Chapter 284
In fact, when he was in school, Lockhart was not very popular, but he still achieved his primary level goal through some repeated and eye-catching "great achievements". Let everyone in the school recognize him:
For example, he used magic to engrave a huge personal signature on the Quiddich stadium. Each letter of the signature is twenty feet long-for this he Was fined for a week of confinement and labor;
He also imitated Dark Mark, projecting his huge, gleaming portrait onto the sky during that stressful period; at the same time, he also celebrated on Valentine’s Day every year. Send yourself 800 cards-the owl gathered in the auditorium made everyone have to give up breakfast because too much feather and feces fell into the porridge.
Because of his extraordinary "magnificent" methods, when he graduated, the professors and school staff of the whole school couldn't help but sighed in relief.
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When Dumbledore heard about Lockhart again, he already had a lot of fame.
His news was heard by Dumbledore from other teachers. It is said that Lockhart has made a lot of achievements abroad, so Dumbledore paid attention to it.
As soon as you start to pay attention to these things, related deeds will be heard more and more. The teachers of Hogwarts even thought that they might have misunderstood Lockhart at the beginning, because he was far away. Committed to eliminating all kinds of dangers, the dark creature's career has all proved his extraordinary courage and resilience.
But Dumbledore knew very well what Lockhart was, and he formed the Order of the Phoenix at this time, so he tried to investigate Lockhart-there is no wizard who happened to know. It is not because of accidents that the truth is known. These things are all due to the investigation of the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's experience and reasoning.
It’s just that as the member responsible for investigating Lockhart passed away because of Voldemort’s evil deeds, Lockhart’s investigation report was completely placed on Dumbledore’s bookshelf. No one wanted to know that Lockhart was going to deceive those who had done something. The wizards and witches revealed their greatest deeds and erased their memories afterwards—maybe the reporters at Daily Prophet liked it, but Dumbledore didn’t.
But Lockhart did not disappear from Dumbledore's world, because every time he returned to Britain, he would immediately write a book to tell the heroic deeds that belonged to others.
——"The book written by Lockhart is very popular in Magic Circle, and he even prepared a peacock brush just to sign the book."
Such lace news has never been Not to be missed by the students, Dumbledore can often hear fresh gossip about him in the mouths of the students, and because of the so-called "deeds", Lockhart has won many awards.
He was invited to become an honorary member of the Defense Against the Dark Arts alliance, and at the same time, he has been successfully concealing his fraudulent behavior in the magic circle.
It’s just that because there was no follow-up investigation, Dumbledore didn’t know that Lockhart had another identity. Because he had lived enough as a celebrity, Lockhart went to muggle’s special department incognito. consultant.
If he knew this, Dumbledore might look at him even more.
But even if he knew these inside stories, Dumbledore didn't think Lockhart was a bad wizard because of this.
He was never a bad wizard, but he was too lazy and more vain. At least he never killed people because of his own desires. I have to say that such a criterion can only prove that Lockhart is not too bad. Bad, and there is no way to conceal the problem with his character.
At the same time, Dumbledore also knew about Lockhart's research on memory magic.
There is a considerable description of this in the information Dumbledore has, and inferred from past events, Dumbledore feels that Lockhart is likely to perfect this complex magic system, so he can find those great After the brave wizard and witch, they successfully modified their memories and stole their heroic exploits.
For these analysis reports of Lockhart, the handwriting on the above has dried up and blurred, but this does not prevent Dumbledore from reading. At the same time, he also pulled out a newspaper from the shelf. The above is an interview with Lockhart— —Because of his new book about to be released.
The introduction above is also very interesting.
"...Ten years after graduation, Lockhart gained the status of a best-selling author with his series of autobiographical books, as well as a reputation as a world-class Defense Against the Dark Arts Master, and even won an Order of Merlin, Third Class, became an honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League.
His beauty—despite his claim that “in the days of fighting with werewolf and Banshee, after experiencing life and death battles and bloody battles Dumbledore has faded away from the brilliance."——won the Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award five times."
Dumbledore chuckled lightly when he saw these, not knowing why, he suddenly felt It is also reasonable for Jon to learn from Lockhart. He does not only memorize magic, but also shows his talent because of memorizing magic.
Moreover, Lockhart's character seems to be in line with its own requirements.
Such a character who likes to perform may be able to fulfill his requirements perfectly, and at the same time, it is also beneficial to Lockhart.
So the headmaster sat back in his seat and began to write a letter.
You must be very cautious about writing to Lockhart. At the same time, you must be prepared that Lockhart will hold this letter as a talk. Although Dumbledore does not care about this happening, he needs to guard against Lockhart. By refusing to invite this matter to hype for his new book.
So this letter does not directly indicate that I want Lockhart to come to teach. I need to do a bit of ambiguous "language art processing" before I can bring Lockhart to Hogwarts for face-to-face interviews. Things.
——Even if he doesn’t make sense, he can still help while Jon is in school. How to say, this candidate is recommended to him by Jon, and he should be a student when he does things from beginning to end. Good quality possessed.
Dumbledore is very experienced in writing letters. He drew up the words and drafts very quickly, and then began to write the body of the letter.
The undying bird Fawkes flew in from the window, landed on the bird shelf, took a small biscuit and swallowed it into his stomach, then landed on Dumbledore's shoulder, rubbing the bird's beak against Dumbledore's face.
"Okay, okay, I see."
Dumbledore put down the pen, the letter was automatically folded into the envelope, and then Dumbledore handed it to Fawkes.
"Go, you know where he is."