Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 122 A Wand with a Mind of Its Own
The danger of magic is that it changes every time.

Maybe there is just some kind of emotion in my heart that is always at work, which will cause the magic effect to change, and it is an unpredictable change.

Professor Flitwick kept emphasizing how to avoid fluctuations in will, slackness, etc.

At the same time, some magic control training techniques are also emphasized.

This kind of thing is a potential talent. People with strong innate magic control, such as Hermione, are very adept at learning and casting spells.

Of course, this thing can also be trained. It's a bit like practice makes perfect.

Seamus made a big move, and the other students were not to be outdone.

There was a constant sound of ping-pong in the classroom.

Professor Flitwick specially prepared a large bag of balloons as the target of the spell, which consumed a lot of energy.

Even Hermione's first few attempts failed, and the first explosion startled her so much that her hair was blown up. Ted almost laughed out loud.

However, Hermione's talent had begun to show gradually. After several failures, she quickly learned her lesson and was getting closer and closer to success. After more than a dozen times, she succeeded in casting the spell for the first time, and the balloon swelled up. After that, she rarely failed.

Other students did not make such rapid progress.

Harry always blows the balloons so that they fly everywhere at a very fast speed.

Neville and Jerry simply couldn't blow up the balloon.

Where's Ron?
Ron was the most ruthless. He cast a spell called "Grow bigger quickly~" and the wand in his hand flew out with a whoosh of green smoke and hit Flitwick on the forehead.

Then, a big green bump as big as a fist appeared visibly on Professor Flitwick's forehead!
He looks like a cuckolded old man!
Professor Flitwick was stunned: I was attacked? I was...cuckolded!
Apparently, Ron's now "alchemically transformed" wand had minds of its own - he attacked the professor in the first class of the semester.

However, that's not all. It is said that the content of the transformation class in the afternoon is to turn beetles into buttons.

Harry's beetle ran so fast that it was impossible to touch it and it chased it everywhere.

Neville's beetle remained motionless, pretending to be dead.

Jerry's beetle fell to the ground and disappeared, never to be found again.

Ron's wand acted up again, and smoke came out, burning the beetle!
It's a bit rebellious now! A nine and a half inch wand has nine inches of rebelliousness! Very dangerous~
Ted and his friends had an herbal class in the afternoon, learning how to repot a mandrake doll. The sound of that thing was so piercing that you could hear it even with magic earmuffs.

And it's very ugly and fierce!
When you pull it out, it doesn't want to come out, but when you put it in a new pot, it doesn't want to go back.

Is Ted a spoiled child? Seeing that Professor Sprout wasn't paying attention, he went up and punched the mandrake, stuffed it into the basin, and patted it with a small shovel.

May you thrive, the flower of the future~
……

Because Harley and the other two drove to school and crashed into the school's valuable property, the three of them were going to be put in detention.

Neville was called away by Lockhart and was put in detention to reply to his fans' letters on his behalf.

Lockhart is good-looking, well-mannered, and good at marketing. He is considered a friend of women in the British wizarding world. Even Aunt Molly is a fan of him.

There are more fans who write to him than those who vote for him monthly.

Neville has two large piles of letters to reply every night, and according to him, "the content is extremely disgusting and makes people shudder"!
Neville wrote the letter for two hours and almost vomited.

Lockhart was still chattering on, and his words were all about how to work with him to build his image and gain honors.

Neville looked hopeless. "Honestly, I'd rather go to Snape's basement to kill frogs and gut slugs than go to Lockhart's office again."

And that job that Neville envied so much is now Harry's.

Harry's detention was to sort out potions for Snape. How should I put it? It was very leisurely, even easier than Ted's time at Giggs' Pharmacy.

Ron was unlucky, he fell into Filch's hands and was assigned to clean seven or eight toilets and a whole display room of trophies and medals.

Although Ted gave him a temporary magic rag that could clean quickly, the workload was still considerable.

……

The next morning, Ted got up early to run, but Neville said that he had promised Professor Sprout to help treat the Whomping Willow.

