Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts Illustrated Book

Chapter 154 Luna took the diary?

"Is that diary important?"

In the corridor, Hermione asked curiously.

David nodded slightly: "It is the real culprit who opened the secret room!"

Hermione had an expression I guessed: "What about Ginny?"

David didn't answer, just gave her a secret look.

"Don't worry, I'm keeping my mouth shut."

At this time, there was the sound of trampling footsteps ahead, and Filch appeared at the end of the corridor. He drooped his head, his hair was disheveled, and his steps were not as agile as before.

When he was almost in front of David, Filch suddenly raised his head and stared at them. His face was tired, and his protruding eyeballs seemed to be falling out, and they were still bloodshot.

Seeing his terrifying appearance, Hermione couldn't help but hide half of her body behind David.

"What are you two doing here? Scamander, did Granger do something bad again!" Filch suddenly stepped forward and said sharply, "Did you open the secret room! I'm sure you two are It's not about opening the secret room again, I'll catch you!"

Seeing that Filch was a little crazy, Dai Wei took Hermione back a step, and stared into Filch's eyes without any fear: "Calm down, Filch, it's not the secret room we opened, and Mrs. Norris and I are friends." , how could I harm it!"

"Friend, no! It has no friends, it has no friends except me, it only clings to me!" Filch roared angrily, but he was not as crazy as before: "Don't let me catch you, I will I have been staring here, as long as you dare to come, I will definitely catch you! No one can open the secret room again!"

Filch murmured and walked towards the chair he placed in the corridor, his back was a bit lonely.

David sighed, and Echo said to Filch: "Don't worry, Mrs. Norris will be fine soon. As soon as Professor Spoutlaw's mandrake matures, it will return to your home unscathed." around."

Filch paused and didn't reply, just kept walking towards his chair, as if all this would be fine as long as he sat there.

"Let's go."

David and Hermione headed to the Gryffindor common room together.

It wasn't Filch who took the notebook, so who was it?
In the next few days, David became busy. In addition to attending classes and occasionally participating in Professor Flitwick's training, he also had to go to the bathroom to chat with Myrtle and train Harry's Parseltongue so that he could speak very well. Flow until you can speak naturally without looking at the snake.

This is a very important part of his plan. If something goes wrong at that time, it will be useless to subdue the basilisk.

And he also understood why Harry and the others despised Lockhart so much, he was simply a big talker.

He started bragging about his past in class, and after bragging, he started asking people to come up and act.

Harry, who is the most famous among the students, has become his first choice. Whenever an actor is needed, Harry will stand on the podium.

After a few classes, Harry played the roles of the ferocious werewolf, the cruel vampire, the silly yeti and so on.

These made Harry's acting skills improve rapidly. He didn't know that this was a Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but he thought it was a training class for Hollywood actor!

Gradually, Lockhart's teaching methods caused dissatisfaction among many students, and some small groups have decided to join forces and write to Dumbledore to ask Lockhart to restrain his behavior.

Learning spells is secondary, the main reason is that everyone doesn't want to be pulled up to perform, it shouldn't be considered a performance, it can only be said to be embarrassing, because no matter who goes up, they will be beaten by Lockhart on the ground, or with bare hands kind of.

And as long as you dare to fight back, you will find that the hourglass of your academy is a lot shorter the next day, who can bear it!
Time passed day by day, and it soon entered November, but David still couldn't find out who took the notebook. He asked Dumbledore again, and he didn't know very well.

Moreover, Harry's Parseltongue practice progressed very slowly, as long as he didn't stare at snake-shaped things, it was difficult for him to speak Parseltongue.

This made David extremely headache. For this reason, he asked Dumbledore to write a Parseltongue practice manual for Harry, hoping that he could speak Parseltongue quickly and fluently, so that he could tame the Basilisk sooner.

In this way, even if the person holding the notebook is confused, there is no threat.

But Harry didn't live up to it!

