Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 550: Arranged Lockhart
Chapter 551 Arranged Lockhart
In the middle of the night, the storm grew more unbridled.
The lights in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts were still on, and Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, reading the latest issue of Transfiguration Today by candlelight.
Beside the desk, a copy of "The Daily Prophet" was casually spread out, and the contents of the newspaper could be read clearly by candlelight:
Arthur Weasley, Director of the Ministry of Magic's Investigations and Misuse of Muggle Substances Division, has been fined fifty Galleons for enchanting a Muggle car.
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The enchanted car crashed at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and one of the school's directors, Mr. Lucius Malfoy, recently called for Mr. Weasley's immediate resignation.
"Mr Weasley has destroyed the Ministry of Magic," Malfoy told MY reporters.
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Mr. Weasley didn't reply to my reporter, but his wife told the reporter to leave, or she'd let her ghouls out to bite them.
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There is no doubt that Arthur Weasley was in trouble, he was targeted by a group of people.
Of course, some of Arthur's actions have a lot to do with the pure-blood wizards, led by Malfoy.
Honestly, the Office for the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Objects is not highly regarded at the Ministry of Magic, and Arthur's ability to get a search warrant is suspicious in itself.
Knowing that pure-blood wizards hold important positions at the Ministry of Magic, they cannot allow the officials of the Ministry of Magic to harass them.
The matter of the search warrant was clearly done on purpose, with a push in the back.
At present, Arthur's situation is very bad. Although for some reason, he has not been expelled from the Ministry of Magic for the time being, but the suspension review is still ongoing.
Many wizards who did not deal with Arthur hoped that Arthur Weasley would be expelled from the Ministry of Magic to prevent the passage of the "Muggle Protection Act" he drafted. Many pure-blood wizards believe that they have been Offended by the law.
Just now, Dumbledore wrote a letter to Fudge, persuading him to let Arthur remain in the Ministry of Magic to prevent the misuse of Muggle objects on the grounds that he agreed to temporarily delay the passage of the Muggle Protection Act. office manager.
As a matter of fact, Fudge is also having a headache about it.
No wizard is willing to take over the Office for the Prohibition of Misuse of Muggle Items. This position is moderately paid, not well paid, and is very busy. It also requires frequent dealings with Muggles. The most important thing is that there are only two wizards in this position.
Probably only a geek like Arthur would enjoy a job like this.
What made Dumbledore worse was something else.
This morning, Dumbledore received a note from Anderson stating an event of great concern to Dumbledore.
Harry Potter can hear sounds that ordinary people cannot.
This does not bode well in the wizarding world.
And, at the end of the note, it says: Something bad could happen.
A bad thing?
Dumbledore can't tell if these words are true or not, but they're definitely not a good thing.
"Something bad happened when I heard a voice that others couldn't hear?" As Dumbledore tried to connect the two things, there was a sudden knock on the door outside the room.
Dumbledore put down the magazine, stood up in confusion, walked over to open the door, and found that it was Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall puts a document on her desk.
"What else?" Dumbledore saw that Professor McGonagall seemed to have something to say.
"I don't know if you have paid attention to Professor Lockhart." Professor McGonagall said with a hint of dissatisfaction, "He messed up the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and many students came to us to complain about it. "
Before, after Lockhart's book became famous, Hogwarts professors thought they might have misread him and thought he was contributing to the fight against the dark arts.
As a result, Lockhart has only been at Hogwarts for a month, and his true nature has been exposed, and everyone has already seen his true colors.
Lockhart is still the same Lockhart he was at Hogwarts more than a decade ago, they never missed him at all.
"I know that Defence Against the Dark Arts professors are hard to find, but what Professor Lockhart has done is really unacceptable," Professor McGonagall reminded, "he is teaching students in almost every class. I have a hard time imagining what the students can learn from this vain and greedy person.”
"You can learn a lot from a bad teacher," Dumbledore said calmly. "Don't be anything, don't be someone."
Professor McGonagall was silent. She felt that what Professor Dumbledore said did make sense, but it had to be exchanged for a semester of students' Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Isn't the price a bit high?
"I don't think you want someone like Lockhart to appear among your students." Dumbledore smiled, "Also, I really couldn't find a more suitable candidate for a while. Minerva, you should also know that since Quirrell died, no one has wanted to come to Hogwarts as a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and it has a terrible reputation."
"Okay, I'll tell everyone what you mean." Professor McGonagall sighed and left the Headmaster's office, knowing that Dumbledore would always find a way to convince himself.
Watching Professor McGonagall leave, Dumbledore fell into a brief silence. No Defence Against the Dark Arts professor has taught for more than a year since he rejected Voldemort.
Many people say this class is cursed.
Actually, this statement is not wrong. Once or twice can be an accident...but fifty times can't be an accident.
As for what Lockhart did, Dumbledore actually knew it for a long time. After reading some familiar content from Lockhart's books, he deliberately took time to visit his former friends and noticed that After the forgetfulness and confusion of the other party, he realized that this was the after-effect of being cast on a powerful forgetting spell.
Lockhart is stealing other people's work.
Dumbledore didn't bother to debunk the internationally acclaimed author's hoax~IndoMTL.com~ Even if Lockhart was finally debunked, it wouldn't make much sense.
People who have been placed under a powerful Oblivion Charm often have a hard time returning to normal, and breaking the Oblivion Charm will only make things worse.
Of course, Dumbledore didn't intend to just let Lockhart go. He had long thought of a way to expose the other party's deception.
Yes, just put Lockhart into a normal school life and his deception will gradually be exposed.
When Lockhart was at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was already the headmaster of the school, and he really knew the student who was hated by professors and students.
That's why Dumbledore tried his best to invite Lockhart to be a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts. It just so happened that it was difficult to find a professor in this class every year, and Dumbledore believed that the curse of Defense Against the Dark Arts could also make Lockhart Eat hard.
It turns out that this trick is really effective, and everyone has gradually seen what kind of person Lockhart is.
(End of this chapter)