Chapter 172 You Must Think It’s Easy to Make Headlines, Right? Harry?

When the roar surrounding the hall completely disappeared, Ivan released his hands that were covering his ears.

There was a brief silence in the hall, only Harry and Ron were embarrassed and at a loss under the gaze of everyone.

At this moment, a sarcastic voice came from the Slytherin Dean’s table.

"Potter, it seems you have done something spectacular again." Malfoy came over with Goyle and Clark. He glanced at Harry with a mocking expression, and then stopped at Ron. one time.

"Weasley, I guess your father must hate you very much now. He may be forced to lose his job and get out of the Ministry of Magic in despair."

As he said this, Malfoy laughed loudly, and Goyle and Clark behind him also giggled.

Ron's face turned red. He was so angry that he even ignored that this was a place to eat. He suddenly pulled out the tape-wrapped wand and pointed it at Malfoy.

"The front teeth match the stick!"

Malfoy was startled, and he panicked and wanted to pull out his wand to fight back.

But what surprised him was that as Ron chanted the spell, nothing happened.

Only a faint black mist floated out of the wand in Ron's hand.

"Weasley, what are you doing? Are you performing some magic trick for us?" Malfoy mocked.

Ron was so angry that he wanted to throw away the wand in his hand. It had never been normal since it was broken by the Whomping Willow last night.

For a moment, Ron was so angry that he wanted to rush over and fight Malfoy, but he was stopped by Harry and Hermione. It was not a wise thing to do it in the large exhibition hall, if they didn't want to be imprisoned.

Ivan ignored their "friendly" interaction and couldn't start a fight anyway. He waved his wand and began to clean up the mess on the table.

He also collected the letter and prepared to reply with the automatic quill when he returned to the dormitory.

However, what Ivan didn't expect was that Malfoy's courage had grown a lot, or that his success in mocking Ron had inflated his confidence.

"Hals!" Malfoy said loudly. He walked up to the table and picked up the Daily Prophet to read it. After noticing the news content written under the headline, he said aloud.

"Before I read the newspaper, I didn't know Hals that you actually lived in a shabby place like Knockturn Alley. Isn't that a place where poor black wizards live? And you even hang out with a group of werewolves."

Ivan frowned and was about to speak, but Hermione was one step faster than him and scolded.

"Shut up Malfoy! There is no shame in living in Knockturn Alley. Ivan has won the Order of Merlin, the highest honor in the wizarding world, through his own efforts. Can you do that?"

"So what? I heard from my father that the wizards who live in Knockturn Alley are like rats in the sewers!" Malfoy said with a smile on his face.

Remembering that his father always scolded him about this matter some time ago, Malfoy felt very unhappy. Just as he was about to continue speaking, he was interrupted by Ivan's words.

"Will you only rely on your father? Malfoy?" Ivan looked at him lightly, holding the wand in his right hand and tapping it lightly in his palm, while speaking.

"I thought you would be a little more independent in second grade instead of being childish and blindly obeying your father's words."

Malfoy became angry and wanted to defend himself, but Ivan didn't give him the chance at all and said mockingly.

"Besides, when I was chatting and laughing with your dad a few days ago, you didn't even know where you were! He told me that if your grades don't improve this year, you probably won't have any future in this life."

Ivan was talking nonsense, combined with the old Malfoy's dissatisfied comments about his son in the Borgin Bock store in the original book, and he just fooled Draco Malfoy.

Malfoy originally didn't want to believe Ivan's words, especially he didn't believe that Ivan could talk and laugh with his father, but the old Malfoy did scold him for this at home.

"Don't believe it? Still haven't heard from your father? Then go home and ask your father!" Ivan looked at the somewhat shaken Malfoy and scolded him rudely.

"Ivan, do you know Malfoy's father?"

In the morning, in the corridor heading to the Herbology classroom, Hermione asked curiously what happened just now, and Harry and Ron were also a little confused.

They didn't expect that Ivan would be connected with old Malfoy.

"No, in fact we don't know each other well, we just met once!" Ivan understood what Hermione wanted to say, so he explained aloud.

"Then you dared to say that just now?" Hermione's eyes widened.

"What's the point? You were chatting and laughing with Minister Fudge last school year." Ivan said indifferently.

Harry and Ron were immediately speechless, and Hermione rolled her eyes. If they remembered correctly, they and Fudge only met once and exchanged a few words. Can this be called chatting and laughing?

After answering the three people's doubts, Ivan quickly walked into the greenhouse.

Not long after, Professor Sprout walked in from the outside lawn with a bandage on her arm. Her face didn't look good.

This wasn't just because Lockhart had been following her around, trying to instill some random knowledge of herbal medicine into her.

What's more, when he was treating the Whomping Willow just now, Lockhart released a so-called healing magic, which caused the Whomping Willow to go berserk. In order to appease the tree, her arm was slapped. Fortunately, the injury was not serious. Consider it serious.

However, Lockhart had no such self-consciousness at all. He still looked confident and proud like a peacock with its wings spread. He walked generously in front of Professor Sparrow and even blocked her. In front of him, he shouted loudly to everyone.

"Hello! I just showed Professor Sprout how to heal the wounds of the Whomping Willow! But I don't want you to think that I am better at herbalism than her! I just happened to meet a few people during my travels. This strange plant..."

Lockhart may have been thinking of saying a few more words, but Professor Sprout interrupted him without hesitation and loudly told all the students to go to the third greenhouse and start class now!

Ivan hurriedly followed the crowd to the classroom.

When Harry wanted to follow him, Lockhart stopped him.

"Professor Sprout, can I talk to Harry alone? Just two minutes! Do you mind?" Lockhart turned to Professor Sprout and said.

Professor Sprout was very concerned, but Lockhart took Harry's arm and pulled him aside, speaking seriously.

"You must think it's easy to make headlines, right? Harry?"

"What are you talking about, Professor? I don't quite understand?" Harry was confused and didn't understand what Lockhart meant.

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