Chapter 177 Lockhart Stories

After leaving the bookstore, Professor McGonagall kept her promise and took Fish to eat ice cream. Then she did not leave in a hurry, but continued to stroll in Diagon Alley with Fish.

Although she was affected by the high-speed mine cart and Lockhart in Gringotts, Professor McGonagall was still very happy today.

Because Fish's growth was of great significance to Professor McGonagall. It not only solved a major hidden danger in her heart, but also gave her a sense of accomplishment in raising a cub.

So Professor McGonagall, who was in a good mood, planned to take Fish out to play for a while today.

Fish didn't know what Professor McGonagall was thinking. He just followed Professor McGonagall to stroll around the shops in Diagon Alley with great interest, and bought a lot of snacks to eat along the way.

They even went to Eeyla Owl Shop and Hopping Magic Joke Shop, which they had been reluctant to take him to last time.

But now Fish has lost interest in predatory owls, and Fish is not very interested in the magic toys that Professor McGonagall has been worried about.

Although he was attracted by the crackling fireworks and strange props at first, he felt bored once the novelty wore off. In comparison, toys like the Golden Snitch that could escape irregularly interested him more.

The only thing that made him a little unhappy was that he couldn't eat the Chinese food made by Comey because he was outside.

So after strolling for a while in the afternoon, he took the initiative to ask to go back. He didn't want to miss dinner.

After returning home, after playing for a day, he turned into a kitten, found a trophy, crawled into it, and began to sleep.

Since discovering that Firth liked to sleep on trophies, Professor McGonagall has found all the trophies she had won before, put them in various corners of the house, and used them as cat beds for Firth.

When Professor McGonagall put the textbooks she bought in Firth's room, she suddenly had an idea and took out one of Lockhart's seven books, took it and sat next to Firth, and read it carefully.

Although in Professor McGonagall's impression, Gilderoy Lockhart was a headache when he was a student. Although he didn't like to play pranks like the twins, he would make a scene comparable to the one that Fish snatched the Sorting Hat at the opening ceremony in order to attract attention.

For example, he once carved his name on the Quidditch pitch with 20-foot-long letters, and projected his portrait into the sky like the Dark Mark.

What impressed Professor McGonagall the most was that he sent himself 800 Valentine's Day cards on a Valentine's Day, which forced the breakfast of the day to be cancelled because a lot of owl droppings and feathers fell into the oatmeal.

Among these unfortunate oatmeal, one bowl belonged to Professor McGonagall, causing her to never drink oatmeal again until now - this was one of her favorite breakfasts.

If it was just like this, it would be fine. There has never been a shortage of troublemakers in Gryffindor. Even if Lockhart was a Ravenclaw, Professor McGonagall would not treat him differently.

What really made Professor McGonagall hate Lockhart was his attitude towards learning.

As a Ravenclaw, Lockhart's talent is not bad, but the purpose of his study is to get attention and satisfy his inexplicable vanity.

So when he found that the result of his serious study was only about the same as other students, Lockhart stopped working hard and tried his best to do something eye-catching.

This made Professor McGonagall, who was devoted to education and had a traditional and old-fashioned personality, very dissatisfied with him. After finding that he did not change after repeated teachings, Professor McGonagall began to hate Lockhart like other professors.

But since Dumbledore chose him as the teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Professor McGonagall had more or less heard about his situation in the past few years, she planned to put aside her prejudice and confirm his current situation through the book written by Lockhart.

Opening this book "Wandering with Werewolves", Professor McGonagall adjusted her glasses on the bridge of her nose and read the contents word by word.

As she remembered, the book was full of Lockhart's boasting about himself. He still liked to show off so much.

But apart from these uncomfortable contents, the descriptions of werewolves in the book, as well as some coping plans, are very accurate.

This surprised Professor McGonagall. In her impression, Lockhart did not have the strength and calmness in the book.

"Could it be that Lockhart finally stopped wasting his talent?"

Professor McGonagall muttered in a low voice, but she did not dare to believe it in her heart. After all, he had not changed after so many years in school, but became worse. She did not think that Lockhart would change much after graduation.

Moreover, it can be seen from the content of the book that he is still the vain Lockhart, but the content about werewolves is true and credible...

Professor McGonagall pinched her nose and decided to read the other six books first before making a conclusion.

Although the six books seem to be a lot and seem to take several days to read, in fact, removing the self-boasting content in the book and the travel experiences that are not related to the Defense Against the Dark Arts, there are not too many things in each book, and even the total is not even half of the first-year book "Dark Arts: Self-Defense Guide".

These are just some of the little tips when dealing with dangerous magical creatures, but they are very practical and unique.

This made Professor McGonagall very puzzled.

Judging from the contents of these seven books, Lockhart is indeed a real talent. It is no wonder that the Ministry of Magic awarded him the Order of Merlin, and the Dark Arts Defense League recruited him as an honorary member.

Judging from Lockhart's performance in the book alone, he is indeed qualified.

But this Lockhart is too different from the guy who is ignorant and fame-seeking in Professor McGonagall's impression, so she now has a very strange sense of separation from Lockhart.

"Maybe I have too deep a prejudice against Lockhart..."

Professor McGonagall closed the book and readjusted her evaluation of Lockhart in her heart.

And to be honest, compared with other textbooks, these books of Lockhart are more attractive, and it is no wonder that they are still popular despite the high price... After all, there is a lack of entertainment in the wizarding world, and storybooks are also a relatively popular industry.

"Huh?"

Professor McGonagall suddenly discovered another use for these books-they can be read to Fish as storybooks.

Fish doesn't like studying because the content in the textbooks is too boring, but Lockhart's books are written in an interesting way. Fish can learn a lot of practical content from them by listening to the stories.

The only thing to pay attention to is not to let Fish be led astray by those self-praising contents.

But this is easy to solve. Fish basically won't read such books full of words anyway. She can just remove those contents when reading.

Thinking of this, Professor McGonagall suddenly felt that... Lockhart's books are worth buying.

Although it is a bit expensive, there is indeed something in it. Coupled with Lockhart's outstanding writing style and fame, as well as the thrilling storyline, five Galleons a book cannot be said to be worth the money, but it is within an acceptable range.

"Fish."

Professor McGonagall woke up the kitten who was sleeping soundly in the trophy.

"Meow?" (=Φω=)

The sleepy kitten poked its head out of the trophy and looked at Professor McGonagall.

"Want to listen to a story?"

Professor McGonagall shook Lockhart's book in her hand.

"Meow!"(=ω=)

Fish immediately jumped out of the trophy and landed on Professor McGonagall's thigh, with a pair of triangular ears erected, looking up at her expectantly.

Professor McGonagall smiled, opened the book in her hand, and slowly read out the content that she had deleted.

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I think there is still some truth in Lockhart's book. After all, the actual protagonist is not Lockhart, but the wizards who were cast the forget spell by him, so the content of dealing with werewolves and vampires should still be worthy of scrutiny.

Otherwise, he would not have been awarded the Order of Merlin and become a member of the Dark Magic Defense League just because he wrote a few books.

Even if the people in the Ministry of Magic may not have enough vision, the people in the Dark Magic Defense League are experienced wizards and are unlikely to be deceived by a few useless storybooks, so there must be some substantial content in the book.

It's just that Lockhart himself might not be aware of the knowledge contained therein, and was only busy bragging and attracting attention. Otherwise, if he had just followed the script in the original work and not done anything weird, the chances of him failing would actually be quite low.