Admiral of Hogwarts

Chapter 137 Lockhart’s Class

Lockhart, who was standing in front of the classroom, had no way of knowing that Hugo was thinking about how miserable he would leave Hogwarts this year.

So he looked very excited and picked up the copy of "Walking with Trolls" that was placed on the desk of a girl in the front row. He held it up in his hand and showed the photo of himself winking on the cover.

"I," he pointed to his photo and winked, "Gilderoy Lockhart, Order of Merlin, Third Class, honorary member of the Defense League against Dark Arts, and five times winner of Wizarding Weekly's Most Charming Smile Prize - but I don’t talk about that, I didn’t drive away the female ghosts in Bandon by smiling!”

He waited for everyone to burst into cheers or laughter, but it was obvious that the students sitting here knew that this was a classroom and it was class time, even if they were obsessed with him.

So except for a few fans in the front row who smiled softly, the situation in the entire classroom was obviously awkward.

"Okay, I see that many of you have taken the initiative to buy my works. So I think we can do a simple test now." After looking at everyone's attitude and the number of my works in the classroom, less than 1/5 After confirming the popularity rate, Lockhart frowned quickly, and then handed out a stack of papers to everyone on the table one by one.

The Ravenclaws and Slytherins present were all shocked when they got the paper, because the question above was like this:

1. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?

2. What is Gilderoy Lockhart’s secret ambition?

3. What do you think is Gilderoy Lockhart’s greatest achievement to date?

And so on, there are three pages, and the last question is: 54. When is Gilderoy Lockhart's birthday? What is his ideal birthday gift?

While Hugo directly extracted the corresponding knowledge from the Admiral's network and started to fill in the blanks, he expressed deep sympathy for the senior students who will take the OLS and NEWT exams this year. If their self-study ability is not particularly good, their Defense Against the Dark Arts class results this year It could be extremely bad.

Half an hour later, Lockhart put the papers away and looked through them in front of the whole class. "Tsk tsk - almost no one remembers that I like the color lilac best. I mentioned it in "A Year with the Tibetan Snowman". Also, I suggest everyone read "A Weekend with the Werewolf" - I Chapter 12 of the book makes it clear that my ideal birthday gift would be for all magical and non-magical people to live in harmony – but I wouldn’t say no to a large bottle of Ogden’s Aged Fire Whiskey either!”

At this, Lockhart winked mischievously at them again. However, most of the Slytherin and Ravenclaw students present looked at him with expressionless faces.

Among them were many young wizards who sat in the front row of the classroom and had bought a complete set of his books before.

"Beautifully written, Mr. Granger! You actually remember that my secret ambition is to eliminate evil in the world and sell my own line of hair lotions-" Lockhart said with some excitement:

"I think this paper can get 100 points...so I will add five points to Ravenclaw now!"

"How did you do that?" Hermione, who was at the same table as Hugo, poked his arm with her finger as she watched Professor Lockhart walk back to the podium. "I can't believe you could remember all the words he used to brag. I almost threw up when I saw those places."

"You will find some extra knowledge when you read those words while holding back the feeling of vomiting." Hugo shrugged his shoulders and said, "For example, when he wrote about his ideal birthday gift, he mixed some words into it. Regarding the comments on the Wolfsbane Potion, the description of the werewolf's state after drinking the Wolfsbane Potion is very valuable."

Perhaps because this was his first class after coming to school, Lockhart did not bring the Cornish elf here to demonstrate to everyone. Instead, he used his own novel as a model to talk about how to deal with female ghosts.

Although from Hugo's point of view he was just reading out a part from the book, it was enough for the second grade students in the classroom to have a rough understanding of evil magical creatures like female ghosts.

After getting through the first class of school safely, Hugo and the others took a Transfiguration class with the Gryffindor students. Professor McGonagall did not teach anything new in this class. Instead, she held a review class to review the content from the previous semester and asked everyone to turn beetles into buttons.

Hugo was the first to successfully turn a beetle into an engraved silver button, and thus received five extra points from Professor McGonagall. But others fare a little worse.

For example, most of the Gryffindor students conjured buttons with wings or six legs, and there were even people like Harry or Ron who only let beetles exercise.

This naturally made Professor McGonagall a little unhappy, especially when almost all of the Ravenclaw students had completed their transformation before get out of class ended.

So after the bell rang, Professor McGonagall asked those students who failed to complete the transformation to write a two-foot-long assignment about the transformation of a beetle and submit it in the next class.

This led to the fact that during lunch, even if you were sitting at the Ravenclaw table, you could hear complaints coming from the Gryffindor table. After all, for many people, having to write a two-foot-long paper as soon as school starts means that their idea of ​​taking a break is completely ruined.

"What classes do we have this afternoon?" After taking a sip of the creamy soup stewed with mushrooms and bacon, Hugo turned to Veneto who was sitting next to him and asked.

"You obviously have your own class schedule." Veneto complained, then took out the folded class schedule from his pocket and took a look at it. "We have an Herbology class in the afternoon, again with Slytherin. Then the last class is free, so we can arrange our own things."

Veneto showed an unhappy expression when he thought about going to class with Slytherin, although the relationship between Ravenclaw and Slytherin is not as bad as the relationship between Gryffindor and Slytherin. , and even some cross-college friends.

But for students like Hugo and others who come from non-wizard families, going to class with Slytherins is always an uncomfortable thing.

In the afternoon, everyone went to the greenhouse together. After studying last year, Professor Sprout finally allowed them to enter the third greenhouse.

Different from the first greenhouse where they studied last year, the plants in the third greenhouse are more interesting and dangerous.

Professor Sprout took a large key from his belt and opened the door. There was a smell of damp earth and fertilizer, mixed with some nice plant smell. Soon, everyone discovered that the fragrance came from several small trees with feathery leaves and barrel-shaped trunks planted in pots in the corner of the greenhouse.

"Gentlemen and ladies, stay away from the sleeping ferns before you take precautions." Professor Sprout said loudly after seeing several students trying to get closer to these small trees to take a good smell.

"The plants in this greenhouse are more dangerous than the plants you encountered last school year, so you should try to stay vigilant during class."