Hermione, Be the Minister of Magic with Me! - Chapter 160

Harry is worthy of being a handsome dog. The only criterion for picking a girlfriend is “funny and cute”, even when she first met Furong, she already belonged to Qiu Zhangxin, and later expressed her loyalty to Ginny, but a few years later. After seeing Fleur for the first time, he was still in a state of turmoil, and Ron was even more unbearable.

It can be imagined from this that Fleur Delacour’s ability to crush all male creatures, even if Gemma is equally arrogant, she must admit that this French woman is an out-and-out strong enemy, and it can even be said that “The Public Enemy of Women”

“Gidro is very busy, I’m afraid we won’t be able to stay at the ball for too long.” Gemma declared her sovereignty with a domineering look, “Hogsmeade is going to hold a lighting party this year, and the general meeting of Sniff Drilling Company’s shareholders. It will also be held before the new year… Of course, as a guest, if you want to attend, I will remind the housekeeper to send you an invitation.”

Seeing her like this, how could Furong not know that the Lord is coming

But she ignored Gemma and looked at Lockhart.

Lockhart nodded politely, then shook his head in Gemma’s direction, indicating that she was telling the truth.

“As far as I know, our Ravenclaw prefect, Roger Davis, doesn’t have a dance partner yet.” He found Fleur down the steps.

Furong stopped talking, but left after saying thanks.

She is also a very arrogant mixed-race Veela, and she is not willing to bring shame on herself.

Although Lockhart is the best prey she can see at the moment, the veela’s survival principle is to flee immediately after the “hunting” fails, so as not to be stewed into a pot of black chicken soup by the furious tigresses, so although Furong is frustrated , but it didn’t show on the face.

Fleur’s arrival and Lockhart’s refusal are not the end, but a prelude

Because of the dance party, in the next few days, there will be an endless stream of women who come to invite Lockhart to be the dance partner. Even if Lockhart has made it clear that “this matter can be closed”, there is still no fear of Gemma’s threat. The people went on and on, making her very angry.

“All of them are Gryffindor girls.” The eldest Miss Farley complained impatiently, “Only they go to other people’s gardens to pick flowers every day, and don’t know how to properly water their own vegetable fields.”

Lockhart knew that the reason why she said this was completely out of prejudice, because not only Gryffindor, not even Hogwarts, but even girls from other schools had come to Lockhart.

After all, he is an internationally renowned wizard! Lockhart thought complacently.

“They invited me just to make themselves look good, so don’t be too rude

Xing. Lockhart advised, “Fengya Wizards’ Clothing Store sponsored dresses for the warriors, and we have to get everyone to be keen to go to the ball.” “

“But there are obviously a lot of little bulls in heat in the school.”

Although Gemma was still sarcastic, she did not continue to nag, after all, she also knew the nature of this dance.

Although the Big Five Tournament has become a commercial competition under Lockhart’s operation, for the five magic schools themselves, this is an authentic large-scale networking event, plus a large-scale joint enrollment promotion event .

According to Lockhart’s understanding, Dumbledore has even proposed with the principals of several other schools to conduct a “multi-school joint entrance examination”, on the premise of mutual recognition of each other’s academic qualifications, to carry out the flow of wizard students between senior grades.

Although there were only two competitions in the top five competitions, the differences in teaching between schools were gradually revealed. And each has its own strengths.

It’s embarrassing to say, although Hogwarts is known as the best magic school in the world, except for Transfiguration, which is considered good, there are not many subjects that can be done well.

Herbology is stronger than Castroche, alchemy and divination are far inferior to Beauxbatons, black magic is inferior to Durmstrang and Ilvermorny, and even potions and magical biology are only inferior. It can be said to be “characteristic”, but not the strongest. Although astronomy is not satisfactory, Hogwarts is undoubtedly inferior to traditional European and South American schools.

Dumbledore thought that if some students did have enough talent in a subject, and he himself had to stay in the country of birth to receive a mediocre education because of his nationality, then it would undoubtedly be a crime for them as educators.

