been the author of the best-selling novel in the wizarding world for many years in a row. Dudley really doesn't believe that he doesn't have some connections.

Moreover, at the first-year end-of-year dinner, Dudley received the Order of Merlin, Third Class, in front of all the teachers and students at Hogwarts.

Although that thing is not valuable, there are only a handful of people who have received this medal in recent years, and he was the only one last year.

"What kind of day is today? I have met two celebrities in a row in this small, simple bookstore."

Lockhart walked up to Dudley and wanted to pat him on the shoulder as a senior to encourage him, but he found that he was half a head taller than him.

"I'm sorry that my shop is so small." Although the owner of Flourish and Blotts felt indignant in his heart, he still smiled on the surface.

"Come on, let's take a photo together." Lockhart took the initiative to invite.

"I don't think so, Mr. Lockhart."

A very decisive refusal.

Of course Dudley knew he was promoting his new book.

If he could get Dudley and Harry to take a photo together, the headline of tomorrow's news would inevitably be, 'Good news! Teacher Jerry and Harry Potter both showed up for Lockhart's new book' or 'Shocking, the relationship between the mysterious teacher Jerry and Lockhart turned out to be'

He doesn't like being taken advantage of.

And his home focus is now at Hogwarts.

There was a commotion among the crowd.

"There's a fight over there!"

Inside Flourish and Blotts, two adult wizards were wrestling with each other, and next to them a pair of twins were shouting something, as if to cheer them on.

"Beat him, Dad."

"Hit him on the nose! Hit him on the nose!"

It was the Weasleys and the Malfoys who were clashing.

"You're not going to say anything, Draco?"

Ron walked over to Malfoy and nodded at the two parents who were fighting.

After going through the wizard chess game, the relationship between Ron and Malfoy changed subtly.

Although we still quarrel a lot.

Malfoy was silent for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "Just like a kid who lost an argument."

"Father, you asked me to watch you. You don't mean you're going to fight with someone, do you?"

'The key is that you are about to lose, father.'

'What a shame.'

Chapter 117 Has your father offended you recently?

The fight ended in a 3:7 tie.

Mr. Weasley was hit in the eye, Lucius was hit in both eyes, and his waist was hit by a series of punches from George or Fred.

In the end, he used the walking stick that always stayed with him as a crutch and limped away with Malfoy.

It is obvious that Mr. Lucius, who has been pampered for many years, is far inferior in combat ability to Mr. Weasley, who has to do farm work from time to time.

And having many children is really useful.

After such a farce, Lockhart's new book signing event could not be held and had to end hastily.

Of course Lockhart himself was actually very happy.