The goblin Griphook was overjoyed: "Thank you for this noble lady!"

Although goblins have always looked down on Muggles and didn't like wizards very much, they never refused to give money to them - Muggle gold is also gold, isn't it?

Of course, Mrs. Mason exchanged so much money at one time not entirely for her son, but she and Mr. Mason also have things they want to buy.

The medicine Lockhart gave her proved to be very effective. After applying the radiant, Mrs. Mason made a name for herself in the salons of rich ladies. Everyone wanted to know what makeup she used to get the corners of her eyes. All the crow's feet are removed, which is much better than Paula and Lancome.

But Lockhart also warned them about the existence of the Statute of Secrecy, which stipulates that although wizards from Muggle families have the right to know and use some magical products, they cannot resell or disclose it to the outside world.

While it's a bit of a pity not to show off to the bastards, the crow's feet removal is a real deal, and the "Mrs. Primpin's Beauty Apothecary" at 275 Diagon Alley happens to sell related products, Lockhart told Mason. The lady also has special effects for removing sarcomas, acne, blackheads, and birthmarks.

In addition, the Tuofan Clothing Store on the south side of Diagon Alley also has some clothes cut according to the Muggle fashion show, but the materials used are all enchanted, and some details can be changed on the spot.

After hearing about this, Mrs. Mason has decided that she will **** wash all the famous boutiques in Diagon Alley.

Except for people from a difficult family like Colin O. Creevey, the other Muggle parents have more or less exchanged some currency and want to bring back some special products, and cosmetics are even more popular.

Lockhart leaned against the counter of Gringotts Bank, and asked Snape for the credit: "You'll see in a moment, those women will sell beauty products, and middle-aged men will also Will want to borrow vitality tonic to revive...you can make some extra money."

As a potions professor at Hogwarts, Snape must have sold products to the potions shop in his spare time, and Lockhart was helping him make money by doing so.

"Don't do too many unnecessary things, Professor Lockhart." Snape's face improved a little. "We have limited time."

Lockhart noticed that he said "don't do too much" instead of "don't do it," and actually called himself "the professor."

"Of course." Lockhart smiled, "I suggest going to buy wands and robes first, and then go to Wezeac to get a magic suitcase, and finally buy potion materials, robes and Textbooks, otherwise it will be difficult to carry away."

"Okay." Snape said succinctly.

Because it takes a long time to try the wand and measure the robe, Lockhart and Snape first divided the people into two groups, one group went to Ollivander's wand shop first, and the other one went to Mrs. Malkin's. , then exchanged, and finally reassembled at the Vezeek Brothers Magic Item Shop.

"Everyone must have at least an accurate wand, a decent robe, and a large, durable suitcase!" Lockhart exclaimed to the freshmen, "let Professor Snape show you the Purbos and the telescope. , I will buy the suitcase, this is an entrance gift for you!"

"You're generous," Snape said with a sneer.

Lockhart smiled without explaining.

Something like this that doesn't cost a lot of money but lasts a long time, and Lockhart is willing to pay for it. In this way, no matter which wizard looks down at his suitcase in the future, he will remember that it was given by Lockhart, and the price is very high.

And if Lockhart chooses to buy things like this that is not on the Hogwarts school start list, it will be much cheaper than the unit price of a single purchase.

When buying potion materials, Snape fulfilled his duties as a professor: as soon as he stopped there, the salesperson brought out all the best quality materials, and did not dare to charge shoddy ones. They are also careful when measuring, lest the potion master will cancel their "special supply" status if they are dissatisfied.

They didn't prepare to take the children to the

After - Li Zhan - Lihen Bookstore

In order to take care of students from poor families, Lockhart raised his voice: "If possible, I suggest that you go to the used book store to have a look. Many seniors will leave their own notes on old textbooks... Those who are interested in improving their homework Children can consider my advice."

After hearing this, the parents of several students were obviously relieved, and Colin Creevey also glanced at Lockhart gratefully—the school's stipend was only 50 Galleons, and the wand cost 10 Galleons. Roots, potion materials can't be discounted, new robes are not cheap, and other things they must use used goods, and Lockhart's proposal is to find them a step down.

And the wealthy children who were planning to buy new books also began to hesitate - even in the Muggle world, there is a tradition of buying old textbooks in the West, anyway, their primary and middle school textbooks have not changed for decades.

"Okay, let's go to the second-hand bookstore first." Someone suggested that, and he quickly got a response from others.

Snape should have seen Lockhart's purpose, but it had nothing to do with him, and he didn't bother to say anything.

"I'll be waiting outside," he said to Lockhart. "You take them in." Lockhart readily obeyed, so he took the little wizards to the thrift store. After pushing the store door open, before he could start to speak, he heard the sound of wind, and a Pope flew towards his head.

He only had time to shrink his head: t Ganbao wiped his scalp and flew over, and then slammed into the wall beside the door heavily, making a loud noise.

And a louder sound soon came over, and it was a human voice one by one.

"Beat him! Dad!"