Several other school spokespersons agreed.

The so-called “strength” of a school, in the final analysis, is actually in the professors, that is, the strength of the teachers. A bad school is in a subject because of a good teacher

It is very normal to make rapid progress, and a traditionally dominant discipline is very likely to fall from the altar overnight because of a bad professor.

Rather than exchanging students, they’re sharing professor resources, which is by no means a bad thing for under-stretched wizards.

Because of empathy, everyone quickly reached a consensus on the issue of exchange students in academics. It’s just that humanities courses such as history of magic and Muggle studies still need to be taught separately, because after all, there are still some differences in ideology.

If possible, when a Hogwarts student finishes his fifth year in a few years, he can choose to go to another school to study N.E.W.TsT

This Christmas ball is undoubtedly a good opportunity for students from several schools to communicate and learn more about each other.

Especially fourth graders and fifth graders, they may be able to enjoy the treatment of studying abroad for the remaining two years immediately. It is also a good thing to say hello to future classmates in advance and get acquainted with each other.

Chapter 338 Lupin Returns

While everyone knew the communicative significance of the Christmas ball, Lockhart received a lot of indiscriminate bombing over the next few days.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, such as the fact that this incident may affect his political future in the future, Lockhart had to issue a statement saying that he refused the invitation of “children” who were still studying.

“The relationship between students and professors is not equal. A child whose mind is still growing can easily have reverence and gratitude for the professor who has given him/her educational behavior, and it is easy to get lost in the halo of idol shaping. , and even some will try to gain a sense of security from the teacher when their parents are far away and leave their hometown. If you let go of the so-called “love freedom’, then there will definitely be unequal emotional exploitation. This is not love… “

On the Muggle side, the legal concept of prohibiting teacher-student love is very mature, and when it comes to the wizard, he needs to re-explain it. The wizarding world lags behind not only science and engineering, but also Muggles in the humanities. This is not something that can be solved in the short term.

Lockhart figured that if he became Minister of Magic, he would definitely introduce a bill to encourage graduates of wizarding schools to go to Muggle universities after graduation. The 17-year-old wizard is still a long way from being “usable”. distance.

Or could he set up a scholarship fund in the name of Sniff Drilling and Extraordinary Pharmacy to donate to Muggle universities?

Remember this.

Following Lockhart’s announcement, the professors at Hogwarts came forward and issued a similar school policy, which also prohibited students from developing romantic relationships with professors.

But to be honest, this problem did not exist in the past, because Hogwarts was long

Although the long-standing professors have their own charms, it is difficult to get students to fall in love.

But this kind of thing can’t be avoided. In addition to Lockhart, if Hogwarts needs to hire younger professors in the future, then similar things will happen sooner or later, and it’s good to issue school rules early.

Gemma breathed a sigh of relief—now she could go back to the clothing store and order her dress for this year.

It’s just that not everyone agrees with Lockhart’s choice” even if he agrees with Lockhart’s philosophy.

When drinking, Sirius gave his own advice in front of Lockhart: “Although I understand what you mean, I have to say that this girl you are looking at is probably not a good girl, a good girl who really suits you. Still at school.”

“What?” Lockhart asked rhetorically.

“I mean, this eldest lady from the Farley family is not for you.” Sirius said bluntly, “She is exactly like my mother, arrogant, sophisticated, and self-centered.oo she just thinks you’re worthy of her now. , I can see, I know too well what they think. “

Lockhart was not impressed: “There is no perfect man in this world, Sirius.

, It is not bad to be a good person in most aspects. “

That’s what Sirius could say, and Lockhart knew he didn’t care. If it was someone else, Lockhart would have suspected him of having a ghost.

Haven’t you heard of “Sparseness is not a relationship”?

Sure enough, Sirius simply felt sorry.

“I just think that there are better choices in front of you, why do you have to choose one that you don’t actually like? Isn’t that tiring? I found out when I was sleeping in the office before, you Every time I face Miss Farley, I’m “acting”. “

Lockhart almost forgot that “Briquettes” had been with him for more than half a year, and he was often able to notice his small movements inadvertently.

