If there is an abundant source of magic power, they can even apply a traceless expansion spell to all houses, but the price is that when the spell expires, everything inside will be squeezed, and so will people.

Therefore, the Ministry of Magic has always prohibited the use of Invisible Stretch Spells in the private sector, especially in buildings. Only manufacturers under the supervision of the Ministry of Magic or with production licenses are allowed to produce items with Invisible Stretch Spells. For example, tents used for Quidditch field camping, official vehicles of the Ministry of Magic, and suitcases produced by Weizerac, etc., as well as important wizarding publics such as the Ministry of Magic, St. Mungo's Hospital and Hogwarts. place.

Strictly speaking, things like Lockhart and Weasley's cars, and Hermione's beaded pouches, are all illegal to cast.

So Lockhart would suggest that Rosemerta expand the house, rather than spell the existing one.

"Why the fifth floor?" Rosmerta asked mockingly, "Isn't it higher?

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"No, if it exceeds the fifth floor, the height of the water tower will not generate enough water pressure." Lockhart replied solemnly, as if he did not hear the irony in her tone at all.

Rosmerta nearly lost patience.

"You're crazy!" she asked violently. "Why do you build so many houses? Usually no one lives there."

Because the wizard population is too small, the wizard world doesn't even have a special "hotel", and travelers can only stay at the houses of friends they know, or in taverns. Like the Leaky Cauldron, Rosmerta's pub is half the hotel.

"I must remind you that there will be a lot of people..."

"You mean your **** tournament? Even if it can attract hundreds of rich foreign tourists to our place, how long will they stay here? Half a month?—month? Three months?"

"Maybe more than half a year," Lockhart replied dryly.

\"Okay, that's half a year."

Rosmerta didn't want to entangle Lockhart on such details. Even if she wanted to entangle, she would only entangle him in rough areas: \"What about half a year later? I'll guard this vacant three-story building and go up every day. Cleaning the building twice? Now I'm tired of cleaning these two floors!"

"Well...if you believe me, I'll find customers for it in the future, and they're definitely rich customers," said Loja Charterno.

Rosmerta didn't believe it at all. Although she knew that Lockhart was good at fighting dark magic and all the poses that excited her, but about his administrative skills...she had never experienced it.

"You'd better keep hiding it from me until I know that there are still a bunch of me in the magic world.

Until the rich people you don't know. ' she said mockingly.

Lockhart shrugged: \"Look, don't you already know who I'm going to invite?"

Chapter 169 was rejected

Because Rosmerta doesn't believe she can do it, Lockhart decides to spend the night at Three Broomsticks in order to punish her.

He wanted to use practical actions to force her to forgive her, but the proprietress was obviously someone who had seen big winds and waves, and easily put the internationally renowned wizard who had never been knocked down by a dark wizard on the wooden couch.

After the "defeat", Lockhart couldn't help thinking that if the Death Eaters had half of her ability, then she would never dare to fight them, but would have turned to the enemy camp early.

After the clouds cleared, Lockhart leaned on the back of the bed and entered the sage time to start thinking about life.

"Rosmerta," he asked very abruptly, "Have you ever thought about .oo uh, that . . . life event?"

Rosmerta looked at him in surprise: "What do you want to say?"

"I mean... You see, I'm not too young, everyone told me that I should start a family..." Lockhart said hesitantly, "I think it's better for people to settle down earlier, and you too In the same way, I also have enough conditions for two people, or even more people to have a good life..."

Rosmerta looked at him blankly, then suddenly laughed.

"Are you proposing to me? Here?" she asked amusingly. "Do you know how old I am?"

"Does it matter?" Lockhart dismissed, "As wizards, we have a way to live until we don't want to, and in the long run, a teenage gap or a day or two is nothing. The difference. Besides, even the Muggle side has an example of an 82-year-old married to a 28-year-old partner, I don't think that's a hindrance

"No, no, you didn't understand what I meant." Rosmerta chuckled, "Since you know my age, you should think more about why I haven't married until now."

"Never mind, I think you look younger than my second sister who is only two years older than me..."

"Don't talk shit, don't interrupt." Rosmerta interrupted him, "For our family, there are always only two things to worry about, and that is 'wealth\' and housing\'"

"Could it be, fertility, ooo"

"Does not include 'Family\'. "Rosmerta smiled."Before \"Three Brooms\', the name of this bar was "Two Brooms: My mother was taking care of it." At Hogwarts, it is estimated that only Dumbledore and Professor Slughorn will know about it... Oh, I forgot, Professor Slughorn has already retired. "

Does this mean anything? ' Lockhart couldn't help asking.

