Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

What was Lockhart doing in Professor Flitwick's office at this time? And Professor Flitwick seems to be inside, talking to Lockhart? Not only that, but from the conversation between the two, it sounds like their relationship is quite close? At least other teachers usually only call Lockhart by his family name, not his given name "Gilderoy".

Wright, who felt that he had revealed some secrets, stopped with some interest. Anyway, the response room was also on the eighth floor, so he didn't have to miss it for an hour and a half.

Wright stood quietly outside the door, eavesdropping on the conversation between Lockhart and Professor Flitwick in the room through the wall.

"No, I'm not working hard," Lockhart's voice came from inside this time. "In addition to being considered an ignorant boaster by Professor Sprout, and a fool who knows nothing about transfiguration by Professor McGonagall, Egg, a vain fame seeker, was ridiculed by Snape as a mountain troll with an empty mind, and was kicked out of his hut by gamekeeper Hagrid... I feel that during this time at Hogwarts The experience was quite pleasant. ”

Wright, who was standing outside the door, quickly covered his mouth. Lockhart's words made him almost laugh out loud.

As Lockhart himself said, in the nearly one and a half months since he started school, he has been hated by almost all the staff at Hogwarts. Even Hagrid, who always respected the professors very much, would not smile at Lockhart. Only Filch, the administrator of the castle, would maintain the most basic courtesy towards Lockhart. But Filch's attitude had little effect on anyone else in the castle.

"Hug, I'm sorry..." Professor Flitwick's dry voice reached Wright's ears.

Um? Wright frowned. Professor Flitwick's attitude seemed a bit interesting!

According to Wright's original guess, Professor Flitwick should not have such a friendly attitude towards Lockhart. Professor Flitwick had never shown such a close relationship to Lockhart in front of other people in the school before.

So what is this? Wright calmed down and continued to listen.

"Nothing, really, Dean, nothing." Lockhart responded, "Although the male students are extremely jealous of me, at least my lovely female fans are still loyal to me as always."

This time no further sound came out.

Wright outside the door touched his ears in confusion. Did Professor Flitwick leave suddenly? Or is the office under a soundproofing spell? Or maybe something suddenly went wrong with his ears? Otherwise, the two people inside noticed his presence standing outside and could have stopped the conversation?

Fortunately, Lockhart's next words dispelled Wright's confusion.

"Dean, there is no need to be so embarrassed. What I said is the truth." Lockhart said, "As the common property of the wizarding world, I belong to all unmarried girls."

Wright shuddered, and he felt goosebumps appear on his hands. What kind of narcissistic person could say this!

"I am very grateful to Dumbledore for giving me the opportunity to come to Hogwarts as a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. I also like being able to stay with all the lovely female students every day, even though it is not of my own free will. " said Lockhart.

In the office, Professor Flitwick, sitting behind his desk, still didn't reply this time.

As an old professor who has worked diligently at Hogwarts for decades, Professor Flitwick didn’t know how to respond to Lockhart’s narcissistic words full of social trends. In addition, what Lockhart said It was the truth, which made him even less sure how to respond.

Lockhart had confessed to Professor Flitwick the reason why he came to Hogwarts before school started in September this year.

After graduating from Hogwarts in 1978, Lockhart became a moderately successful writer, traveling to various exotic and magical places around the world.

Although Professor Flitwick didn't know why Lockhart liked to play with others with his nearly perfect memory magic, this bad behavior was eventually exposed one day.

Dumbledore happened to know two wizards whose memories had been manipulated by Lockhart, so he knew more or less about Lockhart's true situation. Just in June of this year, after the semester ended, Quirrell died, and Hogwarts once again fell into the predicament of having a vacancy for the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor position, Dumbledore found Lockhart and offered him the job without hesitation. offered him a job at Hogwarts.

Perhaps in Dumbledore's view, Lockhart just couldn't refuse that coming to Hogwarts to teach would help him gain greater fame. After all, there was a person named Harry Potter among this class of students.

But Lockhart always knew that those were secondary reasons, that he was just an intelligence agent in "Raven's Paw". Well, although he sometimes forgets, who makes the organization never assign tasks to him? A small part of the reason why Lockhart returned to school was because the job would bring him some fame.

The more important reason is...

"Headmaster," Lockhart said, his blue eyes looking deeply at Professor Flitwick, "has our organization, the Raven's Claw, recruited any new people over the years?"

That's right, since Lockhart entered Ravenclaw's wizarding association "Raven's Claw", he has never heard of any personnel changes in the organization. It seems that there were only two people in the organization from the beginning. Similar.

This puzzled Lockhart. But when he asked before, Professor Flitwick always responded vaguely. So what is the significance of the work of this intelligence officer? Are you listening to an old professor who has always stayed close to home just to enrich his knowledge?

Stop talking nonsense! Professor Flitwick was also a dueling champion when he was young, and the bridge he walked was longer than the road Lockhart walked! In terms of pure knowledge of the wizarding world in various countries, maybe Lockhart is not as good as Professor Flitwick!

Of course, Professor Flitwick has been teaching Charms at Hogwarts for the past few decades, so maybe he really wants to see how big the outside world is.

Regardless of whether others believed it or not, Lockhart did not believe this statement. He just continued to look at Professor Flitwick with his blue eyes.

Professor Flitwick looked even more embarrassed under Lockhart's gaze.

The raven's claws were made by Professor Flitwick. Since there are Death Eaters in Slytherin House and the Order of the Phoenix in Gryffindor House, why doesn't Ravenclaw House have its own wizarding society?