"Ah, I almost forgot that you were a duel champion when you were young!" He exaggeratedly made a "sudden realization" expression, "I'm thinking about who should be invited to be my guiding guest, if you want, then It doesn't get any better than this...

Professor Flitwick shook his head quickly: "It's not just me, Gilderoy, my classes are also very heavy, and it's impossible to go to see them every day."

"What do you mean 'more than you'?" Lockhart didn't understand.

"That is to say, Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall, and me, we will take turns to visit." Flitwick pointed to himself and said, "I have no class on Tuesday afternoon, Professor Snape has no class on Thursday afternoon, and McGonagall has no class on Thursday afternoon. Professor Greg is Monday, your words..."

"Friday, which is today."

"So, then we just need to find another teacher on duty on Wednesday night." Professor Flitwick pondered, "I'll ask Mrs. Hooch or Professor Kettleburn..."

"Professor Kettleburn from the Magical Creatures class?" Lockhart asked curiously, isn't Wu still on probation? "

"...Oh, yes. But it doesn't get in the way. This year is the 62nd time he has been on probation since he came to Hogwarts, and I heard that he plans to resign next year. Dumbledore is looking for a new teacher of magical creatures. ."

Lockhart felt that there were many flaws in his words, but unfortunately he couldn't spit.

I'll just find Tiaosan's instructor myself... I really don't know how to thank you all for making you worry so much about my affairs. ' he said gratefully.

Professor Flitwick did not take credit: "Don't thank us, this is the principal's intention"

Heart

"headmaster?"

"The principal said, 'Since there are very few things that students are willing to learn on their own initiative, and

No harm yet, so why not let us try it? Never give up on changing because reality is too ordinary'"

"Sounds like something Dumbledore would say," Lockhart agreed.

"I think so too, Gilderoy. The headmaster seems to be taking this seriously, and if all goes well, Hogwarts will add a new glorious tradition that will undoubtedly add a lot to our Ravenclaw. ."

Lockhart understood the meaning of Professor Flitwick's words: "I will not shame Ravenclaw."

Although it is not clear why Dumbledore took the initiative to cooperate with him to form a club, Lockhart felt that he could guess a little.

No matter how much Old Deng knew about his purpose, as long as he didn't interfere with him, Lockhart would be happy to pretend to be confused. Anyway, the two sides would talk again at the end.

Hearing Lockhart's words, Professor Flitwick seemed very happy.

"It's good if you have that in mind!" Flitwick jumped up and slapped Lockhart on the back, "Professor Snape said he would love to be your duel opponent and show the students how to duel. ."

Lockhart's eyes nearly popped out of his own.

"Professor Snape! And me?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah." Professor Flitwick said naturally, "Most of the students have only heard of duels. In the past ten years, even young wizards from pure-blood families have rarely encountered duels. You have to tell the students that duels are what."

Lockhart was about to collapse: "But, Dean, if the strength gap is too big, it seems that it is useless to demonstrate."

Flitwick looked Lockhart up and down: "It's not a good habit to be too proud, Gilderoy, Professor Snape is very strong."

I mean I'm weak! I was too weak in front of Snape to stand with a big white goose

Jack the Ripper was the same - Lockhart almost shouted.

Do you think I don't know how strong Snape is. Dumbledore chose him as his executor! Among the Death Eaters recognized as the first person under Voldemort!

Don't look at Flitwick's undefeated duel champion when he was young, and his strength is indeed outrageous, but in the 7+1 volume of the whole book, the only time Flitwick was knocked down was by Snape's sneak attack.

The reason why I dare to teach fourth and sixth grade students duels and teamfights is nothing more than relying on the police training manuals obtained from Muggles, as well as various first-person shooter games that have swept the world later, what cross-fire; what assault, The bluffing concepts of blasting and snipers are copied.

Anyway, Lockhart felt that a biubiubiu wand was no different from a pistol (Harry: Ron, this thing is much better than a wand!? , the situation is different but the same, if combined with some practical spells, it is a proper way of wizard fighting.

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But can such an approach really defeat Snape?

The other person swung over without a shadow, and Lockhart has just recovered a little magic power now. I'm afraid that no amount of protection can protect his handsome face - maybe Snape will delay the use of white fresh essence. Intentional scarring.

Wait... So far, Snape and I haven't had any feuds, right?

It seems that in the original book, Snape hated Lockhart like that, and it was just a matter of "you guys" in the ring to solve it, and now it should be no matter what... I hope so.

"Ravenclaw can fail, but every failure should increase our knowledge," Lockhart said solemnly to Flitwick.

"That's right," Flitwick agreed.

Chapter 30 Labandi

Although Lockhart had collected the students' homework before class on Thursday and Friday, it had not been rushed. On weekends, he has to set aside a day to correct his homework, and at night he has to reply to letters from readers.

I almost forgot that the famous savior had to do schoolwork. In this way, if he wants to go to Hogsmeade, he can only use Sunday.

But he has class again on Monday... So this Sunday night, he is doomed to not be able to sleep at Three Broomsticks, which is tragic.