"So you also have something you don't know - in fact, only witches ride brooms in the beginning, wizards don't... By the way, my children will never be men." Rosmerta pointed out.

Lockhart: "!"

"Anyway, if I have a child in the future, I won't let you know who her father is...no one will know," Rosemerta added.

"Wait!" Lockhart began to have a headache. "If you don't know who the father of the child is, then who will be responsible for her?"

"It depends on the sense of responsibility of the men." Rosmerta said lightly, "It is best that all men think that it is his child, at least to retain such a \"possibility', such a Come; no matter who this child asks for help in the future, the other person will not refuse... just like me. "

The last words she added made Lockhart understand a lot. No wonder an ordinary tavern owner has such a wide network of contacts. It seems that "Rosmerta", the **** of wealth and fertility in Celtic mythology, is not without it. reason.

"So, I can't agree to your marriage proposal, Gilderoy, and I can't accept your surname, and..."

Having said this, Rosmerta was silent for a while.

Lockhart couldn't help looking at her, only to find Rosemerta rubbing his temples, his mouth tightly closed.

"What else?"

Rosmerta hesitated, but opened his mouth again.

"In addition, you should find someone who has feelings to marry, not for the so-called responsibilities imposed on you by society and family, which you have the ability to refuse. Unlike those pure bloods, nor like me, there are some things that you can't refuse. You There's no reason to jump back after standing at a height that others can't."

Probably because she was sincere and sincere, Lockhart was too embarrassed to say those false words to fool and prevaricate her.

She is right, she and she have never had a so-called relationship, and now she wants to get married only because of the "good persuasion" of her mother, colleagues and friends

"I just don't think I'll ever find the so-called 'perfect man' in my life

, so... see one that's not bad and want to... um. ' Lockhart explained.

"Don't tell me this, I don't want to hear it." Rosmerta stopped him, "It's unnecessary, we've talked too much."

The reason why ambiguity is ambiguity is because everyone knows that it will get worse if it is pointed out, so they pretend to be stupid.

Seeing her firm attitude, Lockhart had no choice but to change the subject.

"Okay, but seriously, you really need to expand the tavern, and at least build 5 or so viewing rooms. After the game is over, I won't let the infrastructure built in Hogsmeade go to waste. After all, this is the only pure wizarding village in the UK, and my future political foundation depends on it, so I won't make a joke about it... OK?"

Rosmerta glanced at Lockhart and reluctantly agreed to him after seeing that he was indeed not joking.

"All right."

After dodging out of Rosmerta's pub through the back door, Lockhart realized that this morning seemed unusually cold.

The distance between the three brooms and the screaming shack is not too far, it can be said that the two buildings closest to the train station in Hogsmeade can not be an exaggeration, so Lockhart was just walking down the path when he noticed, The front of his office was crowded with people.

These people greeted Lockhart from a distance and looked anxious.

"Lockhart, where have you been! Mind these guys!" a young wizard yelled at Lockhart.

Lockhart recognized him, an employee of the Owl Post Office.

"Sorry, I went to breakfast... what happened?" he asked the group

"What else? Dementors! You didn't say they could still enter the village!

said the post office employee angrily. "My owls have been restless for a long time!"

\"Yes!\"The owner of the Joko joke shop is also very dissatisfied, \"How can I do business with this kind of thing in the village?"

Lockhart sighed.

The Ministry of Magic's decision to have Dementors to "defend" Hogwarts was a collective decision, as the Ministry was really out of manpower

Although Lockhart deeply disapproved of the resolution, he had to stand in line with the Ministry of Magic in front of these "outside the system" people.

He has experienced this completely on behalf of others, but there is no way, as long as he is still in the Ministry of Magic, he must bear the blame, even if he is actually a member of the International Cooperation Department for Magical Affairs.

"Gentlemen... and ladies, unfortunately, until Sirius Black is re-arrested, this is probably going to stay like this forever."

Chapter 170 Dementors settle in

The people of Hogsmeade had no objection to defending Hogsmeade with Dementors, or at all. Because in their opinion, it is the same whether it is sent by the Ministry of Magic or sent by magical creatures to guard.

But it wasn't until the Dementors settled in the village that they realized that the difference was really too big.

Even if they don't enter the village, they can have a huge impact on the life and business of the villagers, let alone after they enter the village.

Immediately they began to surround the only representative of the Ministry of Magic in Hogsmeade - Lockhart.

"Gidro, you have to find a way to fix them!" they complained to Lockhart.

Lockhart didn't mind these people swarming around him, although it would keep him busy and troublesome, but... it also increased his authority, didn't it?

When a group of people can only rely on you to do things, doesn't power come?

Lockhart raised his hand, signaling everyone to take it easy.

