A day at Hogwarts

Today's Lihen Bookstore is quite lively, the entrance is full of people, most of them are young women and girls.

As soon as Charles approached, he knew what was going on. It was Gilderoy Lockhart who was holding a book signing.

He was not interested in this guy, and walked around the crowd to enter the bookstore.

I saw Lockhart shouted loudly at this time: "Next, I will give a lucky reader a set of "Holidays with Hags", "Traveling with Vampires" and "With Werewolves" signed by me. The "Trilogy of Travel" composed of "Wandering Together"!"

The older girls and younger daughters-in-law around him screamed with excitement, and the reporters kept taking pictures. Under the flash, Lockhart seemed to enjoy the atmosphere.

He glanced around, just in time to see Charles coming over and preparing to walk into Lihen Bookstore from beside him.

"Oh, what an impatient gentleman!" said Lockhart to Charles. "Well, this set of "Travel Trilogy" is for you!"

When he had finished, the actual readers let out sighs of disappointment.

Charles didn't notice at first, until Lockhart stuffed three beautifully bound books into his arms.

He raised his head and saw Lockhart's well-trained smiling face, his face darkened suddenly, which reminded him of his experience of being captured by Voldemort and sent to the office to copy books for a month.

Naturally, Lockhart didn't know what he was thinking, and said proudly: "Haha, our lucky readers are so happy!"

Charles pushed the book back and said blankly: "I don't want it, and I'm not your reader."

Lockhart froze as if he had been petrified, but his well-trained smile quickly returned, and he pushed the book over and said, "It doesn't matter, everything has a beginning, I believe you will soon understand I'm interested in."

Charles said with a cold face: "Sorry, I'm not interested in men."

Lockhart has never encountered such a situation, and felt that he was ashamed in front of readers and reporters, so he put out a standard smile on his face, and said angrily in a very low voice: "Take it, and leave, or I will Not sure what spells my wand will cast!"

He thought that this would scare a young man who had just started to grow a beard, so he let go, thinking that the other party would definitely catch it subconsciously.

"Boom!"

The three books fell heavily on the ground, Charles didn't even read them, and walked directly into Lihen Bookstore.

Everyone in front of the bookstore seemed to be cursed, like a stone statue, and a reporter subconsciously pressed down on the camera.

Lockhart put the book back in embarrassment and joked to the readers: "Oh, he's French and can't understand English."

Next to the crowd, a blond-haired middle-aged woman narrowed her eyes slightly and raised the corners of her mouth, like a hound smelling the scent of prey, followed into Lihen Bookstore.

"My God! The Invisibility Book of Invisibility, I don't want to hear that name!"

The manager of Lihen Bookstore suddenly wailed, which startled the staff and customers nearby, and Charles was also shocked.

"Two hundred copies! Two hundred copies! They're all gone, that's a thousand Galleons!" The manager kept crying.

Charles was speechless when he heard it from the sidelines. At that time, the manager was away on errands. The two hundred copies of "The Invisibility Book of Invisibility" were moved to the store by temporary workers. When they were about to be sold, the temporary workers were no longer in the store.

The manager finally said: "Look for it on the bookshelf. If you can find it, I can send you any book that is in the bookstore."

Charles felt an exclamation mark appear over the manager's head.

He looked around in the bookstore, and all the shelves were full. When someone bought a book and took it down, the same book would fly to fill it up.

"Boom!"

A sound from overhead caught Charles' attention. A book that was automatically flying towards the shelf seemed to hit something as it flew over the shelf, but there seemed to be nothing there.

The corner of Charles' mouth twitched, "The Invisibility Book of Invisibility" should be on the top of the shelf, right?

"Hi, can I do an interview with you?"

The blond woman immediately went up to talk to Charles when she saw that there was no one around.

Charles looked at the person in front of him, thinking about guessing, and asked, "Who are you?"

The other party replied: "I am Rita Skeeter, I think you may have heard of this name, choose to accept my invitation?"

Charles took a closer look at this Western reporter. This person's ability to fabricate contradictions to attract attention and create rumors was similar to Dumbledore and Voldemort's attainments in magic spells, and he immediately became vigilant.

"What do you want to interview?" Charles had a playful smile on his face, "About a beautiful beetle?"

Skeeter's face froze suddenly, and he said nervously, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Charles continued to ask her with a smile: "I'm looking for a book about registering Animagus with the Ministry of Magic, beautiful lady, can you help me?"

After the initial panic, Skeeter immediately calmed down, looked around, and asked in a low voice, "How do you know that?"

Charles replied nonchalantly: "I don't know everything, I only know what I know."

In his opinion, the role of this reporter is great, provided that she can be held accountable.

The current situation is very clear. Charles pointed out Skeeter's weakness at the beginning, making her dare not act rashly.

But this does not mean that Skeeter can be completely controlled, it can only make her have great scruples.

Charles understands that what this kind of person does is to pour dirty water on the big man for social and economic benefits.

That is to say, the rule of law in the wizarding society is not perfect. If it were replaced by a Muggle society, especially the United Kingdom, her grave would already be full of birds and flowers.

To cooperate with this kind of person, in addition to the stick, you also need carrots.

Charles smiled and whispered to her, "Miss Skeeter, I have a Christmas present for you, you will be satisfied."

Skeeter asked cautiously, "What is it?"

She also knew what she was doing, but like Lockhart outside the door, she knew how to avoid risks and would not touch those who would die.

Charles pointed to the door of the bookstore, and whispered to her: "Gidero Lockhart is actually a liar. The contents of those books are the experiences of others. He heard it from the victims and took it as his own experience." Come write, the victim can no longer confront him."

Chunqiu's pen is eye-catching, and he will naturally.

Victims cannot confront each other, which can be understood as loss of memory, or loss of life.

Skeeter's eyes widened now.

Now Lockhart is in the limelight, has won numerous awards over the years, and has a large number of book fans in the UK. It is said that even Dumbledore reads his books, and she also has a set at home.

If the truth is as this young man said, once it is revealed, the so-called bestsellers are behind the lives of people, what a big news!

"Is what you said true?" Skeeter was still a little skeptical, "I don't quite believe it."

Charles said to her indifferently: "Anyway, I've already told you about it, and it's up to you to believe it or not."

"And do you think I am the only one who knows about such a secret matter? Do you think someone has already followed the clues in the book to investigate on the spot and is planning to send the criminal to Azkaban?"

Skeeter thought about it and thought it made sense.

Big news is a rare resource, there is a huge gap between the first report and the second report, and not being first means failure.

Moreover, these stories are very convenient to investigate, even if they fail, it will be a waste of time at most, and the last thing wizards are afraid of is running around.

Skeeter quickly left the Lihen Bookstore, apparating directly on the street to go home.

Just now, she only thought about using Lockhart to send books to make some small news, but she didn't expect to get a clue of big news from this Frederick Wesson.

Charles didn't tell her his real name. Anyway, he was wearing a thick hat and scarf in the cold, and she would be able to recognize it later.

Next, Charles continued the matter of "The Invisible Book of Invisibility". He used the Levitation Charm to float himself up, reached out to touch the top of the bookshelf, and found many things that looked like books.

"Thank you so much!" The manager of Lihen Bookstore excitedly shook Charles' hand, "If it wasn't for you, I'm afraid I'd be able to find them many years later!"

"What book do you want me to give you, just say it."

Charles thought for a moment and said, "I want a book on making automatic quills."

The manager of the bookstore said no problem, and went to find him a copy of "The Magical Quill Pen" on a nearby bookshelf.