Chapter 124 Lockhart's wonderful performance~
The sun peeped lazily over the eastern horizon, and Ted had already started running around the Black Lake.
Followed by Neville, the other friends spent three days fishing and two days drying the net.
Only Neville gets up early every day, rain or shine, and exercises with Ted.
His inferiority complex exists all the time, he feels that he is clumsy and worthless. But like Ted said: Even the dumbest of people can get something if they work hard.
I work hard with excellent people, even if I can't catch up with them, I can still gain something.
In fact, he is more determined than everyone else, which is a very rare quality.
After running more than half a lap, Ted and Neville were chatting and doing some exercises to stretch their muscles.
Ted was walking by the lake, picked up a pleasing pebble, and played with it in his hand.
The magic power wraps the pebble, let it suspend and rotate in the hand, and slowly penetrate...
Neville also followed suit, picking up a stone and fiddling with it for no apparent reason.
Not too far from the castle, Ted and Neville dropped the stone. Seventeen or eighteen stones have been lost there.
Neville couldn't hold back his curiosity after all, and asked, "Ted, is there any special meaning for us to pick up stones and throw them here every day?"
It had been almost a week before Neville asked, really impatient.
He laughed: "I'm making a magic attempt."
"Magic attempt?"
"That's right! Have you ever heard of ritual magic?"
Neville nodded: "Grandma said that it is a special kind of magic, and ordinary wizards cannot cast it."
Ted smiled: "Aren't we already using it?"
"Huh? Cast ritual magic? Where? I, I don't know~" Neville was stunned.
Ted explained: "When I was on vacation, I saw an old storybook. The book was five hundred years ago, and the story was a thousand years ago, which is longer than the history of Hogwarts. It records The story of a group of wizards trying to create the Tower of Babel..."
"Tong, Tongtian Tower!"
Ted looked at the stunned Neville and laughed loudly: "Don't worry, I'm not that arrogant. We pick up stones every day, infuse them with magic power, strengthen our beliefs, and throw them here. A small rockery will appear here after a long time. .I think the magic effect should appear by then...Of course I'm guessing too, isn't this an experiment?"
The two walked and chatted, and they had arrived at the castle.
The two of them each cleaned themselves up, and then went to the auditorium to have breakfast.
Harry and the others were already waiting there, yawning.
…
In the morning Ted Hermione and Hufflepuff take Transfiguration class together, still turning beetles into buttons.
Ted's Transfiguration has begun to work. The beetle turned into a button, but it had a few extra legs, so it wasn't very well controlled.
And Hermione's progress is also very fast, the beetle has also begun to change, but the button not only has legs, but also a beetle head.
Actually, when it comes to Transfiguration alone, Hermione's talent is probably higher than Ted's.
The reason why Ted learned faster than Hermione last year was because the task directly raised his Transfiguration to lv1, which was an entry point. So faster than Hermione.
But by the end of the second semester, Hermione's study progress was no less than Ted's.
But if Ted was considered a fake academic master before, Hermione can still keep up, because she is a real academic master, but unlike Ted, a time traveler, she has a more mature mind and richer learning experience.
But later Ted's wizard level was raised to level 4, and he got the talent [God of Learning (Purple)], which immediately made Hermione invisible.
In addition to the knowledge in normal textbooks, Ted also studied a lot of his own things, but even that. Much faster than Hermione's progress.
It only took one-tenth of the time to achieve twice the learning effect of Hermione. Compared with ordinary little wizards, there may be a gap of 20 to 30 times!
Hermione couldn't keep up.
At that time, she was sullen all by herself, stayed up late to study, and couldn't keep up. Finally wept.
Still too strong.
Ted enlightened her after knowing it: "Hermione, if I become a scumbag, you will think I'm stupid and won't be friends with me?"
"of course not."
Ted: "Yeah, I won't dislike you either. You don't need to be so stressed." Smiling~
Hermione rolled her eyes: Then I thank you! It's the first time someone says I'm a scumbag and thinks I'm stupid!
But after that chat, Hermione really relaxed a lot.
So, she has been following in Ted's footsteps now.
Because Ted still has a lot to study and distract his energy, she is not left behind in the class.
Even in terms of potions, transfiguration, etc., there is a meaning of slowly catching up!