Coming out of the girls' bathroom, David walked in the corridor alone worriedly.

Hermione seemed anxious. She wanted to hurry to the library and finish her thesis. She was trying to write it down to five feet, and in extremely small type.

Suddenly footsteps came from one side of the corridor, but unlike usual, the footsteps seemed very brisk.

Filch is back?

But the footsteps don't sound like it!

He is not so lively!

David stopped and waited for a moment, a little witch jumped out from the corner of the corridor.

She has a good face and long, silky blond hair that dances in the air with every jump she makes.

It's just that her dress looks a little weird, with a colorful wreath on her head, and a cork necklace hanging around her neck, dangling around her neck non-stop.

"She's Luna Lovegood, a new Ravenclaw," Hermione whispered.

"There are a lot of harassment gadflies around you."

Luna stopped beside David, and said in a trance.

Although she was facing David, her eyes were loose and silent, and David was not sure what she was talking about.

After David pointed at himself and Luna nodded, he asked curiously, "What is a harassing horse?"

"The harassing flies are invisible, they float into your ears and mess with your brain."

Luna slapped David with her hand, as if trying to help him drive away the disturbing gadfly.

This is really a figurative statement
Those troubles were indeed sucking his energy like a gadfly.

David smiled and said, "But you can't drive away the bugger."

"Yes." Luna tilted her head and thought for a while: "You can't drive them away like this, you have to wait for them to leave by themselves."

After Luna finished speaking, she glanced at the bathroom behind David, and then said, "Are you looking for something?"

"You picked it up?" David said in surprise.

Luna nodded slightly.

"Then can you give it to me?" David said hurriedly.

Luna tilted her head and thought for a moment, her eyes became focused: "I felt a very uncomfortable breath in that notebook, so I buried it."

"Buried?" The corner of David's mouth twitched, the girl in front of him was a bit unique!
"Well, it is buried, you come with me, I will take you to find it."

After Luna finished speaking, she bounced and walked towards the other end of the corridor. She didn't seem to care whether David and Hermione followed her.

David and Hermione glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed Luna's pace.

Luna walked to the edge of the Forbidden Forest with ease and stopped. She turned her head and found that David and David were following him. She nodded in satisfaction and said, "It's just ahead."

Walking a few more steps forward, pushing aside a bush, David saw some traces of soil turning.

"right here."

Luna pointed to the ground with her hand, and David saw a big pothole there.

"Oh? It seems that someone took it away."

Luna squatted down and looked at the pothole, and said in a flat tone: "I buried it here last time, and it was crushed to death, but now I don't know where it is."

David was taken aback, and thanked Luna.

"You're welcome."

Luna got up and shook her head: "I hope you find it quickly, otherwise the bugger will follow you all the time."

Then Luna left, and everything that happened just now seemed to leave no trace in her heart.

David observed around the pothole, except for the footprints of the three of them, there were no footprints, as if the notebook in the pothole flew out by itself.

"Reveal!"

David asked Hermione to step back a little and blow out the golden mist, but unfortunately there was still no useful discovery.

"What?" Hermione asked.

"Go back." David got up and patted the dust on his hands. "Anyway, we also know the location of the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets. After Harry's Parseltongue is fluent, we will go in and subdue the basilisk immediately."

After a period of time, the notebook and the person who took the notebook seemed to have disappeared, and there was no trace of them in the school.

The basilisk also slept peacefully in the secret room without any movement.

This made many students feel relieved, and their interest in the secret room decreased a lot.

Even Harry's motivation to practice Parseltongue has dropped a lot, because no one suspects that he opened the Chamber of Secrets.

If it weren't for David pressing him down every day, he would have stopped practicing a long time ago.

Different from everyone's peace of mind, David's worries are getting more and more day by day.

Because the notebook has not been found, the person who took the notebook will sooner or later be confused to open the secret room and release the basilisk.

It is not so easy to subdue the basilisk in the course of the battle.

Until the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, David finally ushered in a piece of good news.

