The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 220: Don’t Do It
As the bell rang, Fred and George's frustration disappeared. Although the two brothers failed to successfully turn the teapot into a turtle, they would never be affected by the failure, nor would they bring the emotion of failure into their daily lives.

The optimistic twins are always like this. They influence the people around them in their own way. Wherever they are, you can always hear cheerful laughter. Ada is the biggest beneficiary.

Ada felt that if she had not met the twins, she would not have a single wrinkle on her face when she got old. Now that she has met the twins, every wrinkle on her face will be related to them.

After class, Ada and the twins walked down the corridor to the Great Hall when Cedric Diggory approached them. After a brief greeting, Cedric got straight to the point. "I'm here to spy on the military," he said.

Cedric had a sunny smile on his face, but he said something nonsensical, which confused Ada and the twins and they didn't understand what he meant.

"Ada performed very well in the match against Slytherin, which made my teammates a little worried." As if afraid that Ada would misunderstand, Cedric immediately explained, "Everyone likes you, but..."

"You just don't want to meet Ada in the competition, right?" Fred took over from Cedric and said the rest.

"I'm worried that Ada will treat you the same way she treated Slytherin," George also said.

Now Aida is the kind of player who is very popular with his teammates, but makes his opponents want to strangle him to death.

The twins were thankful that Ada was one of their own. If there was a player on the other side who jumped as fast as she did, the twins couldn't guarantee whether their bats would hit the Bludger or the opponent.

After that game, in addition to the final selfless fight, Ada's trash talk against Slytherin was also known. No one wants their opponent to keep nagging in their ears while they are playing.

That's why the Hufflepuff team members had this worry. They didn't want to face such interference, it was very annoying, but they couldn't do anything about Ada, so they could only let Cedric come and test the waters.

However, Hufflepuff's worries were totally groundless. Ada had no grudges against the badgers, so she would not treat them the same way she treated Slytherin. Moreover, Harry Potter was the team's genuine seeker, so Ada would not play when Harry was healthy.

"Don't worry, Cedric, you will face Harry." Ada said, "Harry will not do anything to you."

Cedric said, "Of course I'm relieved. I know you. It's just that my teammates are worried, and I can't persuade them, so I have to ask for them and let them feel at ease."

This worry was not only shared by Hufflepuffs, but also by Ravenclaws. However, they did not have Cedric, nor anyone familiar with Ada, so naturally they did not seek reassurance from Ada, but instead went to ask Oliver Wood.

Facing the Ravenclaw captain who came to find him, Wood had to promise: "Gryffindor will not use Ada first."

After receiving this promise, the captain of Ravenclaw left with satisfaction.

If Slytherin could change their annoying behavior, the captains of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff would probably find Flint and propose a joint boycott of Ada.
Unfortunately, Slytherin is still the same Slytherin as before, without any change, so the boycott of Ada naturally came to nothing.

Ada, the protagonist of the boycott, knew nothing about this. At this moment, she was sitting in the spell classroom, flipping through "Standard Spells Level 4" out of boredom.

"Okay, students, let's start the class."

They heard his voice before they saw him. When the short Professor Flitwick stood on a pile of books, the students in the classroom saw their Charms professor.

Professor Flitwick led everyone to review what they had learned last semester, and then taught everyone new content, the Summoning Spell (Flying Spell). This spell can make a distant target fly towards you. The farther the summoned object is from the caster, the more difficult it is to summon the object.

According to Miranda Goshawk, author of The Standard Book of Spells, Grade Four, the most notable use of the Summoning Charm is its overuse by the anti-Muggle extremist group Nightcaller.

The founder and leader of the group incurred the wrath of the goblins when he used the spell to summon gold and treasure from his own vault at Gringotts, and the anti-Muggle group was disbanded.

In order to prevent people from using summoning spells to steal, wizards also invented counter-spells, which can prevent items from flying towards the caster. Seeing this, Ada crouched even lower. Summoning gold really didn't work. The predecessors had blocked all the possible ways.

Soon, the sound of "cushions flying" was heard in the classroom. A large number of cushions flew around above the classroom and almost knocked down the chandelier on the ceiling.

The chandelier made a creaking sound and seemed like it would hit the floor in the next second.

Before the chandelier could detach from the ceiling, the unfortunate Professor Flitwick fell from the pile of books.

Some unlucky child's cushion hit the pile of books, causing Professor Flitwick, who was standing on the books, to lose his balance. When he stood up from the pile of books, his head was obviously bigger than usual.

This class can be described as a complete chaos. Although many students were able to summon cushions to their side when the class was over, the fallen Professor Flitwick, the creaking chandelier, and the broken cushions all over the floor can all illustrate the terrible state of this Charms class.

If there is anything worse than this Charms class and Professor Flitwick's head, it is Gilderoy Lockhart's Defense Against the Dark Arts, which is a disaster.

This Defense Against the Dark Arts class was held at the same time as Ada's spells class, but as soon as Ada finished class, she had already learned the specific information about Defense Against the Dark Arts. Ada felt that the speed of this transmission might have exceeded the speed of light.

By the evening, students from seven grades in four major colleges knew about Lockhart's performance and realized that he couldn't even deal with the Cornish elves.

A feeling of disappointment spread throughout the entire auditorium. His performance seemed even worse than Quirrell's. At least Quirrell didn't mess up his own classroom.

There are still some supporters of Lockhart among the students, such as Hermione. These supporters, who are mainly girls, believe that their Professor Lockhart is to train students' practical ability. Look at his performance in the book! Moreover, this is only the first class, just an accident.

While Lockhart's supporters were cheering him on, Lockhart himself was very shameless. In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class the next day, Lockhart lived up to everyone's expectations and did not make another mistake. If he could make a mistake even if he read his own work with emotion, Lockhart might as well have stabbed himself to death with his peacock feather pen.

If you don't do it, you won't be wrong. Gilderoy Lockhart, who was less than 30 years old, understood this sentence. He never brought living creatures into the classroom again. He turned the Defense Against the Dark Arts class into his own fan meeting.

This is a weird operation. Even his die-hard fans stopped defending him. They were too embarrassed to come out to defend him. They also didn't want to be treated as idiots by their classmates wherever they went. Many of them even announced that they would stop being his fans.

Lockhart was unaware of all this. He was still enjoying the admiration from outside the school, his professorship, and the fame that came with teaching the Savior.

Lockhart, a man who doesn't care about fame and fortune (getting close to Harry Potter), a man who is proficient in Herbology (showing off his skills in front of Professor Sprout), his teeth are shining white (blinding the ghost of Wan Lun), he can easily use spells to solve any problem (as long as he doesn't let the elf take away his wand), he can overcome any difficulties.

Gilderoy Lockhart is a perfect man, a man who is about to be finished, because he is about to teach the fourth-year Gryffindors, one of whom is a student named Esmeralda Drizzt, who has been displeased with him for a long time.

(End of this chapter)