Lockhart looked around and saw that it was the sound of two red-haired twin brothers. The two were happily surrounding the two entangled men in front of them, cheering for one of them. And a middle-aged woman shouted "Arthur

,do not do that! ”, but there is no way to directly intervene.

One of the two who were fighting together also had red hair, and the blond man who was beaten by the red-haired man on the bookshelf was dressed in a luxurious ink robe with gold borders.

It's just that this outfit is not helpful for close hand-to-hand combat, whether it should be beaten on the face or not.

Seeing this situation, how can Lockhart not know what he has caught up with?

It finally started. he thought.

Chapter 12 "Little" Interlude

In line with the principle that eating melons is not a big deal, after seeing who the two were fighting, Lockhart pressed the wand that had popped out of his cuff back again—the ejection device that can be controlled by twisting his wrist can make Lockhart saves 4/5 wand draw time.

"Get out of the way!"

Snape suddenly pushed Lockhart away from him, then pulled out his wand) and pointed at the two who were still fighting.

"Lisong Jinxie!" he shouted.

The two who were fighting meleely fell to the ground one after another, their feet softened.

Snape walked over quickly: "Lucius! When did you break your wand and go to wrestling with the troll instead?"

"Severus?" The blond man got up from the ground in embarrassment: "Although I admit that I am a little disrespectful, the person who can only move his fists like a Muggle is definitely not me!"

Then he seemed to remember something, swept around quickly, picked up an old Transfiguration textbook from the ground, and put it into the hand of the little red-haired girl beside him.

"Here, little girl, hold your book one by one - this is the best thing your father can give you."

After speaking, he hurriedly pulled Snape up again: ""Severus, long time no see, let's go have a drink together... Draco, follow! "

- A little blond boy with a malicious face then noticed Snape: "Professor Snape! I didn't expect to see you here!"

Snape ignored him and turned to Lockhart.

"Professor Lockhart, we haven't come a long way, even the big-headed monster

Should know the way back..." Snape's tone was still emotionless.

"I get it," Lockhart said flatly. "I'll help them buy the books on the list, go shopping around, and send them back safely."

"Very good, I'm going to have a drink with an old friend and then it's time to go back and watch WT

Snape chanted "Restore as usual" to the shelf he had flipped over, and after restoring the damaged things, he made a gesture of farewell or expulsion to the Muggle parents, followed by Lucius Marr. Fu walked out of the bookstore together.

When he was gone, Lockhart shook his head slightly.

Snape wasn't really that indifferent, but it was a pity that he was swayed by the position of his buttocks. Between the pure blood family and the Muggles, he finally chose pure blood.

Of course, the red-haired family knew Snape, but they didn't want to say hello to him, because their family were "pure blood scum", completely different from Snape, who pretended to be pure blood in name. .

Just as they were leaving, the red-haired man's family quickly surrounded him and began to greet the man, but the way of greeting the man was a bit rough.

"Arthur! I'm still beside me, you do this kind of thing! Fight... Look at how good you are for the children! Fortunately, there is no acquaintance here... Healing as ever!"

The middle-aged woman healed her husband's wound in the blink of an eye, but her temper also came up.

Seeing that his wife was going to get angry, Arthur quickly looked to the side: "Molly, there are people watching. This is Professor Lockhart, isn't it, I just heard... Oh, so many Muggles!"

What he saw was the huge team behind Lockhart.

But his wife was concerned about the other side: "Professor Lockhart? Which Lockhart?"

Then she saw Lockhart's smiling face.

"Good noon! I'm Gilderoy Lockhart, and I think you must be Weasleys! I see your red hair." Lockhart greeted with a smile.

Molly Weasley let out a high-pitched scream.

But someone next to her screamed louder than her, and it was from a little girl.

Hermione Granger covered her face, feeling like she was about to faint.

In a short while, the Muggle parents who had bought all the books, at the strong invitation of Arthur Weasley, came to the Fro-Flin cold store, and invited everyone to drink iced cocktails or enjoy ice cream.

Lockhart insisted that he pay for the desserts himself, and claimed that "this is an official business and should be reimbursed by Dumbledore"

Arthur Weasley knew that it was unlikely that Hogwarts would reimburse this, but he had to admit it, who made the Weasley family's financial situation really embarrassing, but he liked Muggles and Muggles too much Technology is advanced, so he will never let go of such a good opportunity.

While Arthur was chatting with the parents of the Muggle family, Mrs Wesley and Hermione Granger were chatting enthusiastically with their heroes.

Oh my gosh! We have absolutely no idea! This year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor will be you! Mrs. Weasley exaggeratedly said, "Percy has complained many times, saying that they haven't met a reliable professor for several years, and he can only teach himself Defence Against the Dark Arts, and as a result, he only passed the WLs exam. "A (pass factory.o I don't think it would be a problem if you were there."

"It's hard to say, ma'am," Lockhart replied modestly. "The ability to fight the dark magic and the ability to be a professor are two different things."

"But I think if even you can't, then no one else can.

said Mrs Weasley eagerly.

Next to her, the girl with curly brown hair nodded, as if she couldn't agree more with Mrs. Weasley's words.