The old tree was almost split apart by the three of them.

Ted was also curious, so he followed to watch the fun. Unexpectedly, besides Neville, there was another student who arrived earlier.

That Hufflepuff boy from the Horned Tribe, Guff Oasis.

This guy is now almost 1.8 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a tall stature.

Neville and Ted were already the tallest among their peers, but the 13-year-old Guff, who was only one year older than them, was already like an iron tower!

Ted had just met Neville's ferocious-looking but shy friend when he saw Professor Sprout walking out of the castle gate in the distance.

She didn't look very happy because she was followed by Lockhart, who was wearing a silver-lined coat, had shiny hair and was chattering all the way.

Lockhart came running over and showed off, and along the way he proposed more than a dozen "methods of curing the Whomping Willow", and said that no one knew how to cure the Whomping Willow better than him.

Professor Sprout quickened his pace with a hint of resentment, but Lockhart trotted after him.

Finally, even Professor Sprout, who had a pretty good personality, got angry: "Professor Lockhart, I think I'm the professor of Herbology. I know how to treat the Whomping Willow instead of killing it in a dozen ways! Please go back!"

"Oh~Okay! In that case~" Lockhart shrugged, "If you need me, feel free to come to me, I can do it easily~You know. It's very simple, I just need~uh huh~"

Ted looked unhappy: "It's not a good time to go out early in the morning~"

The very manic Whomping Willow was very obedient in front of Professor Sprout. The three of them helped Professor Sprout fix the Whomping Willow's wounds with magic bandages, and then applied buckets of potions and herbs to the cracked trunk, or buried dragon dung fertilizer under the roots of the tree.

After dealing with the Whomping Willow, Ted and Neville took a look at Hagrid, who was not far away. His hunting hut was very close to here.

When they reached the door, Hagrid opened it and came out, shaking off a bearskin rug.

"Oh, hello, Ted and Neville. Have a great holiday~"

"Hello Hagrid!"

"Good morning, Hagrid~"

Hagrid shook his big head. "No! Very no! That guy, I mean that arrogant Lockhart, came to teach me how to subdue the pony early in the morning. I really want to throw this nonsense guy into the Black Lake and let him talk to the pony himself. He also said that no one knows how to get rid of carnivorous slugs better than him. If I believe him, I might as well become a carnivorous slug!"

Ted and Neville looked at each other and understood.

The new professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts is really amazing. He has been able to "unite" his colleagues in just two days.

Hagrid even told them a lot of Lockhart's scandals when he was in school, such as how he sent himself dozens of letters on Valentine's Day and was later exposed.

He also wrote his name on the scoring hourglass and was put in solitary confinement.

In short, he tries every possible way to stand out and does all kinds of outrageous things.

Soon the first Defense Against the Dark Arts class began.

Ted's class already knew about the unlucky curse of this position, and before class started, they started betting on whether Lockhart could survive the year.

After all, Lockhart was a well-known best-selling author in the British wizarding world, and was even quite famous in several nearby countries.

He also used his connections to get himself a third-class Order of Merlin, and won the Witcher Weekly Most Charming Smile Award five times!
It can be said that a lot of reputation has been gained.

Therefore, many young wizards still have some confidence in him.

However, in the first class, Lockhart walked into the classroom with a pile of papers.

Those little wizards who had hope suddenly wilted.

But the even more amazing thing is yet to come!

When the papers were handed out, I saw that all the questions were similar to "Lockhart's favorite color", "Lockhart's most desired gift", "Lockhart's ideal", etc.

Many students' expressions changed immediately: "Watzefak? What the hell is this?"

Who am I? Where am I? Am I here to shake hands with Lockhart's fans?

As a result, when the papers were collected, Ted was the only one who got full marks!
"Student Ted Epifani? Who is student Ted?" Lockhart called out with a surprised smile on his face.

Ted stood up: "Professor, I'm Ted Epifani."

(End of this chapter)