A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 99 Handling
Felix got serious: "What happened?"

He even wondered if Ron was discovered by Lockhart and taken away directly.

Lockhart is an adult wizard after all, and an adult wizard means that he has received seven years of complete magical education—even if his current performance is ridiculously weak.

But it doesn't rule out the possibility that he has delved into a certain branch of magic.

Hermione's words reassured him: "Ron is all right now, and he hasn't been found. But Lockhart was acting weird during Friday night's confinement."

"weird?"

"That's right, Lockhart suddenly jumped up at night and scolded Rita Skeeter. Ron said that he had never seen that kind of appearance before, and his expression was very scary." Hermione repeated Ron's description.

In fact, Ron was almost hysterical.

Lockhart vented for more than ten minutes, warned Ron not to tell the story of today, and drove him away.

"Hmm..." Felix was thinking, from Lockhart's recent weird behavior, to the flustered Rita Skeeter he ran into, and Lockhart's hatred for Skeeter last night... …

On the second day after the Christmas holidays, Minister Fudge was injured while visiting the Basilisk. He happened to bump into a flustered Rita Skeeter. She happened to be walking up from the basement of the castle, and that direction happened to be Lockhart's office. location.

He seemed to draw a line.

It's clear what she did to Lockhart.

It is possible that the two of them fell apart after talking about it, and then they started fighting.

Lockhart has poor memory recently, has an irritable personality, and speaks in confusion...

So, is it the aftereffect of the Forgetting Curse?

Lockhart under the Oblivion Curse?

This explains why Rita Skeeter didn't mention anything about that day in the newspaper for more than a week, even Lockhart, her deadly enemy, was easily let go.

I just hinted that she should not take the rhythm and distort the facts, but this did not affect her trouble with Lockhart.

It's not that woman's style.

"Then Weasley went to confinement tonight?" Felix grasped the point.

Judging from Lockhart's performance, he obviously recovered his memory.It's hard to guarantee that nothing will happen if Ron rushes to deliver.

"No, he said he had a stomachache and asked for leave with Professor McGonagall," said Hermione.

Felix nodded, this approach is still very smart.

Whether Lockhart found out that Ron had stolen the information, or he thought Ron had seen too many secrets, he might have acted radically.

"I understand what you mean. I will communicate with Professor McGonagall and let me be responsible for Weasley's next confinement."

"Professor, is this okay?" Hermione asked.

"Of course, the confinement doesn't enforce how to implement it, as long as I put forward an appropriate reason, for example, I urgently need some little wizards to test my new teaching aids." Felix blinked.

"Some little wizards?" Hermione questioned the word 'some'.

Isn't it the solution to Ron's troubles?

"Yes, but it can't be too obvious. After all, the investigation will take time. I plan to bring over all the little wizards who have been fined and confinement in the near future."

Felix showed a helpless expression.

"Professor, wouldn't the teaching aids you mentioned be?" The little witch stared at him.

"Oh, that's what you saw over the Christmas holidays. But if you don't tell me, I don't tell you, who knows it's finished?" Felix smiled gently.

Hermione suddenly felt that Professor Haipu's smile was treacherous.

When she left, Felix was lost in thought.

A moment later, he wrote his speculations on a piece of parchment, and then with a wave of his wand, he summoned his Patronus, a swift.

"Dumbledore, I think you need to see this."

The silver swift flew out of the window with the rolled parchment in its mouth.

Felix tapped his fingers on the table leisurely, "Da da, da da." Only a few minutes later, a phoenix with golden and red feathers appeared in his room suddenly.

It held a small note in its paws, which read——

"Please hand over the information to Fox, and leave the rest to me."

Sending Fox away, Felix looked curiously at the place where it disappeared.

Phoenix really deserves to be rated as a top-level magical creature. All kinds of magical talents made him want to study it very much.

Early the next morning, Felix found Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall was very supportive when he mentioned that his research on new teaching aids was at a critical juncture and he needed some students' help.

"Do you need me to arrange for the students of Gryffindor to help?"

"No, give me all the little wizards who are currently in confinement, just let them participate in this process and learn something." Felix put forward his own idea.

With almost no effort, Professor McGonagall agreed.

She handed Felix a list, "This is the latest list of students in confinement, and it's all on it."

He politely said goodbye and left.

Halfway in a flower bush, Felix ran into Percy Weasley, who happened to have some impression of Percy.

"Professor Haip?" Percy looked at Felix with some guilt, and there was a girl next to him.

"Mr. Weasley, Miss Clearwater. What are you doing here?"

This place is really remote, and few people usually come here.

"Uh, professor, Penello and I...Clivet and I are patrolling, exercising the authority of the prefect." Percy faltered.

"Can you do me a favor?" Felix looked at the young couple calmly, without poking at them.

"Of course!" Percy replied.

Felix took out the student list, "Help me notify the names on this piece of paper to the prefects of the corresponding colleges, so that their confinement tonight and later will be changed to my office."

Percy nodded, and the two left quickly like thieves.

Gryffindor lounge.

Yesterday Ron had been hiding in the dormitory and pretending to be sick. In order to make the effect more real, he resolutely acted as a test subject for the twins. After eating the enhanced version of 'Ice Mouse', his face became livid.

The whole person seemed to have been buried in the ice and snow for several hours.

It turned out that he was really sick, stayed in the school hospital for one night, and just came back.

Ron, fully wrapped up, sat at a table with Harry and Hermione.

Ron asked in a low voice: "Hermione, Professor Haipu really agreed?"

Hermione said helplessly: "You have asked this question seven times, answer it one last time, yes!"

Ron said, "I really can't figure it out. What happened to Lockhart that night? Behaving like that..." He thought for a moment, and said one word, "Crazy."

While several people were discussing, Percy walked in.

He came to the trio and passed Professor Haipu's message to Ron.

"Great!"

Ron jumped up excitedly, his troubles were gone.

Whether it was Lockhart himself or Lockhart's fans, he finally got rid of them all!

Percy looked at his youngest brother in puzzlement, wondering if he was frozen by the twins, wouldn't he be locked up wherever he went?
Not one day less!
(End of this chapter)