Lockhart was grading the students' homework, thinking about the "demonstration duel" with Snape, and unknowingly missed lunch time until the house-elves at Hogwarts knocked on the door. It was only then that he remembered that he was too engrossed.

The reason why he was fascinated was the homework of those students, especially the ones he gave "excellent".

Like other professors, the grades of homework are also graded according to six grades: "Breakthrough (), Exceeded Expectation (E), Pass (A), Poor (P), Terrible (D), Troll (T .

In fact, there are only a few assignments that can be rated as "Breakthrough" by Lockhart, and only three are singled out by him.

One of them is in the second grade, and the other two are in the fourth grade. What the rest of the students can achieve is already the result of Lockhart's face.

For example, in the first grade, the homework essays are basically talking about the magic that helps them escape.

If he can think of using a cloud spell to confuse his sight and throw the spell in reverse to escape, Lockhart usually gives a pass; if he thinks of using a decoy to attract the attention of the enemy, Luo

Hart will give an E.

Lockhart will only give a 9 if he considers covering up his whereabouts, sending a distress signal, and finally using various means to delay time."

—Well, you don't really think you can escape from dark wizards and magical creatures by learning a cloud spell? If you don't send a distress signal, you will be caught sooner or later.

Likewise, while the second-year students were still writing various spells to seal the throne, Hermione had already realized the problem of cooperation between different wizards.

"Every wizard has his own strengths and weaknesses. This means that in cooperative battles, it is the best solution to let everyone use their strengths, and then let their partners make up for their weaknesses..."

Of course, Lockhart had to give one to such a realization, and added a comment to his homework inviting her to join his dueling club.

If the expectations for Hermione were to be considered "real", Lockhart was too pleasantly surprised by another wizard's paper.

After two classes in the first week, Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory was the first to discover part of the mystery of the duel.

"A duel is not a plane, but a three-dimensional space like Quidditch. In the past, duels put too much emphasis on the quickness and accuracy of the shot, as well as the power and type of the spell, but ignored the importance of space utilization and effective spell output. .And now, we will rediscover it under the teachings of Professor Lockhart (so well written! Lockhart said)

Whether it is a stun spell, a crushing spell, a cutting spell or a killing spell, as long as it hits, it can make one of the enemies lose their combat effectiveness. The power of the spell itself is in the short-term contest.

On the contrary, as long as it is not a sneak attack or one party is careless, it is very rare that a wizard duel is directly knocked down by a spell. Therefore, the knowledge of spatial positioning and the frequency of casting effective spells will directly determine the outcome of the battle.

Especially in group combat, it squeezes the opponent's space for activities..."

Seeing this, Lockhart gave Cedric Diggory one without hesitation, and added a comment, saying that he was given this score because he could only give such a score at the highest.

Talents like this will shine everywhere. Cedric Diggory is worthy of the name of a true warrior at Hogwarts. He has already emerged in the fourth year, and it must be a matter of time before he shines.

Lockhart really had a love for talent—not to mention his "united front" consciousness as a statesman, or just from the point of view of a teacher, it is hard for him not to have a good impression of such a student.

After Lockhart ate the lunch delivered by the house-elves, he immediately wrote a letter to the Ministry of Magic, and the recipient of the letter was Mr. Amos Diggory of the Department of Control and Management of Magical Creatures.

Although he only chatted with the future colleagues of the Department of Magical Disasters for a short time, Lockhart has skillfully inquired about the situation of many people inside the Ministry of Magic through words. He is really hard to inquire about the Department of Mysteries In addition, he has a general understanding of the rest.

Sometimes he even thinks that, with the Ministry of Magic's undisclosed and completely defenseless defense, Voldemort and the Death Eaters actually don't need to use the Imperius Curse at all. If the government of the Muggle world is like this, then From the inside out, I fear that all employees will be spies of the enemy.

And Mr. Diggory can be said to be a well-known love child in the Ministry of Magic. He brags to his colleagues all day long how good his son is. You don't even need to ask about it. The mnemonics have complained many times.

If he knew he also valued Cedric, Lockhart could gain a loyal ally within the Ministry.

So Lockhart simply bragged about Cedric in the letter, using all the compliments he could think of. Although the letter itself was sent in the name of "I hope parents will allow their children to join their own club", the whole 80% of the content is about Cedric.

Lockhart is also not afraid of being too meaty, because he knows that Amos Diggory will eat his way.

With these assignments, Lockhart has a reason to want to form his own team.

This year's fourth-grade talent is full of talent - aside from Cedric Diggory, the potential of the Weasley twins should not be underestimated. Inside Lockhart's scavenger hunt.

In the second grade, there is the Savior Iron Triangle plus Neville, and the rest can be put aside for the time being, and will be added later. Although there are no particularly outstanding talents among the third-year people, in order to take care of Ravenclaw, Lockhart stuffed Eddie Camilleche and Qiu Zhang in it.

As for the first grade, it was the most—Lockhart put Ginny, Luna, and half of the students he recruited into the list.

In the fifth grade, for balance, he bit the bullet and stuffed two Slytherins into it. And these two Slytherins are related to the old walrus, Professor Horace Slughorn.