“Life is like a play, it’s all about acting. Anyway, no matter what the relationship is, you need someone to maintain it… Your wife also needs to be coaxed, doesn’t it?”

Sirius smiled: “It’s two different things… Forget it, I really don’t feel worth it for that girl, to actually have fun with a boring guy like you.”

“Who?”

“Hermione, don’t tell me you didn’t notice it was coming.”

Lockhart laughed dumbly: “If it’s just that level, it’s not really anything”Love ‘Children always…”

F can be. ‘ Sirius said nothing more.

He was born in the Black family known as “forever pure”, but in the end, he became a person who betrayed the class because of rebellion and humanity.

Therefore, Sirius dislikes a woman like Narcissa, who is both hypocritical, utilitarian in nature, and has a cowardly personality. In his opinion, only when a person has nothing to brag about, he will brag. own lineage.

Sirius likes children like Hermione. She is similar to her cousin Andromeda Tonks. She is strong in her bones, but she is humble and the most important thing is her true temperament.

Gemma Farley is the exact opposite. Even he has to admit that this woman is indeed smart, but her personality is wrong. The smarter she is, the more annoying she is.

But now it seems that Lockhart will not consider Hermione for a while. He doesn’t even consider her a serious object. He can only say that good fortune is a fool, and Sirius is not good for his own godson. People can match up with each other casually.

A few days later, Lupin also returned from Nigeria in order to participate in the Christmas “bootstrapping” activity of the Order of the Phoenix.

As the only friend left in school, and because he is now an employee of the company he has invested in, Sirius found a big room in Three Brooms, invited Lupin to dinner, and called Lockhart over by the way.

“Our business is doing well,” Lupin reported cheerfully, “but there are many problems.”

“Of course,” Lockhart replied. “If there were not enough problems, BP and Shell wouldn’t want to give up there.”

Lupin looked odd: “Actually, the main problem is caused by those two companies.”

Lockhart was a little surprised: “People from BP told me that there are more than 100 local armed groups, large and small, and those black people are lazy and greedy. It seems that each of them has decided on their foreign companies. , often kidnapping their employees, stealing their oil, and even ordering them to stop production…they lied to me?”

“It’s not a lie, but I’m afraid it’s not true.” Lupin sighed. “But it’s also true. No one likes to reflect on their own mistakes. It’s easier to blame the outside world.”

Not to mention Lockhart, even Sirius understands: ”In other words, those gangsters are shirk their responsibilities. “

Lupin hadn’t heard Sirius’s foul language for a long time, but after listening to it, a feeling called “kindness” surged up for a while.

“Yes, he was raised by his cousin.”

Lupin actually agreed with him, and it seemed that he also hated what those companies did.

Chapter 339 Lupin debriefing

It is said that social experience will make a person grow faster, and Lupin is just like that. Different from Lupin before he came to teach at Hogwarts, after one year of successful teaching and one and a half years of hard work outside, Lupin is obviously much more confident when he speaks, and he begins to spread his name. For the “successful people” breath.

However, it took Lockhart ten minutes to determine that he was indeed the same “robber” as before.

In Lupin’s description, whether it is BP or Shell, what they have done in the local area can be described as “indescribable” or “innumerable”.

“…Those Muggle Stone Company people don’t care about the lives of the local people at all, and they don’t pay attention to protecting the local environment when mining oil. The local water and land have been greatly polluted, and soon there will be no crops in the local area. , but the Muggle government takes money from foreigners and doesn’t allow them to make further claims, so most of these resistance groups are forced by these oil companies.”

Hearing this, Sirius interjected: “I don’t remember Muggles have environmental groups? They don’t care?”

“There are indeed calls for environmental protection organizations.” Lupin said cautiously, “but those “non-profit organizations” that Muggles call NG can’t do magic, they can’t make food, and naturally they have to eat, so All they can do is call

Sirius was shocked: “Then what are they doing?”

