Hogwarts becomes host

Although she still felt uncomfortable, Elaine listened to Hermione's words.

Indeed, if you are really unhappy with Adair, then just use your strength to suppress him and stop him from causing trouble.

It was too late this time, but there would be time in the future, and building up strength wouldn't be a bad thing.

It's better than short sellers complaining and doing nothing.

Therefore, Elaine spent the next time studying as much as possible, not wasting every minute and second, discussing and researching with Hermione.

Learning to divert her attention, she no longer worried about Adair's affairs, even though she was still haunted by nightmares filled with dark magic.

This also made Daphne complain, saying that it didn't feel like a holiday at all. She wanted to go to the Muggle world, but both Hermione and Elaine refused to accompany her.

However, Daphne only complained a few words. In fact, she was very willing to study magic with Elaine and Hermione, and even secretly demonstrated several of Greengrass's family magics to the two.

The inheritance of the Greengrass family is biased towards communication and defense, such as the magic shield Daphne used to resist Nott, and the positioning magic cast on Elaine.

This positioning magic is not only for tracking. If two people learn it and use it on each other, they can gain the ability to communicate mentally within a short distance, and they can have real-time conversations without making any sound.

It is very practical, but due to the restrictions of family inheritance, wizards other than the Greengrass family have to spend more time learning to use it, so Elaine has no intention of learning.

The magic passed down from generation to generation in pure-blood families is somewhat special. For example, music magic is a unique technique of using music to control magic. People who are not from the Shafiq family cannot learn it at all. Du Chen has Adair's soul attached to him. It can only be used after entering Elaine's body.

This seems to be a method used by the founder to prevent the inheritance from leaking out. Compared with the widely spread magic spells, these family inheritances are more powerful and easier to use. This is why pure-blood families can occupy most of the wealth in the wizarding world. The reason is that the strength passed down from generation to generation makes them much stronger than ordinary wizards.

Hermione and Daphne learned positioning magic, which made it easier for the two to communicate with each other. Although Daphne and Hermione also asked Elaine to learn it, Elaine refused. Unlike Hermione, her conversation with Daphne would not make Daphne suffer. Blame, so she has no need to study.

Besides, she didn't have Hermione's learning ability and didn't want to spend too much time practicing other magic.

Currently, Elaine's most important topic is to strengthen her soul, practice the skills to control magic, and learn deeper magic theories, so that she can suppress Adair's consciousness.

The huge magical power is her backing, but if she doesn't know how to use it, she can't fully utilize this advantage. It's like a person who has superhuman strength, but also needs to learn fighting skills to become an excellent hero.

***

School is about to start, and it's time to go to Diagon Alley to buy supplies.

In addition to replenishing potion materials and stationery, the most important thing is to buy new textbooks.

However, most of the textbooks in the first grade will continue to be used in the second grade. Only the standard spells of Charms need to buy the second level.

Also, Gilderoy Lockhart was replaced as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Breaking up with the female ghost

Traveling with Ghouls

Vacationing with a dominatrix

Walking with the Trolls

Traveling with a vampire

Wandering with werewolves

A year with the Tibetan Snowman

These are the seven textbooks used in the Defense Against the Dark Arts course, all of which are written by Gilderoy Lockhart.

As a teacher, he actually used his power to force students to buy books written by him. This made Elaine very unhappy. Money was not used to buy random things. She hated this Lockhart. This guy was just a idiot who stole other people's reputations. Even the Armor Curse cannot be cast, and the original work also planned to cast the Oblivion Curse on Harry and Ron.

As for why Dumbledore would let such a person teach, well, that's a sad story.

Because after Voldemort's embarrassing curse when he failed to find a job in 1956, for a full 36 years, the dark arts teacher suffered from various accidents, including serious injuries, spell rebound, drowning, food allergies, pregnancy, inheritance of family business, unexpected wealth, cheating exposure, and bankruptcy. , were killed by students, etc., no one could survive more than a year.

So far, there is finally no stubborn Auror or wizard willing to apply to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.

Dumbledore had no choice but to subtly hint to Lockhart how much fame he would bring by being Harry Potter's teacher. This irresistible temptation, ego and desire for fame overcame caution, and Lockhart immediately agreed to give up. He started his prosperous career as a writer and returned to Hogwarts to teach at the risk of being seen through by his professor.

Even though Elaine had warned Lockhart that he was an idiot, Dumbledore believed that Lockhart was still a qualified Ravenclaw graduate, although not as powerful as he described himself. With his graduation grades at school, he was qualified for any job. Teaching should not be difficult.

At least, students can still learn two things from a bad teacher: what kind of things not to do, what kind of person not to be

When she found out that the second-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher was Lockhart, Hermione screamed to express her excitement, which gave Elaine a headache──Why did Hermione still come into contact with Lockhart's book and become admirer of lockhart

The damn Hogwarts library, where Voldemort can find out how to make Horcruxes, and where Hermione can find Lockhart's books, just blow up this garbage place.

You can't blame Hermione for being confused, as Lockhart has a reputation for being very confusing.

The most important thing is that he is very handsome, very handsome, very handsome.

At just twenty-eight years old, he received the third-level Order of Merlin, gained the reputation of a world-class defense master against the dark arts, served as an honorary member of the Anti-Dark Arts Alliance, and published seven books on eradicating dark forces. Doesn't this mean that Does he have the strength and talent?

Elaine laughed after hearing Hermione's excuse, and then immediately found Lupin. Lupine entered the school four years earlier than Lockhart, and even wrote to Professor McGonagall, asking them to explain what Lockhart was like in school before. Guys, it didn’t take long to get a reply.

McGonagall's reply told Hermione that Lockhart had engraved his name on the Quidditch pitch in 20-foot-long letters, projected his portrait into the sky like the Dark Mark, and mailed himself Eight hundred Valentine's Day cards forced breakfast to be cancelled.

These actions even resulted in him being punished by labor service, and the records are still kept in the school archives.

Since Elaine used exaggerated expressions when she wrote to Professor McGonagall, describing how Hermione was so bewitched by Lockhart that she even wanted to date Lockhart, Professor McGonagall also had a very serious tone in her reply. Lockhart's punishment record is also specially attached.

Lu Ping's response was more objective, but still not much better.

He told Hermione that Lockhart was a very vain guy who showed off his naturally wavy blond hair all day long. Although he was very popular with girls and had good grades, he spent most of his time showing off himself and caused a lot of trouble in school. , leaving James and Lily, who are the male and female presidents of the student union, busy cleaning up.

Finally, it was Daphne's blow that made Hermione restrain herself a little.

"In appearance, the grown-up Elaine is better-looking than him; in terms of strength, Elaine can beat him now, so why do you want to worship this curly man whose face and magic power are not as good as Elaine? Just like Elaine."

Daphne said this confusedly when Elaine and Hermione were arguing, making both of them blush with embarrassment.

They stopped discussing Lockhart after that.