Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 124 Lockhart's wonderful performance~
The sun was lazily peeking out over the eastern horizon, and Ted had already started running around Black Lake.

Following behind him was Neville, while the other friends were half-hearted.

Only Neville got up early every day, rain or shine, and exercised with Ted.

His inferiority complex always exists, he feels that he is clumsy and has no future. But as Ted said: as long as you work hard, even the clumsiest people will gain something.

If you work hard with excellent people, even if you can't catch up with them, you can still gain something.

In fact, he is more determined than anyone else, which is a very rare quality.

After running most of the way, Ted and Neville chatted while doing some exercises to stretch their muscles.

Ted walked along the lakeside, picked up a pebble that caught his eye, and played with it in his hands.

The magic wrapped around the pebble, causing it to float and spin in his hand, slowly seeping in...

Neville followed suit, picking up a stone and fiddling with it for no apparent reason.

Not too far from the castle, Ted and Neville threw down the stones. There were already seventeen or eighteen stones thrown there.

Neville couldn't help but be curious and asked, "Ted, we pick up stones and throw them here every day. Is there any special meaning?"

It's been almost a week before Neville asked. He's really patient.

He smiled and said, "I am conducting a magical experiment."

"Magic attempt?"

"Right! Have you ever heard of ritual magic?"

Neville nodded: "Grandma said that it was a special kind of magic that ordinary wizards couldn't perform."

Ted laughed, "Aren't we already performing it?"

"Ah? Cast a ritual magic? Where? I, I don't know~" Neville was confused.

Ted explained, "During my vacation, I saw an old storybook. The book was five hundred years old, and the story was a thousand years old, which is older than the history of Hogwarts. It records the story of a group of wizards trying to build the Tower of Babel..."

"Tower of Babel!"

Ted looked at the stunned Neville and laughed: "Don't worry, I'm not that arrogant. We pick up stones every day, inject magic power, strengthen our faith, and then throw them here. Over time, a small rockery will appear here. I think the magic effect should be apparent by then... Of course, I'm just guessing. Isn't this an experiment?"

The two walked and talked until they arrived at the castle.

They each cleaned themselves up and went to the auditorium for breakfast.

Harley and the others were already waiting there, yawning.

……

In the morning, Ted and Hermione had a Transfiguration class with Hufflepuff, still turning beetles into buttons.

Ted's transfiguration was beginning to work. The beetle had turned into a button, but it had a few more legs and was not very well controlled.

And Hermione's progress was also very fast, the beetle began to change, but the button not only had legs, but also a beetle head.

In fact, when it comes to Transfiguration alone, Hermione's talent is probably even better than Ted's.

The reason why Ted learned faster than Hermione last year was because the mission directly raised his Transfiguration to level 1, which was the entry level. So he learned faster than Hermione.

But by the end of the second semester, Hermione's academic progress was no less than Ted's.

But if Ted was considered a fake nerd before, Hermione could still keep up, because she was a real nerd, but unlike Ted, a time traveler who was more mature in mind and had more learning experience.

But later, Ted's wizard level was raised to level 4, and he obtained the talent [Study God (Purple)], which immediately surpassed Hermione.

In addition to the knowledge in the normal textbooks, Ted also studied a lot of his own things, but even so, his progress was much faster than Hermione's.

It took only one-tenth of the time to achieve twice the learning effect of Hermione. Compared with ordinary young wizards, the difference is probably twenty to thirty times!

Hermione really couldn't keep up.

At that time, she was sulking by herself, staying up late to study, but still couldn't keep up. In the end, she was so angry that she cried.

Still too strong-willed.

After Ted found out, he counseled her: "Hermione, if I become a poor student, will you despise me for being stupid and not want to be my friend?"

"of course not."

Ted: "Yeah, I won't dislike you either. You don't have to be so stressed." Smile ~
Hermione rolled her eyes: "Thank you so much! This is the first time someone says I'm a poor student and thinks I'm stupid!"

But after that chat, Hermione really relaxed a lot.

This year, Hermione has also started to grow up. Maybe she was stimulated by Ted, but she has awakened her talent [Student Master (Red)]. So, she has been following Ted's footsteps.

Because Ted had a lot of things to study and distract his attention, she didn't fall behind in her studies.

