Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

On Saturday, roommate Adam Summers got his wish to join the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, replacing Hemano Pike as a Beater.

That night, to celebrate his roommate's successful joining the team, Sainz asked Conte to prepare a lot of delicious food and brought it back to the dormitory, while Ben took out his treasured butterbeer and drank it with Adam.

Butterbeer is a sweet drink with a very low alcohol content and a toffee flavor. It has a very sweet taste and is very popular among underage wizards.

Sainz would only take a sip or two symbolically when he was having fun with his roommates, and he would not touch it at other times.

He usually only has two kinds of drinks, one is various low-concentration teas, and the other is boiled water.

He never touches alcoholic beverages because he feels that it will dull his senses and reduce his sensitivity, which may lead to some unexpected consequences.

For example, after drinking too much, he said something that he shouldn't know.

After receiving the admission letter, in order to avoid the possibility of talking in his sleep, he gave himself crazy self-suggestions before entering school.

Now he no longer needs to worry about this. He is now sure that he will not talk in his sleep, and he sets up magic around his bed before going to sleep every time to ensure that even if he says something inadvertently, his roommates will not hear it.

At 7:58 PM the next day, Sainz was walking down the corridor on the third floor, checking his defenses and rehearsing so that he could get his wand at any time.

At exactly eight o'clock, he knocked on the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office. "Professor, are you there? I'm Sainz Autumn."

"Ah... Autumn, you are so punctual. Come in, the door is not locked..." Lockhart's voice did not have his usual theatrical tone.

Sainz touched the small tag hanging on his waist, maintained the maximum power of the supersensory spell, pushed open the office door, but did not go in immediately.

Standing outside the door, he nodded politely, "I'm sorry to bother you, Professor."

While saying hello, Sainz glanced inside the office and compared the scene with the last time he came. He found that the layout of the office had not changed much.

Lockhart's huge posters covering the wall were still there. Each one was dressed differently, but all were paying attention to their appearance. Some were looking in the mirror, some were fixing their hair. Just like last time, all the portraits looked over when they heard someone open the door, showing their smiles and shining teeth.

Lockhart was sitting behind his desk, wearing a gorgeous red robe, and was replying to his readers. When he saw Sainz standing outside the door, he seemed very happy and said with an exaggerated expression, "Come on, what are you standing there for? Come in, you're welcome!" Then he lowered his head and opened a letter.

He silently cast a human presence spell to confirm that Lockhart was the only one in the room, although he had already confirmed this on the Marauder's Map before coming here.

After a silent investigation, Saiens walked into the room, closed the door behind him without looking back, and never took his attention away from Lockhart who was behind the desk.

"Professor, I'm not being polite, I just feel sorry for disturbing you. I can see that you are very busy."

Lockhart smiled proudly, "There's nothing I can do about it. The readers are just too enthusiastic. If you could write such a popular work like me, you would also be troubled by this kind of worry."

The Lockharts in the portraits all laughed in unison.

"Yes, your books are all very remarkable. I have read every one of them carefully and benefited a lot from them."

Lockhart put down the letter in his hand and showed his teeth. "After all, the Order of Merlin, Third Class, was awarded to me because of my efforts in popularizing the knowledge of Defense Against the Dark Arts, right?"

"Speaking of which, the magic I used to exorcise the female ghost..."

Lockhart interrupted Sainz's question and said confidently: "I'm sorry, Autumn, I'm sorry, as a responsible professor, I don't want my students to be lazy people who don't know how to find answers by themselves. The knowledge is all there. Wouldn't it be more fulfilling to find the answers to the questions in the library by yourself?

Autumn, I hope you only ask the professor when you can't find the answer. I don't want you to be a lazy person who doesn't know how to work hard, do you? "

Very good, Lockhart was so calm today. It turns out he has thought of a way to deal with it. This is very good!

Saiens didn't want to ask him other questions. The only thing he cared about was a spell to restore his human form. "Professor, you are really a guiding light. I will remember your teachings and look for the answers myself first when I encounter problems.

But, Professor, you promised me last week to lend me your research notes on the Restoration Spell..."

"Of course, of course!" Lockhart shook his head and came out from behind the table, taking out a stack of straw paper from the cupboard on the side. "How could I forget what I promised you? I wanted to make a copy, but your sincerity touched me, Autumn, so I decided to give you my precious original manuscript!

Here, take it, this is a reward for a diligent and studious little wizard!"

"Really? Thank you so much, Professor!" Sainz seemed overjoyed and quickly reached out to take it. In fact, his hand was wrapped in a layer of deformed armor to protect him, and he did not directly come into contact with the pieces of straw paper.

The moment he took it, several detection spells were silently brushed over the manuscript, and nothing wrong was found for the time being.

Lockhart patted his shoulder enthusiastically and said, "I'm optimistic about you, Autumn, but this spell to restore human form is very complicated. Most wizards who don't have the talent will never be able to learn it in their lifetime. So, don't be discouraged even if you don't understand it, because it's not your fault. Not everyone can reach my level in Defense Against the Dark Arts."

Then he said with regret: "I wanted to show you the effect of this spell, but unfortunately, there is no werewolf in Hogwarts for me to defeat, haha... But don't be sad, you are lucky, I wrote all that in the book, it's the same if you read my book!"

While Lockhart was talking, Sainz quickly scanned the contents of the top page.

It seemed that Lockhart was not lying. These pieces of paper did look like old stuff from a few years ago. The contents on them were indeed related to the Restoration Spell. It seemed that they were really his "manuscripts" as he said. However, they were probably not the manuscripts of his magic research, but the "manuscripts" he compiled for writing a book.

It's better to have this thing. These contents are probably the first-hand information he collected at the time, and the error rate of the information should be the lowest.

Not bad, Mr. Sai is very satisfied.

This was the information he wanted. Even though the spell to restore human form was most likely not real, it was still a thought after all. What if?

After getting the things, Sainz no longer had the interest to continue pretending to be nice with him. He casually praised his handwriting and then said that he had other questions to ask.

Lockhart immediately stopped boasting, saying that the young wizard should learn to find answers on his own, and earnestly stated that if a library borrowing slip was required, he could sign it.

That's fine too.

"Professor, I can't wait to go back and read your masterpiece. So I'll take my leave now. Goodbye, Professor!"

"Goodbye, Autumn!"