Ted is very happy about this. It is more efficient to encourage each other and motivate each other!
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During lunch, Harry and the others looked at the class schedule.
Harry: "Ha, let's have the first class in the afternoon together!"
Ron immediately became happy: "What class?"
Jerry: "Defense Against the Dark Arts~"
Ron: ╮(﹀_﹀”)╭
Neville also looked loveless.
Although last year's Quirrell finally proved to be a bad guy, he didn't hate Quirrell.
But this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, he's had enough.
Lockhart is most interested in Ted, because Ted really praised him to the sky, the kind of just right praise made Lockhart want to reward Ted with a few monthly tickets!
As for Neville, Lockhart has been trying to persuade Neville to cooperate with him and earn fame together. Scared Neville, when he heard Lockhart's name, he felt like there were ants crawling on his body~
All the friends looked at Ted: I will leave the flower peacock to you, coax him well.
Ted: Look at mine!
When you feel comfortable getting along with a person, it means that this person's EQ and IQ are higher than yours.
Unexpectedly, Lockhart actually chose to make trouble.
Lockhart is going to let the students "carefully study" his best-selling book.
But because Ted was holding it so well, he was a little floaty, thinking he was doing it again. I felt that I had to give the students something different and let them experience their wonderful adventures for themselves.
So when the students came to the classroom, they found that Lockhart was already there. There is also a thing as tall as a person covered in black cloth placed in the middle of the classroom.
"Sit down, all students!" Lockhart grinned standardly, and a flash of light flashed in the classroom like someone turned on a flashlight.
"Today, I'm going to show you the real darkness! Horrible monsters!" He had the expression of a character who must die in a horror movie.
"Although it is nothing compared to what I have experienced, it is dark enough for you. Be careful! Be careful!"
He suddenly laughed again: "Of course, Professor Lockhart is here, there won't be any accidents~ I didn't subdue the female ghost by smiling~"
Ted: Could it be that you sacrificed your hue? !
The other students were overwhelmed by Lockhart's performance. I have to say that Lockhart's acting skills are still very good. His voice and body language, his eyes and micro-expressions are all in place. It looks like an old drama at first glance. up!
"Then~" He grabbed the black cloth, "Look!" and tore it off.
Under the black cloth is a huge iron cage, as tall as a person.
This thing can hold Hagrid!
When the black cloth was lifted, the students collectively leaned back and gasped, the air pressure in the classroom dropped.
In the cage are a group of humanoid fine creatures about 20 to 30 centimeters in size, with long and narrow bat wings, two fleshy tentacles on their heads, and iron-blue bodies.
"Cornish elf?!" Some students from wizarding families recognized what it was.
Most of the students showed "That's it?" expressions.
Lockhart quickly explained: "You must not be careless, these little devils are not easy to deal with, they are very bad! They will throw away your things, pour out your coffee, hang your clothes on the tree to dry, and put the garbage in Into the pot... In short, mess up your affairs! It took me a lot of favors to capture such a large number."
However, the students didn't pay much attention to this kind of little thing, and they still looked disbelieving.
"Okay! Don't blame me for not warning you! Face the real darkness!" Lockhart pulled open the door of the cage with a little anger.
The little elves jumped out immediately, about a dozen of them, whizzing back and forth over the classroom in an instant.
These little things are really not things, and they immediately started to cause damage, tearing books, pulling curtains, shaking chandeliers, throwing students in the face, lifting female students' robes...etc! Newborn, what are you doing? !
However, Professor Lockhart, the instigator of all the chaos, couldn't get better.
Because a few Cornish elves still remembered this guy who was bullying and pointing fingers outside the cage, and the smell of his pomade made them feel bad, so they ran straight to him when they came out.
Although Lockhart wanted to fight back, the elves could fly and were quite fast. They snatched his wand very sensitively and threw it out of the window. Then the three elves chased Lockhart to fight.
Lockhart didn't care about the students anymore, he just hugged his head and screamed, and ran outside the classroom.
In just five or six meters from the podium to the door, Lockhart had a black eye and a few bloodstains on his neck. I even got a bunch of hair pulled out by an elf, so that the bangs seemed to be missing a piece...
(end of this chapter)