Upon hearing Lockhart's words, Joel's pupils shrank suddenly.
"Does Professor Lockhart know so clearly?" Joel responded softly, "It is indeed seven volumes."
Other rune books left by the parents of the original owner of the body can be translated using the existing phonetic tables, but a set of seven volumes of ancient runic books cannot be translated. There are many rare phonetic words in them that are not in the existing rune system.
Lockhart was stunned for a second, and then burst out laughing, "Of course I, Professor Lockhart, am well-informed. I think I also had a thrilling story in Northern Europe."
"This classmate really reminded me," Lockhart changed the subject. "I will put this Nordic journey into my book next year. I believe many readers will be very interested!"
Joel stared at Lockhart's face and said nothing for a while. Lockhart turned his gaze back to his mirror, looking at Joel's eyes as if they were nothing, and even hummed a song happily.
Hailes squeezed Joel's hand hard under the table, and he just realized that what he had just done was a little out of line.
Why does Lockhart know that there are seven volumes in this set of books?
Isn't he a fool in the original novel? He can only manage the "Forget All" curse.
Joel wanted to chat with Lockhart again, but unexpectedly he walked out of the cubicle directly.
This made Joel more and more suspicious, and he looked at the book in his hand and fell into deep thought.
Haylis looked at him with concern.
"Are you okay?"
Joel shook his head.
Not long after he and the Selwyn siblings stayed quietly in the cubicle, there was another knock on the door.
It's Hermione and Ginny.
The faces of the two girls were full of anxiety. "Brother Joel, have you seen Harry?"
"And Ron, we searched all over Tele and couldn't find either of them!"
Joel was afraid that their conversation here would affect Haylis' study, so he pulled the two of them out of the cubicle.
"When we entered platform 9?, Hermione, I, and some of my brothers were walking in front. Harry and Ron were following us, but as soon as we got on the train, they disappeared!" Ginny said in a crisp voice.
After hearing Ginny's words, Joel was a little surprised. According to the original plot, Dobby overheard Lucius's conspiracy and concluded that Hogwarts was very dangerous, so he used magic to seal the platform entrance to protect Harry.
But Riddle's diary was confiscated by Joel and put into the Ministry of Magic. Why would Dobby stop Harry from entering the platform?
"It shouldn't be a big deal," Joel said. "If they don't come in, you can contact the school elsewhere. Don't worry, there are two living people, how could anything happen?"
Ginny calmed down after listening to Joel's explanation, but Hermione was almost crying. She knew about the Sorcerer's Stone incident that happened last year, and if the mysterious man kidnapped the two friends...
At this moment Lockhart came over.
"Little girls, have you encountered anything troublesome?" He showed his white teeth, exuding his charm all the time.
"Professor..." Hermione made a soft voice that Joel and the others had never heard before, and she burst into tears, "My two good friends didn't have time to board the train..."
After Lockhart listened carefully to the whole story, he quickly comforted Hermione in a very soft voice. After five minutes, Hermione finally suppressed the tears in her eyes.
"Professor Lockhart, you are so kind..." Hermione was still immersed in Lockhart's gentle voice, her cheeks flushed, and she thanked her softly.
Joel didn't want to look any more, so he simply retreated into the compartment to look for Haylis.
Haylis was very busy. According to her, she had to read two thousand-page management books before the Christmas holiday. The Selwyns would randomly check and test them during the holidays.
The train was moving forward, and Joel couldn't bear to disturb Haylis who was studying hard. He took out a rune book from his bag and started trying to translate it.
When the train was about to pull into the station in the evening, Joel went to the dining car and bought a copy of the Evening Prophet.
The first page of the newspaper reported that a Serbian pharmacist obtained a special medicine that could relieve dragon pox through many experiments. For this, he received the Best Newcomer Award from the Potions Association.
On the second page of the newspaper, there was a photo of Lucius Malfoy undergoing a court trial. He had an uninhibited smile on his face, his robes were still neat and dust-free, and the snake-headed scepter in his hand was shining brightly, as if he had everything under control.
Joel was more concerned about the current situation of the Malfoy family. He carefully read the second page of the newspaper and discovered that the Office for the Prohibition of the Abuse of Magic, Department of Legal Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic, had actually lost the case.
Lucius insisted that the diary was harmless to the human body, and claimed that it was an advanced alchemical product, and writing in the diary could even get a response.
