Under the surprised gazes of Ivan and Hermione, their former Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher walked out the door, wearing a lavender robe, looking the same as before.
"Hello!" he said, laughing. "You must be here for my autograph, aren't you?"
Ivan and Hermione shook their heads, indicating that they didn't need it.
Looking at Professor Lockhart in front of her, Hermione didn't have much sympathy.
It just felt absurd. She realized that she was so naive before that she would worship such a person.
Because of the books Lockhart had written, Hermione had thought he was the greatest wizard in the world, and she had even memorized them all.
But it's all fake, Lockhart is just appropriating someone else's experience.
In the Chamber of Secrets a year ago, he was planning to use the Forgetting Curse to erase the memories of Ivan, Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Fortunately, he used Ron's broken wand, The spell hit himself at last.
In short, Hermione now fully recognized Lockhart's true colors.
To be honest, Ivan somewhat misses the days when Lockhart was there. He may not be a good professor, but he does give himself a lot of convenience.
Whether it's the difficulties encountered in newspaper management, approval slips in the library's private section, escaping the punishment of Snape or Filch, or adding points to Gryffindor, no matter from which angle you look at it, Lohar Tedu has provided a lot of help to Ivan.
Of course, in his opinion, Ivan is also his most loyal reader.
"Are you okay?" Ai Wen hesitated and asked softly.
"I'm fine, thank you for your concern!" Lockhart said enthusiastically, taking out a frayed peacock quill from his pocket, "How many autographs do you want? You know, I can write cursive characters now !"
"Oh, we don't need it now, thank you!" Hermione shook her hand hastily.
At the end of last term, she threw all of Lockhart's autographs she had collected into the stove and burned them without leaving a single one.
"Professor, why are you wandering in the corridor, shouldn't you be in the ward?" Ivan looked around, Lockhart's ward should be nearby.
"You call me Professor, have we met before?" The smile on Lockhart's face gradually disappeared, and he stared at Ivan and Hermione carefully for a while.
"Yes, you taught us at Hogwarts, remember?"
"Taught you?!" Lockhart said suspiciously, "Is it me?"
After getting the yes answer, the smile returned to his face almost instantly, looking suddenly scary.
"I see, I have taught you all the knowledge, right?" Lockhart said with a smile, "In this case, how many autographs do you need? How about a dozen, you can give it to all the children, without missing a single one! "
Ivan and Hermione looked at each other, and the two took a step back quietly.
"We have to go, Professor!" Ivan said, "You know, the two of us just came out to buy drinks, and our friends are still waiting for us."
"Are they Hogwarts students too?!" Lockhart said happily, "I can go with you, maybe they will need my autograph too."
No one would ask for his autograph. With Sirius' temper, he would definitely throw the crazy Lockhart out.
At this moment, a head popped out from behind the door at the other end of the corridor and shouted, "Gidero, naughty boy, where have you been?"
A motherly therapist with a filigree wreath on her head hurried over, smiling warmly at Alvin and Hermione.
"Oh, Gildero, it's great to have someone to visit you!" said the treatment room kindly. , he's so cute, isn't he?"
Both Ivan and Hermione knew why, and they wanted to tell each other that with Lockhart's current notoriety in the wizarding world, no one would visit him.
Whenever Lockhart is mentioned these days, people usually add the word liar to it.
For Lockhart, it might be the best outcome to go on like this forever.
"We are signing!" Gilderoy smiled brightly, "They want a lot more, if you don't give or agree, I wish I had so many photos!"
"He used to be famous, and we hope this hobby of giving autographs will refresh his memory." The therapist took Lockhart's arm and looked at him lovingly, as if he were a precocious two-year-old. "Please." Going this way, he lives in a closed ward, he must have slipped out while I was taking presents in, the door is usually locked."
"Don't worry, he's not dangerous!" Noticing the expressions of Aiwen and Hermione, she hastily lowered her voice and said, "Maybe it's a little dangerous for him, God bless, he doesn't know who he is, he can't remember how to get back when he goes out, How good of you to come and see him!"
If it weren't for the problem with the wand he was using at the time, Ivan, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would look like this now.
They had just finished fighting the basilisk at that time, and they were all at the end of their strength, and they had no ability to resist at all.
Thinking of this, Ivan and Hermione's sympathy for Lockhart disappeared instantly.
"Sorry, we just happened to pass by!" Hermione shook the drink in her hand, "We're here to finish watching Ron Weasley, and he's in that room."
"I know Ron, a cute red-haired boy, and I heard that he helped the famous Sirius Black to get rid of his grievances. It's really amazing!" , but before going back, can you sit in his ward, he seems to be very familiar with you two. It won't take too long, and this may help his condition. "
Hearing what the other party said, it would be too unreasonable to refuse.
Ivan and Hermione could only nod, and followed Lockhart and the therapist to the opposite direction of Ron's ward.
At the end of the corridor, the therapist pointed his wand at the door of Genesiscitch's ward and said "Alahoo hole," and the door swung open.
She led the way in, holding Gilderoux's arm firmly with one hand, until she seated him in the armchair by the bed.
Compared with Ron's ward, it was deserted here.
Everything is white, and even the temperature is a few degrees cooler than outside.
There are no entertainment facilities in the ward, only cold treatment equipment. Ai Wen couldn't imagine how terrible it would be to live here forever.
"This is our long-term ward." The therapist whispered to Aiwen and Hermione, "Permanent spell damage, of course, relying on intensive treatment and a little luck, the condition can be improved! Guidero really seems Some regained consciousness, but most others showed no signs of getting better."(.)