HP Approaches the Magic World

In fact, Lockhart was not very popular at school, but he still achieved his primary goal through some repeated and eye-catching "great achievements" to make everyone in the school recognize him:

For example, he once used magic to carve a huge personal signature on the Quidditch pitch. Each letter of the signature was twenty feet long - for which he was fined with a week of confinement and labor;

He also imitated the Dark Mark, projecting a huge, glittering portrait of himself into the sky during that tense period; and also sent himself eight hundred greeting cards every Valentine's Day - the owls gathered in the auditorium attracted everyone's attention.

Had to skip breakfast because too many feathers and droppings fell into the porridge.

Because of his unusually "grand" methods, when he graduated, the professors and school administrators throughout the school couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.

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When Dumbledore heard about Lockhart again, he had already gained quite a reputation.

Dumbledore heard the news about him from other teachers. It was said that Lockhart had made great achievements abroad, so Dumbledore paid attention to it.

Once you start to pay attention to these things, more and more related deeds will come out. The teachers at Hogwarts even felt that they might have misjudged Lockhart because he was in a distant place, dedicated to

Eliminating various dangers and dark creatures all proved his extraordinary courage and resilience.

But Dumbledore knew very well what kind of person Lockhart was, and he happened to form the Order of the Phoenix at this time, so he tried to investigate Lockhart - there were no wizards who happened to know him, and it was not because

Knowing the truth by accident, these things are all thanks to the investigation of the Order of the Phoenix and Dumbledore's experience and reasoning.

However, as the members responsible for investigating Lockhart passed away due to Voldemort's evil deeds, Lockhart's investigation report was completely placed in Dumbledore's bookshelf gathering dust. No one wanted to know that Lockhart deceived those who were interested.

The reporters at the Daily Prophet might have liked the idea of ​​accomplished wizards and witches revealing their greatest deeds and then erasing their memories, but not Dumbledore.

However, Lockhart did not disappear from Dumbledore's world, because every time he returned to England, he would immediately write a book to tell the heroic deeds that originally belonged to others.

——"The books written by Lockhart are very popular in the wizarding world, and he even prepared a peacock feather pen just to sign the book."

Such tidbits would never be missed by the students. Dumbledore could often hear fresh gossip about him from the students' mouths, and because of those so-called "deeds", Lockhart won many awards.

He was invited to become an honorary member of the Defense League against the Dark Arts, and at the same time, he successfully concealed his fraud in the wizarding world.

However, because there was no follow-up investigation, Dumbledore did not know that Lockhart had another identity. Because he was tired of living the life of a celebrity, Lockhart also went to work in the special department of Muggles incognito.

consultant.

If he knew this, Dumbledore might be even more impressed with him.

But even knowing these inside stories, Dumbledore did not think that Lockhart was a bad wizard because of this.

He has never been a bad wizard, he is just too lazy and vain. At least he has never killed someone because of his own desires - it must be said that this criterion can only prove that Lockhart is not too bad, and there is no way

Cover up his character problems.

And at the same time, Dumbledore also knew about Lockhart's research on memory magic.

There is a considerable description of this in the information Dumbledore has. Judging from past events, Dumbledore feels that Lockhart is likely to have perfected this complex magic system, so that he can find those great and powerful magic systems.

The brave wizard and witch later succeeded in modifying their memories and stealing their heroic exploits.

The handwriting on these analysis reports about Lockhart was dry and blurred, but this did not prevent Dumbledore from reading. At the same time, he also pulled out a newspaper from the bookshelf, which contained an exclusive interview with Lockhart——

Because of his upcoming new book.

The above introduction is also very interesting.

"...In the ten years after graduation, Lockhart achieved status as a best-selling author with his series of autobiographical books, and a reputation as a world-class defense against the dark arts. He was even awarded the Order of Merlin, Third Class, and became a

Became an honorary member of the Anti-Dark Arts Alliance.

His good looks—despite his own claims that “during the days of fighting with werewolves and banshees, experiencing life-and-death battles, and bloody hand-to-hand combat, their luster has faded away in dust”—won the Wizarding Weekly Most Charming Smile award five times.

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Dumbledore chuckled softly when he saw this. He didn't know why, but he suddenly felt that there was a certain reason why Jon asked Lockhart to learn from him. He didn't just know how to memorize magic, but he also wanted to learn magic because of it.

Showed his talent.

Moreover, Lockhart's character seems to be very consistent with his requirements.

Such a performance-loving character may be able to fulfill his own requirements perfectly, and at the same time, this will also be beneficial to Lockhart.

So the principal sat back in his seat and began to write a letter.

You must be very careful when writing a letter to Lockhart, and be prepared that Lockhart will use this letter as a talking point. Although Dumbledore doesn't care about this happening, he needs to be prepared for Lockhart.

Hart turned down the invitation to create hype for his new book.

Therefore, this letter cannot directly express his intention to have Lockhart come to teach. It requires some ambiguous "language arts processing" before he can bring Lockhart to Hogwarts for an in-person interview.

thing.

——Even if he can't make sense, he can still help Jon while he's in school. After all, this candidate was recommended to him by Jon. Doing things from beginning to end is a good quality that a student should have.

Dumbledore was very experienced in writing letters. He drafted the words and draft very quickly, and then began to write the text of the letter.

Phoenix flew in from the window, landed on the bird stand, picked up a small biscuit and swallowed it in his stomach, then landed on Dumbledore's shoulder, and rubbed Dumbledore's face with his beak.

"Okay, okay, I got it."

Dumbledore put down his pen, and the letter automatically folded into an envelope, and was then handed to Fawkes by Dumbledore.

"Go ahead, you know where he is."