That afternoon, the bell rang and Lockhart hurried into the classroom, though he was still well dressed and his hair was carefully combed.

But anyone can read the word exhaustion from his big dark circles.

Lockhart stood on the podium, showing his iconic smile, clapping his hands excitedly, and said something that everyone couldn't believe:

"Can you please put away the books on the table? It won't block your sight."

David and Harry looked at each other, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in Lockhart's gourd. You must know that in the past, you didn't need to wait for Lockhart's class, but you must bring his book, otherwise you will be killed. Wait for the deduction.

After hesitating for a while, everyone in the classroom obediently moved the thick books on the table to the floor.

"Very good!" Lockhart tried his best to attract all eyes to him again: "In the previous lessons, I taught you a lot of theoretical knowledge about the application of magic spells, so that you don't know what to do after learning the magic spells. It is used in certain scenarios, causing accidental injury.”

"But now I think everyone has learned about the same, so I will make a small change in my class today."

Lockhart said that he paused here to give everyone a moment to react, while enjoying the surprised stares.

"Do you think he took the wrong medicine?" Ron said in a low voice
Harry nodded in agreement, as long as Lockhart would not let him go up to accompany the performance, he hoped that Lockhart would take the wrong medicine every day!

"In the future, we will not use those textbooks that are precious but too far away from you in our study." Lockhart said with a smile, his voice impassioned: "Can you pick up your magic spell? From today, I will teach you some useful spells, teach you how to resist black magic, so that you can travel the world and help others like me in the future, and if possible, you will also get the Merlin Medal like me, although It's hard, but I want you to aim for it."

Lockhart raised his hand to the surroundings, waiting for everyone's reaction.

There was a moment of silence in the classroom, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and then burst into enthusiastic cheers. They finally didn't have to worry about being drawn up, and they didn't have to watch those inferior performances.

"He really took the wrong medicine! But he took the medicine that made his brain go back to normal!" Ron muttered, and everyone cheered.

Lockhart raised his hand and pressed it down. Following his gesture, the classroom immediately fell silent. This was the first time he had such authority in this classroom, which made the smile on his face even brighter. a little.

"Considering everyone's age and learning situation, today I will give you a not-too-difficult but very useful spell." Lockhart twisted his wand in a beautiful way, and continued: "Then It's the Disarming Curse!"

"Expelliarmus!" Lockhart pointed at his wand, and the wand of a young wizard who was close to him immediately flew aside, causing cheers again.

It can only be said that after the previous teaching of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, everyone has now become very satisfied.

"This spell is very simple." After Lockhart finished speaking, he shook his head exaggeratedly: "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you just started learning. Although it is very simple for me, it is not necessarily so for you. , but you don’t have to worry too much, I promise to teach you, please believe me.”

Although Harry and Ron had learned this spell a long time ago, they also learned it very seriously.

After all, Lockhart finally changed. If you don't give him face, what if he changes back in the next class?
Hermione also showed a smile on her face. She was already disappointed with Lockhart, but now she felt that she had misunderstood Lockhart.

Hermione decided to find out the heart-shaped schedule she left at the bottom of the box after class was over.

After the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, everyone was still enthusiastic.

Walking in the corridor leading to the auditorium, Ron said: "What do you say is wrong with Lockhart? Could it be that Dumbledore really talked to him?"

"I think it's possible." David agreed, otherwise what would have caused Lockhart to undergo such a drastic change?
"Can't you think of something better?" Hermione took up the banner of Lockhart's fan club again: "Didn't the professor already say it in class? He used to teach us theoretical knowledge to prevent us from misusing it." The curse, hurting other people, is for our sake!"

"Hermione, do you really believe it?"

Ron suddenly felt that Hermione's image had changed, she was a bit silly now.

"What do you think, David?" Hermione looked at David with a dangerous look in her eyes.

David gave Ron a look, and said from the bottom of his heart, "I think you're right!"

(End of this chapter)