Hogwarts: I, Tom, am really not Voldemort!

If you were to discuss who was the most popular person at Hogwarts in the new term, Gilderoy Lockhart would undoubtedly be elected.

A recipient of the Order of Merlin, Third Class, an Honorary Member of the Dark Force Defense League, and a five-time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award, the internationally renowned author Gilderoy Lockhart was currently viewed by the public as both handsome and talented, especially devastating to young girls just beginning to experience love, even Hermione, a top student who buried herself in books, was showing signs of falling for him.

"I've read every one of Professor Lockhart's books several times, and I can even recite them. I now know everything about Professor Lockhart," Hermione said at the first stargazing gathering after the start of the term, her face full of pride, which made a certain blond little guy named Malfoy's face turn black.

Just as Draco was about to subconsciously retort, Tom gently pulled him back, shook his head at him, and also provided Hermione with a piece of information.

"I predict that Lockhart will definitely give a pop quiz in his first class, and the questions will all be about his personal life."

After hearing this, Hermione didn't feel anything was wrong at all, but instead felt that although she couldn't understand it, Professor Lockhart must have a deep meaning in doing so.

"Is this your prediction, Tom? I believe you this time. I'm going to come up with a set of questions now so everyone can do a mock test first."

Tom didn't know for a moment whether he should be happy that Hermione trusted his divination talent so much, or feel heartbroken that Hermione was being deceived by a charlatan.

Little Draco left in a fit of pique on the spot, and secretly launched the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher expulsion 2.0 version that day.

"Don't you dislike Lockhart and think there's something wrong with the books he writes? Why are you still reading his books?"

In the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class with Ravenclaw in the new semester, Cassandra watched Tom slowly flipping through 'Voyages with Vampires' and asked softly.

"It's not bad to read as a novel, and there's still some useful stuff in the book if you read it carefully. What about you? I didn't see how much you liked Lockhart. Pansy, Daphne, Hermione, they've all fallen for him."

"I met Lockhart at a signing event at Flourish and Blotts before the start of the term. He was too flamboyant, I can't bring myself to like him," Cassandra responded indifferently.

But Tom's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this, and he immediately put down the book in his hand: "Then did you see the unlimited fighting match between Malfoy and Weasley? Tell me all about the process, Harry's letter was vague at the time, I'm so curious."

Cassandra couldn't help but facepalm after hearing Tom's words: "Why are your focuses so weird?"

"How is it weird? This is a classic," Tom said with some dissatisfaction to Cassandra, "But now our protagonist today is about to enter, after class, you can tell me all about that unlimited fighting competition."

As Tom's voice fell, Lockhart slowly walked into the classroom and came to the podium.

Golden curly hair, bright blue eyes, a gorgeous blue robe, and a charming smile on his face. It must be said that Lockhart's elegant, confident, and calm appearance was indeed very deceptive.

"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, I am Gilderoy Lockhart, and I am very happy to be your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year."

As soon as Lockhart spoke, it caused a burst of screams from the little wizards, especially the little witches, as if it were a large-scale fan meeting.

"Show-off!"

Draco muttered in a low voice, which happened to be heard by Tom next to him, causing Tom to blurt out subconsciously: "Actually, you're usually like this too."

One sentence made Draco's originally injured heart stabbed hard again.

At this time, Terry Boot, a Ravenclaw, raised his hand: "Professor Lockhart, are we going to start the pop quiz?"

Lockhart was stunned when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, child, I didn't prepare anything like a pop quiz in my class."

The little wizards who had worked so hard to prepare for half a day in order to leave a good impression on Lockhart all looked at Hermione, and then turned their eyes to Tom, the culprit, following Hermione's gaze.

Faced with everyone's condemning gaze, Tom always felt that something was wrong, and the sentence "This is your prediction? I believed your ghost" read from Hermione's mouth stabbed Tom hard.

Isn't it just divination talent 2? It's normal to have small mistakes.

Lockhart quietly watched the little wizards' small actions, and waited for everyone to calm down again before starting the class again: "In the coming year, I will teach you how to resist this dark magic, believe me, no one in this world is more proficient in dark magic than me, except of course Mr. Tom Riddle in our classroom."

Tom, who was inexplicably cued by Lockhart, once again accepted the gaze baptism of the entire classroom of students, and this time Tom sat up straight all of a sudden, no longer looking like he was just hanging around.

'This Lockhart is definitely not normal!'

Tom stared at Lockhart in front of him, trying to see through his disguise.

"Who can tell me, how much do you know about dark magic after a year of Defense Against the Dark Arts class last year?"

Hermione, the good student, was the first to raise her hand high, but unexpectedly Lockhart didn't pay attention to Hermione at all.

"Why don't we let Dumbledore's favorite student, the world's most proficient in dark magic, Mr. Riddle, tell me."

Tom, who was once again inexplicably cued, slowly got up: "I taught them the Killing Curse among the three Unforgivable Curses."

After Lockhart distributed the Cornish Pixies to everyone, he entered the main topic of today's course.

"Today we are going to learn the Cruciatus Curse. The spell is 'Crucio', come, imagine the pleasure of torturing the pixies, let us cast spells on them together."

"Crucio!"

"Crucio!"

"Crucio!"

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A teaching about the Unforgivable Curse was staged once again in the hands of Gilderoy Lockhart after Tom Riddle.