"Classmates," Lockhart stood on the classroom podium, smiling brightly at the dozens of students in the audience, "this is the last class I will teach you."
The students obviously couldn't accept this sudden news, and they wailed one after another.
Although Professor Lockhart's teaching ability is not very strong, he is still much better than Professor Quirrell last year. They don't expect to meet a teacher as dedicated as Professor White again, they just want to have a good class.
Just teach some things, at least don't let them know the scope of the exam before the OWL exam.
"I can't bear to part with you lovely faces," Lockhart explained to them, "but the great Professor Lockhart has a mind for the stars and the sea. His goal is to travel the whole world, rather than stay in this quiet and peaceful castle.
A lifelong teacher."
"My new book!" Lockhart changed the subject and took out a hardcover book from his bag, "'Lockhart's Hogwarts Adventures'!"
"This new book will be on sale at Flourish and Blotts Bookstore on July 1st," Lockhart grinned, "Students who are interested can buy a copy and read it. It contains the whole process of the secret room incident, as well as some mysterious contents.
Urgently waiting to be unlocked!”
After explaining the final exam papers to the students, Lockhart fulfilled his last duty as a Hogwarts professor and reluctantly said goodbye to the students and left the classroom.
The eighth floor of the castle, the principal's office.
Dumbledore and Lockhart sat across the table from each other.
"Albus, I have completed my task," Lockhart stretched, "Have you decided on the professor for next school year?"
Dumbledore smiled, "Although I brought you to Hogwarts through hard work, you didn't suffer, right? Being able to teach explosive people like Harry and the son of an old friend like Joel, you feel good in your heart.
Doesn’t it give you a lot of satisfaction?”
"That's natural," Lockhart looked a little lonely, "I even had the idea in my mind that I wanted to continue teaching until they graduate before leaving school."
"Then I couldn't welcome you more. It's very difficult to find a decent professor now."
Dumbledore wished that Lockhart would stay and teach. Because of Riddle's curse, the Defense Against the Dark Arts professors changed every year. He had visited all his old friends over the years, and the old professors couldn't bear to show their affection for him and come to Hogg.
Professor Watts left the school in the last year due to various accidents. Seeing that he had almost used up all the connections he had accumulated over the years, he had begun to lose face and find students who had just graduated to become professors.
"Forget it," Lockhart shook his head and refused, "My life goal cannot be delayed. I will go to France in August for another adventure in my life."
"I have one thing to ask you," Lockhart glanced at the portraits of the principal on the surrounding walls, leaned down and whispered into Dumbledore's ear, "You know about Riddle's diary?
The true identity is..."
"Horcruxes," said Dumbledore very calmly, "are the Dark Lord's."
The expression on Lockhart's face could only be described as wonderful, but then he was relieved, "I should have thought of it earlier... Can I help you?"
Dumbledore shook his head, "I haven't found out the specific reason why the Horcrux was cast yet. I will come to you when I need it, Gilderoy."
On July 2, Joel and his friends took the Hogwarts Express to London. The day before returning home, the results of the final exam were announced. Joel received an E in Herbology, and the rest of the grades were O, but
The first place in the grade is still Hailis, and everyone knows that the girl is very enthusiastic in studying.
"Joel!"
As soon as Joel put his and Hailis' suitcases on the shelf, he heard someone calling him from behind.
When I looked back, I saw it was the Iron Triangle.
"We have something to tell you!" Ron waved.
"Then I'll go first," Joel looked at Haylis, "You..."
"I'll bring Qiu and Cedric over here," Haylis brushed some hair behind her ears, "You can just come to the cubicle later."
Joel followed Iron Triangle to their cubicle.
"Mr. Taylor, I have to thank you for protecting the two of them in the secret room, otherwise with their reckless temperament..." Hermione first gave Ron a look that hated iron.
"Okay Hermione," Ron said a little impatiently. Sometimes he was very tired of Hermione's motherly attitude. He felt that she was demeaning herself in front of others with her long words, but he quite enjoyed Hermione's chatter when he was alone.
Alas, he couldn't figure out the reason now, "Harry and I are not as stupid as you say, okay?"
Joel chuckled, "Speaking of which, my trip to the Chamber of Secrets was thanks to Ron and Harry. One of them saved me, and the other opened the Chamber of Secrets with Parseltongue. They both played a vital role."
The two of them blushed at the praise, and Ron took out a hardcover book from his bag, "Do you remember when we heard Lockhart threaten Hagrid?"
"He actually wanted to enter the Forbidden Forest to find the Acromantula!" Ron opened the book "Lockhart's Hogwarts Adventures". Lockhart on the cover was still taking off his hat and saluting everyone, brilliantly.
Her blond hair is particularly eye-catching.
Joel took the book from Ron and flipped through it carefully. The first third of Lockhart's book described how popular he was at Hogwarts and how he taught "The Boy Who Lived"
"Harry Potter and the four rising stars of the wizarding world, CLBT.
The middle part describes how he bravely fought the Acromantula in the Forbidden Forest, and even included a photo of Lockhart stepping on an Acromantula and gesturing to the camera with scissor hands.
"So that's it..." Joel knew clearly in his heart that Lockhart threatened Hagrid in order to enter the Forbidden Forest to find some kind of vicious and powerful creature, defeat it and write this experience into the book to continue to reflect his glorious image.
.
Hagrid had previously acted as if he knew nothing about this, so it was probably Lockhart who arranged all this and cast the Oblivion Curse on him.
"Should we tell this matter..." Iron Triangle called Joel here just to discuss this matter.
Joel shook his head, "Professor Lockhart wrote this experience in the book, and Professor Dumbledore must also be aware of it. Since he has acquiesced to this behavior, we don't need to worry about it anymore."
The Iron Triangle looked at each other. Just as Joel thought, the three of them were simply Dumbledore's loyal fans. As long as Dumbledore was moved out, they would basically have no objections.
"If there's nothing else, I'll go back first..." Joel also wanted to take advantage of this period of travel to get closer to Haylis, otherwise they would have to meet through a double-sided mirror when the vacation begins.
"Wait!" Harry stood up with a shy expression, "Well... we have a gracious favor."
Since it’s an unkind invitation, then don’t say it at all, Joel cursed, but with a smile on his face, “What is it?”
"I want to ask you to teach us dueling skills," Harry, who was introverted, mustered up the courage to speak. "After the trip to the Chamber of Secrets, we deeply realized our shortcomings in combat skills. After Professor Lockhart left, the dueling club didn't know what would happen.
It will not continue, so we would like to ask you to be our teacher."
In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry was helpless and could only watch his seniors and teachers shield him from the wind and rain. He desperately wanted to improve his strength. Harry knew that he would have to face Voldemort in the future, and there was not much time left for him.
Joel's eyes swept across Iron Triangle's face, and he pondered for a moment without responding. Seeing that he was reluctant to express his opinion, Hermione felt anxious. Just as she was about to speak again, she heard Joel's calm voice.
"I agree," Joel stood up, "We will contact you again when the new semester starts."
After saying that, he waved goodbye to the three of them and returned to the compartment where Haylis was.
The time spent with Haylis always flew by so fast. Joel felt that in just a blink of an eye, the Hogwarts Express stopped at King's Cross Station in London.
The two reluctantly said goodbye to each other. Joel saw Haylis being picked up by her father, Mr. Selwyn, and then hurriedly left the station and took the Knight Bus to Godric's Hollow.
After getting off the bumpy bus, Joel suddenly discovered that the World Tree that he had been thinking about in the center of his brain for a long time finally moved.