The next day, the second graders had Defense Against the Dark Arts class for the first time.
Although Lockhart's class yesterday almost became a joke, it didn't stop the girls from continuing to adore him. For example, Hermione, she has always stubbornly believed that Lockhart deliberately released the elf to give everyone more opportunities to practice.
So when Aiwen rushed to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, he was not surprised to see all the girls sitting in the front row of the class.
After the class was seated, Lockhart entered the room, still looking radiant.
"Hello everyone, I think you all know me!" He blinked, showing eight white teeth, "Ghiddroy Lockhart, Order of Merlin Third Class, honorary member of the Anti-Dark Arts League, five I won the most charming smile award from "Wizard Weekly" for the first time, but I never talk about it, I didn't exorcise Wan Lun's female ghost with a smile!"
Very old-fashioned opening remarks, Ivan is sure he said the same thing yesterday.
"Very well, I see that you have all bought my complete set of works, I think we will take a small quiz today, maybe you already know some information from the senior students, but I have to regret to tell you that today's The test questions are completely different from yesterday." He handed out the test papers to everyone, "I'll give you 30 minutes, start now!"
Ivan looked at the test paper in his hand, which included topics such as Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite food, Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest wish, and Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest achievement so far. More than fifty.
Aiwen clutched his forehead weakly. In fact, he didn't know the answer to one of the questions. He didn't buy Lockhart's books at all.
But this is not important, he bit his quill pen and thought for a while, and began to write on the test paper. He was going to tell Lockhart about the "Hogwarts Wizarding News" and invited him to be the long-term publicity target of the "Character Style" column. Of course, Aiwen described this matter in the tone of an admirer.
On the test paper in hand, he tried to describe himself as a crazy admirer of Lockhart.
Although Ivan is not, it is very simple, because there are many people around him who can be used as reference.
He tried to imitate Hermione's tone as much as possible. In his description, "Hogwarts Magic News" is a newspaper dedicated to Lockhart himself. Ivan intends to use this newspaper to show Lockhart's book fans The photos and daily life of teaching at Hogwarts helped him further expand his influence.
Ivan spent a lot of pen and ink describing the benefits of doing so, and when he finished writing the exaggerated and flattering letter at hand, exactly thirty minutes had passed.
Afterwards, Lockhart put away the test paper and looked at it in front of the whole class.
"Tsk tsk, I'm disappointed, yes, none of you have written down everything about me like Miss Granger in the second grade, if you read the book "A Year with the Snowman in Tibet" carefully , you will know what my favorite food is, and I have clearly mentioned it in Chapter 4 of "Walking with Ghouls"..."
Lockhart quickly flipped through the parchment in hand until he saw Ivan's one.
"Wait, here is an interesting test paper." He looked at it intently, and kept murmuring in a low voice, "Yes, this is exactly what I have always wanted to do, to further expand my influence and become the most admired Your wizard, very well said!"
In the classroom, all the students looked at him curiously.
Everyone didn't know what Lockhart was muttering, Vicky Frobisher, Ivan's roommate, a handsome boy was stretching his neck, trying to see the content of the test paper.
"Yes, I would!" Lockhart suddenly turned the paper over, "100 points! Where is Mr. Evan Mason?"
Ai Wen stood up hurriedly, and everyone's eyes turned to him.
"Great, Ivan! I am very willing to share my story with my most loyal fans." Lockhart said with a smile, "Very good, 10 points for Gryffindor!"
When Ivan sat down again, Colin beside him asked in a low voice, "Ivan, it's incredible, what did you write on it?"
"It's nothing, I just invited him to provide us with a few photos, get your camera ready, Colin." Ivan said with a smile, "We will start taking pictures after class, we don't have much time."
Except for the initial episode, the rest of the time is relatively boring.
The Defense Against the Dark Arts class has almost turned into a reading class. Lockhart asked the students to stand up and read his book one by one. When everyone got bored, it was time to end the get out of class. All the students left the classroom as quickly as possible, except for Ivan, who dragged Colin, who was still a little confused, to the podium.
Lockhart greatly praised Ivan, and said that if any problems were encountered during the preparation of the newspaper, he could help at any time.
Knowing that the board has not received any manuscripts so far, Lockhart even expressed his willingness to serialize his unpublished manuscripts on it.
Next, Lockhart kept posing in various poses for Colin to shoot.
Ivan was surprised to find that no matter what angle he was at, Lockhart could show his charming eight teeth just right.
For this, Ivan admired him very much.
Due to time constraints, after taking more than a dozen photos, Ivan and Colin had to say goodbye. Lockhart still invited the two to his office after dinner to continue shooting.
Due to Lockhart's enthusiasm, they were late for five minutes, and when Aiwen learned from Colin that the next class was Transfiguration, his heart sank.
Professor McGonagall is different from other professors. She is strict and smart. All freshmen have been warned not to provoke her and Professor Snape in school, because doing so will often end badly.
Now, they dared to be late for the first class, and Ai Wen didn't dare to think about it anymore. When the two ran outside the Transfiguration classroom, they saw a strangely dressed Ravenclaw girl standing outside the door.
The girl has disheveled, dirty, waist-length blond hair, very light eyebrows, and two protruding eyes, which make her always have a surprised expression, with a pair of carrot-shaped ears on her ears. Earrings, and a necklace made of butterbeer corks hung on his chest, and there was a kind of madness.
"What are you doing, it's time for class!" Colin asked uncertainly.
"I'm looking for the traces left by the Bubble Snot Monster." The girl said in a trance, her eyes resting on the open space outside the classroom door of the Transfiguration class.
"Sorry, what are you looking for?"
"Bubble Snot Monster." The girl raised her head, her eyes fixed on Ivan, "You are Ivan Mason."
"Yes, it's me, who are you?"
"Luna Lovegood." She turned her pale eyes to Colin, "I don't know who you are?"
Before Colin could answer, the classroom door was opened from the inside, and Professor McGonagall looked at the three of them seriously.
"Mr. Mason, Mr. Creevey, and Miss Lovegood, it's class time, and you're already late!" Her mouth was tightly pursed, "If you don't plan to come in, then never come in again .”
Ivan and Colin hurriedly lowered their heads and walked into the classroom, and Luna sat next to them.
"It's unlucky to meet Luna." Colin whispered, "She is a freshman in Ravenclaw, everyone calls her a crazy girl, I heard that she actually believes in the existence of Bubble Snot Monster and Snorkel Beast .”
"But they do exist." Luna interrupted suddenly.
"How is it possible, these are just fictions..."
"Keep your voice down, Colin!" Ivan poked him, "Also, don't express your opinion on things you don't know."
"A very wise choice." Luna said in a low voice, with a singing tone, "Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings."
Colin wanted to say something more, but when he saw Professor McGonagall staring at him fiercely, he quickly shut his mouth.
"Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous spell you have in your Hogwarts class. If anyone tries to play tricks in my class, I don't expect to see him in the next class. I warned you gone."
With that, Professor McGonagall turned her desk into a pig, and back again.
The students were all fascinated and wanted to start learning right away, but they soon realized that it would take a long time to turn furniture into animals.
After everyone took a lot of complicated and difficult notes, Professor McGonagall gave each of them a match and began to let them try to become a needle.
For the little wizards who have just entered school, it is very difficult to do this, they can't even make any changes in the matches. It was not until the end of class that Aiwen turned the match head into a needle point, but he was still the fastest student in the class.
Ivan noticed that Professor McGonagall's mouth did not seem to be so tight.