The wizards of the Wizengamot (Wizards' Court) actually believed Lucius's lies. After the first round of voting, Lucius was acquitted.
Mr. Weasley's head, Amelia Bones, Director of the Department of Legal Enforcement, filed a request for another appeal on the spot. The reason she explained to a reporter from the Daily Prophet was simple: this diary can respond to the wizard's writing on it.
all the problems, but as long as the communication lasts for a long time, the diary will exude an evil power that can confuse people's hearts.
Amelia revealed this information to undoubtedly put pressure on the Wizengamot. Many wizards of the Inquisition received bribes from the Malfoy family and made unfair statements in court. She simply exposed this matter.
, once the news spreads, the pressure from outside public opinion will force the wizards of the Wizengamot to submit.
Joel can guess Amelia's thoughts, but he has a deeper understanding of the degree of corruption in the magical world. A mere Malfoy family can bribe most of the wizards of the Wizengamot. Where is the prestige of the Ministry of Magic?
He quickly flipped through it, and the third page contained an anecdote: A Ford car flew through the air, surprising the Muggles.
Two Muggles in London are convinced they saw an old Ford sedan flying past the Post Office Building...
Joel laughed. He knew that it was Harry and Ron who were responsible. Unexpectedly, replaying the plot, they still did not choose to seek help from the Hogwarts staff first, and still drove Mr. Weasley.
The modified Ford took off.
This is not a big deal. If nothing goes wrong, this Ford car will send the two of them to the Whomping Willow outside Hogwarts Castle. The whole process will be smooth and safe, and they will not encounter any danger.
He glanced at the dark night outside. The speed of the special train had slowed down. Joel knew that the train was about to reach its destination and left the dining car with the newspaper.
When she returned to the cubicle, Haylis had already changed into her college robe and was still sitting there staring at the book without raising her head.
"Where's Bernie?" When Joel came in, he felt that the cubicle was much larger, and when he looked closely, he saw that there was someone missing.
"Go to Malfoy's place to change clothes." Haylis dipped her quill pen in ink twice, then drew a horizontal line on the book, and wrote two lines of her own understanding in the blank space next to it.
When the train stopped, Joel pulled Haylis and followed the flow of people towards the carriage door.
Joel thought nothing would happen to Harry and Ron. Although the Whomping Willow was a bit grumpy, the Ford was enchanted and could help them block some attacks.
But he never expected that Ron, a new driver, had poor driving skills, and when he fell, the steering wheel swerved and he fell directly into the Forbidden Forest.
"Wow..." Harry screamed as he watched the front of the Ford car hit the ground. Ron was so frightened that his face turned pale and his lips kept trembling. He now gave up on the car.
Take control, take out your wand and use levitating spells in an attempt to drag down the old car.
As the car fell, it was heavily intercepted by the tall branches in the Forbidden Forest. Coupled with several floating spells from Ron, most of the impact was offset. When it finally hit the ground, it only caused the two children's backs to hit the seats.
"Hiss..." Harry was rubbing the spine on his back. Unexpectedly, there were two sudden bangs, the car door popped open, and he felt the seat tilted to the outside. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was already lying down.
On wet soil.
A series of heavy noises told him that the car had thrown his and Ron's luggage out.
The owl Hedwig's cage flew into the air, the cage door opened wide, and Hedwig flew out, making an angry and high-pitched cry, and then flew towards the distant castle without looking back.
Then, the car rumbled into the darkness with scars all over its body hanging from branches, steam rising from its exhaust pipe, and its taillights still shining angrily.
"Come back! Come back quickly!" Ron shouted hoarsely, and the old Ford car responded with a burst of exhaust fumes.
"It's over, it's all over now." Ron was sitting on the wet soil, terrified. When he fell off the car, the wand just hit the ground vertically. It was originally a second-hand wand plus Ron's
I didn't take good care of it, and the wand broke cleanly the moment it fell to the ground, leaving only a unicorn feather connecting the upper and lower ends of the wand.
"The wand is broken and the car is gone. How can I explain to my parents when I go back?" Ron was confused.
"Come on," Harry packed his luggage and stepped forward to pull Ron, "This is the Forbidden Forest, we have to leave quickly."
