HP: Wizards at Hogwarts

Chapter 221 Valentine's Day Arrives

Valentine's Day is here.

That morning, when Elaine arrived at the cafeteria for breakfast, he found that the four walls were covered with dazzling pink flowers, and many heart-shaped confetti were constantly falling from the light blue ceiling.

Elaine walked over to the Hufflepuff table and asked Ernie, "Who put all this here?"

Hannah quickly replied, "Who else could it be? There's only one person in the entire Hogwarts who could do something like this."

As she spoke, she glanced at Lockhart, who was surrounded by a group of little witches giving him greeting cards, his face beaming like a chrysanthemum.

Elaine didn't look at Lockhart, but at Hannah, his eyes filled with a hint of guilt.

However, he quickly adjusted his mindset.

"That guy really knows how to stir things up."

Elaine commented, sat down, swept away the confetti in front of him, and began to eat breakfast.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!

Lockhart suddenly shouted, and everyone in the auditorium turned to look at him.

"To date, forty-six people have sent me greeting cards, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to them!"

"Yes, I took it upon myself to arrange this little surprise for everyone, and that's not all."

He clapped his hands as he spoke, and twelve dwarfs with gloomy faces entered the hall.

Dwarves are short, stout humanoid creatures, belonging to the same humanoid race as elves, centaurs, and giants.

The twelve dwarves who walked in were somewhat different from ordinary dwarves—in terms of their clothing, of course.

Lockhart had them put golden wings on their backs and hold harps in their hands, dressing them up as Cupid from wizarding fairy tales.

"My friendly little Cupid with the greeting card!"

Lockhart said cheerfully, "They're going to be wandering around the school today, handing out Valentine's Day cards!"

"And that's not all the fun!"

"I believe my colleagues will be eager to participate!"

"Why didn't you ask Professor Snape to teach you how to make a sleeping potion?"

The young wizards looked at Snape.

Snape's expression was as stiff as if he had been forced to drink three large glasses of strong liquor.

Elaine had no doubt that if anyone dared to ask him how to make the love potion, he would immediately force-feed that person the poison.

I wonder how his two missions, "searching for Voldemort's wand" and "collecting Lily's belongings," are progressing?

Elaine looked away and glanced at her friends, especially Hannah and Susan.

"None of you were one of the forty-six people who sent Lockhart the greeting card, were you?"

He didn't want to see his friend's feelings being betrayed.

"Of course not!"

"Good heavens, do you really think we're the kind of shallow girls who only care about looks?"

Hannah and Susan both cried out at the same time, their faces showing a heartbroken expression that said, "I can't believe you see me like this, boss."

Elaine nodded, then looked at Ernie and Justin: "And you guys?"

Ernie, Justin: ?

"No, boss, what do you mean? We're not girls!"

Elaine said expressionlessly, "Of course I know you're boys, but there's no rule that only girls can..."

Send Lockhart a greeting card.

During this period, he always used the pseudonym "Harry" to communicate with Tom about the topic of "men liking men," which made him particularly sensitive about this aspect.

Ernie remained silent for a long while: "Well—what you said makes sense, but even the dumbest wizard, after attending Lockhart's classes for several months, should know that he's a useless fellow, and no one would like him!"

Justin chimed in, "Exactly, exactly—"

Hannah twirled a strand of her long, blonde hair over her shoulder with her right index finger and said, "That's not necessarily true. Aren't there forty-six guys who are even worse than idiots?"

Susan shook her head and said, "It's not certain whether there are actually forty-six people. Maybe Professor Lockhart is exaggerating, or maybe the person who sent him the greeting card was from outside the university."

Listening to their casual conversation, Elaine gradually felt at ease.

No matter how smug Lockhart is, it's enough that he knows no one in his circle of friends has been deceived by him.

Just then, a dwarf suddenly walked towards them.

"Hey, look, a dwarf is coming."

Hannah cried out excitedly.

Elaine turned his head and his eyes met those of the dwarf, and his heart skipped a beat.

"Friends, I suddenly have a bad feeling. I hope it's just my imagination!"

Before he could finish speaking, the dwarf stopped in front of Eleven, picked up the greeting card in his hand, and began to read: "I have a message to deliver to Eleven Yakut—"

Oh no, it's not my imagination!

Some treacherous subject is trying to frame me!

Without the slightest hesitation, Elaine used teleportation magic and vanished from his spot with a "whoosh".

The crowd, who were just getting ready for a good show, were completely taken aback: !!

"Merlin's gallstones!"

"Why did Elaine suddenly disappear?!"

"Apparition! This must be Apparition!!"

"Impossible! Hogwarts has an anti-Apparition spell! He used another method, but what method?"

"That's amazing!"

The young wizards in the entire hall were in an uproar.

Although they already knew that Elaine was very strong and knew many powerful spells that even the professor had not mastered, they were still deeply shocked every time they saw him show off his skills.

Professor McGonagall, sitting in the faculty section, widened her eyes and jumped up from her seat with a "whoosh".

Even with her extensive experience, she couldn't figure out how Elaine had just disappeared.

Snape, on the other hand, remained calm, believing that nothing Eleven did would be surprising.

"Look, look—"

"Our young wizards at Hogwarts are so passionate and unrestrained, even a genius like Elaine can't handle them."

Lockhart laughed loudly: "Compared to me, he still needs another twenty years of training."

"What I mean is, when I was his age, I was much more popular with girls than he was. I could receive more than twenty love letters a day, but I didn't run away in embarrassment."

The young wizards, upon hearing this, all believed it and began to laugh along.

Only the professors couldn't laugh, especially Professor McGonagall.

The young wizards may not know what Lockhart was like back in school, but surely the professors do?

At that time, although he was indeed somewhat handsome, he was by no means handsome enough to receive more than twenty love letters a day!

Now that he's a teacher, he still says such things to young wizards. He has no shame at all!

Soon, even the young wizards stopped laughing.

Because those ugly dwarves had approached them, dancing and loudly reciting love letters that others had written to them.

What was originally a normal letter expressing one's feelings, became incredibly disgusting after being interpreted by the dwarves.

Now they finally understood why Elaine had run so fast.