Lupin put it eloquently: “They’d rather deal with the Japanese whaling and the Norwegians raising tuna because the Americans gave them money to destroy the farming industries in those countries so that no one could compete with the Americans. Now… Although what they do is indeed “environmental’, but only profitable “environmental” they will do it

For example, artificial meat and recycled paper manufacturers pay…”

Lockhart smiled wryly. He, who was a former civil servant, might know better than Lupin about this kind of thing, and he didn’t need to investigate in detail. Just common sense he knew that Lupin was right.

Lupin continued to speak, as if to vent all the stagnation in his heart:

In short, there is a mess of bad debts… Shell Oil deliberately provoked, and paid compensation to some of the resistance groups. Those resistance groups were divided and often fought on their own. And because the money comes too quickly, many people concentrate on collecting claims and making claims, and no one cares about improving the environment. Instead, this gave BP and Shell an excuse, saying that the local people were just trying to extort money and refused to work hard, and the rebel group and the Nigerian government also fell out.

What’s more nonsense is that because the local environment has been destroyed, the local Muggles can’t farm, so many people have to join resistance groups or work in foreign oil companies in order to survive.

Oil companies find that the more employees they apply for, the lower the wages they pay, so they don’t care about local environmental protection. And those resistance groups also found that they could get more troops without food, so they challenged the government and the British and Dutch companies, so they didn’t want to clean up the oil pollution… alas. “

/J Sirius sneered, then took a gulp of wine: “It looks the same everywhere, the bad guys among Muggles are no better than Voldemort.”

“Yeah, so after I arrived in Nigeria, I spent three months to figure out the situation, and then I worked with more than 20,000 local wizards to clean up part of the land along the Niger River…”

With a “poof”, the wine in Sirius’ mouth spit out.

“Wait, twenty thousand wizards?!” Sirius asked in disbelief.

“It’s not all wizards,” Lupin explained, “but the locals call him

We are wizards, because many Muggles are members of the cult, and they identify many Muggle children and women as wizards and persecute them, and I don’t think I can ignore them…”

“God, you are truly a saint.” Sirius sighed with emotion.

“It’s nothing, really, nothing.”

Lupin lowered his head to drink, but found that his glass was empty, so Lockhart hurriedly ordered another glass for a few people.

“In other words, the reason why you didn’t see the benefits after going for nearly a year is because you were arranging local people?” Lockhart understood.

“Well… we cleared a piece of land, let the muggles grow food, and then arranged jobs for the local wizards… Thanks to the black-hearted oil companies that made the local food prices soar, the things we planted have already All the money spent was paid back.

Then one day, several leaders of the resistance army came to us and wanted to ask us for money, but they happened to meet their mother in our camp. After being scolded, they didn’t talk about it again… Ha ha! “

Although Lupin put it lightly, Lockhart knew that things might not be as easy as he said.

Sure enough, it’s still exercising outside. 1

^It’s really hard for you, compared to you, those pure bloods don’t have to do anything, but they can get so much money… Right, Sirius? ‘ Lockhart was referring to

Sirius almost jumped up: “Don’t mess with me, I didn’t shoot too much

“Haha.” Lockhart did not comment on this.

Although I drank some drinks in the afternoon, it did not affect the decision between Lockhart and Lupin.

fight.

As Mrs. Pomfrey said in the original book, “We finally have a qualified Defence Against the Dark Arts professor”, Remus Lupin’s strength should not be weak.

After all, he can protect the gods, and he can also deal with saucy spirits and zombies, and his knowledge of magical creatures is also very rich.

In comparison, Snape may be better than Lupin in potions and black magic, but his knowledge of magical creatures and Muggle knowledge is a mess. For example, Snape believes that Kappa has the largest number in the desert steppe country Mongolia. If it was Muggle, Snape was definitely the one who built the navy for Mongolia.

However, Lupin’s fighting ability disappointed Lockhart a little – because he was even more impatient than Sirius.

If Sirius can still put a little pressure on Lockhart in terms of speed, then Lupin is a “flesh” feeling. Although it seems to last longer, he never let Lockhart from beginning to end. felt tricky.