Chapter 181 Dog

Professor McGonagall quietly left the auditorium and walked straight to the principal's office.

Although she didn't have to worry about Fish, she still had to talk to Dumbledore about Lockhart's lack of real talent. She didn't think the bad old man wouldn't be able to see Lockhart's true nature. level.

"Minerva?" Dumbledore, who was looking through letters at his desk, saw the menacing Professor McGonagall and immediately guessed her purpose, but still smiled and pretended to ask: "Preparations for the start of school are complete. "

"Not yet," Professor McGonagall shook her head and said seriously: "I came to you for other reasons, Albus."

Dumbledore put down the letter in his hand, opened his palm and made a "please" gesture to her.

"What's going on with Gilderoy Lockhart? Don't tell me you can't see that he's just an unlearned liar."

Professor McGonagall raised her tone, put her hands on the desk, leaned forward slightly, and stared at Dumbledore sternly.

However, Dumbledore snapped his fingers calmly, and a chair automatically slid behind Professor McGonagall. Then he slowly poured a cup of hot tea and pushed it in front of Professor McGonagall.

"Don't worry yet, Minerva. Sit down and speak slowly."

Professor McGonagall sat down as instructed, but did not touch the cup of hot tea in front of her. Instead, she crossed her arms and continued to stare at Dumbledore menacingly.

Dumbledore didn't take it seriously either. He smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then said: "Of course I know that Lockhart is not worthy of his name. I even know that the stories in his books are... In fact, it is the deeds of other powerful wizards, but..."

Having said this, he shook his head helplessly, and seemed to sigh angrily: "In addition to articles, Gilderoy is obviously also good at learning the Forgetting Curse. Even Radagast and Otta have been hit by it." Got it."

"Then you're still recruiting him?" Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows, her expression even more angry.

"Because I think Lockhart's deception will be exposed as soon as he is introduced into normal school life, especially with Fish around."

Dumbledore winked and said playfully.

"But in this way, a year of time is wasted for the students. They will not learn any useful knowledge from Lockhart at all."

Compared with exposing Lockhart, Professor McGonagall is more concerned about the education of students.

"No way, it's really difficult for Hogwarts to hire a qualified Defense Against the Dark Arts professor." Dumbledore shrugged and complained.

"I will find a way to find an excellent professor next year to make up for this year's losses... In addition, students can't learn anything. At least they can understand from a bad teacher what not to do. , don’t be that kind of person.”

Compared with actual spells and the like, Dumbledore was more concerned about the character of the students, which was also influenced by the two Dark Lords.

"And if you read Lockhart's book, you will find that there are some useful things in it."

This time it was Professor McGonagall's turn to sigh, and she said with a slight annoyance: "Yes, I have read them, and I also read them to Fish as bedtime stories, so this little guy always thinks Lockhart is a powerful wizard..."

But when talking about this matter, Professor McGonagall remembered Fish's performance in the auditorium before, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

"Oh? It seems like poor Gilderoy can't hide it for much longer."

Dumbledore touched his beard, feeling both happy and a little sad. If Lockhart was exposed too quickly, wouldn't he have to find a new professor to take over?

If it's just for a short period of time, it's okay. Snape, Flitwick, and even Professor McGonagall can temporarily take over, but if it's too long, you can't do this. Voldemort's curse is still a bit troublesome.

Thinking of this, the expression on Dumbledore's face was no longer as calm as before, with a trace of distress on his face.

Putting aside the respective troubles of the two principals, Fish and Lockhart got along extremely happily in the auditorium.

Fish liked the messy stories told by Lockhart very much. Although the kitten, who was very capable in practical combat, noticed some loopholes in these stories, the fairy tales he usually listened to were almost the same, so he just Didn't pay much attention.

Lockhart was even more satisfied. For him who was very vain, as long as someone paid attention to him, he would be very happy, not to mention that he was keenly aware of the specialness of Fish.

In addition to his special affinity and cat ears and tail, all the professors, including the gloomy Snape, doted on the little boy. He even had his own house elf in the school!

