Chapter 837: Fishing, Big Brother, Woman

"...get out of class is finally over, it's really scary."

Gilderoy Lockhart muttered to himself as he looked at the empty classroom under the setting sun.

Since it is a newly opened course, the length of the grammar class is naturally a little shorter than other courses. Even if it is taught twice a week on average, the total amount of things is barely equivalent to the length of a Potions class.

With the bell ringing, the first week of classes in the new Hogwarts semester came to an end.

From now until next Monday morning, this period is Professor Lockhart's rest time.

Of course, my job as a "grammar professor" has come to an end for the time being.

As an O5 member of the Destiny Group and one of the few memory masters in the wizarding world today, Gilderoy Lockhart still has an unfinished mission from "Miss Fool" - to go to Academy City to learn non-magical knowledge and try Then use magic to quickly imprint those contents into the brain to see if learning can be accelerated.

As for the theoretical basis of magic, it naturally comes from the advanced application of the Forgetting Spell, memory modification.

In fact, Elena originally planned to hire volunteers from outside to complete the experiment, but Dumbledore believed that this would be too prone to moral and ethical risks, and would even lead to some extremely bad consequences.

Therefore, in the early stages, Gilderoy Lockhart was ultimately responsible for everything.

Well, actually this is quite good - as the caster and recipient of the spell, his feedback results will be more intuitive.

The only risk in this is that once Gilderoy Lockhart makes a major operational error and accidentally erases or causes irreversible scars in his memory, there is a high probability that there will be no room for recovery. .

Of course, this small hidden danger seems to have been unfortunately ignored by Dumbledore and others.

Maybe it's not completely unfortunate...

Gilderoy Lockhart picked up his thick notebook and walked towards the outside of the castle. He was thinking in a trance while watching the carefree students walking briskly past him towards the auditorium to enjoy their leisure time.

"This is a step to completely change education in the magical world. I wonder how future generations will evaluate me if it succeeds?"

Even if he has not experienced much education-related education, Lockhart is very clear about the impact of memory inheritance and this unusual education method on the future - what students will learn in one day in the future may be more than Students at Hogwarts learned more in one school year than in the past, and it might even take more than one year.

Even if there is a certain difference between memory and mastery, it can also greatly shorten the time and cost of learning for wizards.

And by that time, in magic schools, the meaning and requirements of the word and position of professor may not only be roughly divided into explaining textbooks, standardizing operating techniques, and training postures and pronunciation.

Complete and systematic knowledge entry, as well as comprehensive memory activation and mastery, are both indispensable.

"Hey! I'm really a professor at Hogwarts, you guys! Don't... don't do anything! Just go to the castle and ask the students or professors. They all know me. I was here last year - let go I--"

"Huh, wizard? Then you can use magic to do it?"

At this moment, there was a loud noise not far in front of Gilderoy Lockhart.

There were also sounds of scuffles and robes being torn, as if they were competing for autographs at a book signing.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Gilderoy Lockhart's thoughts were interrupted by the noisy sound. He frowned, raised his head and glanced forward.

Unknowingly, he had reached the castle gate.

Directly in front of him stood a thin young wizard. The shiny bald head shone like a mirror under the magic torch beside the black iron gate of Hogwarts. The man's pale cheeks were also a little red at this time. He didn't know whether it was due to the reflection of the firelight, the embarrassment of being blocked from the school gate as a suspicious person, or both.

Bald head, haggard face, wrinkled black wizard robe...

After looking at it for a while, Gilderoy Lockhart suddenly thought of a person's name.

"...Huh? Wait, are you... Quirinus Quirrell?"

"You are - Lockhart, the most...um...special Mr. Gilderoy Lockhart of the legendary Ravenclaw House? How come you are in Hogwarts? I remember you graduated Haven’t you been traveling the world and writing since then?”

The young wizard was none other than Quirinas Quirrell, who had just been discharged from Salzburg Hospital.

Due to the loss of magic power, apart from being able to use floo powder and portkeys to travel, items such as broomsticks that rely on magic power cannot be used. For the first time, Quirrell realized how difficult it is to travel to Hogwarts. .

And when he finally walked from Hogsmeade Village to the entrance of Hogwarts dragging his big suitcase, before he could cross the gate with winged boar sculptures on both sides, he was attacked by several people who called themselves "Hogwarts". Watts - Urban Researcher of the Institute" was surrounded by a group of crazy Muggle women, and she was almost turned away to a temporary security point nearby to wait for mercy.