"Please be quiet... Can anyone tell me where the dementors are now?" he asked.

\"At the train station.\"The owner of the literati residence answered ironically.

It was obviously the end of August, but the boss was still shaking his upper and lower teeth when he spoke, as if winter had not yet passed.

"I just got back from my relatives in Gloucestershire, and I was surrounded by them. It took me ten minutes to "interrogate"... But my luggage has already been passed back through the fireplace. Can you pretend to be a wanted criminal?" He

questioned.

"I'm so sorry." Lockhart hurriedly cast a happy charm to make him feel better, "Wait a minute and have some more chocolate, it'll make you feel better. oo I'll go and Rosmer later. Ta said she wanted to increase her supply of hot cocoa these days."

Lockhart wanted to be sloppy, but he couldn't, and someone immediately added:

"It's not going to solve the problem, you have to come up with a solution...at least not to get them all at the station."

The man's words aroused a second opinion from the onlookers.

Although wizards can Apparate, walk around fireplaces, ride brooms, touch door keys, or ride knight buses, the literati's owner apparently doesn't like any of these modes of movement.

Apparition is a relatively advanced type of magic, not everyone can do it, and the risk of disintegration is particularly huge in long-distance Apparition, and the rough driving style and long journey time of the Knight Bus are not happy for some wizards. Because of the "Secrecy Law", riding a broom must fly at a high altitude in a state of invisibility, and the icy air in the high altitude is obviously not suitable for an older wizard like the literati's house owner.

Although fireplaces and door keys are relatively safe, there are indeed wizards who halo Floo powder and teleportation in this world, and there are many of them. Harry Potter himself hates door keys and Apparition, and it is not a last resort. He wouldn't travel in this way either.

So they would rather take the train, at least to be steady.

-Once the station is occupied by dementors, then at least the number of wizards coming to Hogsmeade by train will definitely decrease a lot, which will have a huge economic impact on the village.

"Why do they occupy the station?" some residents asked strangely to their companions

Before Lockhart could answer, the joke shop owner answered for him first: "Because it's closest to the woodlands by the lake, and dementors like the smell of damp, dark, putrid.

"Then why don't these **** go to the swamp and live?"

This time it was Lockhart's turn to explain: "Because there's no...well...food there."

Then he found that everyone was staring at him, waiting for him to give himself an explanation.

Alas, what should I say? "Because the Ministry of Magic's finances are tight, they have invited free dementors to help guard, so they secretly get some "food" on official business, and the Ministry of Magic will not care"?

Just kidding, if he was really so "frank", these people would definitely beat him up without saying a word, even if they couldn't beat Lockhart.

It’s like an ancient marching war, when a general sometimes had to turn a blind eye to his subordinate’s occasional slaughter of villages and indiscriminate killing of innocent people.” Even if he knew it was “wrong,” but if he couldn’t let his subordinates get enough money Good thing, that ghost will sacrifice your life for you.

No, even if the ghost sacrifices your life for you, the ghost will still benefit.

So Lockhart knew that as long as the Dementors didn't kill people, Fudge would never bother about such trivial matters as they came into the village every now and then to search for a little "food."

And Dumbledore couldn't protest vigorously—because it was protecting Potter.

In other words, no matter who handles this matter, it will not go well. If it is done well, it will be blamed, and if it is not done well, it will be blamed.

In this case, the first thing he had to do was to clarify his position—whether he was on the side of the Ministry of Magic, on the side of Hogwarts on the side of the Dementors, or on the side of Hogsmeade.

...do you even think about it?

"Obviously, this bunch of **** from the North Sea are getting carried away." Lockhart said with a frown, "Although the Ministry of Magic hasn't notified me yet, I don't think that's what they meant... I'm going to talk to you later. Dementors \"Talk to Heart\' and tell them that dogs should be like dogs. "

Lockhart's credit is not bad, and his decisive remarks quickly appeased the emotions of the residents of Hogsmeade.

But the residents also know that it is impossible to get the Dementors out of Hogsmeade completely, not to mention that they are actually very worried that Sirius Black will enter Hogsmeade and wreak havoc - that guy blew up a whole A ruthless character on the street.

"We trust you can handle them," they said.

Back in the room, Lockhart stretched out his hand and pulled up Sirius, who was lying on the carpet, without saying a word.

Because it was still early in the morning, the **** dog hadn't woken up yet. After being suddenly barked by Lockhart, he was dragged out of the door from the cushion before he could figure out the situation.

"Dobby, get it under control, I'm going to take it with me to the Dementors!" Lockhart yelled, "If I get entangled by Dementors, you'll have to drag me back with this dog. "