For the sake of Slughorn being able to fight in the final battle of Hogwarts, Lockhart felt that the entire house should not be excluded, even if Slughorn's table before the final battle. It was "empty" indeed.

There's no way, this is politics - even for the slightest "bias" of a pure-blood family, Lockhart has to dress himself up as a centrist.

Chapter 31 Looking for someone

Lockhart spent most of the day marking the homework for grade seven. When he finished marking the homework and looked out the window, he realized that it was already afternoon.

He is a little hesitant now, whether it is better to take a nap or take a blow.

In order to bring him closer to Ravenclaw, Dumbledore thoughtfully chose a bedroom near Ravenclaw Tower for him.

Although he could overlook most of the castle and the scenery of the Black Lake and Forbidden Forest, at night, the whistling wind and thunderstorms would make him sleepless all night. On his first night at Hogwarts, Lockhart had to put himself on "earplugs" before falling asleep peacefully.

But this is not a long-term solution, not to mention whether someone will sneak in while he is asleep, even if something happens at night, as the teacher of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he slept soundly, which would be too embarrassing.

It is precisely because of this that Lockhart can only force himself to get used to this environment, sleep when he is too sleepy, and take a rest at noon to make up for it.

Although Lockhart felt a little sleepy at this time, after seeing the rare good weather outside the window, he decided to go out for a walk, inspect the Ravenclaw team, and find out the referee of Wednesday's dueling class by the way.

After sending away the girls who were ambushing around the office, Lockhart stepped out of the Hogwarts castle again after a gap of a week, and walked towards the Forbidden Forest.

His goal is very clear, that is Hagrid's cabin.

Once outside the chalet's fence, Lockhart saw smoke rising from the chimney of the house, and someone was apparently starting a fire inside.

"Hagrid, are you there?" he shouted.

With a burst of light and heavy footsteps, the door of the cabin opened, and a man with a height of two people and the shape of a hill appeared at the door.

Although the door of the wooden house was not too narrow, the man seemed to struggle a little when he went out, and the door frame creaked for a while.

"Lockhart! Why are you here?" Hagrid looked a little surprised. "I thought you were in the castle figuring out how to be in the limelight again."

He slammed the door on the door, and the cabin shook obviously with the slap, making Lockhart worried for a while.

"It's been so many years, and even if it's the limelight, I won't use that clumsy method again." Lockhart answered half-truths, "Good afternoon: Hagrid

Hagrid answered him carelessly: "Good afternoon! Long time no see, Little Lockhart, it's been ten years since you graduated, and I'm still waiting for you to become the captain of the England Quidditch team!"

"Cough cough..." Lockhart choked.

Hagrid and Voldemort are people of the same age, older than Harry's parents, and Lockhart is a little later than Harry's parents. Hagrid was a hunting ground when he was still in school. He was guarded, so Hagrid remembered all of his "brilliant words" when he was young.

"It looks like an accident now..." Lockhart said helplessly. "If I choose to play football, I'm destined to be unable to become an adventurer, let alone become the Minister of Magic."

He wasn't afraid to expose his ambitions to Hagrid. Anyway, Hagrid was rough and didn't deal with many people, and he was one of Dumbledore's confidants. To talk to him was to talk to Dumbledore himself. .

Sure enough, Hagrid laughed.

"So, you haven't given up on being the youngest Minister of Magic yet." If you want me to say, no way, that big fool Fudge can't wait to tie the chair he sits on to his ass... Now that you're here, come in! "

As he spoke, he moved away, motioning for Lockhart to go in first.

This big man is as forthright as the rumors say, and he always speaks to his face.

Lockhart entered the house and sniffed around. "Strange smell...what are you cooking?"

"It's a slug. After boiling it, it can be used to neutralize the dragon dung and use it to grow those pumpkins. If you put it directly on the dragon dung, the pumpkin will be burned." Hagrid replied smoothly.

"Where did so many slugs come from? Slugs without horns are not even medicinal materials, but not many people are willing to touch them."

Hagrid pointed to a large copper basin in the corner: "Isn't that a coincidence? There was a student in the morning—I don't know if you recognize him, the sixth of the Weasleys—his wand was out of order and he gave When someone cast a slug spell, the spell bounced back, and as a result, I threw up slugs all morning, and I used it."

"His wand hasn't been replaced yet? That's going to be a big problem sooner or later."

After a few gossips, Hagrid brought Lockhart a large teapot and poured a heavy-colored tea into it.

"Do you want to add milk? I have horned milk here."

"No, thank you." Lockhart said quickly, "Let's get down to business, I actually want to ask you two things this time."

"I knew you wouldn't come looking for nothing, come on, I'm listening." Hagrid didn't care.

"Then I said, the first one, the Ravenclaw team is going to be on the other side of the river at the

A training ground was opened up on the back **** of the mountain.

"It's a good place, a good place to play, and you Ravenclaw really have a vision." Hagrid knew what he was talking about as soon as he heard it.

"It's just that it's on the edge of the forbidden forest, so it might be a little dangerous. Although they say they'll go there on a broom, there's no guarantee that Bludgers won't jump into the woods," Lockhart added.