Even in areas such as potions and transfiguration, he seems to be slowly catching up!

Ted was very happy about this. Mutual encouragement and motivation will lead to greater efficiency!
……

During lunch, Harry and his friends looked at their class schedule.

Harry: "Ha, let's go to the first class together this afternoon!"

Ron immediately became happy: "What class is it?"

Jerry: "Defense Against the Dark Arts~"

Ron: ╮(﹀_﹀”)╭

Neville also looked hopeless.

Although last year's Quirrell was finally confirmed to be a bad guy, he did not hate Quirrell.

But he had had enough of this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Lockhart was most interested in Ted, because Ted really praised him to the sky. That kind of just right praise made Lockhart want to reward Ted with a few monthly tickets!

As for Neville, Lockhart has been trying to persuade Neville to work with him and make a name for himself. Neville was so scared that he felt like ants were crawling on his body when he heard Lockhart's name.
The friends all looked at Ted: The peacock is in your hands, please coax him.

Ted: Just look at me!
When you feel very comfortable with someone, it means that this person's emotional intelligence and IQ are higher than yours.

Unexpectedly, Lockhart chose to cause trouble.

Lockhart planned to have students "carefully study" his best-seller.

But because Ted praised him so well, he got a little carried away and thought he was good enough again. He thought he had to give his students something different and let them experience his wonderful adventures in person.

So when the students arrived at the classroom, they found Lockhart already there. There was also an object more than one meter tall and covered with black cloth in the middle of the classroom.

"Sit down, everyone, sit down!" Lockhart grinned in his standard way, and the classroom flashed with light as if someone had turned on a flashlight.

"Today, I'm going to take you to see the real darkness! The scary monsters!" He had the expression of a dying character in a horror movie.

"Although it's nothing compared to what I've been through, it's dark enough for you. Be careful! Be careful!"

He suddenly laughed again: "Of course, Professor Lockhart is here, nothing unexpected will happen~ I don't subdue female ghosts by smiling~"

Ted: Did you sacrifice your looks?
The other students were stunned by Lockhart's performance. It has to be said that Lockhart's acting skills are still very good. His voice, appearance, body language, eyes and micro-expressions are all very good. It is obvious that he is a veteran actor!

"Well~" He grabbed the black cloth, "Look!" and pulled it off.

Under the black cloth was a huge iron cage, more than one person tall.

This thing can hold Hagrid!

When the black cloth was lifted, the students collectively leaned back and gasped, and the air pressure in the classroom dropped.

In the cage was a group of humanoid creatures that were about 20 to 30 centimeters in size, with long and narrow bat wings, two fleshy tentacles on their heads, and iron-blue bodies.

"Cornish elves?!" Some students from wizarding families recognized what they were.

Most of the students had an expression of “that’s it?”

Lockhart quickly explained, "Don't be careless. These little devils are not easy to deal with. They are very bad! They will throw away your things, pour out your coffee, hang your clothes on the trees, and put garbage in the pot... In short, they will mess up your business! I spent a lot of favors to catch so many of them."

However, the students didn't care much about such a small thing and still looked unconvinced.

"Okay! Don't blame me for not warning you! Face the real darkness!" Lockhart pulled open the cage door with a little anger.

The elves immediately fluttered out, about a dozen of them, and in an instant they were whistling back and forth over the classroom.

These little creatures are really nothing. They started to cause damage right away, tearing up books, pulling curtains, shaking chandeliers, hitting students in the face, lifting female students' robes... etc.! Chusheng, what are you doing? !

However, Professor Lockhart, the instigator of all the chaos, did not get better either.

Because a few Cornish elves still remembered the guy who was nagging and bossing outside the cage, and the smell of his hair oil made them uncomfortable, so they ran straight to him when they came out.

Although Lockhart wanted to fight back, the elves could fly and were quite fast. They snatched his wand very nimbly and threw it out of the window. Then the three elves chased Lockhart and beat him.

Lockhart no longer cared about the students. He just covered his head and screamed, running out of the classroom.

In the short five or six meters from the podium to the door, Lockhart had a black eye and several scratches on his neck. A little elf even pulled out a bunch of his hair, so that his bangs looked like they were missing a piece...

(End of this chapter)