allendalepharm 059 The game has started, so don't call a halt!
059 The game has started, so don't call a halt!
Professor Kettleburn's greatest source of joy is dragons, and his greatest fear is also dragons—it's quite an interesting thing.
The old professor opened his mouth in surprise, then looked awkwardly at Professor Lockhart and the young wizards behind him. He raised his left prosthetic hand and scratched his already somewhat messy hair. "Boggart?"
Lockhart nodded with a smile, looking thoughtfully at the old professor, when suddenly some very strange ideas came to him.
Perhaps he could get this old professor to come and help teach the Defense Against the Dark Arts class!
Having survived being killed by Voldemort's curse, he had too many plans to implement and urgently needed someone to help him share the teaching load so that he could have more free time.
Old friend!
It's not time to retire yet!
It also needs to emit light and heat!
Get to work!
Anyway, the other party seems to be always busy.
Admittedly, Professor Kettleburn had grown tired of the daily grind of teaching and longed for exciting adventures.
But isn't that just right? Lockhart's teaching method, in addition to the necessary theoretical courses, includes a lot of practical teaching of "fairy tale adventures".
Now, while on an adventure with Dumbledore, he has acquired another interesting magical item – Carol's Bedtime Stories.
Some of the scenes there are enough to keep Professor Kettleburn and his young wizards on plenty of adventures.
Brilliant!
Lockhart's smile grew even brighter.
……
"What?"
"Should Professor Kettleburn teach you a few Defense Against the Dark Arts classes?"
Dumbledore, who had finally found some free time to go back to school for a short rest, was enjoying the interesting texture of the cockroaches crawling in his mouth when Lockhart suggested something, and he almost spat out the cockroaches in his mouth.
He swallowed the pile of cockroaches with force, then looked at Professor Kettleburn with a strange expression. "You also agree with Professor Lockhart's suggestion?"
"Of course!" Professor Kettleburn exclaimed enthusiastically, waving his only intact right hand vigorously. "I'd be delighted, Professor Dumbledore!"
"However, given the curse that the mysterious man has placed on this class, I, a crippled old man with half my body buried in the ground, dare not provoke him. It would be best to remain as a temporary teaching assistant."
Professor Kettleburn, seemingly trying his best to persuade Dumbledore, said, "Anyway, my title is teacher, and it's perfectly normal for teachers to occasionally serve as teaching assistants for professors."
Outrageous!
Dumbledore exclaimed that it was outrageous!
My old pal, did that young Lockhart give you some kind of mind-altering potion? Or did he use a soul-stealing spell on you?
Haven't you been saying you wanted to quit your job?
Didn't you come and pester me every few days to get me to agree, deliberately playing the "staying up all night" tactic to see who would give in first, desperately trying to escape your teaching career?
What do you mean by being so proud to become Lockhart's teaching assistant?
not to mention……
Dumbledore couldn't help but recall how Professor Kettleburn had urged him to let Professor Lockhart take over as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor every few years. How come it's only been a few days, and now he's the one giving up his Magical Creatures Protection class to become Lockhart's teaching assistant?
He also said that if this prevented him from teaching magical creature conservation to young wizards, Professor Lockhart could help out.
6!
He doesn't understand!
He looked at his old friend, who was so excited, like a young couple about to fall in love, and when he couldn't get an answer, he couldn't help but look at Lockhart.
Lockhart simply smiled and said, "Perhaps there's something even more interesting than adventuring in a wild fire dragon reserve?"
"No, no, no!" Professor Kettleburn refuted Lockhart's statement, declaring righteously, "It's something far more meaningful! The young wizards are still so inexperienced and naive; they need experienced old wizards like myself to teach them more!"
Ah this...
Dumbledore almost suspected that the pile of cockroaches he ate had gone bad, and that some harmful toxicity had affected his brain, causing him to hallucinate.
Ok.
He finally nodded in agreement.
But looking at Lockhart, this young man, he suddenly felt a tiny bit of jealousy.
Yes, jealousy.
Lockhart's usual teaching volume has been reduced from its previous scale to only a quarter of what it used to be, and now an old professor is eagerly hoping to help as a teaching assistant.
When did teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts become so easy?
When he was young, he was the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts. For decades, he never dared to relax for a moment!
Lockhart has only been a professor at Hogwarts for a few months.
Dumbledore suddenly had a bizarre hallucination—who knows what Lockhart might do next and become the most relaxed professor in Hogwarts history!
Hey!
Old Deng was right!
Lockhart has indeed been working to reduce his workload, but the headmaster just hasn't noticed.
From the very beginning of the course, Professor Lockhart always had the young wizards come up to the stage to act as his assistants. As he continued to study this model more deeply, and explored the model of having Harry and Malfoy mentor their respective friends in the Duel Club, he has become increasingly proficient at it.
The sixth and seventh graders were the most relaxed. Many students in the NEWT advanced class knew how to exert their influence, and there were simply too many who volunteered.
Harry's class was the same.
Now, it's time to expand to other grades.
For example, the first-year wizards!
Lockhart also selected two young wizards as his priority for training—Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood.
Yes!
He's getting his hands on Ginny Weasley!
Or to put it more bluntly, they plan to target Tom Riddle, who is mentioned in Voldemort's Horcrux diary!
He had previously chosen to refrain from interfering with Tom Riddle out of fear of provoking the dangerous Dark Lord and being dragged into the quagmire of war.
Now, hey, we're completely on the opposite side, so what's there to be afraid of!
Wizardry is never as simple as comparing plasmas; otherwise, Voldemort would have been torn to shreds by Dumbledore long ago.
What truly makes wizards powerful is their "mystery"!
When Voldemort was at the height of his power, he never imagined that a prophecy would suddenly appear saying that he would be killed by some little brat.
After the Order of the Phoenix overthrew Voldemort's forces, there were rumors everywhere that Voldemort was still alive and in Albania, but Dumbledore couldn't find him for all these years.
Azkaban, known as the most secure prison in the world, was a place the Ministry of Magic never imagined could be bypassed by the Animagus, a kind of bug.
Peter Pettigrew, disguised as a mouse, was brought to school by the Weasley brothers countless times, appearing openly under the noses of Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix, and a host of bigwigs. Little did he know that his name would be easily marked on a magical map.
The magical world holds countless mysteries in different areas that even the most powerful wizards are unaware of.
Lockhart is exactly that kind of person.
He's a master at manipulating memories, and unfortunately, Tom Riddle in the Horcrux is currently playing the same trick he knows best.
"Everyone has their own area of expertise!"
"Voldemort, the game has begun, so don't call a halt!"
He has plenty of ways to make Voldemort cry his eyes out—let him see what Ravenclaw scum is like. We're not like the Gryffindors of the Order of the Phoenix you usually deal with!