"Professor Lolo Lockhart... I bought your full set of books, I don't know... Can you be able to..." She began to stutter when she spoke.

"Miss Granger, someone else's experience is someone else's experience after all, and it's the part someone else wants to show you, so it's better to read it as a novel." Lockhart said to her kindly.

In the self-introduction just now, Lockhart knew her name, one of the famous Potter's triangle, the most beautiful witch in the same grade, Hermione Granger.

If you add the freckled little red-haired boy eating strawberry raspberry cream ice cream all over his face, then there are two of the savior trio.

- Where did Harry Potter go? I remember that he should have been taken over by the Weasleys at the Burrow, and then he was dragged out of Knockturn Alley by Hagrid because he failed to use the Floo powder.

Lockhart couldn't figure out why, but it didn't get in the way. No matter what happened to Harry, Dumbledore would bring him to Hogwarts safely.

What he was even more curious about was how well Hermione knew about her.

Mrs Weasley was originally a witch, so she knew she was normal, but Hermione shouldn't - because in the book list he opened for Dumbledore, he only marked the textbooks that Ms Marchban used to give exam questions. "Practical Defense Magic and Its Restraining Against the Dark Arts", and another reference book "Forgotten Ancient Magic and Spells"

If Hermione still got his full set of books from somewhere, it would be really bad—because things like what was his favorite color and what his secret aspirations were now even he didn't know, said Uncertain Hermione to "Gildrow"

o Lockhart" knows more than he does now.

— Aside from Ogden Aged Heat Whiskey, which he likes a lot now

Lockhart waited for Hermione to continue sending 7 but Hermione didn't mean it.

"I-I-I mean...can you sign, sign an autograph for me? Professor?" She looked at Lockhart hopefully.

Lockhart was at a loss for words, and even felt a little emotional.

At least 80% of the substances that make up Hermione's thinking world are rational, and in the remaining 20%, in addition to family and friendship, the name "Lockhart" can definitely account for the remaining 90%.

"No problem, where do I need to sign?"

"Just sign it in your autobiography."

Seeing that Lockhart took out his peacock quill and swiftly signed Hermione's book, Mrs. Weasley also had a desire in her eyes.

But then she gave up another one. The book "Gildello Lockhart Teach You to Get Rid of Household Pests" in her collection was too old to be able to handle it.

Gilderoy Lockhart did not underestimate the Weasleys because of their family background, and considering his future plans, he had to rely on Arthur Weasley a lot.

In any case, they are at least pure blood.

Many people always think that the Weasleys are poor because their husband and wife are too loving and have too many children. In fact, it is not - considering that the pure-blood wizard family is increasingly rare, having more children is not necessarily a disadvantage.

Their poor family background is purely because Arthur and Molly "elope", so they could not get the support of both families when they got married. As for the embarrassment of married life, it was because Arthur Weasley "betrayed his own blood" that he was arrested.

It was vaguely excluded by other pure-blood families, and there was no relationship with any superfluous source financially.

But even if those pure-blooded families are reluctant, in order to maintain the "pureness" of their blood, and at the same time not to give birth to mentally retarded children due to inbreeding, they must consider re-accepting Weasley. If Arthur was willing to "admit he was wrong," they would immediately stretch out their arms to hug him and welcome him back home.

But it's a pity that the "pure-blood glory" of **** may not be as important as Arthur Weasley's understanding of the principle of the plug.

Lockhart continued to exert his communication skills and affinity. Except for the Weasleys and the Grangers, he did not neglect those Muggle families, and he could pronounce each other's full name.

In order to become a politician, Bill Clinton remembered 20,000 names in college. Lockhart felt that it should not be difficult for him to remember the names of thousands of wizards and their family members in the UK, not to mention that he also Cheat with Buffy Brain Refresher

And in the process of talking to the Weasleys, these Muggle-born wizards also learned more about Lockhart - they never imagined that this amiable professor would still be in the wizarding world. big shot.

His witty words and friendly attitude made people feel like a spring breeze. When they finally parted, all parents, wizards and Muggle families, thought that 5

As long as Lockhart is watching their children at Hogwarts, they can rest easy

After leaving Diagon Alley, the parents of the new students felt that it would be too much trouble for Lockhart to send their children from 12 families. And all the things they bought have been stuffed into the magic suitcase, which doesn't take up much space, so the parents wanted to take this opportunity to get together, have a cup of tea together, and then take their children to go shopping around London, Lockhart just had to send the poor students home.

Damn class. Lockhart grunted softly.

"Well, the wonderful and exciting day is over!" Lockhart told them, and I'll be waiting for you at King's Cross on September 1st! "

After he left, Hermione looked at Ron Weasley beside him with disgust. The most adventurous and chivalrous wizard of Jiudai sat in front of you just now, and you were eating ice cream! ' she accused.

Just when Lockhart was communicating his feelings with many parents, in the Lamb Flag bar on Rose Street, Snape stared into Lucius Malfoy's eyes and asked a sentence that made him feel horrified.

So, Lucius, what the **** did you do in Diagon Alley just now? "

Chapter 13 Secret Transactions