The last time he, Hermione, Malfoy, Neville and others came here to track down the unicorn's blood, Ron was still lying in the hospital wing with his arm being treated and didn't come, so naturally he didn't feel how scary the Forbidden Forest was.
"It's okay, as long as we can make it in time for the sorting ceremony." Ron packed his luggage slowly and stuffed the broken wand into his robe pocket. "I don't know if my sister will come to Gryffindor."
many."
The two carried their luggage and walked along a sheep intestine to Hogwarts Castle.
The journey was not long, and they could see Hagrid's hut in about ten minutes. The bright moonlight shone through the thick night, and it was extremely quiet in the Forbidden Forest.
"Ron, I always feel that something is not right here." After his last collision with Quirrell, Harry, who was in the Forbidden Forest, was very sensitive to any disturbance around him. "Isn't it too quiet?"
"What could happen?" Ron was worried. Unsurprisingly, Mrs. Weasley already knew that her Ford car had disappeared, and she didn't know what kind of anger she would receive.
This car is the treasure of his father, Mr. Weasley. He spent several hundred gold galleons to buy it more than ten years ago when the family's financial situation was not too bad. When he had nothing to do, he liked to get into the garage and modify parts.
Just as he was thinking about how to deliver business when he returned, a gust of fishy wind suddenly came from behind him.
A huge force hit Ron on the shoulder, almost knocking him to the ground.
When Harry reacted, he immediately turned around and saw a tiger holding Ron down and rubbing it.
Human beings' fear of ferocious beasts was deeply imprinted in their minds. The moment Harry saw the tiger, which was even bigger than Ron, his legs and feet felt a little weak.
But Ron was screaming miserably under the tiger, and he couldn't abandon his friend.
"Petrify them all!" This is the most powerful spell mastered by Harry, a second-year student-to-be.
The spell hit the tiger without even knocking off any hair. The tiger yawned, opened Ron's robe with his paws, and looked at Harry.
A pair of eyes of different colors shine brightly in the dark night, making those who see them feel cold in their hearts.
"Come at me if you have anything!" Harry mustered up his courage and shouted at the tiger, "Don't even think about hurting my friends!"
The tiger seemed to understand what he said. It pounced forward and was four to five meters away in an instant. The disgusting wind mixed with endless power pressed forward.
A scream rang out in the Forbidden Forest.
In the brightly lit Hogwarts auditorium, the sorting ceremony was being held in front of the teachers' table. Professor Dumbledore was not in the center of the teachers' table, which made the students in the audience somewhat uninterested.
"Luna Lovegood!"
A little girl with blond hair, blue eyes and snow-white skin ran up and sat on the four-legged stool, her forehead covered by the sorting hat.
"Ravenclaw!"
The little girl took off her hat and skipped towards the Ravenclaw table, humming a Scottish tune. Caitlin, who was promoted to seventh grade and served as the president of the female student union, welcomed her on behalf of the Ravenclaw students.
Haylis didn't even look at the sorting ceremony on the stage, and concentrated on chewing the thick book in her hand.
As expected, Ginny Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor House, and her brothers gave her warm applause.
"She is indeed our cutest little girl!"
"Kind and brave little Ginny!" The Weasley twins' rainbow fart made Ginny's face turn red.
Joel followed the sound and looked over, but Harry and Ron were still missing.
The two of them are now in the principal's office. The college robes are torn and torn, and the skin underneath is stained with blood. Harry's glasses are crooked, and Ron is holding half of his cheek, which is highly swollen.
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Professor Dumbledore sat opposite the two of them, with his arms crossed and a solemn expression on his face, with a copy of the Evening Prophet spread out in front of him.
"Professor Dumbledore..." Harry looked at Dumbledore's stern eyes and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at him.
To him, Dumbledore was a very important elder. He gave him meticulous care, and Harry didn't want to see the slightest bit of disappointment in Dumbledore's eyes.
The two explained the cause and effect of the incident. Ron covered his mouth and said vaguely, "How could there be a tiger in the Forbidden Forest?"
The tiger pestered the two of them for a long time, just for fun, and used its claws and fangs to tear their clothes to pieces. If Professor Dumbledore hadn't arrived in time, the two of them would have returned to the castle naked.
"The point is not about the tiger." Dumbledore certainly knew what the tiger was about, so he avoided the topic. "I'm more curious about why you didn't send an owl to deliver a letter. The professors could have gone to London to pick you up."