"Professor Lockhart, this gentleman...well, is he really a professor at Hogwarts?"

Arkhipovna, who was wearing a white coat, crossed her arms over her chest and looked at Quirrell suspiciously.

As a researcher working with Lockhart during this period, she had carefully read the latest staff roster of Hogwarts. In Arkhipovna's impression, this thin and pale wizard was not included at all. .

To be more precise...she even had considerable doubts about whether this man was a wizard.

After all, if this young man was really, as he claimed, a former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at the magic school behind him, how could he not be able to cast even the most superficial magic.

"Oh, of course, of course—"

Lockhart showed a bright smile, walked forward quickly, and patted Quirrell warmly on the shoulder.

"Quilinus Quirrell, this is the pride of our Ravenclaw Academy! Although I was almost graduating when this guy enrolled, I had heard rumors about him even when I was outside. . In the past hundred years, he is the only one who stayed in school directly after graduation. Even the cold new dean of Slytherin is not as good as him."

"Is that so? But..."

Arkhipovna still looked at Quirrell with some suspicion.

How could such a frail, prematurely bald wizard be the pride of any academy? If Professor Lockhart had arrived a little later, she might have beaten this guy to the ground by herself, dragged him to the side and locked him up in a small dark room.

You know, in the former Soviet Union, the interns in the research institute were more powerful than this guy.

"Don't worry, don't worry. Quilinas and I have met each other when we were in school. As soon as I saw him, I remembered his clumsy and immature look at that time... Ha! Povna, don't forget, I But a wizard."

Lockhart blinked nimbly and grinned.

"Never underestimate a wizard's memory. If conditions permit, I can even recall a few sesame seeds on a piece of bread for breakfast more than ten years ago - Quirinas, you should still remember, your dear An old prefect, right?"

"Uh, Senior Lockhart..."

Glancing at the extremely enthusiastic Gilderoy Lockhart, Quirrell began to think back.

Quirinus Quirrell entered school in 1981. In the winter of the year he enrolled, Voldemort's invincible magic failed at the Potter's house and disappeared from sight. At that time, Gilderoy Lockhart was already a A sixth grader.

As a popular figure in Ravenclaw, that year happened to be Lockhart's last prefect.

However, it was not the prefect's erudition and enthusiasm that left a deep impression on Quirinus Chilo in the end.

What's more, it's Mr. Lockhart's dramatic methods that made all the teachers and students of Hogwarts stunned, his damn desire for performance, and his unprecedented ability to toss--perhaps, second only to Eileen last year. Na.

In the memory of Quirinus Quirrell...

Gilderoy Lockhart had his name carved into the Quidditch pitch in 20-foot letters (which landed him in a week's confinement), and had his own likeness projected like the Dark Mark. He went to the sky, sent himself eight hundred Valentine's Day cards, and had to cancel breakfast because so much owl droppings and feathers fell into his cereal.

As a freshman in Ravenclaw that year, most of Quirrell's shameful things happened during that time.

So much so that when Gilderoy Lockhart graduated from Hogwarts, almost the entire school breathed a sigh of relief.

"Anyway, I'm sorry, Povna...I may not be able to come over tonight to cooperate with the research."

Lockhart sighed helplessly and briefly explained a few words to Arkhipovna - mainly about the fact that today in order to guide new colleagues to report, he had to temporarily "coo" for a day of "non-magical world study" .

After getting along with them for a few days, he found that these researchers were not as difficult to get along with as he thought.

Apart from some troublesome stubbornness in academic matters, he is much better than most Muggles. As long as he can explain magic and life problems, most of them can quickly accept them and come up with some feasible solutions.

For example...

"Okay, then I will sort out the handouts and give them to you later."

Arkhipovna nodded noncommittally and released her right hand from Quirrell's collar.

"But agree in advance that I will write today's leave request record into the experiment log as one of the reference factors for the subsequent memory entry test. If you have any extra time or experience to invest in the future, please tell me truthfully."

"No problem, I'll make it up tomorrow. I'll definitely make it up."

Gilderoy Lockhart looked at the former Soviet female scientist who was gradually walking away, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, so many years after graduation, he would experience the feeling of taking a leave of absence again when he was in school.

If he hadn't happened to meet Quirinas Quirrell, he really wouldn't have been able to find any suitable reason - in the Destiny Group's WIB code of conduct, the consequences of lying are quite serious... As for the insufficient reason, that's it. The follow-up review process is about the follow-up review process. Skipping classes to this extent is, at best, just a slight deduction in salary and doing a few more tasks.