So Lockhart quickly realized that with such a little fan, the attention he received in school would definitely be very high, plus the famous Harry Potter...

Lockhart's whole body trembled with excitement at the thought of the attention he might receive after school started.

Although the story was interesting, Fish obviously couldn't stay idle for too long. After listening to the story of "Lockhart's brave battle with Voldemort," he stood up from his seat, raised his arms and stretched.

"I'm going to the Forbidden Forest to play with my friends. Professor Gilderoy wants to meow with me?"ω

"Forbidden, forbidden forest?"

Lockhart's expression changed slightly and he asked hesitantly.

"Yes, Meow, Fei Xu has met a lot of friends there Meow!" (●ΦωΦ●)

At this moment, Lockhart recalled his limited memory of the Care of Magical Creatures class at Hogwarts - that there were only safe magical creatures like Bowtruckles and Nifflers on the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest, Fish said. "Friends" probably refers to them, right?

After all, Feishu was only a young wizard who had just entered the second grade. How could he go deep into the Forbidden Forest?

Thinking of this, Lockhart felt like he was okay again.

So he laughed loudly and said: "Forbidden Forest? Of course. When I was a student, I always liked to go in and play with the magical animals inside."

He lifted his curly blond hair from his forehead, revealing his shining white teeth, "If I weren't worried about Professor McGonagall being angry, I could take you deeper into the Forbidden Forest."

Fish nodded in sympathy, and echoed seriously with a sullen face: "Minerva really likes to be angry, meow."

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Fish and Lockhart, who had found a "common language" again, were in a happier mood. They laughed together for a while before leaving the great hall together and came to Hagrid's guard cabin.

However, Hagrid was not in his cabin at this time. As the person responsible for picking up new students, he also had a lot of things to prepare, so after lunch, he went to the train in Hogsmeade Village early. platform.

"Woof!"

Yaya was not taken away by Hagrid. After he smelled the scent of Fish, he immediately came up to him and kept wagging his tail.

"This is Yaya, also my good friend Meow."

Fish introduced to Lockhart on the side, which made him feel more reassured.

It's not even a magical animal, just an ordinary dog, so what else does he have to worry about.

"Where's Lu Wei?"

After Feishu finished the introduction, he lowered his head and asked Yaya. They were both dogs, and they had a pretty good relationship. This made Yaya, who was originally timid, now dare to run into the Forbidden Forest without Hagrid. Have fun in there.

"Woof! Woof woof!"

Yaya barked a few times and then ran towards the forest.

"Let's go, I'll take you to meet Lu Wei. It's also Hagrid's dog, but it's a little bigger, so it usually stays in the Forbidden Forest."

Fish explained to Lockhart as he followed Fang into the woods.

Lockhart, who had no idea what he was going to encounter next, continued to brag as he followed him into the forest: "Speaking of big dogs, I have to talk about the encounter I had in the rainforest of South America. That, that, that..."

He suddenly couldn't speak anymore because a huge black shadow suddenly obscured his sight.

Lockhart turned his neck stiffly and looked up. His hands and feet suddenly felt cold.

In front of him, stood a huge black three-headed dog. Its three heads were pouting fiercely, and wet saliva slipped from the blade-like fangs and dripped onto the bushes below. There was a crackling sound on the leaves.

With his mind going blank, Lockhart spat out the last word in a daze.

"……dog."

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On HP's official website, Rowling wrote that Dumbledore knew two of the wizards who erased Lockhart's memory and knew their deeds, so he knew Lockhart was a liar from the beginning.

The specific names of the two wizards were not mentioned, so I borrowed two names from The Lord of the Rings and The End of the World.

In addition, regarding Professor McGonagall's question and the reasons for Dumbledore's answer (exposing Lockhart and teaching students a lesson), Rowling also wrote on the website, and I have expanded it slightly.

Although I think these two reasons are quite nonsense, but the official said so... maybe it is also a cultural difference, anyway, I can't understand it. ┑(￣Д￣)┍