As a senior member of the Destiny Group, Gilderoy Lockhart has become more and more precise in this aspect.

"Let's go, Quirinus, Hogwarts has changed a lot now."

Lockhart turned around and patted the shoulder of the junior boy next to him who was still remembering.

"...Huh? What's going on? Your expression seems a little strange? Oh - I also forgot to ask, what subject are you coming back to be a professor this time? If it is anti-dark magic, you should pay more attention... …”

Because he was too young, Gilderoy Lockhart was almost completely unable to fit into the circle of older people.

The appearance of Quirinus Quirrell was obviously very exciting news for Lockhart. It reminded Lockhart of the way he guided the new students when he was still in school. Good old days.

The most important thing is that as a loyal subordinate of the third generation Dark Lord, Lockhart is very aware of the personnel changes in the organization.

Quirinus Quirrell has not joined the Destiny Group or the Special Containment Procedures Foundation... and he has no employment relationship with Gringotts Wizarding Bank - in other words, he is like a blank slate." Ordinary wizard".

In addition to those complicated demon forces, Lockhart really hopes to have a "normal" ordinary friend.

"Muggle Studies."

Quirrell, who had just escaped from a female bear, was very tired, so he said casually.

"As for why I didn't perform magic: First, I was a Muggle, and according to the provisions of the Statute of Secrecy, I shouldn't have done so. Second, in order to have a deeper understanding of Muggle life, I decided not to perform magic as much as possible. .”

Not many wizards know yet about his loss of magical abilities.

According to the suggestions of Elena, Dumbledore, Grindelwald and others, this kind of rhetoric is obviously the most appropriate.

After all, Quirinas Quirrell had previously taken a year off from school to explore the Black Forest of Albania in order to obtain practical information on Defense Against the Dark Arts. Therefore, it was reasonable for him to perform this performance art for the Muggle Studies class.

After a short pause, Quirinus Quirrell raised his third finger and said calmly.

"Third, this is the gate of Hogwarts. As long as I take a step forward, she will trigger the expulsion spell."

"But you just seemed unable to move forward..."

Gilderoy Lockhart glanced at the collar of Quirrell's wrinkled robe, shook his head, and said with a narrow smile.

"Quirinus, Quirinus, Quirinus."

Quirrell glanced at the senior next to him who had been a bit weird since school, but said nothing.

In fact, he just wanted to return to the castle as soon as possible and see Albus Dumbledore in person to ask about it - whether it was the changes in Hogwarts or about his subsequent arrangements, he had too many questions confused.

"Oh, sure, I totally understand. It's nothing to be ashamed of."

Gilderoy Lockhart reached out and grabbed his shoulders, showing a friendly look like a big brother.

"But I have to warn you, you'd better not have any thoughts about those women! As a professor at Hogwarts, it's really not easy to find a partner. I understand you - young people are always impulsive, but those scholars are different. What you just did was quite rational. If you hurt them, I might not be able to save you."

"Hogwarts today is very magical, prosperous, and dangerous at the same time."

He winked kindly at Quirinus Quirrell, and spoke meaningfully and mysteriously.

"I know, I only fight. You may not understand this for the time being, but as a person who has experienced it, I can still give you some advice. Talk less, read more, and ask less. If you have anything to ask me, there is always nothing wrong. of."

"..."

Quirinus Quirrell rolled his eyes helplessly.

He had already made up his mind. After rejoining Hogwarts, it would be best to keep a non-interfering distance from Professor Gilderoy Lockhart. Two devils.

After all, Quirinus Quirrell now knows too much dangerous information.

It would be too unsafe to allow such an unstable chatterbox to wander around him.

If Quirrell remembers correctly, when he was in the hospital, the young Goblin Queen of Gringotts and the third-generation Dark Lord had promised that when he arrived at Hogwarts, he would start teaching and participate in the "big plan" "After that, he will be specially assigned an extremely reliable and experienced "Demon King Executive" as his partner.

On the one hand, it is to continue the power he lost, and on the other hand, it is also to serve as a bodyguard and guard.

And after one of the "Devil King's Executive Officers" was confirmed, Quirinus Quirrell's first request was to find a way to keep this annoying Gilderoy Lockhart away from him... This vanity The former prefect of Ravenclaw is a nightmare.

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